Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.

Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.

Carter G. Woodson

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

Kahlil Gibran

Did anyone ever have a boring dream?

Ralph Hodgson

What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

Horace

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

Clint Eastwood

The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.

Arthur Hailey

A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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He felt that institutions such as schools, churches, governments and political organizations of every sort all tended to direct thought for ends other than truth, for the perpetuation of their own functions, and for the control of individuals in the service of these functions. He came to see his early failure as a lucky break, an accidental escape from a trap that had been set for him, and he was very trap-wary about institutional truths for the remainder of his time.

Robert M. Pirsig

We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers.

Emmeline Pankhurst

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

Jesse Jackson

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

W. H. Auden