Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.

However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is --in other words, not a thing, but a think.

Penelope Fitzgerald

In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.

Charles M. Schwab

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John Green

We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.

Madame Swetchine

The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Wayne Dyer

In a certain sense, and to a certain extent, he the president is the representative of the people. He is elected by them, as well as congress is. But can he, in the nature of things, know the wants of the people, as well as three hundred other men, coming from all the various localities of the nation? If so, where is the propriety of having a congress?

Abraham Lincoln

Friendship often ends in love but love in friendshipnever.

Albert Camus

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

Richard Steele

Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.

Dwight Whitney Morrow

The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.

Angela Carter

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Samuel Johnson