Harry Potter Quotes

After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. ~J.K. Rowling, "The Man with Two Faces,"
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1997,
spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore

The two men appeared out of nowhere, a few yards apart in the narrow, moonlit lane. For a second they stood quite still, wands pointing at each other's chests: then, recognising each other, they stowed their wands beneath their cloaks and set off, side by side, in the same direction.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
First lines from opening chapter, The Dark Lord Ascending.

Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.


NOT MY DAUGHTER, YOU BITCH!
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Spoken by Molly Weasley.

We did it, we bashed them, wee Potter's the one,
And Voldy's gone moldy, so now let's have fun!
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Peeves' Victory Song.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them. ~J.K. Rowling, "The Man with Two Faces,"
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1997,
spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore

The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with caution.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

There is no good or evil: only power and those too weak to seek it.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Spoken by Quirinus Quirrell.

Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Spoken by Ron Weasley.

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Spoken by Arthur Weasley

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

The dementors affect you worse than the others because there are horrors in your past that others don't have.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Alkaban
Remus Lupin to Harry.

You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you'll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no....anything. There's no chance at all of recovery. You'll just exist. As an empty shell.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Alkaban
Remus Lupin to Harry.

The consequences of our actions are so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Alkaban
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself plainly when you have need of him.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Alkaban
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Alkaban
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore in movie, screenplay by Steven Kloves.

In dreams, we enter a world that's entirely our own.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Alkaban
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore in movie, screenplay by Steven Kloves.

It's a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

I say there are spots that don't come off... Spots that never come off, d'you know what I mean.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Spoken by Mad-Eye Moody.

Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Spoken by Mad-Eye Moody.

If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Spoken by Sirius Black.

I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind.... At these times... I use the Pensieve. One simply siphons the excess thoughts from one's mind, pours them into the basin, and examines them at one's leisure.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided. Lord Voldemort's gift for spreading discord and enmity is very great. We can fight it only by showing an equally strong bond of friendship and trust. Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Albus Dumbledore to Hogwart's students.

Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right, and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

What's comin' will come and we'll meet it when it does.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Spoken by Hagrid.

No, I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up.... It always does in the end.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Spoken by Luna Lovegood.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Spoken by Ginny Weasley.
The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by an invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Spoken by Severus Snape.
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

Indeed, your failure to understand that there are things much worse than death has always been your greatest weakness.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Dumbledore to Voldermort.

Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human … the fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Dumbledore to Harry as he struggles with grief and anger over Sirius's death.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike ...We wizards have mistreated and abused our fellows for too long, and we are now reaping our reward.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Dumbledore to Harry, talking about Sirius's treatment of Kreacher.

He chose the boy he thought most likely to be a danger to him ... and notice this, Harry. He chose, not the pureblood (which according to his creed, is the only kind of wizard worth being or knowing), but the half-blood, like himself. He saw himself in you before he had ever seen you, and in marking you with that scar, he did not kill you, as he intended, but gave you powers, and a future, which have fitted you to escape him not once, but four times so far.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Dumbledore to Harry.

An invisible barrier separated him from the rest of the world. He was - he had always been a marked man.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Time is making fools of us again.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Dumbledore to Harry.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
J.K. Rowling, "Dobby's Reward,"
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1999,
spoken by the character Arthur Weasley


It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1999,
spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore


Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
Steven Kloves (screenplay), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, 2004,
spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore


In dreams, we enter a world that's entirely our own.
Steven Kloves (screenplay), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, 2004,
spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore


It's a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.
J.K. Rowling, "The Hungarian Horntail,"
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000


I say there are spots that don't come off.... Spots that never come off, d'you know what I mean?
J.K. Rowling, "The Egg and The Eye," Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000,
spoken by the character Mad-Eye Moody


Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas.
J.K. Rowling, "The Egg and The Eye," Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000,
spoken by the character Mad-Eye Moody


If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
J.K. Rowling, "Padfoot Returns," Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000,
spoken by the character Sirius Black


I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind.... At these times... I use the Pensieve. One simply siphons the excess thoughts from one's mind, pours them into the basin, and examines them at one's leisure.
J.K. Rowling, "The Pensieve," Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000,
spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore


Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.
J.K. Rowling, "The Pensieve," Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000,
spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore


Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.
J.K. Rowling, "The Parting of the Ways," Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000,
spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore


You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!
J.K. Rowling, "The Parting of the Ways," Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000,
spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore


It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.
J.K. Rowling, "The Beginning," Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000,
spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore


Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
J.K. Rowling, "The Beginning," Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000,
spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore


There was no point in worrying yet.... what would come, would come... and he would have to meet it when it did.
J.K. Rowling, "The Beginning," Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000


According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scarring than almost anything else...
J.K. Rowling, "The Second War Begins," Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003


No, I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up.... It always does in the end.
J.K. Rowling, "The Second War Begins," Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003,
spoken by the character Luna Lovegood


Time is making fools of us again.
J.K. Rowling, "The Secret Riddle," Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005,
spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore


We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on.
J.K. Rowling, "A Sluggish Memory," Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005,
spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore


It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world.
J.K. Rowling, "Horcruxes," Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005


It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
J.K. Rowling, "The Cave," Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005,
spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore


Dawn seemed to follow midnight with indecent haste.
~J.K. Rowling, "Magic is Might," Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 2007


Harry found the hot drink as welcome as the firewhisky had been on the night that Mad-Eye had died; it seemed to burn away a little of the fear fluttering in his chest.
J.K. Rowling, "The Thief," Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 2007


"That old berk," muttered Aberforth, taking another swig of mead. "Thought the sun shone out of my brother's every orifice, he did."
J.K. Rowling, "The Missing Mirror," Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 2007


It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.
J.K. Rowling, "King's Cross," Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 2007,
spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore


Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?
J.K. Rowling, "King's Cross," Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 2007,
spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore

The Lord Of The Rings Quotes

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
The Lord of the Rings
Farewell speech of Bilbo Baggins, Chapter 'A Long-Expected Party'.

The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began,
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many path and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.
The Lord of the Rings
The Old Walking Song sung by Bilbo Baggins, Chapter 'A Long-Expected Party'.


Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
The Lord of the Rings
Verse of the Ring, quoted by Gandalf, two lines of which are inscribed on Bilbo Baggins' ring, identifying it as the One Ring, Chapter 'The Shadow of the Past'.

"Always after a defeat and a respite, the Shadow takes another shape and grows again."
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
The Lord of the Rings
Gandalf and Frodo Baggins, Chapter 'The Shadow of the Past'.

"What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!"
"Pity? It was Pity that stayed his hand. Pity, and Mercy: not to strike without need. And he has been well rewarded, Frodo. Be sure that he took so little hurt from the evil, and escaped in the end, because he began his ownership of the Ring so. With Pity."
The Lord of the Rings
Frodo and Gandalf on the betrayer Gollum, Chapter 'The Shadow of the Past'.

"He deserves death."
"Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. I have not much hope that Gollum can be cured before he dies, but there is a chance of it. And he is bound up with the fate of the Ring. My heart tells me that he has some part to play yet, or good or Ill, before the end; and when that comes, the pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many - yours not least."
The Lord of the Rings
Frodo and Gandalf discussing the fate of the betrayer Gollum, Chapter 'The Shadow of the Past'.

"You say the ring is dangerous, far more dangerous than I guess. In what way?"
"In many ways. It is far more powerful than I ever dared to think at first, so powerful that in the end it would utterly overcome anyone of mortal race who possessed it. It would possess him."
The Lord of the Rings
Frodo and Gandalf, Chapter 'The Shadow of the Past'.
He used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: it's springs were at every doorstep and every path was it's tributary. "It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door," he used to say. "You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no telling where you might be swept off to."
The Lord of the Rings
Frodo about his uncle Bilbo Baggins, Chapter 'Three is Company'.

"I knew that danger lay ahead, of course; but I did not expect to meet it in our own Shire. Can't a hobbit walk from the Water to the River in peace?"
"But it is not your own Shire," said Gildor. "Others dwelt here before hobbits were; and others will dwell here again when hobbits are no more. The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out."
The Lord of the Rings
Gildor to Frodo, Chapter 'Three is Company'.

Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate,
And though we pass them by today,
Tomorrow we may come this way
And take the hidden paths that run
Towards the Moon or to the Sun.
The Lord of the Rings
A Walking Song sung by Frodo, Sam and Pippin, as they set off for Buckland, Chapter 'Three is Company'.

Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
The Lord of the Rings
Gildor, Chapter 'Three is Company'.

Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.
The Lord of the Rings
Frodo, Chapter 'Three is Company'.

"They seem a bit above my likes and dislikes, so to speak," answered Sam slowly. "It don't seem to matter what I think about them. They are quite different from what I expected — so old and young, and so gay and sad, as it were."
The Lord of the Rings
Sam speaking of the Elves, Chapter 'A Short Cut to Mushrooms'.

Sing hey! For the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is a noble thing!
The Lord of the Rings
One of Bilbo's favorite bath songs sung by the hobbits after arriving at Frodo's new house in Buckland, Chapter 'A Conspiracy Unmasked'.

O! Wanderers in the shadowed land
despair not! For though dark they stand,
all woods there be must end at last,
and see the open sun go past:
the setting sun, the rising sun,
the day's end, or the day begun.
For east or west all woods must fail...
The Lord of the Rings
Song in the Woods sun by Frodo as the four hobbits walk through the Old Forest, Chapter 'The Old Forest'.

O slender as a willow-wand! O clearer than clear water!
O reed by the living pool! Fair River-daughter!
O spring-time and summer-time, and spring again after!
O wind on the waterfall, and the leaves' laughter!
The Lord of the Rings
Song to Lady Goldberry, Tom Bombadil's wife, by Frodo, Chapter 'In the House of Tom Bombadil'.

Eldest, that's what I am. Mark my words, my friends: Tom was here before the river and the trees; Tom remembers the first raindrop and the first acorn. He made paths before the Big People, and saw the Little People arriving. He was here before the Kings and the graves and the Barrow-wights. When the Elves passed westward, Tom was here already, before the seas were bent. He knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless - before the Dark Lord came from Outside.
The Lord of the Rings
Tom Bombadil, Chapter 'In the House of Tom Bombadil'.

There is a seed of courage hidden (often deeply, it is true) in the heart of the fattest and most timid hobbit, waiting for some final and desperate danger to make it grow.
The Lord of the Rings
Chapter 'Fog on the Barrow-Downs'.

Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow,
Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow.
None has ever caught him yet, for Tom, he is the master:
His songs are stronger songs, and his feet are faster.
The Lord of the Rings
Tom Bombadil song in which Tom helps the hobbits once again, Chapter 'Fog on the Barrow-Downs'.

Hey! now! Come hoy now! Whither do you wander?
Up, down, near or far, here, there or yonder?
Sharp-ears, Wise-nose, Swish-tail and Bumpkin,
White-socks my little lad, and old Fatty Lumpkin!
The Lord of the Rings
Tom Bombadil song calling on the hobbits to follow him as he runs down the hills, Chapter 'Fog on the Barrow-Downs'.

Tom's country ends here: he will not pass the borders.
Tom has his house to mind, and Goldberry is waiting!
The Lord of the Rings
Tom Bombadil laughs and sings this to the hobbits after they beg for him to come with them to Bree, Chapter 'Fog on the Barrow-Downs'.

There is an inn, a merry old inn
beneath an old grey hill,
And there they brew a beer so brown
That the Man in the Moon himself came down
one night to drink his fill.
The Lord of the Rings
Having reached Bree and settled into the inn, Frodo sings this song by Bilbo to the hobbits, Chapter 'At the Sign of the Prancing Pony'.

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.
The Lord of the Rings
The Riddle of Strider, a poem contained in a letter from Gandalf which the innkeeper gives to Frodo, Chapter 'Strider'.

Gil-galad was an Elven-king.
Of him the harpers sadly sing:
the last whose realm was fair and free
between the Mountains and the Sea.
The Lord of the Rings
The Fall of Gil-galad poem spoken by Sam, Chapter 'A Knife in the Dark'.

Troll sat alone on his seat of stone,
And munched and mumbled a bare old bone;
For many a year he had gnawed it near,
For meat was hard to come by.
Done by! Gum by!
The Lord of the Rings
Rhyme of the Troll sung by Sam, Chapter 'Flight to the Ford'.

Princess Diana Quotes

Any sane person would have left long ago. But I cannot. I have my sons.
Princess Diana
Interview with Le Monde, August 25

Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.
Princess Diana

Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Princess Diana

Call me Diana, not Princess Diana.
Princess Diana

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
Princess Diana


Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.
Princess Diana

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.
Princess Diana

Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.
HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it.
Princess Diana

Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.
Princess Diana

I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.
Princess Diana

I had a very bad time with the press - they literally haunted and hunted me.
I haven't felt well since day one. I don't think I'm made for the production line.
Princess Diana
In 1984, when pregnant with Prince Harry

I hope you can find it in your hearts to understand and give me the time and space that has been lacking in recent years.
Princess Diana
Dec. 3, 1993, announcing her withdrawal from most public duties

I live for my sons. I would be lost without them.
Princess Diana

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work.
Princess Diana

I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that.
Princess Diana

I touch people. I think everyone needs that. Placing a hand on a friend's face means making contact.
Princess Diana

I'd like to be a queen in people's hearts but I don't see myself being Queen of this country.
Princess Diana
BBC TV Panorama interview, November 1995

If men had to have babies, they would only ever have one each.
Princess Diana

I'm as thick as a plank.
Princess Diana
To 15-year-old hospital patient Justian Miles in April 1987

Only do what your heart tells you.
Princess Diana

She won't go quietly, that's the problem. I'll fight to the end.
Princess Diana
BBC TV Panorama interview, November 1995

The press is ferocious. It forgives nothing, it only hunts for mistakes…In my position anyone sane would have left a long time ago.
Princess Diana

The public... they wanted a fairy princess to come and touch them, and everything will turn into gold and all their worries would be forgotten. Little did they realise that the individual was crucifying herself inside because she didn't think she was good enough.
Princess Diana

There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.
Princess Diana
BBC TV Panorama interview, November 1995, referring to Camilla Parker Bowles

When I see them around all the time it is like being raped.
Princess Diana
Referring to press photographers

Yes, I adored him. Yes, I was in love with him.
Princess Diana
BBC TV Panorama interview, referring to affair with Capt. James Hewitt

You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.
Princess Diana

Julius Caesar Quotes

Hence! Home, you idle creatures, get you home:
Is this a holiday?
Julius Caesar, 1. 1

You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!
O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome.
Julius Caesar, 1. 1

Beware the ides of March.
Julius Caesar, 1. 2

I do lack some part
Of that quick spirit that is in Anthony.
Julius Caesar, 1. 2

Brutus, I do observe you now of late:
I have not from your eyes that gentleness
And show of love as I was wont to have:
You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand
Over your friend that loves you.
Julius Caesar, 1. 2


Poor Brutus, with himself at war,
Forgets the shows of love to other men.
Julius Caesar, 1. 2

Set honor in one eye and death i' the other
And I will look on both indifferently.
Julius Caesar, 1. 2

Well, honour is the subject of my story.
I cannot tell what you and other men
Think of this life; but, for my single self,
I had as lief not be as live to be
In awe of such a thing as I myself.
Julius Caesar, 1. 2

I was born free as Caesar; so were you:
We both have fed as well, and we can both
Endure the winter's cold as well as he.
Julius Caesar, 1. 2

He had a fever when he was in Spain,
And when the fit was on him, I did mark
How he did shake; 'tis true, this god did shake.
Julius Caesar, 1. 2

Ye gods, it doth amaze me
A man of such a feeble temper should
So get the start of the majestic world
And bear the palm alone.
Julius Caesar, 1. 2

Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs and peep about
To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Men at some time are masters of their fates:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Julius Caesar, 1. 2

Now, in the names of all the gods at once,
Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed,
That he is grown so great?
Julius Caesar, 1. 2

When could they say, till now, that talked of Rome,
That her wide walls encompassed but one man?
Now is it Rome indeed and room enough,
When there is in it but one only man.
Julius Caesar, 1. 2

Let me have men about me that are fat,
Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights:
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.
Julius Caesar, 1. 2

He reads much;
He is a great observer, and he looks
Quite through the deeds of men.
Julius Caesar, 1. 2

He loves no plays,
As thou dost, Anthony.
Julius Caesar, 1. 2

Such men as he be never at heart's ease,
Whiles they behold a greater than themseles,
And therefore are they very dangerous.
I rather tell thee what is to be feared
Than what I fear, for always I am Caesar.
Julius Caesar, 1. 2

Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort
As if he mock'd himself, and scorn'd his spirit
That could be moved to smile at anything.
Julius Caesar, 1. 2

'Tis very like: he hath the falling sickness.
Julius Caesar, 1. 2

But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.
Julius Caesar, 1. 2

Yesterday the bird of night did sit,
Even at noon-day, upon the market place,
Hooting and shrieking.
Julius Caesar, 1. 3

Cassius from bondage will deliver Cassius.
Julius Caesar, 1. 3

Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass,
Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron,
Can be retentive to the strength of spirit;
But life, being weary of these worldly bars,
Never lacks power to dismiss itself.
Julius Caesar, 1. 3

It is the bright day that brings forth the adder;
And that craves wary walking.
Julius Caesar, 1. 3

Between the acting of a dreadful thing
And the first motion, all the interim is
Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream.
Julius Caesar, 2. 1

Let us be sacrificers, but not butchers.
Julius Caesar, 2. 1

Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods,
Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds.
Julius Caesar, 2. 1

For he is superstitious grown of late,
Quite from the main opinion he held once
Of fantasy, of dreams, and ceremonies.
Julius Caesar, 2. 1

But when I tell him he hates flatterers,
He says he does, being then most flattered.
Julius Caesar, 2. 1

Boy! Lucius! Fast asleep? It is no matter;
Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber:
Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies,
Which busy care draws in the brains of men;
Therefore thou sleep'st so sound.
Julius Caesar, 2. 1

Portia: Dwell I but in the suburbs
Of your good pleasure? If it be no more,
Portia is Brutus' harlot, not his wife.
Brutus: You are my true and honourable wife,
As dear to me as are the ruddy drops
That visit my sad heart.
Julius Caesar, 2. 1

I grant I am a woman, but, withal,
A woman that Lord Brutus took to wife;
I grant I am a woman, but, withal,
A woman well-reputed, Cato's daughter.
Think you I am no stronger than my sex,
Being so fathered and so husbanded?
Julius Caesar, 2. 1

When beggars die, there are no comets seen;
The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
Julius Caesar, 2. 2

Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
Julius Caesar, 2. 2

Danger knows full well
That Caesar is more dangerous than he:
We are two lions littered in one day,
And I the edler and more terrible.
Julius Caesar, 2. 2

Caesar: The ides of March are come.
Soothsayer: Ay, Caesar; but not gone.
Julius Caesar, 3. 1

But I am constant as the northern star,
Of whose true-fix'd and resting quality
There is no fellow in the firmament.
Julius Caesar, 3. 1

Et tu, Brute! Then fall Caesar!
Julius Caesar, 3. 1
Ambition's debt is paid.
Julius Caesar, 3. 1

How many ages hence
Shall this our lofty scene be acted o'er
In states unborn and accents yet unknown!
Julius Caesar, 3. 1

O mighty Caesar! dost thou lie so low?
Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils,
Shrunk to this little measure?
Julius Caesar, 3. 1

The choice and master spirits of this age.
Julius Caesar, 3. 1
Though last, not least in love.
Julius Caesar, 3. 1

O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,
That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
Thou art the ruins of the noblest man
That ever lived in the tide of times.
Julius Caesar, 3. 1

Cry "Havoc," and let slip the dogs of war.
Julius Caesar, 3. 1

Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause, and be silent that you may hear.
Julius Caesar, 3. 2

Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.
Julius Caesar, 3. 2

As he was valiant, I honor him: but, as he was ambitious, I slew him.
Julius Caesar, 3. 2

Who is here so base that would be a bondman? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so vile that will not love his country? If any, speak; for him have I offended. I pause for a reply.
Julius Caesar, 3. 2

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones.
Julius Caesar, 3. 2

The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious;
If it were so, it was a grievous fault;
And grievously hath Caesar answered it.
Julius Caesar, 3. 2

For Brutus is an honorable man;
So are they all, all honorable men.
Julius Caesar, 3. 2

He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honorable man.
Julius Caesar, 3. 2

When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
Julius Caesar, 3. 2

On the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown
Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Julius Caesar, 3. 2

O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.
Julius Caesar, 3. 2

But yesterday the word of Caesar might
Have stood against the world; now lies he there,
And none so poor to do him reverence.
Julius Caesar, 3. 2

You are not wood, you are not stones, but men:
And, being men, hearing the will of Caesar,
It will inflame you, it will make you mad.
Julius Caesar, 3. 2

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
Julius Caesar, 3. 2

See what a rent the envious Casca made.
Julius Caesar, 3. 2

This was the most unkindest cut of all.
Julius Caesar, 3. 2

O, what a fall was there, my countrymen!
Then I, and you, and all of us fell down,
Whilst bloody treason flourished over us.
Julius Caesar, 3. 2

I am no orator, as Brutus is;
But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man,
That love my friend.
Julius Caesar, 3. 2

For I have neither, wit, nor words, nor worth,
Action, nor utterance, nor power of speech,
To stir men's blood; I only speak right on;
I tell you that which you yourselves do know.
Julius Caesar, 3. 2

But were I Brutus,
And Brutus Anthony, there were an Anthony
Would ruffle up your spirits, and put a tongue
In every wound of Caesar that should move
The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.
Julius Caesar, 3. 2

He hath left you all his walks,
His private arbors, and new-planted orchards
On this side Tiber; he hath left them you,
And to your heirs for ever; common pleasures,
To walk abroad, and recreate yourselves.
Julius Caesar, 3. 2

Here was a Caesar! when comes such another?
Julius Caesar, 3. 2

Not let it work; mischief, thou art afoot,
Take thou what course thou wilt!
Julius Caesar, 3. 2

Tear him for his bad verses, tear him for his bad verses.
Julius Caesar, 3. 3

He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him.
Julius Caesar, 4. 1

This is a slight unmeritable man,
Meet to be sent on errants.
Julius Caesar, 4. 1

You yourself
Are much condemned to have an itching palm.
Julius Caesar, 4. 3

The foremost man of all this world.
Julius Caesar, 4. 3

I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon,
Than such a Roman.
Julius Caesar, 4. 3

I said, an elder soldier, not a better:
Did I say "better"?
Julius Caesar, 4. 3

There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats,
For I am armed so strong in honesty
That they pass by me as the idle wind,
Which I respect not.
Julius Caesar, 4. 3

A friend should bear his friend's infirmities,
But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.
Julius Caesar, 4. 3

Cassius is aweary of the world;
Hated by one he loves; braved by his brother;
Checked like a bondman; all his faults observed,
Set in a note-book, learned, and conned by rote,
To cast into my teeth.
Julius Caesar, 4. 3

He had a fever when he was in Spain,
And when the fit was on him, I did mark
How he did shake; 'tis true, this god did shake.
Julius Caesar, 4. 3

There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
Julius Caesar, 4. 3

We must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.
Julius Caesar, 4. 3

But for your words, they rob the Hybla bees,
And leave them honeyless.
Julius Caesar, 5. 1

Forever, and forever, farewell, Cassius!
If we do meet again, why, we shall smile;
If not, why then this parting was well made.
Julius Caesar, 5. 1

O, that a man might know
The end of this day's business ere it come!
Julius Caesar, 5. 1

The last of all the Romans, fare thee well!
Julius Caesar, 5. 3

This was the noblest Roman of them all.
Julius Caesar, 5. 5

His life was gentle, and the elements
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world, "This was a man!"
Julius Caesar, 5. 5

Aristotle Quotes

The good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
Aristotle
Nicomachean Ethics

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle

Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.
Aristotle

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
Aristotle

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Aristotle


Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
Aristotle

To perceive is to suffer.
Aristotle

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
Aristotle

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
Aristotle

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
Aristotle
Nicomachean Ethics

All men by nature desire knowledge.
Aristotle
Metaphysics

Poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history: for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular.
Aristotle
Poetics

One swallow does not make spring.
Aristotle
Nicomachean Ethics

The gods too are fond of a joke.
Aristotle

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
Aristotle

To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.
Aristotle

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.
Aristotle
Nicomachean Ethics

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
Aristotle

Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
Aristotle

Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
Aristotle

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Aristotle

In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities.
What is a friend? One soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.
Aristotle

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
Aristotle

I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
Aristotle

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
Aristotle

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.
Aristotle

All men by nature desire knowledge.
Aristotle

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Aristotle
Nicomachean Ethics

Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle

It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.
Aristotle

Law is mind without reason.
Aristotle

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
Aristotle

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.
Aristotle
Nicomachean Ethics

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.
Aristotle

We make war that we may live in peace.
Aristotle
Nicomachean Ethics

We must as second best...take the least of the evils.
Aristotle
Nicomachean Ethics

With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.
Aristotle
Nicomachean Ethics

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Aristotle
Parts of Animals

Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
Aristotle
Physics

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Aristotle

A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange...Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.
Aristotle
Politics

Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.
Aristotle

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
Aristotle
Politics

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
Aristotle
Politics

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
Aristotle
Politics

It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
Aristotle

Law is order, and good law is good order.
Aristotle
Politics

Man is by nature a political animal.
Aristotle
Politics

Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
Aristotle
Politics

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.
Aristotle
Politics

They should rule who are able to rule best.
Aristotle
Politics

Well begun is half done.
Aristotle
Politics

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
Aristotle
Poetics

A whole is that which has beginning, middle and end.
Aristotle
Rhetoric

Evil draws men together.
Aristotle

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
Aristotle
Rhetoric

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
Aristotle

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
Aristotle

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
Aristotle

Wit is educated insolence.
Aristotle

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
Aristotle

The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.
Aristotle

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Aristotle

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
Aristotle

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
Aristotle

No tyrant need to fear till men begin to feel confident in each other.
Aristotle

A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle, and an end.
Aristotle
Rhetoric

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
Aristotle

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
Aristotle

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
Aristotle

The most important things about which all men deliberate and deliberative orators harangue, are five in number, to wit: ways and means, war and peace, the defence of the country, imports and exports, legislation.
Aristotle
Rhetoric

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Aristotle

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
Aristotle
Politics

Shakespeare Quotes

To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?
William Shakespeare
Hamlet, 3:1

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow.
William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, 2:2

Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.
William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night, 2:5


To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare
Macbeth, 5:5

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
William Shakespeare
Hamlet, 1:5

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players
They have their exits and their entrances
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.
William Shakespeare
As You Like It, 2:7

All that glisters is not gold.
William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice, 2:7

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar, 2:2

The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.
William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar, 3:2

Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
William Shakespeare
The Tempest 4:1

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
William Shakespeare
Sonnet 18

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night, 3:1

Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs.
Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes.
Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears.
What is it else? a madness most discreet,
A choking gall and a preserving sweet.
William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, 1:1

They do not love that do not show their love.
William Shakespeare
Two Gentlemen of Verona, 1:2

The course of true love never did run smooth.
William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1:2

If music be the food of love, play on.
William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night, 1:1

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1:1

Is love a tender thing? it is too rough,
Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.
William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, 1:4

Hear my soul speak:
The very instant that I saw you, did
My heart fly to your service.
William Shakespeare
The Tempest, 3:1

Love is like a child,
That longs for everything it can come by.
William Shakespeare
Two Gentlemen of Verona, 3:1

Mark Twain Quotes

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.
Mark Twain

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
Mark Twain

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.
Mark Twain

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Mark Twain

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
Mark Twain

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain

Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching. and live like it's heaven on earth.
Mark Twain

Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi

We must be the change we wish to see.
Mahatma Gandhi

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall - think of it, ALWAYS.
Mahatma Gandhi

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Mahatma Gandhi

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?
Mahatma Gandhi

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. He frees himself and shows the way to others. Freedom and slavery are mental states.
Mahatma Gandhi

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.
Mahatma Gandhi

Update Quotes

Satu2nya cara mendapatkan kasih sayang dari seseorang adalah dengan memberikan kasih sayang yang tulus kepada orang tersebut.

The only method of getting the love from someone is giving the sincere love to that person.

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kadang lebih mudah membangun sesuatu yang baru dari pada membangun sesuatu dari yang telah hancur.

Sometimes more easy constructive something new than constructive something was destroyed.

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Kebahagiaan tidak akan berkurang walaupun membaginya dgn orang lain, seperti cahaya lilin yg membagi sumber cahanya nya utk lilin" yg lain. Sedangkan kesedihan akan bisa berkurang jika membaginya dgn orang lain, sperti air sungai yg membagi alirannya utk sungai" yg lain.

The happiness will not decrease although sharing that with the other person, like the candle light that divided the source of his light for other candles. Whereas the sadness can decrease if sharing that with the other person, like the river water that divided his current for other rivers.

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Seperti rel kereta, Slalu berdua melewati jarak yg bgitu jauh. Tapi keduanya tidak akan pernah bisa bersatu.

As the railway, Always side by side passed the distance that so far. But both of them can never be united.

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kebohongan itu seperti virus. Sekali masuk ke tubuh seseorg mk akan selamanya akan bersemayan, hanya daya tahan tubuh yang dapat menahan agar virus itu tdk muncul. Kebohongan pun sama, Sekali ada kebohongan maka selamanya hidup dlm kebohongan, hanya ketulusan hati yang dapat mencegah terulangnya terjadi kebohongan.

The lie like the virus. Once entered the someone body then forever will be there, only body resistance that could keep so that the virus does not emerge. The same then lie, Once had the lie then forever lived in the lie, only sincerity that could prevent was repeated the lie happened.

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Di dunia ini, pada akhirnya kebaikan akan slalu tersingkir. Keyakinan adlh satu hal yg kita perjuangkan.

In this world, in the end goodness will always be cast aside. The conviction was one matter that we fought.

Literary Quotes

A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products of the baroque.
Juan Goytisolo

A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu.
Marcel Proust

A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.
Will Eisner


A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it.
Mary A. Ward

A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!
Brian Lumley

A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate.
John Barton

A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.
Louis Auchincloss

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.
John Cheever

And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary reasons, which is neither entertaining nor great literature.
Jerry Pournelle

Anonymous sources are a practice of American journalism in the 20th and 21st century, a relatively recent practice. The literary tradition of anonymity goes back to the Bible.
Joe Klein

Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.
Leon Edel

Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.
T. S. Eliot

Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to.
David Cronenberg

As I said earlier, there are no writers who could create a literary vision of the new reality.
Andrzej Wajda

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.
Joseph Conrad

As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultural order, because he attempts to break through the circle of literary castes to reach the center.
Salvatore Quasimodo

At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks.
Mark Haddon

At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.
Lafcadio Hearn

Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism.
Audre Lorde

Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.
Laura Hillenbrand

Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering.
Colin Firth

But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.
Taylor Hackford

But it's not just a game of finding literary references.
Dan Simmons

But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I was in my twenties, like going to a Paris Review party or whatever, that seems totally irrelevant now.
Rick Moody

Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
Arthur Miller

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Samuel Johnson

Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.
Slobodan Milosevic

Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
Ellen Glasgow

During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms.
Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
V. S. Naipaul

Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history.
Howard Mumford Jones

Ever since my youth it has disturbed me that of the literary works that survived their own epoch, so many dealt with historical rather than contemporary subjects.
Lion Feuchtwanger

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.
W. H. Auden

Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.
Mason Cooley

Excessive literary production is a social offense.
George Eliot

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.
Mason Cooley

First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.
David Antin

For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own.
Laurence Housman

For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.
Lafcadio Hearn

Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.
Rick Moody

Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.
Frank Sinatra

How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.
Arna Bontemps

Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.
Erma Bombeck

I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.
Shelley Berman

I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries.
Stephen King

I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.
Andrew Vachss

I couldn't speak Japanese very well, passport regulations were changing, I felt British, and my future was in Britain. And it would also make me eligible for literary awards. But I still think I'm regarded as one of their own in Japan.
Kazuo Ishiguro

I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.
Robert Morgan

I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal's office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the beginning of my literary career.
William Joyce

I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.
Anne Stevenson

I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.
Harold Bloom

I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
Manuel Puig

I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one.
Mark Haddon

I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles.
Antonio Tabucchi

I get sent a lot of scripts which feature him as a kind of all-purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little, if anything, about him, his life or his books.
Simon Callow

I guess the two Manifesto, Communicating Vessels, Mad Love, and some of his poetry made a significant mark on me but as far as bringing a literary element into the music I see it as a much broader assimilation.
Trevor Dunn

I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.
Fay Godwin

I have been told by a member of the board of one of Canada's most prominent literary magazines that a submission of mine once caused a great deal of controversy.
John Barton

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
George Eliot

I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.
Edward Carpenter

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.
Jose Saramago

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.
Amy Tan

I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.
Sue Grafton

I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn't play, it has a poignancy to it.
Jim Jarmusch

I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit.
Edmund White

I use the language I use to my friends. They wouldn't believe me if I used some high-flown literary language. I want them to believe me.
Adrian Mitchell

I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature.
Kenneth Koch

I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.
Jeffery Deaver

I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself.
Marilyn Hacker

I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.
Harold Bloom

I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway.
Toni Morrison

I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I'm not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now is a sort of gratuitous deconstruction as a result of a fashion of literary deconstructionism indicating that there are no meanings.
Jonathan Miller

I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer.
Marilyn Hacker

If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
Aaron Copland

If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses which is the crowning glory of the nineteenth century, they will soon discover their egregious mistake.
George Ripley

If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.
Robert Delaunay

In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.
James Payn

It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.
Mary A. Ward

It is the growth of advertising in this country which, more than any single element, has brought the American magazine to its present enviable position in points of literary, illustrative and mechanical excellence.
Edward Bok

It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity.
Ferdinand Christian Baur

It took me fifty years to deal with the Holocaust at all. And I did it in a literary way.
Leonard Baskin

It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.
Robert Morgan

It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless - pictures tell any story more effectively than words.
William Moulton Marston

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.
Horace

Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
Ignazio Silone

Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.
Robertson Davies

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.
Dean Koontz

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
Gaston Bachelard

Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life.
Rick Moody

Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather die than here.
Harold Brodkey

Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.
Dan Simmons

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.
John Kenneth Galbraith

My literary success meant nothing to me.
Taylor Caldwell

No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant.
Amy Tan

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
H. G. Wells

Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history.
Robert Hall

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.
Gertrude Stein

One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.
Naguib Mahfouz

It is the growth of advertising in this country which, more than any single element, has brought the American magazine to its present enviable position in points of literary, illustrative and mechanical excellence.
Edward Bok

It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity.
Ferdinand Christian Baur

It took me fifty years to deal with the Holocaust at all. And I did it in a literary way.
Leonard Baskin

It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.
Robert Morgan

It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless - pictures tell any story more effectively than words.
William Moulton Marston

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.
Horace

Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
Ignazio Silone

Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.
Robertson Davies

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.
Dean Koontz

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
Gaston Bachelard

Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life.
Rick Moody

Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather die than here.
Harold Brodkey

Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.
Dan Simmons

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.
John Kenneth Galbraith

My literary success meant nothing to me.
Taylor Caldwell

No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant.
Amy Tan

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
H. G. Wells

Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history.
Robert Hall

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.
Gertrude Stein

One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.
Naguib Mahfouz

One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.
Frank Moore Colby

One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.
George Saintsbury

One of the biggest changes that ever occurred in my life was going from the isolation of working part-time as a house painter in Henderson County, to Cornell, where everybody was a literary person.
Robert Morgan

One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.
Walter Pater

One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that any embarrassment which might arise would be from excess of material. I find this, however, far from being the case.
James Payn

People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different.
Kazuo Ishiguro

People aren't used to thinking of cultural forms spreading out across the full range of formal interactions - or what is called the "text" in literary terms.
Tony Conrad

Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.
Michael Shermer

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.
Marilyn Hacker

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
Stendhal

Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays.
Patrick White

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
Voltaire

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.
Theodore Sturgeon

Sex in a woman's world has the same currency a penny has in a man's. Every penny saved is a penny earned in one world and in the next every sexual adventure is a literary experience.
Harry Golden

Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian life, a life in which so few actually do read, has become literary.
Mario Vargas Llosa

So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter.
Donna Tartt

So much of literary sci-fi is about creating worlds that are rich and detailed and make sense at a social level. We'll create a world for people and then later present a narrative in that world.
James Cameron

Some Critics on the Hearth are not only good-natured, but have rather too high, or, if that is impossible, let us say too pronounced, an opinion of the abilities of their literary friends.
James Payn

Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals.
Joyce Maynard

Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.
Irvine Welsh

That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.
J. M. Coetzee

The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul.
Mason Cooley

The best source for finding an agent is called Literary Agents of North America. It's a complete list of agents, not only by name and address, but by type of book they represent and by what their submission criteria are.
Sara Paretsky

The Bible was written in several languages, embraces many literary forms, and reflects cultures very different from our own. These are important considerations for properly understanding the Bible in its context.
Troy Perry

The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den.
Phillip Adams

The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements.
Paul de Man

The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.
Henry James

The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
Lascelles Abercrombie

The great break of my literary career was going to law school.
Scott Turow

The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it.
Ferdinand Christian Baur

The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work.
Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms.
Christopher Dawson

The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it's really the talk for those who have.
Kathy Acker

The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.
Jonathan Coe

The New Testament evinces its universal design in its very, style, which alone distinguishes it from all the literary productions of earlier and later times.
Philip Schaff

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.
Jose Saramago

The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots.
Scott Turow

The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed as a consequence of the Revolution. But it was also a result of the counterrevolutionary coup of November 1975.
Jose Saramago

The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.
Clifford Geertz

The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all "bottom line" editors; everything depends on the money.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel.
Norman Spinrad

The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.
Ken Follett

The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.
Harold Bloom

There are two methods for the literary study of any book - the first being the study of its thought and emotion; the second only that of its workmanship. A student of literature should study some of the Bible from both points of view.
Lafcadio Hearn

There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
Laura Riding

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
Thomas Carlyle

There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.
Mario Vargas Llosa

There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.
Anne Stevenson

There might be a different model for a literary community that's quicker, more real-time, and involves more spontaneity.
George Saunders

These were all middle-class kids from literary backgrounds, joining this sort of train going by, this pop train, jumping on. Whereas the rest of the rock scene, you'll find that there's mostly working-class people.
Kevin Ayers

They are the literary equivalent of sequins on an evening dress.
Stefan Kanfer

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'
Samuel Butler

To understand a literary style, consider what it omits.
Mason Cooley

Today, there are more opportunities for writers in terms of access to larger success, but it's more difficult to publish a literary novel in the lower ranges. In other words, you almost have to hit a home run. You can hit a triple, maybe, but nobody's interested in a single.
James Lee Burke

Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.
Charles Baudelaire

We had literary references, so we knew what we were talking about. We could quote things, talk about books we'd read; you can say something, you don't have to explain it.
Kevin Ayers

We now open our mail with gloves and mask, though I can't imagine why anyone would target a literary agency!
Richard Curtis

We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
Vaclav Klaus

When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.
Richard Russo

When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. However, on occasion, I would write something for my own pleasure or I would write notes and introductory remarks in the songbooks I put together.
Tom Glazer

When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.
Ted Rall

When I was in college, I was the editor of the literary magazine and insisted neither the editors nor the writers be specifically identified-only our student numbers appeared on the title page. I love that idea and still do.
Jonathan Carroll

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Anais Nin

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.
Paul Ricoeur

You don't have to know people personally for them to be role models. Some of my most important role models were historical or literary figures that I only read about - never actually met.
John Wilson

You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.
A. E. van Vogt

You have to remember that in addition to running a literary agency, I am also an ebook publisher.
Richard Curtis

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Ted Turner

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
Henry Ward Beecher

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Robert H. Schuller

For a lot of people, the weekly paycheck is "take-home pay" because home is the only place they can afford to go with it.
Charles A. Jaffe

Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
Norman Cousins

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
Theodore Isaac Rubin

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Benjamin Franklin

He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.
Edgar R. Fiedler

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
Thomas A. Edison

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
Charles Kettering

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
Winston Churchill

I buy when other people are selling.
J. Paul Getty

I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations.
Ralph Nader

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
John Cleese

I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.
Tiger Woods

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.
Edward Appleton

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
Henry David Thoreau

I want to put a ding in the universe.
Steve Jobs

I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.
Jennifer Aniston

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
Lord Acton

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
George Bernard Shaw

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
Jane Fonda

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Abraham Lincoln

If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.
Thomas J. Watson

If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.
Will Rogers

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
J. Paul Getty

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
Kahlil Gibran

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
B. C. Forbes

If you have to forecast, forecast often.
Edgar R. Fiedler

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Robert H. Schuller

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.
Theodore White

If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
J. Paul Getty

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
William Wordsworth

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
Harold S. Geneen

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin

Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.
Scott Adams

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs

Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network.
Mitchell Kapor

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
Adam Smith

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
Mark Twain

It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.
Dale Dauten

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
Tom Brokaw

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
Will Rogers

It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits.
Charles A. Jaffe

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Thomas A. Edison

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
Robert Browning

Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net.
Meg Whitman

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
Peter Drucker

My son is now an "entrepreneur." That's what you're called when you don't have a job.
Ted Turner

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Not for nothing is their motto TGIF - 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do.
Richard Nelson Bolles

Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once.
Isaac Asimov

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
Thomas J. Watson

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Henry Ford

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
Arnold H. Glasow

One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
Arnold H. Glasow

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
A. C. Benson

Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.
Scott McNealy

Our favorite holding period is forever.
Warren Buffett

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
Edward Gibbon

People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'
Sinclair Lewis

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
Colin Powell

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
W. Edwards Deming

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
Don Marquis

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
B. C. Forbes

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.
Scott Adams

So little done, so much to do.
Cecil Rhodes

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Steve Jobs

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Paul Tournier

Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each.
Charles A. Jaffe

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
Walter Scott

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
Arthur C. Clarke

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.
Rupert Murdoch

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.
Michael Korda

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
Walter Lippmann

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
Max de Pree

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Ambrose Bierce

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
Walter Lippmann

The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
Blaine Lee

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
Albert Einstein

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
Edgar R. Fiedler

The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.
Jack Anderson

The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government.
Mitt Romney

The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.
Blaine Lee

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Napoleon Hill

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
Henry Ford

The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
J. Paul Getty

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
Andre Maurois

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
Aristotle Onassis

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
Confucius

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
Benjamin Jowett

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
Josh Billings

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
Thomas Carlyle

The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.
Igor Sikorsky

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Colin Powell

There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.
Jeff Bezos

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!
Coco Chanel

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
Sam Walton

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
Peter Drucker

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
Andre Malraux

To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.
Alvin Toffler

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
W. Clement Stone

We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference.
Steve Ballmer

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.
Tim Berners-Lee

Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they stick their neck out, but investors face risk no matter what they do.
Charles A. Jaffe

What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.
Blaine Lee

What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?'
Steve Ballmer

What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.
Paul A. Volcker

When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.
James H. Boren

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.
Thomas J. Watson

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Mark Twain

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.
William Arthur Ward

You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
Tom Brokaw

You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing.
Steve Ross