Quotes

Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done. -- Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, A View of the Nile, 1970

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth. -- John F. Kennedy, October 26, 1963

To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to. -- Moliere

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. -- Robert Lynd, The Blue Lion and Other Essays

The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought. -- Albert Guerard

Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details. -- William Feather

It's never too late to be who you might have been. -- George Eliot

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose. -- Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962

What we say is important for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. -- Jim Beggs

In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt. -- Meg Cabot, The Boy Next Door, 2002

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city. -- Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. -- Euripides

Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them. -- Madame de Stael

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler. -- Albert Einstein, (attributed)

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. -- Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation. -- Jack Nicklaus, 'My Story'

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for. -- Epicurus

I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can. -- Michel de Montaigne, 'De l'utile et de l'honnete,' 1580-88

My home is not a place, it is people. -- Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit. -- Sir Walter Scott

Be gentle with the young. -- Juvenal

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either. -- Golda Meir

You have to learn that if you start making sure you feel good, everything will be okay. -- Ruben Studdard, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right. -- Cato the Elder

The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten. -- Andre Malraux

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. -- Moliere

Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch. -- Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

Gluttony is not a secret vice. -- Orson Welles

Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others. -- Sir Thomas Browne, 'Christian Morals,' 1716

Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave. -- John Ruskin, The Seven Lamps of Architecture, 1849

Life is full of obstacle illusions. -- Grant Frazier

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. -- Andre Gide

Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble. -- Sidney J. Harris

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances. -- Julia Sorel

Life here is so elemental. So real. Without the interference of civilization you can really experience things like,...silence. Silence and darkness in its purity. Right now, right outside my window all I can see is a black void. Endless darkness. It's totally exhilarating, and I feel very lucky to be here. Very, very lucky. -- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Lost and Found, 1992

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. -- George S. Patton

When you reliquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness. -- Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state. -- Kathleen Norris

Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up. -- Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, February 2003