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WALKING : Walking is also an ambulation of mind. (Gretel Ehrlich, U.S. novelist, poet, and essayist, Born 1946)
WALKING : Walking is also an ambulation of mind. (Unknown Source)
WALLS : Barricades of ideas are worth more than barricades of stones. (Jose Marti, Cuban revolutionary, journalist, and poet, 1853-1895)
WALLS - BRIDGES : Men build too many walls and not enough bridges. (Isaac Newton, British physicist, mathematician, and philosopher, 1642-1727)
WANDERERS : Not all wanderers are lost. (Unknown source)
WANDERERS : Not all those who wander are lost. (J.R.R. Tolkien, English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, 1892-1973)
WAR : The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his. (George S. Patton, U.S. Army General who commanded the military in World War II, both in the Mediterranean and in France and Germany, 1885-1945)
WAR : One cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)
WAR : No to war! War is not always inevitable - it is always a defeat for humanity. (Unknown Source)
WAR : War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination, political nerve, and diplomatic skill. (Unknown Source)
WAR : There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it. (Alexis de Tocqueville, French diplomat, political scientist, and historian, 1805-1809)
WAR : The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it. (George Marshall, U.S. Army Chief, Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, and Nobel laureate, 1880-1959)
WAR : War is merely the continuation of policy by other means. (Carl von Clausewitz, Prussian general and military theorist, 1780-1831)
WAR : Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe. (John Milton, English poet, 1608-1674)
WAR : To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman. (George Santayana, U.S. philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, 1863-1952)
WAR : Sometimes I think war is God’s way of teaching us geography. (Unknown source)
WAR : The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it. (George Marshall, U.S. Army Chief, Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, and Nobel laureate, 1880-1959)
WAR : War is the enemy of the poor. (Unknown Source)
WAR : Trained to kill, Kill we will. (Unknown Source)
WAR : One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one. (Unknown Source)
WAR : The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals. (Edward Abbey, U.S. naturalist, author, and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues, 1927-1989)
WAR : The most successful war seldom pays for its losses. (Thomas Jefferson, one of the U.S. Founders who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)
WAR : War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times. (Unknown Source)
WAR : Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. (Ernest Hemingway, U.S. novelist, short story writer, and journalist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature, as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1899-1961)
WAR : Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it. (Paul Fussell, Jr., U.S. cultural and literary historian, author, and professor, 1924-2012)
WAR : Any fool can start a war. It takes courage to stop one. (Linda Lafferty, teacher educator and author of novels and essays, 1925-2012)
WAR : It is forbidden to kill; therefore, all murderers are puniished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. (Voltaire, French Enlightenment writer and philosopher, 1694-1778)
WAR : Only the dead have seen the end of war. (Plato, Greek philosopher and founder of the Academy in Athens, 428-347 BCE)
WAR : 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 or democracy? (Unknown Source)
WAR : Civilization represents a repeating, intertwining cycle of chaos, violence, and order. The old dies so that new can be born. Wars drive technological progress and tighten the bonds that hold us together. Little wonder it’s so hard to kick the habit. (Peter Turchin, Russian-American scientist specializing in the statistical analysis of cultural evolution, Born 1957)
WAR : War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination, political nerve, and diplomatic skill. (Bill Moyers, U.S. journalist and political commentator who also served as White House Press Secretary, Born 1934)
WAR : I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. (Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. politician and Army general who served as the 34th president of the United States, 1890-1969)
WAR : War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times. (Howard Zinn, U.S. political science professor, author, and social activist, 1922-2010)
WAR : War is the enemy of the poor. (Martin Luther King Jr., Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. 1929-1968)
WAR : Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. (Carl Sandburg, U.S. poet, writer, and editor who won three Pulitzer Prizes two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln, 1878-1967)
WAR : There is many a boy today who looks on war as all glory, but boys, it is all hell. (William Tecumseh Sherman, U.S. Civil War general and a major architect of modern warfare, 18201891)
WAR : Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. (Carl Sandburg, U.S. poet and biographer 1878-1967 (Carl Sandburg)
WAR : I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. (Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. politician and Army general who served as the 34th president of the United States, 1890-1969)
WAR : There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough, and liked it, never really care for anything else. (Ernest Hemingway, U.S. novelist, short story writer, and journalist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature, as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1899-1961)
WAR : Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe. (John Milton, English poet, 1608-1674Luck: The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck. (Hector Berlioz, French composer, 1803-1869Talent: The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck. (Hector Berlioz, French composer, 1803-1869Equality: The sun is pure communism everywhere except in cities, where it's private property. (Malcolm De Chazal, Mauritian writer and painter, 1902-1981)
WAR : Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. (Carl Sandburg, U.S. poet, writer, and editor who won three Pulitzer Prizes two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln, 1878-1967)
WAR : War is only good for the countries who sell the weapons. (Unknown Source)
WAR : I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, Mother, what was war? (Eve Merriam, U.S. poet and writer, 1916-1992)
WAR : War, at its heart, is a paradox. We are all appalled by it but also entranced by it. War is devastating, but it also brings about huge social and medical inventions. War appeals to the worst of human strengths, but it inspires ideals and qualities that are rarely seen in peacetime. And, above all, war is what happens when the things that we want to live for are worth dying for. (Christiane Amanpour, British-Iranian journalist and television hostess, Born 1958)
WAR : War would end if the dead could return. (Stanley Baldwin, British Conservative statesman who served as Prime Minister on three occasions, 1867-1947)
WAR : War should be to effect a humanitarian result — not just to kill people and collect real estate. (Unknown source)
WAR : The first casualty when war comes is truth. (Hiram Johnson, U.S. governor and senator 1866-1945)
WAR : I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. (Unknown Source)
WAR : We always use evil to prevent greater evil. How much evil must be done to achieve good? (Unknown Source)
WAR : Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. (Napoleon Bonaparte, French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821)
WAR - MILITARY : A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social upliftis is approaching spiritual doom. (Unknown Source)
WAR - PEACE : There is nothing…to prevent us from reordering our priorities, so that the pursuit of peace will take precedence over the pursuit of war. (Unknown Source)
WAR - WEAPONS : Do we need weapons to fight wars? Or do we need wars to create markets for weapons? (Arundhati Roy, Indian author and political activist in human rights and environmental causes, Born 1961)
WARS : All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers . . . . Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born. (Francois Fenelon, French archbishop and writer, 1651-1715)
WARS : Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. (Herbert Hoover, U.S. politician who served as the 31st President of the United States during the Great Depression., 1874-1964)
WARS : The force which makes for war does not derive its strength from the interested motives of evil men; it derives its strength from the disinterested motives of good men. (Norman Angell, British lecturer, author, Member of Parliament, and Nobel laureate, 1872-1967)
WARS : Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars on poverty are fought to map change. (Muhammad Ali, U.S. professional boxer, Born 1942)
WARS : The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country. (Hermann Goring, German political and military leader as well as one of the most powerful figures in the Nazi Party, 1893-1946)
WARS : The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country. (Hermann Goring, German political and military leader as well as one of the most powerful figures in the Nazi Party, 1893-1946)
WEALTH : Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. (Epictetus, Greek Stoic philosopher, 55-135 A.D,)
WEALTH : The man who dies rich dies disgraced. (Andrew Carnegie, industrialist and philanthropist, 1835-1919)
WEALTH : Surplus wealth is a sacred trust that its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. (Andrew Carnegie, industrialist and philanthropist, 1835-1919)
WEALTH : If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor would make a wonderful living. (Jewish proverb)
WEALTH : If you like easygoing, monogamous men, stay away from billionaires. (Rita Rudner, U.S. comedian, Born 1953)
WEAPONS : The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. (Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist, 1946-1977)
WEATHER : Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. (Kin Hubbard, U.S. cartoonist and humorist, 1868-1930)
WEATHER : Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it. (Mark Twain, U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)
WELFARE : A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. (Samuel Johnson, English writer, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)
WESTERN CIVILIZATION : The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion, but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do. (Unknown Source)
WHISTLEBLOWER : What is to give light must endure burning. (Viktor Frankl, Austrian author, neurologist, psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor, 1905-1997)
WHISTLEBLOWERS : WHAT IS TO GIVE LIGHT MUST SOMETIMES ENDURE BURNING. (Viktor Frankl, Austrian author, neurologist, psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor, 1905-1997)
WIDOWS : A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other. (Portuguese proverb)
WISDOM : Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority. (William A. Ward, U.S. writer of essays, maxims, and poems, 1921-1994)
WISDOM : The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. (Unknown Source)
WISDOM : We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys. (Unknown Source)
WISDOM : The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension. (Ezra Pound, U.S. expatriate poet, 1885-1972)
WISDOM : The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. (Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)
WISDOM : Wisdom is having a lot to say and not always saying it. (Unknown source)
WISDOM : Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority. (William A. Ward, U.S. writer of essays, maxims, and poems, 1921-1994)
WISDOM : The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. (William James, U.S. philosopher and psychologist who was also trained as a physician, 1842-1910)
WISDOM : The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. (Unknown Source)
WOMANHOOD : One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. (Unknown Source)
WOMANHOOD : A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water. (Unknown source)
WOMEN : The house does not rest on the ground, but upon a woman. (Mexican proverb)
WOMEN : A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. (Gloria Steinem, U.S. feminist, journalist, and social and political activist, Born 1934)
WOMEN : When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition. (Letty Cottin Pogrebin, U.S. author, journalist, lecturer, social activist, and a founding editor of Ms. Magazine, Born 1939)
WOMEN : A woman must not depend upon the protection of a man, but must be taught to protect herself. (Susan B. Anthony, U.S. social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement, 1820-1906)
WOMEN : We women ought to put first things first. Why should we mind if men have their faces on the money, as long as we get our hands on it? (Ivy Baker Priest, U.S. politician who served as U.S. Treasurer and California State Treasurer, 1905-1975)
WOMEN : A woman is like a tea bag: you never know her strength until you drop her in hot water. (Nancy Reagan, U.S. film actress and the wife of Ronald Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, 1921-2016)
WOMEN : Women are made to be loved, not understood. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)
WOMEN : The status of women in a country is a good indicator of the health of its economy. (Unknown source)
WOMEN : An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell. (Pearl Buck, U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)
WOMEN'S RIGHTS : The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit. (Susan B. Anthony, U.S. social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement, 1820-1906)
WONDERING : Remain in wonder if you want the mysteries to open up for you. Mysteries never open up for those who go on questioning. Answers are dangerous, for they kill your wonder. (Osho, Indian mystic, guru, and spiritual teacher, 1931-1990)
WORDS : By words the mind is winged. (Aristophanes, Greek comic playwright of ancient Athens, 447-386 B.C.E.)
WORDS : Words are the small change of thought. (Jules Renard, French writer, 1864-1910)
WORDS : All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind. (Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist and writer in both Arabic and English, 1883-1931)
WORDS : Words are loaded pistols. (Jean-Paul Sartre, French writer and philosopher, 1905-1980Fun: I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun. (Katharine Hepburn, U.S. actress, 1907-2003Language: Language is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling, and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines. (Bill Bryson, U.S. author, Born 1951Exceptionalism: The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. (Lorraine Hansberry, U.S. author and the first black woman to write a play performed on Broadway, 1930-1965)
WORDS : Words are the small change of thought. (Jules Renard, French writer, 1864-1910Books: A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return. (Salman Rushdie, writer, Born 1947Justice: Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice? (Lillian Hellman, U.S. playwright and screenwriter who was blacklisted by the House Committee on Un-American Activities at the height of the anti-communist campaigns of 1947-52, 1905-1984Happiness: The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. (Benjamin Franklin, as one of the Founders of the U.S., he was a leading author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)
WORDS : There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts. (Voltaire, French Enlightenment writer and philosopher, 1694-1778)
WORDS : Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness. (Unknown Source)
WORDS : The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they�ve been in. (Dennis Potter, English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist, 1935-1994)
WORDS : Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use. (Samuel Butler, English author, 1835-1902)
WORDS : Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. (Nathaniel Hawthorne, English novelist and short story writer, 1804-1864)
WORDS : Words are but the signs of ideas. (Samuel Johnson, English writer, moralist, literary critic, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)
WORDS : All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind. (Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese poet and artist, 1883-1931Silence - Protest: To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. (Ella Wheeler, U.S. Wilcox, poet, 1850-1919Cowardice: To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. (Ella Wheeler Wilcox, author and poet, 1850-1919)
WORDS : There is no material with which human beings work which has so much potential energy as words. (Earnest Calkins, a U.S. deaf advertising executive who pioneered the use of art in advertising, 1868-1964)
WORDS : Some words in a dictionary are very much like a car in a large motor show -- full of potential, but temporarily inactive. (Anthony Burgess, English author, 1917-1993)
WORDS : By words the mind is winged. (Aristophanes, Greek comic playwright of ancient Athens, 447-386 B.C.E.)
WORDS : Cut these words and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive; they walk and run. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)
WORDS : Cut these words and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive; they walk and run. (Unknown Source)
WORDS : The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in. (Dennis Potter, English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist, 1935-1994)
WORDS : Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. (Alfred Lord Tennyson, British poet who was the Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during most of Queen Victoria’s reign, 1809-1892)
WORDS : All words are pegs to hang ideas on. (Henry Ward Beecher, U.S. clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, 1813-1887)
WORDS : The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in. (Dennis Potter, English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist, 1935-1994)
WORDS : Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness. (Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist and writer in both Arabic and English, 1883-1931)
WORDS : There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam. (John Updike, U.S. writer, and art and literary critic, 1932-2009)
WORDS : Some words in a dictionary are very much like a car in a large motor show -- full of potential, but temporarily inactive. (Unknown Source)
WORDS : All words are pegs to hang ideas on. (Unknown Source)
WORDS : Words are loaded pistols. (Unknown Source)
WORDS : By words the mind is winged. (Unknown Source)
WORDS : Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. (Unknown Source)
WORDS : There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam. (Unknown Source)
WORDS - MONEY : Words are like money ... it is the stamp of custom alone that gives them circulation or value. (William Hazlitt, English essayist and literary critic, 1778-1830)
WORK : If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. (Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist and writer in both Arabic and English, 1883-1931)
WORK : Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. (Christina Rossetti, English poet, 1830-1894)
WORK : The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic -- in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea -- known to medical science is work. (Thomas Szasz, U.S. professor of psychiatry and author, 1920-2012)
WORK : The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic – in WORK, the closest thing to a genuine panacea -- known to medical science is work. (Thomas Szasz, U.S. professor of psychiatry and author, 1920-2012)
WORK : Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. (James M. Barrie, Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan, 1860-1937)
WORK : Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done. (Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet of the Victorian era, 1806-1861)
WORLD AFFAIRS : Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them in the name of morality. (William Sloane Coffin, U.S. Christian clergyman and long-time peace activist, and CIA officer, 1924-2006)
WORLD CITIZEN : We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, I speak as a citizen of the world without others saying, God, what a nut. (Lawrence Lessig, U.S. professor and political activist, Born 1961)
WORLD CITIZEN : We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, I speak as a citizen of the world without others saying, God, what a nut. (Unknown Source)
WORTHINESS : The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success. (Cullen Hightower, U.S. quotation and quip writer, 1923-2008)
WORTHINESS : Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. (Unknown Source)
WRINKLES : Wrinkles are the service stripes of life. (Unknown source)
WRINKLES : Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. (Mark Twain, U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)
WRINKLES : Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. (Watterson Lowe, U.S. entrepreneur and interior decorator, 1886-1980)
WRINKLES : Wrinkles should only indicate where smiles have been. (Ethel Barrymore, U.S. actress and a member of the Barrymore family of actors, 1879-1959)
WRINKLES : Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children. (Ann Landers, U.S. advice columnist, 1918-2002)
WRITERS : Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders. (Unknown Source)
WRITING : Get black on white. (Guy de Maupassant, French author, remembered as a master of the short story form, 1850-1893)
WRITING : Hard writing is easy reading; easy writing is hard reading. (E.B. White, U.S. writer and author of the highly acclaimed children’s book, Charlotte’s Web, 1899-1985)
WRITING : Only the hand that erases can write the true thing. (Meister Eckhart, German theologian, philosopher and mystic, 1260-1327)
WRITING : A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end, but not necessarily in that order. (Jean-Luc Godard, French-Swiss film director and screenwriter, Born 1930)
WRITING : A poor idea well written is more likely to be accepted than a good idea poorly written. (Isaac Asimov, U.S. professor of biochemistry and science-fiction writer, 1920-1992)
WRITING : The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or a new thing in an old way. (Unknown Source)
WRITING : Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. (Cyril Connolly, English literary critic, writer, and editor, 1903-1974)
WRITING : How do I know what I think until I see what I say? (E.M. Forster, English novelist, short story writer, essayist, and librettist, 1879-1970)
WRITING : The pen is the tongue of the mind. (Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish writer who authored Don Quixote, one of the most translated books in the world, 1547-1616)
WRITING : What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in! (Gustave Flaubert, French novelist, 1821-1880)
WRITING : Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as the headlights, but you make the whole trip that way. (E. L. Doctorow, U.S. historical fiction writer, 1931-2015)
WRITING : I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live. (Francoise Sagan, French playwright and novelist, 1935-2004)
WRITING : How do I know what I think until I see what I write? (Unknown Source)
WRITING : The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things. (Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet, 1840-1928)
WRITING : How do I know what I think until I see what I write? (E.M. Forster, English novelist, short story writer, essayist, and librettist, 1879-1970)
WRITING : Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. (Cyril Connolly, English literary critic and writer, 1903-1974)
WRITING : The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or a new thing in an old way. (Richard Harding Davis, U.S. journalist and war correspondent, 1864-1916)
WRITING : If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good. (Thornton Wilder, U.S. novelist and playwright who won three Pulitzer Prizes, 1897-1975)
WRITING : Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as the headlights, but you make the whole trip that way. (Cory Doctorow, Canadian-British science fiction author and journalist, Born 1971)
WRITING : If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good. (Unknown Source)
WRITING - READING : There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced or the preferably unheard. (Arundhati Roy, Indian author and political activist in human rights and environmental causes, Born 1961)
WRITING - READING : If people are generous, empathic, and charitable, does it matter whether theybelieve in a messiah or a prophet? (Anna Quindlen, U.S. author, journalist, and Pulitzer Prize winning opinion columnist, Born 1952)
WRITING - READING : Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. (Henry Van Dyke, U.S. poet, 1852-1933)
WRITING - READING : Do we need weapons to fight wars? Or do we need wars to create markets for weapons? (Arundhati Roy, Indian author and political activist in human rights and environmental causes, Born 1961)
WRITING - READING : Wisdom is a love affair with questions. Knowledge is a love affair with answers. (Julio Olalla, Chilean consultant and former government attorney, Born 1945)
WRITING - READING : Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? (Unknown Source)
WRITING - READING : Every saint has a past and every sinner a future. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)
WRITING - READING : A cult is a religion with no political power. (Tom Wolfe, Jr., U.S. author and journalist, Born 1931)
WRITING - READING : Religious canons all too often lead to cannons! (Unknown source)
WRITING - READING : You never want to try to strengthen a weakness if it weakens your strength. (Bob Torrance, Scottish soccer player, 1888-1917)
WRITING - READING : Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except the best. (Unknown Source)
WRITING - READING : The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests, and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance. (Thomas Jefferson, one of the U.S. Founders who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)
WRITING - READING : Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)
WRITING - READING : All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty. (Henry Clay, U.S. statesman and orator, 1777-1852)
WRITING - READING : America - the nation of the bullet as well as the ballot, and unlikely to change. (Richard Rayner, British author and editor, Born 1955)
WRITING - READING : A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social upliftis is approaching spiritual doom. (Martin Luther King Jr., Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. 1929-1968)
WRITING - READING : There is nothing...to prevent us from reordering our priorities, so that the pursuit of peace will take precedence over the pursuit of war. (Martin Luther King Jr., Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. 1929-1968)
WRITING - READING : Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? (T.S. Eliot, U.S.-born British subject , an essayist, publisher, playwright, and literary and social critic. Who won the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1888-1965)
WRITING - READING : What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul. (Jewish proverb)
WRITING - READING : When the string of the violin was being tuned it felt the pain of being stretched, but once it was tuned, then it knew why it was stretched. (Hazrat Inayat Khan, Indian founder of The Sufi Order in the West and teacher of Universal Sufism, 1882-1927)
WRITING - READING : the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. (Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, promoter of scientific research, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics, 1885-1962)
WRITING - READING : The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. (Harriet Beecher Stowe, U.S. abolitionist and author, 1811-1896)
WRITING - READING : The future is uncertain. But such uncertainty lies at the very heart of human creativity. (Ilya Prigogine, Belgian physical chemist and Nobel Laureate, 1917-2003)
WRITING - READING : Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence. (Henri Frederic Amiel, Swiss moral philosopher, poet, and critic, 1821-1881)