Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.
The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth,--that is the secret of the fine arts.
There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign are an open book, generally a check book.
So that I may meet the day with the knowledge to build the day I will look into my soul while it still dawn, before the morning breaketh.
You're only as sick as your secrets. Either it comes out their way or my way. I talk about myself behind my back. And I'm funny about it.
All decays begin in the closet; no heart thrives with out much secret converse with God, and nothing will make amends for the want of it.
The secret to having everything you want out of life is the realization that you really don't want most of the things you think you want.
Dont avoid extremes, and dont choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing.
Stories do not change the world. I've learned that. But perhaps in some secret, subtle way... I mean it's not the world I want to change.
You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.
Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets, for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.
The English can laugh and at the same time strike you down, without the least compunction. It is the secret of their success as a nation.
The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.
I know you want me to let you in on some big secret to success in the NBA. The secret is there is no secret. It's just boring old habits.
Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, the [bankers] know that history is inflationary.
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
I'll let you in on a secret: I can't stand Jay Ward. I hate being compared to Rocky and Bullwinkle. It's just a different style of humor.
Cast off limiting thoughts and return to true emptiness. Stand in the midst of the great void. This is the secret of the Way of a Warrior.
The dirty little secret of both clinical psychology and biological psychiatry is that they have completely given up on the notion of cure.
It is not in the least likely that any life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the person who lived it.
Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.
A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters, my secrets.
I want there to be a piece of me in my music, you know? I genuinely believe that's the secret of all the success that's happened (for me).
Secret to productivity is not finding more time to do more stuff, but finding the strength to do less of the stuff that doesnt need doing.
Do not become archivists of facts. Try to penetrate to the secret of their occurrence, persistently search for the laws which govern them.
In the secret pocket, she often kept a small pocket dictionary, which she would take out whenever she encountered a word she did not know.
An invisible man can rule the world. Nobody will see him come, nobody will see him go. He can hear every secret, he can rob, rapeand kill.
It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit of life.
Zen is a study. It's a discipline. It involves the active use of will to make things happen or not happen. These are the secrets of power.
Oneness is very simple: everything is included and allowed to live according to its true nature. This is the secret that is being revealed.
Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.
Don't avoid extremes, and don't choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing.
He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.
Vision lifts you up. It makes you smile a secret smile because you know that you have something very special to share. What is your vision?
There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.
We battled in secret, undeclared, and after a while I no longer fought back because I never won. The only defense was flight, invisibility.
If you want to create wealth, it is imperative that you believe that you are at the steering wheel of life, especially your financial life.
My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.
I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life... I just go on from day to day, taking what comes.
There's this other half of him I don't know of, it's like he is trying to keep it a secret... if he would just let me inside so I can help.
I don't know what the secret to longevity as an actress is. It's more than talent and beauty. Maybe it's the audience seeing itself in you.
That's the secret to anything we write. You have to bring your experience to it. Otherwise, how do you expect anyone else to connect to it?
There are visible and invisible dictators. The power structure of world football is monarchical. It's the most secret kingdom in the world.
So perhaps the real secret to style is filling yourself to the absolute brim with engagement. Loving not wisely, but too well and all that.
Call upon the Goddess and God to protect you and teach you the secrets of magic. Ask stones and plants to reveal their powers - and listen.
The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.
A game of secret, cunning stratagems, in which only the fools who are fated to lose reveal their true aims or motives - even to themselves.
[President Bush should] quit hiding behind the Secret Service, come out and face the nation and explain his failure to protect the country.