Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

There are many events in the womb of time which will be delivered.

Bill Walsh

Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.

E. F. Schumacher

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

William Shakespeare

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

William Shakespeare

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

William Shakespeare

A light heart lives long.

William Shakespeare

Let every man be master of his time.

William Shakespeare

I do desire we may be better strangers.

Honore de Balzac

To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.

Evan Esar

Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.

Alice Walker

Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

Alice Walker

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

Alice Walker

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

Alice Morse Earle

Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day

Alice Munro

The constant happiness is curiosity.

Alice Hoffman

The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep.

Alice Hoffman

Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.

Alice Hoffman

I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real.... Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible.

Alice Hoffman

Books may well be the only true magic.

Alice Childress

"The good old days." The only good days are ahead.

Anne Michaels

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.

Anne M. Mulcahy

Employees who believe that management is concerned about them as a whole person - not just an employee - are more productive, more satisfied, more fulfilled. Satisfied employees mean satisfied customers, which leads to profitability.

Anne McCaffrey

Who wills, Can. Who tries, Does. Who loves, Lives.

Anne McCaffrey

Make no judgments where you have no compassion.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Ideally, both members of a couple in love free each other to new and different worlds.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Woman must be the pioneer in this turning inward for strength. In a sense, she has always been the pioneer.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Purposeful giving is not as apt to deplete one's resources; it belongs to that natural order of giving that seems to renew itself even in the act of depletion.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Only when one is connected to one's inner core is one connected to others. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be re-found through solitude.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

You can’t just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of someone else’s appreciation.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

When the heart is flooded with love there is no room in it for fear, for doubt, for hesitation.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

When one is out of touch with oneself, one cannot touch others.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.