|
| |
|
|
| |
A random selection of fabulous
quotations from famous writers throughout history. From our database of over
100,000 famous quotes.
|
Sayings Proverbs and Quotations - 43
|
Orlando A. Battista
An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
= = = = = = = = = =
Timothy Leary
Turn on, tune in and drop out.
= = = = = = = = = =
Dee W. Hock, Fast Company
Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.
= = = = = = = = = =
Horace, Epistles
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
= = = = = = = = = =
Louise Erdrich
In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape. For a short while, our mothers' bodies are the boundaries and personal geography which are all that we know of the world. ... Once we no longer live beneath our mother's heart, it is the earth with which we form the same dependent relationship, relying ... on its cycles and elements, helpless without its protective embrace.
= = = = = = = = = =
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
I think my favorite monster movie is 'Gone With the Wind
= = = = = = = = = =
Marc Chagall
When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If theres a clash between the two, its bad art.
= = = = = = = = = =
Woody Allen
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick, not wounded: dead.
= = = = = = = = = =
Milan Kundera
Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo Fear of falling No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.
= = = = = = = = = =
Louis D. Brandeis
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.
= = = = = = = = = =
Dr. Dale E. Turner
It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.
= = = = = = = = = =
Elbert Hubbard
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
|
| |
|
<< Now check out our massive collection of quotations, sayings, proverbs and maxims. >>
More Quotations |
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
| |
| |
|
