Quotes by Authors

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. George Eliot

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. George Eliot

Life Stream Past Gone Nothing Visit See Rush Angels Only Come Know Golden Them Sand Us Moments

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. George Orwell

People Achieve Some Temptation Never Felt Genuinely Sainthood Saints Probable Human Want Human Beings Much Aspire Who Many Beings

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up. George Orwell

Catholic Up Cannot Really Grown Grown-Up

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be. George Orwell

Good Men Only Development Them Technical

Nature is impersonal, awe-inspiring, elegant, eternal. It's geometrically perfect. It's tiny and gigantic. You can travel far to be in a beautiful natural setting, or you can observe it in your backyard - or, in my case, in the trees lining New York City sidewalks, or in the clouds above skyscrapers. Gretchen Rubin

Beautiful Nature You Travel Natural Clouds Setting Trees Backyard Gigantic City Case Above Perfect Impersonal Observe New Lining York Tiny New York New York City Eternal Far Your Elegant Skyscrapers Awe-Inspiring

The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. H. G. Wells

Past Beginning Has-Been Dawn Been Twilight

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community. H. G. Wells

Failure Crime Community State Bad End In The End Measure Lives

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it's just a daisy in a jelly glass. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Beautiful Sight Something Glass Always Just Even Jelly Daisy

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women. Harriet Beecher Stowe

Beautiful Women Wake Up Old Girl Somebody Beauty Young Has-Been Sung Said Been Wake Up Young Girls Much Old Women Why

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. Helen Keller

Me Book Sweet Embarrassment Out Talk Without Am Friends Gracious Disenfranchised Senses Literature Barrier Utopia Awkwardness Here

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged. Helen Keller

We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind. Helena Blavatsky

Mind Will Thought Feeling Gesture Organic Every See Mental Emotion Volition Voluntary Motion Whether Produced Act Internal Mechanical External

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? Henry David Thoreau

You Space Put House Got Planet Use Tolerable

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency. Henry David Thoreau

Truth Truth Is Expediency Consistency Lawyer Consistent

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Henry David Thoreau

Man Desperate Enterprises Haste He Perhaps Drummer Because Does His Hears Different Pace Succeed Should Companions Keep Why

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. Henry David Thoreau

Nature Genius Divinity Hand Escapes Snowflake Full

The perception of beauty is a moral test. Henry David Thoreau

Perception Beauty Moral Test

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. Henry Miller

Experience Dark Benefit Spontaneous Leap Without Act Growth

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring. Henry Miller

Life Progress Whatever Daring Through Adaptation

You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face. Ian Fleming

Death You Face Live Once Born Only Look Twice

All of us have ways in which we mask and cover our pain. Iyanla Vanzant

Mask Pain Our Ways Cover Which Us

There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others. J. Donald Walters

Love Kindness Food Appreciation Language Others Our Individual Emotional Share Support Tastes Nationality Regardless Realities Nourishment Need