Quotes by Writers

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing. Thomas Paine

Truth Nature Liberty Wants Ask Appearing

Time makes more converts than reason. Thomas Paine

Time More Makes Than Converts Reason

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property. Voltaire

Property Appreciation Own Others Our Excellence Make

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. Voltaire

Age Energy Consider Virtue Simply Most Loss After Persons

Make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul. W. E. B. Du Bois

Soul Yourself Unpleasant Make Hand Upper Upper Hand Gain Your Things

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis. Quentin Crisp

Time Live Universe Changing Side Address Once Those Outcast Find Contempt Without Metropolis Expanding Human Suburbs Inhabited Who Eventually

It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope. Ursula K. Le Guin

Hope Achieve Compassion Perception Imagination Above

Laughter is an important part of a good relationship. It's an immense achievement when you can move from your thinking that your partner is merely an idiot to thinking that they are that wonderfully complex thing called a loveable idiot. And often that means having a little bit of a sense of humour about their flaws. Alain de Botton

Good Relationship You Achievement Laughter Important Partner Idiot Sense Thinking Humour Bit Complex Immense About Good Relationship Having Part Merely Important Part Wonderfully Often Move Little Little Bit Flaws Means Your Thing

Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, illuminate your little patch of ground, the people that you know, the things that you want to commemorate. Light them up with your art, with your music, with your writing, with whatever it is that you do. Alan Moore

Life Music Art You People Writing Light Life Is A Whatever More Know Around Commemorate Lot Up Patch Want Interested Places Interesting Little Them Your Ground Illuminate Things

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement. Alice Koller

Love and marriage are wonderful arenas in which to place a character. We are most likely to risk our morals and beliefs while in love. Betrayal gives tremendous insights into a character as well. Anita Shreve

Love Character Marriage Wonderful Tremendous Our Insights Betrayal Morals Risk Gives Arenas Most Likely Well Place Which While Beliefs

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about. Arthur C. Clarke

Worth Thinking Pretend About Answers Questions Certainly

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt. Arthur Conan Doyle

Truth Truth Is Better Doubt Indefinite Than Any

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live. Ayn Rand

You Yourself Live Enjoy Morality Purpose Die Teach Suffer

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. Ayn Rand

Happiness Achievement Values State Proceeds Which Consciousness

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think. Ayn Rand

Man Wealth Think Capacity Product

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is. Ayn Rand

Death Hope Whatever Hell Go Die Heaven

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason. Ayn Rand

You Money Stupidity Men Weakness Demands Talent Sell Your Reason