Counsels To Writers Quotes & Sayings

Having seen the people of all other nations bowed down to the earth under the wars and prodigalities of their rulers, I have cherished their opposites, peace, economy, and riddance of public debt, believing that these were the high road to public as well as private prosperity and happiness. — Thomas Jefferson

The optimistic style of explaining good events is the opposite of that used for bad events: It's internal rather than external. — Martin Seligman

The centralization of power in Washington, which nearly all members of Congress deplore in their speech and then support by their votes, steadily increases. — Calvin Coolidge

The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization BY PETER M. SENGE — Daniel H. Pink

There was life before you, and then life with you. There wasn't supposed to be life after you. — Paula Garner

If there's a password needed at the gates of heaven, only Latin will unlock it, he thinks. — Kimberly Morgan

The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way. — Thomas Sowell

Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks. — Marilyn Vos Savant

ambushed by sleep. — William Golding

On a sea floor that looks like a sandy mud bottom, that at first glance might appear to be sand and mud, when you look closely and sit there as I do for a while and just wait, all sorts of creatures show themselves, with little heads popping out of the sand. It is a metropolis. — Sylvia Earle

You're hot for two seconds, and you're struggling to get work again. If it were easy, I don't think that's a good place for an artist to work from. — Tatiana Maslany

Dad was a great advocate for social justice and a very quiet advocate of the essential Labor values. — Joan Kirner

The Bill of Life was signed, the Unwind Accord went into effect, and the war was over. Everyone was so happy to end the war, no one cared about the consequences — Neal Shusterman

There were times in school when a person had to do things fast, cheap, and without character. — E.L. Konigsburg

I like to be other people, not me. And when you're on the red carpet, it's like, 'Here's Tom Hardy.' I don't want to be me. That's why I play other people. — Tom Hardy