Quotes & Sayings About Eloquent Speakers

All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you are lost, go back to the beginning. — Cecil Castellucci

For tolerance (and you must remember this when you grow older), is of very recent origin and even the people of our own so-called "modern world" are apt to be tolerant only upon such matters as do not interest them very much. — Hendrik Willem Van Loon

Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of religious preoccupation is in the self, or rather the rejection of the self. Dedication in the obverse side of self-rejection. Man alone is a religious animal because, as Montaigne points out, it is a malady confined to man, and not seen in any other creature, to hate and despise ourselves. — Eric Hoffer

Boy, be for ever grateful to all friends, but especially unto them which brought you up by hand — Charles Dickens

It's not about size, it's a science. — Andre Ward

Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it! — Edward Abbey

Gratitude drives happiness. Happiness boosts Productivity. Productivity reveals mastery. And mastery inspires the world. — Robin Sharma

When you live for many hundreds of years, you know that every opportunity will come again. — Philip Pullman

Woman is determined not by her hormones or by mysterious instincts, but by the manner in which her body and her relation to the world are modified through the action of others than herself. — Simone De Beauvoir

Arthur, you used to sound your age. Now you're sounding several centuries old.' 'What's wrong with that? One of the great pleasures that used to come with senior citizenship was the right to be perfectly vile to everyone. You could say whatever you liked, and people excused you out of respect for your advanced years. But now that everyone is in touch with their emotions and says exactly what they feel, even that pleasure has been taken away. Is there nothing the young haven't usurped? — Christopher Fowler