George Orwell Essays Quotes & Sayings

I have a book of poetry I believe many should read but in each verse you'll discover it wasn't written for greed. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Let yourself believe no means no and you give them the power to end your career. No dosen't mean no, it means not yet. — Maggie Stiefvater

For there is a virtue in truth; it has an almost mystic power. Like radium, it seems to give off forever and ever grains of energy, atoms of light. — Virginia Woolf

As a devout Baptist, she believed it was a sin to pray for anything for yourself. You ought to pray only for strength to bear whatever the Lord saw fit to send you, she thought. I was never able to follow this advice, for although I would often feel a sense of uneasiness over the tone of my prayers, I was the kind of person who prayed frantically-Please, God, please, please, PLEASE let Ross MacVey like me better than Mavis. — Margaret Laurence

If you look at the statistics, people spend most of their time in the kitchen. Aside from the backyard, it's one of my favorite places to renovate. — Vanilla Ice

You will be successful if you are focused on your work — Sunday Adelaja

I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic. — Patrick DeWitt

In his entire output, I can find only one piece of genuine unfairness: a thuggish attack on the poetry of WH Auden, whom he regarded as a dupe of the Communist Party. But even this was softened in some later essays. The truth is that he disliked Auden's homosexuality, and could not get over his prejudice. But much of the interest of Orwell lies in the fact that he was born prejudiced, so to speak, against Jews and the coloured peoples of the empire, and against the poor and uneducated, and against women and intellectuals - and managed, in a transparent and unique way, to educate himself out of this fog of bigotry (though he never did get over his aversion to 'pansies'). — Christopher Hitchens

If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul. — William Shakespeare

In every problem there is opportunity to win or lose, rise or fall ... Ur actions or reactions are the deciding factor — Ikechukwu Joseph

You must be a fundamentalist to be really successful in the market. — John Templeton

People are going to judge you anyway, so you might as well do what you want. — Taylor Swift

Obviously, it's always a good to be in shape and to be fit. — Michael Cudlitz

I want to live where soul meets body
And let the sun wrap its arms around me
And bathe my skin in water cool and cleansing
And feel, feel what its like to be new
And I cannot guess what we'll discover
When we turn the dirt with our palms cupped like shovels
But I know our filthy hands can wash one another's
And not one speck will remain
And I do believe it's true
That there are roads left in both of our shoes
But if the silence takes you
Then I hope it takes me too
So brown eyes I hold you near
Cause you're the only song I want to hear — Death Cab For Cutie