Henrys On Clay Quotes & Sayings

It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.
What matters most are the simple pleasures so abundant that we can all enjoy them ... Happiness doesn't lie in the objects we gather around us. To find it, all we need to do is open our eyes. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.' — Nawal El Saadawi

When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints. — Samuel Johnson

I wonder if it is possible to escape the clinches of despair; or would despair become the hunter and reclaim me as its prisoner. — Nancy B. Brewer

We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents — Thomas B. Macaulay

I used to do jacket design, and I'm very conscious of covers, and probably meddle more than other authors would. — Steven Amsterdam

Paper is like Joyce Carol Oates: white. — Caryl Churchill

Humanity? Don't be silly. I know. It is knocking down your fellow-men for the sake of your own happiness. — Osamu Dazai

English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in a way that is conducive to action. — Marilyn Butler

One of the things that a president needs in the face of genocide is resolve. — Samantha Power

If only one person were perfectly informed there could never be a general crisis. But the only perfectly informed person is God, and he does not play the stock market. — Robert Skidelsky

A teacher will be frustrated if she is only motivated to teach what she has learned. Yet, if she is motivated because of the students, then she will learn from them how to teach. — Tanya R. Liverman