Mark Twain Idiom Quotes & Sayings

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead. — Charles Caleb Colton

To say that it is not our fault does not relieve us of responsibility. However, we may not have polluted the air, but we need to take responsibility, along with others, for cleaning it up. Each of us needs to look at our own behavior. Am I perpetuating and reinforcing the negative messages so pervasive in our culture, or am I seeking to challenge them? — Beverly Daniel Tatum

preaching is about trans- formation, not information. — Michael Duduit

Take a person's memories, and you change who they are. — Veronica Roth

One constructs for oneself a satisfactory system only when one is ignorant of the characteristics of the phenomena to be explained. — Maupertuis

We have developed a culture in which we eat with our taste buds, not our brains. — David H. Murdock

The one thing that does happen, every time, though, is that I never get to write a book until I've already been thinking about it for a period of months to years. — Charles Stross

Those people who spend their time working on things they love are usually the ones enjoying life the most. They are also the ones who dared to take a risk and chase their dreams. — Richard Branson

As technology progresses, and as it advances, many of us assume that these advances make us more intelligent, make us smarter and more connected to the world. And what I'd like to argue is that that's not necessarily the case, as 'progress' is simply a word for change, and with change you gain something, but you also lose something. — Tom Wujec

When you express your unique talents and use them in the service of humanity, you create abundance in your life and the lives of others. — Deepak Chopra