Mark Twain Typical Quotes & Sayings

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them. — William James

The Root of All Rebellion: It is because we are not near enough to Thee to partake of thy liberty that we want a liberty of our own different from thine. — George MacDonald

i really like when someone reads my book and then review and rate it. this is very important to me because it shows me where i stand as an author and where i can improve as a writer. — Robert Trouble Johnson

Almost universally, when people look back on their lives while on their deathbed [ ... ] they wish they had spent more time with the people and activities they truly loved and less time worrying about aspects of life that, upon deeper examination, really don't matter at all that much. Imagining yourself at your own funeral allows you to look back at your life while you still have the chance to make some important changes. — Richard Carlson

A toast," she declared. "To an incredible summer kicking butt and chasing dreams. — Rachel Harris

Remembering is a noble and necessary act. The call of memory, the call to memory, reaches us from the very dawn of history. No commandment figures so frequently, so insistently, in the Bible. It is incumbent upon us to remember the good we have received, and the evil we have suffered. — Elie Wiesel

Either you will determine truth by your feelings or truth will determine your feelings. Be careful following feelings alone. — LeCrae

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen. — Stephen King

Albertini stared at a dented samovar. "Ser, what do you have against the samovar?" "Nothing." Trystin grinned. "I like tea. But the revs don't, I guess." "They're crazy, all of them. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

You can make great money in a utility type of business by borrowing cheaply and lending sensibly but that's not what's being done. — Meredith Whitney

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human. — William Gibson

He was a regular Yankee from New England. The Yankees are noted for making the most cruel overseers. — William Wells Brown

I couldn't do it. I couldn't wait there and be his sex toy, no matter how much I'd enjoy it. Cole Masten was dangerous to my heart, to my self-worth, to my future self. — Alessandra Torre

The essence of education is that it is a change effected in the organism to satisfy the operator. — Bertrand Russell