Milbourne Christopher Quotes & Sayings

Active writing should not involve saying things you already understand and know, but instead let you think new things. — Eric Hayot

Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader. — John Ortberg

People who talk only of themselves think only of themselves. — Dale Carnegie

If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity and nonsense. Get rid of it I cannot without getting rid of myself. — Michel De Montaigne

It is human nature to want to believe in the wizardry of the magician - but also to turn against him and to scorn him the moment that he commits the slightest error that reveals his trickery. Those in the audience are embarrassed to have been so easily astonished, and they blame the performer for their gullibility. — Dean Koontz

Lately, the only thing keeping me from being a serial killer is my distaste for manual labor. — Scott Adams

The American's conviction that he must be able to look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell is the very essence of the free man's way of life. — Walter Lippmann

Unsuccessful headlines were not written without a strong appeal, but it was the wrong appeal for that product and that audience. — John Caples

I know a lot of people in the retirement village that I have a house in in Florida that are on the Internet and are reading the paper on the Internet, and they're communicating on the Internet. — Davy Jones

When you need empathy, you cannot give empathy. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

Like one who draws the model of a house beyond his power to build it who, half through, gives o'er, and leaves his part-created cost a naked subject to the weeping clouds. — William Shakespeare

True perfection is a bold quest to seek. Only the willing and true of heart will seek the betterment of many. — Socrates

With the advance of feudalism came the growth of iron armor, until, at last, a fighting-man resembled an armadillo. — John Boyle O'Reilly

I know you will remember this - that nothing good ever ends. If it did, there would be no people in the world - no life at all, anywhere. And the world is full of people and full of wonderful life. — William, Saroyan