Nhn Global Quotes & Sayings

Literature should be more revolutionary than revolutions themselves; writers must find the means to continue to be critical of the negative elements in the sociopolitical reality. — Naguib Mahfouz

I came to believe that health services ought not to have a price tag on them, and that people should be able to get whatever health services they required irrespective of their individual capacity to pay. — Tommy Douglas

When you focus on gratitude, positive things flow in more readily, making you even more grateful. — Lissa Rankin

Where there are millions upon millions of units of idle labour, it is no use thinking of labour-saving devices. — Mahatma Gandhi

A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise. — Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

I've always loved those movies where somebody really wants something, and then the thing they want is right in front of them. — John Krasinski

To write a book is a preposterously antisocial process involving months, if not years, of self-imposed misery as you become a monomaniacal hermit shunning all loved ones until the moment you finish what in your head is the greatest assemblage of written language since the Babylonians invented cuneiform. — Simon Goddard

Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them. — Huston Smith

Twenty-three is said to be the prime of life by those who have reached so far and no farther. It shares this distinction with every age, from ten to three-score and ten. — Stella Benson

I know that one is able to win people far more by the spoken that by the written word, and that every great movement on this globe owes its rise to the great speakers and not to the great writers. — Adolf Hitler

I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others. — Edmund White