Nosce Hostem Quotes & Sayings

Vision involves optimism and hope. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty. — J. Oswald Sanders

After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published. — Lloyd Alexander

The world moves into the future as a result of decisions, not as a result of plans. Plans are significant only insofar as they affect decisions. — Kenneth E. Boulding

After all, bluff and real emotion exist so easily side by side. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I have always been very fond of them (drama critics) ... I think it is so frightfully clever of them to go night after night to the theatre and know so little about it. — Noel Coward

Everything in the room is like that: unnecessarily solid, abnormally heavy and dangerously sharp. — Christopher Isherwood

No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down, there must be steady lucidity and uncompromise of purpose. — Eudora Welty

You may like me, you may hate me. But I guarantee you'll remember me. — Shane Porteous

Metaphors hide in plain sight, and their influence is largely unconscious. We should mind our metaphors, though, because metaphors make up our minds. — James Geary