Professionals Cowley Quotes & Sayings

A man thinks all dust stays outdoors. — Ernest Vincent Wright

All religion is founded on prayer, and in prayer it has its test and measure. — Peter Forsyth

Writing on your own is, in a way, a very lonely profession. There's no one there to help you. — Lincoln Child

Willpower should be understood to be the strength of the mind, which makes it capable of meeting success or failure with equanimity. It is not synonymous with certain success. Why should one's attempts always be attended by success? Success breeds arrogance and man's spiritual progress is thus arrested. Failure, on the other hand, is beneficial, inasmuch as it opens his eyes to his limitations and prepares him to surrender himself. Self surrender is synonymous with eternal happiness. — Ramana Maharshi

In France, at least the German occupation was not especially inhumane, even if there were a number of excesses - inevitable in a country of 550,000 square kilometres ... If the Germans had carried out mass executions across the country as the received wisdom would have it, then there wouldn't have been any need for concentration camps for political deportees. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

For official purposes, these children do not exist. — Robert Muchamore

The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity. — Eugene Ionesco

Every stink that fights the ventilator thinks it is Don Quixote. — Stanislaw Lem

High schools are, ultimately, a messy stew of hearts and hormones all swirling around together in the smallest possible space. Don't feel bad about not having gotten out of there with your dignity intact, because nobody did. Even dreamy Jordan Catalano will always have to live with the embarrassment of having mistakenly addressed Brian as 'Brain. — Jeff Alexander

If you only focus on the things you leave behind, you'll never go anywhere. — Katie Kacvinsky