Umanita In English Quotes & Sayings

I found myself defending the Daily Worker, which has gone out of its way to libel me more than once. But where had these people learned this essentially totalitarian outlook? Pretty certainly they had learned it from the Communists themselves! Tolerance and decency are deeply rooted in England, but they are not indestructible, and they have to be kept alive partly by conscious effort. — George Orwell

A piece of writing is a dangerous thing," he said. "It can change your life. — Tobias Wolff

Be quiet now and wait.
It may be that the ocean one,
the one we desire so to move into and become,
desires us out here on land a little longer,
going our sundry roads to the shore. — Rumi

I read a lot of poetry, and I love what it does with language. I love music, too, and I think there's probably no coincidence there, that the rhythm of the words is almost as important as the words themselves, and when you can get the two working together, which usually takes me about 20 goes, I feel a huge satisfaction. — Kate Grenville

I must have been an insufferable child; all children are. — George Bernard Shaw

Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy. — James Spithill

As you gain control of the mind, you gain control of life and you gain control of your time. It all works together. — Frederick Lenz

To protect themselves, the weak focus on the "bad" in people. Conversely, the strong, who fear little, focus on the "good". — Iimani David

I think you can scare somebody out of doing something, but not out of feeling like they want to. — Catherine Ryan Hyde

And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it. — Anthony Hopkins

Do Your Best, Let God Do The Rest — Norman Vincent Peale