The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
—Walker Percy (American Novelist)
All great ones have undergone suffering. None can escape what is ordained.
—Yogaswami of Jaffna (Sri Lankan Hindu Religious Leader)
All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.
—Sidney Lumet (American Filmmaker)
Keep the other person’s well-being in mind when you feel an attack of soul-purging truth coming on.
—Betty White (American Comedian)
People start parades—politicians just get out in front and act like they’re leading.
—Buck Rinehart (American Politician)
One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.
—Ida B. Wells (American Journalist, Activist)
In spite of all the refinements of civilization that conspired to make art – the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the sprawling grandeur of Fragonard
—Anne Rice (American Author)
All genuine progress results from finding new facts. No law can be passed to make an acre yield three hundred bushels. God has already established the laws. It is four us to discover them, and to learn the facts by which we can obey them.
—Wheeler McMillen (American Farmer, Journalist)
Oh, the secret life of man and woman—dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest.
—Zelda Fitzgerald (American Writer, Artist)
All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young.
—Gerald Ford (American Head of State)
Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.
—Elise M. Boulding (American Peace Scholar)