Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.
—Colley Cibber (English Playwright)
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
—John Barth (American Novelist)
Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child.
—Tina Brown (British-American Journalist, Editor)
I have been extraordinarily lucky. Anyone who pretends that some kind of luck isn’t involved in his success is deluding himself.
—Arthur Hailey (Canadian Novelist)
If we take care of the inches we will not have to worry about the miles.
—Hartley Coleridge (British Poet)
Don’t tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done.
—James J. Ling (American Businessman)
Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.
—C. William Pollard (American Businessman, Author)
For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.
—Margaret Lucas Cavendish (English Aristocrat, Philosopher, Writer)
We have to recognize accident, i.e., the fact that there is no formula, no ‘principle’, which covers all things; that there is no totality or system of things. And this recognition at once supports a life of ‘responsibility and adventure’ and leads to scientific discovery.
—John Anderson (Scottish Philosopher)
Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as flying animals, that nevertheless rarely or never actually flew. They would also be perplexed if they encountered in our seas, lakes, rivers, and ponds, creatures defined as swimmers that never did any swimming. But they would be even more surprised to encounter a species defined as a thinking animal if, in fact, the creature very rarely indulged in actual thinking.
—Steve Allen (American Entertainer)
The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.
—Ashleigh Brilliant (British Cartoonist)
The past, though it cannot be relived, can always be repaired.
—John La Farge (American Artist, Writer)
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