Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. Everyone is just waiting.
—Theodor Seuss Geisel (‘Dr. Seuss’) (American Children’s Books Writer)
You can’t teach children to be good. The best you can do for your child is to live a good life yourself. What a parent knows and believes, the child will lean on.
—Bruno Bettelheim (Austrian-born Psychoanalyst)
You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. There are no limitations in what you can do except the limitations of your own mind.
—Darwin P. Kingsley (American Businessman)
Our true acquisitions lie only in our charities, we gain only as we give.
—William Gilmore Simms (American Novelist)
It is only possible to live happily-ever-after on a day-to-day basis.
—Margaret Wander Bonanno (American Writer)
I sometimes say that success just happens. That’s not true. You have to make it happen. When I make up my mind to do something, I make sure it happens. You can’t wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.
—Lew Grade (British Theatrical Impresario)
The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.
—Carl Clinton Van Doren (American Critic, Historian)
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
—Frank Herbert (American Science-fiction Writer)
What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (English Poet)
When the time comes, even a rat becomes a tiger.
—Japanese Proverb
We are all, it seems, saving ourselves for the Senior Prom. But many of us forget that somewhere along the way we must learn to dance.
—Alan Harrington (American Novelist)
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