Elizabeth Cady Stanton Famous Quotes
"The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls."
"Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe--the open sesame to every soul."
Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
"With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals"
Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotations
Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Paradise is exactly like where you are right now...only much, much better"
Laurie Anderson
"No birth certificate is issued when friendship is born. There is nothing tangible. There is just a feeling that your life is different and that your capacity to love and care has miraculously been enlarged with out any effort on your part. It's like having a tiny apartment and somebody moves in with you. But instead of becoming cramped and crowded, the space expands, and you discover rooms you never knew you had until your friend moved in with you."
Steve Tesich
No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
George Bernard Shaw
"Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance."
W Clement Stone
When writing a novel a writer should create living people people not characters. A character is a caricature.
Ernest Hemingway
Fame is proof that people are gullible.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
Benjamin Harrison
"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others."
Groucho Marx
Forming characters Whose Our own or others Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.
Elihu Burritt