Fairfield Osborne Famous Quotes
We do not live to extenuate the miseries of the past nor to accept as incurable those of the present.
Fairfield Osborne Quotations
No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
Elbert Hubbard
"You must keep sending work out you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist."
Isaac Asimov
It is not too strong a statement to declare that this is the way civilizations begin to die ... None of us has the right to suppose it cannot happen here.
Richard Milhous Nixon
I was coming home from kindergarten--well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.
Ellen DeGeneres
Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.
Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
Abraham Lincoln
The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.
Publilius Syrus
The best date movies give you something to talk about. A movie that's a downer is a great way to find out about someone.
Henry Adams
"Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories We would be more alive if we did more of this, and, Life would be more lovely if we did less of that. Once we get the pain's message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away."
Peter McWilliams
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.
John Simon