George Meredith Famous Quotes
"Who rises from a prayer a better man, his prayer is answered."
"But O the truth, the truth. The many eyes That look on it The diverse things they see."
George Meredith Quotations
Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
Heraclitus
"The best way of travel, however, if you aren't in any hurry at all, if you don't care where you are going, if you don't like to use your legs, if you don't want to be annoyed at all by any choice of directions, is in a balloon. In a balloon, you can decide only when to start, and usually when to stop. The rest is left entirely to nature."
William Sherman Pene du Bois
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
Eugene McCarthy
It is easier to talk about money -- and much easier to talk about sex -- than it is to talk about power. People who have it deny it people who want it do not want to appear to hunger for it and people who engage in its machinations do so secretly.
Smiley Blanton
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
Charlotte Bronte
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.
Lord Macaulay
The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
Cyril Northcote Parkinson
To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.
Liz Smith
"Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, it will be."
Jeremy Schwartz