James F Byrnes Famous Quotes
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
"Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers."
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
James F Byrnes Quotations
"If thou shouldst never see my face again,Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayerThan this world dreams of."
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Only those who attempt the absurd...will achieve the impossible. I think...I think it's in my basement...Let me go upstairs and check.
M C Escher
"If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Never do anything that you aren't prepared to face the true consequences of.
Dr Laura Schlessinger
"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."
Cyril Connolly
"Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised."
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
James Arthur Baldwin
"In the end the aggressors always destroy themselves, making way for others who know how to cooperate and get along. Life is much less a competitive struggle for survival than a triumph of cooperation and creativity."
Fritjof Capra
"No facts are to me sacred none are profane I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
William James