Karen Blixen Famous Quotes
The earth was made round so we would not see too far down the road.
Karen Blixen Quotations
"Lady you berefit me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins, And there is such confusion in my powers."
William Shakespeare
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward in my actions and not from them.
Hugh Prather
"If you see an animal and you can't tell if it's a skunk or a cat, here's a good saying to help 'Black-and-white, stinks all right. Tabby-colored, likes a fella.'"
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
"The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say."
Tom Stoppard
"Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. It's just not true. In one important way, at least, men are the passive sex. Given a choice, they will always opt for the status quo. They hate change of any kind, and they fight against it constantly. On the other hand, what women want is stability, which when you stop to think about it is a very different animal."
Eric Lustbader
My father taught me to work he did not teach me to love it.
Abraham Lincoln
"The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error."
Alvin Toffler
No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.
Saint John Chrysostom
"If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious."
Kingman Brewster Jr
He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.
William Shakespeare