Lisa Alther Famous Quotes
That's the risk you take if you change that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.
"To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle."
"Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you."
I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.
Lisa Alther Quotations
"After my recent brush with voicelessness, I thought I'd share with you a few thoughts about speech. Don't take it lightly my friends. If music is the pathway to the heart as Voltaire suggested, then speech is the pathway to other people. Live in silence and you live alone."
Henry Bromel
Biography lends to death a new terror.
Oscar Wilde
It's tough watching a good idea lose because its backers are less eloquent or have less clout than its opponents.
Lester Case
"Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late."
Marie Beyon Ray
Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that.
Francis Bacon
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
John Tudor
"Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults."
Eric Hoffer
All professions are conspiracies against the laity.
George Bernard Shaw
"If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favourable to him."
Seneca
"You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it and then, you know, you're perfectly safe."
James Abbott McNeill Whistler