Richard Exely Famous Quotes
"Failing doesn't make you a failure. Giving up, accepting your failure, refusing to try again does"
Richard Exely Quotations
"Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them."
Homer
The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.
Max Born
What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state.
David Dean Rusk
George Washington had a vision for this country. Was it three days of uninterrupted shopping
Jeff Melvoin
"America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great."
Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
"What time has been wasted during man's destiny in the struggle to decide what man's next world will be like The keener the effort to find out, the less he knew about the present one he lived in."
Sean O Casey
There's never a new fashion but it's old.
Geoffrey Chaucer
"The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment."
Robert Hutchins
"To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle."
Lisa Alther