Ruth Nanda Anshen Famous Quotes
"Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society."
Ruth Nanda Anshen Quotations
"Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."
Plato
"Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are once in a blue moon, and men seem wise and brave, which they never are at all. Throttle it, denaturalize it, take it away, and human existence would be reduced to the prosiac, laborious, boresome, imbecile level of life in an anthill."
Henry Louis Mencken
"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."
Oscar Wilde
Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
G K Chesterton
"Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long."
Leonard Bernstein
My time has been passed viciously and agreeably at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that 'Carpe Diem' is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds-for who can trust to tomorrow
George Gordon Byron
Everything is energy in motion.
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
"Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment."
Learned Hand
"Have you ever seen an inchworm crawl up a leaf or a twig, and then, clinging to the very end, revolve in the air, feeling for something, to reach something That's like me. I am trying to find something out there beyond the place on which I have footing."
Albert P Ryder
I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.
Beverly Sills