William Saroyan Famous Quotes
"Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, And when you laugh, laugh like hell, And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough."
"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know."
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan Quotations
"Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations."
George Bernard Shaw
Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.
Doug Larson
Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom only in men's souls.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
Benjamin Franklin
"Everything that can be invented, has been invented."
Charles H Duell
"When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light."
John W Gardner
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
Frederick Douglas
A good novel tells you the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells you the truth about its author.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Sir Richard Steele
"Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another."
Juvenal