Quotes 1501 till 1520 of 1564.
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Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.
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Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic.
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You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man.
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You are not going to change the minds of people who are looking for attention.
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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.
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You are not, nor ever will be, better than anyone else besides the person you are now.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better - the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.
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You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.
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You can learn everything that there is to know about the industry or the player from the company that is performing better or worse.
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You can look at that by comparing Medicare's growth rates to the private insurance world, to the other Federal programs that we run, by looking at the billions of dollars, not millions but billions of dollars, we waste every year.
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You can only be as good as your audience. Sometimes you can be as bad as your audience, but you have to remember you can never be better than them.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government.
Bernard M. Baruch
American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965) -
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
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You don't reinvent yourself; you get better with what you do.
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You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.
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You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.
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You feel better about yourself when you do something with yourself. You also feel more confident.
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