Quotes 501 till 520 of 5987.
-
A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time.
-
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
-
A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and the halo of one man's approval.
-
A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.
-
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
-
A woman's life isn't worth a plateful of cabbage if she hasn't felt life stir under her heart. Taking a little one to nurse, watching him grow to manhood, that's what love is.
-
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
-
A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.
-
A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.
-
Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.
-
Absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
Letter to Jonathan Swift (14 december 1725) -
Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.
-
Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing.
-
According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.
-
Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.
-
Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
-
Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.
-
Acting is my number one, but dancing will always be a part of who I am and in my heart. I love doing stunts when they are a part of my acting.
-
Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.
All twenty-one famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 26)
