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Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American author
Source: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”
David Brinkley (1920–2003) American journalist
“How much energy they put into harming each other. How little into saving.”
Suzanne Collins (1962) American television writer and novelist
“Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”
Carrie Fisher book Wishful Drinking
Variant: Resentment is like drinking a poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Source: Wishful Drinking
“Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.”
George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman
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1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
Source: Man and Superman
“A NICE THOUGHT
One was a book thief.
The other stole the sky.”
Markus Zusak book The Book Thief
Variant: One was a book thief. The other stole the sky.
Source: The Book Thief
Marianne Williamson (1952) American writer
Source: Enchanted Love: The Mystical Power Of Intimate Relationships
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature
The Garden of Forking Paths (1942), The Garden of Forking Paths
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957) English crime writer, playwright, essayist and Christian writer
Source: The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1, 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist
Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer
Source: Quintana of Charyn
Laurence Sterne book The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Source: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
“Other people's marriages are a perpetual source of amazement.”
Patrick O'Brian book The Commodore
Source: The Commodore (1995)
Karl Pilkington (1972) English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer
Source: An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
Source: Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
“If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.”
Juan Ramón Jimenéz (1881–1958) Spanish poet
As quoted in the epigraph in Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by Ray Bradbury; Susie Salmon also uses this quote in The Lovely Bones, and Daniel Quinn published a book in 2007 with the title If They Give You Lined Paper, Write Sideways (2007)
Spanish: "Si os dan papel pautado, escribid por el otro lado" (If they give you lined paper, write on the other side)
"If they give you ruled paper, write the other way" is often attributed to William Carlos Williams who was contemporary with JRJ.
Misattributed
“We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.”
Rudyard Kipling book The Light That Failed
Source: The Light That Failed
John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor
Source: 25 Ways to Win with People: How to Make Others Feel Like a Million Bucks
John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937) American business magnate and philanthropist
Attributed in How to Win Friends and Influence People (1937) by Dale Carnegie
“Madness is always a wonderful excuse, don’t you think? For doing terrible things to other people.”
Jennifer McMahon (1968) American writer
Source: The Winter People
Richard Kadrey (1957) San Francisco-based novelist, freelance writer, and photographer
Source: Kill the Dead
“Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.”
Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist
Source: The Story of My Life: With Her Letters (1887 1901) and a Supplementary Account of Her Education Including Passages from the Reports and Letters of Her Teacher Anne Mansfield Sullivan by John Albert Macy
Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882–1927) Indian Sufi
Source: The Bowl of Saki: Thoughts for Daily Contemplation from the Sayings and Teachings of Hazrat Inayat Khan
“Ah, those two. In a fight, they’re lethal. Around each other, they melt.”
Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily
Source: The Golden Lily
Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer
Variant: All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.
Source: It Chooses You
“Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.”
Washington Irving (1783–1859) writer, historian and diplomat from the United States
Idries Shah book Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
Source: Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
Max Ehrmann (1872–1945) American writer, poet, and attorney
Source: Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life
“Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness”
Erich Segal (1937–2010) American writer
Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby
Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 3
Context: You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buys a bigger stereo system. This is the arms race of sound You don't win with a lot of treble. This isn't about quality. It's about volume. This isn't about music. This is about winning. You stomp the competition with the bass line. You rattle windows. You drop the melody line, and shout the lyrics. You put in foul language and come down hard on each cussword. You dominate. This is really about power.
“If there is a heaven, we will find each other again, for there is no heaven without you.”
Nicholas Sparks book The Longest Ride
PLEASE DONT BELIEVE IN PAGE NUMBER THEY ARE WRONG I TRIED TO FIND QUOTES BUT THEY ARE NOT TTHERE FUCK THIS SHIT, 2009, The Longest Ride (2013)
Source: 2009, The Longest Ride (2013), Ira Levinson, Chapter 28 Ira, p. 341
Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist
From the Preface to the 1855 edition of <i>Leaves of Grass</i>
Context: This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body. . . .
Context: This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.... The poet shall not spend his time in unneeded work. He shall know that the ground is always ready ploughed and manured.... others may not know it but he shall. He shall go directly to the creation. His trust shall master the trust of everything he touches.... and shall master all attachment.
Garth Stein The Art of Racing in the Rain
Variant: Such a simple concept, yet so true: that which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.
Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain