The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves.
There is a great tendency today to want everybody to write just the way everybody else does, to see and to show the same things in the same way to the same middling audience. But the writer, in order best to use the talents he...
-
Flannery OConnor
More than once I should have lost my soul to radicalism if it had been the originality it was mistaken for by its young converts.
-
Robert Frost
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
-
Dorothy L. Sayers
Unlike written words which can mend those leaving the tip of your tongue never bend.
-
R.J. Green
He: "Whale you be my valentine?" She: "Dolphinitely.
-
Adam Young
More Quotes By Abraham Lincoln
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
