41.Quotes On Patience:Laughter:Fashion:Manners:Perfection:Fiction:Reputation-Part 1
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"Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.." -Victor Hugo-
"Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.".-Isaac Asimov-
"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.".-Oscar Wilde-
"There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.".-Adam Smith
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"For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.".-Francis Bacon-
"Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me? I said, I'm not resisting you! He said, You gonna follow me? I said, I've never thought about that before! He said, When you're not following me, you're resisting me.".-Bob Dylan-
"Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.".-Eric Butterworth-
"Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.".-Phillips Brooks-
"Laughter is by definition healthy.".-Doris Lessing-
"Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.".-Mark Twain-
"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.".-Victor Borge-
"Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.".-Coco Chanel-
"We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.".-Henry David Thoreau-
"It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.".-Yves Saint-Laurent-
More Quotes on Fiction
"The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.".-Fred Astaire-
"Manners are not idle, but the fruit. Of loyal nature and of noble mind.".-Lord Alfred Tennyson-
"The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.".-A. W. Tozer-
"Perfection is perfectly simple;fouling things up requires true skill.".-Doug Horton-
"The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.".-Matthew Arnold-
"Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it;the tree is the real thing.".-Abraham Lincoln-
"Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.".-Elbert Hubbard-
"How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!".-Oliver Wendell Holmes-
"Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.".-Anne Morrow Lindbergh-
"I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.".-Henry Miller-
"Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.".-Noam Chomsky-
More Quotes on Fiction
"Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.".-Aldous Huxley-
"Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners;it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness;a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.".-Charles Simmons-
"Few have heard of Fra Luca Parioli, the inventor of double entry;bookkeeping, but he has probably had much more influence on human life;than has Dante or Michelangelo.".-Herbert J. Muller-
"Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell;aspiring to be angels men rebel.".-Alexander Pope-
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