A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.

Author: John Henrik Clarke

Author: John Henrik Clarke

Quote #309165

I came because I've spent my whole life in the company of the brother that I hated. Now I want a cha

Author: Orson Scott Card
Quote #391490

Perhaps no one religion contains all the truth of the world. Perhaps every religion contains fragmen

Author: Christopher Paolini
Quote #347998

The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of soul

Author: Tony Kushner
Quote #380703

Love and wisdom are guides towards awakening.

Author: Belsebuub
Quote #303275

I pretend to reach for them, but before he can guess my intentions, I catch one of his wings instead

Author: A.G. Howard
Quote #351790

Well, how we going to sleep with that going on?" his wife demanded, not unreasonably. "Are they maki

Author: William Irish
Quote #75066

If love is not the answer, make sure to change the question.

Author: Charlyn Khater
Quote #122026

The oldest and most popular instrument of etatistic monetary policy is the official fixing of maximu

Author: Ludwig von Mises
Quote #211840

Being right is massively overrated, especially when it comes at the expense of being compassionate a

Author: Scott Stabile
Quote #425723

All the things I love is what my business is all about.

Author: Martha Stewart
Quote #277602

The distinction between a delusion and a lie is the very difference between a successful saint and a

Author: Manu Joseph
Quote #304174

When you are young and strong...you can stay alive on your hatred"....but realized later "They can t

Author: Nelson Mandela
Quote #152620

Transform from being a fault-finder and blamer to a happiness-finder and appreciator.

Author: Maddy Malhotra
Quote #131713

Peak Performance is not a destination but a journey!

Author: Harrish Sairaman
Quote #10979

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Author: David Starr Jordan
Quote #54097

I may not be where I want to be, but if I stop now, I'll NEVER get where I'm going!

Author: Laura Lynch
Quote #307241

Anyone who takes the time to listen is either an old soul or a romantic one.

Author: Richelle E. Goodrich
Quote #297159

To pretend is to know oneself.

Author: Fernando Pessoa
Quote #418445

I have been a selfish being all my life in practice though not in principle.

Author: Jane Austen
Quote #87719

Women do not become exhausted they only exhaust others.

Author: Robert Jordan
Quote #380282

Remember the Golden Rule? "Treat people as you would like to be treated." The best managers break th

Author: Marcus Buckingham
Quote #280961

It took around 500 years to human to find out that black people are human and still they don't know

Author: Emmanuel St-Pierre
Quote #91148

There is no such thing as a beauty contest . . . Beauty is noncompetitive. Beauty of any kind stands

Author: Edna Robinson
Quote #397984

I hear hundreds of years of life. I hear wind and rain and fire and beetles. I hear the seasons chan

Author: Garth Stein
Quote #34009

I’d give in to the grief but make sure I wasn’t loud enough to draw attention from those who think w

Author: Adam Silvera
Quote #498235

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Quote #342526

Every atom in your body spins and danceslike a bee around the queen,like a whirling dervish,like the

Author: Khang Kijarro Nguyen
Quote #469766

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in

Author: Wendell Phillips
Quote #5093

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,To the last syllab

Author: William Shakespeare
Quote #74152

Healing comes in many ways, and no one formula fits all.

Author: Sharon Salzberg
Quote #122940

Choose your words well(be honest, be true)butabove all else,be kind

Author: Bryonie Wise
Quote #482382

There were times after my marriage ended where, you know, I really felt like I was at the bottom of

Author: Lynn Redgrave
Quote #427754

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the coun

Author: Abraham Lincoln
Quote #302532

The skill of mindfulness allows you to remain grounded in the present moment even when you face diff

Author: Melanie Greenberg
Quote #275865

If you can look yourself in the mirror at the end of each day, knowing that you did your best, or he

Author: Beth Ramsay
Quote #286268

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

Author: Ansel Adams
Quote #73051

In the pursuit of acquiring Treasures, we lose the ONE treasure that we truly possess—Life. Let us n

Author: RVM
Quote #470558

To me the arcade experience is the ultimate gaming experience.

Author: Eugene Jarvis
Quote #138799

You would not believe what skill, power and ability your total intelligence possesses until you are

Author: Bryant McGill
Quote #466591

Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.

Author: Russell Baker
Quote #80365

The miracles of our dreams lie beneath our foot soles -- in each and every tiny step we take as we j

Author: Besa Kosova
Quote #213017

If you do not enjoy a moment, you lose it forever. If you enjoy it, it is yours forever.

Author: Debasish Mridha
Quote #324474

Maybe this is who I really am.Not a loner, exactly.But someone who can be alone.

Author: Gary Shteyngart
Quote #368856

The gods were great, but what good was greatness if you didn't love?

Author: Lev Grossman
Quote #88120

When the last woman dies, the last man dies!

Author: Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Quote #344785

She would keep playing the role of the winner as long as the audience believed her.

Author: Mary Papas
Quote #17330

Humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of r

Author: John Piper
Quote #448436

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms

Author: Charles Mackay
Quote #135829

I felt like a trophy child, someone he had around to show off. It felt like it was more important th

Author: H.M. Ward
Quote #359516

It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much

Author: Thucydides
Quote #271965

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. a burn for a burn. a life for a life. that's how all this go

Author: Jenny Han
Quote #175581

Every mistake is a new style.

Author: Michael Meade
Quote #193595

Do not waste your life waiting for wings. Trust that you can already fly.

Author: Audrey Gene
Quote #106617

Every thought has the power to spread its effects on other minds as a wave can spread all over the o

Author: Debasish Mridha
Quote #207810

It looks like a funeral parlour in here. Am I dead?

Author: Jackie Williams
Quote #98913

Reading is like diving into an ocean of an alternate world, away from your real world, where in spit

Author: Unknown
Quote #149984

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking

Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Quote #245020

A song and a smile from someone I cared about could be enough to distract me from all that darkness,

Author: Ransom Riggs
Quote #163722

Wouldn't the worst be, isn't the worst, in truth, that women aren't castrated, that they have only t

Author: Hélène Cixous
Quote #340189

I’ve always been driven, unfortunately not always in the right direction.

Author: Benny Bellamacina
Quote #325809

You want war??...Out there you can find books, films about the war how brutal is it. If you disire f

Author: Deyth Banger
Quote #88384

... a whole day’s tête-à-tête between two women can never end without a quarrel.

Author: Jane Austen
Quote #238809

Even though the desire is strong doesn't mean you deserve it.

Author: Naman Rastogi
Quote #407966

Good friendships are fragile things and require as much care as any other fragile and precious thing

Author: Randolph Bourne
Quote #189216

Start deep within yourself and slowly build outward toward your goal.

Author: Bryant McGill
Quote #327850

I should ask if it was good for you," Miles murmured, "but given that evidently you acquired the ans

Author: Rowan Speedwell
Quote #416922

Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit and not give the bread of life.

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote #304902

A life without love is of no account. Don’t ask yourself what kind of love you should seek, spiritua

Author: Jalaluddin Rumi
Quote #388468

Here, Earth-born, over the lilt of the water,Lisping its music and bearing a burden of light,Bosomin

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Quote #47750

Time is deceptive, it gives you an impression that its with you but passes away without your knowled

Author: Topsy Gift
Quote #368093

It is raining at the top of my roof and I'am inside my blanket in this chilling night with an open w

Author: Shabnam Sinha
Quote #196056

I don't dare touch her. Loss is a knowledge I'm sorry to have. Perhaps the only thing worse than exp

Author: Lauren DeStefano
Quote #494336

We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respo

Author: L. Lionel Kendrick
Quote #349106

He sees me when I'm lying. He hears me when I flirt.

Author: Candace Jane Kringle
Quote #177964

Falling has become far more terrifying to me than rising.

Author: Chris Murray
Quote #448613

I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.

Author: Muhammad Iqbal
Quote #420690

Today is the blocks with which we build.

Author: Unknown
Quote #287892

Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one. You know what Hester to

Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Quote #70391

He leaned towards me, and I did what any reasonable person would do when facing imminent death by be

Author: Donald G. Firesmith
Quote #357533

Aspiring authors, get this through your head. Cover art serves one purpose, and one purpose only, to

Author: Larry Correia
Quote #354958

One owes loyalty, only, to those who demonstrate in kind.

Author: T.F. Hodge
Quote #460169

Learning how to interact with customers is something that anyone starting any business must master.

Author: Marc Benioff
Quote #197799

To the glory of His name let me witness that in far away lands, in loneliness (deepest sometimes whe

Author: Amy Carmichael
Quote #34654

Whatever distinguishes one lump of flesh from another when we're alive, we're all the same once we'r

Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Quote #209142

Our experi¬ences and our memories are within us, and the key is to be aware of the lens or the filte

Author: Gyalwa Dokhampa
Quote #32449

Hope is a fine killing thing.

Author: Kirryn Lia Todd
Quote #315175

We are not interested in developing eternity or immortality, or in preventing being sick or being bo

Author: Chogyam Trungpa
Quote #445368

Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their che

Author: P. J. O'Rourke
Quote #307123

Life really is a most whimsical thing. While we consistently try and chart its route, it goes ahead

Author: Jyoti Arora
Quote #51882

Education gives you lights to see, wings to fly, and music to sing.

Author: Debasish Mridha M.D.
Quote #302128

Clarity is a sign of intellectual energy.

Author: Phil Cooke
Quote #335046

Violet remembered that slap; later her mother had called it a "love tap," as if to further confuse l

Author: Koren Zailckas
Quote #140156

Turn off the lights! They overshadow my fame!

Author: Ljupka Cvetanova
Quote #169625

You don't need to change who you are to praise God.

Author: Unarine Ramaru
Quote #357231

Beyond all explanations which a good brain can give, why do we choose the worse and not the better,

Author: Jiddu Krishnamurti
Quote #240397

So much of history is mystery. We don't know what is lost forever, what will surface again. All obje

Author: Amy Tan
Quote #410423

All sweeping assertions are erroneous.

Author: L. E. Landon
Quote #65385

Religion should teach about hope to come for all, not terror for some

Author: Bangambiki Habyarimana
Quote #340408

A girl could get to hate Doms.

Author: Cherise Sinclair