Quotes about Author
There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
— Victor Hugo
It's probably a form of childish curiosity that keeps me going as a fiction writer. I ... want to open everybody's bureau drawers and see what they keep in there. I'm nosy.
— Margaret Atwood
As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me.
— Oscar Wilde
We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations
— Winston Churchill
My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery.
— Abraham Lincoln
He just stared at her. "That was stupid." "Well, thank you. Thank you very much. I sort of thought it was heroic.
— Susan May Warren
Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
— William Howard Taft
Gratitude is what we radiate when we experience grace, and the soul was made to run on grace the way a 747 runs on rocket fuel.
— John Ortberg
It must be the full confession by Christendom of Christendom's specific contribution to the sum of human cruelty and treachery.
— CS Lewis
I've had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow.
— Hillary Clinton
Man may become the master of himself, and of his environment, because he has the Power to influence his own subconscious mind, and through it, gain the cooperation of Infinite Intelligence.
— Napoleon Hill
Henry Ford has been repeatedly mentioned, because he is an astounding example of what a man with a mind of his own, and a will to control it, can accomplish.
— Napoleon Hill