I am shocked frankly that it is high as 13 percent in the US, because the US is one of the most reli...
ANDREW GRENVILLE Each language has its own take on the world. That's why a translation can never be absolutely ex...
KATE GRENVILLE Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something ...
KATE GRENVILLE I love to write a book out of questions; in fact, I think it's the only way my writing can opera...
KATE GRENVILLE I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that thi...
KATE GRENVILLE I think with all my books, language has been their subject as much as anything else. Language can el...
KATE GRENVILLE I would never write a sentence that didn't have a nice rhythm, or at least I wouldn't leave ...
KATE GRENVILLE Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and t...
KATE GRENVILLE 'The Secret River' began because, at the age of 50, I suddenly realised I knew nothing about...
KATE GRENVILLE I read a lot of poetry, and I love what it does with language. I love music, too, and I think there&...
KATE GRENVILLE I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.
KATE GRENVILLE For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I&#...
KATE GRENVILLE A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment....
KATE GRENVILLE One of the things I love about writing is the way you can use what you know and what you've expe...
KATE GRENVILLE I've always had a problem with conventional punctuation of dialogue because it does seem to me t...
KATE GRENVILLE People who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others have idled, have...
GRENVILLE KLEISER To every problem there is already a solution whether you know it or not.
GRENVILLE KLEISER People who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others have idled, have...
GRENVILLE KLEISER By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.
GRENVILLE KLEISER Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a...
GRENVILLE KLEISER To get the most out of your life, plant in your mind seeds of constructive power that will yield f...
GRENVILLE KLEISER By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character
GRENVILLE KLEISER It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse ...
GRENVILLE KLEISER Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and...
GRENVILLE KLEISER You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise.
GRENVILLE KLEISER When I went to university in Colorado, I was encouraged to write very innovative, experimental thing...
KATE GRENVILLE Australia lives with a strange contradiction - our national image of ourselves is one of the Outback...
KATE GRENVILLE As you put into practice the qualities of patience, punctuality, sincerity, and solicitude, you will...
GRENVILLE KLEISER There are fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable cir...
GRENVILLE KLEISER Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind an...
GRENVILLE KLEISER Let your intentions be good - embodied in good thoughts, cheerful words, and unselfish deeds - and t...
GRENVILLE KLEISER Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one wo...
GRENVILLE KLEISER There are fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable cir...
GRENVILLE KLEISER Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work. To live at this t...
GRENVILLE KLEISER He had seen God in the night sky long before he understood its patterns.
KATE GRENVILLE Until you could put yourself at some point beyond your own world, looking back at it, you would neve...
KATE GRENVILLE What he had not learned from Latin or Greek he was learning from the people of New South Wales. It w...
KATE GRENVILLE A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity, but a weak one is...
GEORGE GRENVILLE A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.
GEORGE GRENVILLE Do not let trifles disturb your tranquility of mind. . . . Life is too precious to be sacrificed for...
GRENVILLE KLEISER People who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others have idled, have...
GRENVILLE KLEISER You are already of consequence in the world if you are known as a man of strict integrity
GRENVILLE KLEISER Make your judgment trustworthy by trusting it
GRENVILLE KLEISER The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you
GRENVILLE KLEISER I'm just putting the puck on net, and I'm getting dirty goals. I'm not trying to get a pretty goal. ...
CHRIS GRENVILLE Man had been given a brain that could think in numbers, and it could not be coincidence that the wor...
KATE GRENVILLE It should be encouraging to you to know that if you are now confronted by any kind of problem, perso...
GRENVILLE KLEISER Learn to depend upon yourself by doing things in accordance with your own way of thinking
GRENVILLE KLEISER it crossed Farren's mind that although death seemed big, life was even bigger
KATE GRENVILLE Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.
P. G. [SIR PELHAM GRENVILLE] WODEHOUSE I always advise people never to give advice.
P. G. [SIR PELHAM GRENVILLE] WODEHOUSE Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up ...
P. G. [SIR PELHAM GRENVILLE] WODEHOUSE My only objection to the custom of giving books as Christmas presents is perhaps the selfish one tha...
P. G. [SIR PELHAM GRENVILLE] WODEHOUSE Golf...is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge th...
P. G. [SIR PELHAM GRENVILLE] WODEHOUSE Judges, as a class, display, in the matter of arranging alimony, that reckless generosity which is f...
P. G. [SIR PELHAM GRENVILLE] WODEHOUSE Flowers are happy things.
P. G. [SIR PELHAM GRENVILLE] WODEHOUSE He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to...
P. G. [SIR PELHAM GRENVILLE] WODEHOUSE It is good rule in life to never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and t...
P. G. [SIR PELHAM GRENVILLE] WODEHOUSE While I have no desire to see Mr. Obama's birth certificate, I do want to see his college transc...
ANDREW BREITBART It's a sad day when a woman being funny and interested in science is considered newsworthy.
ELISE ANDREW When I see a friend play Hamlet or see an inspirational performance, I absolutely get excited by the...
ANDREW LINCOLN I like my life. I've had a good life. I think the reason is my parents taught me that life is a ...
ANDREW YOUNG Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of ever...
ANDREW YOUNG I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID ...
ANDREW YOUNG Perhaps because my town was so naturally gothic in its architecture and relative isolation - the roa...
ANDREW PYPER I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would rea...
ANDREW WYETH At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gal...
ANDREW WYETH To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walking in with no c...
ANDREW WYETH To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.
ANDREW WYETH I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth; and then I ...
ANDREW WYETH I love to study the many things that grow below the corn stalks and bring them back to the studio to...
ANDREW WYETH If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes ...
ANDREW WYETH I'm a secretive bastard. I would never let anybody watch me painting... it would be like somebod...
ANDREW WYETH Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you...
ANDREW WYETH One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.
ANDREW WYETH I don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cella...
ANDREW WYETH I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.
ANDREW WYETH I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it... I always want...
ANDREW WYETH Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.
ANDREW VACHSS I don't really have any regrets because if I choose not to do something there is usually a very ...
ANDREW LINCOLN My tips for any budding actors would be to go out and see as much as you possibly can. Find the peop...
ANDREW GOWER I would say to young entrepreneurs and budding philanthropists - are you giving to feel good or do g...
ANDREW FORREST Travel is an exercise partly in broadening yourself and partly in defining your own limits.
ANDREW SOLOMON I'm not a huge fan of Bruce Springsteen, and it's certainly not because of his politics. I j...
ANDREW BREITBART People get distracted by box-office figures and take jobs because they think it will advance their c...
ANDREW SCOTT I believe we need to attract a new generation of the best and brightest to public service and I beli...
ANDREW CUOMO I've never got on with the British press because they've always given me such a hard time. O...
ANDREW ELDRITCH The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.
ANDREW MARVELL John Marshall has made his decision: now let him enforce it!
ANDREW JACKSON Our Union: It must be preserved.
ANDREW JACKSON I hate bullies. I hate them. I'm not good enough with words to describe how much I hate them.
ANDREW VACHSS If the only way you could read an email was to run a mile first, the urge would quickly die. Human b...
ANDREW WEIL Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. St...
ANDREW GREELEY Well, paycheck protection is an important ingredient for a successful campaign finance reform measur...
ANDREW CARD Nobody wants campaign finance reform more than me. It would save me a fortune.
ANDREW TOBIAS I look at being a capitalist businessperson like riding a bike - if I go too slowly, I'll fall o...
ANDREW MASON Groupon as a company - it's built into the business model - is about surprise. A new deal that s...
ANDREW MASON Great investors need to have the right combination of intuition, business sense and investment talen...
ANDREW LO Most small business owners are not particularly sophisticated business people. That's not a crit...
ANDREW MASON I hope we business people can invest more aggressively outside Metro Manila, whether in real estate,...
ANDREW TAN When you're asked/told to come to Canberra by your Prime Minister, in the country I grow up in, ...
ANDREW FORREST New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State gove...
ANDREW CUOMO I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state o...
ANDREW YOUNG If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nons...
ANDREW YOUNG In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violen...
ANDREW YOUNG My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hear...
ANDREW YOUNG President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't k...
ANDREW YOUNG No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.
ANDREW YOUNG Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
ANDREW YOUNG 'Blind Curve,' the book I'm working on now, sprang from a crazy incident that happened t...
ANDREW GROSS Most actors hate readthroughs - they're exposing themselves before they're ready to, and bef...
ANDREW DAVIES The most common objection that I hear to walking as exercise is that it's too easy, that only sw...
ANDREW WEIL You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.
ANDREW CARNEGIE The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts a...
ANDREW CARNEGIE You're achieving God's mission for humanity and country through capitalism, but by Christianity and ...
ANDREW CARNEGIE And while the law (of competition) may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race...
ANDREW CARNEGIE Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upo...
ANDREW CARNEGIE As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. -Andrew Carnegie.
ANDREW CARNEGIE But at my back I always hear time's winged chariot hurrying near.
ANDREW MARVELL Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
ANDREW YOUNG Naodyma isn’t exactly a one-temple town, you know.
ANDREW ASHLING Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.
ANDREW YOUNG On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
ANDREW YOUNG Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fo...
ANDREW YOUNG My risk tolerance is higher than some people's, but it's not nearly as high as some people&#...
ANDREW SOLOMON We have to treat smoking as a major public health issue. We have to reduce the extent to which young...
ANDREW LANSLEY Charles Blow's memoir 'Fire Shut Up in My Bones' was a breathtaking piece of writing.
ANDREW ROSENTHAL I believe in the simple things--the classic beginning of once upon a time, that good conquers evil i...
ANDREW KENDALL Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got.
ANDREW YOUNG A theatre is not a blank page for editorial, it is not a soapbox or a Tannoy system: it is a conscie...
ANDREW O'HAGAN Primarily motivated by a desire to keep abortion 'safe, legal and rare,' female liberals in ...
ANDREW BREITBART If loving and communing with God isn’t your primary purpose in prayer, you’re missing out on wha...
ANDREW WOMMACK Moral education, as I understand it, is not about inculcating obedience to law or cultivating self-v...
ANDREW LINZEY As truly as God by His power once
created, so truly by that same power must God every moment ma...
ANDREW MURRAY There is also a CAN OF PEANUTS on the desk. Ha ha, oh DAD. You won't be falling for THAT one again a...
ANDREW HUSSIE Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. A...
ANDREW BOYD What we define ourselves us can sometimes bring forth the best images of ourselves--or vice versa, w...
ANDREW KENDALL Cats are the lap-dancers of the animal world. Soon as you stop shelling out, they move on, find anot...
ANDREW VACHSS Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril.
ANDREW MOTION Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
ANDREW YOUNG We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
ANDREW YOUNG We are to be shut out from men, and shut in with God.
ANDREW MURRAY Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control...
ANDREW CARNEGIE We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough rel...
ANDREW BOYD He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination.
ANDREW LANG Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believ...
ANDREW SOLOMON You are constantly told in depression that your judgment is compromised, but a part of depression is...
ANDREW SOLOMON A while ago?” Anaxantis asked. “Yes, he raped me a while ago. Exactly nine months and two days a...
ANDREW ASHLING I can't afford to pay them any other way.
ANDREW CARNEGIE It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.
ANDREW JACKSON The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anyt...
ANDREW CARNEGIE Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as s...
ANDREW JACKSON The Noble Lord advocates Union, what doth such a union mean? When the Smaller unites with the greate...
ANDREW FLETCHER When you awaken to what I call the Authentic Self, which is the spiritual or evolutionary impulse, w...
ANDREW COHEN I knew a very wise man of Sir Christopher Musgrave
ANDREW FLETCHER As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.
ANDREW CARNEGIE Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result...
ANDREW GROVE One man with courage makes a majority.
ANDREW JACKSON The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like som...
ANDREW JENSEN No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.
ANDREW CARNEGIE There is no shame in finding someone else to be attractive, or good company. Even if they don't like...
ANDREW MATTHEWS In bestowing charity, the main consideration: should be to help those who will help themselves; to p...
ANDREW CARNEGIE People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and...
ANDREW MATTHEWS A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacati...
ANDREW MATTHEWS Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
ANDREW YOUNG You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back.
ANDREW YOUNG Even the people we most admire often feel inadequate.
ANDREW MATTHEWS Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.
ANDREW DENTON He used statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts; for support rather than illumination.
ANDREW LANG If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nati...
ANDREW FLETCHER Let who will make the laws of a nation so long as I am permitted to make her songs.
ANDREW FLETCHER There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up...
ANDREW CARNEGIE My Lord, I sorrow to learn that I am so timorous of heart and to learn that my Lord could be so forg...
ANDREW FLETCHER Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.
ANDREW MARVELL You can't push anyone up the ladder unless he is ready to climb himself.
ANDREW CARNEGIE Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the ...
ANDREW JACKSON Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.
ANDREW YOUNG The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
ANDREW CARNEGIE There is something about going to sea. A little bit of discipline, self-discipline and humility are ...
PRINCE ANDREW We accept and welcome... as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of e...
ANDREW CARNEGIE Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumst...
ANDREW SOLOMON They seldom looked happy. They passed one another without a word in the elevator, like silent shades...
ANDREW HOLLERAN All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.
ANDREW CARNEGIE That the whole free people of any nation ought to be exercised to arms, not only the example of our ...
ANDREW FLETCHER Arms are the only true badge of liberty. The possession of arms is the distinction of a free man fro...
ANDREW FLETCHER Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for l...
ANDREW BROWN And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, ...
ANDREW CARNEGIE No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
ANDREW CARNEGIE I will give you a few guarantees of my own, Mukthar. I guarantee that before the sun sets, even if y...
ANDREW ASHLING Concentrate; put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket...
ANDREW CARNEGIE Concentration is my motto -- first honesty, then industry, then concentration.
ANDREW CARNEGIE As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
ANDREW CARNEGIE The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an a...
ANDREW CARNEGIE Avoid competency traps. Do not stay only where you are good at things, Go out and be challenged.
ANDREW CREIGHTON Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as s...
ANDREW JACKSON Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
ANDREW YOUNG And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept the time.
ANDREW MARVELL Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equ...
ANDREW JACKSON It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
ANDREW YOUNG Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the...
ANDREW CARNEGIE