Thought of the day.
If you are in an impossible situation.
Then find an impossible solution.
And do it!
Gary Edward Gedall
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The impossible
And end by accomplishing
The impossible.
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...
Be supportive?
...
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A matter of decision, to choose
Among the impossi...
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Is the fume-track of necessity. This thought
Is therapeutic.
If, after ...
ROBERT PENN WARREN You promised, Seaweed Brain. We would not get separated! Ever again!”
“You’re impo...
RICK RIORDAN My cup is yellow
Or not, though not's
Impossible
It's yellow
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What its size,
will have varying
consequences. It’s not ...
ELLEN HOPKINS This is a day of celebration!
Today, we are divorcing the past
and marrying the present. KAMAND KOJOURI ...how impossible it
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Everything becomes one pale
memory in the flow of time.
Spir...
ALEXANDAR TOMOV To express is to drive.
And when you want to give something presence,
you have to consult n...
LOUIS KAHN Let’s consider your age to begin with — how old are you?’
‘I’m seven and a half...
LEWIS CARROLL It is nearly impossible.'
'Nearly impossible and impossible are not the same thing.
KRISTIN HANNAH He was footprints in the snow.
Not all loves are meant to last.
Some are meant to gr...
JACQUELINE SIMON GUNN Poetry is an act of love.
Without love life is impossible.
Without poetry love has no ex...
DEBASISH MRIDHA Why it's simply impassible!
Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible?
Door: No, I do mean imp...
LEWIS CARROLL But what are kings, when regiment is gone,
But perfect shadows in a sunshine day?
- ...
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE you are a horse running alone
and he tries to tame you
compares you to an impossible highw...
WARSAN SHIRE Six Beliefs That Set the Course of Your Life
1. If you don’t believe the impossi...
SHANNON L. ALDER You’re dangerous,” he says.
“Why?”
“Because you make me believe in the impossibl...
SIMONE ELKELES in the afterglow
of an evening rain
i lay down
in the grass
and think of ...
SANOBER KHAN I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tel...
EMILY DICKINSON For I dance
And drink and sing,
Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing.
If t...
WILLIAM BLAKE Impossible is my specialty."
-Marissa Meyer, Heartless
MARISSA MEYER To know the way,
we go the way,
we do the way.
The way we do,
the things we do...
BENJAMIN HOFF People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered.
Forgive them anyway.
I...
MOTHER TERESA An angel for some,
a demon for some,
for me, it’s heart of the one.
Never want to h...
ABHISHEK KUMAR SINGH Gestalt Prayer
I do my thing and you do yours.
I am not in this world to live up to...
FREDERICK SALOMON PERLS I AM AN INDIAN,
LIKE OTHER BILLION,
HAPPY REPUBLIC DAY,
HOPE TO FIND A GOOD WAY,
MERLIN8THOMAS we met one strange summer
in a regular tangle of sticky webs
you had the air o...
MOONSHINE NOIRE I got an A on the third quiz in American history,
an A,
dammit.
Last time I got a ...
THALIA CHALTAS COMING FORTH INTO THE LIGHT
I was born the day
I thought:
What is?
What wa...
SUZY KASSEM And there you are
on the shore,
fitful and thoughtful, trying
to attach them ...
MARY OLIVER You know the phrase ‘hard to get’?” K.T. asks.
“Yeah.”
“Forget har...
ERICA CAMERON What does ‘hmm’ have to do with anything? Could you ever use more than five words? All this grun...
BECCA FITZPATRICK See
it was like this when
we waltz into this place.
A couple of papish cats
i...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI i find you
in every echo,
i find you in every
dream, i find you
in every feeling...
CURTIS TYRONE JONES What We Want
What we want
is never simple.
We move among the things
LINDA PASTAN Every time you try and fail,
Every time your hope gets stuck in the deeps,
And you wonder ...
CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE I hope one day
somebody loves you
so much
that they see violets
in the bags unde...
TRISTA MATEER How can you be a lover of love
and not be a lover of God?
It is impossible.
KAMAND KOJOURI REFLECTIONS OF TRUTH
Where you find Truth
Is where you find your reflection
And...
SUZY KASSEM And what's care?
What's coldness?
Why you are so foolish of your freedom?
... DEYTH BANGER who are you
really?
you are not a name
or a height, or a weight
or a gende...
M.K Was that me? Yes it was. Was that him? No it wasn't..
Just a trick of the woods!
Just ...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM
May you find serenity and tranquility
in a worl...
SANDRA STURTZ HAUSS Stop a minute and listen. I know I'm asking the impossible from you, but for once in your life, shut...
SHERRILYN KENYON If You Forget Me
I want you to know
one thing.
You know how this is:
PABLO NERUDA Little Fly
Thy summers play,
My thoughtless hand
Has brush'd away.
Am not ...
WILLIAM BLAKE It's not easy, but do it anyway
It's not easy to love,
when you get resentment in re...
HENNA SOHAIL It's not easy, but do it anyway
It's not easy to love,
when you get resentment in re...
HENNA SOHAIL The more you love
the more you'll find
that life is good
and friends are kind
and on...
HELEN RICE You blast me open and then
You stand back and watch
My feeble attempts
To deal wit...
KATE MCGAHAN What if you slept
And what if
In your sleep
You dreamed
And what if
In...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Why is my love for you, dyed in wool?
What is the hindrance to moving on?
Why in lov...
ZUBAIR AHSAN For fractured souls are like magnets.
Drawn to collide into an impossible bliss.....
TILLIE COLE Wake up.
If your eyes are sleeping
then wipe them gently.
You need to be awake for...
KAMAND KOJOURI No Goodbye'
The floods of tears,
Flow for thee,
As I remember how it used to be...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS If today is not your day,
then be happy
for this day shall never return.
And if to...
KAMAND KOJOURI What of Art?
-It is a malady.
--Love?
-An Illusion.
--Religion?
-The fashio...
OSCAR WILDE It’s impossible,” he snapped.
“Why?”
“Because I’m Sebastian, Lor...
LISA KLEYPAS It was a completely different time for me. Now, the children
MICHAEL WALKER It ends or it doesn't.
That’s what you say. That’s
how you get through it.
The tu...
CAITLYN SIEHL Conversation of the Day -
He: How do you describe yourself in two words?
Me: Y...
SANHITA BARUAH DON'T SAY, DO
Do not say things
You think I want to hear.
Instead,
S...
SUZY KASSEM Please be SILENT and LISTEN.
I am the SCHOOLMASTER
and you are in the CLASSROOM.
Just...
PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH Every spring
I hear the thrush singing
in the glowing woods
he is only passing throug...
MARY OLIVER BLESSINGS ARE IMMEASURABLE
You can
Lose a child
Or a parent,
The lov...
SUZY KASSEM -Do you want me to leave?
-Yes
-Do you want me to stay?
-Yes
-Do you love me? MALAK EL HALABI He was heartbroken, I say.
Heartbroken, he repeats. Of course. That's the great myth Edwa...
J.P. DELANEY (Divorce)
We’ll remarry someday when we’ve grown,
Like royalty who’ve earned the th...
CRYSTAL WOODS If you see it's impossible,
you may use others' eyes.
TOBA BETA YOUR GREATER ANIMAL
They say that if you are
Ever confronted by
A lion or...
SUZY KASSEM The Mustard Seed Charm
With Faith As Small As A Mustard Seed, Then You Can Move Mountains...
VIOLA SHIPMAN All this waiting.
Waiting for the rain to
stop. Waiting in traffic.
Waiting for the...
KAMAND KOJOURI You start dying slowly
if you do not travel,
if you do not read,
If you do not lis...
MARTHA MEDEIROS Never say I love you
If you really don't care.
Never talk about feelings
If they...
ANON. (You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel as...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER The word "impossible" is only in the mind
And not in the heart.
If we can remain in the he...
SRI CHINMOY Do you remember how the sun, set
On the occasion, we last conversed?
First, it hid b...
ZUBAIR AHSAN If you don't know the effect of
words, you are behind times.If
you want positivity, spea...
VAL UCHENDU You promised, Seaweed Brain. We would not get separated! Ever again!'
'You are impossibl...
RICK RIORDAN Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like...
JOHN GREEN People always ask me
"Son what does it take
To reach out and touch your dreams?"
To t...
TIM MCGRAW during my worst times
on the park benches
in the jails
or living with
whores
CHARLES BUKOWSKI On building homes for fallen angels:
When I was small - I sought a home,
a place to ...
WILL ADVISE That time
I thought I could not
go any closer to grief
without dying
I wen...
MARY OLIVER DADDY
You do not do, you do not do
Any more, black shoe
In which I have lived l...
SYLVIA PLATH as long as there are
human beings about
there is never going to be
any peace
for...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI This is your world
You’re the creator
Find freedom on this canvas
Believe, that you...
BOB ROSS I ask the impossible: love me forever.
Love me when all desire is gone.
Love me with the s...
ANA CASTILLO I thought you told me you loved stories Have you ever heard a story of an adventurer with a sane pla...
SABAA TAHIR People are not an interruption of our business. People are our business.
A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in men. Ordinary people see no diff...
The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn.
Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.
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EDWARD HOPPER The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.
EDWARD HOPPER If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.
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EDWARD HOPPER I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.
EDWARD HOPPER Well, I have a very simple method of painting.
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EDWARD HOPPER No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
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EDWARD HOPPER Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
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EDWARD HOPPER After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance a...
EDWARD HOPPER More of me comes out when I improvise.
EDWARD HOPPER What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
EDWARD HOPPER The only real influence I've ever had was myself.
EDWARD HOPPER We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.
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EDWARD LEAR The simple act of caring is heroic.
EDWARD ALBERT I am all for the short and merry life.
EDWARD FITZGERALD I'm looking for the best person irregardless of political party, of race or religion, or color o...
EDWARD BROOKE I knew that if it ever got down to a choice between the Party and our traditional democratic structu...
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EDWARD ALBEE Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.
EDWARD KENNEDY When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on th...
EDWARD BOND All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory ...
EDWARD NORTON The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.
EDWARD GREY If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
EDWARD HOPPER My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely c...
EDWARD WESTON Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.
EDWARD ALBERT I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary qua...
EDWARD WITTEN The Portuguese and Galician term 'saudade' suggests a profoundly bittersweet nostalgia.
EDWARD HIRSCH The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.
EDWARD NORTON Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but...
EDWARD HOAGLAND Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites,Hell threatens.
EDWARD YOUNG Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
EDWARD YOUNG At thirty, man suspects himself a fool;Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
EDWARD YOUNG All men think all men mortal but themselves.
EDWARD YOUNG There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, 'It is just as I feared! -
Two Owls and a Hen, EDWARD LEAR Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominat...
EDWARD HALL How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
EDWARD YOUNG Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone a...
EDWARD HOAGLAND Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
EDWARD COKE Virtue alone has majesty in death.
EDWARD YOUNG Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed:Who does the best his circumstance allowsDoes well, acts nobly...
EDWARD YOUNG Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
EDWARD YOUNG The man of wisdom is the man of years.
EDWARD YOUNG Early, bright, transient, chaste, as morning dew
She sparkled, was exhal'd, and went to heaven.
EDWARD YOUNG Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other's heel.
EDWARD YOUNG One to destroy is murder by the law,
And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe;
To murder thousa...
EDWARD YOUNG Think nought a trifle, though it small appear;
Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,
...
EDWARD YOUNG To me, lighting really sets the mood for a room. A 40 watt bulb in a cheap lamp is the same as a 40 ...
EDWARD WALKER As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and str...
EDWARD WITTEN I feel a buzzing at the base of my neck. It's like I'm on eternal 'vibrate' in case ...
JOHN EDWARD The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back ...
EDWARD FITZGERALD Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called...
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EDWARD KENNEDY The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and...
EDWARD BACH The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as...
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EDWARD ZWICK Like everyone, I was a kid who played chess when I was young. And I am admittedly old enough to have...
EDWARD ZWICK It's a fact the whole world knows; That Pobbles are happier without their toes.
EDWARD LEAR What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
EDWARD LANGLEY We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick......
EDWARD HEATH I come like Water, and like Wind I go.
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EDWARD ZWICK The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art,Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.
EDWARD YOUNG A man of pleasure is a man of pains.
EDWARD YOUNG When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.
EDWARD YOUNG My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.
EDWARD GIBBON Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
EDWARD GIBBON Can wealth give happiness? look round and see
What gay distress! what splendid misery!
Whate...
EDWARD YOUNG I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
EDWARD MOORE To leave a sting within a brother's heart.
EDWARD YOUNG What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousan...
EDWARD ABBEY Many are called but few are chosen. There are sayings of Christ which suggest that the Church he cam...
EDWARD NORMAN Much learning shows how little mortals know:
Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy.
EDWARD YOUNG And love is love, in beggars and in kings.
EDWARD DYER The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expressi...
EDWARD ABBEY I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
EDWARD RICKENBACKER You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared ...
EDWARD FLAHERTY God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defe...
EDWARD EVERETT For her own breakfast she 'll project a scheme,Nor take her tea without a stratagem.
EDWARD YOUNG The children are innocent until proven guilty. For their sake, not ours, we must soldier on, muddlin...
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EDWARD SAID You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there h...
EDWARD SAID In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its orig...
EDWARD EVERETT A God all mercy is a God unjust.
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EDWARD VARESE It was scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the ...
EDWARD GIBBON Can't I another's face commend,
Or to her virtues be a friend,
But instantly your forehead lou...
EDWARD MOORE The difference between psychedelia and digitalia ages will seem like a smooth blending in years to c...
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EDWARD FITZGERALD Those who build beneath the stars build too low.
EDWARD YOUNG A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
EDWARD GIBBON The man that makes a character, makes foes.
EDWARD YOUNG The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, ...
EDWARD RICKENBACKER Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
EDWARD RICKENBACKER The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is th...
EDWARD GIBBON It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to d...
EDWARD GIBBON True the greater part of the Irish people was close to starvation. The numbers of weakened people dy...
EDWARD RUTHERFURD Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
EDWARD DOWDEN To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.
EDWARD WEEKS Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
EDWARD YOUNG Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.
EDWARD YOUNG When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings,
Then Learning shines, the best of precious thin...
EDWARD COCKER Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned.
Analyze it carefully. Then put what you...
EDWARD COCKER The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
EDWARD KOCH If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
EDWARD KOCH You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.
EDWARD KOCH Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity:...
EDWARD ABBEY For there is a cloud on my horizon. A small dark cloud no bigger than my hand. Its name is Progress.
EDWARD ABBEY Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube. There are some things one would rather ha...
EDWARD ABBEY Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination
EDWARD ABBEY That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of i...
EDWARD ABBEY High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple a...
EDWARD ABBEY The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.
EDWARD ABBEY England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, te...
EDWARD ABBEY Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The i...
EDWARD BELLAMY For just a little while, in all our lives, we're granted brief glimpses at the way things really ope...
EDWARD MORRIS I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to ...
EDWARD ABBEY And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon.
EDWARD LEAR When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unk...
EDWARD TELLER Frankly, I don't mind not being president. I just mind that someone else is.
EDWARD KENNEDY A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
EDWARD ABBEY One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a ...
EDWARD ABBEY The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
EDWARD GIBBON Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long ...
EDWARD HOAGLAND One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imag...
EDWARD DAHLBERG The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll wit...
EDWARD DAHLBERG Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings.
EDWARD GARDNER Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.
EDWARD DAHLBERG There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the colde...
EDWARD DAHLBERG Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.
EDWARD FAIRFAX The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
EDWARD WINDSOR There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himse...
EDWARD STEICHEN Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and ski...
EDWARD STEICHEN The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a...
EDWARD STEICHEN Photography suits the temper of this age -- of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for o...
EDWARD WESTON Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
EDWARD EGGLESTON The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
EDWARD THOMAS Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and ...
EDWARD DAHLBERG Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.
EDWARD GIBBON We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even w...
EDWARD DAHLBERG Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommenda...
EDWARD GIBBON Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of comp...
EDWARD GIBBON Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive mu...
EDWARD HENNESSY The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
EDWARD GIBBON Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga -- stylized because even the most acute of the...
EDWARD HOAGLAND Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intr...
EDWARD HOAGLAND There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
EDWARD DAHLBERG The worst of all diseases is a nervous ability.
EDWARD DYSON Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precis...
EDWARD DAHLBERG When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the u...
EDWARD TELLER Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.
EDWARD EDWARDS The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
EDWARD GIBBON Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
EDWARD GIBBON Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have b...
EDWARD DAHLBERG To write is a humiliation.
EDWARD DAHLBERG What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of acciden...
EDWARD DAHLBERG Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
EDWARD DAHLBERG The work was like peeling an onion. The outer skin came off with difficulty... but in no time you'd ...
EDWARD BLISHEN By night an atheist half believes in God.
EDWARD YOUNG You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.
EDWARD KOCH Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine h...
EDWARD DAHLBERG Our birth is nothing but our death begun.
EDWARD YOUNG If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think po...
EDWARD RICKENBACKER Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders...
EDWARD HOAGLAND You know...that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum -- a canvas -- a ...
EDWARD STEICHEN I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.
EDWARD DAHLBERG We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.
EDWARD GIBBON Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manife...
EDWARD HOAGLAND There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of ...
EDWARD HOAGLAND Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of ...
EDWARD DAHLBERG Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
EDWARD EVERETT Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half an emptiness dressed up in garments borr...
EDWARD BLISHEN I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.
EDWARD GIBBON What most men desire is a virgin who is a whore.
EDWARD DAHLBERG Every decision you make is a mistake.
EDWARD DAHLBERG The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the sub...
EDWARD GIBBON Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is...
EDWARD DAHLBERG It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, a...
EDWARD DAHLBERG Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspire...
EDWARD DAHLBERG Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enig...
EDWARD DAHLBERG Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
EDWARD DOWDEN The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing it exactly right.
EDWARD SIMMONS The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.
EDWARD GIBBON If we would just support each other -- that's ninety percent of the problem.
EDWARD GARDNER All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
EDWARD GIBBON