To be a well-favored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature. -Much Ado ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy
"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ...
NEIL GAIMAN To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be...
AL GOLDSTEIN To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, ho...
WILLIAM HAZLITT I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while ...
PLAUTUS I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are
the gift of fortune, while ...
PLAUTUS A Ritual to Read to Each Other
If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve...
WILLIAM SAROYAN The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr...
C.S. LEWIS PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA How to be a Poet (to remind myself)
Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
WENDELL BERRY "We know who we are, but not what we may be." William Shakespeare
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
JAMES SHAPIRO I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me
WALTER RALEIGH SR. I was emotional. I wanted to be taken seriously. I was pretty emo. I was reciting Shakespeare monolo...
CONSTANCE WU I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS The gift of writing; natural flow of thoughts from the deepest heart.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE In order to teach chemistry or psychology or even history or Greek a man must actually know somethin...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Ah, much deluded! lay aside
Thy threats, and anger misapplied!
Art not afraid with sounds ...
JOHN MILTON GoodReads is fabulous fun, so interesting, so useful ... and the best reviewers are so loving and il...
WILLIAM DONELSON All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being goo...
ANITA BROOKNER All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and. . . you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by be...
ANITA BROOKNER All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and. . . you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by be...
ANITA BROOKNER Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do?
TERRY PRATCHETT Love is holy.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to d...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being...
ANITA BROOKNER Heavy is the head that wears the crown
William Shakespeare
CHARMAINE J. FORDE Whether a man is a legend or not is decided by history, not fortune tellers.
AMISH TRIPATHI To be, or not to be: what a question!
E.A. BUCCHIANERI Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...
JOSEPH CONRAD Oil on water, a secret communicated to a base man, a gift given to a worthy receiver, and scriptural...
CHANAKYA Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't ...
HILARY MANTEL The fact is that if the writer's attention is on producing a work of art, a work that is good in its...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR It’s natural for people to feel superior to those under them. It requires a conscious effort to va...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years
HENRY MOORE If you cannot read Shakespeare, or Melville, or Toni Morrison because it will trigger something trau...
BRET EASTON ELLIS Read what you like, not what you’re told to like. That way you’ll read for a lifetime.
CAREW PAPRITZ It is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Since the Renaissance, Shakespeare, Rembrandt, Mozart, and a host of others have shown that this rel...
WALTER KAUFMANN You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR In a world of words, anything is possible...
LAURA WRIGHT LAROCHE Whatever your feelings may be about William Clinton the man, or William Clinton the political ally o...
CHARLES RUFF Man is the miracle in nature. God
Is the One Miracle to man. Behold,
"There is a God," thou ...
JEAN INGELOW Breath is the finest gift of nature. Be grateful for this wonderful gift.
AMIT RAY Somebody could read about Shakespeare and get honors credit, but those kids who not only have to rea...
BRIAN ARMSTRONG Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned.
RICHARD BACH 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON He was not of an age, but fo...
BEN JONSON What sweeter gift from nature has fallen to the lot of man than
his children?
UNKNOWN In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around.
RHODA BELLEZA William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
GARSON KANIN A man is master of himself to a certain point, but not beyond it. -William Crimsworth
CHARLOTTE BRONTë The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER He [Shakespeare] was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most ...
JOHN DRYDEN The sad heart needs work to do.
JOAN BAUER Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD If God give you strength and courage, don't use it to intimidate people or overpower them, rather us...
ANTHONY LICCIONE As a child, William Beebe was my hero, and I used to read about him going down in the bathysphere, a...
EUGENIE CLARK I will not read the last page of novels first," I said, and then punched myself in the face.
"...
BRANDON SANDERSON The beach is not a place to work; to read, write or to think.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one.
THERESA M WILSON To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth.
JAMES MARSHALL Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ...
JEFFREY R. HOLLAND And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju...
JOAN BAUER There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ...
THOMAS S. MONSON Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l...
JUSTINA CHEN We are the books we read and the things we love.
CATH CROWLEY You should give up sarcasm. People could get the wrong idea about you.
MICHAEL PRYOR I know exactly who I am, what I'm about and who I will become.
EMMA PAUL It is better to grope in the dark and wade through a million errors to reach the Truth than to entru...
SUDHIR KAKAR If you argue with a fool, you become a fool.
L.A. HILDEN Everyday is another chance to do something great.
EMMA PAUL You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm!
COLETTE there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely ...
OSCAR WILDE I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they...
PHILIP HENSHER Always be true to your friends, just as you are to yourself.
MEG CABOT I have this feeling, like I'm waiting for something. But I have no idea what.
JENNIFER NIVEN 2.5.03.02.005: Generally speaking, if you fiddle with something, it will break. Don't.
JASPER FFORDE