Famous Quotes and Proverbs
If you are looking for famous quotes and proverbs, you've come to the right place! Browse our largest database, which contains over 150,000 quotations, proverbs and sayings by the most renowned poets, artists, authors, inventors and researchers both living and deceased. Use our famous quotes and proverbs to support the content of your essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation. Be inspired by our quotes, proverbs and sayings now!
Search our collection by author, topic or keyword. It's completely FREE!
Browse Keywords:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
(Click a letter to view the keywords)
(Click a letter to view the keywords)
Letter "T" » tries
«Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.»
«One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is»
Author: Norman Vincent Peale
(Clergyman, Writer)
| About:
Experience
| Keywords:
acquaint, acquainted, acquainted with, acquainting, acquaints, determines, developing, hide, moments, no longer, tries
«In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.»
«Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.»
Author: Rosa Parks
(Activist)
| Keywords:
a bit, bit, bite off, Have You, heal, over again, over and over, over and over again, pull, pull off, scar, The Scar, tries
«How can I set free anyone who doesn't have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom? I think it's a lie ? people claim they want to be free ? everybody insists that freedom is what they want the most, the most sacred and precious thing a man can possess. But that's bullshit! People are terrified to be set free ? they hold on to their chains. They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It's their security?How can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don't really want to be free?»
«In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.»
«Several incidents in my life have convinced me of spiritual interposition - of the promptings of some beneficent force outside ourselves, which tries to help us where it can»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
| Keywords:
beneficent, convinced, incident, incidents, interposition, several, The Incident, tries
«Philosophy first constructs a scheme of happiness and then tries to fit the world to it»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
constructing, constructs, fit, scheme, scheming, tries
«No one knows what he can do until he tries.»
Author: Publilius Syrus
| Keywords:
tries
«I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
demanding, failed, failing, finds, maybe, novel, novelist, poet, short stories, short story, story, take up, the novelist, The short story, tries
Research our database of free Biographies. Sign-up for the database of college sample papers for only $14.95/month. Buy a custom written essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation on any topic and get a discount!
