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4391 Novelist Quotes

We don't have a right to ask whether we're going to succeed or not. The only question we have a right to ask is what's the right thing to do? What does this earth require of us if we want to continue to live on it?

We Succeed Earth Live
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Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

Do unto Downstream Upstream You
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You can't know where life will take you, but you can commit to a direction
You Life Commit Direction
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You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land.

Save Land People Apart
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Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.

Live Laws Human being Justice
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We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.

We need Better Government Minds
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There is much good work to be done by every one of us and we must begin to do it.

Good work Every one Begin Do it
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Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.

Love Dark Shining Gold
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.

Interested Food Production Absurd
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For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics of its productivity but the good health of the land.

Agriculture Income Productivity Health
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The mind that is not baffled, is unemployed

Mind Baffled Unemployed
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What I stand for is what I stand on

What Stand for On
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The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

Past Defination Strive Escape
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Living without expectations is hard but, when you can do it, good. Living without hope is harder, and that is bad. You have got to have hope, and you must'nt shirk it. Love, after all, hopeth all things. But maybe you must learn, and it is hard learning, not to hope out loud, especially for other people. You must not let your hope turn into expectation.

Living Expections Hope Love
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If we are serious about peace, then we must work for it as ardently, seriously, continuously, carefully, and bravely as we have ever prepared for war.

Serious Peace Work Bravely
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A sustainable agriculture is one which depletes neither the people nor the land.

Sustainable Agriculture People Land
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It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is never.

Possible Live Future Past
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But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.
Future Responsible Behaviour Present
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All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.

Best day Life Worry Possibility
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Our obsession with security is a measure of the power we have granted the future to hold over us.

Obsession Security Power Future
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I'd rather rely on mother nature's wisdom than man's cleverness

Rely Nature's Wisdom Man's cleverness
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To treat life as less than a miracle is to give up on it.

Treat Life Miracle Give up
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Only the action that is moved by love for the good at hand has the hope of being responsible and generous

Action Love Hope Responsible
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The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly.

Ability Speak Exactly Know
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There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.

Passion Love Imagination
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Give energy, and mental exertion will always have attraction enough.

Give Energy Mental Attraction
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Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.

Study Desire Mockery Activity
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The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

Great Love Human beings Parents
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The extent of our progress in the cultivation of knowledge is unlimited.

Extent Progress Knowledge Unlimited
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Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.

Haste Educate Forget Ends
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The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.

Lessons Youth Conduct Riper years
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Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

Justice Sum Moral Duty
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Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.

Man Creature Natural life Memory
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Love conquers all difficulties, surmounts all obstacles, and effects what to any other power would be impossible.

Love Obstacles Power Impossible
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With respect to my religious sentiments, I have the firmest assurance and tranquillity. I have faithfully endeavoured to improve the faculties and opportunities God has given me, and I am perfectly easy about the consequences.

Respect Religious God Faithfully
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Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

Revolutions Passion Sober Reason
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Human depravity originates in the vices of political constitution.

Human Orinates Vices Political
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We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.

Perform Best Power Think
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Harshness and unkindness are relative. The appearance of them may be the fruits of the greatest kindness

Harhness Relative Fruits Kindness
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Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.

Perseverance Principle Influence Desire
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Superior virtue must be the fruit of superior intelligence.

Superior Virtue Fruit Intelligence
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Law is made for man and not man for the law. Wherever we can be sure that the most valuable interests of a nation require that we should decide one way, that way we ought to decide

Law Man Intrests Decide
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There are so many ways in which the heart of man conceals itself from man!

Ways Heart Man Conceals
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The man who plays his part upon the theatre of life almost always maintains what may be called an artificial character

Man Life Maintains Character
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Act up to the magnitude of your destiny.
Act up Magnitude Destiny
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Let no man despise the oracles of books! A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once had flesh and motion and a boundless variety of determinations and actions

Man Books Determinations Actions
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Government was intended to suppress injustice, but its effect has been to embody and perpetuate it.

Government Injustice Effect Embody
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The true object of moral and political disquisition is pleasure or happiness.

True Moral Pleasure Happiness
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The love of independence and dislike of unjust treatment is the source of a thousand virtues.

Love Dislike Source Virtues
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Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

Learning Genius Reads Proper
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