Writings Quotes

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

Mainly I've been back to my books and writings and being nice and quiet and lazy. As I'm writing this, the radio says there's a foot of snow falling on Long Island. I really love snow and wish I could take a long walk in it right now.

Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, donated many of this writings to the University of Michigan. The pagers are an invaluable resource for students majoring in Crazy.

Spiritual Writings on Mary.

Even now a team of linguists is at work translating Don Revie's writings on the game [of football] from the original gibberish into Arabic.

Easy writings curse is hard reading.

These are the writings of a perverted monster who was sent out into the field unsupervised to be with alienated youth, with children.

My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings.

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things.

When Maurice touched a keyboard, it was like something from a movie, magical. He would always give you something from a movie, and you'd go, what did you just play... immediately inspirational writings, amazing. That's what we're going to miss.

A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.

The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles.

The apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical, didactic, and prophetic.

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.

The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.

And truly, when you look at the Constitution and our founding fathers and their writings, the things that made this country great, you might draw those conclusions: That they were conservative. They were fiscally conservative and socially conservative.

To be awarded a prize which takes its name from an illustrious Dutchman who at the same time was a great citizen of Europe and through his writings did so much to open up our modern world of sensibility and thought is indeed a most signal honour.