Into Motivation

Quotes by St Augustine "Give me chastity and continence, but not yet". Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden "I'll love you, dear, I'll love you, Till China and Africa meet, And the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street. I'll love you till the ocean, Is folded and hung up to dry, And the seven stars go squawking, Like geese about the sky. He was my North, my South, my East, my West, My working week and my Sunday ... Read More

Quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Fate laughs at probabilities". Quotes by Anita Brookner "All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and...you don't win the favour of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold". Quotes by Elizabeth Dorothea "Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat". Quotes by Ambrose Bierce "Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others". Quotes by Samuel Beckett "What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes". Quotes by Francis Bacon "If a man ... Read More

Quotes by The Bible "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. Death flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour. Be not slow to visit the sick. Health and good estate of body are above all gold. Honour a physician with the honour due unto him for the uses which ye may have of him: for the Lord hath created him. The Most High hath created medicines out of the ... Read More

Quotes by Jane Austen "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love to matrimony in a moment. Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. What is the difference in matrimonial affairs between the mercenary and the prudent motive? Lord, how ashamed I should be of not beings married before three and twenty! A ... Read More

Quotes by Ambrose Bierce "King: a male person commonly known in America as a "crowned head", although he never wears a crown and has usually no head to speak of." Quotes by Edmund Clerihew Bentley "George the Third. Ought never to have occurred . One can only wonder. At so grotesque a blunder." Quotes by Sir Cecil Beaton "On coronation day the Queen looked extremely minute under her robes and crown, her nose and hands chilled, her eyes tired. "yes, in reply to my ... Read More

Quotes by James Cameron "The press can only be a mirror - albeit a distorting mirror, according to its politics or the smallness of its purpose - but it rarely lies because it dare not". Quotes by The Bible "As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country". Quotes by Arnold Bennett "Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true". Quotes by Cristobal Balenciaga "If you ... Read More

Quotes by The Bible "Who is this that darkeneth councel by words without knowledge? The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth. The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd. More smooth than butter were his words, while in his speech was war; His speeches were more soft than oil, and yet drawn swords they are". Quotes by ... Read More