Saturday, December 11, 2010

Catching up on 2 months of reading

Memorable reads from my night in of reading for the past 4 hours:

"Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours."
- Salman Rushdie

"All the strength you need to achieve anything is within you."
- Sara Henderson

"The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power."
- Mary Pickford


"Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending."
- Jim Henson

"Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility."
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"The price of greatness is responsibility."
- Sir Winston Churchill 

"Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest."
- William Faulkner

"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think."
- Lorraine Hansberry 

"Defeat is simply a signal to press onward."
- Helen Keller 

"Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought."
- Henri Bergson