Carolyn Wells Quotes

I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariably finds it necessary to plaster the subject with praises, flattery and adulation and to invest him with all the Christian graces. If autobiography, the same plan is followed, but the writer apologizes for it.

Carolyn Wells

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• State assaults on the separation of church and state are nothing new.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Church
  • New
  • Nothing

• What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Future
  • Party
  • Politics

• I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Try

• Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Hate
  • Brother
  • Speech

• I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Men
  • Laugh
  • Hardest

• Without a song, each day would be a century.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Song
  • Day
  • Without

• The only two shows I watch are 'Walking Dead' and 'Nashville,' but both just went off the air for a couple of months, so I feel like I have to be productive because I'm not sitting around waiting for the next episode of zombies or mainstream country music.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • Music
  • Country
  • Couple

• It doesn't necessarily take four years to write a good piece of music. It might take four hours. It just depends on when your inspiration comes.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • Music
  • Inspiration

• The entertainment industry is pretty nuts, and having had that experience outside of it and going to university has really made a big difference. It's important to me to feel like I have my own life.

  

  Emma Watson
  • Life
  • Important
  • Experience

• The Republican Party is too fixated on this fiction of electability.

  

  Kellyanne Conway
  • Party

• I know, it was a little bit out of control, but hey. It was all fun.

  

  Elisha Cuthbert
  • Fun
  • Control

• Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it - in a decade, a century, or a millennium - we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How could we have been so stupid?

  

  John Archibald Wheeler
  • Beautiful
  • Simple
  • Stupid

• People are what this election is all about.

  

  Patty Berg
  • People

• Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings. This is part of teaching emotional literacy - a set of skills we can all develop, including the ability to read, understand, and respond appropriately to one's own emotions and the emotions of others.

  

  Daniel Goleman
  • Emotional

• For the last 15 years, Microsoft’s master business plan seems to have been, 'Wait until somebody else has a hit. Then copy it.'

  

  David Pogue
  • Business

• I've made a point of not being, say what I refer to as a 'careerist' about anything.

  

  Jon Brion

• The only works of righteousness that serve to justify a sinner are the works of Christ.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Works
  • Serve
  • Righteousness

• The kind of violence, looting, destruction that we saw from a handful of individuals in Baltimore, there's no excuse for that. That's not a statement. That's not politics. That's not activism. That's just criminal behavior.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Violence

• If you have not consciously made the decision to be rich, excellent, and healthy, then you have unconsciously made the decision to be poor, mediocre, and unhealthy.

  

  Wallace D. Wattles
  • Decision
  • Healthy
  • Mediocre

• Prayers offered up in Christian worship in the earliest days of the faith were addressed to 'Our Lord the Sun,' evidencing that 'primitive' Christians were quite in the spirit of Pagan forms and ideologies.

  

  Alvin Boyd Kuhn
  • Christian
  • Prayers
  • Ideologies

• Do you understand now why books are hated and feared? Because they reveal the pores on the face of life. The comfortable people want only the faces of the full moon, wax, faces without pores, hairless, expressionless.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Book
  • Moon
  • Faces

• I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariably finds it necessary to plaster the subject with praises, flattery and adulation and to invest him with all the Christian graces. If autobiography, the same plan is followed, but the writer apologizes for it.

  

  Carolyn Wells
  • Christian
  • Grace
  • Praise