It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling… — Rachel Johnson Copy Share Image
The marriage-based society...discourages all the competing alternatives to marriage. You can't have a marriage-based society and a social value of sexual freedom.… — Scott Lively Copy Share Image
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two. — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
All taxes discourage something. Why not discourage bad things like pollution rather than good things like working? — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
Crime in the cities is very discouraging. Apartment house dwellers have locks, bolts, chains and bars on their doors. It takes a… — Sam Ewing Copy Share Image
Mexican homes as a rule are closed off to the world by high blank walls of yellowish masonry, topped with broken glass… — Charles Portis Copy Share Image
There are two sure ways to fail: never get started and quit before you succeed. Many companies promote the language of risk-taking… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
It is very discouraging to be in a team with white athletes. On the track you are Tommie Smith, the fastest man… — Tommie Smith Copy Share Image
The fundamentalist violence is, so is it, an attempt to increase the stakes, i.e. to discourage the potential desertions by showing that… — Pascal Boyer Copy Share Image
It's so hard going into a performance that you've worked all week for and put so much time and effort into and… — Jenna Johnson Copy Share Image
So it's discouraging and, yet, when you make a movie like Wonder Boys, in a sense it's its own reward, because it… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
Remember: It costs nothing to encourage an artist, and the potential benefits are staggering. A pat on the back to an artist… — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
For a long time I thought-'I've got to buck up and be strong. I've got to put on a brave face-and get… — Rebecca St. James Copy Share Image
Still, I figure we shouldn't' discourage fans of actively managed funds. With all their buying and selling, active investors ensure the market… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
The life of a chess master is much more difficult than that of an artist - much more depressing. An artist knows… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
People who have lost their hunger for justice are not ultimately powerful. They are like sick people who have lost their appetite… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Trying to predict the future is a discouraging and hazardous occupation. If by some miracle a prophet could describe the future exactly… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
People do not get tired out from working where work is intelligently handled. Work, if it is interesting, is a stimulant. It's… — George Matthew Adams Copy Share Image
What this country needs is more people to inspire others with confidence, and fewer people to discourage any initiative in the right… — James Keller Copy Share Image
Does everyone grow the way you do?" puffed Milo when he had caught up. "Almost everyone," replied Alec, and then he stopped… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
I wasn't good enough. I had a little talent but not enough. There is nothing more discouraging than having just a little… — Rosamunde Pilcher Copy Share Image
You can easily determine the caliber of a person by the amount of opposition it takes to discourage him or her. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit makes us aware of our lack of holiness to stimulate us to deeper yearning and striving for holiness. But… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Maturity is perseverance-the ability to sweat out a project or a situation, in spite of heavy opposition and discouraging setbacks, and stick… — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
I won't lie, I've had a lot of discouraging moments in the past years, moments I wasn't sure about things and doubted… — Shania Twain Copy Share Image
Humility is the part of wisdom, and is most becoming in men. But let no one discourage self-reliance; it is, of all… — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image
Living faith is above circumstances; no delays can discourage it, no loss of friends or depression in trade can touch it. — Rees Howells Copy Share Image
it is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
YouTube can sometimes be really discouraging. When I first started doing it, I almost stopped doing it. — Bethany Mota Copy Share Image
The income tax is flawed for a number of reasons - it discourages economic growth and encourages a bloated government. — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
it is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday. — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Delays in granting of justice very often reduce the speed with which investment could be undertaken, discouraging investors. — Lucas Papademos Copy Share Image
Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
It is ... marvellous ... to have a period of apparent fanaticism. No obstacle can discourage you. The single vision of your… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
