Well Chosen Quotes

32 quotes by 28 authors

People are certainly impressed by the aura of creative power which a writer may wear, but can easily demolish it with a few well-chosen questions.… — Brian Stableford
To resolve such conflicts peacefully in our interdependent - or what I would like to call our intra-interdependent - world requires not just well-chosen words… — Prince Hassan bin Talal
I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county,… — Thomas Jefferson
The axe is the most important bush tool there is. Outside of fire, nothing may contribute to your comfort and leisure than a well chosen… — Mors Kochanski
He that revels in a well-chosen library has inumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavor. — William Godwin
In the long run, a portfolio of well chosen stocks and/or equity mutual funds will always outperform a portfolio of bonds or a money-market account.… — Peter Lynch
Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of all civilized countries… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Well chosen words mixed with measured emotions is the basis of affecting people. — Jim Rohn
A well-chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure. — Robert Graves
When the original is well chosen and judiciously copied, the imitator often arrives at excellence which he could never have attained without direction; for few… — Samuel Johnson
True elegance consists not in having a closet bursting with clothes, but rather in having a few well-chosen numbers in which one feels totally at… — Coco Chanel
The power of words is immense. A well-chosen word has often sufficed to stop a flying army, to change defeat into victory and to save… — Emile de Girardin
In literary composition a well-chosen quotation lights up the page like a fine engraving... — William Francis Henry King
Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing… — Miguel de Cervantes
Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things… — Joseph Addison
It's hard to carry a child around with you, but fortunately, in most cases, you don't have to ask a child for directions if you… — Bernie Siegel
For me, good description usually consists of a few well-chosen details that will stand for everything else. — Stephen King
The latest gorgeous entry in the Belknap Press' growing library of annotated Jane Austen novels arrives, this time the mighty Emma under the exactingly careful… — Steve Donoghue
It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they… — Charles Caleb Colton

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