Books Quote by Ernest Hemingway

“To be noble,. . .was to account for the life you lived, to always account for your mistakes, and to have dignity and worth.”

— Gail Tsukiyama

“We had no longing for excessive wealth: a mere competency, though earned by daily toil, so that it was reasonably sure, and free from…

— Edmund Morris

“And this was known as that greatest of treasures, which is Hope. It was a good way of getting poorer really very quickly, and…

— Terry Pratchett

“Maybe away from Paris I could write about Paris as in Paris I could write about Michigan. I did not know it was too…

— Ernest Hemingway

“My life had become weariness. It had wandered in a maze of unhappiness that led to renunciation and nothingness; it was bitter with the…

— Hermann Hesse

As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away from my…

— Julie Burchill

Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have.

— Ernie Banks

“What I did not realize was that I also hoped to have an epiphany, to discover a cause to devote my life to, a…

— Kristine K. Stevens

That way of life against which my generation rebelled had given us grim courage, fortitude, self-discipline, a sense of individual responsibility, and a capacity…

— Rose Wilder Lane

“There's a reason for every journey, and mine was prompted by boredom and the recklessness of youth, by a wish to break the bounds…

— Walter Moers

“if you desire within your heart, riches, to help the hungry, the unclothed, the sick, the afflicted, the imprisoned, you will receive beyond measure,…

— TJR Senior

“You don’t have to be rich to leave a positive legacy; you don’t have to be intelligent, famous, powerful or even particularly well organised,…

— Hugh Mackay