Career Quote by Honoré de Balzac

“There was no need to hurry that future—yet the length of his own youth pressed upon him. Whatever he was to do next he…

— Pearl S. Buck

“When he moves, he gives the impression of somebody leaning into the wind, or charging a hill, as if the world with all of…

— Michael Ian Black

“He was a man built to yearn for what he could not have.”

— Anne Perry

“Whenever a great thinker wants to make of himself a binding institution for future mankind, one may be certain that he is past the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“He readied himself to let go, to plunge in, to begin the swim out into the farther cold, out into the terrible, terrible freedom…

— Patrick Ness

“It’s the age of daring. It’s the only time we have. We must live in the present. We are young and alive.”

— Gregory Maguire

“The world has been easy on this man. He overflows with inner resources.”

— Jessica Anthony

“He is twenty-eight years old, and to the best of his knowledge he has no ambitions. No burning ambitions, in any case, no clear…

— Paul Auster

“He had the feeling that humanity was running in place. So many centuries and they had not learned anything new.”

— Oliver Pötzsch

“Without ready access to electricity, we are thrust back into another age—an age in which many of us would lack both the experience and…

— Ted Koppel

“... this ninety-five-year-old man came hiking twenty-five miles over the mountain. Know why he could do it? Because no one ever told him he…

— Christopher McDougall

“We could live several lifetimes and never exhaust the power of our minds.”

— Denis Hachey