Action Quote by Richard Cecil

If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation. Let this be one aspect of our daily intercession: "God, preserve my…

— John Owen

With the broad and powerful swing of the hand which Zola in The Earth gave to his ploughman, L'Auto, journal of ideas and action,…

— Henri Desgrange

The power of prayer and faith in God is something that has guided so many of us in good times and bad.

— Kim Reynolds

Many years ago I was fishing, and as I was reeling in the poor fish, I realised, 'I am killing him - all for…

— Paul McCartney

To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say…

— Kingsley Amis

Pythagoras used to say that he had received as a gift from Mercury the perpetual transmigration of his soul, so that it was constantly…

— Diogenes Laertius

Old age likes to dwell in the recollections of the past, and, mistaking, the speedy march of years, often is inclined to take the…

— Lajos Kossuth

Our purpose on this earth is not one single event, an accomplishment we can check off a list. There is no test. No passing…

— Cynthia Hand

And I add my own love to the history of people who have loved beautiful things, and looked out for them, and pulled them…

— Donna Tartt

We embark unhesitatingly on the path, in a direction that is absolutely right and urgent, supported by everyone, in the knowledge that this path…

— Yehudi Menuhin

The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations.

— Frederick Lenz

A good, finished scandal, fully armed and equipped, such as circulates in the world, is rarely the production of a single individual, or even…

— Sophie Swetchine