“Be truthful, say what you mean and mean what you say, don't ignore the given circumstances.”
Thoughtful feeling
Thoughtful Quotes — page 70 of 303
“Remember this - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.”
“Let every woman, who has once begun to think, examine herself”
“Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.”
“I'm older and older. With any experience you have, you know more about yourself.”
“There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.”
“I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy.”
“The traditions of a nation are very important and the anthem written by Francis Scott Key in the early days of our nation should always be revered.”
“We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.”
“In the right key one can say anything. In the wrong key, nothing: the only delicate part is the establishment of the key.”
“No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.”
“I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.”
“Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.”
“All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.”
“The public is composed of numerous groups whose cry to us writers is: 'Comfort me.' 'Amuse me.' 'Touch my sympathies.' 'Make me sad.' 'Make me dream.' 'Make me laugh.' 'Make me shiver.' 'Make me weep.' 'Make me think.'”
“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.”
“Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.”
“Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere”
“We succeed, not alone by the laborious exertions of our faculties, be they small or great, but by the regular, thoughtful and systematic exercise of them.”
“You think too much.' 'I suppose I do; but I can’t help it, my mind is so terribly active. When I give myself, I give myself. I pay the penalty in my headaches, my famous headaches--a perfect circlet of pain! But I carry it as a queen carries her crown.”