writer Quotes

• THE TRAIN came out of the long tunnel into the snow country.

  - Yasunari Kawabata

• To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.

  - John Steinbeck

• Don’t take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, to the next county, to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is.

  - George Carlin

• When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

  - Pearl S. Buck

• Now is wanted intense Karma-Yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.

  - Swami Vivekananda

• Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.

  - Michel de Montaigne

• The arts can enrich all of us in this nation as individuals. The arts can enrich all of our communities and the country. And the arts can connect us to each other like nothing else can.

  - Michelle Obama

• There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.

  - Walt Whitman

• I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death.

  - Frederick Douglass

• Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask whether your country has been inhaling paint-thinner fumes.

  - Dave Barry