The Written Quotes

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

If you're looking for self-help, why would you read a book written by somebody else?

History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.

All the ills from which America suffers can be traced back to the teaching of evolution. It would be better to destroy every other book ever written, and save just the first three verses of Genesis.

His Majesty the King requires that the Royal Chancellery in all written documents endeavor to write in clear, plain Swedish.

If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

None of this was written to hurt anybody's feelings.

My things really are written with an appalling lack of practicality!

Every human being is loved by God the Father. No one need feel forgotten, for every name is written in the Lord's loving heart.

It is written in the Jewish law book, the Talmud, that only the Jew is human, that Gentiles are only animals.

The laws of Nature are written in the language of mathematics...the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word.

I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind

I read the art reviews of my work. Some critics understand my art correctly, while some don't. I simply ignore the reviews written by the latter.

For the writer, there is nothing quite like having someone say that he or she understands, that you have reached them and affected them with what you have written.

The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare...neither knew chocolate.

What makes it [economics] most fascinating is that its fundamental principles are so simple that they can be written on one page, that anyone can understand them, and yet very few do.

The Organization of American States couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel.

Too much has already been said and written about women's sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.

The words 'Here you can find perfect peace' can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.

You don't find love, it finds you. It's got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what's written in the stars.

Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band's lead singer, Eric Burdon. "So you're the honky," she said, "who stole my song and got a hit out of it?

There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written.

Maybe all the secrets of life were written on the surface of leaves, waiting to be translated. If I touched them long enough, I might be given some information no one else had.

Do not feel safe. The poet remembers. You can kill one, but another is born. The words are written down, the deed, the date.

Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.

It is foolhardy to make a second trade, if your first trade shows you a loss. Never average losses. Let this thought be written indelibly upon your mind.

Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise.

Law is twofold -- natural and written. The natural law is in the heart, the written law on tables. All men are under the natural law.

The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen's behavior, it was writtne to restrain the government's behavior.

I have written the little work that follows . . . in the role of one who strives to raise his mind to the contemplation of God and one who seeks to understand what he believes.

My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.

I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house... love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

Poetry has no goal other than itself; it can have no other, and no poem will be so great, so noble, so truly worthy of the name of poem, than one written uniquely for the pleasure of writing a poem.

Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy.

History is written by those who hang heroes.

Nonverbal communication is an elaborate secret code that is written nowhere, known by none, and understood by all.

There have always been people who have written me off. They're not going away. I use that to motivate me. I'm driven to show them just how wrong they are.

Ads are planned and written with some utterly wrong conception. They are written to please the seller. The interests of the buyer are forgotten.

The owner of Spotify is worth something like 3 billion dollars ... he's richer than Paul McCartney and he's 30 and he's never written a song.

Historical experience is written in blood and iron.

Such things and deeds as are not written down are covered with darkness, and given over to the sepulchre of oblivion.

Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.

What is true has never been a question to be decided by polls or popular opinion. Truth isn’t ‘democratic’—it’s something that God has written into the very fabric of nature.

If you do not seek to publish what you have written, then you are not a writer and you never will be.

Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.

Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people, no matter how loudly we say, "It's my own business.

When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions.

The first step to finding a God-written love story is handing the pen to the true Author of romance.