Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Edgar Allan Poe

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
Ernest Hemingway

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.
Ernest Hemingway

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
Ernest Hemingway

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
John Adams

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
John Adams

Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.
John Adams

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
Eleanor Roosevelt

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.
Henry Ford

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
Dale Carnegie

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
Dale Carnegie

Nothing good ever comes of violence.
Martin Luther

Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew?
Sigmund Freud

Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.
Walt Whitman

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
Plato

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
Plato

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
Plato

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.
Brian Tracy

We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
Ansel Adams

This is the strangest life I've ever known.
Jim Morrison