The features of character are carved out of adversity.
A popular Harvard business professor urged his students to read the obituaries in the New York Times before they read anything else, in order to learn from the lives of great men.
(n.) The written history of a person's life.
(n.) Biographical writings in general.
To me, that's the ultimate isolation - to be separated from my own mind.
You must be clever, Tracey to do these forgeries.""She's not clever. I did them," yelled Frieda."You'll get five years.""She did them."From Halfpennies and Blue Vinyl
A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love th...
Biography lends to death a new terror.
Kill the body and the head will die.
I was born in the house my father built.
The Scripture can only be read intelligently by inspired men and women. The value we get from our reading is in direct proportion to the measure in which we are filled with God's Spirit. We also need...
The creative person should have no other biography than his works.
Mechanically I carried on across the Irish Sea, noticing with a jaundiced eye that it had suddenly lost the sinister threat of no-man's-land and was transformed into a placid highway where ferry-steam...
Give me a fucking pre-med you fuckers, I'm a personal friend of Sir Lancelot Spratt.
Biography is the only true history.
144461I know very little having to do with human beings that doesn't also have to do with connection. We want to be noticed, we want to be good enough, we want friends, and we want to be loved. We wan...
I'd rather be a pessimist because then I can only be pleasantly surprised.
To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.
But at the time I thought that if I could just get the world to see me the way I saw myself then my body wouldn't be the thing you walked away thinking about. I wouldn't be that fat girl.
He still has the same way of calling to me, as if I'm still new to him, as if he has yet to get over me.
Every great man nowadays has his disciples and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
One anecdote of a man is worth a volume of biography.