Biography proverbs

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◆ 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 than in your weakness.

- Mother Teresa99

◆ How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves.

- Julian Barnes99

◆ Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

- Charles Dickens99

◆ You have to get lost before you can be found.

- Jeff Rasley99

◆ What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. All day long, the mill of his brain is grinding, and his thoughts, not those of other things, are his history. These are his life, and they are not written. Everyday would make a whole book of 80,000 words -- 365 books a year. Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written.

- Mark Twain99

◆ Always live your life with your biography in mind.

- Marisha Pessl99

◆ Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness; second, that there are twenty-five elderly gentlemen living in the neighbourhood of London who resent any slight upon her genius as if it were an insult to the chastity of their aunts.

- Virginia Woolf99

◆ Every life is inexplicable, I kept telling myself. No matter how many facts are told, no matter how many details are given, the essential thing resists telling. To say that so and so was born here and went there, that he did this and did that, that he married this woman and had these children, that he lived, that he died, that he left behind these books or this battle or that bridge – none of that tells us very much.

- Paul Auster99

◆ if you want it really, you get it !!!

- Ravinder Singh99

◆ So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

- Elbert Hubbard99

◆ Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains.

- Jeffrey Rasley99

◆ The awful part of the writing game is that you can never be sure the stuff is any good.

- P.G. Wodehouse98

◆ When you walk,go different roads that take you nowhere,and see your world.

- Jerril Thomas Abraham98

◆ it's not about what to think,it's about how to think.

- Jerril Thomas Abraham98

◆ But above all, an author must write passionately and edit passionately.

- Paul Collins98