Quotes About Written

History is not written in the interests of morality.

History is something that never happened written by a man who wasn't there.

Proceed with caution when you befriend a writer, for if you fall out of their good graces they have the delightful capability of doing any number of dastardly things to you upon the written page.

Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

Life is like a blank page, copying manuscript written Backstage.

And there was another memorable lesson. Such is the power of the written word that the works of a single thoughtful writer—and indeed sometimes just one powerful book—might focus the direction of a young person's life.

Anglo-Saxon England had the richest tradition of written vernacular literature of any country in Europe, including a large body of original poetry and many translations of earlier Latin works.

If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.

Unavoidable circumstances prevent me from giving you ample written instructions. Such however as may be deemed necessary will be prepared and sent to you at the City of Washington in a very few days.

Looking across the many strands of poetry, we can never be certain which poems were only read in private and which were performed - and there are thousands of poems which were performed but never got written down.

Il y a là une différence qui est un peu du même genre que celle que nous avons signalée, pour la Chine, entre la langue écrite et la langue parlée : l'arabe littéral seul peut présenter toute la fixité qui est requise pour remplir le rôle de langue traditionnelle tandis que l'arabe vulgaire, comme toute autre langue servant à l'usage courant, subit naturellement certaines variations suivant les époques et suivant les régions.

Although most early Christian prophecy was oral, not written, John had plenty of models for a written prophecy, both in the prophetic books of the Hebrew scriptures and in the later Jewish apocalypses. In its literary forms what he writes is indebted to both kinds of model.

So I be written in the Book of Love, I have no care about that book above; Erase my name, or write it, as you please - So I be written in the Book of Love.

The law is simply human will, written down.

The apostle Paul said, "Everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope" (Rom. 15:4).

A 'living constitution' is a dead constitution, because it does not do the one and only thing a written constitution is supposed to do: provide parameters around the power of officials.

In our tribal stories, we have heard of a Woman's Council, which was headed by a very powerful woman, perhaps the Ghigau . This oral history is frequently discredited by Western historians as "merely myth." I have always found their repudiation fascinating. An entire body of knowledge can be dismissed because it was not written, while material written by obviously biased men is readily accepted as reality.

Do you think it childish to use a set of written principles to guide the management of an advertising agency? I can only tell you that mine have proved invaluable in keeping a complicated enterprise on course. Profit

Trust me, we need it. Or rather, we need it to not wind up in the hands of somebody else. Oh, wait! Damn it!" "What?" "It just occurred to me that I could have written Dave a message on a wall using my own shit!

I had trouble following sequential directions, which was a problem because I was often left alone to complete complicated tasks. Most of my tasks were written down, and I did fairly well if I could do them in order. If something came up in the middle, which it often did, I would be thrown and unable to complete the remainder.

We have a saying in the Alpenwald, Fraulein. Plans are jokes written by men for God's amusement.

Thoughts are ideas scattered in your head. When written forms a sentence. When rhymed, it forms a phrase and singing it blooms a beautiful poem.

The Holy Bible is the written code of holy teachings.

I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.