Quote

Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.

Taylor Caldwell

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Taylor Caldwell
Age: 84 †
Born: 1900
Born: September 7
Died: 1985
Died: August 30
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Manchester
England
Marcus Holland
Max Reiner
Janet Miriam Holland Taylor Caldwell
Janet Miriam Reback
Label
Labels
Phenomenon
Explain
Doe
Giving

More quotes by Taylor Caldwell

Image
Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.
Taylor Caldwell
Image
I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses.
Taylor Caldwell
Image
I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.
Taylor Caldwell
Image
In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
Taylor Caldwell
Image
People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.
Taylor Caldwell
Image
An honest politician is either a hypocrite - or he is doomed.
Taylor Caldwell
Image
Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls
Taylor Caldwell
Image
The stalwart soul has the will to live and is eager for the race.
Taylor Caldwell
Image
I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.
Taylor Caldwell
Image
Freedom was given to humanity by God. But, governments, if they can help it, never give freedom. They just hand out slavery with slogans.
Taylor Caldwell
Image
But what was a body? Dust, dung, urine, itches. It was the light within which was important, and it was not significant if that light endured after death, or if the soul was blinded eternally in the endless night of the suspired flesh.
Taylor Caldwell
Image
I shudder at the very thought of being born again into this world. Life to me . . . has been a monstrous, painful, agonizing affair, and the idea of repeating such an existence - even if better in a way - is horrifying to me. . . . I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
Taylor Caldwell
Image
It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you.
Taylor Caldwell
Image
My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.
Taylor Caldwell
Image
Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end.
Taylor Caldwell
Image
Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.
Taylor Caldwell
Image
The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced. If the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt, people must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.
Taylor Caldwell
Image
Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves.
Taylor Caldwell
Image
I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.
Taylor Caldwell
Image
I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.
Taylor Caldwell