Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls
Taylor Caldwell
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Obscurity
Souls
Ambition
Fire
Soul
Stalwart
More quotes by Taylor Caldwell
Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
Taylor Caldwell
In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
Taylor Caldwell
I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.
Taylor Caldwell
An honest politician is either a hypocrite - or he is doomed.
Taylor Caldwell
I often reread books I have written
Taylor Caldwell
My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.
Taylor Caldwell
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
My literary success meant nothing to me
Taylor Caldwell
Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves.
Taylor Caldwell
Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.
Taylor Caldwell
People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.
Taylor Caldwell
The more wants a man has, the less freedom.
Taylor Caldwell
We are not old unless we desire to be.
Taylor Caldwell
My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.
Taylor Caldwell
The human race is not very admirable. It was a big mistake of God's.
Taylor Caldwell
At 8, I made a pact with God.
Taylor Caldwell
Animals do not betray they do not exploit they do not oppress they do not enslave they do not sin. They have their being, and their being is honest, and who can say this of man?
Taylor Caldwell
Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end.
Taylor Caldwell
I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.
Taylor Caldwell
It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.
Taylor Caldwell
