Springs Quotes

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.

Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

Like springs, adaptations can only go downhill.

I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.

The geysers and hot springs of the Yellowstone are another proof of recent volcanic activity.

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.

I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Hope springs eternal, even in politics.

That is one good thing about this world... there are always sure to be more springs.

Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.

Whatever kind of seed is sown in a field, prepared in due season, a plant of that same kind, marked with the peculiar qualities of the seed, springs up in it.

Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated.

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.

All cruelty springs from weakness.