Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.[Winston Churchill] Quote:I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.[Galileo Galilei] Quote:A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.[Tom Clancy] Quote:Love is a sign from the heavens that you are here for a reason.[J. Ghetto] Quote:The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother! I call him Gamblor, and it's time to snatch your mother from his neon claws![Homer Simpson] Quote:Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.[Chapman Cohen] Quote:Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.[Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire)] Quote:Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.[Robert G. Ingersoll] Quote:Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.[Saint Augustine] Quote:He listens well who takes notes.[Dante Alighieri] Quote:We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.[Victor Hugo] Quote:Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murders. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.[Victor Hugo] Quote:Intense love does not measure, it just gives.[Mother Teresa] Quote:It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.[Susan B. Anthony] Quote:A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:It's a phonetic language. Anything can make sense. How do you think Dr. Seuss wrote any of that sh*t?[Matthew J. Clayfield] Quote:The simplification of anything is always sensational.[GK Chesterton] Quote:The only defensible war is a war of defense.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.[Dave Barry] Quote:'It will obliterate your senses!' reports David Gillin, who obviously writes autobiographically.[Roger Ebert] Quote:Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.[Marianne Moore] Quote:Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.[Christopher Morley] Quote:A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.[Robert Frost] Quote:The only flaw in the Hinckley trial is that it left a lot of people with the impression that psychiatrists are just a bunch of bearded voodoo doctors who espouse confusing and wildly contradictory theories that have nothing to do with common sense. This is totally unfair. Many psychiatrists are clean-shaven.[Dave Barry] Quote:I probably should never have been there anyway, and it served me right when the two alert police officers fired up their siren, pulled me over, and pointed out that my car's registration had expired. I had not realized this, and as you can imagine I felt like quite the renegade outlaw as one of the officers painstakingly wrote out my ticket, standing well to the side of the road so as to avoid getting hit by the steady stream of passing unlicensed and uninsured motorists driving their stolen cars with their left hands so that their right hands would be free to keep their pit bulls from spilling their cocaine all over their machine guns. Not that I am bitter.[Dave Barry] Quote:Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.[Fran Lebowitz] Quote:He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.[Edmund Burke] Quote:A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.[Aristotle] Quote:A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.[Laurence Peter] Quote:Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.[Jimi Hendrix] Quote:Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window.[Stephen King] Quote:The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy.[Fulke Greville] Quote:Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?[Aldous Huxley] Quote:Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.[Bill Cosby] Quote:The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.[George Washington] Quote:I was gonna rip his heart out. I'm the best ever. I'm the most brutal and vicious, the most ruthless champion there has ever been. No one can stop me. Lennox is a conqueror? No! He's no Alexander! I'm Alexander! I'm the best ever. I'm Sonny Liston. I'm Jack Dempsey. There's never been anyone like me. I'm from their cloth. There is no one who can match me. My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I want his heart! I want to eat his children! Praise be to Allah![Mike Tyson] Quote:Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.[John F. Kennedy] Quote:The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by Homo Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the sacharrine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and becomes petulant if he does not recieve this flattery. Yet this ridiculous notion, without one real shred of evidence to bolster it, has gone on to found one of the oldest, largest and least productive industries in history.[Robert Heinlein] Quote:I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.[Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Quote:A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.[William F. Buckley] Quote:Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.[Woody Allen] Quote:Sex: the expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting.[Samuel Johnson] Quote:If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that considered a hostage situation?[Steven Wright] Quote:At least five times...with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist sceptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Faith has to all appearance gone to the dogs. In each of these five cases it was the dog that died.[GK Chesterton] Quote:True pacifism is not unrealistic submission to an evil power...it is rather a courageous confrontation with evil by the power of love, in the faith that it is better to be the recipient of violence than the inflicter of it, since the latter only multiplies the existence of violence and bitterness in the universe, while the former may develop a sense of shame in the opponent, and thereby bring about a transformation and change of heart.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.[Abraham Lincoln] Quote:No sooner do we depart from sense and instinct to follow reason but we are insensibly drawn into uncouth paradoxes, difficulties, and inconsistencies, which multiply and grow upon us as we advance in speculation; till at length, having wandered through many intricate mazes, we find ourselves just where we were, or, which is worse, sit down in a forlorn scepticism.[George Berkeley] Quote:Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me.'[George Orwell] Quote:A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.[Ludwig Wittgenstein] Quote:There are three types of baseball players: those who make things happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happens.[Tommy Lasorda] Quote:The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.[Henry Ward Beecher] Quote:The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenatrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties - this knowledge, this feeling ... that is the core of the true religious sent iment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself amoung profoundly religious men.[Albert Einstein] Quote:Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.[John Lennon] Quote:I have an intense desire to return to the womb. Anybody's.[Woody Allen] Quote:There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are, and what this life is for.[Saul Bellow] Quote:A bore is a fellow who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.[Henry Ford] Quote:We must repsect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children are smart.[Henry Mencken] Quote:The United States is in no sense founded upon the Christian doctrine.[George Washington] Quote:I'm not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.[Woody Allen] Quote:I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.[Samuel Goldwyn] Quote:Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other 'sins' are invented nonsense.[Robert Heinlein] Quote:I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.[J.R.R. Tolkien] Quote:Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soulmate is the one you are actually married to.[J.R.R. Tolkien] Quote:The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:Feel no sadness because of evil thoughts: it only strengthens them.[Nachman of Bratslav] Quote:Thinking is more precious than all five senses.[Nachman of Bratslav] Quote:A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.[Ansel Adams] Quote:Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.'' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:There are three things which are real: God, human folly, and laughter. The first two are beyond our comprehension. So we must do what we can with the third.[John F. Kennedy] Quote:Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.[Amy Bloom] Quote:Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.[W. Somerset Maugham] Quote:Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war. Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.[Daniel Webster] Quote:I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.[Thomas Jefferson] Quote:Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.[George Washington] Quote:Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years.[Nicolo Machiavelli] Quote:I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes.[Kahlil Gibran] Quote:Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.[Joseph Addison] Quote:Heroism at command, senseless brutality, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action![Albert Einstein] Quote:Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever apologize for anything.[Harry Truman] Quote:The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.[James Madison] Quote:Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Indeed it is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.[Douglas MacArthur] Quote:A speech is a solemn responsibility. The man who makes a bad thirty-minute speech to two hundred people wastes only a half hour of his own time. But he wastes one hundred hours of the audience's time - more than four days - which should be a hanging offense.[Jenkin Lloyd Jones] Quote:Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.[Kahlil Gibran] Quote:Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.[Albert Einstein] Quote:A friend is someone, who upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have to watch their friend suffer.[Amanda Grier] Quote:Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else.[William Rotsler] Quote:I am a thing that thinks, that is to say, a thing that doubts, affrims, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things, wills, refrains from willing, and also imagines and senses.[Rene Descartes] Quote:What is good? Everything that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.[Plato] Quote:Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done. [Dwight D. Eisenhower] Quote:Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. [Aldous Huxley] Quote:The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. [Frank Lloyd Wright] Quote:This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, <br>This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, <br>This other Eden, demi-paradise, <br>This fortress built by Nature for herself <br>Against infection and the hand of war, <br>This happy breed of men, this little world, <br>This precious stone set in the silver sea, <br>Which serves it in the office of a wall <br>Or as a moat defensive to a house, <br>Against the envy of less happier lands,-- <br>This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England. [William Shakespeare] Quote:Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy. [William Shakespeare] Quote:Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security. [Edmund Burke] Quote:Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. [Gertrude Stein] Quote:Marriage is the union of disparate elements. Male and female. Yin and yang. Proton and electron. What are we talking about here? Nothing less than the very tension that binds the universe. You see, when we look at marriage, people, we're are looking at creation itself. "I am the sky," says the Hindu bridegroom to the bride. "You are the earth. We are sky and earth united.... You are my husband. You are my wife. My feet shall run because of you. My feet shall dance because of you. My heart shall beat because of you. My eyes see because of you. My mind thinks because of you and I shall love because of you." [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth. [Carl Sandburg] Quote:Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time. [Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess] Quote:We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us. [Francois de La Rochefoucauld] Quote:Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? [Francois de La Rochefoucauld] Quote:And so, my fellow americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man. [John F. Kennedy] Quote:An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. [Chester Bowles] Quote:Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it. [Cicero] Quote:The freedom of poetic license. [Cicero] Quote:Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. [Edgar Bergen] Quote:There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. [F. Scott Fitzgerald] Quote:I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion. [Franklin D. Roosevelt] Quote:Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. [Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive. [Marcus Aurelius Antoninus] Quote:Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. [J. R. R. Tolkien] Quote:Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. [Albert Camus] Quote:Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness. [Confucius] Quote:People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have. [Anne Tyler] Quote:Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. [Albert Einstein] Quote:Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. [Albert Einstein] Quote:I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas? [Jean Kerr] Quote:Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives. [Lawana Blackwell] Quote:Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives. [Lawana Blackwell] Quote:The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class. [Aristotle] Quote:Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. [Euripides] Quote:The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. [Matthew Arnold] Quote:Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep. [Fran Lebowitz] Quote:No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. [Mignon McLaughlin] Quote:If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur. [Doug Larson] Quote:Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. [Rabbi Abraham Heschel] Quote:There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts. [Clare Booth Luce] Quote:Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long. [Socrates] Quote:It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country. [Homer] Quote:[Common sense] is the best sense I know of. [Lord Chesterfield] Quote:Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea. [John Ciardi] Quote:If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it? [Steven Wright] Quote:You piss me off you Salmon... You're too expensive in restaurants. [Eddie Izzard] Quote:Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian. [H.L. Mencken] Quote:Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the sun. [Ashleigh Brilliant] Quote:When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, [Stephen King] Quote:The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense. [Tom Clancy] Quote:Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet. [Mark Twain] Definitions of: ensDefinition: Entity, being, or existence; an actually existing being; also, God, as the Being of Beings.Definition: Something supposed to condense within itself all the virtues and qualities of a substance from which it is extracted; essence. |
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