Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.[Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire)] Quote:To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.[Thomas Paine] Quote:Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.[George Washington] Quote:Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.[Blaise Pascal] Quote:Love is energy of life.[Robert Browning] Quote:Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.[Daniel Webster] Quote:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I...I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.[Robert Frost] Quote:Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring this endeavor will light our bounty and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.[John F. Kennedy] Quote:Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear ? kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor ? with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.[Douglas MacArthur] Quote:Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition. [Sir William Osler] Quote:The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous. [Anna Quindlen] Quote:They say that blood is thicker than water. Maybe that's why we battle our own with more energy and gusto than we would ever expend on strangers. [David Assael] Quote:You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. [Albert Camus] Quote:Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right. [H. L. Mencken] Quote:A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. [H. L. Mencken] Quote:When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page. [Bill Clinton] Quote:We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies. [Etty Hillesum] Quote:And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama. [Real Live Preacher] Quote:This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men. [Charlie Chaplin] Quote:Spielberg isn't a filmmaker, he's a confectioner. [Alex Cox on Steven Spielberg] Definitions of: ergDefinition: The unit of work or energy in the C. G. S. system, being the amount of work done by a dyne working through a distance of one centimeter; the amount of energy expended in moving a body one centimeter against a force of one dyne (981 dynes exert the same force as a one gram mass in the earth's gravitational field). One foot pound is equal to 13,560,000 ergs. The absolute Joule is equivalent to 107 ergs, which are equivalent to 0.2389 gram-calories at 15° C. See also mechanical equivalent of heat under equivalent. |
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