Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?[Albert Einstein] Quote:My son first wanted to go to Stanford, which I thought was O.K. The weather is pretty good, and it's a fairly short drive to the beach. But it wouldn't be as good as let's say, Pepperdine, which is in Malibu. And he said, 'Dad, what about the education?' I said, 'Clearly, I failed as a parent.'[Larry Ellison] Quote:Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Men always want to be a woman's first love; women have a more subtle instinct: what they like is to be a man's last romance.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.[Barbara Bush] Quote:Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.[Edmond and Jules de Goncourt] Quote:When I first heard that Marge was joining the police academy, I thought it would be fun and zany, like that movie Spaceballs. But instead it was dark and disturbing. Like that movie -- Police Academy.[Homer Simpson] Quote:A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.[T.S. Eliot] Quote:The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Philosophy is written in this grand book - I mean the Universe - which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it.[Galileo Galilei] Quote:Love is agrowing, to full constant light; and his first minute, after noon, is night.[John Donne] Quote:When you get right down to it, the Safety Lecture is a silly idea. I mean, if the passengers really thought the plane was going to crash, they wouldn't get on it in the first place, let alone learn how to get an adequate oxygen supply on the way down.[Dave Barry] Quote:Cooking was invented in prehistoric times, when a primitive tribe had a lucky accident. The tribe had killed an animal and was going to eat it raw, when a tribe member named Woog tripped and dropped it into the fire. At first the other tribe members were angry at Woog, but then, as the aroma of burning meat filled the air, they had an idea. So they ate Woog raw.[Dave Barry] Quote:Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.[Dale Carnegie] Quote:Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.[Aristotle] Quote:The first mistake in public business is the going into it.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.[Dorothy Parker] Quote:Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.[Mark Twain] Quote:The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.[Mark Twain] 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:Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.[Olin Miller] Quote:The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first, the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.[George Washington] Quote:You give 100 percent in the first half of the game, and if that isn't enough in the second half you give what's left.[Yogi Berra] Quote:As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything.[George Carlin] Quote:The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.[Benjamin Disraeli] 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:To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:Let him that would move the world first move himself.[Socrates] Quote:In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.[Alexander Hamilton] Quote:The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.[Fyodor Dostoevsky] Quote:I arrive at the end of this review having done my duty as a critic. I have described the movie accurately and you have a good idea what you are in for if you go to see it. Most of you will not. I cannot argue with you. Some of you will--the brave and the curious. You embody the spirit of the man who first wondered what it would taste like to eat an oyster.[Roger Ebert] Quote:Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that; I'm right, and I will be proved right. We are more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first -- rock'n'roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.[John Lennon] Quote:Thus far, the reputed idiot Bush has graduated from Yale and Harvard, made a stack of cash in the oil industry, become the first consecutive-term governor of Texas, defeated a dual-term VP for the presidency, and led his party to [November 5th's] extraordinary triumphs. Let his opponents keep calling him stupid; if they do, within five years Bush will be King of England, the Pope, and world Formula One motor racing champion.[Tim Blair] Quote:Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a dam fool about it.[W.C. Fields] Quote:The devil made me do it the first time, and after that I did it on my own.[Robert Fulghum] Quote:A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize.[Saul Bellow] Quote:Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.[Pablo Picasso] Quote:I just finished my first book. Pretty soon, I'm gonna read another.[Rodney Dangerfield] Quote:If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:A gardener who cultivates his own garden with his own hands, united in his own person the three different characters, of landlord, farmer, and labourer. His produce, therefore, should pay him the rent of the first, the profit of the second, and the wages of the third.[Adam Smith] Quote:My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.[Erna Bombeck] Quote:There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.[Indira Gandhi] Quote:Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.[Mark Twain] Quote:Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.[Amy Bloom] 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:If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:It makes me mad when people say I turned and ran like a scared rabbit. Maybe it was like an angry rabbit, who was going to fight in another fight, away from the first fight.[Jack Handey] Quote:Courage is the first of the virtues, because it makes all others possible.[Aristotle] Quote:America is the first country to have gone from barbarism to decadence without the usual intervening period of civilization.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.[Alphonse Karr] Quote:My idea of courage is the guy who has $500,000 tied up in the stock market and turns to the box scores first![Earl Wilson] Quote:There are only two places in the league--first place and no place.[Tom Seaver] Quote:To succeed, we must first believe that we can.[Michael Korda] Quote:The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.[Blaise Pascal] Quote:When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.[Jacob August Riis] Quote:Accept good advice gracefully--as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.[Gene Brown] Quote:Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.[Jim Backus] Quote:Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can. [Jay Leno] Quote:Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults. [Baltasar Gracian] Quote:The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason. [John Cage] Quote:Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place. [Abigail Van Buren] Quote:Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place. [Abigail Van Buren] Quote:One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything. [Georg Christoph Lichtenberg] Quote:If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything. [Carl Jung] Quote:Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. [Mark Twain] Quote:The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. [Clarence Darrow] Quote:The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body. [George Sheehan] Quote:Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe. [Laurence J. Peter] Quote:Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want. [David Frost] Quote:To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. [Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.] Quote:The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. [Bill Cosby] Quote:Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. [Sun-tzu] Quote:The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. [Christopher Morley] Quote:Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles. [Confucius] Quote:The first condition of immortality is death. [Stanislaw J. Lec] Quote:What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows. [Epictetus] Quote:Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair. [C. S. Lewis] Quote:Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. [Thomas H. Huxley] Quote:To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. [Cyril Connolly] Quote:A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. [Benjamin Disraeli] Quote:The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself. [Andre Malraux] Quote:The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. [Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:On my first day in New York a guy asked me if I knew where Central Park was. When I told him I didn't he said, 'Do you mind if I mug you here?'. [Paul Merton] Quote:My first rule of travel is never to go to a place that sounds like a medical condition and Critz is clearly an incurable disease involving flaking skin. [Bill Bryson] Definitions of: firstDefinition: Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign.Definition: Foremost; in front of, or in advance of, all others. Definition: Most eminent or exalted; most excellent; chief; highest; as, Demosthenes was the first orator of Greece. Definition: The upper part of a duet, trio, etc., either vocal or instrumental; -- so called because it generally expresses the air, and has a preëminence in the combined effect. |
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