Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| 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:Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.[Mark Twain] Quote:I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it short.[Blaise Pascal] Quote:Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.[Abraham Lincoln] Quote:If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.[Kahlil Gibran] 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:A book of quotations...can never be complete.[Robert M. Hamilton] Quote:More than kisses, letters mingle souls.[John Donne] Quote:Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.[Bruce Lee] Quote:I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.[Mother Teresa] Quote:Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.[Mother Teresa] Quote:Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the Presidency.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby[T.S. Eliot] Quote:I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.[Dave Barry] Quote:Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.[Dave Barry] Quote:The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings![Henry Ward Beecher] Quote:Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.[Konrad von Gesner] Quote:Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.[William Jennings Bryan] Quote:...adults are just obsolete children, and the hell with them.[Theodor Seuss Geisel] Quote:There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.[Christopher Morley] Quote:Other than heaven, the only place where one's heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:To defend Western Europe we have to let the Pentagon buy all these tanks and guns and things, and the Pentagon is unable to buy any object that that costs less than a condominium in Vail. If the Pentagon needs, say, fruit, it will argue that it must have fruit that can withstand the rigors of combat conditions, and it will wind up purchasing the FX-700 Seedless Tactical Grape, which will cost $160,000 per bunch, and will have an 83 percent failure rate.[Dave Barry] 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:In some versions of my original contest column I had proposed, in a lighthearted manner, that we reduce the deficit by 'selling unnecessary states such as Oklahoma to the Japanese.' This caused a number of Oklahomans to send in letters containing many correctly spelled words and making the central lighthearted point that I am a jerk. They also sent me official literature stating that Oklahoma has enormous quantities of culture in the form of ballet, Oral Roberts, etc., and that the Official State Reptile -- I am not making this up -- is something called the 'Mountain Boomer.' So I apologize to Oklahoma, and as a token of my sincerity I'm willing to sell my state, Florida, to the Japanese, assuming nobody objects to the fact that Japan would suddenly become the most heavily armed nation on Earth.[Dave Barry] Quote:Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.[Mark Twain] Quote:My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.[Stephen Hawking] Quote:A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?[Lauren Bacall] Quote:Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let me label you as they may.[Mark Twain] Quote:Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heal that has crushed it.[Mark Twain] Quote:I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.[Mark Twain] Quote:It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.[Mark Twain] Quote:Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.[Aristotle] Quote:If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.[Bill Cosby] Quote:Let individuals contribute as they desire; but let us prohibit in effective fashion all corporations from making contributions for any political purpose, directly or indirectly.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:To love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person.[Erich Fromm] 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:I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.[George Carlin] Quote:Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring. From the mighty mountains of New York, let freedom ring. From the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania, let freedom ring. But not only that: Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:We are so concerned to flatter the majority that we lose sight of how very often it is necessary, in order to preserve freedom for the minority,let alone for the individual, to face that majority down.[William F. Buckley] Quote:As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will; he will be sure to repent it.[Socrates] Quote:Sex is a three-letter word which needs some old-fashioned four-letter words to convey its full meaning.[Author Unknown] Quote:A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.[Zsa Zsa Gabor] Quote:Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance.[Author Unknown] Quote:The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant -- and let the air out of the tires.[Dorothy Parker] Quote:If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton. You may as well make it dance.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.[Blaise Pascal] Quote:If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity.[Daniel Webster] 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:To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say and to finish without knowing what you have written.[Jean-Jacques Rousseau] Quote:Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.[W. Somerset Maugham] Quote:The whole trouble is that we won't let God help us.[George MacDonald] Quote:If your kid makes one of those little homemade guitars out of a cigar box and rubber bands, don't let him just play it once or twice and then throw it away. Make him practice on it, every day, for about three hours a day. Later, he'll thank you.[Jack Handey] Quote:What is it that makes a complete stranger dive into an icy river to save a solid-gold baby? Maybe we'll never know.[Jack Handey] Quote:If you're in a boxing match, try not to let the other guy's glove touch your lips, because you don't know where that glove has been.[Jack Handey] Quote:We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.[John F. Kennedy] 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:Our industries have expanded to such a point that they will burst their jackets if they cannot find a free outlet to the markets of the world. Our domestic markets no longer suffice. We need foreign markets.[Woodrow Wilson] Quote:The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.Workers of all countries...unite![Frederick Engels] Quote:I wanted to do something nice so I bought my mother-in-law a chair. Now they won't let me plug it in.[Henny Youngman] Quote:In the counsels of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military Industrial Complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. [Dwight D. Eisenhower] Quote:When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity. [Dale Carnegie] Quote:Greetings on this most exceedingly beautiful spring morning. A morning swollen with new life, a morning on which, if I had the voice, I would let loose with song. It's hard to believe just a few short weeks ago we were eating our cornflakes in the wintery dark. Now, well it's still kind of dim out there, but I can see the golden glow of Apollo's chariot waiting in the wings, about to make its entrance. Winter's on the lam, no doubt. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it. [Francois de La Rochefoucauld] 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 saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines. [Henry J. Tillman] Quote:If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity. [Andre Gide] Quote:Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. [Bette Davis] Quote:I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. [George Sand] Quote:You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act. [Barbara Hall] Quote:Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him. [Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires. [Dorothy Parker] Quote:I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful. [Marcus Aurelius Antoninus] Quote:If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. [Bruce Barton] Quote:Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction. [Blaise Pascal] Quote:I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter. [Blaise Pascal] Quote:Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. [Edna St. Vincent Millay] Quote:I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. [Henry David Thoreau] Quote:There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. [Josh Billings] Quote:We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of God?s existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith. [Real Live Preacher] Quote:College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil. [Ruby Wax] Quote:A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live. [Bob Hope] Quote:Most of the time he sounds like he has a mouth full of toilet paper. [Rex Reed talking about Marlon Brando] Quote:When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet but his books were read. [Hillaire Belloc] Quote:I went to a general store. They wouldn't let me buy anything specifically. [Steven Wright] Quote:When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet but his books were read. [Hilliare Belloc] Quote:The last time I was in Spain I got through six Jeffrey Archer novels. I must remember to take enough toilet paper next time. [Bob Monkhouse] Definitions of: letDefinition: To retard; to hinder; to impede; to oppose.Definition: To leave; to relinquish; to abandon. Definition: To consider; to think; to esteem. Definition: To cause; to make; -- used with the infinitive in the active form but in the passive sense; as, let make, i. e., cause to be made; let bring, i. e., cause to be brought. Definition: To permit; to allow; to suffer; -- either affirmatively, by positive act, or negatively, by neglecting to restrain or prevent. Definition: To allow to be used or occupied for a compensation; to lease; to rent; to hire out; -- often with out; as, to let a farm; to let a house; to let out horses. Definition: To give, grant, or assign, as a work, privilege, or contract; -- often with out; as, to let the building of a bridge; to let out the lathing and the plastering. |
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