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:I went into a restaurant and the sign said 'Breakfast anytime,[Steven Wright] 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:Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.[Victor Hugo] Quote:Well done is better than well said.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.[GK Chesterton] Quote:'You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve,' said Aslan. 'And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor in earth.'[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.[Author Unknown] Quote:A University of Chicago professor said the greatest day in the world was when a water puppy crawled out on land and decided to stay. The water puppy, he said, went on to become a man. If he proves that, I am willing to give up Christmas, Thanksgiving, and New Year's Day, and to celebrate Water Puppy Day.[William Jennings Bryan] Quote:When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep well?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'[Steven Wright] Quote:Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:I didn't really say everything I said.[Yogi Berra] Quote:In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach.[Heywood Broun] Quote:There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.[Marcus Tullius Cicero] Quote:The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:I once said cynically of a politician, 'He'll doublecross that bridge when he comes to it.'[Oscar Levant] Quote:When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.[Anatole France] Quote:Why, you can take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together - what do you get? The sum of their fears.[Winston Churchill] Quote:I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.[Rodney Dangerfield] Quote:It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.[Bertrand Russell] Quote:I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.[Blaise Pascal] Quote:I cried because I had no shoes, 'till I met a man who had no feet. So I said, 'You got any shoes you're not using'?[Steven Wright] Quote:Last night I discovered a new form of oral contraceptive. I asked a girl to go to bed with me and she said no.[Woody Allen] Quote:It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.[Winston Churchill] Quote:A few hours of mountain climbing turn a villain and a saint into two rather equal creature. Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity, and liberty is added eventually by sleep.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:When this girl at the museum asked me who I liked better, Monet or Manet, I said, 'I like mayonnaise.' She just stared at me, so I said it again, louder. Then she left. I guess she went to try to find some mayonnaise for me.[Jack Handey] Quote:You know what the fellow said: In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michaelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love--they had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.[Orson Welles] Quote:Have I inadvertently said some evil thing? [Sir Philip Sidney] Quote:When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.' [Steven Wright] Quote:I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught. [Georgia O'Keeffe] Quote:It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. [Dr. Thomas Fuller] Quote:Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. [Ernest Hemingway] Quote:Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts. [John Henry Cardinal Newman] Quote:Examine what is said, not him who speaks. [Arab Proverb] Quote:Einstein said God doesn't play dice with the universe, but I don't know--maybe not as a whole, but I think he gets a pretty big kick out of messing in peoples' back yards. [Dennis Koenig and Jordan Budde] Quote:A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. [Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi] Quote:Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it. [Alfred North Whitehead] Quote:There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves. [Albert Guinon] Quote:In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better. [Ellen DeGeneres] Quote:When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. [Anatole France] Quote:It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:Courage is fear that has said its prayers. [Dr. David M. Burns] Definitions of: saiDefinition: See Capuchin, 3 (a). |
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