Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:Love is friendship set on fire.[Jeremy Taylor] Quote:What IS your fascination with my forbidden closet of mysteries?[Chief Wiggum] Quote:You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.[GK Chesterton] Quote:It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.[Jeseph Joubert] Quote:What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?[Erna Bombeck] Quote:You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:The books all say that barracuda rarely eat people, but very few barracuda can read, and they have far more teeth than would be necessary for a strictly seafood diet. Their mouths look like the entire $39.95 set of Ginsu knives, including the handy Arm Slicer.[Dave Barry] Quote:I have not felt remotely cool for a long time, thanks largely to the relentless efforts of my teenage son, whose goal in life is to make me feel 3,500 years old. We'll be in the car, and he'll say, 'You wanna hear my new CD?' And I, flattered that he thinks his old man might like the same music he does, will say 'Sure!' So he increases the sound-system volume setting from '4' to 'Meteor Impact,' and he puts in a CD by a band with a name like 'Pustule,' and the next thing I know gigantic nuclear bass notes have blown out all the car windows and activated both the driver- and passenger-side air bags, and I'm writhing on the floor, screaming for mercy with jets of blood spurting three feet from my ears. My son then ejects the CD, smiling contentedly, knowing he as purchased a winner. On those extremely rare occasions when I like one of his CDs, I imagine he destroys it with a blowtorch.[Dave Barry] Quote:Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?[Stephen Hawking] Quote:America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.[Laurence Peter] Quote:Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.[Bill Cosby] Quote:If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:Eloquence may set fire to reason.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.[Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:I do not want the peace that passeth understanding, I want the understanding that brings peace.[Helen Keller] Quote:Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.[Adlai Stevenson] Quote:I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Is there anything more beautiful than a beautiful, beautiful flamingo, flying across in front of a beautiful sunset? And he's carrying a beautiful rose in his beak, and also he's carrying a very beautiful painting with his feet. And also, you're drunk.[Jack Handey] Quote:Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own set of laws.[Douglas Adams] Quote:When real music comes to me - the music of the speres, the music that surpasseth understanding - that has nothing to do with me, cause I'm just the channel. The only joy for me is for it to be given to me, and to transcribe it like a medium...those moments are what I live for.[John Lennon] Quote:If the solar system was brought about by an accidental collision, then the appearance of organic life on this planet was also an accident, and the whole evolution of Man was an accident too. If so, then all our present thoughts are mere accidents - the accidental by-product of the movement of atoms. And this holds for the thoughts of the materialists and astronomers as well as for anyone else's. But if their thoughts - i.e., of Materialism and Astronomy - are merely accidental by-products, why should we believe them to be true?I see no reason for believing that one accident should be able to give me a correct account of all the other accidents.It's like expecting that the accidental shape taken by the splash when you upset a milk-jug should give you a correct account of how the jug was made and why it was upset.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.[Plato] Quote:Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:What is it about genus arboretum that socks us in the figurative solar plexus? We see a logging truck go cruising down the road, stacked with a bunch of those fresh-cut giants, we feel like we lost a brother. Next thing you know, we're in The Brick, we're flopping money down on the bar. Wood. We're under a roof. Wood. We're walking the floors. Wood. Grabbing a pool cue. That's wood. Our friends in the forest carry a set of luggage from the mythical baggage carousel. Tree of life, tree of knowledge, family tree, Buddha's Bodhi tree. Page one of life, in the beginning. Genesis 3:22. Adam and Eve. They're kicking back in the garden of Eden and boom, they get an eviction notice. Why is that? "Lest they should also take of the tree of life, eat and live forever." A definitive Yahweh no-no. Be good to yourself, go out and plant a wet one on a tree. [Dr. Thomas Fuller] Quote:Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within. [Jose Ortega y Gasset] 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:The quality of mercy is not strain'd, <br>It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven <br>Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: <br>It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. <br>'T is mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes <br>The throned monarch better than his crown; <br>His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, <br>The attribute to awe and majesty, <br>Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; <br>But mercy is above this sceptred sway, <br>It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, <br>It is an attribute to God himself; <br>And earthly power doth then show likest God's, <br>When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew, <br>Though justice be thy plea, consider this, <br>That in the course of justice none of us <br>Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy; <br>And that same prayer doth teach us all to render <br>The deeds of mercy. [William Shakespeare] Quote:One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one. [Agatha Christie] Quote:Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. [Francois de La Rochefoucauld] 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:It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset. [Sir Arthur Eddington] Quote:He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes." [H. L. Mencken] Quote:Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't. [Cynthia Ozick] Quote:There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park- like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand. [Charles Rosin] Definitions of: setDefinition: To cause to sit; to make to assume a specified position or attitude; to give site or place to; to place; to put; to fix; as, to set a house on a stone foundation; to set a book on a shelf; to set a dish on a table; to set a chest or trunk on its bottom or on end.Definition: Hence, to attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place. Definition: To make to assume specified place, condition, or occupation; to put in a certain condition or state (described by the accompanying words); to cause to be. Definition: To fix firmly; to make fast, permanent, or stable; to render motionless; to give an unchanging place, form, or condition to. Definition: To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot; hence, to occasion difficulty to; to embarrass; as, to set a coach in the mud. Definition: To fix beforehand; to determine; hence, to make unyielding or obstinate; to render stiff, unpliant, or rigid; as, to set one's countenance. Definition: To fix in the ground, as a post or a tree; to plant; as, to set pear trees in an orchard. Definition: To fix, as a precious stone, in a border of metal; to place in a setting; hence, to place in or amid something which serves as a setting; as, to set glass in a sash. Definition: To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle; as, to set milk for cheese. Definition: To put into a desired position or condition; to adjust; to regulate; to adapt. Definition: To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare; as, to set (that is, to hone) a razor; to set a saw. Definition: To extend and bring into position; to spread; as, to set the sails of a ship. Definition: To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote; as, to set a psalm. Definition: To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state; to replace; as, to set a broken bone. Definition: To make to agree with some standard; as, to set a watch or a clock. Definition: To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure. Definition: To stake at play; to wager; to risk. Definition: To fit with music; to adapt, as words to notes; to prepare for singing. Definition: To determine; to appoint; to assign; to fix; as, to set a time for a meeting; to set a price on a horse. Definition: To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there. Definition: To value; to rate; -- with at. Definition: To point out the seat or position of, as birds, or other game; -- said of hunting dogs. Definition: To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign; as, to set an example; to set lessons to be learned. Definition: To suit; to become; as, it sets him ill. Definition: To compose; to arrange in words, lines, etc.; as, to set type; to set a page. Definition: Fixed in position; immovable; rigid; as, a set line; a set countenance. Definition: Firm; unchanging; obstinate; as, set opinions or prejudices. Definition: Regular; uniform; formal; as, a set discourse; a set battle. Definition: Established; prescribed; as, set forms of prayer. Definition: Adjusted; arranged; formed; adapted. Definition: An evil beast-headed god with high square ears and a long snout; his was the brother and murderer of Osiris. Called also Seth |
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