Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.[Aristotle] Quote:Oh, man, what a day. It's no cakewalk being a single parent, juggling a career and family like so many juggling balls... two, I suppose.[Chief Wiggum] Quote:I'm like that guy who single-handedly built the rocket & flew to the moon! What was his name? Apollo Creed?[Homer Simpson] 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:We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.[Mother Teresa] Quote:A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.[C.S. Lewis] 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:Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth.[Dave Barry] Quote:In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it 'Christmas' and went to church; the Jews called it 'Hanukkah' and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say 'Merry Christmas!' or 'Happy Hanukkah!' or (to the atheists) 'Look out for the wall!'[Dave Barry] Quote:Karate is a form of marital arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.[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:We give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.[Author Unknown] 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:Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.[WT Purkiser] 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:Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.[Robert Frost] 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:The only flaw in the Hinckley trial is that it left a lot of people with the impression that psychiatrists are just a bunch of bearded voodoo doctors who espouse confusing and wildly contradictory theories that have nothing to do with common sense. This is totally unfair. Many psychiatrists are clean-shaven.[Dave Barry] Quote:You should never pick up a newspaper when you're feeling good, because every newspaper has a special department, called the Bummer Desk, which is responsible for digging up depressing front-page stories with headlines like DOORBELL USE LINKED TO LEUKEMIA and OZONE LAYER COMPLETELY GONE DIRECTLY OVER YOUR HOUSE.[Dave Barry] Quote:I probably should never have been there anyway, and it served me right when the two alert police officers fired up their siren, pulled me over, and pointed out that my car's registration had expired. I had not realized this, and as you can imagine I felt like quite the renegade outlaw as one of the officers painstakingly wrote out my ticket, standing well to the side of the road so as to avoid getting hit by the steady stream of passing unlicensed and uninsured motorists driving their stolen cars with their left hands so that their right hands would be free to keep their pit bulls from spilling their cocaine all over their machine guns. Not that I am bitter.[Dave Barry] Quote:Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special.[Fran Lebowitz] Quote:Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.[Aristotle] Quote:Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.[Aristotle] Quote:Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.[Aristotle] Quote:The odds of not meeting in this life are so great that every meeting is like a miracle. It's a wonder that we don't make love to every single person we meet.[Yoko Ono] Quote:Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.[Colin Powell] Quote:I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.[Dorothy Parker] Quote:Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.[Mark Twain] Quote:No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?[Annie Dillard] Quote:After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.[Bill Cosby] Quote:Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.[Thomas Paine] Quote:If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.[George Washington] Quote:The value of an idea lies in the using of it.[Thomas Edison] Quote:I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.[Confucius] Quote:Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.[Steve Martin] Quote:It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.[Alexander Hamilton] Quote:Anyone who invokes authors in discussion is not using his intelligence but his memory.[Leonardo da Vinci] Quote:Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.[Ed Gardner] Quote:Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.[Aristotle] Quote:Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.[Baltasar Gracian] Quote:As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.[Rita Mae Brown] Quote:War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.[Thomas Jefferson] Quote:Of course the people dont want war...that is understood. But voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.[Hermann Goering] Quote:There is more to life than increasing its speed.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.[Erna Bombeck] Quote:A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.[Baltasar Gracian] Quote:True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island?.to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.[Baltasar Gracian] Quote:Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.[Groucho Marx] Quote:But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious Hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.[Abraham Lincoln] Quote:Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words: it is war minus the shooting.[George Orwell] Quote:The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape.[Pablo Picasso] Quote:The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.[Winston Churchill] Quote:It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.[Daniel Webster] 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:Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.[Brian Tracy] Quote:Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.[Groucho Marx] Quote:No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.[Albert Einstein] Quote:If you can't accept losing, you can't win.[Vince Lombardi] Quote:Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.[Vince Lombardi] 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:A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.[Fred Allen] Quote:Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.[Winston Churchill] Quote:In Heaven all the interesting people are missing.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Unless the religious claims of the Bible are again acknowledged, its literary claims will, I think, be given only 'mouth honour' and that decreasingly.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.[Douglas MacArthur] Quote:The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.[Blaise Pascal] Quote:A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.[Ring Lardner] Quote:Traffic is like a bad dog. It isn't important to look both ways when crossing the street. It's more important to not show fear.[P.J. O'Rourke] Quote:In heaven all the interesting people are missing.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions. [Evan Esar] Quote:When you live in Texas, every single time you see snow it?s magical. [Pamela Ribon] Quote:After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. [Aldous Huxley] Quote:After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. [Aldous Huxley] Quote:Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. [Baltasar Gracian] 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:Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. [Raymond Chandler] Quote:I find nothing more depressing than optimism. [Peter Ustinov] Quote:Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English. [William Shakespeare] Quote:Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. [George Santayana] 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:Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic. [Ambrose Bierce] Quote:Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half. [Mark Twain] 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:History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity. [Cicero] Quote:In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior. [Sir Francis Bacon] Quote:A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. [Chinese Proverb] Quote:It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea. [Robert Anton Wilson] 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:If there comes a little thaw, Still the air is chill and raw, Here and there a patch of snow, Dirtier than the ground below, Dribbles down a marshy flood; Ankle-deep you stick in mud In the meadows while you sing, "This is Spring." [David Assael] Quote:The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. [Bill Cosby] Quote:Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy. [Izaak Walton] Quote:Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. [Sinclair Lewis] Quote:It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener. [Ayn Rand] Quote:Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear. [Alan Corenk] Quote:Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. [Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. [Unknown] Quote:Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. [Aristotle] Quote:It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences. [Aristotle] Quote:The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. [Henry David Thoreau] Quote:Sport is imposing order on what was chaos. [George F. Will] 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:The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this. [Real Live Preacher] Quote:The single best augury is to fight for one's country. [Homer] Quote:The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten. [Arthur Schopenhauer] 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] 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] Definitions of: singDefinition: To utter sounds with musical inflections or melodious modulations of voice, as fancy may dictate, or according to the notes of a song or tune, or of a given part (as alto, tenor, etc.) in a chorus or concerted piece.Definition: To utter sweet melodious sounds, as birds do. Definition: To make a small, shrill sound; as, the air sings in passing through a crevice. Definition: To tell or relate something in numbers or verse; to celebrate something in poetry. Definition: To cry out; to complain. |
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