Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.[Samuel Johnson] Quote:If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:I bought some batteries but they weren't included, so I had to buy them again.[Steven Wright] Quote:I planted some bird seed. A bird came up. Now I don't know what to feed it.[Steven Wright] Quote:In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.[Paul Dirac] Quote:Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest.[Mark Twain] Quote:Age does not protect you from love, but love to some extent protects you from age.[Jeanne Moreau] 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:Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.[Robin Williams] Quote:I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up DOES rejoice. Still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone. I guess I just miss my friend.[Morgan Freeman] Quote:When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.[Edgar Watson Howe] Quote:Put out an APB for a male suspect, driving a... car of some sort, heading in the direction of, uh, you know, that place that sells chili. Suspect is hatless. Repeat, hatless.[Chief Wiggum] Quote:She didn't reckon with the awesome power of the Chief of Police! Now where did I put my badge?...Hey, that duck's got it![Chief Wiggum] Quote:A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.[Mark Twain] Quote:The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.[Dante Alighieri] Quote:You do what you are...You?re born with a gift. If not that, then you get good at something along the way. And what you?re good at. you don?t take for granted.[Morgan Freeman] Quote:Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.[C.S. Lewis] 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:The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike. Subjectivism about values is eternally incompatible with democracy. We and our rulers are of one kind only so long as we are subject to one law. But if there is no Law of Nature, the ethos of any society is the creation of its rulers, educators and conditioners; and every creator stands above and outside his own creation.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when He catches us, as it were, off our guard.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Don't knock masturbation; it's sex with someone I love.[Woody Allen] Quote:Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.[T.S. Eliot] Quote:My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at getting married at the age of 43.[Ian Fleming] Quote:When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Congress, after years of stalling, finally got around to clearing the way for informal discussions that might lead to possible formal talks that could potentially produce some kind of tentative agreements...[Dave Barry] Quote:Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?[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: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:Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:If my children wake up on Christmas morning and have someone to thank for putting candy in their stocking, have I no one to thank for putting two feet in mine?[GK Chesterton] Quote:And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store? What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more?[Theodor Seuss Geisel] Quote:No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.[Theodor Seuss Geisel] Quote:Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.[Christopher Morley] Quote:Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.[Christopher Morley] Quote:Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.[Robert Frost] Quote:You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.[Siddhartha Buddha] Quote:Back in the old days, most families were close-knit. Grown children and their parents continued to live together, under the same roof, sometimes in the same small, crowded room, year in and year out, until they died, frequently by strangulation.[Dave Barry] Quote:It is never okay to throw away veteran underwear. A real guy checks the garbage regularly in case somebody - and we are not naming names but this would be his wife - is quietly trying to discard his underwear, which she is frankly jealous of, because the guy seems to have a more intimate relationship with it than with her.[Dave Barry] Quote:I don't know what the new Ford will be called. Probably something like the 'Ford Untamed Wilderness Adventure.' In the TV commercials, it will be shown splashing through rivers, charging up rocky mountainsides, swinging on vines, diving off cliffs, racing through the surf, and fighting giant sharks hundreds of feet beneath the ocean surface -- all the daredevil things that cars do in Sport Utility Vehicle Commercial World, where nobody ever drives on an actual world. In fact, the interstate highways in Sport Utility Vehicle Commercial World, having been abandoned by humans, are teeming with deer, squirrels, birds, and other wildlife species that have fled from the forests to avoid being run over by nature-seekers in multi-ton vehicles barreling through the underbrush at 50 miles per hour.[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:We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.[Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.[Fran Lebowitz] Quote:What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.[George Dennison Prentice] Quote:Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.[Dale Carnegie] Quote:If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.[Dale Carnegie] Quote:You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.[Dale Carnegie] Quote:The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.[Edmund Burke] Quote:I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.[Stephen Hawking] Quote:Not only does God play dice, but he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.[Stephen Hawking] Quote:We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.[Stephen Hawking] Quote:If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.[Aristotle] Quote:No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.[Aristotle] Quote:Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed with being right?[Wayne Dyer] Quote:Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.[Colin Powell] Quote:Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.'[Colin Powell] Quote:I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.[Mark Twain] Quote:When you're comfortable with someone you love, the silence is the best.[Britney Spears] Quote:Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.[Stephen King] Quote:The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy.[Fulke Greville] Quote:To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has been done him, and that he should hope for redress elsewhere than in his own industry, honesty, and intelligence.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:There may be some things better than sex, and some things worse than sex. But there is nothing exactly like it.[Author Unknown] Quote:There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.[Ernest Hemingway] Quote:Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.[George Carlin] Quote:Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.[Thomas Edison] Quote:Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.[Thomas Edison] Quote:Beware the writer who always encloses the word reality in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.[Edward Abbey] Quote:There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.[Steve Martin] Quote:Hosting the Oscars is like making love to a beautiful woman - it's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal's out of town.[Steve Martin] Quote:Friendship can sometimes end in love, but love in friendship, never.[Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:What makes us men is that we can think logically. What makes us human is that we sometimes choose not to.[Roger Ebert] Quote:My goal is to someday be the person my dog thinks I am.[Author Unknown] Quote:God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach.[Heywood Broun] Quote:Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.[Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.[Marcus Tullius Cicero] Quote:Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.[Woody Allen] Quote:Sex is a three-letter word which needs some old-fashioned four-letter words to convey its full meaning.[Author Unknown] Quote:If everybody's thinking alike, somebody isn't thinking.[Author Unknown] Quote:I have a hobby...I have the world's largest collection of sea shells. I keep it scattered on beaches all over the world. Maybe you've seen some of it...[Steven Wright] Quote:Principles only mean something when you stick to them when its inconvenient.[Author Unknown] Quote:Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead.[Author Unknown] Quote:I would rather be a failure doing something I love than be a sucess doing something I hate.[George Burns] Quote:Every exit is an entry somewhere.[Tom Stoppard] Quote:The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans are suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.[Rita Mae Brown] Quote:When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth.[Albert Einstein] Quote:The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.[Bertrand Russell] Quote:Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.[Gloria Steinem] Quote:The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.[Russell Lynes] Quote:A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe.[Pierre Berton] Quote:The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.[Mark Twain] Quote:When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.[Madonna Ciccone] Quote:My political ambitions have nothing to do with vanity or the desire for power. I want to help people. I owe them something after all they've done for me.[Arnold Schwarzenegger] Quote:What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires -- desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.[Bertrand Russell] Quote:Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.[Baltasar Gracian] Quote:Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be.[James Baldwin] Quote:The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something that can be learned in no other way.[Mark Twain] 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:Puritanism - the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.[Henry Mencken] Quote:A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.[H.H. Munro] Quote:Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.[Woody Allen] Quote:An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.[Laurence Peter] Quote:I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.[George Burns] Quote:Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Quote:Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.[Margaret Mead] Quote:The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.[Daniel Webster] Quote:Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.[Daniel Webster] Quote:Experience has taught me that there is one chief reason why some people succeed and others fail. The difference is not one of knowing, but of doing. The successful man is not so superior in ability as in action. So far as success can be reduced to a formula, it consists of this: doing what you know you should do.[Roger Babson] Quote:Those who believe they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.[J.R.R. Tolkien] Quote:How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.[Adam Smith] Quote:Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.[Jimi Hendrix] Quote:There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.[Douglas Adams] Quote:I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.[Thomas Jefferson] Quote:Cocaine is God's way of telling someone that they're too rich.[Robin Williams] Quote:The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.[Winston Churchill] Quote:Even the poor should give something to charity.[Nachman of Bratslav] Quote:An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.[Adlai Stevenson] Quote:Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?[GK Chesterton] Quote:Some are weather-wise, some are otherwise.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you.[Margaret Bourke-White] Quote:Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.[Ansel Adams] Quote:A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Philosophical argument has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that was in me; but my heart has always assured me that the Gospel of Jesus Christ must be reality.[Daniel Webster] Quote:Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes by chance.[William Shakespeare] Quote:The Nation which indulges toward another an habitual hatred or an habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.[George Washington] Quote:Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Heroism at command, senseless brutality, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action![Albert Einstein] Quote:How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill! In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot.[Albert Einstein] Quote:To me, it's always a good idea to always carry two sacks of something when you walk around. That way, if anybody says, 'Hey, can you give me a hand?,' you can say, 'Sorry, got these sacks.'[Jack Handey] Quote:I hope some animal never bores a hole in my head and lays its eggs in my brain, because later you might think you're having a good idea but it's just eggs hatching.[Jack Handey] Quote:If you go flying back through time, and you see somebody else flying forward into the future, it's probably best to avoid eye contact.[Jack Handey] Quote:I bet the main reason the police keep people away from a plane crash is they don't want anybody walking in and lying down in the crash stuff, then when somebody comes up act like they just woke up and go, 'What was THAT?!'[Jack Handey] Quote:Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what IS that thing?![Jack Handey] Quote:If you ever crawl inside an old hollow log and go to sleep, and while you're in there some guys come and seal up both ends and then put it on a truck and take it to another city, boy, I don't know what to tell you.[Jack Handey] Quote:Whenever someone asks me to define love, I usually think for a minute, then I spin around and pin the guy's arm behind his back. NOW who's asking the questions?[Jack Handey] Quote:Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus's-flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog because it only has little tiny plant teeth. But some other stuff could happen and it could be like ambition.[Jack Handey] 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:The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.[Elbert Hubbard] Quote:It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.[Erna Bombeck] Quote:I think it's insulting to people who have a heritage of slavery to compare the homosexual experience in America to that. It's an unfortunate, cheap attempt to piggyback on something and to co-opt life experiences of others, claim that you've experienced them yourselves so that you can advance a cause.[Rush Limbaugh] Quote:Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'[Sydney Harris] Quote:Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear ? kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor ? with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.[Douglas MacArthur] Quote:We're in a war, dammit! We're going to have to offend somebody![John Adams] Quote:A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.[Bertrand Russell] Quote:We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:A friend is someone, who upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have to watch their friend suffer.[Amanda Grier] Quote:If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.[Henny Youngman] Quote:Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.[Plato] Quote:All men are not homeless, but some men are home less than others.[Henny Youngman] 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:The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.[Art Spander] Quote:The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:"Every man has his price." This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Have I inadvertently said some evil thing? [Sir Philip Sidney] Quote:There is no great genius without some touch of madness. [Seneca] Quote:Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits that under analysis some of them won't stand up either. [Evan Esar] Quote:You think Nature is some Disney movie? Nature is a killer. Nature is a bitch. It's feeding time out there 24 hours a day, every step that you take is a gamble with death. If it isn't getting hit with lightning today, it's an earthquake tomorrow or some deer tick carrying Lime disease. Either way, you're ending up on the wrong end of the food chain. [Jeff Melvoin] Quote:Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think. [Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Quote:Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, <br>Is the immediate jewel of their souls: <br>Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; <br>'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; <br>But he that filches from me my good name <br>Robs me of that which not enriches him <br>And makes me poor indeed. [William Shakespeare] Quote:The wisest mind has something yet to learn. [George Santayana] Quote:The wisest mind has something yet to learn. [George Santayana] 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:The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. [Pearl Buck] Quote:I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that ther's always somebody there, somebody that's family. [Trey Parker and Matt Stone] Quote:I love life...Yeah, I'm sad, but at the same time, I'm really happy that something could make me feel that sad. It's like...It makes me feel alive, you know. It makes me feel human. The only way I could feel this sad now is if I felt something really good before. So I have to take the bad with the good. So I guess what I'm feeling is like a beautiful sadness. [Trey Parker and Matt Stone] 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:If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible he is almost certainly right, but if he says that it is impossible he is very probably wrong. [Arthur C. Clarke] Quote:The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid. [E. B. White] Quote:If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. [Anne Morrow Lindbergh] Quote:If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. [Dale Carnegie] Quote:Hey, what do you think drives all this grey matter up here? Electricity. It's brain waves surfing on synaptic junctions. If your radio can go out because of sun spots, why can't your cerebellum? It's all a matter of reception and it seems to me these signals are going to get crossed somehow. It's all logical. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:I guess what I'm trying to say is, I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you're not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. [Carl Jung] Quote:They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse. [Emily Dickinson] Quote:A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King. [Emily Dickinson] Quote:There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. [James Branch Cabell] Quote:Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time. [Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess] Quote:Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. [Francois de La Rochefoucauld] Quote:Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady. [Francois de La Rochefoucauld] Quote:He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it. [Douglas Adams] Quote:The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. [John Dewey] Quote:Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein. [Phyllis Diller] Quote:Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him. [Cicero] Quote:Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Be ashamed to die unless you have won some victory for humanity. [Horace Mann] Quote:Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. [Horace Mann] Quote:He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities. [Robertson Davies] Quote:There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. [F. Scott Fitzgerald] Quote:What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease. [Hippocrates] Quote:Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine. [Oprah Winfrey] Quote:Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. [Alfred Hitchcock] Quote:I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion. [Franklin D. Roosevelt] Quote:It's funny, to me, the way people refer to childbirth as a miraculous event. A miracle is something that defies nature. Only, childbirth has got to be the most natural thing in the world. Top three anyway. But, on the other hand, when you think about it, there's really no other word that fits. Sperm. Egg. A coincidental meshing of genetic information that will grow something that could write an opera or cook up some Napalm. It blows my mind. [Barbara Hall] 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:Wildness. We're running out of it, even up in Alaska. People need to be reminded that the world is unsafe and unpredictable, and at a moment's notice, they could lose everything, like that. I do it to remind them that chaos is always out there, lurking beyond the horizon. That, plus, sometimes you have to do something bad, just to know you're alive. [David Assael] Quote:If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live. [Henry S. Haskins] Quote:There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. [Michel de Montaigne] Quote:If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive. [Marcus Aurelius Antoninus] Quote:You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them! [Amy Tan] Quote:Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it. [Cullen Hightower] Quote:Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it. [Alfred North Whitehead] Quote:I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether. [Alfred North Whitehead] Quote:All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others. [George Orwell] Quote:If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. [Hermann Hesse] Quote:Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. [Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. [Edna St. Vincent Millay] Quote:I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom. [Bob Dylan] Quote:Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other. [Unknown] Quote:If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost. [Aristotle] Quote:If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost. [Aristotle] Quote:Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. [Dag Hammarskjold] Quote:That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. [Doris Lessing] Quote:One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness. [Josh Billings] Quote:One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness. [Josh Billings] Quote:A good listener is usually thinking about something else. [Kin Hubbard] Quote:All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. [H. L. Mencken] Quote:Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep. [Fran Lebowitz] Quote:A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. [Anatole France] Quote:Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever. [Margaret Cho] Quote:All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others. [Cyril Connolly] 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:Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people. [Lois McMaster Bujold] Quote:You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility. [Lois McMaster Bujold] Quote:Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard. [Lois McMaster Bujold] Quote:We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them. [Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give. [Charles Caleb Colton] 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:But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. [Carl Sagan] Quote:I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. [Will Rogers] Quote:When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same. [Alexander Hamilton] 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:You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. [Albert Schweitzer] Quote:An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger. [Dan Rather] Quote:The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues. [Elizabeth Taylor] Definitions of: someDefinition: Consisting of a greater or less portion or sum; composed of a quantity or number which is not stated; -- used to express an indefinite quantity or number; as, some wine; some water; some persons. Used also pronominally; as, I have some.Definition: A certain; one; -- indicating a person, thing, event, etc., as not known individually, or designated more specifically; as, some man, that is, some one man. Definition: Not much; a little; moderate; as, the censure was to some extent just. Definition: About; near; more or less; -- used commonly with numerals, but formerly also with a singular substantive of time or distance; as, a village of some eighty houses; some two or three persons; some hour hence. Definition: Considerable in number or quantity. Definition: Certain; those of one part or portion; -- in distinction from other or others; as, some men believe one thing, and others another. Definition: A part; a portion; -- used pronominally, and followed sometimes by of; as, some of our provisions. |
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