Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice -- their choice.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:Real love stories never have endings.[Richard Bach] Quote:We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.[Gene Roddenberry] Quote:History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.[Napoleon Bonaparte] 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:History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.[Dwight Eisenhower] 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:I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories.[Dave Barry] Quote:It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.[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:Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.[Dave Barry] 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:We should enact an 'e' tax. Government agents would roam the country looking for stores whose names contained any word that ended in an unnecessary 'e,' such as 'shoppe' or 'olde,' and the owners of these stores would be taxed at a flat rate of $50,000 per year per 'e.' We should also consider an additional $50,000 'ye' tax, so that the owner of a store called 'Ye Olde Shoppe' would have to fork over $150,000 a year. In extreme cases, such as 'Ye Olde Barne Shoppe,' the owner would simply be taken outside and shot.[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:Cooking was invented in prehistoric times, when a primitive tribe had a lucky accident. The tribe had killed an animal and was going to eat it raw, when a tribe member named Woog tripped and dropped it into the fire. At first the other tribe members were angry at Woog, but then, as the aroma of burning meat filled the air, they had an idea. So they ate Woog raw.[Dave Barry] Quote:The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.[Stephen Hawking] 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:They sicken of the calm who know the storm.[Dorothy Parker] Quote:Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.[Mark Twain] Quote:Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.[Mark Twain] 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:That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.[George Washington] Quote:The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by Homo Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the sacharrine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and becomes petulant if he does not recieve this flattery. Yet this ridiculous notion, without one real shred of evidence to bolster it, has gone on to found one of the oldest, largest and least productive industries in history.[Robert Heinlein] Quote:Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.[Fran Lebowitz] Quote:Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.[Thomas Sowell] Quote:More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.[Woody Allen] Quote:History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.[Winston Churchill] Quote:If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Quote:I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.[Thomas Jefferson] Quote:Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall - think of it, <b[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:Blood is the ink of our life's story.[Jason Mechalek] Quote:The uniform, constant and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition, the principle from which public and national, as well as private opulence is originally derived, is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement, in spite both of the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of administration. Like the unknown principle of animal life, it frequently restores health and vigour to the constitution, in spite, not only of the disease, but of the absurd prescriptions of the doctor.[Adam Smith] Quote:History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.[Kurt Vonnegut] Quote:There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.[Ansel Adams] Quote:Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.[Bertrand Russell] Quote:If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man?s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.[James Madison] Quote:Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance.[Woodrow Wilson] Quote:The history of liberty is a history of limitation of government power, not the increase of it.[Woodrow Wilson] Quote:To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.[John Adams] Quote:Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:History is the short trudge from Adam to atom. [Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. [Mark Twain] Quote:The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal. [Mark Twain] 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:Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. [Ralph Waldo Emerson] 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:History is powerful stuff. One day your world is fine. The next day it's knocked for a metaphysical loop. Was Napoleon really at Waterloo? Would that change what I had for breakfast? [Henry Bromel] Quote:Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well. [Abraham Lincoln] Quote:History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we made today. [Henry Ford] Quote:It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. [Anatole France] Quote:In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from. [Peter Drucker] Quote:For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum. [John W. Gardner] Quote:America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration. [Will Rogers] Definitions of: storDefinition: Strong; powerful; hardy; bold; audacious.Definition: See Stoor. |
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