Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:I want to know God's thoughts...the rest are details.[Albert Einstein] Quote:Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Haven't you learned anything from that guy that gives those sermons in church? Captain What's-his-name. We live in a society of laws, why do you think I took you to see all those Police Academy movies? For fun? Well I didn't hear anybody laughing! Did you? Except at that guy who made sound effects. Vroom! Beep! Honk! Honk! Ha-ha. Where was I? Oh yeah, stay out of my booze![Homer Simpson] Quote:The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.[Dante Alighieri] Quote:A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.[Victor Hugo] 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:They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.[GK Chesterton] Quote:It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.[GK Chesterton] Quote:I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true![Dave Barry] Quote:In fact, just about all the major natural attractions you find in the West -- the Grand Canyon, the Badlands, the Goodlands, the Mediocrelands, the Rocky Mountains and Robert Redford -- were caused by erosion.[Dave Barry] Quote:Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators.[Dave Barry] Quote:Puns are little plays on words that a certain breed of person loves to spring on you and then look at you in a certain self-satisfied way to indicate that he thinks that you must think that he is by far the cleverest person on Earth now that Benjamin Franklin is dead.[Dave Barry] Quote:The Bible contains 6 admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision.[Lynn Lavner] Quote:Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:This moment contains all moments.[C.S. Lewis] 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: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:Have you ever heard people say 'don't sweat the details'? Well, they're wrong: sweat the details. They have a name for people who sweat the details: millionaires.[Jerry Bowyer] 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: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:It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.[Aristotle] Quote:Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.[Aristotle] Quote:In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Money can help you to get medicines but not health. Money can help you to get soft pillows, but not sound sleep. Money can help you to get material comforts, but not eternal bliss. Money can help you to get ornaments, but not beauty. Money will help you to get an electric earphone, but not natural hearing. Attain the supreme wealth, wisdom, and you will have everything.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.[Colin Powell] Quote:Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.[Mark Twain] Quote:If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.[Mark Twain] Quote:Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.[Saint Augustine] Quote:I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.[Bill Cosby] Quote:What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.[Thomas Paine] Quote:Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.[George Washington] Quote:I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.[George Carlin] Quote:Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.[George Eliot] Quote:To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring. From the mighty mountains of New York, let freedom ring. From the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania, let freedom ring. But not only that: Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.[Woody Allen] Quote:Some men would rather pursue happiness than obtain it.[Roger Ebert] Quote:At least five times...with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist sceptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Faith has to all appearance gone to the dogs. In each of these five cases it was the dog that died.[GK Chesterton] Quote:To teach how to live with uncertainty, yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do.[Bertrand Russell] Quote:Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something that can be learned in no other way.[Mark Twain] Quote:The women of this Nation still retain the liberty to control their destinies. But the signs are evident and very ominous, and a chill wind blows.[Harry Blackmun] Quote:God gave us two ends. One to sit on and one to think with. Success depends on which one you use; head you win, tail, you lose.[Author Unknown] Quote:The heights by great men reached and kept, were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Quote:Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soulmate is the one you are actually married to.[J.R.R. Tolkien] 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:I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.[Blaise Pascal] Quote:Just as your hand, held before the eye, can hide the tallest mountain, so this small earthly life keeps us from seeing the vast radiance that fills the core of the universe.[Nachman of Bratslav] Quote:A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.[Ansel Adams] Quote:In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that men know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is look at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop; eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home.[Dave Barry] 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:Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking and now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage.[Ronald Reagan] Quote:Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:If the primary aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.[Thomas Aquinas] Quote:The only way to maintain a moderate sum of happiness in this life, is not to worry about the future or regret the past too much.[Mel Gibson] Quote:The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all.[Thomas Jefferson] Quote:Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.[Leon Trotsky] Quote:The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.Workers of all countries...unite![Frederick Engels] Quote:Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.[Plato] Quote:On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.[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:In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain. [Pliny the Elder] Quote:Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche -- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black cat is always the last one off the fence.' I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true. [Solomon Short] Quote:Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy. [Seneca] Quote:They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. [Benjamin Franklin] Quote:An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. [Pliny the Younger] Quote:Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing - peace is the measure. [George Santayana] 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: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:There were always people like the pope. They serve a certain function, of course. They subsidize us. But, they don't create anything and they must never be allowed to stop the artist from creating. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:For certain is death for the born<br>And certain is birth for the dead;<br>Therefore over the inevitable<br>Thou shouldst not grieve. [Bhagavad Gita] Quote:Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. [Abigail Adams] Quote:[Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind. [Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation. [Francois de La Rochefoucauld] Quote:Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? [Francois de La Rochefoucauld] Quote:Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails. [Clarence Darrow] Quote:Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. [Cicero] Quote:Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. [Cicero] Quote:When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. [Logan Pearsall Smith] Quote:We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves. [Henri Matisse] Quote:[The television is] an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home. [David Frost] Quote:I believe that uncertainty is rally my spirit's way of whispering, ""I'm in flux. I can't decide for you. Something is off-balance here."" [Oprah Winfrey] Quote:That's the secret of entertaining. You make your guests feel welcome and at home. If you do that honestly, the rest takes care of itself. [Barbara Hall] Quote:Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence. [Isaac Asimov] Quote:Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. [Albert Einstein] Quote:As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. [Albert Einstein] Quote:My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. [Albert Einstein] Quote:After my recent brush with voicelessness, I thought I'd share with you a few thoughts about speech. Don't take it lightly my friends. If music is the pathway to the heart as Voltaire suggested, then speech is the pathway to other people. Live in silence and you live alone. [Henry Bromel] Quote:Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. [Thomas Jefferson] Quote:I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. [Thomas Jefferson] Quote:The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next. [Ursula K. LeGuin] Quote:Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. [Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. [Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. [Mahatma Gandhi] 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:It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. [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:What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers. [Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. [Robert Frost] Quote:Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence. [H. L. Mencken] Quote:No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation. [Fran Lebowitz] Quote:I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true. [Carl Sagan] Quote:The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. [Bertrand Russell] 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:Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality. [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:The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. [Eugene Delacroix] Quote:Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. [Voltaire] Definitions of: taiDefinition: Designating, or pertaining to, the chief linguistic stock of Indo-China, including the peoples of Siamese and Shan speech. It includes the Thai language. |
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