Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.[Elbert Hubbard] Quote:A book of quotations...can never be complete.[Robert M. Hamilton] Quote:Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for an alliance with her; and not run about offering her amity to all the world; and hazarding their refusal. Our virgin is a jolly one; and tho at present not very rich, will in time be a great fortune, and where she has a favorable predisposition, it seems to me well worth cultivating.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.[Victor Hugo] Quote:Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer, but imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.[Jesse Jackson] Quote:A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.[T.S. Eliot] Quote:Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.[T.S. Eliot] Quote:The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted: precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.[GK Chesterton] Quote:I do not think that the real reason why people accept religion is anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds. One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it.[Bertrand Russell] Quote:Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards.[George Santayana] Quote:Admit it, sport-utility-vehicle owners! It's shaped a little differently, but it's a station wagon! And you do not drive it across rivers! You drive it across the Wal-Mart parking lot![Dave Barry] 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:I recently had my annual physical examination, which I get once every seven years, and when the nurse weighed me, I was shocked to discover how much stronger the Earth's gravitational pull has become since 1990.[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:It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.[Winston Churchill] Quote:I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations.[Isaac Disraeli] Quote:Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.[William Jennings Bryan] Quote:My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.[Christopher Morley] Quote:The reason gas stations sell food, of course, is that the supermarkets are busy cashing checks. The supermarkets have to cash checks because the banks are busy mailing unsolicited credit cards to everybody in the Western Hemisphere. The result is that very few people fix cars.[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:If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.[Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.[Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.[Mark Twain] Quote:Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Marriage is the most natural state of man, and the state in which you will find solid happiness.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.[Mark Twain] Quote:Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.[Mark Twain] Quote:Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.[Thomas Paine] Quote:Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.[Thomas Paine] Quote:If an American is to amount to anything he must rely upon himself, and not upon the State; he must take pride in his own work, instead of sitting idle to envy the luck of others. He must face life with resolute courage, win victory if he can, and accept defeat if he must, without seeking to place on his fellow man a responsibility which is not theirs.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Reputation is character minus what you've been caught doing.[Michael Iapoce] Quote:If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.[Yogi Berra] Quote:Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.[Ernest Hemingway] 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: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:The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.[Benjamin Disraeli] Quote:By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.[Confucius] Quote:Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.[Alexander Hamilton] Quote:To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts; but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates.[Henry Thoreau] Quote:Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.[Elbert Hubbard] Quote:You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.[Henry Ford] Quote:Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.[Colin Powell] Quote:The United States stands at the pinnacle of world power. This is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For with primacy in power is joined an awe-inspiring accountability for the future.[Winston Churchill] Quote:True pacifism is not unrealistic submission to an evil power...it is rather a courageous confrontation with evil by the power of love, in the faith that it is better to be the recipient of violence than the inflicter of it, since the latter only multiplies the existence of violence and bitterness in the universe, while the former may develop a sense of shame in the opponent, and thereby bring about a transformation and change of heart.[Martin Luther King Jr.] 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:Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.[Edward Abbey] 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: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:Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason to deplore the one as there is to be pleased over the other.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenatrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties - this knowledge, this feeling ... that is the core of the true religious sent iment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself amoung profoundly religious men.[Albert Einstein] Quote:A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.[Baltasar Gracian] Quote:Life is but a brief moment. The years go by quickly and old age arrives suddenly before we have an inkling. People desire so many things and waste their days in vain. Some yearn for gold, others for power, yet others for glory and a higher station. But when death's moment nears and they look back at their lives they've lived, they realise they've been happy only during those moments when they've loved.[Borje Vahamaki] Quote:The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to.[Thomas Jefferson] Quote:If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.[Doug Larson] Quote:I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.[Dorothy Parker] Quote:Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities.[Erica Jong] Quote:In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together where they will henceforth encounter opposition only in the emasculated form of rumour that the outsiders say thus and thus. The absent are easily refuted, complacent dogmatism thrives, and differences of opinion are embittered by the group hostility. Each group hears not the best, but the worst, that the other group can say.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:The definition of success--To laugh much; to win respect of intelligent persons and the affections of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give one's self; to leave the world a little better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition.; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived--this is to have succeeded.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:The United States is in no sense founded upon the Christian doctrine.[George Washington] Quote:The Bible is not my book, and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.[Abraham Lincoln] Quote:A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.[Peter Wimsey] Quote:It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.[Warren Buffett] Quote:What we humans are is really a remarkable thing. How can you doubt that we will survive and mature? There may be a lot of wisdom in the old statement about looking on the world lovingly. If we can, perhaps the world will have time to resolve itself.[Gene Roddenberry] Quote:All art is but imitation of nature.[Lucius Annaeus Seneca] Quote:I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.[J.R.R. Tolkien] Quote:To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:The statesman who would attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himeslf with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safetly be trusted to no council and senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.[Adam Smith] Quote:Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.[Adam Smith] 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:But could not our situation be compared to one of a menacing epidemic? People are unable to view this situation in its true light, for their eyes are blinded by passion. General fear and anxiety create hatred and aggressiveness. The adaptation to warlike aims and activities has corrupted the mentality of man; as a result, intelligent, objective and humane thinking has hardly any effect and is even suspected and persecuted as unpatriotic.[Albert Einstein] Quote:No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.[Albert Einstein] Quote:Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.[Margaret Mitchell] Quote:Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years.[Nicolo Machiavelli] Quote:There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.[C.S. Lewis] 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:The history of liberty is a history of limitation of government power, not the increase of it.[Woodrow Wilson] 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:The statesman who would attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himeslf with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted to no council and senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.[Adam Smith] Quote:The President of the United States hears a hundred voices telling him that he is the greatest man in the world. He must listen carefully to hear the one voice that tells him he's not.[Harry Truman] Quote:This is the second most exciting indoor sport, and the other one shouldn't have spectators.[Dick Vertleib] Quote:He wrapped himself in quotations--as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.[Rudyard Kipling] Quote:A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion.[Henry Mencken] Quote:There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.[Plato] 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:There are no facts, only interpretations.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise. [Cato the Elder] Quote:The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.' [Aaron Copland] 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:Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions. [Evan Esar] Quote:In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law. [Charles de Montesquieu] Quote:The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people. [Dr. Thomas Fuller] Quote:The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting. [Ambrose Bierce] Quote:The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. [Elizabeth Cady Stanton] Quote:Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch. [Jane Austen] Quote:In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is. [Gertrude Stein] Quote:Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. [George S. Patton] Quote:There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. [James Branch Cabell] Quote:The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel. [James Thurber] Quote:Good habits result from resisting temptation. [Mark Twain] Quote:An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. [Chester Bowles] Quote:There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. [F. Scott Fitzgerald] Quote:Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. [Laurence J. Peter] Quote:Well, spring sprang. We've had our state of grace and our little gift of sanctioned madness, courtesy of Mother Nature. Thanks, Gaia. Much obliged. I guess it's time to get back to that daily routine of living we like to call normal. [David Assael] Quote:Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know. [Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. [Ayn Rand] Quote:The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved. [Confucius] Quote:Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear. [Alan Corenk] Quote:Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. [Eric Hoffer] Quote:Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything. [Clifton Fadiman] Quote:Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation. [Lawana Blackwell] Quote:Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. [Abraham Lincoln] Quote:Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. [Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. [Samuel Johnson] Quote:The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law. [Aristotle] Quote:The basis of a democratic state is liberty. [Aristotle] Quote:Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. [Harry S Truman] Quote:Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be. [Anton Chekhov] Quote:A good reputation is more valuable than money. [Publilius Syrus] Quote:You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. [Henry Ford] Quote:People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in. [Margaret Cho] Quote:Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards. [Lois McMaster Bujold] Quote:Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself. [Lois McMaster Bujold] Quote:There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter. [Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. [Elbert Hubbard] Quote:The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation. [Benjamin Disraeli] Quote:There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. [Benjamin Disraeli] Quote:In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything. [John Updike] Quote:Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything. [Andre Malraux] Quote:Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. [Socrates] Quote:Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. [John Adams] Quote:Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. [Baruch Spinoza] Quote:Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen. [Bob Edwards] Definitions of: tatDefinition: Gunny cloth made from the fiber of the Corchorus olitorius, or jute. |
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