Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:http://www.quotedb.com[] Quote:The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.[Albert Einstein] Quote:My son first wanted to go to Stanford, which I thought was O.K. The weather is pretty good, and it's a fairly short drive to the beach. But it wouldn't be as good as let's say, Pepperdine, which is in Malibu. And he said, 'Dad, what about the education?' I said, 'Clearly, I failed as a parent.'[Larry Ellison] Quote:If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:I planted some bird seed. A bird came up. Now I don't know what to feed it.[Steven Wright] Quote:Wit is educated insolence.[Aristotle] Quote:Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.[Edmond and Jules de Goncourt] Quote:Old people don't need companionship. They need to be isolated and studied so it can be determined what nutrients they have that might be extracted for our personal use.[Homer Simpson] Quote:The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.[Saint Augustine] Quote:http://www.quotedb.com[] Quote:http://www.quotedb.com[] Quote:Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.[Mother Teresa] 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: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:Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.[Sydney Smith] Quote:Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:http://www.quotedb.com[] Quote:http://www.quotedb.com[] Quote:http://www.quotedb.com[] Quote:As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.[T.S. Eliot] Quote:http://www.quotedb.com[] Quote:http://www.quotedb.com[] 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:These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.[GK Chesterton] Quote:All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.[GK Chesterton] Quote:I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:The only good thing about books is that they can be adapted into films.[Michael Votto] Quote:http://www.quotedb.com[] Quote:Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.[Dave Barry] Quote:American business long ago gave up on demanding that prospective employees be honest and hardworking. It has even stopped hoping for employees who are educated enough that they can tell the difference between the men's room and the women's room without having little pictures on the doors.[Dave Barry] Quote:Because of the level of my chess game, I was able - even against a weak opponent, such as my younger brothers or the dog - to get myself checkmated in under three minutes. I challenge any computer to do it faster.[Dave Barry] Quote:Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth.[Dave Barry] Quote:If God had wanted us to be concerned for the plight of the toads, he would have made them cute and furry.[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:The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery.[Dave Barry] Quote:It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.[Winston Churchill] Quote:Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.[Simeon Strunsky] Quote:Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.[Groucho Marx] Quote:Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?[Philip Hamerton] Quote:Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.[William Jennings Bryan] Quote:Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.[William Jennings Bryan] Quote:http://www.quotedb.com[] Quote:http://www.quotedb.com[] Quote:Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.[George Patton] Quote:My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.[Christopher Morley] Quote:If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.[Christopher Morley] Quote:Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.[E.B. White] Quote:I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.[Robert Frost] Quote:http://www.quotedb.com[] Quote:http://www.quotedb.com[] Quote:http://www.quotedb.com[] Quote:If God had wanted us to spend our time fretting about the problems of home ownership, He would never have invented beer.[Dave Barry] 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:It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million guy sperm cells, each one wriggling in its own direction, totally confident it knows where it is going, to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin.[Dave Barry] Quote:Childbirth, as a strictly physical phenomenon, is comparable to driving a United Parcel truck through an inner tube.[Dave Barry] Quote:Classical music gradually lost popularity because it is too complicated: you need twenty-five or thirty skilled musicians just to hum it properly. So people began to develop regular music.[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:I have not felt remotely cool for a long time, thanks largely to the relentless efforts of my teenage son, whose goal in life is to make me feel 3,500 years old. We'll be in the car, and he'll say, 'You wanna hear my new CD?' And I, flattered that he thinks his old man might like the same music he does, will say 'Sure!' So he increases the sound-system volume setting from '4' to 'Meteor Impact,' and he puts in a CD by a band with a name like 'Pustule,' and the next thing I know gigantic nuclear bass notes have blown out all the car windows and activated both the driver- and passenger-side air bags, and I'm writhing on the floor, screaming for mercy with jets of blood spurting three feet from my ears. My son then ejects the CD, smiling contentedly, knowing he as purchased a winner. On those extremely rare occasions when I like one of his CDs, I imagine he destroys it with a blowtorch.[Dave Barry] Quote:I probably should never have been there anyway, and it served me right when the two alert police officers fired up their siren, pulled me over, and pointed out that my car's registration had expired. I had not realized this, and as you can imagine I felt like quite the renegade outlaw as one of the officers painstakingly wrote out my ticket, standing well to the side of the road so as to avoid getting hit by the steady stream of passing unlicensed and uninsured motorists driving their stolen cars with their left hands so that their right hands would be free to keep their pit bulls from spilling their cocaine all over their machine guns. Not that I am bitter.[Dave Barry] Quote: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:I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.[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:You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.[Dale Carnegie] 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:It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.[Aristotle] Quote:No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.[Aristotle] Quote:The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.[Aristotle] Quote:We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.[Aristotle] Quote:An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.[Laurence Peter] Quote:http://www.quotedb.com[] Quote:He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs.[Bill Maher] Quote:http://www.quotedb.com[] Quote:The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead.[George Patton] Quote:The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.[Britney Spears] Quote:Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.[Stephen King] Quote:The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window.[Stephen King] Quote:We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?[Aldous Huxley] Quote:I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:http://www.quotedb.com[] Quote:Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.[Bill Cosby] Quote:Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.[Bill Cosby] Quote:From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?[Thomas Paine] Quote:It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.[Thomas Paine] Quote:Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Quote:Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.[George Washington] Quote:My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty. Iit is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.[George Washington] Quote:http://www.quotedb.com[Yogi Berra] Quote:There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.[Ernest Hemingway] Quote:Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.[Albert Einstein] Quote:http://www.quotedb.com[] 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:I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.[Xenocrates] Quote:Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:http://www.quotedb.com[] Quote:http://www.quotedb.com[] 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:The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.[Benjamin Disraeli] Quote:To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:http://www.quotedb.com[] Quote:I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:All I've ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's work.[Steve Martin] Quote:He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.[Socrates] Quote:A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.[Socrates] 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:If God has created us in His image, we have more than returned the compliment.[Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire)] Quote:http://www.quotedb.com[] Quote:The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.[Thomas Jefferson] Quote:How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?[Charles de Gaulle] Quote:The problem is not that we have too many fools, it's that the lightning isn't distributed right.[Mark Twain] 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 most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.[Thomas Sowell] 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:Thus far, the reputed idiot Bush has graduated from Yale and Harvard, made a stack of cash in the oil industry, become the first consecutive-term governor of Texas, defeated a dual-term VP for the presidency, and led his party to [November 5th's] extraordinary triumphs. Let his opponents keep calling him stupid; if they do, within five years Bush will be King of England, the Pope, and world Formula One motor racing champion.[Tim Blair] Quote:If I should die tomorrow, I will have no regrets. I did what I wanted to do. You can't expect more from life.[Bruce Lee] Quote:The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking.[Albert Einstein] Quote:Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines.[Bertrand Russell] Quote:Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.[Margaret Mead] Quote:Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns -- he should be drawn and quoted.[Fred Allen] Quote:I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.[Madonna Ciccone] Quote:I stopped getting the girl about ten years ago. Which is just as well because I'd forgotten what I wanted her for.[John Wayne] Quote:One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.[Erna Bombeck] Quote:If there is a soul, it is a mistake to believe that it is given tous fully created. It is created here, throughout a whole life. And living is nothing else but that long and painful bringing forth.[Albert Camus] Quote:Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; the beasts, by nature.[Marcus Tullius Cicero] Quote:Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.[Thomas Jefferson] 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:Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.[Barbara Tober] Quote:If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.[Doug Larson] Quote:http://www.quotedb.com[] Quote:http://www.quotedb.com[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.[Saul Bellow] Quote:Gandhi was inevitable. If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable. He lived, thought and acted, inspired by the vision of humanity evolving toward a world of peace and harmony. We may ignore Gandhi at our own risk.[Martin Luther King Jr.] 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:Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.[Henry Mencken] Quote:The absent are easily refuted.[C.S. Lewis] 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:Dualism is a truncated metaphysic.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:http://www.quotedb.com[] Quote:I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.[Henry Thoreau] 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:http://www.quotedb.com[] Quote:An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.[Daniel Webster] Quote:If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.[John Rockefeller] Quote:I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot, and I missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is precisely why I succeed.[Michael Jordan] Quote:http://www.quotedb.com[] Quote:My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-five now, and we don't know where the hell she is.[Ellen DeGeneres] Quote:Risk is what separates the good part of life from the tedium.[John Foley (Johnny Zero)] Quote:Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other 'sins' are invented nonsense.[Robert Heinlein] Quote:I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish.[J.R.R. Tolkien] Quote:http://www.quotedb.com[] 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: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:A gardener who cultivates his own garden with his own hands, united in his own person the three different characters, of landlord, farmer, and labourer. His produce, therefore, should pay him the rent of the first, the profit of the second, and the wages of the third.[Adam Smith] Quote:Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing...after they have exhausted all other possibilities.[Winston Churchill] Quote:Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it.[Mark Twain] Quote:I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.[Mark Twain] 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:http://www.quotedb.com[] Quote:http://www.quotedb.com[] Quote:A friend is able to see you as the wonderful person God created you to be.[Ann D. Parrish] Quote:http://www.quotedb.com[] Quote:A man's drive for profit should be prompted by the desire to give charity.[Nachman of Bratslav] Quote:The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.[Alfred Hitchcock] Quote:You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back.[Zsa Zsa Gabor] Quote:Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you.[Margaret Bourke-White] Quote:The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.[Muhammad Ali] Quote:What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.[Mark Twain] Quote:Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:http://www.quotedb.com[] Quote:The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.[George Washington] Quote:It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellow men.[George MacDonald] Quote:To be trusted is a greater complement than to be loved.[George MacDonald] Quote:In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.[Douglas Adams] 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, clowns aren't funny. In fact, they're kinda scary. I've wondered where this started, and I think it goes back to the time I went to the circus and a clown killed my dad.[Jack Handey] Quote:Many things--such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly--are done worst when we try hardest to do them.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.[Martin Luther King Jr.] 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:All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.[Adlai Stevenson] Quote:I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.[Erica Jong] Quote:The great principle which this house ought to guard and cherish is that, when the tax collector comes to the private citizen and takes from him of his wealth for the services of the public, the whole of that money taken shall go for the purposes for which it is intended, and that no private interests, however powerfully they may be organized and however eloquently advocated, shall thrust their dirty fingers into the pie and take the profits for themselves.[Winston Churchill] Quote:When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'[Sydney Harris] Quote:http://www.quotedb.com[] 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:I heard guys say they got into rock and roll to pick up women. I didn't get into rock to pick up women, but I sure adapted.[Ted Nugent] 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:A day without laughter is a day wasted.[Charlie Chaplin] Quote:Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.[George Will] 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:I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.[Henny Youngman] 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:In the counsels of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military Industrial Complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.[Plato] Quote:http://www.quotedb.com[] Quote:http://www.quotedb.com[] Quote:Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.[Plato] Quote:I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty years old. I invested in myself - in study, in mastering my tools, in preparation. Many a man who is putting a few dollars a week into the bank would do much better to put it into himself.[Henry Ford] Quote:How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd.[Alexander Pope] Quote:Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.[Friedrich Nietzsche] 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: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:I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays. [Henny Youngman] Quote:He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. [Benjamin Franklin] Quote:The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated. [Baltasar Gracian] 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:It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. [Dr. Thomas Fuller] Quote:No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. [Aesop] Quote:War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military. [Georges Clemenceau] Quote:Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. [E. B. White] Quote:Life is a sexually transmitted disease. [Anonymous] Quote:Life is a sexually transmitted disease. [Anonymous] 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:When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity. [Dale Carnegie] Quote:Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything. [Henry Kissinger] Quote:Marriage is the union of disparate elements. Male and female. Yin and yang. Proton and electron. What are we talking about here? Nothing less than the very tension that binds the universe. You see, when we look at marriage, people, we're are looking at creation itself. "I am the sky," says the Hindu bridegroom to the bride. "You are the earth. We are sky and earth united.... You are my husband. You are my wife. My feet shall run because of you. My feet shall dance because of you. My heart shall beat because of you. My eyes see because of you. My mind thinks because of you and I shall love because of you." [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Men are confused. They're conflicted. They want a woman who's their intellectual equal, but they're afraid of women like that. They want a woman they can dominate, but then they hate her for being weak. It's an ambivalence that goes back to a man's relationship with his mother. Source of his life, center of his universe, object of both his fear and his love. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. [George S. Patton] Quote:There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. [James Branch Cabell] Quote:Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half. [Mark Twain] Quote:To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to. [Moliere] Quote:Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice. [John F. Kennedy] Quote:The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous. [Anna Quindlen] Quote:My parents only had one argument in forty-five years. It lasted forty-three years. [Clarence Darrow] Quote:Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. [William Jennings Bryan] Quote:The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death. [Cicero] Quote:England and America are two countries separated by a common language. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:England and America are two countries separated by a common language. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:England and America are two countries separated by a common language. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:During [these] periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. [Andre Gide] Quote:Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one. [Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.] Quote:What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease. [Hippocrates] Quote:You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another. [Oprah Winfrey] 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:It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. [Charles M. Schulz] Quote:To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. [Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.] Quote:Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. [Sun-tzu] Quote:[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. [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:Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality. [Adam Clayton Powell Jr.] Quote:It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener. [Ayn Rand] Quote:When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it. [Bruce Barton] Quote:People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have. [Anne Tyler] Quote:Only the educated are free. [Epictetus] Quote:Only the educated are free. [Epictetus] Quote:Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand. [R. Buckminster Fuller] Quote:Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves. [Albert Einstein] Quote:The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible. [Albert Einstein] Quote:Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves. [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:Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. [Gore Vidal] Quote:Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. [Gore Vidal] Quote:The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. [e e cummings] Quote:Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. [Dave Barry] Quote:Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation. [Lawana Blackwell] 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:It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. [Aristotle] Quote:It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences. [Aristotle] Quote:Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient. [Euripides] Quote:There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience. [Antoine de Saint-Exupery] Quote:Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. [Henri-Frdric Amiel] Quote:Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything. [Friedrich von Schiller] Quote:It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. [Anatole France] Quote:Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart. [Margaret Cho] Quote:How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire! [Charles Lindbergh] Quote:Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed. [Elbert Hubbard] Quote:The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it. [Benjamin Disraeli] Quote:In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything. [John Updike] Quote:A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means. [Sallust] Quote:Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers. [Brenda Ueland] Quote:In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman. [George Ade] Quote:You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. [Beverly Sills] Quote:For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum. [John W. Gardner] Quote:The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten. [Arthur Schopenhauer] Quote:All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. [Arthur Schopenhauer] Definitions of: tedDefinition: To spread, or turn from the swath, and scatter for drying, as new-mowed grass; -- chiefly used in the past participle. |
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