Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude. But they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you.[Kevin Smith] 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:Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:I'm not normally a religious man, but if you're up there, save me, Superman![Homer Simpson] Quote:When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.[Edgar Watson Howe] Quote:God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.[Saint Augustine] Quote:Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?[Victor Hugo] Quote:There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.[Victor Hugo] Quote:Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.[Mother Teresa] Quote:Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike. Subjectivism about values is eternally incompatible with democracy. We and our rulers are of one kind only so long as we are subject to one law. But if there is no Law of Nature, the ethos of any society is the creation of its rulers, educators and conditioners; and every creator stands above and outside his own creation.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.[Heywood Broun] Quote:When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:When you are in any contest you should work as if there were, to the very last minute, a chance to lose it.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.[T.S. Eliot] Quote:Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.[GK Chesterton] Quote:If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.[GK Chesterton] Quote:If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.[Dave Barry] Quote:Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.[Dave Barry] Quote:We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.[Konrad von Gesner] Quote:You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.[Christopher Morley] Quote:Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.[John Donne] Quote:Drug testing is very big in football. This is because football players are Role Models for young people. All you young people out there want to grow up and have enormous necks and get knee operations as often as haircuts. That's why the people in charge of football don't want you to associate it with drugs. They want you to associate it with alcohol.[Dave Barry] Quote:Tokyo is huge. Something like 15 million people live there, and my estimate is that at any given moment, 14.7 million of them are lost. This is because the Tokyo street system holds the world outdoor record for randomness. A map of Tokyo looks like a tub of hyperactive bait. There is virtually no street that goes directly from anywhere to anywhere.[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 real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.[Fran Lebowitz] Quote:If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.[Dale Carnegie] Quote:Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.[Dale Carnegie] Quote:Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?[Stephen Hawking] Quote:The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?[Stephen Hawking] Quote:Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.[Aristotle] Quote:Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty -- excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable -- should persist after the beauty was gone.[Aristotle] Quote:We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.[Aristotle] Quote:In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.[Laurence Peter] 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:Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.[Stephen King] Quote:Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.[Saint Augustine] Quote:Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty -- excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable -- should persist after the beauty was gone.[Mary Arnim] Quote:The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy.[Fulke Greville] Quote:If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.[Olin Miller] 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:It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:There is quite enough sorrow and shame amd suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.[Theodore Roosevelt] 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:There may be some things better than sex, and some things worse than sex. But there is nothing exactly like it.[Author Unknown] Quote:I was gonna rip his heart out. I'm the best ever. I'm the most brutal and vicious, the most ruthless champion there has ever been. No one can stop me. Lennox is a conqueror? No! He's no Alexander! I'm Alexander! I'm the best ever. I'm Sonny Liston. I'm Jack Dempsey. There's never been anyone like me. I'm from their cloth. There is no one who can match me. My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I want his heart! I want to eat his children! Praise be to Allah![Mike Tyson] Quote:Nobody goes there anymore; it's too crowded.[Yogi Berra] Quote:You got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.[Yogi Berra] Quote:The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.[Yogi Berra] Quote:If a man does his best, what else is there?[George Patton] Quote:Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.[Woody Allen] Quote:Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.[Thomas Edison] Quote:I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.[Socrates] Quote:To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.[Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.[Edmond and Jules de Goncourt] Quote:Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.[Will Rogers] Quote:In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.[Paul Harvey] Quote:To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.[Theodore Roosevelt] 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:We all wish to be judged by our peers, by the men 'after our own heart.' Only they really know our mind and only they judge it by standards we fully acknowledge. Theirs is the praise we really covet and the blame we really dread. The little pockets of early Chrstians survived because they cared exclusively for the love of 'the bretheren' and stopped their ears to the opinion of the Pagan society around them. But a circle of criminals, cranks, or perverts survives in just the same way; by becoming deaf to the opinion of the outer world, by discounting it as the chatter of outsiders who 'don't understand,' of the 'conventional,' the 'bourgeois,' the 'Establishment,' of prigs, prudes, and humbugs.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.[Abraham Lincoln] Quote:Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me.'[George Orwell] Quote:We firmly believe there is more to life than money, beer, and sex. We just don't know what it is.[Aaron Shapiro] Quote:It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.[Mahatma Gandhi] 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:I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.[Mahatma Gandhi] 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:My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.[Orson Welles] 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:There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.[Pablo Picasso] Quote:If devotion to truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking...the alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind.[Ayn Rand] Quote:I'm not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.[Woody Allen] Quote:Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.[Daniel Webster] Quote:If there is one sound the follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.[David Gemmell] Quote:Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.[Antoine de Saint-Exuper] Quote:Experience has taught me that there is one chief reason why some people succeed and others fail. The difference is not one of knowing, but of doing. The successful man is not so superior in ability as in action. So far as success can be reduced to a formula, it consists of this: doing what you know you should do.[Roger Babson] Quote:Such is the delicacy of man alone, that no object is produced to his liking. He finds that in everything there is need for improvement. The whole industry of human life is employed not in procuring the supply of our three humble necessities, food, clothes and lodging, but in procuring the conveniences of it according to the nicety and delicacy of our tastes.[Adam Smith] Quote:How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.[Adam Smith] Quote: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:If a nation could not prosper without the enjoyment of perfect liberty and perfect justice, there is not in the world a nation which could ever have prospered.[Adam Smith] Quote:There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.[Indira Gandhi] Quote:There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.[Blaise Pascal] Quote:The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.[Muhammad Ali] Quote:In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.[Ansel Adams] Quote:There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.[Ansel Adams] Quote:God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that moment.[Mother Teresa] Quote:I am Envy. I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.[Christopher Marlowe] Quote:Such men as he be never at heart's ease whiles they behold a greater than themselves, and therefore are they very dangerous.[William Shakespeare] Quote:If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.[Winston Churchill] 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:A finer body of men has never been gathered by any nation than the men who have done the work of building the Panama Canal; the conditions under which they have lived and have done their work have been better than in any similar work ever undertaken in the tropics; they have all felt an eager pride in their work; and they have made not only America but the whole world their debtors by what they have accomplished.[Theodore Roosevelt] 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: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:Whenever you read a good book, it's like the author is right there, in the room, talking to you, which is why I don't like to read good books.[Jack Handey] Quote:If you ever crawl inside an old hollow log and go to sleep, and while you're in there some guys come and seal up both ends and then put it on a truck and take it to another city, boy, I don't know what to tell you.[Jack Handey] Quote:Is there anything more beautiful than a beautiful, beautiful flamingo, flying across in front of a beautiful sunset? And he's carrying a beautiful rose in his beak, and also he's carrying a very beautiful painting with his feet. And also, you're drunk.[Jack Handey] 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:Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been, and there you long to return.[Leonardo da Vinci] Quote:All malice has injustice at it's end, an end achieved by violence or by fraud; while both are sins that earn the hate of heaven, since fraud belongs exclusively to man, God hates it more and, therefore, far below, the fraudulent are placed and suffer most.[Dante Alighieri] 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:I have gathered a posie of other men?s flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own.[John Bartlett] Quote:In the depths of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.[Albert Camus] Quote:This does not mean that the enemy is to be allowed to escape. The object is to make him believe that there is a road to safety, and thus prevent his fighting with the courage of despair. After that, you may crush him.[Sun Tzu] Quote:It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.[John Adams] Quote:Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it.[Henry Ford] Quote:Wal-Mart, what's that? Do they, like, make walls there?[Paris Hilton] Quote:You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.[Plato] Quote:I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there.[Fred Allen] Quote:He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.[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:I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there. [Herb Caen] 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:Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. [Ovid] Quote:You think Nature is some Disney movie? Nature is a killer. Nature is a bitch. It's feeding time out there 24 hours a day, every step that you take is a gamble with death. If it isn't getting hit with lightning today, it's an earthquake tomorrow or some deer tick carrying Lime disease. Either way, you're ending up on the wrong end of the food chain. [Jeff Melvoin] Quote:The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction. [Aesop] Quote:The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason. [John Cage] Quote:Dreams are postcards from our subconscious, inner self to outer self, right brain trying to cross that moat to the left. Too often they come back unread: "return to sender, addressee unknown." That's a shame because it's a whole other world out there--or in here depending on your point of view. [Dennis Koenig and Jordan Budde] Quote:I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that ther's always somebody there, somebody that's family. [Trey Parker and Matt Stone] Quote:I just realized that there's going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with it the right way. [Trey Parker and Matt Stone] 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:If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. [Dale Carnegie] Quote:I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time. [Arnold Bennett] Quote:In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities. In the expert's mind there are few. [Virgil] Quote:Marriage. It's a hard term to define. Especially for me--I've ducked it like root canal. Still there's no denying the fact that marriage ranks right up there with birth and death as one of the three biggies in the human safari. It's the only one though that we'll celebrate with a conscious awareness. Very few of you remember your arrival and even fewer of you will attend your own funeral. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Greetings on this most exceedingly beautiful spring morning. A morning swollen with new life, a morning on which, if I had the voice, I would let loose with song. It's hard to believe just a few short weeks ago we were eating our cornflakes in the wintery dark. Now, well it's still kind of dim out there, but I can see the golden glow of Apollo's chariot waiting in the wings, about to make its entrance. Winter's on the lam, no doubt. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. [Carl Jung] Quote:The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. [Carl Jung] Quote:The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. [Carl Jung] Quote:Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it. [Mark Twain] Quote:Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. [Mark Twain] Quote:The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines. [Henry J. Tillman] Quote:Where is there dignity unless there is honesty? [Cicero] Quote:Where is there dignity unless there is honesty? [Cicero] Quote:If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around. [Cicero] 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:It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:In charity there is no excess. [Sir Francis Bacon] Quote:If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain. [Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.] Quote:For every action there is an equal and opposite government program. [Bob Wells] Quote:My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose. [Bette Davis] Quote:Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others. [Jules Renard] Quote:I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. [George Sand] Quote:It's funny, to me, the way people refer to childbirth as a miraculous event. A miracle is something that defies nature. Only, childbirth has got to be the most natural thing in the world. Top three anyway. But, on the other hand, when you think about it, there's really no other word that fits. Sperm. Egg. A coincidental meshing of genetic information that will grow something that could write an opera or cook up some Napalm. It blows my mind. [Barbara Hall] Quote:Being plied with fine food always puts me in mind of the slammer, cause the food was jumpin' in there too--high in fat but nice and salty. You know what the worst deprivation in there was? My music. Radio belonged to my cell mate, the Blonde Hammer. He was into that jazz-fusion thing at the time. I tell you what, enough Spyro Gyra and you're hoping you'll get killed in a knife fight. [Barbara Hall] Quote:If there comes a little thaw, Still the air is chill and raw, Here and there a patch of snow, Dirtier than the ground below, Dribbles down a marshy flood; Ankle-deep you stick in mud In the meadows while you sing, "This is Spring." [David Assael] Quote:Wildness. We're running out of it, even up in Alaska. People need to be reminded that the world is unsafe and unpredictable, and at a moment's notice, they could lose everything, like that. I do it to remind them that chaos is always out there, lurking beyond the horizon. That, plus, sometimes you have to do something bad, just to know you're alive. [David Assael] Quote:If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other. [Carl Schurz] Quote:If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling. [Joseph Addison] Quote:You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait. [General Douglas MacArthur] Quote:There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity. [General Douglas MacArthur] Quote:In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. [Albert Camus] Quote:In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. [Albert Camus] Quote:The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles. [Ayn Rand] Quote:Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage. [Confucius] Quote:There are more fools in the world than there are people. [Heinrich Heine] Quote:Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God. [Heywood Broun] Quote:The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not. [Eric Hoffer] Quote:The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not. [Eric Hoffer] Quote:Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population. [Albert Einstein] Quote:Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population. [Albert Einstein] Quote:We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. [Helen Keller] Quote:Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb. [Sir Winston Churchill] Quote:No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. [Booker T. Washington] Quote:Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed. [Abraham Lincoln] Quote:It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. [Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped. [Sam Levenson] Quote:Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice; yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage. [Aristotle] Quote:Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice. [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:Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. [Antoine de Saint-Exupery] Quote:In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better. [Ellen DeGeneres] Quote:There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting. [David Letterman] Quote:If there were no God, there would be no Atheists. [G. K. Chesterton] Quote:Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. [Woodrow Wilson] Quote:ONE WHO WAITS: There are those who believe that time is a wheel turning forever. Which would mean that your moment will surely come. Then, there are those who believe that time is a river. Which, if that's true, it's possible that your moment has already flowed by.<br> ED: Which one do you think it is?<br> ONE WHO WAITS: Ah. I think that time is just time. [Geoffrey Neighor] Quote:There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you. [Cyril Connolly] Quote:To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. [Cyril Connolly] Quote:Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, <br> Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home. [Lois McMaster Bujold] Quote:In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from. [Peter Drucker] Quote: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:If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings. [Arthur Rubinstein] Quote:There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep. [Homer] Quote:When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income. [Plato] Definitions of: thereDefinition: In or at that place.Definition: In that matter, relation, etc.; at that point, stage, etc., regarded as a distinct place; as, he did not stop there, but continued his speech. Definition: To or into that place; thither. |
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