Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:I want to know God's thoughts...the rest are details.[Albert Einstein] Quote:There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.[Albert Einstein] Quote:When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less. A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right.[C.S. Lewis] 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:The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.[Emile Zola] 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:You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.[GK Chesterton] Quote:People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought, which they avoid.[Soren Aabye Kierkegaard] Quote:Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.[Henry Ford] Quote:Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.[Henry Thoreau] Quote:Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.[Henry Van Dyke] Quote:How can those who scorn God revere men?[Sun Tzu] Quote:When I first heard that Marge was joining the police academy, I thought it would be fun and zany, like that movie Spaceballs. But instead it was dark and disturbing. Like that movie -- Police Academy.[Homer Simpson] Quote:Haven't you learned anything from that guy that gives those sermons in church? Captain What's-his-name. We live in a society of laws, why do you think I took you to see all those Police Academy movies? For fun? Well I didn't hear anybody laughing! Did you? Except at that guy who made sound effects. Vroom! Beep! Honk! Honk! Ha-ha. Where was I? Oh yeah, stay out of my booze![Homer Simpson] Quote:To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.[Mark Twain] Quote:The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.[Dante Alighieri] 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:Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.[Victor Hugo] Quote:Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding.[Samuel Johnson] Quote:Ability is nothing without opportunity.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.[Mother Teresa] Quote:It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.[Julius Caesar] Quote:I never cared but for one thing, and that is simply to know that I am right before my Father in Heaven. If I am this moment, this day, doing the things God requires of my hands, and precisely where my Father in Heaven wants me to be, I care no more about tomorrow than though it would never come.[Brigham Young] 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:Don't say it was 'delightful'; make us say 'delightful' when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers 'Please, will you do the job for me?'[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one!'[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.[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:I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.[Benjamin Disraeli] Quote:Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go, it's pretty damn good.[Woody Allen] 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:Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the Presidency.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionable integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.[T.S. Eliot] Quote:Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.[T.S. Eliot] Quote:Genius without education is like silver in the mine.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Theology is only thought applied to religion.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Philosophy is written in this grand book - I mean the Universe - which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it.[Galileo Galilei] Quote:It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.[Jeseph Joubert] Quote:A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art.[C.S. Lewis] 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:Experts tell us that if the Millennium Bug is not fixed, when the year 2000 arrives, our financial records will be inaccurate, our telephone system will be unreliable, our government will be paralyzed and airline flights will be canceled without warning. In other words, things will be pretty much the same as they are now.[Dave Barry] 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:It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.[Dave Barry] Quote: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:Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.[Dave Barry] Quote:God is not proud...He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.[Oscar Wilde] 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:For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not believe, no explanation is possible.[Author Unknown] Quote:Advice to young writers who want to get ahead without annoying delays: don?t write about Man, write about 'a' man.[E.B. White] Quote:The one man who should never attempt an explanation on poetry is its author. If the poem can be improved by its author?s explanations, it never should have been published.[Archibald MacLeish] Quote:Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.[Theodor Seuss Geisel] Quote:And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store? What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more?[Theodor Seuss Geisel] Quote:There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.[Robert Frost] Quote:Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.[Robert Frost] Quote:Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.[Siddhartha Buddha] Quote:It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.[Siddhartha Buddha] Quote:Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.[Siddhartha Buddha] Quote:When you get right down to it, the Safety Lecture is a silly idea. I mean, if the passengers really thought the plane was going to crash, they wouldn't get on it in the first place, let alone learn how to get an adequate oxygen supply on the way down.[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:To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.[Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.[Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.[Dale Carnegie] Quote:Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.[Dale Carnegie] Quote:Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.[Edmund Burke] Quote:I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.[Aristotle] Quote:If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.[Aristotle] Quote:It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.[Aristotle] 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 least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.[Aristotle] Quote:We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.[Aristotle] Quote:In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.[Laurence Peter] Quote:There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.[Laurence Peter] Quote:A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?[Lauren Bacall] Quote:All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:It is by the goodness of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.[Mark Twain] Quote:Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.[Saint Augustine] Quote:The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.[Saint Augustine] Quote:To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.[Aldous Huxley] Quote: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:There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.[Thomas Paine] 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:Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.[Theodore Roosevelt] 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:To love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person.[Erich Fromm] Quote:Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.[George Washington] Quote:As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.[George Washington] Quote:Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.[Saint Augustine] Quote:Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.[Thomas Edison] Quote:Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.[John F. Kennedy] 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:You shall be free indeed when your days are not without care nor your nights without a want and a grief, But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.[Kahlil Gibran] Quote:A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.[Henry Kissinger] 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:A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.[Confucius] Quote:Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.[Confucius] Quote:A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] 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:Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:Boy, those French, they have a different word for everything![Steve Martin] Quote:Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.[Steve Martin] Quote:The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.[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:Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.[Alexander Hamilton] Quote:There will be two kinds of people in the end: Those that will say to God 'Thy will be done' and those to whom God will say 'Thy will be done.'[C.S. Lewis] 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:Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.[Robert Heinlein] Quote:Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:If you have a job without aggravation, you don't have a job.[Malcolm Forbes] Quote:Anyone who invokes authors in discussion is not using his intelligence but his memory.[Leonardo da Vinci] Quote:We should not criticise those who trip by taking a more difficult than usual step.[Dick Hubbard] Quote:I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed.[Bruce Lee] Quote:Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.[Albert Einstein] 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:To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.[Thomas Aquinas] Quote:A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.[GK Chesterton] Quote:The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:The truth is always a trick to those who live among lies.[Author Unknown] Quote:The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking.[Albert Einstein] 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:How lucky for those in power that people don't think.[Adolf Hitler] 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:There are three types of baseball players: those who make things happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happens.[Tommy Lasorda] Quote:Our best thoughts come from others.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.[George Eliot] Quote:We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and then bid the geldings to be fruitful.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Without losers, where would the winners be?[Casey Stengel] Quote:A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island?.to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.[Baltasar Gracian] Quote:Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.[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:Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men. The other 999 follow women.[Groucho Marx] Quote:A room without books is like a body without a soul.[GK Chesterton] Quote:He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.[Saint Augustine] Quote:It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.[Thomas Paine] Quote:The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.[Kurt Vonnegut] Quote:Anyone who says that they can contemplate quantum mechanics without becoming dizzy has not understood the concept in the least.[Niels Bohr] 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: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:Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.[Winston Churchill] Quote:The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Quote:I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.[Thomas Jefferson] Quote:A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.[Daniel Webster] Quote:God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.[Daniel Webster] Quote:Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions.[Daniel Webster] Quote:A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.[Peter Wimsey] Quote:Those who believe they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:Without a doubt, psychological warfare has proven its right to a place of dignity in our military arsenal.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:Without computers, the government would be unable to function at the level of effectiveness and efficiency that we have come to expect. This is because the primary function of the government is -- and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitution -- 'to spew out paper.'[Dave Barry] Quote:Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year. And yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority.[W.J. Cameron] Quote:I have always thought of Christmas time as a good time. A kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time. The only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.[Charles Dickens] Quote:All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.[J.R.R. Tolkien] Quote:If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.[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: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: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:If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say and to finish without knowing what you have written.[Jean-Jacques Rousseau] 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:Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.[Tom Stoppard] Quote:What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce.[Mark Twain] Quote:None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.[Charles Caleb Colton] 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:Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.[Adlai Stevenson] Quote:The fruit that can fall without shaking, indeed is too mellow for me.[Lady Mary Wortley Montagu] Quote:Every author should weigh his work and ask, 'Will humanity gain any benefit from it?'[Nachman of Bratslav] Quote:Feel no sadness because of evil thoughts: it only strengthens them.[Nachman of Bratslav] Quote:Football is like life, it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.[Vince Lombardi] Quote:Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.[Bertrand Russell] Quote:If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.[W. Somerset Maugham] Quote:The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.[Benjamin Franklin] 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:For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances as though they were realities. and are often more influenced by things that seem than by those that are.[Nicolo Machiavelli] 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:Without music, life would be a mistake.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Only those who are fit to live do not fear to die. And none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same great adventure.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote: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:Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.[Siddhartha Buddha] 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:Even though he was an enemy of mine, I had to admit that what he had accomplished was a brilliant piece of strategy. First, he punched me, then he kicked me, then he punched me again.[Jack Handey] Quote:If your kid makes one of those little homemade guitars out of a cigar box and rubber bands, don't let him just play it once or twice and then throw it away. Make him practice on it, every day, for about three hours a day. Later, he'll thank you.[Jack Handey] Quote:I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.[Jack Handey] Quote:Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.[Jack Handey] Quote:When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.[Albert Einstein] Quote:Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.[William Shakespeare] Quote:Nothing noble is done without risk.[Andr Gide] Quote:When real music comes to me - the music of the speres, the music that surpasseth understanding - that has nothing to do with me, cause I'm just the channel. The only joy for me is for it to be given to me, and to transcribe it like a medium...those moments are what I live for.[John Lennon] Quote:America is the first country to have gone from barbarism to decadence without the usual intervening period of civilization.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.[Harry Truman] Quote:There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.[Henry Thoreau] Quote:A popular Government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives.[James Madison] Quote:Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.[Robert Kennedy] Quote:Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.[Burton Hills] Quote:Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.[Douglas MacArthur] Quote:The most depraved type of being is that without purpose.[Ayn Rand] Quote:To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday and our present thoughts build our life tomorrow. Our life is the creation of our mind.[Siddhartha Buddha] Quote:If the solar system was brought about by an accidental collision, then the appearance of organic life on this planet was also an accident, and the whole evolution of Man was an accident too. If so, then all our present thoughts are mere accidents - the accidental by-product of the movement of atoms. And this holds for the thoughts of the materialists and astronomers as well as for anyone else's. But if their thoughts - i.e., of Materialism and Astronomy - are merely accidental by-products, why should we believe them to be true?I see no reason for believing that one accident should be able to give me a correct account of all the other accidents.It's like expecting that the accidental shape taken by the splash when you upset a milk-jug should give you a correct account of how the jug was made and why it was upset.[C.S. Lewis] 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:When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.[Jacob August Riis] Quote:Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else.[William Rotsler] Quote:A day without laughter is a day wasted.[Charlie Chaplin] Quote:This world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel.[Horace Walpole] Quote:What once was thought can never be unthought.[Friedrich D?rrenmatt] Quote:I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.[Henny Youngman] 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:It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them![Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Without music, life would be a mistake.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, givne style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Life without music would be a mistake.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success. [Cato the Elder] Quote:They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. [Sir Philip Sidney] Quote:There is no great genius without some touch of madness. [Seneca] Quote:An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations. [Charles de Montesquieu] Quote:Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear. [Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Quote:What is it about genus arboretum that socks us in the figurative solar plexus? We see a logging truck go cruising down the road, stacked with a bunch of those fresh-cut giants, we feel like we lost a brother. Next thing you know, we're in The Brick, we're flopping money down on the bar. Wood. We're under a roof. Wood. We're walking the floors. Wood. Grabbing a pool cue. That's wood. Our friends in the forest carry a set of luggage from the mythical baggage carousel. Tree of life, tree of knowledge, family tree, Buddha's Bodhi tree. Page one of life, in the beginning. Genesis 3:22. Adam and Eve. They're kicking back in the garden of Eden and boom, they get an eviction notice. Why is that? "Lest they should also take of the tree of life, eat and live forever." A definitive Yahweh no-no. Be good to yourself, go out and plant a wet one on a tree. [Dr. Thomas Fuller] Quote:Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within. [Jose Ortega y Gasset] Quote:There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them. [Frank Lloyd Wright] Quote:Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, <br>Is the immediate jewel of their souls: <br>Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; <br>'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; <br>But he that filches from me my good name <br>Robs me of that which not enriches him <br>And makes me poor indeed. [William Shakespeare] Quote:Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter. [William Ralph Inge] Quote:It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. [Aeschylus] Quote:You signed a contract. But much more important than that, you gave your word. And I intend to hold you to that word within the bounds of the law. If necessary, without the bounds of the law. [Josh Brand and John Falsey] Quote:One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy. [Jane Austen] Quote:There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste. [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes. [Henry Kissinger] Quote:Creativity is a drug I cannot live without. [Cecil B. DeMille] Quote:Life's dirty. Life's unclean you know. It's birth, it's sex, it's the intestinal tract. One big squishy, unsanitary mess. It never gets any cleaner either. You know, dust to dust, worms crawl in, worms crawl out, right? Even though we know that, we still walk the walk, we still live the life. We're like a bunch of little kids. Little kids, you know, we jump in this big old pond of mud and we're slapping it all over our face, rubbing our hair all down our backs and we're making these glorious, gooey, mud pies. That's us. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] 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:There can be no spirituality, no sanctity, no truth without the female sex. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:You've been listening to the adagio from Beethoven's 7th Symphony. I think Ludwig pretty much summed up death in this one. You know, he had lost just about all his hearing when he wrote it, and I've often wondered if that didn't help him tune into the final silence of the great beyond. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Life here is so elemental. So real. Without the interference of civilization you can really experience things like,...silence. Silence and darkness in its purity. Right now, right outside my window all I can see is a black void. Endless darkness. It's totally exhilarating, and I feel very lucky to be here. Very, very lucky. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Life here is so elemental. So real. Without the interference of civilization you can really experience things like,...silence. Silence and darkness in its purity. Right now, right outside my window all I can see is a black void. Endless darkness. It's totally exhilarating, and I feel very lucky to be here. Very, very lucky. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want. [Terence] Quote:Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy [Norman Vincent Peale] Quote:The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel. [James Thurber] Quote:Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at. [Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess] Quote:Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it. [Francois de La Rochefoucauld] Quote:Orthodox medicine has not found an answer to your complaint. However, luckily for you, I happen to be a quack. [Sir William Osler] 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:If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. [Tryon Edwards] Quote:We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts. [John Dewey] Quote:To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success. [Anna Quindlen] Quote:Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails. [Clarence Darrow] Quote:Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. [Cicero] Quote:Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. [Cicero] Quote:Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. [Andre Gide] Quote:He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities. [Robertson Davies] Quote:We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for. [Marie Ebner von Eschenbach] Quote:The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep. [Ann Landers] Quote:It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea. [Robert Anton Wilson] Quote:Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou will judge others with the judgment of charity. [Jules Renard] Quote:To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. [Lao-tzu] Quote:The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning. [Franklin D. Roosevelt] Quote:LEONARD: I've failed, Chris. I can't locate the white collective unconscious.<br>CHRIS: I wouldn't feel too bad about that. You know, western culture hasn't really carried the baton on folklore and mythology. The rise of Christianity put the kibosh on it--the gospel hits the number one best-seller list and everything else gets remaindered. [Barbara Hall] Quote:If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live. [Henry S. Haskins] Quote:The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else. [Joseph Addison] Quote:Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance. [Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,<br>And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. [Andre Maurois] Quote:Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. [Albert Camus] Quote:You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question. [Albert Camus] Quote:The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. [Alfred North Whitehead] 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:Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established. [Confucius] Quote:He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good. [Confucius] Quote:Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. [Confucius] Quote:To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. [Heinrich Heine] Quote:Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God. [Heywood Broun] 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:Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. [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: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:Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. [Albert Einstein] Quote:Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. [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:Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence. [Hermann Hesse] 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:The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. [e e cummings] Quote:Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight. [Bern Williams] Quote:Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything. [Clifton Fadiman] Quote:Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. [Dave Barry] 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:Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. [Abraham Lincoln] Quote:The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore. [Robert J. Sawyer] Quote:I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore, I must stop doing what I've been doing. [Aristotle] Quote:If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost. [Aristotle] Quote:It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. [Aristotle] Quote:If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost. [Aristotle] Quote:He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,<br>And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. [Aristotle] Quote:Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. [Aristotle] Quote:I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. [Aristotle] Quote:Law is mind without reason. [Aristotle] Quote:I know indeed what evil I intend to do,<br>but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury,<br>fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils. [Euripides] Quote:Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. [Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. [Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Force without wisdom falls of its own weight. [Horace] Quote:Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality. [Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. [Thomas H. Huxley] Quote:Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. [Robert Frost] Quote:It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. [H. L. Mencken] Quote:We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? [Jean Cocteau] 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:We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies. [Etty Hillesum] 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:Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard. [Lois McMaster Bujold] Quote:Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. [Edgar Allan Poe] Quote:Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. [Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. [Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life. [P. D. James] Quote:I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts. [Elbert Hubbard] Quote:Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes. [Benjamin Disraeli] Quote:God, I don?t have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it. [Real Live Preacher] Quote:The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this. [Real Live Preacher] Quote:Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't. [Cynthia Ozick] Quote:Frugality without creativity is deprivation. [Brenda Ueland] Quote:Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. [Richard M. Nixon] Quote:The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided. [Casey Stengel] Quote:The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself. [Andre Malraux] Quote:Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. [Eugene Delacroix] Quote:It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it. After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics. [Penn Jillette] Quote:Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. [English Proverb] 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:The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves. [Sophocles] Definitions of: thoDefinition: The.Definition: Then. |
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