Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.[Saint Augustine] 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:Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude, but their attitude, that will determine their altitude.[Jesse Jackson] Quote:We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.[T.S. Eliot] Quote:The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.[W. Somerset Maugham] Quote:The ACLU is always yakking about the Constitution, and most of us are getting mighty tired of it. I mean, if the Constitution is so great, how come it was amended so many times? Huh?[Dave Barry] Quote:There are many silly superstitions about lightning, and as a result many people - maybe even you - are terrified of it. You shouldn't worry. Thanks to modern science we now know that lightning is nothing more than huge chunks of electricity that can come out of the sky, anytime, anywhere, and kill you.[Dave Barry] Quote:In some versions of my original contest column I had proposed, in a lighthearted manner, that we reduce the deficit by 'selling unnecessary states such as Oklahoma to the Japanese.' This caused a number of Oklahomans to send in letters containing many correctly spelled words and making the central lighthearted point that I am a jerk. They also sent me official literature stating that Oklahoma has enormous quantities of culture in the form of ballet, Oral Roberts, etc., and that the Official State Reptile -- I am not making this up -- is something called the 'Mountain Boomer.' So I apologize to Oklahoma, and as a token of my sincerity I'm willing to sell my state, Florida, to the Japanese, assuming nobody objects to the fact that Japan would suddenly become the most heavily armed nation on Earth.[Dave Barry] Quote:When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health and our happiness. Our enemies would dance with joy if only they knew how they were worrying us, lacerating us, and getting even with us! Our hate is not hurting them at al, but our hate is turning our days and nights into a hellish turmoil.[Dale Carnegie] Quote:The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.[Colin Powell] Quote:I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.[Mark Twain] Quote:Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.[Fulton J. Sheen] Quote:Chastity...the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.[Thomas Paine] Quote: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:I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.[George Washington] Quote:You're entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts.[Author Unknown] Quote:I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.[George Carlin] Quote:There is no substitute for hard work.[Thomas Edison] Quote:Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.[Henry Kissinger] 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: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:Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?[Henry Mencken] Quote:Humility is no substitute for a good personality.[Fran Lebowitz] Quote:The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.[Thomas Sowell] Quote:Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines.[Bertrand Russell] Quote:I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.[Madonna Ciccone] Quote:Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.[Earl Nightingale] Quote:A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.[Saul Bellow] 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:I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.[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:The uniform, constant and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition, the principle from which public and national, as well as private opulence is originally derived, is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement, in spite both of the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of administration. Like the unknown principle of animal life, it frequently restores health and vigour to the constitution, in spite, not only of the disease, but of the absurd prescriptions of the doctor.[Adam Smith] Quote: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:I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.[Thomas Jefferson] 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:No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.[Douglas MacArthur] Quote:Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self- consciousness. [Aaron Copland] Quote:A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. [Lisa Alther] Quote:Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. [George Santayana] Quote:Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts. [John Henry Cardinal Newman] Quote:There can be no spirituality, no sanctity, no truth without the female sex. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. [Francois de La Rochefoucauld] Quote:Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies. [Cicero] Quote:We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition. [Cicero] Quote:Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth. [Franklin D. Roosevelt] Quote:Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. [Helen Keller] Quote:A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time. [Helen Keller] Quote:The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind. [William James] Quote:I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many of the prejudices of the few. [Benjamin Disraeli] Quote:I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many of the prejudices of the few. [Benjamin Disraeli] Quote:Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. [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:Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition. [Bertrand Russell] Definitions of: titDefinition: A small horse.Definition: A woman; -- used in contempt. Definition: A morsel; a bit. Definition: Any one of numerous species of small singing birds belonging to the families Paridæ and Leiotrichidæ; a titmouse. Definition: The European meadow pipit; a titlark. |
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