Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.[William Congreve] Quote:To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.[Kahlil Gibran] Quote:It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.[George Patton] Quote:Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer, but imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.[Jesse Jackson] Quote:It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.[C.S. Lewis] 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: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:Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.[Ian Fleming] Quote:I wish TV had a knob so you could turn up the intelligence. The one marked Brightness doesn't work.[Leo Gallagher] Quote:Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.[Siddhartha Buddha] Quote:Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.[Siddhartha Buddha] Quote:Cooking was invented in prehistoric times, when a primitive tribe had a lucky accident. The tribe had killed an animal and was going to eat it raw, when a tribe member named Woog tripped and dropped it into the fire. At first the other tribe members were angry at Woog, but then, as the aroma of burning meat filled the air, they had an idea. So they ate Woog raw.[Dave Barry] Quote:It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.[George Dennison Prentice] 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:A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead.[George Patton] Quote:You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.[Bill Cosby] Quote:The American people are slow to wrath, but when their wrath is once kindled it burns like a consuming flame.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one; but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.[Saint Augustine] Quote:Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can't control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control your fear, it makes you more alert, like a deer coming across the lawn.[Mike Tyson] Quote:On my way here I passed a local cinema and it turned out you were expecting me after all, for the billboards read: The Mummy Returns.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.[Kahlil Gibran] Quote:A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.[Confucius] Quote:Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:If God has created us in His image, we have more than returned the compliment.[Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire)] Quote:Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.[Henry Ward Beecher] Quote:Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.[Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire)] 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:Were it possible for us to wait for ourselves to come into the room, not many of us would find our hearts breaking into flower as we heard the door handle turn.[Rebecca West] Quote:Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.[Kahlil Gibran] Quote:On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.[Siddhartha Buddha] Quote:But what is the difference between literature and journalism? Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:I have an intense desire to return to the womb. Anybody's.[Woody Allen] Quote:Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.[GK Chesterton] Quote:I'm so fast that, last night, I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.[Muhammad Ali] Quote:I am Envy. I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.[Christopher Marlowe] Quote:A few hours of mountain climbing turn a villain and a saint into two rather equal creature. Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity, and liberty is added eventually by sleep.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:It makes me mad when people say I turned and ran like a scared rabbit. Maybe it was like an angry rabbit, who was going to fight in another fight, away from the first fight.[Jack Handey] Quote:Instead of burning a guy at the stake, what about burning him at the STILTS? It probably lasts longer, plus it moves around.[Jack Handey] Quote:If you think a weakness can be turned into a strength, I hate to tell you this, but that's another weakness.[Jack Handey] Quote:I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.[Erica Jong] Quote: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:My idea of courage is the guy who has $500,000 tied up in the stock market and turns to the box scores first![Earl Wilson] Quote:If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of 'religion.'[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.[Michael Jordan] Quote:I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there.[Fred Allen] 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:We burn daylight. [William Shakespeare] Quote:A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. [George Santayana] 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:The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. [Arthur C. Clarke] Quote:Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. [John Maynard Keynes] Quote:The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark. [Barbara Hall] Quote:Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon. [David Assael] Quote:Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. [Frank Zappa] Quote:He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it. [Confucius] 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:A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. [Herman Melville] Quote:Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay-- Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses. [Charles Kingsley] Quote:No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation. [Fran Lebowitz] Quote:Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. [G. K. Chesterton] 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] Definitions of: urnDefinition: A vessel of various forms, usually a vase furnished with a foot or pedestal, employed for different purposes, as for holding liquids, for ornamental uses, for preserving the ashes of the dead after cremation, and anciently for holding lots to be drawn.Definition: Fig.: Any place of burial; the grave. Definition: A measure of capacity for liquids, containing about three gallons and a haft, wine measure. It was haft the amphora, and four times the congius. Definition: A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca. Definition: A tea urn. See under Tea. |
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