Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| 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:Over the next hundred years or so football saw a great many major innovations and refinements that are too boring to even think about. Along the way professional football came into being so that the largest and most violent college players would have a way to earn money other than simply demanding it from innocent civilians.[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: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:Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.[George Carlin] Quote:Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.[Winston Churchill] Quote:Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is--the strong horse that pulls the whole cart.[Winston Churchill] Quote:It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:God enters by a private door into every individual.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:If you have a job without aggravation, you don't have a job.[Malcolm Forbes] Quote:The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.[George Bernard Shaw] 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:The statesman who would attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himeslf with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safetly be trusted to no council and senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.[Adam Smith] Quote:The uniform, constant and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition, the principle from which public and national, as well as private opulence is originally derived, is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement, in spite both of the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of administration. Like the unknown principle of animal life, it frequently restores health and vigour to the constitution, in spite, not only of the disease, but of the absurd prescriptions of the doctor.[Adam Smith] Quote:A gardener who cultivates his own garden with his own hands, united in his own person the three different characters, of landlord, farmer, and labourer. His produce, therefore, should pay him the rent of the first, the profit of the second, and the wages of the third.[Adam Smith] Quote:The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.[C.S. Lewis] 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:The great principle which this house ought to guard and cherish is that, when the tax collector comes to the private citizen and takes from him of his wealth for the services of the public, the whole of that money taken shall go for the purposes for which it is intended, and that no private interests, however powerfully they may be organized and however eloquently advocated, shall thrust their dirty fingers into the pie and take the profits for themselves.[Winston Churchill] Quote:No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.[Douglas MacArthur] 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:An idea is salvation by imagination. [Frank Lloyd Wright] Quote:The quality of mercy is not strain'd, <br>It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven <br>Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: <br>It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. <br>'T is mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes <br>The throned monarch better than his crown; <br>His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, <br>The attribute to awe and majesty, <br>Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; <br>But mercy is above this sceptred sway, <br>It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, <br>It is an attribute to God himself; <br>And earthly power doth then show likest God's, <br>When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew, <br>Though justice be thy plea, consider this, <br>That in the course of justice none of us <br>Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy; <br>And that same prayer doth teach us all to render <br>The deeds of mercy. [William Shakespeare] Quote:The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. [Hannah Arendt] Quote:The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. [Hannah Arendt] Quote:Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things. [Denis Diderot] Quote:When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity. [Dale Carnegie] Quote:The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them. [Mark Twain] Quote:The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them. [Mark Twain] Quote:The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them. [Mark Twain] Quote:The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them. [Mark Twain] Quote:Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature. [Cicero] Quote:In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind. [Louis Pasteur] Quote:It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea. [Robert Anton Wilson] Quote:A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. [Franklin D. Roosevelt] 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: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:Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner. [Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. [Bill Cosby] Quote:Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation. [Walter Winchell] Quote:I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. [Henry David Thoreau] Quote:Management is nothing more than motivating other people. [Lee Iacocca] Quote:When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. [Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. [Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:I never dared to be radical when young<br> For fear it would make me conservative when old. [Robert Frost] Quote:A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. [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:Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them. [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:Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder for what you want. [Sallust] Quote:Frugality without creativity is deprivation. [Brenda Ueland] Quote:Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. [Donald Trump] Definitions of: vatDefinition: A large vessel, cistern, or tub, especially one used for holding liquors in an immature state, chemical preparations for dyeing, or for tanning, or for tanning leather, or the like.Definition: A measure for liquids, and also a dry measure; especially, a liquid measure in Belgium and Holland, corresponding to the hectoliter of the metric system, which contains 22.01 imperial gallons, or 26.4 standard gallons in the United States. Definition: A wooden tub for washing ores and mineral substances in. Definition: A square, hollow place on the back of a calcining furnace, where tin ore is laid to dry. Definition: A vessel for holding holy water. |
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