Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.[C.S. Lewis] 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:If God had wanted us to spend our time fretting about the problems of home ownership, He would never have invented beer.[Dave Barry] Quote:I don't know what the new Ford will be called. Probably something like the 'Ford Untamed Wilderness Adventure.' In the TV commercials, it will be shown splashing through rivers, charging up rocky mountainsides, swinging on vines, diving off cliffs, racing through the surf, and fighting giant sharks hundreds of feet beneath the ocean surface -- all the daredevil things that cars do in Sport Utility Vehicle Commercial World, where nobody ever drives on an actual world. In fact, the interstate highways in Sport Utility Vehicle Commercial World, having been abandoned by humans, are teeming with deer, squirrels, birds, and other wildlife species that have fled from the forests to avoid being run over by nature-seekers in multi-ton vehicles barreling through the underbrush at 50 miles per hour.[Dave Barry] 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:An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.[Edmund Burke] Quote:The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.[Stephen Hawking] Quote:A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.[Benjamin Franklin] 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:There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.[Ernest Hemingway] Quote:An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.[GK Chesterton] Quote:To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.[Thomas Edison] Quote:There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.[Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.[Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire)] Quote:We all wish to be judged by our peers, by the men 'after our own heart.' Only they really know our mind and only they judge it by standards we fully acknowledge. Theirs is the praise we really covet and the blame we really dread. The little pockets of early Chrstians survived because they cared exclusively for the love of 'the bretheren' and stopped their ears to the opinion of the Pagan society around them. But a circle of criminals, cranks, or perverts survives in just the same way; by becoming deaf to the opinion of the outer world, by discounting it as the chatter of outsiders who 'don't understand,' of the 'conventional,' the 'bourgeois,' the 'Establishment,' of prigs, prudes, and humbugs.[C.S. Lewis] Quote: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:Every act and event is the inevitable result of prior acts and events and is independent of human will.[Karl Marx] Quote:Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other 'sins' are invented nonsense.[Robert Heinlein] Quote:I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.[Mark Twain] Quote:The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.[Vince Lombardi] Quote:What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.[Mark Twain] Quote:Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that men know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is look at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop; eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home.[Dave Barry] Quote:I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.[Thomas Jefferson] 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: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:This does not mean that the enemy is to be allowed to escape. The object is to make him believe that there is a road to safety, and thus prevent his fighting with the courage of despair. After that, you may crush him.[Sun Tzu] Quote:We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.[Robert Wilensky] Quote:Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche -- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black cat is always the last one off the fence.' I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true. [Solomon Short] 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:Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter. [William Ralph Inge] Quote:Getting caught is the mother of invention. [Robert Byrne] Quote:I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. [Agatha Christie] Quote:I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. [Agatha Christie] Quote:To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. [Thomas A. Edison] 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:The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines. [Henry J. Tillman] Quote:You must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences. [Hippocrates] Quote:[The television is] an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home. [David Frost] Quote:The best way to predict the future is to invent it. [Charles F. Kettering] Quote:It's funny, to me, the way people refer to childbirth as a miraculous event. A miracle is something that defies nature. Only, childbirth has got to be the most natural thing in the world. Top three anyway. But, on the other hand, when you think about it, there's really no other word that fits. Sperm. Egg. A coincidental meshing of genetic information that will grow something that could write an opera or cook up some Napalm. It blows my mind. [Barbara Hall] Quote:The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. [Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. [Bob Newhart] Quote:The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. [Alfred North Whitehead] Quote:It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener. [Ayn Rand] Quote:We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys. [Eric Hoffer] Quote:Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. [Francis Quarles] Quote:The best way to predict the future is to invent it. [Albert Einstein] Quote:You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. [Albert Einstein] Quote:Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure. [Helen Keller] Quote:Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. [Helen Keller] Quote:Invention is the mother of necessity. [Thorstein Veblen] Quote:Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed. [Epicurus] Quote:Life is an adventure in forgiveness. [Norman Cousins] Definitions of: ventDefinition: Sale; opportunity to sell; market.Definition: A baiting place; an inn. Definition: A small aperture; a hole or passage for air or any fluid to escape; as, the vent of a cask; the vent of a mold; a volcanic vent. Definition: The anal opening of certain invertebrates and fishes; also, the external cloacal opening of reptiles, birds, amphibians, and many fishes. Definition: The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge; touchhole. Definition: Sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet. Definition: Fig.: Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet. Definition: Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance. |
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