Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| 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:The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.[Tom Clancy] Quote:Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?[Victor Hugo] Quote:The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt comes with less fruit.[Rush Limbaugh] Quote:Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.[Sydney Smith] Quote:Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.[Andr Gide] Quote:There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.[GK Chesterton] 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: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 was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings![Henry Ward Beecher] Quote:It is very easy to tell the difference between man-made and God-made objects. The more you magnify man-made objects, the cruder they look, but the more you magnify God-made objects, the more precise and intricate they appear.[Luther Sutherland] Quote:I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.[Totie Fields] Quote:The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.[Aristotle] Quote:Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.[George Bernard Shaw] 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:The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.[Mark Twain] Quote:If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.[Gloria Leonard] Quote:There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:All I've ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's work.[Steve Martin] Quote:The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.[Woody Allen] Quote:If you're given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.[Katherine Hepburn] Quote:I believe that sex is a beautiful thing between two people. Between five, it's fantastic.[Woody Allen] Quote:God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please - you can never have both.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:Sex between a man and a woman can be absolutely wonderful - provided you get between the right man and the right woman.[Woody Allen] Quote:Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.[Colman McCarthy] Quote:Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.[John Barrymore] Quote:But what is the difference between literature and journalism? Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion, because if a mother can kill her own child what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.[Mother Teresa] Quote:The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize.[Saul Bellow] 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:Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.[Mark Twain] Quote:The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it; so fine that we often are on the line and do not know it.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:I'm at an age where I think more about food than sex. Last week I put a mirror over my dining room table.[Rodney Dangerfield] Quote:There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.[Oscar Levant] Quote:I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old, familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth, good-will to men![Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Quote:Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.[Will Rogers] Quote:The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education.[Adam Smith] Quote:Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.[Brian Tracy] Quote:Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God![Patrick Henry] Quote:One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.[Mark Twain] 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:A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.[Fidel Castro] Quote:Life is just one grand sweet song, so start the music.[Ronald Reagan] Quote:When you work seven days a week, fourteen hours a day, you get lucky.[Armand Hammer] Quote:Honeymoon: a short period of doting between dating and debating.[Ray Bandy] Quote:I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty years old. I invested in myself - in study, in mastering my tools, in preparation. Many a man who is putting a few dollars a week into the bank would do much better to put it into himself.[Henry Ford] Quote:Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. [William Shakespeare] Quote:I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. [E. B. White] Quote:In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes. [Jane Austen] 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:Greetings on this most exceedingly beautiful spring morning. A morning swollen with new life, a morning on which, if I had the voice, I would let loose with song. It's hard to believe just a few short weeks ago we were eating our cornflakes in the wintery dark. Now, well it's still kind of dim out there, but I can see the golden glow of Apollo's chariot waiting in the wings, about to make its entrance. Winter's on the lam, no doubt. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the possession of the capacity to get elegant solutions to non-existent engineering problems; engineering is practicing the art of the organized forcing of technological change... Engineers operate at the interface between science and society... [Herbert Hoover] Quote:The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death. [Cicero] Quote:Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out. [Sir Francis Bacon] Quote:An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy. [Niels Bohr] Quote:Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer? [Heinrich Heine] 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:All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. [H. L. Mencken] Quote:Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand. [Baruch Spinoza] Definitions of: weeDefinition: A little; a bit, as of space, time, or distance. |
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