Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.[Albert Einstein] Quote:Surely what a man does when he is caught off his guard is the best evidence as to what sort of man he is.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:I hate it when my leg falls sleep in the middle of the day, because that means it'll be up all night.[Steven Wright] Quote:Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.[Henry Ford] Quote:Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.[Mel Brooks] Quote:When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.[Buckminster Fuller] Quote:Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.[Robin Williams] Quote:I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up DOES rejoice. Still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone. I guess I just miss my friend.[Morgan Freeman] Quote:Christmas is the one time of year when people of all religions come together to worship Santa Claus.[Bart Simpson] Quote:Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?[Abraham Lincoln] Quote:Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.[Saint Augustine] Quote:Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.[Ambrose Bierce] 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:Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.[Jesse Jackson] Quote:Don't say it was 'delightful'; make us say 'delightful' when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers 'Please, will you do the job for me?'[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one!'[C.S. Lewis] Quote:What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when He catches us, as it were, off our guard.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:I like to say that I'm bisexual...when I want sex, I buy it.[Boy George] Quote:Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:Half of maturity consists of knowing when and how to be immature.[Chris Bowyer] Quote:I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.[GK Chesterton] Quote:These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.[GK Chesterton] Quote:The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Experts tell us that if the Millennium Bug is not fixed, when the year 2000 arrives, our financial records will be inaccurate, our telephone system will be unreliable, our government will be paralyzed and airline flights will be canceled without warning. In other words, things will be pretty much the same as they are now.[Dave Barry] Quote:I recently had my annual physical examination, which I get once every seven years, and when the nurse weighed me, I was shocked to discover how much stronger the Earth's gravitational pull has become since 1990.[Dave Barry] Quote:Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.[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:What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?[Erna Bombeck] Quote:Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?[Philip Hamerton] Quote:A University of Chicago professor said the greatest day in the world was when a water puppy crawled out on land and decided to stay. The water puppy, he said, went on to become a man. If he proves that, I am willing to give up Christmas, Thanksgiving, and New Year's Day, and to celebrate Water Puppy Day.[William Jennings Bryan] Quote:The humblest citizen of all the land; when clad in the armour of a righteous cause; is stronger than all the hosts of Error.[William Jennings Bryan] Quote:The worst moment for the athieist is when he feels thankful and has no one to thank.[Dante Gabriel Rossetti] Quote:Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.[Satchel Paige] Quote:A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.[Robert Frost] Quote:It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.[Robert Frost] Quote:Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.[Robert Frost] Quote:You should never pick up a newspaper when you're feeling good, because every newspaper has a special department, called the Bummer Desk, which is responsible for digging up depressing front-page stories with headlines like DOORBELL USE LINKED TO LEUKEMIA and OZONE LAYER COMPLETELY GONE DIRECTLY OVER YOUR HOUSE.[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:I assume you are on the Internet. If you are not, then pardon my French, but vous ehzeh un big loser. Today EVERYBODY is on the Internet, including the primitive Mud People of the Amazon rain forest. In the old days, when the Mud People needed food, they had to manually throw spears at wild boars; whereas today they simply get on the Internet, go to www.spear-a-boar.com and click their mouse a few times (the Mud People use actual mice). Within three business days, a large box is delivered to them by a UPS driver, whom they eat.[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:I probably should never have been there anyway, and it served me right when the two alert police officers fired up their siren, pulled me over, and pointed out that my car's registration had expired. I had not realized this, and as you can imagine I felt like quite the renegade outlaw as one of the officers painstakingly wrote out my ticket, standing well to the side of the road so as to avoid getting hit by the steady stream of passing unlicensed and uninsured motorists driving their stolen cars with their left hands so that their right hands would be free to keep their pit bulls from spilling their cocaine all over their machine guns. Not that I am bitter.[Dave Barry] Quote:Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.[Fran Lebowitz] Quote:Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.[Fran Lebowitz] Quote:Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.[Dale Carnegie] Quote:Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.[Aristotle] Quote:Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.[Aristotle] Quote:If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.[Aristotle] Quote:Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty -- excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable -- should persist after the beauty was gone.[Aristotle] Quote:A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.[Laurence Peter] Quote:Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.'[Colin Powell] Quote:A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.[Mark Twain] Quote:Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.[Mark Twain] Quote:Sundance is weird. The movies are weird. You actually have to think about them when you watch them.[Britney Spears] Quote:The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.[Stephen King] Quote:You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.[Stephen King] Quote:Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty -- excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable -- should persist after the beauty was gone.[Mary Arnim] Quote:Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?[Aldous Huxley] Quote:You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later, when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.[Jonathan Carroll] Quote:Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.[Bill Cosby] Quote:When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.[Theodore Roosevelt] 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:Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.[George Washington] 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: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:They (Christians) would throw me in jail and write bad articles about me and then go to church on Sunday and say Jesus is a wonderful man and he's coming back to save us. But they don't understand that when he comes back, that these crazy greedy capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.[Mike Tyson] Quote:Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.[Mike Tyson] Quote:Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel.[Yogi Berra] Quote:Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.[George Carlin] Quote:When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.[Mark Twain] Quote:Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.[Thomas Edison] Quote:The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.[John F. Kennedy] Quote:You shall be free indeed when your days are not without care nor your nights without a want and a grief, But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.[Kahlil Gibran] Quote:There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:Hosting the Oscars is like making love to a beautiful woman - it's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal's out of town.[Steve Martin] Quote:If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.[Socrates] Quote:True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.[Socrates] Quote:Remember when safe sex meant not getting caught?[Author Unknown] Quote:Never interrupt me when I'm trying to interrupt you.[Winston Churchill] Quote:I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.[Woody Allen] Quote:Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.[Ed Gardner] Quote:Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance.[Author Unknown] Quote:Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Principles only mean something when you stick to them when its inconvenient.[Author Unknown] Quote:The movie's director is the pilot. It's his vision. For an actor, the time to worry about flying is when you're on the ground. If you don't want to fly with the director, don't get on the plane.[Denzel Washington] Quote:Home is where you come when you run out of places.[Author Unknown] Quote:Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.[Edward Abbey] Quote:Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.[Gloria Steinem] Quote:Calm, lasting beauty comes only in a dream, and this solace the world had thrown away when in its worship of the real it threw away the secrets of childhood and innocence.[H.P. Lovecraft] Quote:Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million, but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.[Arnold Schwarzenegger] Quote:We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:Life is but a brief moment. The years go by quickly and old age arrives suddenly before we have an inkling. People desire so many things and waste their days in vain. Some yearn for gold, others for power, yet others for glory and a higher station. But when death's moment nears and they look back at their lives they've lived, they realise they've been happy only during those moments when they've loved.[Borje Vahamaki] Quote:The reason I love my dog so much is because when I come home, he's the only one in the world who treats me like I'm The Beatles.[Bill Maher] Quote:The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to.[Thomas Jefferson] Quote:I once said cynically of a politician, 'He'll doublecross that bridge when he comes to it.'[Oscar Levant] Quote:A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.[Saul Bellow] Quote:Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.[Mark Twain] Quote:Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.[Erica Jong] 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:The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.[Benjamin Disraeli] Quote:Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.[George Patton] Quote:I'm not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.[Woody Allen] Quote:Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.[Margaret Mead] Quote:Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.[Blaise Pascal] Quote:Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.[Antoine de Saint-Exuper] Quote:Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.[Phyllis Diller] Quote:My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-five now, and we don't know where the hell she is.[Ellen DeGeneres] Quote:I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.[Leonardo da Vinci] Quote:A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.[William James] Quote:I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.[Fred Allen] Quote:A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.[P.J. O'Rourke] Quote:Christmas is a time when you get homesick, even when you're home.[Carol Nelson] Quote:Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year. And yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority.[W.J. Cameron] Quote:Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it.[Richard Lamm] Quote:I have always thought of Christmas time as a good time. A kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time. The only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.[Charles Dickens] Quote:Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.[J.R.R. Tolkien] Quote:Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That?s my religion.[Abraham Lincoln] Quote:Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.[Amy Bloom] Quote:Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?[GK Chesterton] Quote:Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.[Winston Churchill] Quote:Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.[George Santayana] Quote:Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.[Ansel Adams] 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:If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.[Winston Churchill] Quote:Any new system is worth trying when your luck is bad.[Heywood Broun] 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:Playing dead not only comes in handy when face to face with a bear, but also at important business meetings.[Jack Handey] Quote:To me, it's always a good idea to always carry two sacks of something when you walk around. That way, if anybody says, 'Hey, can you give me a hand?,' you can say, 'Sorry, got these sacks.'[Jack Handey] Quote:I bet the main reason the police keep people away from a plane crash is they don't want anybody walking in and lying down in the crash stuff, then when somebody comes up act like they just woke up and go, 'What was THAT?!'[Jack Handey] Quote:Many things--such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly--are done worst when we try hardest to do them.[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:Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.[Omar Bradley] Quote:Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.[Sam Brown] Quote:Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.[Nathaniel Hawthorne] Quote:If the solar system was brought about by an accidental collision, then the appearance of organic life on this planet was also an accident, and the whole evolution of Man was an accident too. If so, then all our present thoughts are mere accidents - the accidental by-product of the movement of atoms. And this holds for the thoughts of the materialists and astronomers as well as for anyone else's. But if their thoughts - i.e., of Materialism and Astronomy - are merely accidental by-products, why should we believe them to be true?I see no reason for believing that one accident should be able to give me a correct account of all the other accidents.It's like expecting that the accidental shape taken by the splash when you upset a milk-jug should give you a correct account of how the jug was made and why it was upset.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all.[Thomas Jefferson] Quote:All I want out of life, is that when I walk down the street folks will say, 'There goes the greatest hitter that ever lived.'[Ted Williams] Quote:The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.[Plato] Quote:Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.[Plato] Quote:When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.[Winston Churchill] Quote:Traffic is like a bad dog. It isn't important to look both ways when crossing the street. It's more important to not show fear.[P.J. O'Rourke] Quote:One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.[Friedrich Nietzsche] 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:The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly. [E. M. Forster] Quote:Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. [Henry Ward Beecher] Quote:Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. [Erica Jong] Quote:[Advice is] what you ask for when you already know the answer but wish you didn't. [Erica Jong] Quote:A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. [Jack London] Quote:The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason. [John Cage] Quote:If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry. [Arab Proverb] Quote:When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable. [Madeleine L'Engle] Quote:A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you. [Dylan Thomas] Quote:Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen. [Ambrose Bierce] Quote:The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. [Elizabeth Cady Stanton] Quote:The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault. [Henry Kissinger] Quote:If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old. [Edgar Watson Howe] Quote:The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Marriage is the union of disparate elements. Male and female. Yin and yang. Proton and electron. What are we talking about here? Nothing less than the very tension that binds the universe. You see, when we look at marriage, people, we're are looking at creation itself. "I am the sky," says the Hindu bridegroom to the bride. "You are the earth. We are sky and earth united.... You are my husband. You are my wife. My feet shall run because of you. My feet shall dance because of you. My heart shall beat because of you. My eyes see because of you. My mind thinks because of you and I shall love because of you." [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:You've been listening to the adagio from Beethoven's 7th Symphony. I think Ludwig pretty much summed up death in this one. You know, he had lost just about all his hearing when he wrote it, and I've often wondered if that didn't help him tune into the final silence of the great beyond. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:You bluffed me! I don't like it when people bluff me. It makes me question my perception of reality. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Weird, isn't it? Somehow in the dead of winter when its 40 below, so cold your words just freeze in the air, you think you'll never hear a robin's song again or see a blossom on a cherry tree, when one day you wake up and bingo, light coming through the mini blinds is softened with a tick of rose and the cold morning air has lost its bite. It's spring once again, the streets are paved with mud and the hills are alive with the sound of mosquitos. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:The day is coming, and it ain't going to be long, when you ain't even gonna have to leave your living room. No more schools, nor more bodegas, no more tabernacles, no more cinneplexes. You're going to snuggle up to your fiber optics baby and bliss out. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Change, when it comes, cracks everything open. [Harrison Ford] Quote:Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. [Francois de La Rochefoucauld] Quote:Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it. [Mark Twain] Quote:Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic. [Thomas Szasz] Quote:It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine. [Heraclitus] Quote:Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them. [Franklin P. Adams] Quote:Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it. [Charles Dickens] Quote:Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe. [Laurence J. Peter] Quote:Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. [Laurence J. Peter] Quote:If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflection. It's a time of year when the leaves are down and the harvest is in and the perennials are gone. Mother Earth just closed up the drapes on another year and it's time to reflect on what's come before. [Mitchell Burgess] 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:One of the things that keeps you from dropping them in the nearest volcano is that you had to work too hard to get them. You had to cry, you had to scream, you had to sweat, you had to cuss out health care officials, and when that's all over with, you'll be willing to put up with a lot more from your kids. [Barbara Hall] Quote:How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue! <br> Who would not be that youth? What pity is it <br> That we can die but once to serve our country! [Joseph Addison] Quote:Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. [B. F. Skinner] Quote:Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner. [Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home. [Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait. [General Douglas MacArthur] Quote:Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. [Plutarch] Quote:I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty. [George Burns] Quote:Why be a man when you can be a success? [Bertolt Brecht] Quote:Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. [J. R. R. Tolkien] Quote:There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love. [Christopher Morley] Quote:The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles. [Ayn Rand] Quote:Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage. [Confucius] Quote:When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge. [Confucius] Quote:The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved. [Confucius] Quote:People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have. [Anne Tyler] Quote:It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable. [Eric Hoffer] 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:Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. [Albert Einstein] Quote:Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction. [Blaise Pascal] Quote:Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well. [Abraham Lincoln] Quote:When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion. [Abraham Lincoln] Quote:If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost. [Aristotle] Quote:If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost. [Aristotle] Quote:Liars when they speak the truth are not believed. [Aristotle] Quote:It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences. [Aristotle] Quote:[Spring is] when life's alive in everything. [Christina Rossetti] Quote:Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be. [Anton Chekhov] Quote:What is left when honor is lost? [Publilius Syrus] Quote:There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience. [Antoine de Saint-Exupery] Quote:Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. [Antoine de Saint-Exupery] Quote:The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. [Ralph W. Sockman] Quote:The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. [Ralph W. Sockman] 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:The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it. [Josh Billings] Quote:And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. [Anais Nin] Quote:Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. [Thomas H. Huxley] Quote:I never dared to be radical when young<br> For fear it would make me conservative when old. [Robert Frost] Quote:A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. [H. L. Mencken] Quote:Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep. [Fran Lebowitz] Quote:Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever. [Margaret Cho] Quote:Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot. [D. H. Lawrence] Quote:Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. [Franklin P. Jones] Quote:Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. [Franklin P. Jones] Quote:To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail our pride supports us; when we succeed, it betrays us. [Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire! [Charles Lindbergh] Quote:Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long. [Socrates] Quote:Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. [Socrates] Quote:Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy. [Eugene McCarthy] Quote:This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. [Will Rogers] Quote:Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked. [Lord Chesterfield] Definitions of: whenDefinition: At what time; -- used interrogatively.Definition: At what time; at, during, or after the time that; at or just after, the moment that; -- used relatively. Definition: While; whereas; although; -- used in the manner of a conjunction to introduce a dependent adverbial sentence or clause, having a causal, conditional, or adversative relation to the principal proposition; as, he chose to turn highwayman when he might have continued an honest man; he removed the tree when it was the best in the grounds. Definition: Which time; then; -- used elliptically as a noun. |
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