Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it.[Groucho Marx] Quote:Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is.[Jedi Master Yoda] 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:God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her.[Benjamin Tillet] Quote:Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.[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:I believe we are born with our minds open to wonderful experiences, and only slowly learn to limit ourselves to narrow tastes. We are taught to lose our curiosity by the bludgeon-blows of mass marketing, which brainwash us to see 'hits,' and discourage exploration.[Roger Ebert] Quote:The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.[Robert Frost] Quote:The odds of not meeting in this life are so great that every meeting is like a miracle. It's a wonder that we don't make love to every single person we meet.[Yoko Ono] Quote:Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.[Saint Augustine] 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:When you become senile, you won't know it.[Bill Cosby] Quote:Our country offers the most wonderful example of democratic government on a giant scale that the world has ever seen; and the peoples of the world are watching to see whether we succeed or fail.[Theodore Roosevelt] 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:You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours.[Yogi Berra] Quote:I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.[Thomas Edison] Quote:It's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:Wisdom begins in wonder.[Socrates] Quote:There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that.[Steve Martin] Quote:Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?[Henry Mencken] Quote:I arrive at the end of this review having done my duty as a critic. I have described the movie accurately and you have a good idea what you are in for if you go to see it. Most of you will not. I cannot argue with you. Some of you will--the brave and the curious. You embody the spirit of the man who first wondered what it would taste like to eat an oyster.[Roger Ebert] 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:There are three types of baseball players: those who make things happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happens.[Tommy Lasorda] 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:When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall - think of it, <b[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenatrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties - this knowledge, this feeling ... that is the core of the true religious sent iment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself amoung profoundly religious men.[Albert Einstein] Quote:Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.[Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire)] Quote:It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.[Anne Frank] Quote:Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.[Margaret Mead] Quote:If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.[Thomas Wolfe] Quote:The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.[Muhammad Ali] Quote:A friend is able to see you as the wonderful person God created you to be.[Ann D. Parrish] Quote:I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.[Muhammad Ali] Quote:The whole trouble is that we won't let God help us.[George MacDonald] Quote:To me, clowns aren't funny. In fact, they're kinda scary. I've wondered where this started, and I think it goes back to the time I went to the circus and a clown killed my dad.[Jack Handey] Quote:Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus's-flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog because it only has little tiny plant teeth. But some other stuff could happen and it could be like ambition.[Jack Handey] Quote:I wanted to do something nice so I bought my mother-in-law a chair. Now they won't let me plug it in.[Henny Youngman] Quote:Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits that under analysis some of them won't stand up either. [Evan Esar] 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: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:I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth. [Carl Sandburg] Quote:He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it. [Douglas Adams] Quote:Nature is wont to hide herself. [Heraclitus] Quote:Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him. [Cicero] Quote:Be ashamed to die unless you have won some victory for humanity. [Horace Mann] Quote:Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. [Horace Mann] Quote:The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. [Alfred North Whitehead] Quote:I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief. [Gerry Spence] Quote:If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either. [Dick Cavett] Quote:If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either. [Dick Cavett] Quote:The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this. [Real Live Preacher] Quote:I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true. [Carl Sagan] 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:Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work. [Will Rogers] Definitions of: wonDefinition: imp. & p. p. of Win.Definition: Dwelling; wone. |
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