Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Christmas is the one time of year when people of all religions come together to worship Santa Claus.[Bart Simpson] Quote:Haven't you learned anything from that guy that gives those sermons in church? Captain What's-his-name. We live in a society of laws, why do you think I took you to see all those Police Academy movies? For fun? Well I didn't hear anybody laughing! Did you? Except at that guy who made sound effects. Vroom! Beep! Honk! Honk! Ha-ha. Where was I? Oh yeah, stay out of my booze![Homer Simpson] Quote:People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway. Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway.[Mother Teresa] Quote:Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:Congress, after years of stalling, finally got around to clearing the way for informal discussions that might lead to possible formal talks that could potentially produce some kind of tentative agreements...[Dave Barry] 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:Karate is a form of marital arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.[Dave Barry] Quote:Males have a lot of trouble not looking at breasts. What is worse, males cannot look at breasts and think at the same time. In fact, scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid. This was proved in a famous 1978 laboratory experiment wherein a team of leading male psychological researchers at Yale deliberately looked at photographs of breasts every day for two years, at the end of which they concluded that they had failed to take any notes.[Dave Barry] Quote:There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.[Christopher Morley] Quote:Back in the old days, most families were close-knit. Grown children and their parents continued to live together, under the same roof, sometimes in the same small, crowded room, year in and year out, until they died, frequently by strangulation.[Dave Barry] 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:We should enact an 'e' tax. Government agents would roam the country looking for stores whose names contained any word that ended in an unnecessary 'e,' such as 'shoppe' or 'olde,' and the owners of these stores would be taxed at a flat rate of $50,000 per year per 'e.' We should also consider an additional $50,000 'ye' tax, so that the owner of a store called 'Ye Olde Shoppe' would have to fork over $150,000 a year. In extreme cases, such as 'Ye Olde Barne Shoppe,' the owner would simply be taken outside and shot.[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:You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.[Dale Carnegie] Quote:We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.[Aristotle] Quote:The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.[Mark Twain] 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: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:Old age is fifteen years older than I am.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:I broke a mirror the other day. I'm supposed to get seven years of bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.[Steven Wright] Quote:Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.[Colin Powell] Quote:I wrote a novel this year called <b[Steve Martin] Quote:Thus far, the reputed idiot Bush has graduated from Yale and Harvard, made a stack of cash in the oil industry, become the first consecutive-term governor of Texas, defeated a dual-term VP for the presidency, and led his party to [November 5th's] extraordinary triumphs. Let his opponents keep calling him stupid; if they do, within five years Bush will be King of England, the Pope, and world Formula One motor racing champion.[Tim Blair] Quote:Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.[Madonna Ciccone] Quote:I stopped getting the girl about ten years ago. Which is just as well because I'd forgotten what I wanted her for.[John Wayne] 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:I think and think for months and years, ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.[Albert Einstein] Quote:It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.[Warren Buffett] Quote:I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.[Charles Dickens] 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:Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas time.[Laura Ingalls Wilder] 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:The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.[Muhammad Ali] Quote:Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years.[Nicolo Machiavelli] Quote:Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.[Dorothy Parker] Quote:You know what the fellow said: In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michaelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love--they had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.[Orson Welles] Quote:The thing we all have to understand to put these last two years in focus, is that liberals in this country care more about whether European leaders like us than they do about whether terrorists are killing us.[Rush Limbaugh] Quote:You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.[Plato] Quote:You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.[Plato] 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:After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood. [George W. Bush] Quote:Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. [Georg Christoph Lichtenberg] Quote:Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:I guess what I'm trying to say is, I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you're not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:My parents only had one argument in forty-five years. It lasted forty-three years. [Clarence Darrow] Quote:The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep. [Ann Landers] Quote:It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea. [Robert Anton Wilson] 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:When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half. [Judith Martin] Quote:I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. [Lillian Hellman] Quote:The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. [Calvin Trillin] Quote:The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. [Calvin Trillin] Quote:Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other. [Unknown] Quote:After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood. [Oscar Levant] Quote:The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. [Doris Lessing] Quote:A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. [H. L. Mencken] Quote:To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. [Bernard M. Baruch] Quote:Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard. [Lois McMaster Bujold] Quote:If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. [John Updike] Quote:He was born an Englishman and remained one for years. [Brendan Behan] Quote:It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. [Elizabeth Taylor] Definitions of: yeaDefinition: Yes; ay; a word expressing assent, or an affirmative, or an affirmative answer to a question, now superseded by yes. See Yes.Definition: More than this; not only so, but; -- used to mark the addition of a more specific or more emphatic clause. Cf. Nay, adv., 2. |
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