Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:If you are going through hell, keep going.[Winston Churchill] Quote:There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.[Albert Einstein] Quote:How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?[Albert Einstein] Quote:Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.[Albert Einstein] Quote:You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Whenever you find a man who says he doesn't believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude. But they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you.[Kevin Smith] Quote:You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.[Zig Ziglar] Quote:Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.[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:You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.[GK Chesterton] Quote:The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.[Mario Andretti] 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:I am not young enough to know everything.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.[George Patton] Quote:Age does not protect you from love, but love to some extent protects you from age.[Jeanne Moreau] Quote:Love is a sign from the heavens that you are here for a reason.[J. Ghetto] Quote:Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.[Mark Twain] Quote:If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.[Abraham Lincoln] Quote:If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.[Kahlil Gibran] Quote:Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.[Robin Williams] Quote:She is not perfect. You are not perfect. The question is whether or not you are perfect for each other.[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:If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.[Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:If you judge people, you have no time to love them.[Mother Teresa] Quote:I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.[Victor Hugo] Quote:Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says: 'I need you because I love you.'[Erich Fromm] Quote:I'm not normally a religious man, but if you're up there, save me, Superman![Homer Simpson] Quote:The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother! I call him Gamblor, and it's time to snatch your mother from his neon claws![Homer Simpson] Quote:What IS your fascination with my forbidden closet of mysteries?[Chief Wiggum] Quote:When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.[Edgar Watson Howe] Quote:It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:Put out an APB for a male suspect, driving a... car of some sort, heading in the direction of, uh, you know, that place that sells chili. Suspect is hatless. Repeat, hatless.[Chief Wiggum] 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:You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.[Henny Youngman] Quote:The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.[Saint Augustine] Quote:Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.[Saint Augustine] Quote:Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.[Saint Augustine] Quote:I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for an alliance with her; and not run about offering her amity to all the world; and hazarding their refusal. Our virgin is a jolly one; and tho at present not very rich, will in time be a great fortune, and where she has a favorable predisposition, it seems to me well worth cultivating.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.[Victor Hugo] Quote:Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.[Victor Hugo] Quote:Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.[Victor Hugo] Quote:Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.[Victor Hugo] Quote:Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.[Mother Teresa] Quote:It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.[Mother Teresa] 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:Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.[Mother Teresa] Quote:Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.[Jesse Jackson] Quote:Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up.[Jesse Jackson] Quote:Your children need your presence more than your presents.[Jesse Jackson] Quote:You do what you are...You?re born with a gift. If not that, then you get good at something along the way. And what you?re good at. you don?t take for granted.[Morgan Freeman] Quote:Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth thrown in. Aim at Earth and you get neither.[C.S. Lewis] 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:Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn. My God do you learn.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:The true meaning of life is to plant trees, whose shade you do not expect to sit.[Nelson Henderson] Quote:The good thing about being bisexual is that it doubles your chance of a date on a Saturday night.[Woody Allen] Quote:Good sex is like good Bridge: if you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.[Mae West] Quote:When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:When you are in any contest you should work as if there were, to the very last minute, a chance to lose it.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:Do not needlessly endanger your lives until I give you the signal.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.[Dwight Eisenhower] 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:If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?[T.S. Eliot] Quote:If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby[T.S. Eliot] Quote:Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least, not until the producers or the public tell you to.[T.S. Eliot] Quote:Being a leader is like being a lady, if you have to go around telling people you are one, you aren't.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:It's a phonetic language. Anything can make sense. How do you think Dr. Seuss wrote any of that sh*t?[Matthew J. Clayfield] Quote:When you break the big laws, you do not get freedom; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.[GK Chesterton] Quote:How else can you fight God but to pretend He doesn't exist?[Chris Bowyer] Quote:Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.[GK Chesterton] Quote:The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.[Edgar Watson Howe] Quote:I wish TV had a knob so you could turn up the intelligence. The one marked Brightness doesn't work.[Leo Gallagher] Quote:Admit it, sport-utility-vehicle owners! It's shaped a little differently, but it's a station wagon! And you do not drive it across rivers! You drive it across the Wal-Mart parking lot![Dave Barry] Quote:Because of the level of my chess game, I was able - even against a weak opponent, such as my younger brothers or the dog - to get myself checkmated in under three minutes. I challenge any computer to do it faster.[Dave Barry] Quote:Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth.[Dave Barry] Quote:Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true![Dave Barry] Quote:Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?[Dave Barry] Quote:If you surveyed a hundred typical middle-aged Americans, I bet you'd find that only two of them could tell you their blood types, but every last one of them would know the theme song from The Beverly Hillbillies.[Dave Barry] Quote:If you were to open up a baby's head -- and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should -- you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland.[Dave Barry] Quote:In fact, just about all the major natural attractions you find in the West -- the Grand Canyon, the Badlands, the Goodlands, the Mediocrelands, the Rocky Mountains and Robert Redford -- were caused by erosion.[Dave Barry] Quote:It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.[Dave Barry] Quote:Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.[Dave Barry] Quote:Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators.[Dave Barry] Quote:Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.[Dave Barry] Quote:Puns are little plays on words that a certain breed of person loves to spring on you and then look at you in a certain self-satisfied way to indicate that he thinks that you must think that he is by far the cleverest person on Earth now that Benjamin Franklin is dead.[Dave Barry] Quote:People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.[Dave Barry] Quote:Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.[Dave Barry] Quote:Talking about golf is always boring. (Playing golf can be interesting, but not the part where you try to hit the little ball; only the part where you drive the cart.)[Dave Barry] Quote:The function of RAM is to give us guys a way of deciding whose computer has the biggest, studliest, most tumescent MEMORY. This is important, because with today's complex software, the more memory a computer has, the faster it can produce error messages. So the bottom line is, if you're a guy, you cannot have enough RAM.[Dave Barry] Quote:The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.[Dave Barry] Quote:Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.[Dave Barry] 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:Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?[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:A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere--'Bibles laid open, millions of surprises,' as Herbert says, 'fine nets and stratagems.' God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.[Author Unknown] 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:Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.[William Jennings Bryan] Quote:'It will obliterate your senses!' reports David Gillin, who obviously writes autobiographically.[Roger Ebert] Quote:When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Don't look back; they may be gaining on you.[Satchel Paige] Quote:Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.[Satchel Paige] Quote:It ain't braggin' if you can back it up.[Dizzy Dean] Quote:Advice to young writers who want to get ahead without annoying delays: don?t write about Man, write about 'a' man.[E.B. White] Quote:Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.[Theodor Seuss Geisel] Quote:Fantasy is a necessary ingrediant in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.[Theodor Seuss Geisel] Quote:No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.[Theodor Seuss Geisel] Quote:Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try![Theodor Seuss Geisel] Quote:You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.[Theodor Seuss Geisel] Quote:Everything you want also wants you.[Jack Canfield] Quote:The surest way of spoiling a pleasure is to start examining your satisfaction.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.[Christopher Morley] Quote:Act like you expect to get into the end zone.[Christopher Morley] Quote:When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.[Christopher Morley] 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:Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.[Robert Frost] Quote:If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.[Robert Frost] 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:You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.[Robert Frost] 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:You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.[Siddhartha Buddha] Quote:However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?[Siddhartha Buddha] Quote:It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.[Siddhartha Buddha] Quote:You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says,[Dave Barry] Quote:I figured out why I'm not getting seriously rich. I write newspaper columns. Nobody ever makes newspaper columns into Major Motion Pictures starring Tom Cruise. The best you can hope for, with a newspaper column, is that people will like it enough to attach it to their refrigerators with magnets shaped like fruit.[Dave Barry] Quote:'You scratch my back, and I'll suck blood out of yours' - that is the insect motto.[Dave Barry] Quote:Drug testing is very big in football. This is because football players are Role Models for young people. All you young people out there want to grow up and have enormous necks and get knee operations as often as haircuts. That's why the people in charge of football don't want you to associate it with drugs. They want you to associate it with alcohol.[Dave Barry] Quote:You should do your own car repairs. It's an easy way to save money and possibly maim yourself for life.[Dave Barry] Quote:Classical music gradually lost popularity because it is too complicated: you need twenty-five or thirty skilled musicians just to hum it properly. So people began to develop regular music.[Dave Barry] Quote:There are many silly superstitions about lightning, and as a result many people - maybe even you - are terrified of it. You shouldn't worry. Thanks to modern science we now know that lightning is nothing more than huge chunks of electricity that can come out of the sky, anytime, anywhere, and kill you.[Dave Barry] Quote:When you get right down to it, the Safety Lecture is a silly idea. I mean, if the passengers really thought the plane was going to crash, they wouldn't get on it in the first place, let alone learn how to get an adequate oxygen supply on the way down.[Dave Barry] 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: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 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:If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.[Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep well?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'[Steven Wright] Quote:Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.[Fran Lebowitz] Quote:I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or or not.[Fran Lebowitz] Quote:In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.[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:Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.[Anthelme Brillat-Savarin] Quote:Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.[Mark Twain] Quote:There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.[Mark Twain] Quote:Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.[Dale Carnegie] Quote:Have you ever heard people say 'don't sweat the details'? Well, they're wrong: sweat the details. They have a name for people who sweat the details: millionaires.[Jerry Bowyer] Quote:Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.[Dale Carnegie] Quote:If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.[Dale Carnegie] Quote:It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.[Dale Carnegie] Quote:Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.[Dale Carnegie] 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:You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.[Dale Carnegie] Quote:Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.[Edmund Burke] Quote:Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.[Aristotle] Quote:Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.[Aristotle] Quote:It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.[Aristotle] Quote:A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.[Laurence Peter] Quote:Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.[Laurence Peter] Quote:Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.[Laurence Peter] Quote:The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.[Laurence Peter] Quote:A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?[Lauren Bacall] Quote:I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.[Lauren Bacall] Quote:Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed with being right?[Wayne Dyer] Quote:The measure of your life will not be in what you accumulate, but in what you give away.[Wayne Dyer] Quote:One of the most responsible things you can do as an adult is to become more of a child.[Wayne Dyer] Quote:We become what we think about all day long. The question is, 'What do you think about?'[Wayne Dyer] Quote:By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:If you would be loved, love and be lovable.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Marriage is the most natural state of man, and the state in which you will find solid happiness.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Money can help you to get medicines but not health. Money can help you to get soft pillows, but not sound sleep. Money can help you to get material comforts, but not eternal bliss. Money can help you to get ornaments, but not beauty. Money will help you to get an electric earphone, but not natural hearing. Attain the supreme wealth, wisdom, and you will have everything.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility. In the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.[Michael Korda] Quote:If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.[Colin Powell] Quote:Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.[Colin Powell] 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:When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I'll like it or not. Disagreement, at this stage, stimulates me. But once a decision has been made, the debate ends. From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.[Colin Powell] Quote:You don't know what you can get away with until you try.[Colin Powell] Quote:Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful. So you might as well live.[Dorothy Parker] Quote:If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.[Dorothy Parker] Quote:Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.[Mark Twain] Quote:Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.[Mark Twain] Quote:Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let me label you as they may.[Mark Twain] Quote:George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.[Mark Twain] Quote:Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.[Mark Twain] Quote:I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell -- you see, I have friends in both places.[Mark Twain] Quote:If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.[Mark Twain] Quote:If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.[Mark Twain] Quote:It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.[Mark Twain] Quote:It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.[Mark Twain] Quote:Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.[Mark Twain] Quote:The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead.[George Patton] Quote:Sundance is weird. The movies are weird. You actually have to think about them when you watch them.[Britney Spears] Quote:When you're comfortable with someone you love, the silence is the best.[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:When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'[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:Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.[Stephen King] Quote:Unless you believe, you will not understand.[Saint Augustine] Quote:Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?[Fulton J. Sheen] Quote:Swallow your pride occasionally, it's not fattening.[Frank Tyger] Quote:Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.[Frank Tyger] Quote:If you cannot lift the load off another's back, do not walk away. Try to lighten it.[Frank Tyger] 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:Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.[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:If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.[Olin Miller] Quote:Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap on-a-rope.[Bill Cosby] Quote:When you become senile, you won't know it.[Bill Cosby] Quote:Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.[Bill Cosby] Quote:Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.[Bill Cosby] Quote:Anyone can dabble, but once you've made that commitment, your blood has that particular thing in it, and it's very hard for people to stop you.[Bill Cosby] Quote:In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.[Bill Cosby] Quote:The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.[Bill Cosby] Quote:You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.[Bill Cosby] Quote:My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.[Abraham Lincoln] Quote:Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.[Thomas Paine] Quote:When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.[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:Success, the real success, does not depend upon the position you hold but upon how you carry yourself in that position.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Reputation is character minus what you've been caught doing.[Michael Iapoce] Quote:Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.[George Washington] Quote:Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.[George Washington] Quote:Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.[Saint Augustine] Quote:Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.[Saint Augustine] Quote:Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can't control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control your fear, it makes you more alert, like a deer coming across the lawn.[Mike Tyson] Quote:Money buys you everything except the chance to do it again.[Matthew J. Clayfield] Quote:You're entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts.[Author Unknown] Quote:In baseball, you don't know nothin'.[Yogi Berra] Quote:If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.[Yogi Berra] Quote:You got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.[Yogi Berra] Quote:When you come to a fork in the road, take it.[Yogi Berra] Quote:You give 100 percent in the first half of the game, and if that isn't enough in the second half you give what's left.[Yogi Berra] Quote:Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel.[Yogi Berra] Quote:You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours.[Yogi Berra] Quote:Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.[George Carlin] 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:Of course the meek will inherit the earth, what, did you think they'd take it by force?[Author Unknown] Quote:When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.[Winston Churchill] Quote:It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.[Groucho Marx] Quote:I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.[Steven Wright] Quote:Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.[Thomas Edison] Quote:To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.[Thomas Edison] Quote:Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.[Thomas Edison] Quote:Happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.[John F. Kennedy] Quote:Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.[John F. Kennedy] Quote:Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.[John F. Kennedy] Quote:When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.[Otto von Bismarck] 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:Beware the writer who always encloses the word reality in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.[Edward Abbey] Quote:The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.[Ring Lardner] Quote:I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:On my way here I passed a local cinema and it turned out you were expecting me after all, for the billboards read: The Mummy Returns.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.[Confucius] Quote:The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.[Socrates] Quote:The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:Beware how you take away hope from another human being.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Remember, if you smoke after sex you're doing it too fast.[Woody Allen] Quote:If you wanna be free, you've gotta accept everything.[Jason Mechalek] Quote:Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.[Steve Martin] Quote:You know what your problem is? It's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.[Steve Martin] Quote:I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence.[William F. Buckley] Quote:What you cannot enforce, do not command.[Socrates] Quote:My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not you'll become a philosopher.[Socrates] Quote:To find yourself, think for yourself.[Socrates] Quote:The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.[Socrates] Quote:A friend is one before whom you may think aloud.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:True friends stab you in the front.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:When you have nothing to say, say nothing.[Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.[Woody Allen] 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 wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.[Edward Bulwer-Lytton] Quote:Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.[Zsa Zsa Gabor] Quote:You are what you love. Not what loves you.[Charlie Kaufman] Quote:Never interrupt me when I'm trying to interrupt you.[Winston Churchill] Quote:Dogs look up to you. Cats look down on you. Pigs treat you like equals.[Winston Churchill] Quote:He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.[Elbert Hubbard] Quote:Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.[Abraham Lincoln] 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:The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.[Margo Kaufman] Quote:How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?[Charles de Gaulle] Quote:If you have a job without aggravation, you don't have a job.[Malcolm Forbes] Quote:Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.[Will Rogers] Quote:I feel sorry for short people, you know. When it rains, they're the last to know.[Rodney Dangerfield] Quote:You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.[Henry Ford] Quote:Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance.[Author Unknown] Quote:When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.[Abraham Maslow] Quote:I have a hobby...I have the world's largest collection of sea shells. I keep it scattered on beaches all over the world. Maybe you've seen some of it...[Steven Wright] 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: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:The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself.[Steve Martin] Quote:Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.[Author Unknown] Quote:If investments are keeping you awake at night, sell down to the sleeping point.[Author Unknown] 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:My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.[Oprah Winfrey] Quote:Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.[Oprah Winfrey] Quote:Principles only mean something when you stick to them when its inconvenient.[Author Unknown] Quote:Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead.[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:The secret of acting is sincerity. If you can fake that, you've got it made.[George Burns] Quote:What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans are suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.[Rita Mae Brown] 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:Until you do what you believe in, how do you know whether you believe in it or not?[Leo Tolstoy] Quote:Of course the people dont want war...that is understood. But voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.[Hermann Goering] Quote:Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me.'[George Orwell] Quote:The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.[Russell Lynes] Quote:If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a dam fool about it.[W.C. Fields] Quote:The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.[Doug Larson] Quote:If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.[Erica Jong] Quote:The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.[Mark Twain] Quote:There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.[Mark Twain] Quote:Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.[Mae West] Quote:In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.[H.G. Wells] Quote:When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.[Mark Twain] Quote:I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.[Madonna Ciccone] 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:I love Thanksgiving. It's the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts.[Arnold Schwarzenegger] Quote:Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.[Mark Twain] Quote:One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.[Erna Bombeck] Quote:Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.[Jesse Jackson] Quote:I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.[Robert Frost] Quote:You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of.[Albert Camus] Quote:You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.[Albert Camus] Quote:I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day.[Albert Camus] Quote:Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.[Baltasar Gracian] Quote:Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.[Baltasar Gracian] Quote:Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.[James Dean] Quote:Those whom the gods love grow young.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.[Robertson Davies] Quote:Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.[John Lennon] Quote:You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.[Sydney Smith] Quote:The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] 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:Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.[Niels Bohr] Quote:In the long run, you only hit what you aim at.[Henry Thoreau] Quote:The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.[Henry Thoreau] Quote:It is not what you look at, but what you see.[Henry Thoreau] Quote:Imagine what you desire. Will what you imagine. Create what you will.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:You must be the change you wish to see in the world.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton. You may as well make it dance.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Think of all the beauty that's still left in and around you, and be happy.[Anne Frank] Quote:You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.[Saul Bellow] Quote:I discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, 'To hell with you.'[Saul Bellow] Quote:Everything you can imagine is real.[Pablo Picasso] Quote:It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.[Pablo Picasso] Quote:Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.[George Patton] Quote:Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.[Abraham Lincoln] Quote:Nothing you can't spell will ever work.[Will Rogers] Quote:Live so that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.[Will Rogers] Quote:The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.[Albert Einstein] Quote:The definition of success--To laugh much; to win respect of intelligent persons and the affections of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give one's self; to leave the world a little better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition.; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived--this is to have succeeded.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:God gave us two ends. One to sit on and one to think with. Success depends on which one you use; head you win, tail, you lose.[Author Unknown] Quote:I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.[George Burns] Quote:People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be, not what you nag them to be.[Author Unknown] Quote:Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Quote:Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.[George Patton] Quote:Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.[Zig Ziglar] Quote:The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Quote:You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.[Author Unknown] Quote:Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.[Margaret Mead] Quote:Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.[Phyllis Diller] Quote:Character is what you are in the dark.[John Whorfin] Quote:Don't take life too seriously; you'll never get out of it alive.[Elbert Hubbard] 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:People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.[Russell Baker] Quote:Experience has taught me that there is one chief reason why some people succeed and others fail. The difference is not one of knowing, but of doing. The successful man is not so superior in ability as in action. So far as success can be reduced to a formula, it consists of this: doing what you know you should do.[Roger Babson] Quote:If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.[John Rockefeller] Quote:The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.[Vince Lombardi] Quote:Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home![Charles Dickens] Quote:It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.[W. Somerset Maugham] Quote:If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.[Katherine Hepburn] Quote:What we humans are is really a remarkable thing. How can you doubt that we will survive and mature? There may be a lot of wisdom in the old statement about looking on the world lovingly. If we can, perhaps the world will have time to resolve itself.[Gene Roddenberry] Quote:Speeches are for the younger men who are going places. And I'm not going anyplace except six feet under the floor of that little chapel adjoining the museum and library at Abilene.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:Why, you can take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together - what do you get? The sum of their fears.[Winston Churchill] 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:Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all thirty feet tall.[Larry Wilde] Quote:Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soulmate is the one you are actually married to.[J.R.R. Tolkien] Quote:I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.[J.R.R. Tolkien] Quote:Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.[J.R.R. Tolkien] Quote:As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.[W.C. Fields] Quote:Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.[Christopher Marlowe] Quote:There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.[Christopher Morley] Quote:If you can't convince them, confuse them.[Harry Truman] Quote:It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.[Harry Truman] Quote:Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that.[Francis Bacon] Quote:To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say and to finish without knowing what you have written.[Jean-Jacques Rousseau] Quote:To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.[Brian Tracy] Quote:Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?[George Carlin] Quote:Dance like nobody's watching; love like you've never been hurt. Sing like nobody's listening; live like it's heaven on earth.[Mark Twain] Quote:Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others.[Groucho Marx] Quote:Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.[Mark Twain] Quote:I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.[Groucho Marx] Quote:Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:A friend is able to see you as the wonderful person God created you to be.[Ann D. Parrish] Quote:Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.[Margaret Mitchell] Quote:Don't ask God to change the laws of nature for you.[Nachman of Bratslav] Quote:Elderly men who are popular with young women usually lack wisdom.[Nachman of Bratslav] Quote:Just as your hand, held before the eye, can hide the tallest mountain, so this small earthly life keeps us from seeing the vast radiance that fills the core of the universe.[Nachman of Bratslav] Quote:Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?[GK Chesterton] Quote:If you can't accept losing, you can't win.[Vince Lombardi] Quote:You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...no we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.[Albert Einstein] Quote:If a man can beat you, walk him.[Satchel Paige] Quote:You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you cannot do.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:When you cease to make a contribution; you begin to die.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:I cried because I had no shoes, 'till I met a man who had no feet. So I said, 'You got any shoes you're not using'?[Steven Wright] Quote:You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relation. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing, too.[P.J. O'Rourke] Quote:If A is a success in life, than A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.[Albert Einstein] Quote:I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.[Winston Churchill] Quote:War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way 'til you can.[Winston Churchill] Quote:Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.[Winston Churchill] Quote:Politics are almost as exciting as war and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.[Winston Churchill] Quote:Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.[George Santayana] Quote:You don't take a photograph, you make it.[Ansel Adams] Quote:Saturate yourself with your subject and the camera will all but take you by the hand.[Margaret Bourke-White] Quote:Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you.[Margaret Bourke-White] Quote:The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts: the less you know the hotter you get.[Bertrand Russell] Quote:Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.[Amy Bloom] Quote:Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.[W. Somerset Maugham] Quote:Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war. Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.[Benjamin Franklin] 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:When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.[George MacDonald] Quote:In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:When you're as great as I am, it's hard to be humble.[Muhammad Ali] Quote:Any new system is worth trying when your luck is bad.[Heywood Broun] Quote:Of course I don't believe in it. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.[Niels Bohr] 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:When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.[Thomas Jefferson] Quote:Look not back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around you in awareness.[Ross Hersey] 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:Whenever you read a good book, it's like the author is right there, in the room, talking to you, which is why I don't like to read good books.[Jack Handey] Quote:I hope some animal never bores a hole in my head and lays its eggs in my brain, because later you might think you're having a good idea but it's just eggs hatching.[Jack Handey] Quote:If you go flying back through time, and you see somebody else flying forward into the future, it's probably best to avoid eye contact.[Jack Handey] Quote:If your kid makes one of those little homemade guitars out of a cigar box and rubber bands, don't let him just play it once or twice and then throw it away. Make him practice on it, every day, for about three hours a day. Later, he'll thank you.[Jack Handey] Quote:If you ever crawl inside an old hollow log and go to sleep, and while you're in there some guys come and seal up both ends and then put it on a truck and take it to another city, boy, I don't know what to tell you.[Jack Handey] Quote:If you're in a boxing match, try not to let the other guy's glove touch your lips, because you don't know where that glove has been.[Jack Handey] Quote:I think a good gift for the president would be a chocolate revolver. And since he's so busy, you'd probably have to run up to him and hand it to him.[Jack Handey] Quote:I wish I had a kryptonite cross, because then you could keep both Dracula AND Superman away.[Jack Handey] Quote:Is there anything more beautiful than a beautiful, beautiful flamingo, flying across in front of a beautiful sunset? And he's carrying a beautiful rose in his beak, and also he's carrying a very beautiful painting with his feet. And also, you're drunk.[Jack Handey] Quote:If you think a weakness can be turned into a strength, I hate to tell you this, but that's another weakness.[Jack Handey] Quote:Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?[Clarence Darrow] Quote:Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.[Adlai Stevenson] Quote:I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.[Douglas Adams] Quote:It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.[Erna Bombeck] Quote:If you want to conquer fear, don't sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy.[Andrew Carnegie] Quote:Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been, and there you long to return.[Leonardo da Vinci] Quote:Love means having to say you're sorry every fifteen minutes.[John Lennon] Quote:I think it's insulting to people who have a heritage of slavery to compare the homosexual experience in America to that. It's an unfortunate, cheap attempt to piggyback on something and to co-opt life experiences of others, claim that you've experienced them yourselves so that you can advance a cause.[Rush Limbaugh] Quote:Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever apologize for anything.[Harry Truman] Quote:You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It?s the age-old struggle?the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other.[Douglas MacArthur] 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: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: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:Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.[John Adams] Quote:The more you read about politics, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.[Will Rogers] Quote:Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.[Robert Louis Stevenson] Quote:Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:If you live to the age of a hundred you have it made because very few people die past the age of a hundred.[George Burns] Quote:The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:What do you know and how do you know it?[Ayn Rand] Quote:Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.[George Washington] Quote:Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.[Frank Lloyd Wright] Quote:Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.[Michael Jordan] Quote:Accept good advice gracefully--as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.[Gene Brown] Quote:The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.[Benajamin Mays] Quote:The days you work are the best days.[Georgia O'Keefe] Quote:When you work seven days a week, fourteen hours a day, you get lucky.[Armand Hammer] Quote:You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.[Pete Rose] Quote:If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.[Henny Youngman] Quote:Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.[Harvey Fierstein] Quote:Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.[Jacob Braude] Quote:Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.[Rudyard Kipling] Quote:Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.[Plato] Quote:The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.[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:He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.[Plato] Quote:I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there.[Fred Allen] Quote:When you're through changing, you're through.[Bruce Barton] Quote:A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.[Ring Lardner] Quote:If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues' initials on 'em, and pass them along. When in doubt, route.[Malcolm Forbes] 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:You must do the thing you think you cannot do.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:"Every man has his price." This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.[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:The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else![Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.[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:Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law? [Dwight D. Eisenhower] 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:The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.' [Aaron Copland] Quote:When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.' [Steven Wright] Quote:Put duties aside at least an hour before bed and perform soothing, quiet activities that will help you relax. [Elisabeth Kubler-Ross] Quote:Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can. [Jay Leno] Quote:Beware of the young doctor and the old barber. [Benjamin Franklin] Quote:If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting. [Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade? [Benjamin Franklin] Quote:A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling. [Arthur Brisbane] Quote:Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. [Ovid] Quote:Ed, we just witnessed a peaceful transition in government. Do you realize how miraculous that is?...Today, tiny Cicely, Alaska, stood up and put another W in the win category for democracy. [Jeff Melvoin] Quote:Ed, we just witnessed a peaceful transition in government. Do you realize how miraculous that is?...Today, tiny Cicely, Alaska, stood up and put another W in the win category for democracy. [Jeff Melvoin] Quote:You think Nature is some Disney movie? Nature is a killer. Nature is a bitch. It's feeding time out there 24 hours a day, every step that you take is a gamble with death. If it isn't getting hit with lightning today, it's an earthquake tomorrow or some deer tick carrying Lime disease. Either way, you're ending up on the wrong end of the food chain. [Jeff Melvoin] Quote:When you live in Texas, every single time you see snow it?s magical. [Pamela Ribon] Quote:Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think. [Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Quote:Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults. [Baltasar Gracian] Quote:The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good. [Baltasar Gracian] Quote:Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. [Baltasar Gracian] Quote:Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light. [Baltasar Gracian] Quote:If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf. [Bob Hope] Quote:If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt. [Dr. Thomas Fuller] Quote:What is it about genus arboretum that socks us in the figurative solar plexus? We see a logging truck go cruising down the road, stacked with a bunch of those fresh-cut giants, we feel like we lost a brother. Next thing you know, we're in The Brick, we're flopping money down on the bar. Wood. We're under a roof. Wood. We're walking the floors. Wood. Grabbing a pool cue. That's wood. Our friends in the forest carry a set of luggage from the mythical baggage carousel. Tree of life, tree of knowledge, family tree, Buddha's Bodhi tree. Page one of life, in the beginning. Genesis 3:22. Adam and Eve. They're kicking back in the garden of Eden and boom, they get an eviction notice. Why is that? "Lest they should also take of the tree of life, eat and live forever." A definitive Yahweh no-no. Be good to yourself, go out and plant a wet one on a tree. [Dr. Thomas Fuller] Quote:Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. [Henry Ward Beecher] Quote:[Advice is] what you ask for when you already know the answer but wish you didn't. [Erica Jong] Quote:Jealousy is all the fun you think they had. [Erica Jong] Quote:Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. [Raymond Chandler] Quote:The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. [Frank Lloyd Wright] Quote:A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. [Lisa Alther] Quote:Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. [Ernest Hemingway] Quote:Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening. [Ernest Hemingway] 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:Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble. [Frank Tyger] 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:Make your bargain before beginning to plow. [Arab Proverb] Quote:Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up. [Pearl Buck] Quote:You signed a contract. But much more important than that, you gave your word. And I intend to hold you to that word within the bounds of the law. If necessary, without the bounds of the law. [Josh Brand and John Falsey] Quote:Dreams are postcards from our subconscious, inner self to outer self, right brain trying to cross that moat to the left. Too often they come back unread: "return to sender, addressee unknown." That's a shame because it's a whole other world out there--or in here depending on your point of view. [Dennis Koenig and Jordan Budde] Quote:Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again. [Evelyn Underhill] Quote:A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you. [Dylan Thomas] Quote:Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about. [Trey Parker and Matt Stone] Quote:I love life...Yeah, I'm sad, but at the same time, I'm really happy that something could make me feel that sad. It's like...It makes me feel alive, you know. It makes me feel human. The only way I could feel this sad now is if I felt something really good before. So I have to take the bad with the good. So I guess what I'm feeling is like a beautiful sadness. [Trey Parker and Matt Stone] Quote:I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming?suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you. [Agatha Christie] Quote:Write a wise saying and your name will live forever [Anonymous] Quote:To him that you tell your secret you resign your liberty. [Anonymous] Quote:Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen. [Ambrose Bierce] Quote:Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes. [Jawaharlal Nehru] Quote:Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch. [Jane Austen] Quote:It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like. [Jackie Mason] Quote:If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. [Dale Carnegie] Quote:The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault. [Henry Kissinger] Quote:Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything. [Henry Kissinger] Quote:If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice. [Meister Eckhart] Quote:You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit. [Demosthenes] 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:Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can?t be taken on its own merits. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Hey, what do you think drives all this grey matter up here? Electricity. It's brain waves surfing on synaptic junctions. If your radio can go out because of sun spots, why can't your cerebellum? It's all a matter of reception and it seems to me these signals are going to get crossed somehow. It's all logical. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Life's dirty. Life's unclean you know. It's birth, it's sex, it's the intestinal tract. One big squishy, unsanitary mess. It never gets any cleaner either. You know, dust to dust, worms crawl in, worms crawl out, right? Even though we know that, we still walk the walk, we still live the life. We're like a bunch of little kids. Little kids, you know, we jump in this big old pond of mud and we're slapping it all over our face, rubbing our hair all down our backs and we're making these glorious, gooey, mud pies. That's us. [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:Marriage. It's a hard term to define. Especially for me--I've ducked it like root canal. Still there's no denying the fact that marriage ranks right up there with birth and death as one of the three biggies in the human safari. It's the only one though that we'll celebrate with a conscious awareness. Very few of you remember your arrival and even fewer of you will attend your own funeral. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Well, you're either lovers or you're wanting to be lovers or you're trying not to be lovers so you can be friends, but any way you look at it, sex is always looming in the picture like a shadow, like an undertow. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Life here is so elemental. So real. Without the interference of civilization you can really experience things like,...silence. Silence and darkness in its purity. Right now, right outside my window all I can see is a black void. Endless darkness. It's totally exhilarating, and I feel very lucky to be here. Very, very lucky. [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:It's just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and needs and desires, strange as they may seem. If you stop to think about it, we're all pretty creative, cooking up all these fantasies. it's like a kind of poetry. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Well, you're either lovers or you're wanting to be lovers or you're trying not to be lovers so you can be friends, but any way you look at it, sex is always looming in the picture like a shadow, like an undertow. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Life here is so elemental. So real. Without the interference of civilization you can really experience things like,...silence. Silence and darkness in its purity. Right now, right outside my window all I can see is a black void. Endless darkness. It's totally exhilarating, and I feel very lucky to be here. Very, very lucky. [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:Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. [Anne Frank] Quote:If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything. [Carl Jung] Quote:To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. [Thomas A. Edison] Quote:Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy [Norman Vincent Peale] Quote:I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven. [Emily Dickinson] Quote:Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at. [Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess] Quote:I have seen men fly bombers with their faces half- blown away. You're going to allow a few algebra formulas to ground you? [Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess] Quote:You think a man is a man cause he wears team colors and guzzles beer in front of the tube? Can't you see, boys, the sands of time are dribbling through the hourglass? [Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess] Quote:Orthodox medicine has not found an answer to your complaint. However, luckily for you, I happen to be a quack. [Sir William Osler] Quote:Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition. [Sir William Osler] Quote:All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. [Mark Twain] Quote:Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. [Mark Twain] Quote:Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. [Mark Twain] Quote:If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. [Mark Twain] Quote:The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself. [Mark Twain] Quote:Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. [Mark Twain] Quote:To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to. [Moliere] Quote:If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. [Tryon Edwards] Quote:The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. [John F. Kennedy] Quote:And so, my fellow americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man. [John F. Kennedy] Quote:The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. [Anna Quindlen] Quote:Doubt whom you will, but never yourself. [Clarence Darrow] Quote:Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? [Clarence Darrow] Quote:Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails. [Clarence Darrow] Quote:That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you. [A. Whitney Brown] Quote:Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from. [Al Franken] Quote:If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. [Franklin P. Adams] Quote:The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier. [Bill Gates] Quote:If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much. [Donald H. Rumsfeld] 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:There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.' [Andre Gide] Quote:It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. [Andre Gide] Quote:It is always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. [Jerome K. Jerome] 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:Don't look for more honor than your learning merits. [Jewish Proverb] Quote:What worries you masters you. [Jewish Proverb] Quote:The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion. [Democritus] Quote:Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been lent to you. [Chinese Proverb] Quote:Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself. [Chinese Proverb] Quote:Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. [Robert Anton Wilson] Quote:There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch. [Bette Davis] Quote:On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog. [William Gibson] 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:Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. [Jules Renard] Quote:I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time. [Oprah Winfrey] Quote:You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another. [Oprah Winfrey] Quote:Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not. [Oprah Winfrey] Quote:Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine. [Oprah Winfrey] Quote:I believe that uncertainty is rally my spirit's way of whispering, ""I'm in flux. I can't decide for you. Something is off-balance here."" [Oprah Winfrey] Quote:Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. [Alfred Hitchcock] 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:They're slobbery and they're whiney and they look at you just like they could see right into your soul and they're unpredictable and the smell and they're noisy and the world revolves around them and why!? I don't get it. They're not interesting. They can't tell jokes, they don't have opinions, and they're boring, you know? They're just boring and annoying and I don't want to have one. [Barbara Hall] Quote:That's the secret of entertaining. You make your guests feel welcome and at home. If you do that honestly, the rest takes care of itself. [Barbara Hall] Quote:Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made. [Barbara Hall] Quote:Women have more to offer this world than just a fallopian tube. Nothing is going to change until you quit looking at us as just sperm receptacles. [Barbara Hall] Quote:Being plied with fine food always puts me in mind of the slammer, cause the food was jumpin' in there too--high in fat but nice and salty. You know what the worst deprivation in there was? My music. Radio belonged to my cell mate, the Blonde Hammer. He was into that jazz-fusion thing at the time. I tell you what, enough Spyro Gyra and you're hoping you'll get killed in a knife fight. [Barbara Hall] Quote:Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon. [David Assael] Quote:If there comes a little thaw, Still the air is chill and raw, Here and there a patch of snow, Dirtier than the ground below, Dribbles down a marshy flood; Ankle-deep you stick in mud In the meadows while you sing, "This is Spring." [David Assael] Quote:Wildness. We're running out of it, even up in Alaska. People need to be reminded that the world is unsafe and unpredictable, and at a moment's notice, they could lose everything, like that. I do it to remind them that chaos is always out there, lurking beyond the horizon. That, plus, sometimes you have to do something bad, just to know you're alive. [David Assael] Quote:If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other. [Carl Schurz] Quote:Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny. [Carl Schurz] Quote:If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live. [Henry S. Haskins] Quote:Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise, you can get a whole host of psychological benefits fairly quickly. [Joseph Addison] 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:Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it. [Robert Heinlein] Quote:Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know. [Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:There's nothing that keeps its youth,<br> So far as I know, but a tree and truth. [Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:As I see it every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself. [Adelle Davis] Quote:If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to. [Dorothy Parker] Quote:If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity. [Marcus Aurelius Antoninus] Quote:You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them! [Amy Tan] Quote:Ask advice only of your equals. [Danish Proverb] Quote:No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up. [Lily Tomlin] Quote:Why be a man when you can be a success? [Bertolt Brecht] Quote:Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy. [Izaak Walton] Quote:First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms. [Margaret Mead] Quote:The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. [Alfred North Whitehead] Quote:If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer. [Alfred North Whitehead] Quote:The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. [Christopher Morley] Quote:A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping. [Saint Jerome] Quote:The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it. [Ayn Rand] 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: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:Have no friends not equal to yourself. [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:Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. [Leo Tolstoy] Quote:If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. [Bruce Barton] Quote:Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess. [Heinrich Heine] Quote:Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear. [Alan Corenk] Quote:It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice. [Anne Tyler] Quote:People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have. [Anne Tyler] Quote:If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase. [Epictetus] Quote:If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods. [Epictetus] Quote:Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent. [Epictetus] Quote:When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing? [Epictetus] Quote:I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars. [Sir Arthur Eddington] Quote:Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation. [Walter Winchell] Quote:You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. [Eric Hoffer] Quote:You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. [Eric Hoffer] Quote:The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. [Albert Einstein] Quote:Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. [Albert Einstein] Quote:If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut. [Albert Einstein] Quote:I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas? [Jean Kerr] Quote:If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. [Hermann Hesse] Quote:History is powerful stuff. One day your world is fine. The next day it's knocked for a metaphysical loop. Was Napoleon really at Waterloo? Would that change what I had for breakfast? [Henry Bromel] Quote:After my recent brush with voicelessness, I thought I'd share with you a few thoughts about speech. Don't take it lightly my friends. If music is the pathway to the heart as Voltaire suggested, then speech is the pathway to other people. Live in silence and you live alone. [Henry Bromel] Quote:If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke. [Brendan Francis] Quote:Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb. [Sir Winston Churchill] Quote:Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. [Thomas Jefferson] Quote:Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't. [Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do. [Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking. [Dave Barry] Quote:The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them. [Lawana Blackwell] Quote:Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. [Abraham Lincoln] 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:Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. [Abraham Lincoln] Quote:Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. [Anne-Sophie Swetchine] Quote:Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. [Edna St. Vincent Millay] Quote:It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny. [Juvenal] Quote:Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way...you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. [Aristotle] Quote:Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice. [Aristotle] Quote:It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. [Aristotle] Quote:Your very silence shows you agree. [Euripides] Quote:The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man. [Euripides] Quote:Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. [Euripides] Quote:Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest. [Euripides] Quote:Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. [Euripides] Quote:Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. [Harry S Truman] Quote:Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love. [Don Marquis] Quote:Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. [Henry David Thoreau] Quote:Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler. [Henry David Thoreau] Quote:You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. [Henry Ford] Quote:Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. [Dag Hammarskjold] 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:That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. [Doris Lessing] 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:One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness. [Josh Billings] Quote:One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness. [Josh Billings] Quote:In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better. [Ellen DeGeneres] Quote:Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. [Henri-Frdric Amiel] 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:The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. [Robert Frost] Quote:I never dared to be radical when young<br> For fear it would make me conservative when old. [Robert Frost] Quote:The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. [H. L. Mencken] Quote:In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. [Johann von Neumann] Quote:Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep. [Fran Lebowitz] Quote:No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. [Mignon McLaughlin] Quote:Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything. [Friedrich von Schiller] Quote:ONE WHO WAITS: There are those who believe that time is a wheel turning forever. Which would mean that your moment will surely come. Then, there are those who believe that time is a river. Which, if that's true, it's possible that your moment has already flowed by.<br> ED: Which one do you think it is?<br> ONE WHO WAITS: Ah. I think that time is just time. [Geoffrey Neighor] Quote:The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. [Anatole France] Quote:Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again. [Margaret Cho] Quote:Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion. [Margaret Cho] Quote:There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you. [Cyril Connolly] Quote:Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. [Cyril Connolly] 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:It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing. [D. H. Lawrence] 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: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:Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards. [Lois McMaster Bujold] Quote:Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself. [Lois McMaster Bujold] Quote:You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility. [Lois McMaster Bujold] 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:Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. [Elbert Hubbard] Quote:The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. [Elbert Hubbard] Quote:Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins. [Benjamin Disraeli] Quote:Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them. [Benjamin Disraeli] Quote:Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes. [Benjamin Disraeli] Quote:To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. [Benjamin Disraeli] Quote:The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made. [Jean Giraudoux] Quote:And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama. [Real Live Preacher] Quote:God, I don?t have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it. [Real Live Preacher] Quote:We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of God?s existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith. [Real Live Preacher] Quote:Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle. [Real Live Preacher] Quote:Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can. [Kahlil Gibran] Quote:Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. [Kahlil Gibran] Quote:If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. [Kahlil Gibran] Quote:In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything. [John Updike] Quote:Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder for what you want. [Sallust] Quote:Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers. [Brenda Ueland] Quote:So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering. [Brenda Ueland] Quote:In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman. [George Ade] Quote:Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. [Ausonius] Quote:You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. [Beverly Sills] Quote:Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. [Richard M. Nixon] Quote:Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him. [Bible] Quote:Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. [Bible] Quote:Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything. [Andre Malraux] 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:We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made. [Dan Quayle] Quote:If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. [Rene Descartes] Quote:If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking. [Lyndon B. Johnson] Quote:Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault. [Dr. David M. Burns] Quote:Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person. [Dr. David M. Burns] Quote:Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. [English Proverb] Quote:They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. [Andy Warhol] Quote:The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten. [Arthur Schopenhauer] Quote:I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts. [Charles Rosin] Quote:There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park- like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand. [Charles Rosin] Quote:You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. [Albert Schweitzer] 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] Quote:Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about. [Lynn Johnston] Quote:The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues. [Elizabeth Taylor] Definitions of: youDefinition: The pronoun of the second person, in the nominative, dative, and objective case, indicating the person or persons addressed. See the Note under Ye. |
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