Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| 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:If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat![Will Rogers] 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:I saw this in a movie about a bus that had to SPEED around a city, keeping its SPEED over fifty, and if its SPEED dropped, it would explode! I think it was called, 'The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down.'[Homer Simpson] Quote:A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.[Albert Einstein] Quote:To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.[David Brooks] Quote:All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.[Bruce Lee] 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:In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.[Jesse Jackson] Quote:When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.[Jesse Jackson] Quote:If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.[C.S. Lewis] 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: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:My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at getting married at the age of 43.[Ian Fleming] Quote:Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.[GK Chesterton] Quote:There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Philosophy is written in this grand book - I mean the Universe - which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it.[Galileo Galilei] Quote:The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.[GK Chesterton] Quote:I recently had my annual physical examination, which I get once every seven years, and when the nurse weighed me, I was shocked to discover how much stronger the Earth's gravitational pull has become since 1990.[Dave Barry] Quote: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:In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it 'Christmas' and went to church; the Jews called it 'Hanukkah' and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say 'Merry Christmas!' or 'Happy Hanukkah!' or (to the atheists) 'Look out for the wall!'[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:Males have a lot of trouble not looking at breasts. What is worse, males cannot look at breasts and think at the same time. In fact, scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid. This was proved in a famous 1978 laboratory experiment wherein a team of leading male psychological researchers at Yale deliberately looked at photographs of breasts every day for two years, at the end of which they concluded that they had failed to take any notes.[Dave Barry] Quote:Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.[Dave Barry] Quote:The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery.[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:What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?[Erna Bombeck] Quote:Scientists make a guess and call it a hypothesis. 'Guess' is too short a word for a professor.[William Jennings Bryan] Quote:'It will obliterate your senses!' reports David Gillin, who obviously writes autobiographically.[Roger Ebert] Quote:You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.[George Patton] Quote:If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.[Christopher Morley] Quote:People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.[Christopher Morley] Quote:If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.[Robert Frost] Quote:To defend Western Europe we have to let the Pentagon buy all these tanks and guns and things, and the Pentagon is unable to buy any object that that costs less than a condominium in Vail. If the Pentagon needs, say, fruit, it will argue that it must have fruit that can withstand the rigors of combat conditions, and it will wind up purchasing the FX-700 Seedless Tactical Grape, which will cost $160,000 per bunch, and will have an 83 percent failure rate.[Dave Barry] Quote:It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million guy sperm cells, each one wriggling in its own direction, totally confident it knows where it is going, to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin.[Dave Barry] Quote:Childbirth, as a strictly physical phenomenon, is comparable to driving a United Parcel truck through an inner tube.[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:We should enact an 'e' tax. Government agents would roam the country looking for stores whose names contained any word that ended in an unnecessary 'e,' such as 'shoppe' or 'olde,' and the owners of these stores would be taxed at a flat rate of $50,000 per year per 'e.' We should also consider an additional $50,000 'ye' tax, so that the owner of a store called 'Ye Olde Shoppe' would have to fork over $150,000 a year. In extreme cases, such as 'Ye Olde Barne Shoppe,' the owner would simply be taken outside and shot.[Dave Barry] Quote: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 don't know what the new Ford will be called. Probably something like the 'Ford Untamed Wilderness Adventure.' In the TV commercials, it will be shown splashing through rivers, charging up rocky mountainsides, swinging on vines, diving off cliffs, racing through the surf, and fighting giant sharks hundreds of feet beneath the ocean surface -- all the daredevil things that cars do in Sport Utility Vehicle Commercial World, where nobody ever drives on an actual world. In fact, the interstate highways in Sport Utility Vehicle Commercial World, having been abandoned by humans, are teeming with deer, squirrels, birds, and other wildlife species that have fled from the forests to avoid being run over by nature-seekers in multi-ton vehicles barreling through the underbrush at 50 miles per hour.[Dave Barry] Quote:In some versions of my original contest column I had proposed, in a lighthearted manner, that we reduce the deficit by 'selling unnecessary states such as Oklahoma to the Japanese.' This caused a number of Oklahomans to send in letters containing many correctly spelled words and making the central lighthearted point that I am a jerk. They also sent me official literature stating that Oklahoma has enormous quantities of culture in the form of ballet, Oral Roberts, etc., and that the Official State Reptile -- I am not making this up -- is something called the 'Mountain Boomer.' So I apologize to Oklahoma, and as a token of my sincerity I'm willing to sell my state, Florida, to the Japanese, assuming nobody objects to the fact that Japan would suddenly become the most heavily armed nation on Earth.[Dave Barry] Quote:I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or or not.[Fran Lebowitz] Quote:What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.[George Dennison Prentice] Quote:The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?[Stephen Hawking] Quote:Man is by nature a political animal.[Aristotle] Quote:A mind of the calibre of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows.[George Bernard Shaw] 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:They sicken of the calm who know the storm.[Dorothy Parker] Quote:It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.[Mark Twain] Quote:It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.[Thomas Paine] Quote:There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.[Thomas Paine] Quote:When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Our country offers the most wonderful example of democratic government on a giant scale that the world has ever seen; and the peoples of the world are watching to see whether we succeed or fail.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Let individuals contribute as they desire; but let us prohibit in effective fashion all corporations from making contributions for any political purpose, directly or indirectly.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.[George Washington] Quote:Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical.[Yogi Berra] Quote:I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.[Clarence Darrow] Quote:It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.[Thomas Edison] Quote:I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.[Thomas Edison] Quote:I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.[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:Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.[Kahlil Gibran] Quote:Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.[Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Quote:If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:Religion operates not only on the vertical plane but also on the horizontal. It seeks not only to integrate men with God but to integrate men with men and each man with himself.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:What makes us men is that we can think logically. What makes us human is that we sometimes choose not to.[Roger Ebert] Quote:I wrote a novel this year called <b[Steve Martin] Quote:In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.[Paul Harvey] Quote:The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.[Thomas Sowell] Quote:Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).[Ayn Rand] Quote:I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.[Bob Dylan] Quote:Thus far, the reputed idiot Bush has graduated from Yale and Harvard, made a stack of cash in the oil industry, become the first consecutive-term governor of Texas, defeated a dual-term VP for the presidency, and led his party to [November 5th's] extraordinary triumphs. Let his opponents keep calling him stupid; if they do, within five years Bush will be King of England, the Pope, and world Formula One motor racing champion.[Tim Blair] Quote:I've occasionally heard that I was kicked out of Harvard for being a Communist, for dealing drugs, for corrupting minors, or for diverse other infractions of local decorum. Unfortunately, none of these rumors are true. The one I've heard more often is that I am dead. That one I encouraged, hoping it would cut down on the junk mail. It didn't.[Tom Lehrer] Quote:The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth.[Albert Einstein] Quote:The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.[Bertrand Russell] Quote:Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines.[Bertrand Russell] 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:My political ambitions have nothing to do with vanity or the desire for power. I want to help people. I owe them something after all they've done for me.[Arnold Schwarzenegger] Quote:There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.[Albert Camus] Quote:Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.[Kahlil Gibran] Quote:I once said cynically of a politician, 'He'll doublecross that bridge when he comes to it.'[Oscar Levant] Quote:Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in my bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.[Woody Allen] Quote:It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.[Anne Frank] Quote:She was what we used to call a suicide blond - dyed by her own hand.[Saul Bellow] Quote:A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.[Saul Bellow] Quote: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:I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday -- the longer, the better -- from the great boarding school where we are forever working at our arithmetical slates, to take, and give a rest.[Charles Dickens] Quote:Without a doubt, psychological warfare has proven its right to a place of dignity in our military arsenal.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:I have always thought of Christmas time as a good time. A kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time. The only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.[Charles Dickens] Quote:If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?[Albert Einstein] Quote:A grave is a place where the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.[Albert Einstein] Quote:Philosophical argument has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that was in me; but my heart has always assured me that the Gospel of Jesus Christ must be reality.[Daniel Webster] Quote:A man doesn't automatically get my respect. He has to get down in the dirt and beg for it.[Jack Handey] Quote:I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.[Erica Jong] Quote:Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings.[Cheris Kramerae] Quote:The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.[James Madison] Quote:Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.[George Washington] Quote:Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.[Joe Theismann] 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:When you live in Texas, every single time you see snow it?s magical. [Pamela Ribon] 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:What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. [Havelock Ellis] Quote:But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer. [Niccolo Machiavelli] Quote:The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. [Hannah Arendt] Quote:The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. [Hannah Arendt] Quote:Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place. [Abigail Van Buren] Quote:Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place. [Abigail Van Buren] Quote:The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. [Arthur C. Clarke] 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:What are man and woman if not members of two very different and warring tribes? Yet decade after decade, century after century, they attempt in marriage to reconcile and forge a union. Why? I don't know. Biological imperative? Divine law? Or just a desire to connect to that mysterious other? In any case, it's always struck me as a hopeful thing. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. [Carl Jung] Quote:The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. [Carl Jung] Quote:The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. [Carl Jung] Quote:Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. [George S. Patton] Quote:I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven. [Emily Dickinson] Quote:The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them. [Mark Twain] Quote:The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them. [Mark Twain] Quote:The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them. [Mark Twain] Quote:The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them. [Mark Twain] Quote:Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the possession of the capacity to get elegant solutions to non-existent engineering problems; engineering is practicing the art of the organized forcing of technological change... Engineers operate at the interface between science and society... [Herbert Hoover] Quote:The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability. [Tom Lehrer] Quote:Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein. [Phyllis Diller] Quote:When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them. [Franklin P. Adams] Quote:An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living. [Nicholas Chamfort] Quote:Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one. [Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.] Quote:What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease. [Hippocrates] Quote:Well, spring sprang. We've had our state of grace and our little gift of sanctioned madness, courtesy of Mother Nature. Thanks, Gaia. Much obliged. I guess it's time to get back to that daily routine of living we like to call normal. [David Assael] 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:No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up. [Lily Tomlin] Quote:Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality. [Adam Clayton Powell Jr.] 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:People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have. [Anne Tyler] Quote:The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not. [Eric Hoffer] Quote:The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not. [Eric Hoffer] Quote:It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs. [Albert Einstein] 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:We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words. [Anna Sewell] 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: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:The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class. [Aristotle] Quote:Man is by nature a political animal. [Aristotle] Quote:Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. [Euripides] Quote:Silence is more musical than any song. [Christina Rossetti] 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:I never dared to be radical when young<br> For fear it would make me conservative when old. [Robert Frost] Quote:When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page. [Bill Clinton] Quote:I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many of the prejudices of the few. [Benjamin Disraeli] Quote:It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. [Benjamin Disraeli] Quote:I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many of the prejudices of the few. [Benjamin Disraeli] Quote:So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. [Peter Drucker] Quote:I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers. [Richard Feynman] Quote:No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar. [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:When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same. [Alexander Hamilton] 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:Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-Box. [Wil Shriner] Quote:Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees. [JJ Furnas] Quote:An encyclopedia is a system for collecting dust in alphabetical order. [Mike Barfield] Quote:Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches. [Jim Carey] Quote:Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches. [Jim Carrey] Quote:A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch. [James Beard] Quote:I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix. [Dan Quayle] Quote:My first rule of travel is never to go to a place that sounds like a medical condition and Critz is clearly an incurable disease involving flaking skin. [Bill Bryson] Quote:Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches. [Jim Carrey] Quote:I went to a general store. They wouldn't let me buy anything specifically. [Steven Wright] Quote:I call everyone 'Darling' because I can't remember their names. [Zsa Zsa Gabor ] Definitions of: calDefinition: Wolfram, an ore of tungsten. |
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