Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:In politics stupidity is not a handicap.[Napoleon Bonaparte] 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:Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.[T.S. Eliot] Quote:Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.[GK Chesterton] 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:Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:They (Christians) would throw me in jail and write bad articles about me and then go to church on Sunday and say Jesus is a wonderful man and he's coming back to save us. But they don't understand that when he comes back, that these crazy greedy capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.[Mike Tyson] Quote:If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.[Thomas Edison] Quote:A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.[Douglas Adams] Quote:Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.[Elbert Hubbard] Quote:Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.[Blaise Pascal] Quote:A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.[Jesse Jackson] Quote:The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenatrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties - this knowledge, this feeling ... that is the core of the true religious sent iment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself amoung profoundly religious men.[Albert Einstein] Quote:Gandhi was inevitable. If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable. He lived, thought and acted, inspired by the vision of humanity evolving toward a world of peace and harmony. We may ignore Gandhi at our own risk.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.[Daniel Webster] Quote:The statesman who would attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himeslf with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safetly be trusted to no council and senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.[Adam Smith] Quote:Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men.[E.B. White] Quote:If the primary aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.[Thomas Aquinas] Quote:Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.[Pat Robertson] Quote:Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.[Omar Bradley] 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:The statesman who would attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himeslf with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted to no council and senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.[Adam Smith] Quote:Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. [Douglas Adams] 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: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:It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs. [Albert Einstein] Quote:Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. [John Kenneth Galbraith] Quote:Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds. [Samuel Butler] Quote:Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. [Edgar Allan Poe] Quote:Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. [Elbert Hubbard] Quote:The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility. [Brooks Atkinson] Quote:Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. [James Boswell] Quote:Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. [James Boswell] 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:I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. [Plato] Quote:The human brain is a most unusual instrument of elegant and as yet unknown capacity. [Tom Robbins] Quote:It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. [Elizabeth Taylor] Quote:Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands, and all you can do is scratch it! [Thomas Beecham] Definitions of: capDefinition: A covering for the headDefinition: One usually with a visor but without a brim, for men and boys Definition: One of lace, muslin, etc., for women, or infants Definition: One used as the mark or ensign of some rank, office, or dignity, as that of a cardinal. Definition: The top, or uppermost part; the chief. Definition: A respectful uncovering of the head. Definition: The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck. Definition: Anything resembling a cap in form, position, or use Definition: The uppermost of any assemblage of parts; as, the cap of column, door, etc.; a capital, coping, cornice, lintel, or plate. Definition: Something covering the top or end of a thing for protection or ornament. Definition: A collar of iron or wood used in joining spars, as the mast and the topmast, the bowsprit and the jib boom; also, a covering of tarred canvas at the end of a rope. Definition: A percussion cap. See under Percussion. Definition: The removable cover of a journal box. Definition: A portion of a spherical or other convex surface. Definition: A large size of writing paper; as, flat cap; foolscap; legal cap. Definition: To uncover the head respectfully. |
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