Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| 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:From this day forward, the millions of our schoolchildren will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty.[Dwight Eisenhower] 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: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: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:Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.[John F. Kennedy] Quote:Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.[George Burns] 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:Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.[Omar Bradley] 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: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:Simplicity is the peak of civilization. [Lao-tzu] Quote:Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. [George Burns] Quote:Seek simplicity, and distrust it. [Alfred North Whitehead] 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:It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences. [Aristotle] Quote:Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds. [Samuel Butler] 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: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:If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight. [George Gobol] Quote:If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight. [George Gobal] Quote:If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight. [George Gobal] Quote:And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected. [Spike Milligan] Quote:If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight. [George Gobol] Quote:I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity. [Cicero] Definitions of: cityDefinition: A large town.Definition: A corporate town; in the United States, a town or collective body of inhabitants, incorporated and governed by a mayor and aldermen or a city council consisting of a board of aldermen and a common council; in Great Britain, a town corporate, which is or has been the seat of a bishop, or the capital of his see. Definition: The collective body of citizens, or inhabitants of a city. |
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