Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't part anywhere near the place.[Steven Wright] Quote:If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.[Lyall Watson] Quote:I wish TV had a knob so you could turn up the intelligence. The one marked Brightness doesn't work.[Leo Gallagher] Quote:If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Congress, after years of stalling, finally got around to clearing the way for informal discussions that might lead to possible formal talks that could potentially produce some kind of tentative agreements...[Dave Barry] Quote: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:The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice.[Dave Barry] Quote:And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store? What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more?[Theodor Seuss Geisel] Quote:A guy could have one major limb lying on the ground a full ten feet from the rest of his body, and he'd claim it was 'just a sprain'.[Dave Barry] Quote:Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.[George Dennison Prentice] 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:Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.[Edmund Burke] Quote:George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.[Mark Twain] Quote:From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?[Thomas Paine] Quote:It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:A woman never forgets the men she could have had; a man, the women he couldn't.[Edward A. Murphy] Quote:I couldn't tell if the streaker was a man or a woman because it had a bag on it's head.[Yogi Berra] Quote:The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.[Yogi Berra] Quote:When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.[Mark Twain] Quote:If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:I could not handle being a woman, I would stay home all day and play with my breasts.[Steve Martin] Quote:If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Quote:When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.[Mark Twain] Quote:I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:I went out to the country so i could examine the simple things in life.[Henry Thoreau] Quote:The Bible is not my book, and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.[Abraham Lincoln] Quote:All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.[Brian Tracy] Quote:That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] 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:If a nation could not prosper without the enjoyment of perfect liberty and perfect justice, there is not in the world a nation which could ever have prospered.[Adam Smith] Quote:It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.[Bertrand Russell] Quote:But could not our situation be compared to one of a menacing epidemic? People are unable to view this situation in its true light, for their eyes are blinded by passion. General fear and anxiety create hatred and aggressiveness. The adaptation to warlike aims and activities has corrupted the mentality of man; as a result, intelligent, objective and humane thinking has hardly any effect and is even suspected and persecuted as unpatriotic.[Albert Einstein] Quote:I wish I had a kryptonite cross, because then you could keep both Dracula AND Superman away.[Jack Handey] Quote:Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus's-flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog because it only has little tiny plant teeth. But some other stuff could happen and it could be like ambition.[Jack Handey] 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: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:If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of 'religion.'[C.S. Lewis] Quote:The worst thing that could happen to anybody, would be to not be used for anything by anybody.[Kurt Vonnegut] Quote:A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion.[Henry Mencken] 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:The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take. [Craig Volk] Quote:Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them. [Jewish Proverb] 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: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:You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act. [Barbara Hall] 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:Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it. [Ronald Reagan] Quote:We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. [Helen Keller] Quote:I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. [Henry David Thoreau] 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:Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them. [Fran Lebowitz] Quote:If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane. [Jimmy Buffet] 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:If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:He once had his toes amputated so he could stand closer to the bar. [Mike Harding] Quote:Sarah Brightman couldn't act scared on the New York subway at 4 o'clock in the morning. [Joel Segal] Quote:Sarah Brightman couldn't act scared on the New York subway at 4 o'clock in the morning. [Joel Segal] Quote:What makes him think a middle aged actor, who's played with a chimp, could have a future in politics? [Ronald Reagan commenting on Eastwood's bid to become mayor of Carmel] Quote:In the begining there was nothing and God said 'Let there be light', and there was still nothing but everybody could see it. [Dave Thomas] Quote:The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted. [Brendan Behan] Quote:It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous. [Robert Benchley] Quote:I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes. [JB Priestley] Quote:I have been commissioned to write an autobiography and I would be grateful to any of your readers who could tell me what I was doing between 1960 and 1974. [Jeffrey Bernard] Quote:What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke? [Gore Vidal] Definitions of: couldDefinition: Was, should be, or would be, able, capable, or susceptible. Used as an auxiliary, in the past tense or in the conditional present. |
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