Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.[Will Durant] Quote:The covers of this book are too far apart.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny...'[Isaac Asimov] 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:The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings![Henry Ward Beecher] 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:I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.[Robert Frost] Quote:On the Japanese news, if the announcers had happy faces and perky voices, I knew that meant good news, such as that Japanese scientists had discovered a way to make VCR's even more difficult for Americans to program; whereas if the announcers had serious voices and frowny faces, it meant bad news, such as the worsening eel shortage.[Dave Barry] 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:I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.[Mark Twain] Quote:Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.[Mark Twain] Quote:Just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn't mean I'm naughty.[Britney Spears] Quote:An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:Character is much easier kept than recovered.[Thomas Paine] Quote:Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.[Andr Gide] Quote:We all wish to be judged by our peers, by the men 'after our own heart.' Only they really know our mind and only they judge it by standards we fully acknowledge. Theirs is the praise we really covet and the blame we really dread. The little pockets of early Chrstians survived because they cared exclusively for the love of 'the bretheren' and stopped their ears to the opinion of the Pagan society around them. But a circle of criminals, cranks, or perverts survives in just the same way; by becoming deaf to the opinion of the outer world, by discounting it as the chatter of outsiders who 'don't understand,' of the 'conventional,' the 'bourgeois,' the 'Establishment,' of prigs, prudes, and humbugs.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Courage consists in the power of self-recovery.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.[John Barrymore] 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:A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.[Peter Wimsey] Quote:There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.[Douglas Adams] Quote:Last night I discovered a new form of oral contraceptive. I asked a girl to go to bed with me and she said no.[Woody Allen] 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:Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.[Edward R. Murrow] Quote:The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.[Blaise Pascal] Quote:You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.[Plato] Quote:In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law. [Charles de Montesquieu] Quote:The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated. [Baltasar Gracian] 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:The covers of this book are too far apart. [Ambrose Bierce] Quote:Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous. [Sir Thomas Browne] Quote:A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. [Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi] Quote:If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent. [Isaac Newton] Quote:This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop. [Alfred Hitchcock] Quote:Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it. [Alfred North Whitehead] 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:When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it. [Bruce Barton] 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:I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. [Blaise Pascal] Quote:I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. [Blaise Pascal] Quote:It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. [Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star. [Anthelme Brillat-Savarin] Quote:Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. [Ecclesiastes] Quote:You can cover a great deal of country in books. [Bell Hooks] Quote:All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. [Galileo Galilei] Quote:The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind. [William James] Quote:No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar. [Dr. David M. Burns] Quote:Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two but can't remember what they are. [Matt Lauer (on NBC's Today Show)] Quote:Of course America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials. [Ronald Knox] 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] Definitions of: coveDefinition: A retired nook; especially, a small, sheltered inlet, creek, or bay; a recess in the shore.Definition: A strip of prairie extending into woodland; also, a recess in the side of a mountain. Definition: A concave molding. Definition: A member, whose section is a concave curve, used especially with regard to an inner roof or ceiling, as around a skylight. Definition: To brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs. |
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