Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.[Winston Churchill] Quote:A leader is a dealer in hope.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.[GK Chesterton] Quote:The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.[GK Chesterton] Quote:There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.[GK Chesterton] Quote:All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.[Aristotle] Quote:Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.[Mark Twain] Quote:We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.[William F. Buckley] 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:Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.[Mark Twain] 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:A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.[Saul Bellow] 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:Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.[J.R.R. Tolkien] Quote:Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.[Adlai Stevenson] Quote:He is a very modest man with a great deal to be modest about.[Winston Churchill] Quote:Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:I just realized that there's going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with it the right way. [Trey Parker and Matt Stone] Quote:When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity. [Dale Carnegie] Quote:I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way. [Carl Sandburg] Quote:You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. [Norman Douglas] 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:Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. [Logan Pearsall Smith] Quote:Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. [Robert Anton Wilson] Quote:Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny. [Carl Schurz] Quote:Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. [Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. [Bob Newhart] Quote:I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether. [Alfred North Whitehead] Quote:It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset. [Sir Arthur Eddington] Quote:The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible. [Albert Einstein] Quote:An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous. [Henry Ford] Quote:You can cover a great deal of country in books. [Bell Hooks] Quote:Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows. [H. L. Mencken] Quote:Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible. [Garrison Keillor] Quote:It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing. [D. H. Lawrence] Quote:The best pitch I ever heard about cocaine was back in the early eighties when a street dealer followed me down the sidewalk going: I got some great blow man. I got the stuff that killed Belushi. [Denis Leary] Definitions of: dealDefinition: A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.Definition: The process of dealing cards to the players; also, the portion disturbed. Definition: Distribution; apportionment. Definition: An arrangement to attain a desired result by a combination of interested parties; -- applied to stock speculations and political bargains. Definition: The division of a piece of timber made by sawing; a board or plank; particularly, a board or plank of fir or pine above seven inches in width, and exceeding six feet in length. If narrower than this, it is called a batten; if shorter, a deal end. Definition: Wood of the pine or fir; as, a floor of deal. Definition: To make distribution; to share out in portions, as cards to the players. Definition: To do a distributing or retailing business, as distinguished from that of a manufacturer or producer; to traffic; to trade; to do business; as, he deals in flour. Definition: To act as an intermediary in business or any affairs; to manage; to make arrangements; -- followed by between or with. Definition: To conduct one's self; to behave or act in any affair or towards any one; to treat. Definition: To contend (with); to treat (with), by way of opposition, check, or correction; as, he has turbulent passions to deal with. |
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