Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed?[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude, but their attitude, that will determine their altitude.[Jesse Jackson] Quote:Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million guy sperm cells, each one wriggling in its own direction, totally confident it knows where it is going, to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin.[Dave Barry] Quote:Cooking was invented in prehistoric times, when a primitive tribe had a lucky accident. The tribe had killed an animal and was going to eat it raw, when a tribe member named Woog tripped and dropped it into the fire. At first the other tribe members were angry at Woog, but then, as the aroma of burning meat filled the air, they had an idea. So they ate Woog raw.[Dave Barry] Quote:I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or or not.[Fran Lebowitz] Quote:He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.[Thomas Paine] Quote:I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.[George Washington] Quote:A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.[Francis Bacon] Quote:Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.[Douglas Adams] Quote:To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Every act and event is the inevitable result of prior acts and events and is independent of human will.[Karl Marx] Quote:Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:A prudent question is one half of wisdom.[Francis Bacon] Quote:The women of this Nation still retain the liberty to control their destinies. But the signs are evident and very ominous, and a chill wind blows.[Harry Blackmun] Quote:I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.[Henry Thoreau] Quote:Success is dependent upon the glands; sweat glands.[Zig Ziglar] Quote:How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.[Adam Smith] Quote:Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:A grave is a place where the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.[Blaise Pascal] Quote:How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill! In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot.[Albert Einstein] Quote:I think a good gift for the president would be a chocolate revolver. And since he's so busy, you'd probably have to run up to him and hand it to him.[Jack Handey] Quote:It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent.[Nicolo Machiavelli] Quote:If the solar system was brought about by an accidental collision, then the appearance of organic life on this planet was also an accident, and the whole evolution of Man was an accident too. If so, then all our present thoughts are mere accidents - the accidental by-product of the movement of atoms. And this holds for the thoughts of the materialists and astronomers as well as for anyone else's. But if their thoughts - i.e., of Materialism and Astronomy - are merely accidental by-products, why should we believe them to be true?I see no reason for believing that one accident should be able to give me a correct account of all the other accidents.It's like expecting that the accidental shape taken by the splash when you upset a milk-jug should give you a correct account of how the jug was made and why it was upset.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:The President of the United States hears a hundred voices telling him that he is the greatest man in the world. He must listen carefully to hear the one voice that tells him he's not.[Harry Truman] 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:Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security. [Edmund Burke] Quote:But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. [Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi] Quote:Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. [Douglas Adams] Quote:In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes. [Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.] 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:Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. [Gore Vidal] Quote:Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. [Gore Vidal] Quote:Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves. [Blaise Pascal] Quote:Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. [Henry David Thoreau] Quote:Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler. [Henry David Thoreau] 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:Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. [Arthur Schopenhauer] Quote:The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead. [Albert Einstein] Definitions of: dentDefinition: A stroke; a blow.Definition: A slight depression, or small notch or hollow, made by a blow or by pressure; an indentation. Definition: A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc. |
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