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:Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.[Mel Brooks] Quote:The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.[George Patton] Quote:Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.[Aristotle] Quote:Old people don't need companionship. They need to be isolated and studied so it can be determined what nutrients they have that might be extracted for our personal use.[Homer Simpson] Quote:It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.[George Patton] Quote:Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.[John Donne] Quote:Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:It requires more courage to suffer than to die.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.[Mother Teresa] Quote:It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.[Julius Caesar] Quote:Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.[Dave Barry] Quote:Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.[Dave Barry] Quote:Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?[Erna Bombeck] Quote:An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.[Irv Kupcinet] Quote:Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.[Mark Twain] Quote:There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.[Christopher Morley] Quote:Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.[E.B. White] Quote:Back in the old days, most families were close-knit. Grown children and their parents continued to live together, under the same roof, sometimes in the same small, crowded room, year in and year out, until they died, frequently by strangulation.[Dave Barry] Quote:The books all say that barracuda rarely eat people, but very few barracuda can read, and they have far more teeth than would be necessary for a strictly seafood diet. Their mouths look like the entire $39.95 set of Ginsu knives, including the handy Arm Slicer.[Dave Barry] Quote:What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.[George Dennison Prentice] Quote:I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.[Totie Fields] 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:Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.[Aristotle] Quote:He that lives upon hope will die fasting.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.[Colin Powell] Quote:When we die, our bodies are buried. When we live, our souls are buried.[Jason Mechalek] Quote:Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.[Mark Twain] Quote:The only way to win audiences is to tell people about the life and death of Christ. Every other approach is a waste.[Fulton J. Sheen] Quote:No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.[George Carlin] Quote:There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.[Thomas Edison] Quote:Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.[Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Last night I was playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.[Steven Wright] Quote:Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.[Author Unknown] Quote:I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock.[Henny Youngman] Quote:At least five times...with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist sceptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Faith has to all appearance gone to the dogs. In each of these five cases it was the dog that died.[GK Chesterton] Quote:If I should die tomorrow, I will have no regrets. I did what I wanted to do. You can't expect more from life.[Bruce Lee] Quote:Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.[Bertrand Russell] Quote:We are in the transport business. We transport audiences from one place to another.[Jerry Bruckheimer] Quote:Any stupid ass can die. That's easy. Living is tough.[Jack LaLanne] Quote:A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.[Jesse Jackson] Quote:I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.[James Dean] Quote:Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.[Groucho Marx] Quote:Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Why, you can take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together - what do you get? The sum of their fears.[Winston Churchill] 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:Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.[William Shakespeare] Quote:Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.[Groucho Marx] Quote:Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:The man who disobeys his parents will have disobedient sons.[Nachman of Bratslav] Quote:In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die, and the choices that we make are ultimately our responsibility.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:When you cease to make a contribution; you begin to die.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires; but what foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded an empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man?s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:Only those who are fit to live do not fear to die. And none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same great adventure.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.[Jack Handey] Quote:Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.[Henry Van Dyke] Quote:Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.[Douglas MacArthur] Quote:Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.[Anais Nin] Quote:If you live to the age of a hundred you have it made because very few people die past the age of a hundred.[George Burns] Quote:A speech is a solemn responsibility. The man who makes a bad thirty-minute speech to two hundred people wastes only a half hour of his own time. But he wastes one hundred hours of the audience's time - more than four days - which should be a hanging offense.[Jenkin Lloyd Jones] Quote:The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.[Plato] Quote:Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening. [Ernest Hemingway] Quote:Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives. [Aeschylus] Quote:Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. [E. B. White] Quote:Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Let's not kid ourselves. Whatever we diagnose, most patients, if they don't die, get well by themselves. Our job is mainly to try to make them feel better; do no harm. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American. [Daniel Webster] Quote:Be ashamed to die unless you have won some victory for humanity. [Horace Mann] Quote:Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. [Horace Mann] Quote:What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease. [Hippocrates] Quote:How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue! <br> Who would not be that youth? What pity is it <br> That we can die but once to serve our country! [Joseph Addison] Quote:The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. [Ralph Waldo Emerson] 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:I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient. [Epictetus] Quote:It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences. [Aristotle] Quote:Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. [Dag Hammarskjold] Quote:There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience. [Antoine de Saint-Exupery] Quote:To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true! [H. L. Mencken] Quote:Food is an important part of a balanced diet. [Fran Lebowitz] Quote:I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country. [Homer] Quote:Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed. [Epicurus] Quote:Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver. [Sophocles] Quote:Salvador Dali seduced many ladies, particularly American ladies, but these seductions usually consisted of stripping them naked in his apartment, frying a couple of eggs, putting them on the woman's shoulders and, without a word, showing them the door. [Luis Bunuel] Quote:He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt. [Joseph Heller] Quote:For if he like a madman lived, At least he like a wise one died. [Cervantes] Quote:All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. [Maurice Maeterlinck] Quote:Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die. [Joe Louis] Quote:When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe? [Quentin Crisp] Definitions of: dieDefinition: To pass from an animate to a lifeless state; to cease to live; to suffer a total and irreparable loss of action of the vital functions; to become dead; to expire; to perish; -- said of animals and vegetables; often with of, by, with, from, and rarely for, before the cause or occasion of death; as, to die of disease or hardships; to die by fire or the sword; to die with horror at the thought.Definition: To suffer death; to lose life. Definition: To perish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or extinct; to be extinguished. Definition: To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc. Definition: To become indifferent; to cease to be subject; as, to die to pleasure or to sin. Definition: To recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to vanish; -- often with out or away. Definition: To disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face. Definition: To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor. |
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