Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:My son first wanted to go to Stanford, which I thought was O.K. The weather is pretty good, and it's a fairly short drive to the beach. But it wouldn't be as good as let's say, Pepperdine, which is in Malibu. And he said, 'Dad, what about the education?' I said, 'Clearly, I failed as a parent.'[Larry Ellison] Quote:Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:All the people throughout my life who were naysayers pissed me off. But they've all given me a fervor; an angry ambition that cannot be stopped - and I look forward to finding a therapist and working on that.[Tobey Maguire] Quote:Real love stories never have endings.[Richard Bach] Quote:Let us celebrate our agreement with the adding of chocolate to milk.[Homer Simpson] Quote:Put out an APB for a male suspect, driving a... car of some sort, heading in the direction of, uh, you know, that place that sells chili. Suspect is hatless. Repeat, hatless.[Chief Wiggum] Quote:I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for an alliance with her; and not run about offering her amity to all the world; and hazarding their refusal. Our virgin is a jolly one; and tho at present not very rich, will in time be a great fortune, and where she has a favorable predisposition, it seems to me well worth cultivating.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding.[Samuel Johnson] Quote:I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.[Mother Teresa] Quote:Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.[Mother Teresa] Quote:People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway. Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway.[Mother Teresa] Quote:A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Business today consists in persuading crowds.[T.S. Eliot] Quote:The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.[GK Chesterton] Quote:It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:American business long ago gave up on demanding that prospective employees be honest and hardworking. It has even stopped hoping for employees who are educated enough that they can tell the difference between the men's room and the women's room without having little pictures on the doors.[Dave Barry] Quote:Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes.[Dave Barry] Quote:Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth.[Dave Barry] Quote:Males have a lot of trouble not looking at breasts. What is worse, males cannot look at breasts and think at the same time. In fact, scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid. This was proved in a famous 1978 laboratory experiment wherein a team of leading male psychological researchers at Yale deliberately looked at photographs of breasts every day for two years, at the end of which they concluded that they had failed to take any notes.[Dave Barry] Quote:Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.[Dave Barry] Quote:The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.[Dave Barry] Quote:The function of RAM is to give us guys a way of deciding whose computer has the biggest, studliest, most tumescent MEMORY. This is important, because with today's complex software, the more memory a computer has, the faster it can produce error messages. So the bottom line is, if you're a guy, you cannot have enough RAM.[Dave Barry] Quote:The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.[Dave Barry] Quote:A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere--'Bibles laid open, millions of surprises,' as Herbert says, 'fine nets and stratagems.' God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.[Mark Twain] Quote:When I read about the evils of drinking I gave up reading.[Author Unknown] Quote:Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.[Siddhartha Buddha] Quote:Over the next hundred years or so football saw a great many major innovations and refinements that are too boring to even think about. Along the way professional football came into being so that the largest and most violent college players would have a way to earn money other than simply demanding it from innocent civilians.[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:I assume you are on the Internet. If you are not, then pardon my French, but vous ehzeh un big loser. Today EVERYBODY is on the Internet, including the primitive Mud People of the Amazon rain forest. In the old days, when the Mud People needed food, they had to manually throw spears at wild boars; whereas today they simply get on the Internet, go to www.spear-a-boar.com and click their mouse a few times (the Mud People use actual mice). Within three business days, a large box is delivered to them by a UPS driver, whom they eat.[Dave Barry] Quote:I probably should never have been there anyway, and it served me right when the two alert police officers fired up their siren, pulled me over, and pointed out that my car's registration had expired. I had not realized this, and as you can imagine I felt like quite the renegade outlaw as one of the officers painstakingly wrote out my ticket, standing well to the side of the road so as to avoid getting hit by the steady stream of passing unlicensed and uninsured motorists driving their stolen cars with their left hands so that their right hands would be free to keep their pit bulls from spilling their cocaine all over their machine guns. Not that I am bitter.[Dave Barry] Quote:Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.[Edmund Burke] Quote:They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.[Edmund Burke] Quote:My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.[Stephen Hawking] Quote:Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy.[Lauren Bacall] Quote:Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Have a vision. Be demanding.[Colin Powell] 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:Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap on-a-rope.[Bill Cosby] Quote:From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.[Groucho Marx] Quote:Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.[Woody Allen] Quote:It's not about finding the right man, it's about being the right woman.[Debby Jones] Quote:I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.[Elbert Hubbard] Quote:A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts; but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates.[Henry Thoreau] Quote:Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.[Ed Gardner] Quote:Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that; I'm right, and I will be proved right. We are more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first -- rock'n'roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.[John Lennon] Quote:Thus far, the reputed idiot Bush has graduated from Yale and Harvard, made a stack of cash in the oil industry, become the first consecutive-term governor of Texas, defeated a dual-term VP for the presidency, and led his party to [November 5th's] extraordinary triumphs. Let his opponents keep calling him stupid; if they do, within five years Bush will be King of England, the Pope, and world Formula One motor racing champion.[Tim Blair] Quote:For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines.[Bertrand Russell] Quote:Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:Of course the people dont want war...that is understood. But voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.[Hermann Goering] Quote:We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and then bid the geldings to be fruitful.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; the beasts, by nature.[Marcus Tullius Cicero] Quote:Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.[Groucho Marx] Quote:A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.[Robertson Davies] Quote:My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.[Orson Welles] Quote:That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.[Dorothy Parker] Quote:Experience proves this, or that, or nothing, according to the preconceptions we bring to it.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday -- the longer, the better -- from the great boarding school where we are forever working at our arithmetical slates, to take, and give a rest.[Charles Dickens] Quote:I'm at an age where I think more about food than sex. Last week I put a mirror over my dining room table.[Rodney Dangerfield] Quote:A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages.[Adam Smith] Quote:Such is the delicacy of man alone, that no object is produced to his liking. He finds that in everything there is need for improvement. The whole industry of human life is employed not in procuring the supply of our three humble necessities, food, clothes and lodging, but in procuring the conveniences of it according to the nicety and delicacy of our tastes.[Adam Smith] Quote:I do not want the peace that passeth understanding, I want the understanding that brings peace.[Helen Keller] Quote:Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.[Groucho Marx] Quote:A strict master will not have understanding sons.[Nachman of Bratslav] Quote:Wedding: a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.[Joseph Addison] Quote:Regarding the debate about faith and works: It?s like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:A finer body of men has never been gathered by any nation than the men who have done the work of building the Panama Canal; the conditions under which they have lived and have done their work have been better than in any similar work ever undertaken in the tropics; they have all felt an eager pride in their work; and they have made not only America but the whole world their debtors by what they have accomplished.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.[Erica Jong] Quote:A hero is no braver than an ordinary person, but he is braver five minutes longer.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:When real music comes to me - the music of the speres, the music that surpasseth understanding - that has nothing to do with me, cause I'm just the channel. The only joy for me is for it to be given to me, and to transcribe it like a medium...those moments are what I live for.[John Lennon] Quote:Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.[Carl Sagan] Quote:Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.[John Milton] Quote:Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.[Harvey Pekar] Quote:I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.[Henny Youngman] 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:At the bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique human being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Morality is the greatest of all tools for leading mankind by the nose.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly. [E. M. Forster] Quote:When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. [Henny Youngman] Quote:You think Nature is some Disney movie? Nature is a killer. Nature is a bitch. It's feeding time out there 24 hours a day, every step that you take is a gamble with death. If it isn't getting hit with lightning today, it's an earthquake tomorrow or some deer tick carrying Lime disease. Either way, you're ending up on the wrong end of the food chain. [Jeff Melvoin] Quote:That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent. [Aldous Huxley] Quote:Dreams are postcards from our subconscious, inner self to outer self, right brain trying to cross that moat to the left. Too often they come back unread: "return to sender, addressee unknown." That's a shame because it's a whole other world out there--or in here depending on your point of view. [Dennis Koenig and Jordan Budde] Quote:One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy. [Jane Austen] Quote:It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like. [Jackie Mason] Quote:Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can?t be taken on its own merits. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Greetings on this most exceedingly beautiful spring morning. A morning swollen with new life, a morning on which, if I had the voice, I would let loose with song. It's hard to believe just a few short weeks ago we were eating our cornflakes in the wintery dark. Now, well it's still kind of dim out there, but I can see the golden glow of Apollo's chariot waiting in the wings, about to make its entrance. Winter's on the lam, no doubt. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. [Abigail Adams] Quote:We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. [Abigail Adams] Quote:For people to judge a man's worth and his very manhood according to the way he feels about sport, and not to recognize it for the piddly, inconsequential goings on that it really is... [Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess] Quote:Much learning does not teach understanding. [Heraclitus] Quote:Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it. [Cicero] Quote:History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity. [Cicero] Quote:Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. [Bette Davis] Quote:It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. [Charles Baudelaire] Quote:Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words. [Aristophanes] Quote:You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner. [Aristophanes] Quote:Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it. [Alfred Hitchcock] Quote:The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood. [John Burroughs] Quote:The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood. [John Burroughs] Quote:It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever. [Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner. [Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home. [Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper. [Adelle Davis] Quote:Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity. [Marcus Aurelius Antoninus] Quote:The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive. [Marcus Aurelius Antoninus] Quote:You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them! [Amy Tan] Quote:The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. [George Orwell] Quote:Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms. [Alan Corenk] Quote:Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. [Albert Einstein] Quote:It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs. [Albert Einstein] Quote:Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure. [Helen Keller] Quote:I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage. [Charles W. Eliot] Quote:Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb. [Sir Winston Churchill] Quote:It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its soverign law is subordination and dependence. [Marquis de Vauvenargues] Quote:Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love. [Don Marquis] Quote:Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. [Dag Hammarskjold] Quote:Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay-- Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses. [Charles Kingsley] Quote:The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. [H. L. Mencken] Quote:He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes." [H. L. Mencken] Quote:There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness. [Franz Kafka] Quote:No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation. [Fran Lebowitz] Quote:Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence. [George F. Will] Quote:Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence. [George F. Will] Quote:To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. [Cyril Connolly] Definitions of: dinDefinition: Loud, confused, harsh noise; a loud, continuous, rattling or clanging sound; clamor; roar.Definition: To sound with a din; a ding. |
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