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:I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.[Winston Churchill] Quote:Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.[Winston Churchill] Quote:The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.[Albert Einstein] Quote:To hell with circumstances. I create opportunities.[Bruce Lee] Quote:The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.[Samuel Johnson] Quote:I know not what course others make take, but as for me: give me Liberty, or give me death.[Patrick Henry] 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:You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude. But they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you.[Kevin Smith] Quote:Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:Absence is to love as wind is to fire; It extinguishes the small and kindles the great.[Roger de Bussy-Rabutin] Quote:Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.[Mark Twain] Quote:Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.[Abraham Lincoln] Quote:Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up DOES rejoice. Still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone. I guess I just miss my friend.[Morgan Freeman] Quote:Look, all I'm saying is, if these big stars didn't want people going through their garbage and saying they're gay, then they shouldn't have tried to express themselves creatively.[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:We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.[Gene Roddenberry] Quote:A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.[Albert Einstein] Quote:Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.[Saint Augustine] Quote:Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.[Ambrose Bierce] 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:I'm a great housekeeper: I get divorced, I keep the house.[Zsa Zsa Gabor] Quote:Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murders. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.[Victor Hugo] Quote:The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.[Victor Hugo] Quote:No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous.[Samuel Johnson] Quote:Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:The women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.[Susan B. Anthony] 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:If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike. Subjectivism about values is eternally incompatible with democracy. We and our rulers are of one kind only so long as we are subject to one law. But if there is no Law of Nature, the ethos of any society is the creation of its rulers, educators and conditioners; and every creator stands above and outside his own creation.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny.[Joseph Addison] Quote:I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the Presidency.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.[T.S. Eliot] Quote:Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.[T.S. Eliot] Quote:It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.[T.S. Eliot] Quote:A little neglect may breed great mischief.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.[GK Chesterton] Quote:I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.[Dave Barry] 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:A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?[C.S. Lewis] Quote:If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true![Dave Barry] Quote:The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.[Dave Barry] Quote:The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins.[Dave Barry] Quote:Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.[Dave Barry] Quote:'You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve,' said Aslan. 'And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor in earth.'[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.[Konrad von Gesner] Quote:Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.[Author Unknown] Quote:A University of Chicago professor said the greatest day in the world was when a water puppy crawled out on land and decided to stay. The water puppy, he said, went on to become a man. If he proves that, I am willing to give up Christmas, Thanksgiving, and New Year's Day, and to celebrate Water Puppy Day.[William Jennings Bryan] Quote:Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.[Marianne Moore] Quote:A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.[Robert Frost] Quote:Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.[Robert Frost] Quote:Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.[John Donne] Quote:I can live with death.[Evan Spigelman] Quote:There are no seeing eye cats, of course, because the sole function of cats, in the Great Chain of Life, is to cause harm to human beings.[Dave Barry] Quote:The ACLU is always yakking about the Constitution, and most of us are getting mighty tired of it. I mean, if the Constitution is so great, how come it was amended so many times? Huh?[Dave Barry] 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 don't know what the new Ford will be called. Probably something like the 'Ford Untamed Wilderness Adventure.' In the TV commercials, it will be shown splashing through rivers, charging up rocky mountainsides, swinging on vines, diving off cliffs, racing through the surf, and fighting giant sharks hundreds of feet beneath the ocean surface -- all the daredevil things that cars do in Sport Utility Vehicle Commercial World, where nobody ever drives on an actual world. In fact, the interstate highways in Sport Utility Vehicle Commercial World, having been abandoned by humans, are teeming with deer, squirrels, birds, and other wildlife species that have fled from the forests to avoid being run over by nature-seekers in multi-ton vehicles barreling through the underbrush at 50 miles per hour.[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 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:Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.[Louis Hector Berlioz] Quote:Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.[Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.[Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.[Adelle Davis] Quote:Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.[Anthelme Brillat-Savarin] Quote:Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.[Mark Twain] Quote:There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.[Mark Twain] Quote:You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.[Ronald Reagan] Quote:Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.[Socrates] Quote:Have you ever heard people say 'don't sweat the details'? Well, they're wrong: sweat the details. They have a name for people who sweat the details: millionaires.[Jerry Bowyer] Quote:Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.[Edmund Burke] Quote:Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.[Edmund Burke] Quote:Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.[Edmund Burke] Quote:Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?[Stephen Hawking] Quote:I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.[Stephen Hawking] Quote:A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.[Aristotle] Quote:Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.[Aristotle] Quote:No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.[Aristotle] Quote:Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty -- excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable -- should persist after the beauty was gone.[Aristotle] Quote:We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.[Aristotle] Quote:We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.[Aristotle] Quote:All great truths begin as blasphemies.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:The odds of not meeting in this life are so great that every meeting is like a miracle. It's a wonder that we don't make love to every single person we meet.[Yoko Ono] Quote:Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Half a truth is often a great lie.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:So convienent a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:The price of greatness is responsibility.[Winston Churchill] Quote:This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.[Dorothy Parker] Quote:Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.[Mark Twain] Quote:Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.[Mark Twain] Quote:Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.[Mark Twain] Quote:I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.[Mark Twain] Quote:We're all on the same roller coaster, just in different seats.[Jason Mechalek] Quote:Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.[Fulton J. Sheen] 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:There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear.[Frank Tyger] Quote:To laugh with others is one of life's great pleasures. To be laughed at by others is one of life's great hurts.[Frank Tyger] Quote:Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.[Aristotle] Quote:Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty -- excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable -- should persist after the beauty was gone.[Mary Arnim] Quote:The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy.[Fulke Greville] Quote:Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?[Aldous Huxley] Quote:Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.[Bill Cosby] Quote:If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.[Bill Cosby] Quote:In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.[Bill Cosby] Quote:Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.[Colin Powell] Quote:My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.[Abraham Lincoln] Quote:The greatest remedy for anger is delay.[Thomas Paine] Quote:It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is the way in which we use it.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:If an American is to amount to anything he must rely upon himself, and not upon the State; he must take pride in his own work, instead of sitting idle to envy the luck of others. He must face life with resolute courage, win victory if he can, and accept defeat if he must, without seeking to place on his fellow man a responsibility which is not theirs.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty... I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led diffcult lives and led them well.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:I was gonna rip his heart out. I'm the best ever. I'm the most brutal and vicious, the most ruthless champion there has ever been. No one can stop me. Lennox is a conqueror? No! He's no Alexander! I'm Alexander! I'm the best ever. I'm Sonny Liston. I'm Jack Dempsey. There's never been anyone like me. I'm from their cloth. There is no one who can match me. My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I want his heart! I want to eat his children! Praise be to Allah![Mike Tyson] Quote:Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can't control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control your fear, it makes you more alert, like a deer coming across the lawn.[Mike Tyson] Quote:You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.[Yogi Berra] Quote:There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.[Ernest Hemingway] Quote:I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.[George Carlin] Quote:Weather forecast for tonight: dark.[George Carlin] Quote:A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.[George Patton] Quote:Great ideas originate in the muscles.[Thomas Edison] Quote:I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.[Thomas Edison] Quote:There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.[Thomas Edison] Quote:What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.[Thomas Edison] Quote:For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal.[John F. Kennedy] Quote:Can't live with 'em. Can't legally torture them to death.[Author Unknown] Quote:Socialism: An attempt to curb the destructive power of monopolies by creating the biggest one of all.[Author Unknown] Quote:The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by Homo Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the sacharrine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and becomes petulant if he does not recieve this flattery. Yet this ridiculous notion, without one real shred of evidence to bolster it, has gone on to found one of the oldest, largest and least productive industries in history.[Robert Heinlein] Quote:Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.[Confucius] Quote:He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.[Confucius] 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:Death tugs at my ear and says:[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.[Alexander Hamilton] Quote:Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.[Henry Mencken] Quote:If God has created us in His image, we have more than returned the compliment.[Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire)] Quote:The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.[Woody Allen] Quote:Dogs look up to you. Cats look down on you. Pigs treat you like equals.[Winston Churchill] Quote:The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that considered a hostage situation?[Steven Wright] Quote:I arrive at the end of this review having done my duty as a critic. I have described the movie accurately and you have a good idea what you are in for if you go to see it. Most of you will not. I cannot argue with you. Some of you will--the brave and the curious. You embody the spirit of the man who first wondered what it would taste like to eat an oyster.[Roger Ebert] Quote:Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.[Colin Powell] Quote:The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself.[Steve Martin] Quote:What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.[Thomas Edison] Quote:Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.[Baltasar Gracian] 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:The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking.[Albert Einstein] Quote:I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of another boy.[Woody Allen] Quote:Learning has been [a] great loser by being shut up in colleges and cells and secluded from the world and good company.[David Hume] Quote:The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.[Russell Lynes] Quote:A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.[John F. Kennedy] Quote:We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.[Mother Teresa] Quote:Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.[George Eliot] Quote:When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.[Madonna Ciccone] Quote:Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.[Jesse Jackson] 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:Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason to deplore the one as there is to be pleased over the other.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:If there is a soul, it is a mistake to believe that it is given tous fully created. It is created here, throughout a whole life. And living is nothing else but that long and painful bringing forth.[Albert Camus] Quote:I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day.[Albert Camus] Quote:To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.[Siddhartha Buddha] Quote:Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.[Baltasar Gracian] Quote:The path to greatness is along with others.[Baltasar Gracian] Quote:Life is but a brief moment. The years go by quickly and old age arrives suddenly before we have an inkling. People desire so many things and waste their days in vain. Some yearn for gold, others for power, yet others for glory and a higher station. But when death's moment nears and they look back at their lives they've lived, they realise they've been happy only during those moments when they've loved.[Borje Vahamaki] Quote:The reason I love my dog so much is because when I come home, he's the only one in the world who treats me like I'm The Beatles.[Bill Maher] Quote:What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.[Dave Barry] 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:I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.[Dorothy Parker] Quote:The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion, because if a mother can kill her own child what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.[Mother Teresa] Quote:Imagine what you desire. Will what you imagine. Create what you will.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.[Saul Bellow] Quote:Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:A bore is a fellow who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.[Henry Ford] Quote:Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities.[Erica Jong] Quote:Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.[Pablo Picasso] Quote:For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.[Carl Sagan] Quote:If devotion to truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking...the alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind.[Ayn Rand] Quote:The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.[Albert Einstein] Quote:The definition of success--To laugh much; to win respect of intelligent persons and the affections of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give one's self; to leave the world a little better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition.; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived--this is to have succeeded.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:The heights by great men reached and kept, were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Quote:Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Quote:Success is dependent upon the glands; sweat glands.[Zig Ziglar] Quote:I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.[Thomas Jefferson] Quote:It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.[Patrick Henry] Quote:I'm not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.[Woody Allen] Quote:Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.[Daniel Webster] 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 have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.[Leonardo da Vinci] Quote:A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.[William James] Quote:The greatest pleasure of life is love.[William Temple] Quote:I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old, familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth, good-will to men![Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] 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:For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal.[John F. Kennedy] Quote:The uniform, constant and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition, the principle from which public and national, as well as private opulence is originally derived, is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement, in spite both of the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of administration. Like the unknown principle of animal life, it frequently restores health and vigour to the constitution, in spite, not only of the disease, but of the absurd prescriptions of the doctor.[Adam Smith] Quote:Every individual...generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.[Adam Smith] Quote:Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.[Brian Tracy] Quote:Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.[Jimi Hendrix] Quote:Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.[William Shakespeare] Quote:But could not our situation be compared to one of a menacing epidemic? People are unable to view this situation in its true light, for their eyes are blinded by passion. General fear and anxiety create hatred and aggressiveness. The adaptation to warlike aims and activities has corrupted the mentality of man; as a result, intelligent, objective and humane thinking has hardly any effect and is even suspected and persecuted as unpatriotic.[Albert Einstein] Quote:Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.[George Santayana] Quote:The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.[Winston Churchill] 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:A friend is able to see you as the wonderful person God created you to be.[Ann D. Parrish] Quote:The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.[Abigail Van Buren] Quote:The prosperity of a country can be seen simply in how it treats its old people.[Nachman of Bratslav] Quote:An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.[Adlai Stevenson] Quote:If a man can beat you, walk him.[Satchel Paige] Quote:Some are weather-wise, some are otherwise.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.[John Wayne] Quote:A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.[Ansel Adams] Quote:Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.[Ansel Adams] Quote:There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.[Ansel Adams] Quote:To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.[Ansel Adams] Quote:Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.[Muhammad Ali] 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: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:It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.'' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.[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:Such men as he be never at heart's ease whiles they behold a greater than themselves, and therefore are they very dangerous.[William Shakespeare] Quote:For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances as though they were realities. and are often more influenced by things that seem than by those that are.[Nicolo Machiavelli] Quote:To be trusted is a greater complement than to be loved.[George MacDonald] Quote:A few hours of mountain climbing turn a villain and a saint into two rather equal creature. Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity, and liberty is added eventually by sleep.[Friedrich Nietzsche] 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:When you're as great as I am, it's hard to be humble.[Muhammad Ali] Quote:Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.[Leonardo da Vinci] Quote:To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.[Douglas Adams] Quote:One of the great attractions of patriotism -- it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:How come the dove gets to be the peace symbol? How about the pillow? It has more feathers than the dove, and it doesn't have that dangerous beak.[Jack Handey] Quote:Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Speed provides the one great modern pleasure.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.[Douglas Adams] Quote:The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.[D.H. Lawrence] Quote:The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.[Franklin D. Roosevelt] Quote:I think the idea of art kills creativity.[Douglas Adams] Quote:He is a very modest man with a great deal to be modest about.[Winston Churchill] Quote:The great principle which this house ought to guard and cherish is that, when the tax collector comes to the private citizen and takes from him of his wealth for the services of the public, the whole of that money taken shall go for the purposes for which it is intended, and that no private interests, however powerfully they may be organized and however eloquently advocated, shall thrust their dirty fingers into the pie and take the profits for themselves.[Winston Churchill] Quote:'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.[Thomas Paine] Quote:If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.[Alphonse Karr] Quote:Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.[Robert Kennedy] Quote:There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.[Ben Jonson] Quote:Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.[Omar Bradley] Quote:A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.[Fidel Castro] Quote:Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Indeed it is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.[Douglas MacArthur] Quote:A man doesnt want a child he is a dead beat dad. A woman doesnt want a child she is pro choice.[Author Unknown] Quote:To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday and our present thoughts build our life tomorrow. Our life is the creation of our mind.[Siddhartha Buddha] Quote:Man's nature is not always to advance; it has its advances and retreats.[Blaise Pascal] 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: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:All I want out of life, is that when I walk down the street folks will say, 'There goes the greatest hitter that ever lived.'[Ted Williams] Quote:The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.[Art Spander] Quote:Death is not the worst than can happen to men.[Plato] Quote:No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.[Plato] Quote:Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?[Plato] Quote:The greatest penalty of evildoing - namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men.[Plato] Quote:Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously![Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, givne style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Morality is the greatest of all tools for leading mankind by the nose.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche -- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black cat is always the last one off the fence.' I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true. [Solomon Short] Quote:Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success. [Cato the Elder] Quote:There is no great genius without some touch of madness. [Seneca] 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: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:Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. [Baltasar Gracian] Quote:If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf. [Bob Hope] Quote:What is it about genus arboretum that socks us in the figurative solar plexus? We see a logging truck go cruising down the road, stacked with a bunch of those fresh-cut giants, we feel like we lost a brother. Next thing you know, we're in The Brick, we're flopping money down on the bar. Wood. We're under a roof. Wood. We're walking the floors. Wood. Grabbing a pool cue. That's wood. Our friends in the forest carry a set of luggage from the mythical baggage carousel. Tree of life, tree of knowledge, family tree, Buddha's Bodhi tree. Page one of life, in the beginning. Genesis 3:22. Adam and Eve. They're kicking back in the garden of Eden and boom, they get an eviction notice. Why is that? "Lest they should also take of the tree of life, eat and live forever." A definitive Yahweh no-no. Be good to yourself, go out and plant a wet one on a tree. [Dr. Thomas Fuller] Quote:This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, <br>This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, <br>This other Eden, demi-paradise, <br>This fortress built by Nature for herself <br>Against infection and the hand of war, <br>This happy breed of men, this little world, <br>This precious stone set in the silver sea, <br>Which serves it in the office of a wall <br>Or as a moat defensive to a house, <br>Against the envy of less happier lands,-- <br>This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England. [William Shakespeare] Quote:O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!<br>It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock<br>The meat it feeds on. [William Shakespeare] Quote:The quality of mercy is not strain'd, <br>It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven <br>Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: <br>It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. <br>'T is mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes <br>The throned monarch better than his crown; <br>His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, <br>The attribute to awe and majesty, <br>Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; <br>But mercy is above this sceptred sway, <br>It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, <br>It is an attribute to God himself; <br>And earthly power doth then show likest God's, <br>When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew, <br>Though justice be thy plea, consider this, <br>That in the course of justice none of us <br>Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy; <br>And that same prayer doth teach us all to render <br>The deeds of mercy. [William Shakespeare] Quote:There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. [George Santayana] Quote:Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. [George Santayana] Quote:Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. [George Santayana] Quote:It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. [Aesop] Quote:The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. [Aesop] Quote:The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction. [Aesop] Quote:Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives. [Aeschylus] Quote:Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts. [John Henry Cardinal Newman] Quote:Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things. [Denis Diderot] Quote:I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming?suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you. [Agatha Christie] Quote:The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid. [E. B. White] Quote:Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic. [Ambrose Bierce] Quote:The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all. [Jawaharlal Nehru] 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:Creativity is a drug I cannot live without. [Cecil B. DeMille] Quote:There were always people like the pope. They serve a certain function, of course. They subsidize us. But, they don't create anything and they must never be allowed to stop the artist from creating. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] 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:She gave me more than just a sweater vest that night. She gave me all this. Nothing. She gave me nothing. That's what I need. No phone book, no Game Boy, no pasta maker, TV Guide. Nowhere to go, nothing to do. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Life is everywhere. The earth is throbbing with it, it's like music. The plants, the creatures, the ones we see, the ones we don't see, it's like one, big, pulsating symphony. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Marriage is the union of disparate elements. Male and female. Yin and yang. Proton and electron. What are we talking about here? Nothing less than the very tension that binds the universe. You see, when we look at marriage, people, we're are looking at creation itself. "I am the sky," says the Hindu bridegroom to the bride. "You are the earth. We are sky and earth united.... You are my husband. You are my wife. My feet shall run because of you. My feet shall dance because of you. My heart shall beat because of you. My eyes see because of you. My mind thinks because of you and I shall love because of you." [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Marriage. It's a hard term to define. Especially for me--I've ducked it like root canal. Still there's no denying the fact that marriage ranks right up there with birth and death as one of the three biggies in the human safari. It's the only one though that we'll celebrate with a conscious awareness. Very few of you remember your arrival and even fewer of you will attend your own funeral. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:You've been listening to the adagio from Beethoven's 7th Symphony. I think Ludwig pretty much summed up death in this one. You know, he had lost just about all his hearing when he wrote it, and I've often wondered if that didn't help him tune into the final silence of the great beyond. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:It's just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and needs and desires, strange as they may seem. If you stop to think about it, we're all pretty creative, cooking up all these fantasies. it's like a kind of poetry. [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:For certain is death for the born<br>And certain is birth for the dead;<br>Therefore over the inevitable<br>Thou shouldst not grieve. [Bhagavad Gita] Quote:The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. [Carl Jung] Quote:It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability. [Francois de La Rochefoucauld] Quote:The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals. [Sir William Osler] Quote:Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. [Mark Twain] Quote:The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. [Thomas Carlyle] Quote:The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death. [Cicero] Quote:It is a great thing to know our vices. [Cicero] Quote:Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier. [Bill Gates] Quote:There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.' [Andre Gide] Quote:Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them. [Jewish Proverb] Quote:Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death. [Lord Acton] Quote:We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves. [Henri Matisse] Quote:Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists? [Laurence J. Peter] Quote:You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another. [Oprah Winfrey] Quote:I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion. [Franklin D. Roosevelt] Quote:I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. [George Sand] Quote:One of the things that keeps you from dropping them in the nearest volcano is that you had to work too hard to get them. You had to cry, you had to scream, you had to sweat, you had to cuss out health care officials, and when that's all over with, you'll be willing to put up with a lot more from your kids. [Barbara Hall] 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:When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield. [Quintilian] 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:There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. [Michel de Montaigne] Quote:To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. [Joseph Chilton Pearce] Quote:We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are. [Adelle Davis] Quote:If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. [Isaac Asimov] Quote:Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence. [Isaac Asimov] Quote:I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home. [Bill Cosby] Quote:Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. [Sun-tzu] Quote:Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life. [Bertolt Brecht] Quote:America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better. [Arnold Toynbee] Quote:Security is a kind of death. [Tennessee Williams] Quote:You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. [Albert Camus] 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:The first condition of immortality is death. [Stanislaw J. Lec] Quote:Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent. [Epictetus] Quote:We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own. [Sir Arthur Eddington] 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:The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. [Albert Einstein] Quote:Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. [Albert Einstein] Quote:Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. [Albert Einstein] Quote:Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence. [Hermann Hesse] 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:Live well. It is the greatest revenge. [The Talmud] Quote:I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. [Thomas Jefferson] Quote:What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. [Dave Barry] Quote:Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. [Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. [Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. [Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people. [Muhammad Ali] Quote:To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character. [Aristotle] Quote:Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice. [Aristotle] Quote:The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man. [Euripides] Quote:I know indeed what evil I intend to do,<br>but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury,<br>fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils. [Euripides] Quote:Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. [Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. [Theodore Roosevelt] 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:You can cover a great deal of country in books. [Bell Hooks] Quote:Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats. [Ralph W. Sockman] Quote:The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. [Doris Lessing] Quote:One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness. [Josh Billings] Quote:One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness. [Josh Billings] Quote:Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death. [Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey] Quote:The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think. [Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey] Quote:Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence. [H. L. Mencken] Quote:Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine. [Fran Lebowitz] Quote:Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them. [Fran Lebowitz] Quote:To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act. [Anatole France] 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:Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it. [Lois McMaster Bujold] Quote:I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is?the higher achievement. [Lois McMaster Bujold] Quote:Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it. [Lois McMaster Bujold] Quote:The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility. [Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things. [Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. [William James] 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:Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed. [Elbert Hubbard] Quote:The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. [Elbert Hubbard] Quote:Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them. [Benjamin Disraeli] Quote:Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes. [Benjamin Disraeli] Quote:To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. [Benjamin Disraeli] Quote:I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises. [Neil Armstrong] Quote:And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama. [Real Live Preacher] Quote:God, I don?t have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it. [Real Live Preacher] Quote:We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of God?s existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith. [Real Live Preacher] Quote:Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts. [Clare Booth Luce] Quote:A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means. [Sallust] Quote:Frugality without creativity is deprivation. [Brenda Ueland] Quote:In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman. [George Ade] Quote:Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by orginality, overcomes everything. [John W. Gardner] Quote:It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it. After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics. [Penn Jillette] Quote:A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. [Albert Schweitzer] Quote:The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves. [Sophocles] Quote:It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. [Elizabeth Taylor] Quote:This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men. [Charlie Chaplin] Definitions of: eatDefinition: To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread.Definition: To corrode, as metal, by rust; to consume the flesh, as a cancer; to waste or wear away; to destroy gradually; to cause to disappear. |
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