Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.[Tom Clancy] Quote:Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.[Edmond and Jules de Goncourt] Quote:Religion to me has always been the wound, not the bandage.[Dennis Potter] Quote:Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.[Victor Hugo] Quote:Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?[Victor Hugo] Quote:A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.[Samuel Johnson] Quote:The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt comes with less fruit.[Rush Limbaugh] Quote:A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.[Sydney Smith] Quote:I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.[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:Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.[Andr Gide] 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: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:If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.[Dave Barry] Quote:It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.[William Jennings Bryan] Quote:The one man who should never attempt an explanation on poetry is its author. If the poem can be improved by its author?s explanations, it never should have been published.[Archibald MacLeish] Quote:Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:It is very easy to tell the difference between man-made and God-made objects. The more you magnify man-made objects, the cruder they look, but the more you magnify God-made objects, the more precise and intricate they appear.[Luther Sutherland] Quote:I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.[Siddhartha Buddha] Quote:Scientists tell us that the fastest animal on earth, with a top speed of 120 ft/sec, is a cow that has been dropped out of a helicopter.[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:I have not felt remotely cool for a long time, thanks largely to the relentless efforts of my teenage son, whose goal in life is to make me feel 3,500 years old. We'll be in the car, and he'll say, 'You wanna hear my new CD?' And I, flattered that he thinks his old man might like the same music he does, will say 'Sure!' So he increases the sound-system volume setting from '4' to 'Meteor Impact,' and he puts in a CD by a band with a name like 'Pustule,' and the next thing I know gigantic nuclear bass notes have blown out all the car windows and activated both the driver- and passenger-side air bags, and I'm writhing on the floor, screaming for mercy with jets of blood spurting three feet from my ears. My son then ejects the CD, smiling contentedly, knowing he as purchased a winner. On those extremely rare occasions when I like one of his CDs, I imagine he destroys it with a blowtorch.[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:Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.[Fran Lebowitz] Quote:I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.[Totie Fields] Quote:Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.[George Dennison Prentice] Quote:Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.[Dale Carnegie] Quote:Not only does God play dice, but he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.[Stephen Hawking] Quote:The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.[Stephen Hawking] Quote:The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men.[Aristotle] Quote:Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:I am not a has-been. I am a will be.[Lauren Bacall] Quote:When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I'll like it or not. Disagreement, at this stage, stimulates me. But once a decision has been made, the debate ends. From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.[Colin Powell] Quote:Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.[Mark Twain] Quote:Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?[Annie Dillard] Quote:The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:Our country offers the most wonderful example of democratic government on a giant scale that the world has ever seen; and the peoples of the world are watching to see whether we succeed or fail.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has been done him, and that he should hope for redress elsewhere than in his own industry, honesty, and intelligence.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Reputation is character minus what you've been caught doing.[Michael Iapoce] 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:I haven't been with a woman in nine months.[Mike Tyson] Quote:The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.[Gloria Leonard] Quote:The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.[Thomas Edison] Quote:When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.[John F. Kennedy] Quote:The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:Old age is fifteen years older than I am.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:You know what your problem is? It's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.[Steve Martin] Quote:A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.[Socrates] Quote:As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.[Josh Billings] Quote:Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.[Alexander Hamilton] Quote:Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.[Alexander Hamilton] 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:That woman speaks eighteen languages and she can't say 'no' in any one of them.[Dorothy Parker] Quote:I have a hobby...I have the world's largest collection of sea shells. I keep it scattered on beaches all over the world. Maybe you've seen some of it...[Steven Wright] Quote:If you're given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.[Katherine Hepburn] Quote:In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.[Paul Harvey] Quote:Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.[Fran Lebowitz] Quote:I believe that sex is a beautiful thing between two people. Between five, it's fantastic.[Woody Allen] 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:I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.[Ronald Reagan] Quote:God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please - you can never have both.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:Sex between a man and a woman can be absolutely wonderful - provided you get between the right man and the right woman.[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:Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.[Colman McCarthy] Quote:When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall - think of it, <b[Mahatma Gandhi] 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 poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.[GK Chesterton] 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:Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.[John Barrymore] Quote:But what is the difference between literature and journalism? Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.[Oscar Wilde] 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:The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize.[Saul Bellow] Quote:A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.[Saul Bellow] Quote:Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities.[Erica Jong] Quote:I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.[Mel Brooks] Quote:Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.[Mark Twain] Quote:An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.[Laurence Peter] Quote:The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it; so fine that we often are on the line and do not know it.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.[Daniel Webster] Quote:When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.[Anatole France] Quote:I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot, and I missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is precisely why I succeed.[Michael Jordan] Quote:The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.[Helen Keller] Quote:Things are more like they are today than they have ever been before.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.[Oscar Levant] Quote:There has been only one Christmas - the rest are anniversaries.[W.J. Cameron] Quote:The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education.[Adam Smith] Quote:Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.[Brian Tracy] Quote:It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.[Bertrand Russell] Quote:Dance like nobody's watching; love like you've never been hurt. Sing like nobody's listening; live like it's heaven on earth.[Mark Twain] Quote:One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.[Mark Twain] Quote:Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.[Amy Bloom] Quote:The prosperity of a country can be seen simply in how it treats its old people.[Nachman of Bratslav] Quote:It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.[Winston Churchill] Quote:I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.[Muhammad Ali] Quote:Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man?s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years.[Nicolo Machiavelli] 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: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:Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking and now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage.[Ronald Reagan] Quote:If you're in a boxing match, try not to let the other guy's glove touch your lips, because you don't know where that glove has been.[Jack Handey] Quote:Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been, and there you long to return.[Leonardo da Vinci] Quote:Love means having to say you're sorry every fifteen minutes.[John Lennon] Quote:A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.[Fidel Castro] Quote:Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear ? kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor ? with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.[Douglas MacArthur] Quote:Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.[Albert Einstein] Quote:When you work seven days a week, fourteen hours a day, you get lucky.[Armand Hammer] Quote:Honeymoon: a short period of doting between dating and debating.[Ray Bandy] Quote:I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught. [Georgia O'Keeffe] 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:Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, <br>Is the immediate jewel of their souls: <br>Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; <br>'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; <br>But he that filches from me my good name <br>Robs me of that which not enriches him <br>And makes me poor indeed. [William Shakespeare] 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:If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry. [Arab Proverb] Quote:Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again. [Evelyn Underhill] Quote:There are no thanks for a kindness, which has been delayed. [Anonymous] Quote:In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes. [Jane Austen] Quote:The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes. [Henry Kissinger] Quote:Mathematics is the queen of the sciences. [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:I have seen men fly bombers with their faces half- blown away. You're going to allow a few algebra formulas to ground you? [Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess] Quote:Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the possession of the capacity to get elegant solutions to non-existent engineering problems; engineering is practicing the art of the organized forcing of technological change... Engineers operate at the interface between science and society... [Herbert Hoover] 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:If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent. [Isaac Newton] Quote:Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. [Charles Dickens] Quote:Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been lent to you. [Chinese Proverb] Quote:It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies. [Bette Davis] Quote:Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. [B. F. Skinner] Quote:Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it. [Alfred North Whitehead] Quote:The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. [Calvin Trillin] Quote:The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. [Calvin Trillin] Quote:Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer? [Heinrich Heine] Quote:I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars. [Sir Arthur Eddington] Quote:Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. [Albert Einstein] Quote:The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible. [Albert Einstein] Quote:Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. [Albert Einstein] Quote:Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking. [Dave Barry] Quote:Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed. [Abraham Lincoln] Quote:It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. [Abraham Lincoln] Quote:I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore, I must stop doing what I've been doing. [Aristotle] Quote:I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. [Henry David Thoreau] Quote:Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long. [Ogden Nash] Quote:What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness. [M. C. Escher] Quote:Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. [Henri-Frdric Amiel] Quote:All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. [H. L. Mencken] Quote:Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. [G. K. Chesterton] Quote:Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard. [Edward Bulwer-Lytton] Quote:When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. [Anatole France] Quote:You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility. [Lois McMaster Bujold] Quote:In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from. [Peter Drucker] Quote:It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence. [Joan Baez] Quote:In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes. [Andy Warhol] Definitions of: eenDefinition: The old plural of Eye. |
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