June 2007

Marilyn Manson Quotations

-Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised. Marilyn Manson

Don Marquis Quotations

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. Don Marquis

Mike Myers Quotations

-My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare. Mike Myers

Doris Lessing Quotations

-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. -All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving [...]

Hugh Elliott Quotations

-Share your M&Ms. There are bags and bags of them all over the place. If you give them one of yours, even one of the green ones, you will not be lacking. Honust Injun. Now apply this to Time, Concern, Touch, Interest and Being Vulnerable. -When a miracle happens, even if not to you, its [...]

Chris Patten

In politics, as soon as you take a trick in diamonds, you find that hearts have become trumps. Chris Patten

Gail Devers

Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe. Gail Devers

Maxwell Maltz Quotations

Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment. Maxwell Maltz

Howard Zinn

We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children Howard Zinn

Christine Bovee

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself. Christine Bovee

Jane Wagner Quotations

-All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific. -The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool. Jane Wagner

Vicomte de Chateaubriand

You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light. Vicomte de Chateaubriand

Walt Kelly

We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities. Walt Kelly

Samuel Taylor Quotations

-Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and deeper it sinks into the mind Samuel Taylor

Robert Sternberg Quotations

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still. Robert Sternberg

C. Archie Danielson

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. C. Archie Danielson

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotations

No mind is thoroughly well-organized that is deficient in a sense of humor. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Scott Morrison Quotations

To be enlightened is simply to be absolutely, unconditionally intimate with this moment. No more. No less. Scott Morrison

Paul Harvey Quotations

-In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these. -I’ve never seen a monument erected to a pessimist. Paul Harvey

Douglas Adams Quotations

-Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space. -He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to [...]

Gordon R. Dickson Quotations

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it. Gordon R. Dickson

Sinclair Lewis Quotations

-People will buy anything that is one to a customer. -When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.” Sinclair Lewis

Norman Douglas Quotations

-How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one’s senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality. -If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things. -You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. Norman Douglas

Robert McCloskey Quotations

-I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant. Robert McCloskey

Maurice Setter Quotations

Too many people miss the silver lining because they’re expecting gold. Maurice Setter

Anthony J D’Angelo

Treasure your relationships, not your possessions. Anthony J D’Angelo

Arnold Toynbee Quotations

-It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it. -America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, [...]

Augusten Burroughs

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions. Augusten Burroughs

Dean Acheson

Perhaps the best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. Dean Acheson

Fugazi

You are not what you own. Fugazi, American rock band

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotations

-Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them. -So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date. -To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible. -We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don’t care [...]

Martin Gardner Quotations-

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry. Martin Gardner

Barbara Hall Quotations

-The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn’t matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark. -Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace. -See, that’s all you’re [...]

A.K. Giffin

If it were not for lawyers, we wouldn’t need them. A.K. Giffin

Steven Weinberg Quotations

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. Steven Weinberg

C.S. Lewis Quotations

-Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair. -Though our feelings come and go, God’s love for us does not. -Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. -The greatest evil is not done in [...]

Hans Christian Andersen

Nothing is too high for a man to reach, but he must climb with care and confidence. Hans Christian Andersen

Henry C. Fownes Quotations

A shot poorly played should be a shot irrevocably lost. Henry C. Fownes

George Washington Quotations

-To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace. -Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. George Washington

John Lyly

After three days, fish and guests stink. John Lyly

Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotations

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. Thomas Babington Macaulay

Lyman Beecher Quotations

No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy. Lyman Beecher

Chuck Sigars Quotations

-Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones. -I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we’re allowed to see out of the corner of [...]

Alfred Nobel Quotations

Contentment is the only real wealth. Alfred Nobel

Matthias

Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God’s love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would [...]

Theodore Isaac Rubin

Kindness is more important than wisdom,and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. Theodore Isaac Rubin

Samuel Goldwyn Quotations

-A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it’s written on. -Pay no attention to the critics. Don’t even ignore them. -I never put on a pair of shoes until I’ve worn them at least five years. -Let’s have some new cliches. Samuel Goldwyn

Czech Proverbs

-The big thieves hang the little ones. -When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears. Czech Proverbs

Gertrude Stein Quotations

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. Gertrude Stein

Gordon T. Watts

The depth and the willingness with which we serve is a direct reflection of our gratitude. Gordon T. Watts

Elayne Boosler Quotations

When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. Elayne Boosler

Norman Vincent Peale Quotations

-Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities. -Change your thoughts and you change your world. Norman Vincent Peale

Jean de La Bruyère Quotations

All men’s misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone. Jean de La Bruyère

Pearl S. Buck Quotations

-A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love. -There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream – whatever that dream might be. [...]

Dr. David M. Burns Quotations

-Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person. -Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can’t accept your imperfections, that’s their fault. Dr. David M. Burns

Miles Davis Quotations

My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life. Miles Davis

Tallulah Bankhead Quotations

-I’m as pure as the driven slush. -Here’s a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once. Tallulah Bankhead

Arnold Bennett Quotations

-Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism. Indeed, I think it must be more agreeable, must have a more real savour, than optimism – from the way in which pessimists abandon themselves to it. -Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium [...]

Swami Chidvilasananda

Where is the temple of God? In our heart. Therefore that’s where we have to go and meet Him. Swami Chidvilasananda

Ayn Rand Quotations

-The argument from intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence. -Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness. Ayn Rand

Dorothy Thompson Quotations

The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld. Dorothy Thompson

Cyril Connolly Quotations

-Truth is a river that is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between the arms, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the main river. -There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say. -All charming people have something to conceal, usually their [...]

Frank Crane

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough. Frank Crane

Charles Dudley Warner Quotations

-The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value. Charles Dudley Warner

D. H. Lawrence Quotations

-Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. -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 [...]

Nicholas Butler

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. Nicholas Butler

David P. Mikkelson Quotations

-Perhaps better we not obscure the idea that happiness and misery, kindness and greed, and good works and bad deeds are within the capacities of us all, not merely a select few. -The power of illustrative anecdotes often lies not in how well they present reality, but in how well they reflect the core beliefs [...]

Amber Deckers Quotations

Never let the fear of failure be an excuse for not trying. Society tells us that to fail is the most terrible thing in the world, but I know it isn’t. Failure is part of what makes us human. Amber Deckers

O. B. Smith Quotations

Confidence and enthusiasm are the greatest sales producers in any kind of economy. O. B. Smith

Clifton Fadiman Quotations

-When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable. -For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. Clifton Fadiman

Bono

There’s the country of America, which you have to defend, but there’s also the idea of America. America is more than just a country, it’s an idea. An idea that’s supposed to be contagious. Bono

Jewish Proverbs

-Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house. -Don’t live in a town where there are no doctors. -Make sure to be in with your equals if you’re going to fall out with your superiors. -Don’t be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don’t be bitter, lest you be spewed out. -He that can’t endure [...]

Peter McWilliams Quotations

-Pain (any pain–emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories: “We would be more alive if we did more of this,” and, “Life would be more lovely if we did less of that.” Once we get the [...]

Democritus Quotations

-More men become good through practice than by nature. -By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich. Democritus

David Hume Quotations

-I believe that no man ever threw away life, while it was worth keeping. -A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century. -A propensity to hope and joy [...]

Norman Cousins Quotations

-Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. -Optimism doesn’t wait on facts. It deals with prospects. -Life is an adventure in forgiveness. Norman Cousins