January 2008

Mark Jenkins Quotations

Maps encourage boldness. They’re like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible. Mark Jenkins

Queen Elizabeth I Quotations

-All my possessions for a moment of time. Queen Elizabeth I

Jeanette Winterson Quotations

We are friends and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn’t mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you [...]

Herbert Otto Quotations

-Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life. -We are all functioning at a small fraction of our capacity to live life fully in its total meaning of loving, caring, creating, and adventuring. Consequently, the actualizing of our potential can become [...]

Thomas Friedman Quotations

Don’t change your light bulbs, change your leaders. Thomas Friedman

Hannah Arendt Quotations

-The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. -The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For [...]

Gerald Jampolsky Quotations

-Forgiveness means letting go of the past. -Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind. Gerald Jampolsky

Prophet Muhammad Quotations

None of you really has faith unless he desires for his neighbor what he desires for himself. Prophet Muhammad

Amelia Earhart Quotations

-Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price. -The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship. Amelia Earhart

Karen Sunde Quotations

-To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. Karen Sunde

Lawana Blackwell Quotations

-If courage wasn’t a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well. -It isn’t kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience. -Patterning your life around other’s opinions is nothing more than slavery. -I’ve grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories [...]

John Lancaster Spalding Quotations

-The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is. John Lancaster Spalding

Steven Pearl Quotations

I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter. Steven Pearl

Katharine Whitehorn Quotations

-The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any. Katharine Whitehorn

Suzanne Necker Quotations

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. Suzanne Necker

Jonathan Kozol Quotations

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. Jonathan Kozol

Larry Gelbart Quotations

One doesn’t have a sense of humor. It has you. Larry Gelbart

Leo J. Burke Quotations

People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one. Leo J. Burke

R.A. Butler Quotations

In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves. R.A. Butler

Franklin P. Jones Quotations

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. Franklin P. Jones

Ulysses S. Grant Quotations

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on. Ulysses S. Grant

Aung San Suu Kyi Quotations

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear. Aung San Suu Kyi

Herm Albright Quotations

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. Herm Albright

Constantine Peter Cavafy Quotations

-You must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences. Constantine Peter Cavafy

David H. Comins Quotations

People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first. David H. Comins

Lynn Johnston Quotations

-We are all born with wonderful gifts. We use these gifts to express ourselves, to amuse, to strengthen, and to communicate. We begin as children to explore and develop our talents, often unaware that we are unique, that not everyone can do what we’re doing! -The most profound statements are often said in silence. -On [...]

Robert Graves Quotations

-Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them. -The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good. Robert Graves

Henny Youngman Quotations

My wife and I went back to the hotel where we spent our wedding night. Only this time, I stayed in the bathroom and cried. Henny Youngman

Baltasar Gracian Quotations

-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. -All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that. -A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a [...]

Catherine de Hueck Doherty Quotations

-Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you. Catherine de Hueck Doherty

William Gibson Quotations

-It’s impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information. -Time moves in one direction, memory in another. -The deadliest bullshit is odorless and transparent. -The future has already arrived. It’s just not evenly distributed yet. -For years I have been mourning and not [...]

Philip Slayton Quotations

How much justice can the average Canadian afford? None. For financial reasons, he is denied use of the legal system and courts, key institutions of government and democracy. It is as if the right to vote in a general election were only given to those with an income above a certain level. Do not look [...]

Martin Seligman Quotations

-Lawyers are trained to be aggressive, judgmental, intellectual, analytical, and emotionally detached. This produces predictable emotional consequences for the legal practitioner: he or she will be depressed, anxious, and angry a lot of the time. -A fight to the death is the quintessential win-loss game in evolution, and as such it arouses the panoply of [...]

Billy Graham Quotations

A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerate the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable. Billy Graham

Etty Hillesum Quotations

-I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one’s inner life. And that too is a deed. -We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies. -One must also accept that [...]

Mario Andretti Quotations

-If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough -Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek. Mario Andretti

Stanislaw J. Lec Quotations

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. Stanislaw J. Lec

Doug Larson Quotations

-Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own. -The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball. Doug Larson

Elvis Presley Quotations

It’s very hard to live up to an image. Elvis Presley

Dick Werthimer Quotations

The purpose of life is to fight maturity. Dick Werthimer

Frederick Douglass Quotations

-A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people. -Without a struggle, there can be no progress. Frederick Douglass

Mitch Albom Quotations

-The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning. -You’re not a wave, you’re a part of the ocean. -..when all this started, I asked myself, ‘Am I going to [...]

Tara Parker-Pope Quotations

Excessive clutter and disorganization are often symptoms of a bigger health problem. People who have suffered an emotional trauma or a brain injury often find housecleaning an insurmountable task. Attention deficit disorder, depression, chronic pain and grief can prevent people from getting organized or lead to a buildup of clutter. Tara Parker-Pope Amazon.ca Widgets

Mary Wortley (Lady) Montagu

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me. Mary Wortley (Lady) Montagu

Johnny Carson Quotations

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off. Johnny Carson

Igor Stravinski Quotations

I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say’ I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. ‘That’s different. For a monkey, [...]

Diego Marchi Quotations

-In life we all have an unspeakable secret, an irreversible regret, an unreachable dream and an unforgettable love. Diego Marchi

Steven Wright Quotations

-There’s a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. -When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, ‘Well, what do you need?’ -Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught [...]