June 2008

Indira Gandhi Quotations

-The power to question is the basis of all human progress. -We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose. Indira Gandhi

Lord Chesterfield Quotations

-Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked. -Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you. Lord Chesterfield

Cardinal Richelieu Quotations

Leniency gives rise to the ultimately necessary exercise of a degree of cruelty which could have been avoided by the employment of an efficacious punishment at an earlier time.” Cardinal Richelieu

Robert Rodriguez Quotations

Only by seeking challenges can we hope to find the best in ourselves. Robert Rodriguez

Marlene Dietrich Quotations

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself. Marlene Dietrich

Malcolm Gladwell Quotations

-There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis. -If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments. -If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions [...]

Basil King Quotations

Be bold and mighty powers will come to your aid. Basil King

Scott Adams Quotations

-Frankly, I’m suspicious of anyone who has a strong opinion on a complicated issue. -Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. -You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public. Scott Adams

Martha Brooks Quotations

When you helped somebody, right away you were responsible for that person. And things always followed for which you were never prepared. Martha Brooks

Jeanne Moreau Quotations

I don’t think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent. Jeanne Moreau

Michael Patrick King Quotations

That’s the thing about needs. Sometimes, when you get them met, you don’t need them anymore. Michael Patrick King

James Blunt Quotations

“No Bravery” There are children standing here, Arms outstretched into the sky, Tears drying on their face. He has been here. Brothers lie in shallow graves. Fathers lost without a trace. A nation blind to their disgrace, Since he’s been here. And I see no bravery, No bravery in your eyes anymore. Only sadness. Houses [...]

Alfre Woodard Quotations

When you expect good, it’s available constantly, and it makes itself a reality in your life. Alfre Woodard

Eric Maisil Quotations

To create you must quiet your mind. You need a quiet mind so that ideas will have a chance of connecting. Eric Maisil

Saint Basil Quotations

-Troubles are usually the brooms and shovels that smooth the road to a good man’s fortune. -Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them. Saint Basil

Joseph Addison Quotations

-True happiness… arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self. -A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer. -Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station. [...]

Hugh Prather Quotations

-True humor is fun – it does not put down, kid, or mock. It makes people feel wonderful, not separate, different, and cut off. True humor has beneath it the understanding that we are all in this together. -Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues. Hugh Prather

Edward Chapin Quotations

-A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star. -Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury. Edward Chapin

Lin Yutang Quotations

-Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. -Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. Lin Yutang

Alfred A. Knopf Quotations

An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. Alfred A. Knopf

Fran Lebowitz Quotations

-I’ve done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not. -Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try. -Contrary to what many of you might imagine, a career in letters is not without its drawbacks – chief among them is the unpleasant fact [...]

Robert S. McNamara Quotations

Brains, like hearts, go where they are appreciated. Robert S. McNamara

Lois McMaster Bujold Quotations

-What you are is a question only you can answer. -But pain… seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain? -If the truth doesn’t [...]

Lillian Hellman Quotations

-Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge’s chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view. -Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. -The past with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, it punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be. Lillian Hellman

Leon Trotsky Quotations

Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man. Leon Trotsky

Cato the Elder Quotations

-Grasp the subject, the words will follow. -We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them. Cato the Elder

U.S. Andersen Quotations

The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill to run a wrecking company than it does to be an architect. U.S. Andersen

John Locke Quotations

-I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. -[Children] are travelers newly arrived in a strange country of which they know nothing. -Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. John Locke

Thich Nhat Hanh Quotations

-Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. -Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life…, our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right [...]