September 2008

Anne Tyler Quotations

I’ve never quite believed that one chance is all I get. Anne Tyler

Derok Bok Quotations

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. Derok Bok

Katherine Mansfield Quotations

-Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth. -When we can begin to take our failures nonseriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to [...]

Jerry Garcia Quotations

Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us. Jerry Garcia

J. B. Priestley Quotations

-Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves. -The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to [...]

David Lloyd George Quotations

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done and the worst is that which delays them. David Lloyd George

Mark Spitz Quotations

We all love to win but how many people love to train? Mark Spitz

Zig Ziglar Quotations

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your mind off the goals. Zig Ziglar

Eric S. Raymond Quotations

-If you have the right attitude, interesting problems will find you. -Often, the most striking and innovative solutions come from realizing that your concept of the problem was wrong. Eric S. Raymond

Ali Javan Quotations

I don’t wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone. Ali Javan

Edith Sodergran Quotations

The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.

John Ciardi Quotations

You don’t have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. John Ciardi

Frances Willard Quotations

The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. Frances Willard

Jacob Getlar Smith Quotations

The artist should be a seeing-eye dog for a myopic civilization. Jacob Getlar Smith

Earl Wilson Quotations

If you think nobody cares if you are alive, try missing a couple of car payments. Earl Wilson

John Kord Lagemann Quotations

Intuition isn’t the enemy, but the ally, of reason.

Thomas a Kempis Quotations

Love flies, runs, and rejoices; it is free and nothing can hold it back.

Antonia Brenner Quotations

I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people. Antonia Brenner

Edgar Allan Poe Quotations

-Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. -Convinced myself, I seek not to convince. Edgar Allan Poe

Robin Norwood Quotations

Make your own recovery the first priority in your life. Robin Norwood

Kilgore Trout Quotations

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest. Kilgore Trout

Tyron Edwards Quotations

This world is the land of the dying; the next is the land of the living. Tyron Edwards

Antiphanes Quotations

The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong. Antiphanes

Paul “Bear” Bryant Quotations

You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load. Paul “Bear” Bryant

John Adams Quotations

-In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress. -I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, [...]

Hillary Rodham Clinton Quotations

I have met thousands and thousands of pro-choice men and women. I have never met anyone who is pro-abortion. Being pro-choice is not being pro-abortion. Being pro-choice is trusting the individual to make the right decision for herself and her family, and not entrusting that decision to anyone wearing the authority of government in any [...]

Bern Williams Quotations

-September tries its best to have us forget summer. Bern Williams

Whitney Young Quotations

The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self. Whitney Young

Dorothy Parker Quotations

-If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be a bit surprised. -I don’t care what is written about me so long as it isn’t true. -If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to. -They sicken [...]

Maxine Hong Kingston Quotations

-The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods. Maxine Hong Kingston

Carrie Fisher Quotations

You can’t find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well. Carrie Fisher

Neil Armstrong Quotations

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. Neil Armstrong

Walter Anderson Quotations

Our lives improve only when we take chances – and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. Walter Anderson

Adlai Stevenson Quotations

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

Thomas Carlyle Quotations

-Blessed is he who has found his work. Let him ask no other blessing. -It is the first of all problems for a man or a woman, to find out what kind of work he or she is to do in this universe. -The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of [...]

Ronnie D. Laing Quotations

-We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing. -Creative people who can’t help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just [...]

Sarah Bernhardt Quotations

Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. Sarah Bernhardt

Dan Barker Quotations

-Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits. Dan Barker

Eric Gibson Quotations

Anonymity is the truest expression of altruism. Eric Gibson

Meladee McCarty Quotations

Live your life as though there is great joy to be experienced… an abundance of goodness in each person you come in contact with, and the knowledge that you have enough inner wisdom to answer the mysteries that challenge you. Meladee McCarty

Glenn Doman Quotations

-The human brain is unique in that it is the only container of which it can be said that the more you put into it, the more it will hold. Glenn Doman

Virginia Woolf Quotations

I have lost friends, some by death… others through sheer inability to cross the street. Virginia Woolf

Bertolt Brecht Quotations

-He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news. -Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. Bertolt Brecht

Charles de Montesquieu Quotations

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations. Charles de Montesquieu

Lewis Grizzard Quotations

Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain’t the lead dog, the scenery never changes. Lewis Grizzard