October 2008

Norman Mailer Quotations

-Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war. -There is no greater importance in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you. -Every moment of one’s existence one is growing into [...]

John Herschel Quotations

Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue. John Herschel

Ugo Betti Quotations

When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that’s necessary for believing in it. Ugo Betti

Paramanhansa Yogananda Quotations

Many people excuse their own faults but judge others harshly. Paramanhansa Yogananda

Howard W. Newton Quotations

People forget how fast you did a job – but they remember how well you did it. Howard W. Newton

Anna Quindlen Quotations

-A finished person is a boring person. -Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived. -The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and [...]

John Maurice Clarke Quotations

Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns. John Maurice Clarke

Jane Jacobs Quotations

New ideas require old buildings. Jane Jacobs

John Norley Quotations

All things are difficult before they are easy. John Norley

Reverend Sean Parker Dennison Quotations

-The key to non-anxious sermon-writing is that it’s not about me. It’s about the congregation. I honor the fact that the listeners bring more to the sermon than I do. I remind myself of the hundreds of times someone says, ‘I loved how you said…’ and then tell me things that they heard that were [...]

John Eliot Quotations

The idea of perfect closes your mind to new standards.. When you drive hard toward one ideal, you miss opportunities and paths, not to mention hurting your confidence. Believe in your potential and then go out and explore it; don’t limit it. John Eliot

Alfred Adler Quotations

It is always easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them Alfred Adler

John Burroughs Quotations

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is ‘look under foot.’ You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think. John Burroughs

Demosthenes Quotations

-Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. -Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master. Demosthenes

Jacinto Benavente Quotations

To admire an artist, you should not know him personally. Jacinto Benavente

Dorothy Bender Quotations

Anything I’ve ever done that ultimately was worthwhile… initially scared me to death. Dorothy Bender

Walter Pater Quotations

What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions. Walter Pater

Vida D. Scudder Quotations

It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed. Vida D. Scudder

Saint Francis de Sales Quotations

-Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them – every day begin the task anew. -Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly. Saint Francis de Sales

Trey Parker and Matt Stone Quotations

-I love life…Yeah, I’m sad, but at the same time, I’m really happy that something could make me feel that sad. It’s like…It makes me feel alive, you know. It makes me feel human. The only way I could feel this sad now is if I felt something really good before. So I have to [...]

Ronald Reagan Quotations

-The taxpayer — that’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination. -Thomas Jefferson once said, ‘We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.’ And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying. -The government’s view of the economy could be [...]

Peter McArthur Quotations

Every successful enterprise requires three men – a dreamer, a businessman, and a son of a bitch. Peter McArthur

Christiane Northrup Quotations

Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life. Christiane Northrup

Brendan Gill Quotations

-Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. Brendan Gill

Salma Hayek Quotations

-The biggest thing [Frida] brought into my life was this peacefulness. I still get passionate about things, but my passion is not so scattered and it’s not needy. It’s a lot more powerful because it comes with this groundedness and peacefulness. That it’s about the process, not about the results. -Before you do anything, think. [...]

Ann Landers Quotations

-The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. -Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, ‘I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.’ Ann Landers

Holbrook Jackson Quotations

A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children. Holbrook Jackson

Barbara Colorose Quotations

The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process. Barbara Colorose

Chuck Palahniuk Quotations

-Hysteria is only possible with an audience. -All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring. -It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything. -The things you own end up owning you. -On a long enough timeline. The survival rate for [...]

John Abrams Quotations

If the people who make the decisions are the people who will also bear the consequences of those decisions, perhaps better decisions will result. John Abrams

Buck Henry Quotations

We need a president who’s fluent in at least one language. Buck Henry

Dwight Morrow Quotations

Any party which accepts credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought. Dwight Morrow

Cheryl Renee Grossman Quotations

I dream, therefore I become. Cheryl Renée Grossman

Yugoslav Proverbs

-Complain to one who can help you. -If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority. Yugoslav Proverb

Walker Percy Quotations

To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Walker Percy

Boris Pasternak Quotations

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life. Boris Pasternak

George Washington Carver Quotations

When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. George Washington Carver

George C. Marshall Quotations

When a thing is done, it’s done. Don’t look back. Look forward to your next objective. George C. Marshall

Freya Madeline Stark Quotations

-There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. Freya Madeline Stark

John Mitchell Mason Quotations

Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou will judge others with the judgment of charity. John Mitchell Mason

David Reisman Quotations

Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them. David Reisman

Anouk Aimee Quotations

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

Anne-Sophie Swetchine Quotations

-We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse. -Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them. Anne-Sophie Swetchine

Cynthia Ozick Quotations

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life. Cynthia Ozick

Tom Hanks Quotations

-I’m glad I didn’t have to fight in any war. I’m glad I didn’t have to pick up a gun. I’m glad I didn’t get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood. Eating everything you want is not that much fun. When you live a life with no [...]

John Wooden Quotations

-It’s amazing what you can get done when you don’t care who gets the credit. -It’s what you learn after you know everything that counts. -Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable. -You cannot live [...]

Frederick Langbridge Quotations

-Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud and one the stars. Frederick Langbridge

April Foiles Quotations

Life is like getting dropped off in the middle of the woods, and then year by year, gradually walking home. April Foiles