November 2008

Alexandre Dumas Quotations

Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest. Alexandre Dumas

Rachel Carson Quotations

-If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in. Rachel Carson

Charles McCabe Quotations

-Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art. Charles McCabe

Helmuth von Moltke Quotations

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks. Helmuth von Moltke

Slovenian Proverbs

-Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. Slovenian Proverb

Fred Hoyle Quotations

Space isn’t remote at all. It’s only an hour’s drive away if your car could go straight upwards. Fred Hoyle

Lee Simonson Quotations

Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian. Lee Simonson

Grenville Kleiser Quotations

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character. Grenville Kleiser

Rose Macaulay Quotations

Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years. Rose Macaulay

Shimon Peres Quotations

If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact – not to be solved, but to be coped with over time. Shimon Peres

Hebrew Saying

“Tikkun Olam” -A Hebrew phrase that means to help repair the world every day, by mending what you are able to of what is in disrepair within you and near you. To do this to the best of your ability is a sacred duty. In this way the world soul is tended to. Hebrew Saying

Stephen Jay Gould Quotations

-The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best – and therefore never scrutinize or question. -In science, ‘fact’ can only mean ‘confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.’ I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time [...]

Scipione Alberti Quotations

Secret thoughts and open countenance will go safely over the whole world. Scipione Alberti

Barnett Cocks Quotations

A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. Sir Barnett Cocks

Charles F. Kettering Quotations

-Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future. -Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down. Charles F. Kettering

Randy K. Milholland Quotations

-In the end, we decide if we’re remembered for what happened to us or for what we did with it. Randy K. Milholland

Tupac Shakur Quotations

Here’s a message to the new borns, waiting to breathe: if you believe then you can achieve. Just look at me, against all odds ‘though life is hard, we carry on, livin’ in the projects, broke with no lights on. To all the seeds that follow me- protect your essence, born with less, but you [...]

Joyce Maynard Quotations

A good home must be made, not bought. Joyce Maynard

George W. Bush Quotations

I believe that freedom is the deepest need of every human soul. George W. Bush

Charles W. Chesnutt Quotations

There’s time enough, but none to spare. Charles W. Chesnutt

Walter Scott Quotations

-One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation. -Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice [...]

Melody Beattie Quotations

Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don’t. Melody Beattie

Shirley Hufstedler Quotations

If you play it safe in life you’ve decided that you don’t want to grow any more. Shirley Hufstedler

Sam Keen Quotations

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. Sam Keen

Susanne Millar Quotations

If animals play, this is because play is useful in the struggle for survival; because play practices and so perfects the skills needed in adult life. Susanne Millar

Alexis Carrel Quotations

To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us. Alexis Carrel

Leonard Cohen Quotations

-the cradle of the best and the worst. Leonard Cohen (speaking of the United States)

Gabrielle Reece Quotations

My philosophy is anyone or anything that gives you knowledge inspires you. Gabrielle Reece

Fay Weldon Quotations

If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens. Fay Weldon

Goldie Hawn Quotations

Once you can laugh at your own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you’re good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Maybe… combat some of the ugliness in the world. Goldie Hawn

Aeschylus Quotations

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. Aeschylus

Clement Atlee Quotations

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking. Clement Atlee

Gerry Spence Quotations

-I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than closed by belief. -To freely bloom – that is my definition of success. Gerry Spence