April 2009

Colby Dorr Dam Quotations

-Each person has an ideal, a hope, a dream which represents the soul. We must give to it the warmth of love, the light of understanding and the essence of encouragement. Colby Dorr Dam

-A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group. Russell H. Ewing

Thomas Homer-Dixon Quotations

-Three large spoonfuls of crude oil contain about the same amount of energy as eight hours of human manual labour. When we fill our car with gas, we’re pouring into the tank the energy equivalent of about two years of human manual labour. Thomas Homer-Dixon

Amy Bloom Quotations

-Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are. Amy Bloom

Arthur Rubinstein Quotations

-I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. Arthur Rubinstein

John Belushi Quotations

-In your 20s, you feel like you’re indestructible, that nothing can kill you and you laugh at death. You go on and stay up for days and do as many things as you can and then, in your 30s, you think, well, maybe I’ll be around here a little longer, so I’m going to maybe [...]

Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotations

-When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. -The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds [...]

Robert Pante Quotations

-If you look good and dress well, you don’t need a purpose in life. Robert Pante

Bea Arthur Quotations

Actors don’t retire. Only people who don’t like their jobs retire. Bea Arthur

Katharine Butler Hathaway Quotations

-It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin. Katharine Butler Hathaway

Charles Swindoll Quotations

-There is only one you… Don’t you dare change just because you’re outnumbered! Charles Swindoll

Real Live Preacher Quotations

-Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. ‘This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.’ Real Live Preacher

M. C. Richards Quotations

-Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance. M. C. Richards

Douglas Yates Quotations

-People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. Douglas Yates

Frank Gaines Quotations

-Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible. Frank Gaines

Bernard Berenson Quotations

-I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of edge or a vigour of spring as well as an infinite variety of colour that no artifact I have seen in the last 60 years can rival … Each day, [...]

M. C. Escher Quotations

Only those who attempt the absurd…will achieve the impossible. I think …I think it’s in my basement…Let me go upstairs and check. M. C. Escher

Oswald Spengler Quotations

-This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on. Oswald Spengler

Charles Lindbergh Quotations

-Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization. Charles Lindbergh

Abd-ar-Rahman III Quotations

-I have now reigned about 50 years in victory and peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honours, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to have been wanting to my felicity. In this situation I have diligently numbered [...]

Georges Jacques Danton Quotations

-We must dare, and dare again, and go on daring. Georges Jacques Danton

J. Arthur Thomson Quotations

-The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will. J. Arthur Thomson

Louis L’Amour Quotations

-Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content. -Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more. Louis L’Amour

Bruce Barton Quotations

-When you’re through changing, you’re through. Bruce Barton

Charlie Chaplin Quotations

Even when I was in an orphanage, when I was roaming the streets trying to find enough to eat to keep alive, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel that exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it you go down to defeat. [...]

Caroline K. Simon Quotations

-Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man and work like a dog. Caroline K. Simon

Henri Bergson Quotations

-Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. Henri Bergson

Malcolm Forbes Quotations

-Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are. -Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. -If you have a job without aggravation, you don’t have a job. -It’s so much easier to suggest solutions when you don’t know too much [...]