November 2009

Garth Brooks Quotations

-The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself. Garth Brooks

Bob Moawad Quotations

-Help others get ahead. You will always stand taller with someone else on your shoulders. Bob Moawad

Baruch Spinoza Quotations

-Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand. Baruch Spinoza

Charlotte Whitton Quotations

-Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult. Charlotte Whitton

Albert Guerard Quotations

-Doubt ’til thou canst doubt no more…doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought. Albert Guerard

Robert Herrick Quotations

-To get thine ends, lay bashfulness aside; Who fears to ask, doth teach to be deny’d. Robert Herrick

Unesco Quotations

-Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed. Unesco’s aim when it was conceived in 1945

Umberto Eco Quotations

-I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. Umberto Eco

Henry R. Luce Quotations

-Business more than any other occupation is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight. Henry R. Luce

William Tecumseh Sherman Quotations

-It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. William Tecumseh Sherman

Arthur Conan Doyle Quotations

-Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. -It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. -I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit [...]

Golo Mann Quotations

-Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and time again, will come as a surprise to him. Golo Mann

Raul Seixas Quotations

-A dream that we dream alone is just but a dream, but a dream that we dream together becomes reality. Raul Seixas

Helen Gahagan Douglas Quotations

-Character isn’t inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains. Helen Gahagan Douglas

Gail Sheehy Quotations

-The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests. Gail Sheehy

Eddie Rickenbacker Quotations

-Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared. Eddie Rickenbacker

Kurt Herbert Alder Quotations

-Tradition is what you resort to when you don’t have the time or the money to do it right. Kurt Herbert Alder