September 2010

Carolyn Heilbrun Quotations

-The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible. Carolyn Heilbrun

Marquis de Condorcet Quotations

-Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another. Marquis de Condorcet

Newt Gingrich Quotations

-Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. Newt Gingrich

Margaret Fuller Quotations

-Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. Margaret Fuller

Bill Nye Quotations

-Humor is everywhere, in that there’s irony in just about anything a human does. Bill Nye

Margot Fonteyn Quotations

-If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return? Margot Fonteyn

Arthur Miller Quotations

-The need of man to wholly realize himself is the only fixed star. Arthur Miller

Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotations

-Telling the truth … is not solely a matter of moral character; it is also a matter of correct appreciation of real situations and of serious reflection upon them. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Amy Vanderbilt Quotations

-The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon. Amy Vanderbilt

Minor White Quotations

-No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen. Minor White

Leon Battista Alberti Quotations

-A man can do all things if he but wills them. Leon Battista Alberti

Frank Leahy Quotations

-Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. Frank Leahy

John Henry Cardinal Newman Quotations

-Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning. John Henry Cardinal Newman

J. Bartlett Brebner Quotations

-Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States. J. Bartlett Brebner