Olive Schreiner Quotations

-We bear the world and we make it… There was never a great man who had not a great mother – it is hardly an exaggeration. Olive Schreiner

W. M. Lewis Quotations

-The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. W. M. Lewis

John Scalzi Quotations

-When you’re a teenager and you’re in love, it’s obvious to everyone but you and the person you’re in love with. John Scalzi

Erica Eisdorfer Quotations

-I felt despair. Though it seems to me now there’s two kinds of it: the sort that causes a person to surrender and then the sort I had which made me take risks and make plans. Erica Eisdorfer

Jack Layton Quotations

-My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world. Jack Layton

George Shelley Quotations

-He who promises more than he is able to perform, is false to himself; and he who does not perform what he has promised, is a traitor to his friend. George Shelley

Berthold Auerbach Quotations

-Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt. Berthold Auerbach

Sam Harris Quotations

-The link between belief and behavior raises the stakes considerably. Some propositions are so dangerous that it may even be ethical to kill people for believing them. This may seem an extraordinary claim, but it merely enunciates an ordinary fact about the world in which we live. Certain beliefs place their adherents beyond the reach [...]

Alice Thomas Ellis Quotations

-There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters. Alice Thomas Ellis

Hunter S. Thompson Quotations

-When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. Hunter S. Thompson

Paul Graham Quotations

-Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as “suits”. Paul Graham

Ajahn Chah Quotations

-Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won’t be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you. Ajahn Chah

Duke Ellington Quotations

-I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. Duke Ellington

Konrad Adenauer Quotations

-The one sure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured. Konrad Adenauer

Alfred Korzybski Quotations

-There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking. Alfred Korzybski

David Sedaris Quotations

-Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it’s just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it. David Sedaris

Margaret Wheatley Quotations

-When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other. Margaret Wheatley

P. D. James Quotations

-What a child doesn’t receive he can seldom later give. P. D. James

Denise Mina Quotations

-A man who thinks he has a higher purpose can do terrible things, even to those he professes to love. Denise Mina

Sergio Bamberen Quotations

-Decisions are a way of defining ourselves. There comes a time in life when there is nothing else to do but go your own way. Where you are headed there are no trails, no paths, just your own instincts. Sergio Bamberen

Mel Brooks Quotations

-I really don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive, you’ve got to flap your arms and legs, you’ve got to jump around a lot, you’ve got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you’re quiet, [...]

Fred Allen Quotations

-A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. Fred Allen

Malayan Proverbs

-Don’t think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm. Malayan Proverbs

Graham Sumner Quotations

-Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action. Graham Sumner

Christopher Hitchens Quotations

The Baghdad regime is the first oil-producing government to opt for 100-per-cent nationalisation, a process completed with the acquisition of foreign assets in Basrah last December. It was the first to call for the use of oil as a political weapon against Israel and her backers. It gives strong economic and political support to the [...]

Leo Rosten Quotations

-Money can’t buy happiness, but neither can poverty. Leo Rosten

Washington Irving Quotations

-An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather. Washington Irving

Walter Lippmann Quotations

-The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters. Walter Lippmann

George Tooker Quotations

-Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings. George Tooker

Jean Shinoda Bolen Quotations

-I think people don’t place a high enough value on how much they are nurtured by doing whatever it is that totally absorbs them. Jean Shinoda Bolen

Quentin Crisp Quotations

-Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster. Quentin Crisp

Edna Ferber Quotations

-Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth… But amusing? Never. Edna Ferber

Frank Scully Quotations

-Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is? Frank Scully

Agnes Macphail Quotations

-Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life’s greatest tests alone. Agnes Macphail

Regis Debray Quotations

-The prime role of a leader is to offer an example of courage and sacrifice. Regis Debray

David Assael Quotations

-Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon. David Assael

Don Juan Manuel Quotations

-He who praises you for what you lack wishes to take from you what you have. Don Juan Manuel

Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotations

-It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song, But the man worth while is the one who can smile, When everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth [...]

Frank Tibolt Quotations

-We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. Frank Tibolt

Anzia Yezierska Quotations

-When I only begin to read, I forget I’m on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts. Anzia Yezierska

Robert J. Sawyer Quotations

-Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace. Robert J. Sawyer

Ken Keyes Jr. Quotations

-A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror. Ken Keyes Jr.

George Savile (Sir)

-In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness; do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown; and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, will gain you more respect than all your fine trappings. Sir George Savile

Florida Scott-Maxwell Quotations

-I grow more intense as I age. Florida Scott-Maxwell

Bruce Lee Quotations

-To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Bruce Lee

William Wrigley Jr. Quotations

-When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. William Wrigley Jr.

Dr. Martin Henry Fischer Quotations

-Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them. Dr. Martin Henry Fischer

Clementine Paddleford Quotations

-Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be. Clementine Paddleford

Babe Ruth Quotations

-I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run. Babe Ruth

Germaine Greer Quotations

-Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves. Germaine Greer

George Best Quotations

-I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered. George Best

Allen Klein Quotations

-The hardest thing you can do is smile when you are ill, in pain, or depressed. But this no-cost remedy is a necessary first half-step if you are to start on the road to recovery. Allen Klein

Michael Landon Quotations

-Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! Michael Landon

Charlotte-Catherine Quotations

-The more passions and desires one has, the more ways one has of being happy. Charlotte-Catherine

Isaac of Syria Quotations

-The man with a heart cannot think about or see creatures without his eyes filling up with tears because of the immense compassion which seizes his heart. Isaac of Syria

Belle Livingstone Quotations

-I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see what was there. Belle Livingstone

Laura Moncur Quotations

-A man that don’t believe in destiny don’t need to know what his destiny is. Laura Moncur

Jeremy S. Anderson Quotations

-There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don’t believe this to be a coincidence. Jeremy S. Anderson

Philip Gold Quotations

-A doctor saves lives — It’s up to people to create lives that are worth saving. Philip Gold

Cardinal de Retz Quotations

-A man who doesn’t trust himself can never truly trust anyone else. Cardinal de Retz

George Iles Quotations

-Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student. George Iles

Abigail Adams Quotations

-Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. Abigail Adams

George Bush Quotations

-Don’t confuse being ‘soft’ with seeing the other guy’s point of view. George Bush

Horace Mann Quotations

-Do not think of knocking out another person’s brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago. -Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. Horace Mann

Juvenal Quotations

-Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, / And toss them on the wheels of Chance. Juvenal

Duffy Daugherty Quotations

-Football isn’t a contact sport, it’s a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport. Duffy Daugherty

Jesse Livermore Quotations

-Throughout all my years of investing, I’ve found that the money was never made in the buying or the selling. The big money was made in the waiting. Jesse Livermore

Bill Cosby Quotations

-Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home. Bill Cosby

John Wilmot Quotations

-Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories. John Wilmot

Annie Lennox Quotations

-Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world. Annie Lennox

Max Frisch Quotations

-Time does not change us. It just unfolds us. Max Frisch

Alice Munro Quotations

-Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later. Alice Munro

Waiter Rant Quotations

-But seduction isn’t making someone do what they don’t want to do. Seduction is enticing someone into doing what they secretly want to do already. Waiter Rant

Mark Heath Quotations

-Even the best of friends need time apart. Mark Heath

Joanna Field Quotations

-I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know. Joanna Field

Robert F. Bennett Quotations

-Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself. Robert F. Bennett

Doctor Who Quotations

-There’s no point in being grown up if you can’t be childish sometimes. Doctor Who

Edwin Schlossberg Quotations

-The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think. Edwin Schlossberg

Anne Wilson Schaef Quotations

-Self-confidence is so relaxing. There is no strain or stress when one is self-confident. Our lack of self-confidence comes from trying to be someone we aren’t. Anne Wilson Schaef

Milton Berle Quotations

-Laughter is an instant vacation. Milton Berle

James A. Garfield Quotations

-Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it. James A. Garfield

Robert Service Quotations

-Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out – it’s the grain of sand in your shoe. Robert Service

Chester Bowles Quotations

-Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians. Chester Bowles

Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco Quotations

-Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting. Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco

Ed Greenwood Quotations

-Throughout life, one does not miss any chance to hold onto the things that are really precious, if one is truly wise. Ed Greenwood

Simone de Beauvoir Quotations

-It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living. Simone de Beauvoir

Saki Quotations

-He’s simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed. Saki

Okakura Kakuzo Quotations

-The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings. Okakura Kakuzo

Leona Helmsly Quotations

-I don’t hire people who have to be told to be nice. I hire nice people. Leona Helmsly

Elizabeth David Quotations

-Every day holds the possibility of a miracle. Elizabeth David

Moses Hadas Quotations

-This book fills a much-needed gap. Moses Hadas

Alice Roosevelt Longworth Quotations

-The secret of eternal youth is arrested development. Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Tom Thompson Quotations

-No matter how much you disagree with your kin, if you are a thoroughbred you will not discuss their shortcomings with the neighbors. Tom Thompson

Georgia O’Keeffe Quotations

-I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me – shapes and ideas so near to me – so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn’t occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away [...]

Jose Marti Quotations

-Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some. Jose Marti

John Steinbeck Quotations

-I’ve seen a look in dogs’ eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts. John Steinbeck

Arshad Mohammed El-Fky Quotations

-Don’t be a shadow of someone; he will leave you alone when it becomes dark. -Having a will to be, is more important than having two eyes to see. Arshad Mohammed El-Fky

Arthur Golden Quotations

-A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Arthur Golden

Afranius Quotations

-The wise man will love; all others will desire. Afranius

Simone Weil Quotations

-Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.” Simone Weil

Malcolm X Quotations

-Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it’s against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it’s against the oppressor. You don’t need anything else. Malcolm X

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