Julia Sorel Quotations

-If you’re never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances. Julia Sorel

Linda Berdoll Quotations

-Neither enemy faces, nor the mothers that love them, come to mind when one is thinking of nothing but endeavouring to survive. Philosophising about war is useless under fire. Linda Berdoll

Jim Bouton Quotations

-Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field? Jim Bouton

Celia Thaxter Quotations

-There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart. Celia Thaxter

Warren Buffett Quotations

-In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield. Warren Buffett

Gian Vincenzo Gravina Quotations

-A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company. Gian Vincenzo Gravina

Jean Rostand Quotations

-What makes our opponents useful is that they allow us to believe that without them we would be able to realize our ideals. Jean Rostand

John A. Morrison Quotations

-Knowledge comes by taking things apart: analysis. But wisdom comes by putting things together. John A. Morrison

Golda Meir Quotations

-Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either. Golda Meir

Ellen Sue Stern Quotations

-Things that don’t get better get worse. Ellen Sue Stern

Donald Foster Quotations

-No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar. Donald Foster

Jeseph Joubert Quotations

-We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things. Jeseph Joubert

Harry Moyle Tippett Quotations

-The Pilgrims came to America not to accumulate riches but to worship God, and the greatest wealth they left unborn generations was their heroic example of sacrifice that their souls might be free. Harry Moyle Tippett

Lyndon B. Johnson Quotations

-If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read “President Can’t Swim”. Lyndon B. Johnson

Thomas Szasz Quotations

-Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life’s currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose. Thomas Szasz

Martha Beck Quotations

-Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis. Martha Beck

Barbara Billingsley Quotations

-Some people think she was weakish … but I don’t. She was the love in that family. She set a good example for what a wife could be. -Ward, I think you were a little hard on the Beaver last night. Barbara Billingsley

Harold Arnold Walter Quotations

-I would be true, for there are those who trust me; I would be pure, for there are those who care; I would be strong, for there is much to suffer; I would be brave, for there is much to dare. Harold Arnold Walter

Charlotte Cushman Quotations

-To try to be better is to be better. Charlotte Cushman

Nadine Stair Quotations

-If I had my life to live over… I’d dare to make more mistakes next time. Nadine Stair

Elmer Davis Quotations

-The first and great commandment is: Don’t let them scare you. Elmer Davis

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

Nic Marks Quotations

Five Ways to well-being: 1. Connect Invest your time in your loved ones, in your friends, family and acquaintances. Meet people. Talk to them. Understand how they improve your life, and also how you improve theirs. Knowing that you mean something to someone can be one of the most powerful positive forces in the world. [...]

H. P. Lovecraft Quotations

-The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. H. P. Lovecraft

Storm Jameson Quotations

-Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. Storm Jameson

Dennis Potter Quotations

-We should always look back on our own past with a sort of tender contempt. Dennis Potter

Cory Doctorow Quotations

-Abnormal is so common, it’s practically normal. Cory Doctorow

Quintilian Quotations

-When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield. -The perfection of art is to conceal art. Quintilian

Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotations

-The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels. Hazrat Inayat Khan

Menander Quotations

-He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor. Menander

Paul Dudley White Quotations

-A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world. Paul Dudley White

Abdulrahman Zeitoun Quotations

-You’ve lost your horse and you’re looking for the rope. Abdulrahman Zeitoun

Kirby Larson Quotations

-It seems the misfortune of one can plow a deeper furrow in the heart than the misfortune of millions. Kirby Larson

Anwar el-Sadat Quotations

-I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me. Anwar el-Sadat

E. V. Lucas Quotations

-I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them. E. V. Lucas

Robert W. Sarnoff Quotations

-Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears. Robert W. Sarnoff

Aaron Copland Quotations

Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps subconsciousness – I wouldn’t know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness. Aaron Copland

Jesse Stuart Quotations

-Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it. Jesse Stuart

George McDonald Quotations

-Work is not always required… there is such a thing as sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected. George McDonald

Charles DuBois Quotations

-The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. Charles DuBois

Russell Baker Quotations

-People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure. -The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn’t require [...]

Ralph Waldo Trine Quotations

-There are many who are living far below their possibilities because they are continually handing over their individualities to others. Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Ralph Waldo Trine

Stanley Kunitz Quotations

-What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire. Stanley Kunitz

Pema Chodron Quotations

-It’s also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that’s sitting right here right now… with its aches and it pleasures… is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive.

Henry James Quotations

-True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one self. But the point is not only to get out – you must stay out. And to stay out, you must have some absorbing errand. Henry James

Spike Milligan Quotations

-The cliché is the handrail of the crippled mind. Spike Milligan

William Ernest Henley Quotations

Invictus OUT of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath [...]

Warren Bennis Quotations

-Good leaders make people feel that they’re at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning. Warren Bennis

Matt Groening Quotations

-Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. Matt Groening

James Hilton Quotations

-Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren’t things to think about any more. All that matters is value – the ultimate value of what one does. James Hilton

Robert Lynd Quotations

-There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. Robert Lynd

Elisa Camahort Quotations

-The way we distinguish ourselves is by showing our individuality. Elisa Camahort

Barbara Mikkelson Quotations

-Beware the pull on your heartstrings — it’s often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for. Barbara Mikkelson

Jane Caminos Quotations

-A waist is a terrible thing to mind. Jane Caminos

Scottish Proverbs

-Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one. Scottish Proverbs

Anita Roddick Quotations

-If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room. Anita Roddick

Nancy Spain Quotations

-There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough. Nancy Spain

Dalton Camp Quotations

-Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies. Dalton Camp

Marya Mannes Quotations

-Generosity with strings is not generosity; It is a deal. -The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth. Marya Mannes

Raymond Lindquist Quotations

-Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. Raymond Lindquist

Doc Searls Quotations

-We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players. Doc Searls

Charles Kuralt Quotations

-Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything. Charles Kuralt

Moses Ibn Ezra Quotations

-Dive into the sea of thought, and find there pearls beyond price. Moses Ibn Ezra

Mignon McLaughlin Quotations

-A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. -When hope is hungry, everything feeds it. Mignon McLaughlin

Charles M. Schulz Quotations

-Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, “Where have I gone wrong?”/ Then a voice says to me, “This is going to take more than one night.” Charles M. Schulz

Jeffrey Zaslow Quotations

-Researchers say women’s friendships are face to face: They talk, cry together, share secrets. Men’s friendships are side by side: We play golf. We go to football games. Jeffrey Zaslow

Roberto Benigni Quotations

-It’s a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation. Roberto Benigni

Flannery O’Connor Quotations

-The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. Flannery O’Connor

Robert Southey Quotations

-If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams – the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. -What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads. Robert Southey

Brenda Ueland Quotations

-So you see, imagination needs moodling – long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering. Brenda Ueland

Elie Wiesel Quotations

-Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. Elie Wiesel

James M. Barrie Quotations

-Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. James M. Barrie

Louise Nevelson Quotations

-I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside. Louise Nevelson

Ellen Goodman Quotations

-In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right. Ellen Goodman

Alfred E. Wiggam Quotations

-A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. Alfred E. Wiggam

Rabino Nilton Bonder Quotations

-Many people believe that humility is the opposite of pride, when, in fact, it is a point of equilibrium. The opposite of pride is actually a lack of self-esteem. A humble person is totally different from a person who cannot recognize and appreciate himself as part of this world’s marvels. Rabino Nilton Bonder

R. J. Baughan Quotations

-We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are…Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get [...]

Nancy Astor Quotations

-The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you. Nancy Astor

Robert Heinlein Quotations

-Of course the game is rigged. Don’t let that stop you–if you don’t play, you can’t win. -A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits. -In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it. -Writing is not necessarily [...]

Charles Mackay Quotations

-Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one. Charles Mackay

Gamal Abdel Nasser Quotations

-We’re a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way. Gamal Abdel Nasser

Madeleine L’Engle Quotations

-When we are writing, or painting, or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions, and are opened to a wider world, where colors are brighter, sounds clearer, and people more wondrously complex than we normally realize. Madeleine L’Engle

Plutarch Quotations

-What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. -It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. -Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself. Plutarch

Heather Armstrong Quotations

-He can make me love something just by showing me the energy with which he loves it. Heather Armstrong

David Peterson Quotations

-If you don’t know what to do, call the media and at least give the appearance of doing something. David Peterson

Henry George Quotations

-Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power. Henry George

Alice Hoffman Quotations

-When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure. Alice Hoffman

Maria Irene Fornes Quotations

-When I’m not doing something that comes deeply from me, I get bored. When I get bored I get distracted and when I get distracted, I become depressed. It’s a natural resistance, and it insures your integrity. Maria Irene Fornes

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