-The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
W. M. Lewis… Read the rest
Sir Richard Francis Burton Quotations
-Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.
Sir Richard Francis Burton… Read the rest
Alan M. Eddison
Modern technology
Owes ecology
An apology.
Alan M. Eddison… Read the rest
Kathleen Norris Quotations
-If we are lucky, we can give in and rest without feeling guilty. We can stop doing and concentrate on being.
-Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
Kathleen Norris… Read the rest
Barbara Kafka Quotations
-Overweight is one of America’s major health problems; I think that is because we love our food too little, not too much. If it tastes fabulous, if every bite delights, if we really pay attention, we will end up eating … Read the rest
John Lubbock Quotations
When we have done our best we should wait the result in peace.
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Anaïs Nin Quotations
-Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
-There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only … Read the rest
Pico Iyer
Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.
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Konrad Adenauer Quotations
-The one sure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.
Konrad Adenauer … Read the rest
Swami Chidvilasananda
Where is the temple of God? In our heart. Therefore that’s where we have to go and meet Him.
Swami Chidvilasananda… Read the rest
Storm Jameson Quotations
-Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
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Alan Watts
Rigid people feel some basic disgust with wiggles. They want to get things straight. But who can straighten out water? Water is the essence of life.
Alan Watts… Read the rest
Rudyard Kipling Quotations
If
-If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait … Read the rest
Max Frisch Quotations
-Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.
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Laurel Mellin
You don’t have to be perfect to be wonderful.
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Sivananda
There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.
Sivananda… Read the rest
Boris Pasternak Quotations
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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Earl Wilson Quotations
If you think nobody cares if you are alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
Earl Wilson… Read the rest
Ludwig van Beethoven Quotations
-Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
Ludwig van Beethoven… Read the rest
Afranius Quotations
-The wise man will love; all others will desire.
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Walter Pater Quotations
What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
Walter Pater… Read the rest
E. L. Doctorow Quotations
-The great civilizer on Earth seems to have been doubt. Doubt, the constantly debated and flexible inner condition of theological uncertainty, seems to have held people in thrall to ethical behaviour, while the true believers, of whatever stamp, religious or … Read the rest
Edward Chapin Quotations
-A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.
-Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble … Read the rest
Jane Jacobs Quotations
New ideas require old buildings.
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Alice Miller Quotations
William Ruckelshaus Quotations
Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.
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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… Read the rest
Lucretius Quotations
Look at a man in the midst of doubt and danger, and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is. It is then that true utterances are wrung from the recesses of his breast. The mask … Read the rest
Moses Hadas Quotations
-This book fills a much-needed gap.
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Plato Quotations
-Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-A society cultivates what is honoured there. It is important to know what we honour.
-Life must be lived as play.
-There are three classes of men: lovers … Read the rest
John Blake Quotations
-The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
John Blake… Read the rest
Charles McCabe Quotations
-Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art.
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Marquis de Condorcet Quotations
-Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
Marquis de Condorcet… Read the rest
Edmund Spenser
We feel and know that we are eternal.
Edmund Spenser… Read the rest
Norah Phillips
I have found that people are usually much more moved by economics than by morals.
Norah Phillips (1910-92)… Read the rest
Peter Hoeg Quotations
Reading snow is like listening to music. To describe what you’ve read is to describe what you’ve read isn to try to explain music in writing.
Peter Hoeg… Read the rest
Carrie Fisher Quotations
You can’t find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.
Carrie Fisher… Read the rest
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 … Read the rest
Henry C. Fownes Quotations
A shot poorly played should be a shot irrevocably lost.
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William Gibson Quotations
-It’s impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.
-Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
-The deadliest bullshit is odorless and transparent.
-The future has already … Read the rest
Tara Parker-Pope Quotations
Excessive clutter and disorganization are often symptoms of a bigger health problem. People who have suffered an emotional trauma or a brain injury often find housecleaning an insurmountable task. Attention deficit disorder, depression, chronic pain and grief can prevent people … Read the rest
Elmer Davis Quotations
-The first and great commandment is: Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis… Read the rest
J. B. Priestley Quotations
-Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.
-The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up … Read the rest
Arthur C. Clarke Quotations
-The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
-At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved – if it … Read the rest
Sean O’Casey Quotations
Work! Labour … the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow – security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.
Sean O’Casey… Read the rest
Dr. Seuss Quotations
Congratulations!
Today is your day.
You’re off to Great Places!
You’re off and away!
You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose.
You’re on your own. And you … Read the rest
Enrique Jardiel Poncela
When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.
Enrique Jardiel Poncela… Read the rest
Joan of Arc
-I know this now. Every man gives his life to what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing, so they give their lives to little or nothing.
-The future … Read the rest
Albert Michelson Quotations
My greatest challenge is to attempt the impossible.
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Robert Rodriguez Quotations
Only by seeking challenges can we hope to find the best in ourselves.
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Thomas Edison Quotations
-Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.
-Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.
-I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
-To invent, you need … Read the rest
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… Read the rest
Bern Williams Quotations
-September tries its best to have us forget summer.
Bern Williams… Read the rest
Alfred Adler Quotations
It is always easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them
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W.H. Thompson Quotations
-We are none of us infallible–not even the youngest of us.
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Hafiz
There are so many gifts
Still unopened from your birthday,
There are so many hand-crafted presents
That have been sent to you by God.
The Beloved does not mind repeating,
“Everything I have is also yours.”
There are so many … Read the rest
Jean Anouilh
-Fiction gives life its form.
-Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
Jean Anouilh… Read the rest
Anna Quindlen Quotations
-A finished person is a boring person.
-Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.
-The world is full of women blindsided by … Read the rest
Jawaharlal Nehru Quotations
-There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
-Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. … Read the rest
Joseph M. Juran (Dr.) Quotations
Commitment is the daily triumph of integrity over skepticism.
Dr. Joseph M. Juran… Read the rest
Andy Warhol Quotations
-They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol… Read the rest
Baltasar Gracian Quotations
-The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
-All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has … Read the rest
Henri de Lubac Quotations
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
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Nikki Giovanni Quotations
-Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.
-I’m glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility.
Nikki Giovanni… Read the rest
Charles Babbage Quotations
On two occasions I have been asked [by Members of Parliament], “Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?” I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of … Read the rest
Walter Schirra Quotations
Mostly it’s lousy out there. It’s a hostile environment, and it’s trying to kill you. You sit in a flying Thermos bottle.
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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 … Read the rest
Scott Adams Quotations
Kent M. Keith
The Paradoxical Commandments
1. People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway.
2. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway.
3. If you are successful, you win false friends and true … Read the rest
Grace Murray Hopper
From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
ATTRIBUTION: On the removal of a 2-inch-long moth from an experimental computer at Harvard in 1945, quoted in Time 16 Apr 84
Grace … Read the rest
Katherine Mansfield Quotations
-Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
-When we can begin to take our failures nonseriously, it means we … Read the rest
Frank Zappa Quotations
-Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.
Frank Zappa… Read the rest
William Raspberry Quotations
-Your best shot at happiness, self-worth and personal satisfaction – the things that constitute real success – is not in earning as much as you can but in performing as well as you can something that you consider worthwhile.
William … Read the rest
H. H. Williams Quotations
-Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
H. H. Williams… Read the rest
L. C. Thurow Quotations
-A competitive world offers two possibilities. You can lose. Or, if you want to win, you can change.
L. C. Thurow… Read the rest
Alfre Woodard Quotations
When you expect good, it’s available constantly, and it makes itself a reality in your life.
Alfre Woodard… Read the rest
Pierre Beaumarchais Quotations
-If a thing isn’t worth saying, you sing it.
-It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
Pierre Beaumarchais… Read the rest
Marie Curie Quotations
-Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
-I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena … Read the rest
April Foiles Quotations
Life is like getting dropped off in the middle of the woods, and then year by year, gradually walking home.
April Foiles… Read the rest
Alice Thomas Ellis Quotations
-There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.
Alice Thomas Ellis… Read the rest
Spanish Proverbs
-If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Spanish Proverbs… Read the rest
Constantine Peter Cavafy Quotations
-You must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences.
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Prophet Muhammad Quotations
None of you really has faith unless he desires for his neighbor what he desires for himself.
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Publilius Syrus Quotations
Dean Acheson
Perhaps the best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
Dean Acheson… Read the rest
Elie Wiesel Quotations
-Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
Elie Wiesel… Read the rest
Henri Frederic Amiel Quotations
-Liberty, equality – bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
-Hope is only the love of life.
-The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he … Read the rest
Okakura Kakuzo
The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.
Okakura Kakuzo… Read the rest
Charlie Kaufman
The only way to do something interesting is not care if you fail.
Charlie Kaufman… Read the rest
Richard Milhous Nixon Quotations
-Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
-When the president does it, that means it is not illegal.
Richard Milhous Nixon … Read the rest
William H. Sheldon Quotations
-Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.
William H. Sheldon… Read the rest
Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr
John Wanamaker
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half.
John Wanamaker… Read the rest
Stephen Hawking Quotations
-Common sense is just another name for the prejudices we’ve been taught all our lives.
-Not only does God play dice with the Universe – he sometimes casts them where they can’t be seen. (see Albert Einstein)
-What … Read the rest
A.K. Giffin
If it were not for lawyers, we wouldn’t need them.
A.K. Giffin … Read the rest
Amelia Earhart Quotations
-Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.
-The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of … Read the rest
Clifton Fadiman Quotations
-When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
-For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get … Read the rest
Mencius Quotations
-The great man is one who does not lose his childlike nature.
-Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
Mencius… Read the rest
Reverend Charles Stephens Quotations
We ought never to consider that any stage of life is the final stage. There is always the possibility of something new and creative just around the corner.
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