-Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at.
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James F. Byrnes Quotations
-Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
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Moshe Dayan
If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
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Clyde M. Narrimore Quotations
When you see the value of continued growth, the circumstances around you become stepping stones.
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Thomas Gray Quotations
-The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
-Sweet is the breath of vernal shower, The bee’s collected treasures sweet, Sweet music’s melting full, but sweeter yet The still small voice of gratitude.
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St. Francis of Assisi
What we are looking for is what is looking.
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Michael Crichton
Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you’re being had.
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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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Bern Williams Quotations
-September tries its best to have us forget summer.
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Rabbi Julius Gordon
Love is not blind – it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
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Ogden Nash Quotations
-Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker.
-Dogs display reluctance and wrath
If you try to give them a bath
They bury bones in hideaways
And half the time they trot sideaways
-If you don’t want to work you have … Read the rest
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.
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Twyla Tharp Quotations
-Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
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Val Sears Quotations
Politics, as it turned out, lent itself admirably to storytelling. Where else can you find such a mix of greed, power, lust, conspiracy, sacrifice and secrecy?
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Christopher Morley Quotations
-Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always … Read the rest
Konrad Adenauer Quotations
-The one sure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.
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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 … Read the rest
Arnold Glasgow Quotations
Find an aim in life before you run out of ammunition
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Christopher Lasch Quotations
-A society that has made ‘nostalgia’ a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.
-Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
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Roald Amundsen Quotations
Adventure is just bad planning.
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Emily Dickinson Quotations
-Some keep the Sabbath going to Church
The Soul Selects her own Society
-I’m nobody, Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – too? …
-Of ‘shunning Men and Women’ – they talk of Hallowed things, aloud – and embarrass … Read the rest
Charles de Montesquieu Quotations
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Rebecca West Quotations
-Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
-Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
-It’s the soul’s duty … Read the rest
E. B. White Quotations
-I teach my child to look at life in a thoroughly materialistic fashion. If he escapes and becomes the sort of person I hope he will become, it will be because he sees through the hokum that I hand out.… 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.
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O. A. Battista (Dr.)
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O. A. Battista… Read the rest
Frank (Kin) Hubbard Quotations
-The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
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George S. Patton Quotations
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
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Salman Rushdie Quotations
-Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
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Charlize Theron Quotations
There’s only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn’t give you a chance there is nothing you can do.
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Fran Lebowitz Quotations
-I’ve done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.
-Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try.
-Contrary to what many of you might imagine, a career … Read the rest
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
William Somerset Maugham Quotations
-She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-Love is a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species.
-It’s asking a great deal that things should appeal to your … Read the rest
Heinz Pagels
The visible world is the invisible organization of energy.
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Antonio Machado Quotations
Grenville Kleiser Quotations
By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.
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Stephen Jay Gould Quotations
-The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best – and therefore never scrutinize or question.
-In science, ‘fact’ can only mean ‘confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.’ I suppose … Read the rest
Suzanne Lafollette Quotations
-There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.
-Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.
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Marie Howe Quotations
I have begun,
when I’m weary and can’t decide an answer to a bewildering question
to ask my dead friends for their opinion
and the answer is often immediate and clear.
Should I take the job? Move to the city? … Read the rest
Joseph Roux Quotations
-The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.
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Jim Whitaker Quotations
-You never conquer a mountain. Mountains can’t be conquered; you conquer yourself–your hopes, your fears.
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John Herschel Quotations
Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Quotations
-When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer – say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep – it is on such occasions … Read the rest
Karl A. Menninger Quotations
-Fears are educated into us and can, if we wish, be educated out.
-Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world; a prescription often given, too rarely taken.
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Ronald Reagan Quotations
-The taxpayer — that’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.
-Thomas Jefferson once said, ‘We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.’ And ever since … Read the rest
Okakura Kakuzo
The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.
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Thomas Hardy Quotations
A man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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Pierre Wack Quotations
I had the feeling of hunting in a pack of wolves, being the eyes of the pack, and sending signals back to the rest. Now if you see something serious, and the pack doesn’t notice it, you’d better find out … Read the rest
Brendan Francis Quotations
-If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don’t hoard it. Don’t dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.
-People who ask our advice almost never take … Read the rest
Booker T. Washington Quotations
-I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
-There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
-Success is to be measured not so … Read the rest
Gloria Steinem Quotations
-Hierarchies ration self-esteem and create obedience to external authority by weakening belief in our own natural and internal wisdom.
-The status quo protects itself by punishing all challengers.
-Perhaps the worst thing about suffering is that it finally hardens the … Read the rest
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.
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Hsu Hsing Quotations
To earn his keep a good and wise ruler shares the work of tilling the land with his people. He rules while cooking his own meals.
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Susan Sontag Quotations
-The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
-What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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David Peterson Quotations
-If you don’t know what to do, call the media and at least give the appearance of doing something.
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Lee Iacocca Quotations
-There ain’t no free lunches in this country. And don’t go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You’ve got to say, ‘I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I … Read the rest
Scott Morrison Quotations
To be enlightened is simply to be absolutely, unconditionally intimate with this moment. No more. No less.
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Seng-T’san
Truly, because of our accepting and rejecting, we have not the suchness of things.
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H. Mumford Jones
Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.
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Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotations
James Richardson Quotations
The man who sticks to his plan will become what he used to want to be.
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Walt Whitman Quotations
Marsilio Ficino
…artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love
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Alexander Pope Quotations
-Search then the ruling Passion:…
This clue once found, unravels all the rest….
-Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see,
Thinks what ne’er was, nor is, nor e’er shall be
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Galileo Galilei Quotations
-I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
-I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something … Read the rest
Brendan Gill Quotations
-Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
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W.S. Gilbert
When everyone is somebody, then no one’s anybody.
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Leon Kass Quotations
-The pursuit of perfect bodies and further life extension will deflect us from realizing more fully the aspirations to which our lives naturally point, from living well rather than merely staying alive.
-The finitude of human life is a blessing … Read the rest
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
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Shakti Gawain Quotations
-Every time you don’t follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.
-An affirmation is a strong, positive statement that something is already so.
-I am convinced that life in … Read the rest
Raymond Carver Quotations
-And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did,
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on this earth.
-Writers don’t need tricks or gimmicks or even necessarily need … Read the rest
Bob Dylan Quotations
-Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don’t criticize
What you can’t understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin’.
Please get out of the new one
If you can’t lend … Read the rest
Time Magazine
Don’t blow it – good planets are hard to find.
Quoted in Time… Read the rest
Niels Bohr
-Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
-The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
-An expert is a person … Read the rest
Charles De Gaulle Quotations
-How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
-Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
-The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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John Eliot Quotations
Elbert Hubbard Quotations
-No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
-To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
-The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one.
-If … Read the rest
John D. Rockefeller Jr. Quotations
-I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
-I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
-I believe that … Read the rest
Suzanne Necker Quotations
Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.
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Richard Greenberg Quotations
I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There’s a vanity to candor that isn’t really worth it. Be kind.… Read the rest
Daniel Boorstin Quotations
-Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.
-The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge.
-Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.… Read the rest
Talmud
The highest wisdom is loving kindness.
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Vida D. Scudder Quotations
It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.
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Kurt Vonnegut Quotations
-Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
-What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?
-I still believe that … Read the rest
Nellie McClung
Never retreat, never complain, explain or apologize. Get the thing done and let them howl.
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William Bridges Quotations
-Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.
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Bernard M. Baruch Quotations
-Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
-Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.… Read the rest
Rick Warren
-Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it’s thinking of yourself less.
-Everything that happens to you has a spiritual significance.
-What happens outwardly in your life is not as important as what happens inside of you.
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Jessamyn West Quotations
-It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels lovable.
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Ian McEwan Quotations
When this civilization falls, when the Romans, whoever they are this time round, have finally left and the new dark ages begin, this will be one of the first luxuries to go. The old folk crouching by their peat fires … Read the rest
Josh Billings
Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
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Robert Frost Quotations
-My object in living is to unite
My avocation and my vocation
As my two eyes make one in sight.
Only where love and need are one
And the work is play for mortal stakes,
Is the deed ever really … Read the rest
Terence
-There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly
-Their silence is sufficient praise.
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Fortune Cookie
Many a false step was made by standing still
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William Congreve
She likes herself, yet others hates
For that which in herself she prizes;
And, while she laughs at them, forgets
She is the thing that she despises.
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Arab Proverbs
-Make your bargain before beginning to plow.
-Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
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H.L. Mencken Quotations
-The men the American public admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
-The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives … Read the rest
Jonathan Swift Quotations
-Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
-May you … Read the rest