-We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.
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Arnold Toynbee Quotations
-It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
-America is … Read the rest
Garth Brooks Quotations
-The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.
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Albert Ellis Quotations
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You don’t blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the President. You realize that you control your own destiny.
Albert Ellis… Read the rest
Elizabeth David Quotations
-Every day holds the possibility of a miracle.
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Ben Stein Quotations
-I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty…This is my highest and best use as a human.
Ben Stein… Read the rest
Johnny Carson Quotations
For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.
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Jacqueline Cochran Quotations
-I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand… Adventure is a state of mind – and spirit.
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Pat Brown
When a man throws an empty cigarette package from an automobile, he is liable to a fine of $50. When a man throws a billboard across a view, he is richly rewarded.
Pat Brown… Read the rest
T.S. Eliot Quotations
-Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-In a world of fugitives the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.
-I have measured out my life with … Read the rest
Shirley Hufstedler Quotations
If you play it safe in life you’ve decided that you don’t want to grow any more.
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James Branch Cabell Quotations
-The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
-There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
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Vince Lombardi Quotations
-Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit.
-If you aren’t … Read the rest
Helen Gahagan Douglas Quotations
-Character isn’t inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.
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Ernest Benn Quotations
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.
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Marsilio Ficino
…artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love
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Zadok Rabinowitz
A man’s dreams are an index to his greatness.
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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
Alexander Graham Bell Quotations
-The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion… It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider–and progressively better able to grasp any … Read the rest
Robin Morgan Quotations
Don’t accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.
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Ann Radcliffe Quotations
-The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as well as the descriptions, of those in health.
-One act of beneficence, one act of … Read the rest
Buck Henry Quotations
We need a president who’s fluent in at least one language.
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Dan Barker Quotations
Persian Proverbs
I cried because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet.
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Russell H. Ewing Quotations
-A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or … Read the rest
W.P. Kinsella
If you build it they will come.
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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
Malayan Proverbs
-Don’t think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.
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David Hume Quotations
-I believe that no man ever threw away life, while it was worth keeping.
-A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual … Read the rest
Coco Chanel Quotations
-Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.
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John F. Kennedy Quotations
Edith Sitwell Quotations
-Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are … Read the rest
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
Alan Kay
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Muriel Spark Quotations
-Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.
Muriel Spark… Read the rest
Arnold Bennett Quotations
-Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism. Indeed, I think it must be more agreeable, must have a more real savour, than optimism – from the way in which pessimists abandon themselves to it.… Read the rest
Maxine Hong Kingston Quotations
-The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.
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Nelson Mandela Quotations
-The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the second best time is now.
-Playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We … Read the rest
R. Buckminster Fuller Quotations
-All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniused by grownups. (See Einstein)
-Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
-Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, … Read the rest
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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David Lloyd George Quotations
The finest eloquence is that which gets things done and the worst is that which delays them.
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Yousef Karsh
If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by “vanity” only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with … Read the rest
Duke Ellington Quotations
-I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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Bette Davis Quotations
It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
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Isaac Newton Quotations
-I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a … Read the rest
Suzanne Necker Quotations
Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.
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John Russell Quotations
-Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.
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Alice Roosevelt Longworth Quotations
-The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.
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Russell Hoban Quotations
After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?
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Margaret Thatcher Quotations
-A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
-Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
-Being powerful is … Read the rest
Randy Pausch Quotations
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
Ugo Betti Quotations
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that’s necessary for believing in it.
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William Shakespeare Quotations
Muhammad Ali Quotations
Dick Werthimer Quotations
The purpose of life is to fight maturity.
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Satchel Paige
-Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it don’t matter.
-Ain’t no man can avoid being born average, but there ain’t no man got to be common.
-Airplanes may kill you, but they ain’t likely … 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
Grant Frazier Quotations
-Life is full of obstacle illusions.
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Bill Hicks Quotations
-It’s just a ride and we can change it any time we want. It’s only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money, a choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want … Read the rest
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 … Read the rest
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 … Read the rest
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.
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Dorothy L. Sayers Quotations
-A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
-The worst sin – perhaps the only sin – passion can commit, is to be joyless.
-The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
Dorothy … Read the rest
Lisa Williams Quotations
The only way to last a really long time is to build something useful enough that people will want to keep it going after you die, and to cultivate a sense of ownership in other people. In short: make good … Read the rest
André Gide Quotations
-Look for your own. Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what … Read the rest
Regis Debray Quotations
-The prime role of a leader is to offer an example of courage and sacrifice.
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Hodding Carter Quotations
-Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.
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Dr. Arnold A. Hutschnecker Quotations
The will to live in civilized man is a combined biological and psychological drive. As long as we have something to live for, the will to live carries us through the moments of crisis which are inevitable in every life.… Read the rest
Wilson Mizner Quotations
-A fellow who is always declaring he’s no fool usually has his suspicions.
-A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.
-I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an … Read the rest
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.
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Mark Caine Quotations
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
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Jack Benny Quotations
I don’t deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don’t deserve that either.
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Tom Nolan Quotations
-In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
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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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Dylan Thomas Quotations
-Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had … Read the rest
Chris Patten
In politics, as soon as you take a trick in diamonds, you find that hearts have become trumps.
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Thomas Lovell Beddoes Quotations
-If there were dreams to sell,
What would you buy?
Some cost a passing bell;
Some a light sigh,
That shakes from Life’s fresh crown
Only a rose-leaf down.
If there were dreams to sell,
Merry and sad to tell,… Read the rest
John Donne
-No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory … Read the rest
Philip K. Dick Quotations
Doris Mortman
Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have.
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His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet Quotations
-The purpose of life is to serve other people. To do something of benefit for other people. From that point of view, a difficulty is really a great opportunity.
-If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you … Read the rest
Shania Twain Quotations
Let’s go.
Mmm.
Don’t want you for the weekend.
Don’t want you for a night.
I’m only interested if I can have you for life.
Yeah.
I know I sound serious.
Baby, I am.
You’re a fine piece of real … Read the rest
Robert Fulghum Quotations
Most of what I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there, in the sand … Read the rest
Vic Gold Quotations
The squeaking wheel doesn’t always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.
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Simon Gray Quotations
-People should worry about each other. Because worry is just love in its worst form. But it’s still love.
-In my experience, the worst thing you can do to an important problem is discuss it. You know – I really … Read the rest
Max Frisch Quotations
-Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.
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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
Chuang Tse
I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
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Okakura Kakuzo
The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.
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Eddie Rickenbacker Quotations
-Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.
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Randy Goodrum Quotations
i cried a tear
you wiped it dry
i was confused
you cleared my mind
i sold my soul
you bought it back for me
and held the earth
you gave me dignity
somehow you needed me
you gave me … Read the rest
George Aiken Quotations
-If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon.
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D. H. Lawrence Quotations
-Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-It is a fine thing to establish one’s own religion in … Read the rest
Felix E. Schelling
True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius.
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Mae West Quotations
-When choosing between two evils I always like to take the one I’ve never tried before.
-When I’m good I’m very good, but when I’m bad I’m better.
-A hard man… is good to find
-It’s not the men in … Read the rest
John Maynard Keynes Quotations
George Sand Quotations
-One is happy as a result of one’s own efforts, once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness — simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and, above all, a clear conscience. Happiness … Read the rest
Sydney Smith Quotations
-Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
-Live always in the best company when you read.
-You must not think me necessarily foolish because … Read the rest