Many a false step was made by standing still
Fortune Cookie… Read the rest
Marie Leneru Quotations
-To succeed is nothing, it’s an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.
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Phillips Brooks Quotations
-A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
-Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we … 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
Hugh Prather Quotations
-True humor is fun – it does not put down, kid, or mock. It makes people feel wonderful, not separate, different, and cut off. True humor has beneath it the understanding that we are all in this together.
-Unless I … Read the rest
George F. Will Quotations
Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.
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E. O. Wilson Quotations
-Human nature is a hodgepodge of special genetic adaptations to an environment largely vanished, the world of the Ice-Age hunter gatherer.
-A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price … Read the rest
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.
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Catherine de Hueck Doherty Quotations
-Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you.
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Jacques Barzun
-An artist has every right – one may even say a duty – to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.
-Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form – or else it is … Read the rest
Hans Selye
If you do what you like you never really work, your work is your play.
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James Fenimore Cooper Quotations
-It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
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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.
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Thomas H. Huxley Quotations
-Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
-Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
-Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in … 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.
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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
Heinrich Heine
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
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Herman Melville Quotations
Horace Quotations
-Dare to be wise: begin! Those who postpone the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses, yet on it glides, and will glide forever.
-He is almost always … Read the rest
William Jennings Bryan Quotations
-Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
-No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
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Raul Seixas Quotations
-A dream that we dream alone is just but a dream, but a dream that we dream together becomes reality.
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Stella Terrill Mann Quotations
-Desire, ask, believe, receive.
-Whatever God’s dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come true unless man cooperates.
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Tim Berners-Lee Quotations
-We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.
-Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don’t care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.
-If you use the original … Read the rest
Barack Obama Quotations
-A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, ‘Huh. It works. It makes sense.’
-Americans… still believe in an America where anything’s possible … Read the rest
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Groucho Marx Quotations
-I have principles and if you don’t like them I have others.
-She got her looks from her father. He’s a plastic surgeon.
-I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it.
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John Maynard Keynes Quotations
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.
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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 … Read the rest
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotations
No mind is thoroughly well-organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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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
Eliot Wiggington Quotations
-Life isn’t worth living unless you’re willing to take some big chances and go for broke.
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M. C. Escher Quotations
Only those who attempt the absurd…will achieve the impossible. I think …I think it’s in my basement…Let me go upstairs and check.
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Aleister Crowley
-The joy of life consists in the exercise of one’s energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.
Aleister … Read the rest
Terry Waite
I remember saying three things to myself after I was taken hostage which somehow stood me in good stead.
No regrets – you haven’t done everything correctly, you’re bound to have made mistakes, but stick by what you’ve done.
No … Read the rest
Lynn Johnston Quotations
-We are all born with wonderful gifts. We use these gifts to express ourselves, to amuse, to strengthen, and to communicate. We begin as children to explore and develop our talents, often unaware that we are unique, that not everyone … 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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Henri de Lubac Quotations
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
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Elvis Presley Quotations
It’s very hard to live up to an image.
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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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Jerome Blattner
A person who trusts no one can’t be trusted.
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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
Randy Pausch Quotations
Anna Lappe Quotations
-Hope doesn’t come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It’s simply a choice to take action.
-Every time you spend money, you’re casting a vote for the kind of world you want.
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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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Herbert Victor Prochnow Quotations
-A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts.
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Hosea Ballou
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
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P. D. James Quotations
-What a child doesn’t receive he can seldom later give.
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James Richardson Quotations
The man who sticks to his plan will become what he used to want to be.
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Thomas Fuller Quotations
-We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
-Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
-Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
-Enquire not what boils in another’s pot.… Read the rest
Lord Acton Quotations
-The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
-Learn as much by writing as by reading.
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Jennie Jerome Churchill Quotations
-Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
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Maya Angelou Quotations
-If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can transform a million realities.
-The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
-I know why the caged bird sings.
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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.
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John Dos Passos Quotations
-People don’t choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.
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Robbie Gass Quotations
-Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.
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Nicolas Chamfort Quotations
-Nature didn’t tell me: “Don’t be poor.” Nor indeed: “Be rich.” But she does beg me: “Be independent.”
-The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
-An economist is a surgeon … Read the rest
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 … Read the rest
Jack Handey Quotations
-I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they’d never expect it.
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Susan Ertz
Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
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Norman Mailer Quotations
-Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.
-There is no greater importance in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, … Read the rest
Henry David Thoreau Quotations
-It is as hard to see one’s self as to look backwards without turning around.
-Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
-Things do not change; we change.
-It is never too late to give … Read the rest
Scottish Proverbs
-Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.
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Eleanor Roosevelt Quotations
Al Capp Quotations
[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
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U.S. Andersen Quotations
The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill to run a wrecking company than it does to be an architect.
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Gerald Brenan Quotations
When we are happy, we love Nature. When we are dull and depressed, it says nothing to us. Our feeling for it would therefore seem to be a reflection of our moods.
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Samuel Smiles Quotations
Time is of no account with great thoughts. They are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author’s minds ages ago.
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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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Kahlil Gibran Quotations
-He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.
-Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights,
But your ears thirst for the sound of … Read the rest
Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address
My fellow citizens: I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors.
I thank President Bush for his service to our nation as well … Read the rest
Logan Pearsall Smith Quotations
-The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.
-It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
-What … Read the rest
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.
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John Maurice Clarke Quotations
Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns.
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Antonia Brenner Quotations
I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time … Read the rest
Hannah Arendt Quotations
-The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
-The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which … Read the rest
A.K. Giffin
If it were not for lawyers, we wouldn’t need them.
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Adlai Stevenson Quotations
Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
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John Burroughs Quotations
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is ‘look under foot.’ You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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Sam Levenson
If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.
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Albert Szent–Gyorgyi de Nagyraolt Quotations
Dave Barry Quotations
-You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, “My God, you’re right! I never would’ve thought of that!”
-You can only be young once. But you can always be … Read the rest
St. Francis of Assisi
What we are looking for is what is looking.
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Lord Byron Quotations
Paul Brooks Quotations
In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops.
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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
Anne Michaels Quotations
-Hold a book in your hand and you’re a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.
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Robert S. McNamara Quotations
Brains, like hearts, go where they are appreciated.
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Christiane Northrup Quotations
Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
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Rita Mae Brown Quotations
-People are like tea bags you don’t know how strong they are till you put them in hot water.
-Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts.
-For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It’s better that they are … Read the rest
Charles Mingus Quotations
-Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can play weird–that’s easy. What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple complicated is commonplace–making the complicated simple, awesomely simple–that’s creativity.
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Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr
Evan Esar Quotations
-The zoo is an excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
-You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
-Character is what you have left when … Read the rest
Rene Descartes Quotations
-The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
-If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as … Read the rest
Philip Larkin Quotations
Why should I let the toad work
Squat on my life? … Ah, were I courageous enough
To shout, Stuff your pension!
But I know, all too well, that’s the stuff
That dreams are made on …
Philip Larkin… Read the rest
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 … Read the rest
Alvin Toffler
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.
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Oprah Winfrey Quotations
-Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.
-Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.… Read the rest
Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco Quotations
-Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting.
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