-I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
Umberto Eco… Read the rest
Niccolo Machiavelli Quotations
-The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
-The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on … Read the rest
Reverend Sean Parker Dennison Quotations
-The key to non-anxious sermon-writing is that it’s not about me. It’s about the congregation. I honor the fact that the listeners bring more to the sermon than I do. I remind myself of the hundreds of times someone says, … Read the rest
Cathy Guinsewite Quotations
All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter how hard we’ve tried to prove them wrong, they all think it about us now. And the really annoying thing … Read the rest
Charlie Chaplin Quotations
Even when I was in an orphanage, when I was roaming the streets trying to find enough to eat to keep alive, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel that … Read the rest
Carl Jung Quotations
-Summoned or not, the god will come.
(From the inscription carved above the door of Jung’s house. )
-Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-Nobody, as long as he moves about among … Read the rest
Charles McCabe Quotations
-Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art.
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Lennon & McCartney
He’s a real nowhere man,
Sitting in his nowhere land,
Making all his nowhere plans
For nobody.
Doesn’t have a point of view,
Knows not where he’s going to,
Isn’t he a bit like you and me?
Nowhere man, please … Read the rest
Flannery O’Connor Quotations
-The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
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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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Elizabeth Taylor Quotations
-It is very strange that the years teach us patience – that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
Elizabeth Taylor… Read the rest
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
C.S. Lewis Quotations
-Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.
-Though our feelings come and go, God’s love for us does not.
-Failures … 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
Jessamyn West Quotations
-It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels lovable.
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Elizabeth Goudge Quotations
-Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
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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.
Hodding Carter… Read the rest
Malcolm Muggeridge Quotations
When I look back on my life what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what seemed at the time most significant and seductive, seems now most futile and absurd. For instance, success in all of its various guises; … Read the rest
Jefferson Davis Quotations
Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty.
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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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Nadine Stair Quotations
-If I had my life to live over… I’d dare to make more mistakes next time.
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Bruce Lee Quotations
-To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Bruce Lee… Read the rest
Stephen King
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Stephen King … Read the rest
Pearl S. Buck Quotations
-A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
-There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what … Read the rest
George Washington Carver Quotations
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
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H. H. Williams Quotations
-Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
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Seth MacFarlane Quotations
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
Seth MacFarlane… Read the rest
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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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
Duffy Daugherty Quotations
-Football isn’t a contact sport, it’s a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
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Ed Viesturs
You don’t assault Everest. You sneak up on it, and then get the hell outta there.
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Edgar Allan Poe Quotations
-Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
-Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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Jessica Henderson
you see a city? i call it a graveyard.
that skyline’s mere headstones
our habits are caskets
holding us six feet underground.
Jessica Henderson… Read the rest
Dorothy Sarnoff Quotations
Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.
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P. D. James Quotations
-What a child doesn’t receive he can seldom later give.
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Gertrude Stein Quotations
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Gertrude Stein… Read the rest
Dick Werthimer Quotations
The purpose of life is to fight maturity.
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Aung San Suu Kyi Quotations
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
Aung San Suu Kyi… Read the rest
George W. Bush Quotations
I believe that freedom is the deepest need of every human soul.
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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 … 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
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 … 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
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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Primo Levi Quotations
-Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.
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Mitch Albom Quotations
-The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
-You’re not a wave, you’re a … Read the rest
Frank Leahy Quotations
-Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
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Horizon, Electronic Frontier
Newspapers: dead trees with information smeared on them.
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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
Marva Collins Quotations
-Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Quotations
-Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
-Think not so much of what you have not, as of what you have.
-The art of living is more like … Read the rest
George Eliot Quotations
-If art does not enlarge men’s sympathies, it does nothing morally.
-The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
-We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.… Read the rest
Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotations
-In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
-When you appeal to force, there’s one thing you must never do – lose.
-We succeed only as we identify in life, or in … Read the rest
Herbert Simon Quotations
-…in an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of … Read the rest
Denis Diderot Quotations
-The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
-Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great … Read the rest
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
Don Marquis Quotations
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
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Howard Zinn
We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children
Howard Zinn … Read the rest
Thomas Wolfe Quotations
-If a man has talent and can’t use it, he’s failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men … Read the rest
Willis Player Quotations
-A liberal is a person whose interests aren’t at stake at the moment.
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Eugene McCarthy Quotations
-It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it’s important.… Read the rest
Marie Corelli Quotations
I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that … Read the rest
Waiter Rant Quotations
-But seduction isn’t making someone do what they don’t want to do. Seduction is enticing someone into doing what they secretly want to do already.
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James Madison Quotations
If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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Martin Gardner Quotations-
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Martin Gardner… Read the rest
Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotations
-It might make one in love with death, to be buried in so sweet a place.
-The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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Ralph W. Sockman Quotations
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
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Nikita Khrushchev Quotations
-Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
Nikita Khrushchev… Read the rest
James Baldwin Quotations
-Beyond talent lies all the usual words: discipline, love, luck – but, most of all, endurance.
-The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others.
-The purpose … Read the rest
Thomas K. Mattingly II Quotations
-It’s very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
Thomas K. Mattingly II… Read the rest
Jonas Salk Quotations
-I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.
-It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, … Read the rest
Arshad Mohammed El-Fky Quotations
-Don’t be a shadow of someone; he will leave you alone when it becomes dark.
-Having a will to be, is more important than having two eyes to see.
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Esther Dyson Quotations
-The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.
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Adam Smith Quotations
-The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and another… some of these situations may, no doubt, deserve to be preferred to others, but none … 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
Lois McMaster Bujold Quotations
-What you are is a question only you can answer.
-But pain… seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious … Read the rest
Robert McCloskey Quotations
-I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
Robert McCloskey… Read the rest
Wilhelm Busch Quotations
-It is easy to become a father, but very difficult to be a father.
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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
Jack London Quotations
-You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Jack London… Read the rest
Brian Perkins
This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary. It is peoples’ fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death … Read the rest
Douglas Yates Quotations
-People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.
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David Starr Jordan Quotations
-Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.
-The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.
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John Wooden Quotations
-It’s amazing what you can get done when you don’t care who gets the credit.
-It’s what you learn after you know everything that counts.
-Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you … Read the rest
Mary Shelley Quotations
…my dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed–my dearest pleasure when free.
Mary Shelley… Read the rest
Jean-Charles Crombez Quotations
-We are often more astonished about what is outside us than inside us. For example, we think that the powers of healing are outside us, but in fact we may reach them inside us. They are already there and the … Read the rest
Susan Partnow Quotations
-It is within the families themselves where peace can begin.
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Minor White Quotations
-No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.
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William James Quotations
-Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
-The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
-The greatest discovery of my generation is that a … Read the rest
Michael Pritchard
-No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.
-You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop … Read the rest
Norman Cousins Quotations
-Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
-Optimism doesn’t wait on facts. It deals with prospects.
-Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
Norman Cousins… Read the rest
Ellen Goodman Quotations
-In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.
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Rachel Carson Quotations
-If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.
Rachel … Read the rest
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
Robert Orben
Quit worrying about your health. It’ll go away.
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Amy Jenkins Quotations
-I get a lecture from my therapist every week which boils down to: pull your socks up. Okay, it’s a bit more sophisticated than that … It’s working and I love it. Thoughts, my therapist says, are very untrustworthy things. … Read the rest
Havelock Ellis Quotations
-The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago… had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
-It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to … Read the rest
Matthew Prior Quotations
Be to her virtues very kind. Be to her faults a little blind.
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Henry Ward Beecher Quotations
-Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
-The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.… Read the rest