I don’t deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don’t deserve that either.
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Peter Hoeg Quotations
Time is no law of nature. It is a plan. When you look at it with awareness, or start to touch it, then it starts to disintegrate.
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Real Live Preacher Quotations
-Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. ‘This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. … Read the rest
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
Chris Evert Quotations
-If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that is a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life.
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Michelangelo Quotations
-In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal … Read the rest
Peter Ustinov Quotations
-It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.
-Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
-Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely … Read the rest
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
Stanley Kubrick Quotations
-Ghost stories appeal to our craving for immortality. If you can be afraid of a ghost, then you have to believe that a ghost may exist. And if a ghost exists then oblivion might not be the end.
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William Ellery Channing Quotations
-Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
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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
Claude Bernard Quotations
Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.
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Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus Quotations
-When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him… For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than … Read the rest
Louis Vermeil Quotations
The prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from talking.
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W.P. Kinsella
If you build it they will come.
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Hesketh Pearson Quotations
-Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.
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John
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
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Helmuth von Moltke Quotations
First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.
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Muhammad Ali Quotations
-I don’t always know what I’m talking about but I know I’m right.
-Float like a butterfly! Sting like a bee! Your hands can’t hit what your eyes can’t see.
-If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake … Read the rest
Immanuel Kant Quotations
-Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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Brian Tracy
Make a game of finding something positive in every situation. Ninety-five percent of your emotions are determined by how you interpret events to yourself.
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Bryan Adams Quotations
Never gonna break my faith
My Lord
I have read this book so many times
But nowhere can i find the page
that change what i experience today
Now i Know that life is ment to be hard
thats how … Read the rest
Robert F. Bennett Quotations
-Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that … Read the rest
Randy Pausch Quotations
-We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.
-Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcome.
-I probably got more from that dream and not accomplishing it than … Read the rest
Freeman Dyson
Mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that altogether surpasses our understanding.
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Brendan Behan Quotations
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
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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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Paul Hawken Quotations
-Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
-How much harm does a company have to do before we question its right … 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
Berthold Auerbach Quotations
-Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.
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Cardinal de Retz Quotations
-A man who doesn’t trust himself can never truly trust anyone else.
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Eddie Cantor Quotations
-Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going too fast – you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
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Alexis Carrel Quotations
To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.
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Dan Barker Quotations
-Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits.
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Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotations
-We follow the mystics. They know where they are going. They, too, go astray, but when they go astray they do so in a way that is mystical, dark, and mysterious.
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Peter McWilliams Quotations
-Pain (any pain–emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories: “We would be more alive if we did more of this,” and, … Read the rest
Bob Talbert Quotations
-A great city is one that handles art and garbage equally well.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotations
-Telling the truth … is not solely a matter of moral character; it is also a matter of correct appreciation of real situations and of serious reflection upon them.
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Desmond Tutu
One day we will wake up and find out we are family.
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Dean Koontz Quotations
-A politician’s goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.
-All dogs are hugely smarter than they want us to know. They are the … Read the rest
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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Doctor Who Quotations
-There’s no point in being grown up if you can’t be childish sometimes.
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Ulysses S. Grant Quotations
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
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Zig Ziglar Quotations
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your mind off the goals.
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Marie de Rabutin-Chantal Quotations
-We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
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Douglas Adams Quotations
-Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.
-He attacked everything in life … 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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Maltese saying
Better one word too few than one too many.
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Emiliano Zapata Quotations
It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
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Robert Benchley Quotations
-I do most of my work sitting down; that’s where I shine.
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John Berry Quotations
-The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
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Robbie Burns Quotations
-O wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!
-But pleasures are like poppies spread,
You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed;
Or like the snow falls in the river,
A moment white—then … Read the rest
Thomas Merton Quotations
-A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.
-The least of learning is done in the classrooms.
-The truth that many people never understand, until it is … Read the rest
Jean Giraudoux Quotations
-Only the mediocre are always at their best.
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Julie Morgenstern Quotations
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
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Cynthia Ozick Quotations
To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.
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Francis Chichester
Most of us are content to pass over the surface of life. It is only by submitting to trial than an individual can learn to know what is in him.
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Martha Beck Quotations
-Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
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Bill Nye Quotations
-Humor is everywhere, in that there’s irony in just about anything a human does.
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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
Robert W. Sarnoff Quotations
-Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.
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Kurdish Proverbs
Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.
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Cardinal Richelieu Quotations
Leniency gives rise to the ultimately necessary exercise of a degree of cruelty which could have been avoided by the employment of an efficacious punishment at an earlier time.”
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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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William Walton
It’s just as difficult to overcome success as it is to overcome failure.
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Henry J. Kaiser Quotations
When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.
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Tallulah Bankhead Quotations
-I’m as pure as the driven slush.
-Here’s a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.
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E. F. Schumacher Quotations
-An entirely new system of thought is needed, a system based on attention to people, and not primarily attention to goods.
-The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with … Read the rest
Florida Scott-Maxwell Quotations
-I grow more intense as I age.
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Richard Armour
A rumor is one thing that gets thicker instead of thinner as it is spread.
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Constantine Peter Cavafy Quotations
-You must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences.
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Swedish Proverbs
-Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it.
-Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good things will be yours.
-Eyes … Read the rest
Jules Renard Quotations
-Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.
-Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
-I don’t know if God exists, but it would be better for His … Read the rest
Benjamin Spock
-A child loves his play, not because it’s easy, but because it’s hard.
-What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for … Read the rest
Bulgarian Proverbs
-Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
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Scott Westerfeld Quotations
-We don’t always get to choose what we love.
-A little drama wins more friends than boring.
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Danah Boyd Quotations
The things that make us safest from others make us least from ourselves.
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Ramana Maharshi
Doubts arise because of the absence of surrender.
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Karl Marx Quotations
The ruling ideas of every age are always the ideas of the ruling class.
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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
George Best Quotations
-I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.
George Best… Read the rest
Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotations
-The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
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Stephen Covey Quotations
-Never in my 25 years of leadership training has there been a time when principles and pragmatism have converged as completely as they do today.
-My goal in life is to be the kind of person my dog thinks I … Read the rest
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
Spike Milligan Quotations
-The cliché is the handrail of the crippled mind.
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William Beveridge Quotations
-Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
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Yogi Berra Quotations
-90% of this game is 80% mental.
-If the people don’t want to come out to the ballpark, nobody’s going to stop them.
-The future ain’t what it used to be.
-When you’re a great enough person you get to … Read the rest
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.
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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
Alice Mackenzie Swaim Quotations
Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.
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Charles Darwin Quotations
-A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
-A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
-Animals, whom we have made our slaves, … Read the rest
Afranius Quotations
-The wise man will love; all others will desire.
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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
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotations
-The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.
-Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us; but in respecting something which is above us; … 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
Evenius
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
Evenius… Read the rest
Umberto Eco Quotations
-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.
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Robert Lynd Quotations
-There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
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Paul Valery Quotations
-A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-Our fine arts were developed, their types and uses were established, in times very different from the present, by men whose power of action upon things was insignificant in comparison with ours. But … Read the rest