A. E. Housman Quotations
-Loveliest of trees the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.
Now of my three score years and ten,
Twenty will not come again.
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Evelin Lindner Quotations
-Pessimism is a luxury of good times … In difficult times, pessimism is a self-fulfilling, self-inflicted death sentence.
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B. Quilliam
There is a fine line between dreams and reality, it’s up to you to draw it.
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Ali Javan Quotations
I don’t wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.
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Rosabeth Moss Kanter
The years ahead should be a good time for visionaries and dreamers. For the barriers to innovation, the road blocks to inspiration and imagination are being knocked down one by one.
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Katharine Hepburn Quotations
-Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
-Love’ has nothing to do with what you are expecting to … Read the rest
James Madison Quotations
If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotations
-As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out.
-It is more important to find out what you are giving to society than to ask what is the right … Read the rest
Clifton Fadiman Quotations
-When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
-For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get … 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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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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Lewis Mumford Quotations
-If you fall in love with a machine there is something wrong with your love life. If you worship a machine there is something wrong with your religion.
-Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
-The extent of the catastrophe … Read the rest
Richard R. Grant Quotations
The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account.
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Peace Pilgrim
You are now in control of your life. You see, the ego is never in control. The ego is controlled by wishes for comfort and convenience on the part of the body, by demands of the mind, and by outbursts … Read the rest
Larsen & George Quotations
-Nursing Education is still too often characterized by demands for “good girl” behaviour which rewards passivity and is intolerant of assertiveness; the consequences are students who are “less trouble” and who have a high survival rate in bureaucracies.
Larsen & … Read the rest
Malcolm de Chazal Quotations
-A woman knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.
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Brendan Gill Quotations
-Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
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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
Jean Anouilh
-Fiction gives life its form.
-Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
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William Goldman Quotations
Life isn’t fair. It’s just fairer than death, that’s all.
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Richard Wolman
By “spiritual” I do not mean the creedal formulations of any faith tradition, as much as I respect those traditions and as helpful as their insights can be. I mean the ancient and abiding human quest for connectedness with something … Read the rest
Joseph A. Schumpeter Quotations
-Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.
-Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.
-Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement … Read the rest
Olin Miller Quotations
You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.
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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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Germaine Greer Quotations
-Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
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Monty Python
And now for something completely different.
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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
Bill Cosby Quotations
-Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
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Joseph Stalin Quotations
-A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
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Paul Graham Quotations
-Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as “suits”.
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Sue Grafton Quotations
-After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn’t mine to begin with.
-As a writer, I sit all day, working at a word processor, reading books on auto theft, or doing telephone research.… Read the rest
Newt Gingrich Quotations
-Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
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M. C. Richards Quotations
-Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.
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Charles Swindoll Quotations
-There is only one you… Don’t you dare change just because you’re outnumbered!
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Reginald Blyth
Zen is the game of insight, the game of discovering who you are beneath the social masks.
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Leon Tec Quotations
A sailor without a destination cannot hope for a favorable wind.
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Nikos Kazantzakis Quotations
The Dhammapada
Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.
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Ralph Charell Quotations
Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.
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Adam Phillips
All of us may be surrealists in our dreams, but in our worries we are incorrigibly bourgeois.
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Helen Rowland Quotations
-Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her–when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?
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Joe Darion
To dream … the impossible dream …
To fight … the unbeatable foe …
To bear … with unbearable sorrow …
To run … where the brave dare not go …
To right … the unrightable wrong …
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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
Jeffrey Zaslow Quotations
Pauline Kael
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art, it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
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Archibald MacLeish Quotations
-The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
-To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence … Read the rest
Plutarch Quotations
-What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
-It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
-Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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Boris Pasternak Quotations
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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Michael Kinsley Quotations
-A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.
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Paul Harvey Quotations
-In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.
-I’ve never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.
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Hans Selye
If you do what you like you never really work, your work is your play.
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Jim Croce
If I could save time in a bottle
The first thing that I’d like to do
Is to save every day
Til’ eternity passes away
Just to spend them with you
If I could make days last forever
If words … Read the rest
Albert Pike Quotations
The spoken discourse may roll on strongly as the great tidal wave; but, like the wave, it dies at last feebly on the sands. It is heard by few, remembered by still fewer, and fades away, like an echo in … Read the rest
Amelia Earhart Quotations
-Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.
-The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of … Read the rest
Pema Chodron Quotations
-It’s also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that’s sitting right here right now… with its aches and it pleasures… is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive.… Read the rest
Shimon Peres Quotations
If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact – not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.
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Persian Proverbs
I cried because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet.
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Robert Oppenheimer Quotations
To what appear to be the simplest questions, we will tend to give either no answer or an answer which will at first sight be reminiscent more of a strange catechism than of the straight forward affirmatives of physical science. … Read the rest
Herbert Bayard Swope Quotations
I can’t give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.
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Matt Groening Quotations
-Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
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Angeles Arrien Quotations
-Four Rules for Life. Show up. Pay attention. Tell the truth. Don’t be attached to the results.
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Leon Battista Alberti Quotations
-A man can do all things if he but wills them.
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Rick Pitino Quotations
-When you build bridges you can keep crossing them.
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Salvador Dali Quotations
-I am not strange, I am just not normal.
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Dogen Zenji
Not to study the Buddha way is to fall into the realm of shameless and erroneous ways. All preceding and succeeding Buddhas always practice the Buddha way.
-A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even … Read the rest
George Bernard Shaw Quotations
-This is the true joy of life, the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clot of ailments and grievances, complaining that the … Read the rest
Ray Goforth Quotations
-There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: Those who are afraid to try themselves, and those who are afraid that you will succeed.
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John W. Gardner Quotations
-Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
-When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
-We are continually faced … Read the rest
Andrew Carnegie
Take away my people, but leave my factories, and soon grass will grow on the factory floors. Take away my factories, but leave my people, and soon we will have a new and better factory.
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Peter McArthur Quotations
Every successful enterprise requires three men – a dreamer, a businessman, and a son of a bitch.
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D. T. Suzuki Quotations
-The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one’s humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine creativity.
-Zen makes use, to a great extent, of poetical expressions; … Read the rest
Craig Newmark Quotations
-I look at what the phone company does and do the opposite.
-Sometimes a slow gradual approach does more good than a large gesture.
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Arthur Schopenhauer Quotations
John Muir Quotations
-As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I’ll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I’ll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the … Read the rest
J.D. Salinger Quotations
-I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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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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James Keller Quotations
A candle loses nothing of its light by lighting another.
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Gertrude Stein Quotations
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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Jeseph Joubert Quotations
-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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Jeanette Winterson Quotations
We are friends and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn’t mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. … Read the rest
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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William Shakespeare Quotations
George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon Quotations
-Never think that God’s delays are God’s denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.
-Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.
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Wendell Johnson Quotations
Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
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Publilius Syrus Quotations
Jerry Garcia Quotations
Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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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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Samuel Butler Quotations
-Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
-All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
-More unhappiness comes from this source than from any other – … Read the rest
Brenda Ueland Quotations
-So you see, imagination needs moodling – long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.
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Wendell Jones
You have freedom of choice, but not freedom from choice.
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William Butler Yeats Quotations
-We make art from the quarrel with ourselves, mere rhetoric from the quarrel with others.
-The years like great black oxen tread the world, And God, the herdsman goads them on behind, And I am broken by their passing feet.… Read the rest
R.A. Butler Quotations
In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.
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Bob Moawad Quotations
-Help others get ahead. You will always stand taller with someone else on your shoulders.
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Kilgore Trout Quotations
The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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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
Michael Patrick King Quotations
That’s the thing about needs. Sometimes, when you get them met, you don’t need them anymore.
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Ludwig van Beethoven Quotations
-Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
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Calvin Trillin Quotations
-Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry.
-The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has … Read the rest