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One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell
without laughing.
~Author : Oscar Wilde Inspirational
Sayings
Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't
believe impossible things.' 'I daresay you haven't had much
practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it
half an hour a day. Why, sometimes, I've believed as many as six
impossible things before breakfast.'
~Author : Lewis Carroll Nice Quotes
Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most
dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over
your ablility to learn. The judgemental precedents of law function
that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand
nothing. All comprehension is temporary.
~Author : Frank Herbert Chapterhouse Dune
Mentat Fixe Great Sayings
It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling
exception, is composed of others.
~Author : John Andrew Holmes Meaningful
Sayings
Everyone is having a harder time than it appears.
~Author : Charles Grodin Wise Quotes
Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly.
~Author : Lauren Becall Motivational
Sayings
It's not a slam at you when people are rude-it's a slam at the
people they've met before.
~Author : F Scott Famous Quotes
If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it
long ago.
~Author : William Hazlitt Inspirational
Sayings
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
~Author : Saint Augustine Nice
Quotes
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and
blaming it on you If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too . . . If you can meet
with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the
same . . . Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it.
~Author : Rudyard Kipling Great
Sayings
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability
of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
~Author : Henry David Thoreau Meaningful
Sayings
It's useful that there should be Gods, so let's believe there
are.
~Author : Ovid Wise Quotes
Dogmatism does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of
thought.
~Author : Gilbert Keith Chesterton Motivational
Sayings
Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his
understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading,
though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
~Author : John Locke Famous Quotes
Don't worry about anything. Worrying never solved anything. All it
does is distort your mind.
~Author : Milton Garland Inspirational
Sayings
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear.
Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it
is brave.
~Author : Lucius Annaeus Seneca Nice
Quotes
It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.
~Author : Thomas Babington Macaulay Great
Sayings
I dream of wayward gulls and all landless lovers, rare moments of
winter sun, peace, privacy, for everyone.
~Author : William F Claire Meaningful
Sayings
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who has never
learned to walk.
~Author : Franklin D Roosevelt Wise
Quotes
I love life...Yeah, I'm sad, but at the same time, I'm really happy
that something could make me feel that sad. It's like...It makes me
feel alive, you know. It makes me feel human. The only way I could
feel this sad now is if I felt something really good before. So I
have to take the bad with the good. So I guess what I'm feeling is
like a beautiful sadness.
~Author : Trey and Matt Stone Parker
Motivational Sayings
The greatist thing in the world is for a man to know how to be
himself.
~Author : Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Famous
Quotes
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the
past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in
the present moment wisely and earnestly.
~Author : Buddha Inspirational
Sayings
All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying,losing, cheating, and
mediocrity are easy. Stay away from easy.
~Author : Scott Alexander film writer and
director Nice Quotes
As if there were safety in stupidity alone.
~Author : Henry David Thoreau Great
Sayings
Ah the clock is always slow It is later than you think.
~Author : Robert Service Meaningful
Sayings
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
~Author : D H Lawrence Wise Quotes
No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look
forward to.
~Author : Lynn Johnston Motivational
Sayings
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People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than
governments.
~Author : Dwight D Eisenhower Famous
Quotes
Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction.
~Author : Aesop Inspirational
Sayings
Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.
~Author : Thomas W Higginson Nice
Quotes
I stand by all the misstatements that I've made.
~Author : Dan Quayle Great Sayings
If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only
sooner.
~Author : Tallulah Bankhead Meaningful
Sayings
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance
prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is
in an organized conspiracy to opress, rob, and degrade them,
neither persons nor property will be safe.
~Author : Frederick Douglas Wise
Quotes
If Jerry Brown is the answer, it must be a very peculiar
question.
~Author : Sen Lloyd Bentsen DTexas Motivational
Sayings
I am the toughest golfer mentally.
~Author : Tiger Woods Famous Quotes
Don't speak unless you can improve on the silence.
~Author : Danish proverb Inspirational
Sayings
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the
responsibility for our future.
~Author : George Bernard Shaw Nice
Quotes
I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave
us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of
mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these
nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
~Author : Ronald Reagan Great
Sayings
It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know
they won't save us any more than love did.
~Author : Euripides Meaningful
Sayings
Divorces are made in heaven.
~Author : Oscar Wilde Wise Quotes
The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the
dream shall never die.
~Author : Edward M Kennedy Democratic National
Convention 1980 Motivational Sayings
The only way to get rid of responsibilities is to discharge
them.
~Author : Walter S Robertson Famous
Quotes
I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever.
Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow
old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to
give up wrinkles the soul.
~Author : Douglas MacArthur Inspirational
Sayings
By courage I repel adversity.
(Adversa Virtute Repello)
~Author : Anonymous Nice Quotes
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is
translated through you into action, and because there id only one
of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it,
it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.
~Author : Martha Graham Great
Sayings
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their
presence.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Meaningful
Sayings
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by
evil means.
~Author : Sallust Wise Quotes
If someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.
~Author : Antoine de SaintExupery The Little
Prince Motivational Sayings
A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute.
He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
~Author : Arthur Brisbane Famous
Quotes
I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble
of liking them.
~Author : Jane Austen Inspirational
Sayings
I thought I loved him, but I really just needed him. There was so
much death and when I was in bed with him, I wasn't thinking about
death...Look, what I'm trying to say is that we can't know what's
in another person's heart, we can't even know what's in our own.
Life turns on a dime, and somehow we muddle through.
~Author : Sybil Adelman Nice Quotes
Education is about the only thing lying around loose in the world,
and it's about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he's
willing to haul away.
~Author : George Lorimer Great
Sayings
Life.....is a series of dogs.
~Author : George Carlin Meaningful
Sayings
The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum
of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the
world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress
that freedom, even temporarily. No great work has ever been based
on hatred and contempt. On the contrary, there is not a single true
work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom of
each person who has known and loved it.
~Author : Albert Camus Wise Quotes
Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must
develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply
too long.
~Author : Leonard Bernstein Motivational
Sayings
Date Published: Aug 07, 2009 - 2:18 am
My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That
should be secondary.'
~Author : Cary Grant Famous Quotes
No one can give you authority. But if you act like you have it,
others will believe you do.
~Author : Karin Ireland Inspirational
Sayings
All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only on the full
use of our creative imagination.
~Author : Ruth Ross Nice Quotes
Expecting a carjacker or rapist or drug pusher to care that his
possession or use of a gun is unlawful is like expecting a
terrorist to care that his car bomb is taking up two parking
spaces.
~Author : Joseph T Chew Great
Sayings
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with
the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay
a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none
but the best of their thoughts.
~Author : Rene Descartes Meaningful
Sayings
Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words
directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus one morning
they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and
gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil
of the plants that grow in him
~Author : Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Wise
Quotes
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do
you learn.
~Author : CS Lewis Motivational
Sayings
Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived
forwards.
~Author : Johann von Goethe Famous
Quotes
Will We're going to steal a ship That ship Jack Commandeer. We're
going to commandeer that ship. Nautical term.
~Author : Pirates of the Caribbean The Curse of
the Black Pearl Inspirational Sayings
A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we
must come back and settle the account at last.
~Author : Joseph F Newton Nice
Quotes
Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis.
~Author : Robert Heilbroner Great
Sayings
If peace cannot be maintained with honor, it is no longer
peace.
~Author : John Russell Meaningful
Sayings
You keep changin? the rules and I can?t play the game. I can?t take
it much longer. I think I might go insane.
~Author : Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson
Scream Wise Quotes
Advice to writers Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even
before you begin.
~Author : Stanislaw Lec Motivational
Sayings
A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way
that you actually look forward to the trip.
~Author : Caskie Stinnett Famous
Quotes
Come out of the circle of time And into the circle of love.
~Author : Jalal udDin Rumi Inspirational
Sayings
Open your eyes and look within. Are you satisfied with the life
you're livin'
~Author : Bob Marley Nice Quotes
A crime which is the crime of many none avenge.
~Author : Lucan Great Sayings
I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.
~Author : Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Meaningful
Sayings
A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his
services.
~Author : Daniel J Boorstin Wise
Quotes
Freedom is from within.
~Author : Frank Lloyd Wright Motivational
Sayings
The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is
he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people
say, 'We did it ourselves.'
~Author : Lao Tzu Famous Quotes
How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by
desire
~Author : Belva Plain Inspirational
Sayings
The unexamined life is not worth living.
~Author : Socrates Nice Quotes
Pigs get fat hogs get slaughtered.
~Author : Unknown Great Sayings
For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the
common birthday.
~Author : John Herschel Glenn Jr Meaningful
Sayings
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government
except all the others that have been tried.
~Author : Sir Winston Churchill Wise
Quotes
The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds,
and the pessimist knows it.
~Author : J Robert Oppenheimer Motivational
Sayings
Date Published: Aug 07, 2009 - 2:18 am
Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your
reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible
words or he will certainly misunderstand them.
~Author : John Ruskin Famous Quotes
Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways
that last and last and lives become generations made out of
pictures and words just kept.
~Author : Lucille Clifton Inspirational
Sayings
Anonymity is the truest expression of altruism.
~Author : Eric Gibson Nice Quotes
Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.
~Author : Lawana Blackwell Great
Sayings
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you
would know, and not be known, live in a city.
~Author : Charles Caleb Colton Meaningful
Sayings
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
~Author : Martin Luther King Wise
Quotes
I have no mercy or compassion for a society that crushes people,
and then penalizes them for not being able to stand up under the
weight.
~Author : Malcom X My counselor Mrs Ross
Motivational Sayings
If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to
beat.
~Author : Herschel Walker Famous
Quotes
Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the
prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is
your heart.
~Author : Lois McMaster Bujold Inspirational
Sayings
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and
not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
~Author : Franklin D Roosevelt Nice
Quotes
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government
without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should
not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
~Author : Thomas Jefferson Great
Sayings
A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason
and the real reason.
~Author : Thomas Carlyle Meaningful
Sayings
The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
~Author : Martin Luther Wise Quotes
This isn't right. This isn't even wrong.
~Author : Wolfgang Pauli Motivational
Sayings
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to
focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.
~Author : William Arthur Ward Famous
Quotes
Ricky I don't know why we don't get a drink ... sittin inside this
place. Bobby I promised Chloe we'd come here Ricky She doesn't even
know where the hell she is, Bob. She'd have more fun if we were at
Bodners. She could play the triva game like she likes it, or the
little racing game thing she does. Bobby She's a little girl,
little girl's don't like to go to bars. Ricky We had fun, we went
to bars when we were kids ... met all the different people, right
...remember Slimmy
~Author : Made Inspirational Sayings
In quarrels such as these not ours to intervene.
~Author : Virgil Nice Quotes
When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at
once our original selves.
~Author : Dogen Great Sayings
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists
elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact
us.
~Author : Bill Watterson Meaningful
Sayings
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
~Author : Aesop Wise Quotes
A person should want to live, if only out of curiosity.
~Author : Yiddish Proverb Motivational
Sayings
There is no calamity greater than lavish desires.
There is no greater guilt than discontentment.
And there is not greater disaster than greed.
~Author : Laotzu The Way of Laotzu Famous
Quotes
The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.
~Author : George Stanley McGovern Inspirational
Sayings
Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same
distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen
pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is
water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can
breathe.
~Author : Dan Quayle 81189 Nice
Quotes
I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I
thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I
thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't
aware of it yet.
~Author : Bruce Sterling Great
Sayings
Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't
they'd be married too.
~Author : Henry Louis Mencken Meaningful
Sayings
For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time hatred ceases by
love - this is an old rule.
~Author : The Dhammapada Wise Quotes
There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human
potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud,
not have us grovelling in it.
~Author : Andrew Schneider Motivational
Sayings
Date Published: Aug 07, 2009 - 2:17 am
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated
our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt,
if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the
Devil in human form.
~Author : William Ralph Inge Famous
Quotes
A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers
would one day suffer reverse.
~Author : Sophocles Trachiniae Inspirational
Sayings
Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they
sought.
~Author : Matsuo Basho Nice Quotes
We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn
to the scene of an accident.
~Author : Vincent Canby on the Academy Awards
Great Sayings
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without
evidence.
~Author : Thomas Huxley Meaningful
Sayings
Whosoever shall not fall by the sword or by famine, shall fall by
pestilence, so why bother shaving?
~Author : Woody Allen Without Feathers Wise
Quotes
God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made
woman.
~Author : Adela Rogers St Johns Motivational
Sayings
When one has great gifts, what answer to the meaning of existence
should one require beyond the right to exercise them
~Author : Wystan Hugh Auden Famous
Quotes
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be
suspected of doing everything for money.
~Author : Benjamin Franklin Inspirational
Sayings
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul. And sings
the tune Without the words, and never stops at all.
~Author : Emily Dickinson Nice
Quotes
There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist:
the fashionable non-conformist.
~Author : Ayn Rand Great Sayings
Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
~Author : Victor Hugo Meaningful
Sayings
Strain every nerve to gain your point.
~Author : Cicero Wise Quotes
On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of
values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living
together among men.
~Author : Ignazio Silone Motivational
Sayings
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of
thought which they avoid.
~Author : Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Famous
Quotes
Natural abilities are like natural plants they need pruning by
study.
~Author : Francis Bacon Inspirational
Sayings
There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of
kindness.
~Author : Cicero Nice Quotes
Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever Is it less
strange, that thou shouldst live at all This is a miracle and that
no more.
~Author : Brigham Young Great
Sayings
The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all
paths are. ... The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans
have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that
is the path of surrender, or submission. (Announcing blockade of
Cuba)
~Author : John Fitzgerald Kennedy Meaningful
Sayings
Either war is obsolete or men are.
~Author : R Buckminster Fuller New Yorker Jan 8
1966 Wise Quotes
If you must hold yourself up to your children, hold yourself up as
an object lesson and not as an example.
~Author : Sir Walter Besant Motivational
Sayings
The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject
thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.
~Author : Baruch Spinoza The Ethics Famous
Quotes
Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with
good news nothing presses but when you have bad news, arouse me
immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost.
~Author : Napoleon Bonaparte Inspirational
Sayings
The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism.
~Author : George Will Nice Quotes
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
~Author : George Burns Great Sayings
Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often
harder than to work.
~Author : Peter Marshall Meaningful
Sayings
There will always be dissident voices heard in the land expresing
opposition without alternatives, finding fault but never favor,
perceiving gloom on every side, and seeking influence without
responsibility.
~Author : John F Kennedy Speech for the Dallas
Trade Mart which was never delivered Wise Quotes
When it's all over, it's not who you were. . . it's whether you
made a difference.
~Author : Robert Joseph Bob Dole Motivational
Sayings
Date Published: Aug 07, 2009 - 2:16 am