Monday, November 17, 2008

The real giants have been poets

So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
~Author : William Seward Burroughs Great Sayings

The real giants have been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas.
~Author : Bill Bernbach Meaningful Sayings

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
~Author : John Stuart Mill Wise Quotes

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
~Author : Brian Tracy Motivational Sayings

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
~Author : Oliver Wendell Holmes Famous Quotes

Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.
~Author : Plato The Republic Inspirational Sayings

At the shrine of friendship never say die

That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before.
~Author : Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Nice Quotes

At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry. (Les Miserables)
~Author : Victor Hugo Great Sayings

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
~Author : Shakespeare Hamlet Meaningful Sayings

A man who loses his money, gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.
~Author : Benjamin Disraeli Wise Quotes

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
~Author : Jean Iris Murdoch Motivational Sayings

Heaven-born, the soul a heavenward course must hold beyond the world she soars the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to ought that doth time depend.
~Author : Michelangelo Buonarroti Famous Quotes

Life has its own hidden forces

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
~Author : Theodore Isaac Rubin Famous Quotes

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
~Author : Soren Kierkegaard Inspirational Sayings

I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
~Author : Anne Tyler Nice Quotes

I feel sorry for people who do not drink. When they wake up in the morning it is as good as they are going to feel all day.
~Author : Frank Sinatra Quoted in The Sydney Morning Herald Great Sayings

Close scrutiny will show that most "crisis situations" are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.
~Author : Dr Maxwell Maltz Meaningful Sayings

If we all discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to tell them that they loved them.
~Author : Christopher Darlington Morley Wise Quotes

If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
~Author : Francis Bacon Motivational Sayings

Sunday, October 19, 2008

Madeleine L'Engle Motivational Sayings

That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.
~Author : Madeleine L'Engle Motivational Sayings

Go tell the Spartans,
Passerby,
That here, obedient to their laws,
We lie.
~Author : Simonides Epitaph for the Spartans who fell at Thermopylae Famous Quotes

Let a man strive to purify his thoughts. What a man thinketh, that is he this is the eternal mystery. Dwelling within himself with thoughts serene, he will obtain imperishable happiness.
~Author : Maitri Upanishads Inspirational Sayings

There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead they did not seem to belong to the same species and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.
~Author : W Somerset Maugham Nice Quotes

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother.
~Author : Germaine Greer Great Sayings

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
~Author : Muhammad Ali Meaningful Sayings

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson SelfReliance Wise Quotes

Anthelme BrillatSavarin Physiologie du Gout 1825 Great Sayings

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
~Author : Anthelme BrillatSavarin Physiologie du Gout 1825 Great Sayings

It can be shown that for any nutty theory, beyond-the-fringe political view, or strange religion there exists a proponent on the Net. The proof is left as an exercise for your kill-file.
~Author : unattributed truth from rgfrp Meaningful Sayings

Blessed are the cracked For they shall let in the light.
~Author : Unknown Wise Quotes

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
~Author : Enrico Fermi Motivational Sayings

A weed is just a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Famous Quotes

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
~Author : Titus Maccius Plautus Rudens Inspirational Sayings

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
~Author : Robert Louis Stevenson Nice Quotes

The key to your universe is that you can choose.
~Author : Carl Frederick Great Sayings

Edmund Burke Inspirational Sayings

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
~Author : Edmund Burke Inspirational Sayings

Many people never stop to realize that a tree is a living thing, not that different from a tall, leafy dog that has roots and is very quiet.
~Author : Jack Handey Deep Thoughts Nice Quotes

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
~Author : Plato Great Sayings

Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.
~Author : Alfred L Kroeber Meaningful Sayings

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
~Author : Vera Brittaiin Wise Quotes

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
~Author : Lana Turner Motivational Sayings

When you helped somebody, right away you were responsible for that person. And things always followed for which you were never prepared.
~Author : Martha Brooks True Confessions of a Heartless Girl Famous Quotes

Wait until it is night before saying that is has been a fine day.
~Author : French Proverb Inspirational Sayings

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact

The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.
~Author : Mark Twain Wise Quotes

The safest road to hell is the gradual one-the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
~Author : Clive Staples Lewis Motivational Sayings

The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration but the honing is uniform.
~Author : George Steiner Famous Quotes

We are just tenants on this world. We have just been given a new lease, and a warning from the landlord.
~Author : Arthur C Clarke 2010 Inspirational Sayings

I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
~Author : Patrick Henry Meeting of the First Continental Congress in 1774 Nice Quotes

Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
~Author : Charles Franklin Kettering Great Sayings

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.
~Author : Mary Hemingway Meaningful Sayings

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
~Author : Abraham Lincoln Wise Quotes

Jealousy: that Dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
~Author : Havelock Ellis Motivational Sayings