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

To thine own self be true -; And it must follow as the night the day

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
~Author : George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman 1903 act 1 Nice Quotes

Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.
~Author : Ernest Haskins Great Sayings

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
~Author : Sir Winston Churchill Meaningful Sayings

Now we are all sons of bitches.
~Author : Robert J Oppenheimer After viewing 1st full test of manhattan project at trinity NM Invention and Technology magazine 2001 Wise Quotes

Man, being the servant and interpreter of nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.
~Author : Francis Bacon Motivational Sayings

He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.
~Author : Raymond Hull Famous Quotes

He said true things, but called them by wrong names.
~Author : Elizabeth Barrett Browning Inspirational Sayings

To thine own self be true -; And it must follow as the night the day; Thou canst not be false to any man
~Author : William Shakespeare Nice Quotes

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.
~Author : Johann von Goethe Great Sayings

We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing

Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed.
~Author : Robert J Sawyer Famous Quotes

Nietsche is Pietsche."
~Author : Ogden Nash Inspirational Sayings

I was going to buy a copy of "The Power of Positive Thinking", and then I thought: What the hell good would that do?
~Author : Ronnie Shakes Nice Quotes

We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing to tolerate the intolerant and impossible to tolerate the intolerable.
~Author : George Dennison Prentice Great Sayings

Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty that what we believe is not necessarily true that what we like is not necessarily good and that all questions are open.
~Author : Clive Meaningful Sayings

What we do today, right now, will have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows.
~Author : Alexandra Stoddard Wise Quotes

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
~Author : James Bovard Motivational Sayings

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
~Author : Martha Washington Famous Quotes

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Let fear be a counselor and not a jailer.

Evelyn slapped Raymond on the back with a laugh. You must be starved old friend. Come into my apartments, and we'll suffer through a deep breakfast of pure sunlight.
~Author : Sri da Avabhas Nice Quotes

You have a wonderful child. Then, when he's 13, gremlins carry him away and leave in his place a stranger who gives you not a moment's peace.
~Author : Jill Eikenberry Great Sayings

Hell must be isothermal; for otherwise the resident engineers and physical chemists (of which there must be some) could set up a heat engine to run a refrigerator to cool off a portion of their surroundings to any desired temperature.
~Author : Henry Albert Ben The Second Law Meaningful Sayings

Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . .
~Author : Ernest Hemingway Wise Quotes

No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk-handsome, twentytwoyearold.
~Author : Vladimir Mayakovsky Motivational Sayings

Let fear be a counselor and not a jailer.
~Author : Anthony Robbins Famous Quotes

If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.
~Author : JulieJeanneEleonore de Lespinasse Inspirational Sayings

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
~Author : Dale Carnegie Nice Quotes

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All the world is queer save thee and me. And even thou art a little queer.

You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.
~Author : Oprah Winfrey O Magazine What I Know For Sure January 2004 Inspirational Sayings

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
~Author : Aristotle Nice Quotes

All the world is queer save thee and me. And even thou art a little queer.
~Author : Sir Robert Owen Great Sayings

As you teach, you learn.
~Author : Jewish Proverb Meaningful Sayings

Culture makes all men gentle.
~Author : Menander Wise Quotes

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
~Author : Mark Twain Motivational Sayings

Any fool can make a rule,
and any fool will mind it.
~Author : Henry David Thoreau Famous Quotes

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Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.

Will Where's Elizabeth Jack She's safe, just like I promised. She's all set to marry Norrington, just like she promised. And you get to die for her, just like you promised. So we're all men of our word really... except for Elizabeth, who is in fact, a woman.
~Author : Pirates of the Caribbean The Curse of the Black Pearl Famous Quotes

Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.
~Author : Douglas Adams Inspirational Sayings

Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.
~Author : Adlai E Stevenson Jr Nice Quotes

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
~Author : Anatole France Great Sayings

Only the shallow know themselves.
~Author : Oscar Wilde Meaningful Sayings

Expect everything, and anything seems nothing.
Expect nothing, and anything seems everything.
~Author : Samuel Hazo Wise Quotes

I am years gone from my family and miles away ... but they raid by telephone with jarring suddenness they have the cyclic constancy of a mortgage and they are inevitable and relentless, like the erosion of my remaining youth. Like certain frightening dreams, my family returns.
~Author : Jerrold Mundis Motivational Sayings

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