--- - !ruby/object:Quote author: Christopher Paolini info: Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon quote: "You can\x92t argue with all of the fools in the world. It\x92s easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they\x92re not paying attention." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Christopher Paolini info: Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon. quote: You must be willing to protect yourself and what you cherish, no matter what the cost. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Christopher Paolini info: Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon quote: Find peace in where and what you are. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Christopher Paolini info: Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon quote: Sometimes there are no answers. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry David Thoreau info: Wednesday, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack RiversUS Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862) quote: Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Terence info: Webster's Encyclopedia of Dictionaries, 1958Roman comic dramatist (185 BC - 159 BC) quote: You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kurt Vonnegut info: Slaughterhouse-FiveUS novelist (1922 - 2007) quote: How nice--to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Friedrich Nietzsche info: Twilight of the Idols---"Maxims and Arrows"German philosopher (1844 - 1900) quote: I mistrust all systemizers and avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Friedrich Nietzsche info: Twilight of the Idols-- "Maxims and Arrows"German philosopher (1844 - 1900) quote: THE DISAPPOINTED MAN SPEAKS.--I sought great human beings, I never found anything but the APES of their ideal. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Milan Kundera info: Interview on The Book of Laughter and ForgettingCzechoslovakian novelist (1929 - ) quote: The stupidity of people comes from having an answer to everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything... it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather than to ask, so that the voice of the novel can hardly be heard over the noisy foolishness of human certainties. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Abraham Lincoln info: 16th president of US (1809 - 1865) quote: No man resolved to make the most of himself has time to waste on personal contention. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Frank Zappa info: US musician, singer, & songwriter (1940 - 1993) quote: There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Zell Miller info: "" quote: It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag who gives that protester the freedom to abuse and burn that flag. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jose Raul Bernardo info: The Secret of the Bulls (Simon & Schuster, 1996) quote: Love doesn't know about time. It sparks and then it lasts forever. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jose Raul Bernardo info: The Secret of the Bulls (Simon & Schuster, 1996 quote: Art does not imitate life. Art is much more powerful than that. Art brings life back. And it does it by exposing the secrets we all carry inside. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jose Raul Bernardo info: Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998) quote: Souls woven together by the gods can never be unraveled. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jose Raul Bernardo info: Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998) quote: When honor and truth are at odds, let truth prevail. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jose Raul Bernardo info: Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998) quote: When you tell the truth, people listen. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jose Raul Bernardo info: Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998) One of the Best Novels of 1998 (LA Times) quote: Truth is so difficult to find that, when one hears it, it shines through. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jose Raul Bernardo info: Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998) One of the Best Novels of 1998 (LA Times) quote: Even the longest hours come to an end. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jose Raul Bernardo info: The Wise Women of Havana (HarperCollins, 2002) quote: Metaphors are the weapons of cowards. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jose Raul Bernardo info: The Wise Women of Havana (HarperCollins, 2002) quote: Happiness cannot be found--it must be created anew everyday. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jose Raul Bernardo info: The Wise Women of Havana (HarperCollins, 2002) quote: Happiness is a way of praying. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jose Raul Bernardo info: The Wise Women of Havana (HarperCollins, 2002) quote: It's no sin to enjoy life. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bill McKenney info: Speech to the Harvard Antimony Society, August 15, 2005 quote: During these times, when crazy people are running the government, all you can do is laugh. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Blaise Pascal info: French mathematician, physicist (1623 - 1662) quote: Truth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established that unless one loves the truth, he cannot know it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Cory Doctorow info: "Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town, 2005Canadian science fiction writer " quote: All secrets are deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Cory Doctorow info: "Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town, 2005Canadian science fiction writer " quote: It's not necessarily about what career you pick. It's about how you do what you do. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Cory Doctorow info: "Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town, 2005Canadian science fiction writer " quote: No one should do a job he can do in his sleep. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Waiter Rant info: Waiter Rant weblog, 09-09-05 quote: "We want God to come and save us. But he won\x92t. God doesn\x92t stop levees from failing, he doesn\x92t stay the force of tsunamis, and he doesn\x92t stop planes from smashing into buildings. Deus Ex Machina is overrated." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Waiter Rant info: Waiter Rant weblog, 09-07-05 quote: The inability to secure a reservation drives yuppies absolutely crazy. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Stanislaw J. Lec info: Unkempt ThoughtsPolish writer (1909 - 1966) quote: I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Frank Thomas info: Disney Animator, When asked to give advice to young animators quote: Observe Everything. Communicate Well. Draw, Draw, Draw. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Randy K. Milholland info: "Something Positive webcomic, 09-17-05Webcomic pioneer " quote: Sometimes old things need to go away. That way, we have room for the new things that come into our lives. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Clarke info: Paroemiologia Anglo-Latina, 1639 quote: Who is more busy than he who hath least to do? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas Fuller info: Gnomologia, 1732English clergyman & historian (1608 - 1661) quote: He that is busy is tempted by but one devil; he that is idle, by a legion. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Dryden info: The Medal, 1682English dramatist & poet (1631 - 1700) quote: None are so busy as the fool and knave. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Margaret Cho info: Margaret Cho Blog, 09-26-05 quote: When people think the world of you, be careful with them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles Darwin info: Voyage of the BeagleEnglish biologist (1809 - 1882) quote: If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Paul McCartney info: "" quote: In the end the love you take is equal to the love you make. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kelly Clarkson info: "" quote: Happily ever after doesn't come free, but I'd give anything to have it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: An Ideal Husband, Third ActIrish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: Oh! don't use big words. They mean so little. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Plato info: from a footnote in The Colloquy of Monos and Una, Edgar Allen PoeGreek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC) quote: It will be hard to discover a better [method of education] than that which the experience of so many ages has already discovered, and this may be summed up as consisting in gymnastics for the body, and _music_ for the soul... For this reason is a musical education so essential; since it causes Rhythm and Harmony to penetrate most intimately into the soul, taking the strongest hold upon it, filling it with _beauty_ and making the man _beautiful-minded_. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dorothy Sayers info: Gaudy Night quote: How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dorothy Sayers info: Gaudy Night quote: To be possessed is an admirable reason for possessing. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bruce Cockburn info: "" quote: You've got to kick at the darkness til it bleeds daylight. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Anton Wilson info: The Illuminatus Trilogy quote: Only the insane is absolutely certain. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Pablo Piccaso info: "" quote: My mother said to me, if you go into the military, you will become a general. If you go into the clergy, you will become Pope. Instead, I became an artist, and I am Piccaso. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ansel Adams info: US nature photographer (1902 - 1984) quote: It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas Paine info: US patriot & political philosopher (1737 - 1809) quote: It is the duty of every patriot to protect his country from its government. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Joseph Conrad info: English (Polish-Ukrainian-born) novelist (1857 - 1924) quote: They wanted facts. Facts! They demanded facts from him, as if facts could explain anything. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Joseph Conrad info: Lord JimEnglish (Polish-Ukrainian-born) novelist (1857 - 1924) quote: It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it's just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Joseph Conrad info: Nostromo (on the death of Decoud)English (Polish-Ukrainian-born) novelist (1857 - 1924) quote: But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Joseph Conrad info: NostromoEnglish (Polish-Ukrainian-born) novelist (1857 - 1924) quote: There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Joseph Conrad info: English (Polish-Ukrainian-born) novelist (1857 - 1924) quote: "Having had to encounter single-handed during his period of eclipse many physical dangers, he was well aware of the most dangerous element common to them all: of the crushing, paralysing sense of human littleness, which is what really defeats a human struggling with natural forces, alone, far from the eyes of his fellows." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Joseph Conrad info: Lord JimEnglish (Polish-Ukrainian-born) novelist (1857 - 1924) quote: Who could tell what forms, what visions, what faces, what forgiveness he could see in the glow of the west! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Walter Lord info: World War II Memorial in Washington, DC quote: Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit- a magic blend of skill, faith, and valor- that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jonathan Larson info: "From musical/rock opera: Rent" quote: Measure your life in love. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jonathan Larson info: "From musical/rock opera: Rent" quote: No other road, no other way, no day but today. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Viktor Frankl info: "\"Logotherapy in a Nutshell\" Man's Search for Meaning (1959, 1962, 1985)" quote: Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Joan Boysenko info: Pocketful of Miracles quote: If our actions stem from honesty, kindness, caring, and vision, then no matter what the result of our efforts, we have added something of value to our souls and to the world. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe info: German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 - 1832) quote: The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: C. S. Forester info: Commodore Hornblower quote: The lucky man is he who knows how much to leave to chance. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Groucho Marx info: Duck Soup, by the Marx brothersUS comedian with Marx Brothers (1890 - 1977) quote: You'll be hearing from my lawyer as soon as he graduates from law school! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Quentin Crisp info: "" quote: Life was a funny thing that occured on the way to the grave. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dante info: The Divine Comedy quote: For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happinesses. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Stephen Hawking info: Interview with The Guardian (UK) September 27, 2005English cosmologist and physicist (1942 - ) quote: I think that it's important for scientists to explain their work, particularly in cosmology. This now answers many questions once asked of religion. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Stephen Hawking info: Interview with The Guardian (UK) September 27, 2005English cosmologist and physicist (1942 - ) quote: It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly. People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Stephen Hawking info: Interview with The Guardian (UK) September 27, 2005English cosmologist and physicist (1942 - ) quote: If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Richard Feynman info: Letter to Koichi ManoUS educator & physicist (1918 - 1988) quote: No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Larry Wall info: "" quote: The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Real Live Preacher info: "Real Live Preacher weblog, 10-06-05Anonymous author of RealLivePreacher.com " quote: Some things you do because you want to. Some things you do because of the needs of others in your family. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sean Stewart info: Perfect Circle, 2004 quote: The present is a rope stretched over the past. The secret to walking it is, you never look down. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sean Stewart info: Perfect Circle, 2004 quote: "There are so many different ways lives work out, so many stories, and every one of them is precious: full of joy and heartbreak, and a fair amount of situation comedy." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sean Stewart info: Perfect Circle, 2004 quote: Sometimes you feel other people's pain worse than your own. We're armored against our own troubles. We can't afford to give in to despair. Then you see someone else struggling, and it breaks your... heart. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sean Stewart info: Perfect Circle, 2004 quote: Sometimes a good exit is all you can ask for. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sean Stewart info: Perfect Circle, 2004 quote: One of the things about being a grown-up is learning how to act right even when you feel wrong. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sean Stewart info: Perfect Circle, 2004 quote: You never can see into someone else's marriage. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sean Stewart info: Perfect Circle, 2004 quote: There ain't no such thing as wrong food. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Patty Hansen info: Prevention Magazine, 11-05 quote: You create your opportunities by asking for them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Randy K. Milholland info: "Something Positive Comic, 10-11-05Webcomic pioneer " quote: That's the thing with suicide pacts. Sometimes they only really work if they catch you by surprise. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Winston Churchill info: British politician (1874 - 1965) quote: A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas a Kempis info: quoted in the LDS Church News 8/20/2005German mystic & religious author (1380 - 1471) quote: Watch for good times to retreat into yourself. Frequently meditate on how good God is to you. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H. G.Wells info: The Time Machine quote: We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H. G. Wells info: The Time MachineEnglish author, historian, & utopian (1866 - 1946) quote: Strength is the outcome of need. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Polish Proverb info: "" quote: It is better to give than to lend and it costs about the same. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Helen Keller info: US blind & deaf educator (1880 - 1968) quote: I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty and joy to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gustave Flaubert info: 1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever SaidFrench realist novelist (1821 - 1880) quote: That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Warren Buffet info: Speach to a graduating undergrad business class quote: Money is both everything and nothing. It is everything when you don't have it, but nothing when you do. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: David McCullough info: US biographer & historian (1933 - ) quote: There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Patton info: "" quote: If everyone is thinking alike, then someone isn't thinking. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Muhhammad Ali info: "" quote: VICTORY - Champions have it deep inside of them - a dream, a desire, a vision. They have the last minute stamina. They have to be a little faster. They have to have the will and the skill. But the will must be greater than the skill. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Flansburgh info: "" quote: I was working in a parking lot, which is a great place to learn the guitar. I sat in the booth and practiced all day long. And only two cars were stolen while I worked there. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Noam Chomsky info: US activist & linguist (1928 - ) quote: "The point of public relations slogans like \"Support our troops\" is that they don't mean anything... That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything. Its crucial value is that it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something: Do you support our policy? That's the one you're not allowed to talk about." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Noam Chomsky info: US activist & linguist (1928 - ) quote: The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Noam Chomsky info: US activist & linguist (1928 - ) quote: Advertising is tax deductible, so we all pay for the privilege of being manipulated and controlled. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Victor Hugo info: Les MiserablesFrench dramatist, novelist, & poet (1802 - 1885) quote: Clearly he had his own strange way of judging things. I suspect he acquired it from the gospels. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Chuck Palahniuk info: Fight ClubUS writer (1962 - ) quote: This is why I loved the support groups so much. If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you. People listened instead of just waiting for their turn to speak. And when they spoke, they weren't telling you a story. When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kanye West info: NBC benefit concert for Hurricane Katrina quote: George Bush doesn't care about black people. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Napolean Bonaparte info: "" quote: An army marches on its stomach. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Julius Caesar info: " (attributed)Roman author, general, & politician (100 BC - 44 BC)" quote: I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: Henry V.Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616) quote: From this day forward until the end of the world...we in it shall be remembered...we band of brothers. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Howard Tayler info: "Rule 12: Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates, Schlock Mercenary" quote: A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Andy & Larry Wachowski info: Merovingian - The Matrix Revolutions quote: It is remarkable how similar the pattern of love is to the pattern of insanity. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles Tupper info: 1865 (Sixth Prime Minister of Canada 1896) quote: The human mind naturally adapts itself to the position it occupies. The most gigantic intellect may be dwarfed by being cabin'd, cribbed and confined. It requires a great country and great circumstances to develop great men. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marilyn Monroe info: US actress (1926 - 1962) quote: A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Santayana info: US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 - 1952) quote: Society is like the air; necessary to breathe, but insufficient to live on. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ray Bradbury info: US science fiction author (1920 - ) quote: You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Vijay Krishna info: "" quote: The essence of living is discovering. Indeed, it is the joy of discovering that makes life worth the effort. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Isarel Gallegos info: "" quote: The lottery is a tax on people who flunked math. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mel Levine, MD info: A Mind At A Time quote: To deny a developing mind access to its specialty is cruel. To judge one's worthiness in the specialties of others is equally inhuman. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mel Levine, MD info: A Mind At A Time quote: Everyone is expected to be highly productive... but they do not all need to be turning out the same product. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Spencer W. Kimball info: "" quote: The leaven of true leadership cannot lift others unless we are with and serve those to be led. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jean Anouilh info: French dramatist (1910 - 1987) quote: The true masters of the art of living are already happy if they are not unhappy. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Jordan info: The Wheel of Time quote: There are no clear paths. Only pitfalls and tripwires and darkness. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Karl Marx info: German economist & Communist political philosopher (1818 - 1883) quote: Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: A Picture of Dorian GreyIrish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: Live the wonderful life that is in you. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ian Stewart info: Does God Play Dice? The Mathematics of Chaos quote: The flapping of a single butterfly's wing today produces a tiny change in the state of the atmosphere. Over a period of time, what the atmosphere actually does diverges from what it would have done. So, in a month's time, a tornado that would have devastated the Indonesian coast doesn't happen. Or maybe one that wasn't going to happen, does. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jerry Scott info: "Baby Blues: Ten Years and Still in Diapers" quote: Where did they put pictures, comic strips, and coupons before they invented the refrigerator door? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Madame de Stael info: French author (1766 - 1817) quote: The more I see of men, the better I like dogs. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Madame de Stael info: French author (1766 - 1817) quote: I am glad that I am not a man, for if I were I should have to marry a woman. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Walter Scott info: "" quote: But search the land of living men, Wher wilst thou find their like again. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lynn Johnston info: For Better or For Worse, 10-14-05Canadian cartoonist (1947 - ) quote: You don't have to die in order to make a living. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bob Marley info: From "Zion Train" lyrics.Jamaican reggae musician & singer (1945 - 1981) quote: Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Soren Kierkegaard info: Either/OrDanish philosopher (1813 - 1855) quote: If you marry you will regret it. If you do not marry you will regret it. If you marry or do not marry, you will regret it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Coco Chanel info: French fashion designer & perfumer (1883 - 1971) quote: Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jefferson Davis info: US-Confederate politician (1808 - 1889) quote: Truth crushed to the earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: D. H. Lawrence info: Women in LoveEnglish novelist (1885 - 1930) quote: "There are three cures for ennui: sleep, drink and travel." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Chris Martin info: Rolling Stone Magazine quote: I definitely believe in God. How can you look at anything and not be overwhelmed by the miraculousness of it? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery info: French writer (1900 - 1944) quote: Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Esther Dyson info: Interview in Time Magazine, October 2005 quote: The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry Ford info: US automobile industrialist (1863 - 1947) quote: When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gloria Stuart info: "" quote: A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Al Bernstein info: "" quote: Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Daniel J. Boorstin info: US historian (1914 - ) quote: Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ross Perot info: "" quote: If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create something the size of N.A.S.A. to make one. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Eintein info: World As I See It, 1934 - referring to the military system quote: That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jawahar Lal Neheru info: "" quote: When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Martin Luther info: German religious reformer (1483 - 1546) quote: At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Colossians 3:16Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly, as you teach and admonish one another in all wisdom, and as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Terry Pratchett info: Pyramids quote: Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Brendan Behan info: Irish author & dramatist (1923 - 1964) quote: Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Brendan Behan info: Irish author & dramatist (1923 - 1964) quote: If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Brendan Behan info: Irish author & dramatist (1923 - 1964) quote: There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Brendan Behan info: Irish author & dramatist (1923 - 1964) quote: I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Brendan Behan info: Irish author & dramatist (1923 - 1964) quote: Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Walt Kelly info: Pogo comic stripUS animator & cartoonist (1913 - 1973) quote: Don't take life so serious--it ain't nohows permanent. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ralph Waldo Emerson info: US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) quote: Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: St. Catherine of Sienna info: "" quote: If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world ablaze. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jane Austen info: PersuasionEnglish novelist (1775 - 1817) quote: When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jane Austen info: Pride and PrejudiceEnglish novelist (1775 - 1817) quote: A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jane Austen info: Mansfield ParkEnglish novelist (1775 - 1817) quote: Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jane Austen info: EmmaEnglish novelist (1775 - 1817) quote: How much I love every thing that is decided and open! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jane Austen info: EmmaEnglish novelist (1775 - 1817) quote: Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jane Austen info: The WatsonsEnglish novelist (1775 - 1817) quote: A woman should never be trusted with money. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jane Austen info: Northanger AbbeyEnglish novelist (1775 - 1817) quote: The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jane Austen info: Letter to Cassandra, 25 November 1798English novelist (1775 - 1817) quote: An artist cannot do anything slovenly. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jane Austen info: EmmaEnglish novelist (1775 - 1817) quote: I am excessively fond of music, but without the smallest skill or right of judging of anybody's performance. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jane Austen info: EmmaEnglish novelist (1775 - 1817) quote: Oh! dear; I was so miserable! I am sure I must have been as white as my gown. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sydney Smith info: English essayist (1771 - 1845) quote: What would the world do without tea? - how did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anne Bronte info: Agnes GreyEnglish novelist (1820 - 1849) quote: And then, the unspeakable purity and freshness of the air! There was just enough heat to enhance the value of the breeze, and just enough wind to keep the whole sea in motion, to make the waves come bounding to the shore, foaming and sparkling, as if wild with glee. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Louisa May Alcott info: Jo speaking in Little WomenUS juvenile novelist (1832 - 1888) quote: I don't believe fine young ladies enjoy themselves a bit more than we do, in spite of our burned hair, old gowns, one glove apiece, and tight slippers that sprain our ankles when we are silly enough to wear them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Voltaire info: CandideFrench author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778) quote: "[Optimism is] the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Eliot info: English novelist (1819 - 1880) quote: No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: E. B. White info: US author & humorist (1899 - 1985) quote: Loneliness is a strange gift. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Immanuel Kant info: German philosopher (1724 - 1804) quote: From timber so crooked as that from which man is carved, nothing entirely straight can be made. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: The Picture of Dorian GreyIrish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: Philanthropic people lose all sense of Humanity, it is their distinguishing characteristic. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Joyce Carol Oates info: US author (1938 - ) quote: How does the poet transform his banal thoughts (are not most thoughts banal?) into such stunning forms, into beauty? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Michael Crichton info: PreyUS author & screenwriter (1942 - ) quote: Each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking, of less able minds--and then confidently embarks on making fresh errors of its own. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles Dickens info: A Tale Of Two CitiesEnglish novelist (1812 - 1870) quote: A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Karl Popper info: "" quote: There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aristotle info: Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) quote: Happiness is a state of activity. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Carl Sagan info: US astronomer & popularizer of astronomy (1934 - 1996) quote: One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Randy K. Milholland info: "Midnight Macabre, 10-18-05Webcomic pioneer " quote: We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George F. Will info: Newsweek, July 4, 2005US editor, commentator, & columnist (1941 - ) quote: "The problem with intelligent design theory is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable: Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is not a testable hypothesis. Hence it is not a scientific but a creedal tenet--a matter of faith, unsuited to a public school\x92s curriculum." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Scott Westerfeld info: Peeps, 2005 quote: It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Scott Westerfeld info: Peeps, 2005 quote: The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Scott Westerfeld info: Peeps, 2005 quote: People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas A. Edison info: US inventor (1847 - 1931) quote: Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Emily Dickinson info: US poet (1830 - 1886) quote: One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Carlin info: US comedian and actor (1937 - ) quote: There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Theodosia Garrison info: "" quote: At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anne Rice info: Interview with a VampireUS novelist (1941 - ) quote: Evil is a point of view. God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are, none so like him as ourselves. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James Agee info: Let Us Now Praise Famous MenUS author (1909 - 1955) quote: "In every child who is born under no matter what circumstances and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again, and in him, too, once more, and each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life: toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terrorism, and of God." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "James 1: 23-24Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: "For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Book of Common Prayer info: Morning Prayer quote: We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Book of Common Prayer info: Burial Service quote: In the midst of life we are in death. Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Genesis ii. 18.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: It is not good that the man should be alone. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Genesis iii. 19.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Genesis iv. 9.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Am I my brother's keeper? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Genesis iv. 13.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: My punishment is greater than I can bear rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Genesis ix. 6.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Genesis xvi. 12.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Genesis xlii. 38.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Genesis xlix. 4.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Deuteronomy xix. 21.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Deuteronomy xxxii. 10.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: He kept him as the apple of his eye. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Judges xvi. 9.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Ruth i. 16.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: "For whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Samuel xiii. 14.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: A man after his own heart. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Samuel i. 20.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Tell it not in Gath; publish it not in the streets of Ashkelon rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Samuel i. 23.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Samuel i. 25.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Samuel i. 26.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: "Very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Samuel xii. 7.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Kings ix, 7.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: A proverb and a by-word among all people, rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Kings xviii. 21.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: How long halt ye between two opinions? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Kings xviii. 44.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Kings xix. 12.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: A still, small voice. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Kings xx. 11.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Kings iv. 40.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: There is death in the pot. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Job i. 21.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Job iii. 17.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Job v. 7.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Job xvi. 2.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Miserable comforters are ye all. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Job xix. 25.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: I know that my Redeemer liveth. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Job xxviii. 18.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: The price of wisdom is above-rubies. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Job xxix. 15.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Job xxxi. 35.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: That mine adversary had written a book. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Job xxxviii. 11.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Psalm xvi. 6.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Psalm xviii. 10.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Psalm xxiii. 2.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: He maketh me to lie down in green pastures he leadeth me beside the still waters. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Psalm xxxvii. 25.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Psalm xxxvii. 35.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Spreading himself like a green bay tree. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Psalm xxxvii. 37.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Psalm xxxix. 3.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: While I was musing the fire burned. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Psalm xlv. 1.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Psalm lv. 6.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Oh, that I had wings like a dove! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Psalm lxxii. 9.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: His enemies shall lick the dust. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Psalm lxxxv. 10.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: "Mercy and truth are met together: righteousness and peace have kissed each other." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Psalm xc. 9.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: We spend our years as a tale that is told. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Psalm cvii. 27.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Psalm cxxvii. 2.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: He giveth his beloved sleep. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Psalm cxxxvii. 5.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Psalm cxxxvii. 2.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: We hanged our harps on the willows. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Psalm cxxxix. 14.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: For I am fearfully and wonderfully made. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Proverbs iii. 17.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Proverbs xi. 14.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: In the multitude of counsellors there is safety. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Proverbs xiii. 12.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Hope deferred maksth the heart sick. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Proverbs xiv. 9.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Fools make a mock at sin. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Proverbs xiv. 10.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: The heart knoweth his own bitterness. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Proverbs xiv. 34.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Righteousness exalteth a nation. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Proverbs xv. 17.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatredtherewith. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Proverbs xvi. 18.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Proverbs xvi. 31.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: The hoary head is a crown of glory. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Proverbs xviii. 14.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: A wounded spirit who can bear? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Proverbs xxii. 6.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Proverbs xxiii. 5.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: For riches certainly make themselves wings. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Proverbs xxiv. 33.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Proverbs xxv. 22.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Proverbs xxvi. 13.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Proverbs xxvii. 1.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Proverbs xxviii. 1.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: The wicked flee when no man pursueth. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Ecclesiastes i. 14.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: All is vanity and vexation of spirit. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Ecclesiastes v. 12.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: The sleep of a laboring man is sweet. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Ecclesiastes vii. 2.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Ecclesiastes vii. 16.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Be not righteous overmuch rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Ecclesiastes ix. 4.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: For a living dog is better than a dead lion, rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Ecclesiastes ix. 10.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Ecclesiastes ix. 11.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Ecclesiastes xi. 1.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Ecclesiastes xii. 1.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Ecclesiastes xii. 5.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: And the grasshopper shall be a burden. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Ecclesiastes xii. 5.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Man goeth to his long home. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Ecclesiastes xii. 6.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Ecclesiastes xii. 7.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was; and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Ecclesiastes xii. 8.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; all is vanity. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Ecclesiastes xii. 12.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Isaiah xi. 6.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Isaiah xxviii. 10.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: "Precept upon precept; line upon line: here a little, and there a little." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Isaiah xxxviii. 1.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Set thine house in order. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Isaiah xl. 6.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: All flesh is grass. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Isaiah xl. 15.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Isaiah xlii. 3.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Isaiah liii. 7.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Isaiah lx. 22.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Isaiah lxi. 3.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: To give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Isaiah lxiv. 6.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: We all do fade as a leaf. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Jeremiah vii. 3.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Amend your ways and your doings. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Jeremiah viii. 22.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Jeremiah xiii. 23.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Ezekiel xviii. 2.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Daniel v. 27.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Daniel vi. 12.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Hosea viii. 7.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Micah iv. 3.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: And they shall beat their swords into plough-shares, and their spears into pruning-hooks. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Micah iv. 4.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Habakkuk ii. 2.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Malachi iv. 2.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Ecelesiasticus xiii. 1.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Ecelesiasticus xiii. 7.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: He will laugh thee to scorn. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Matthew ii. 18.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Matthew iv. 4.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Man shall not live by bread alone. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Matthew v. 13.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: "Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted?" rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Matthew v. 14.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Ye are the light of the world. A city set upon a hill cannot be hid. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Matthew vi. 3.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Matthew vi. 21.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Matthew vi. 24.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Ye cannot serve God and Mammon. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Matthew vi. 28.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Matthew vi. 34.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Take therefore no thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Matthew vii. 6.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Neither cast ye your pearls before swine. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Matthew viii. 20.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of Man hath not where to lay his head. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Matthew ix. 37.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Matthew x. 16.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Matthew x. 30.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Matthew xii. 33.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: The tree is known by his fruit. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Matthew xii. 34.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Matthew xiii. 57.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country, and in his own house. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Matthew xiv. 27.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: "Be of good cheer: it is I; be not afraid." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Matthew xv. 14.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Matthew xv. 27.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Matthew xvi. 23.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Get thee behind me, Satan. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Matthew xvi. 26.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Matthew xvii. 4.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: It is good for us to be here. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Matthew xix. 6.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: What therefore God hath joined together let not man put asunder. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Matthew xix. 24.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Matthew xx. 15.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Matthew xxii. 14.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: For many are called, but few are chosen. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Matthew xxiii. 24.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Ye blind guides! which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Matthew xxiii. 27.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: For ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Matthew xxiv. 28.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: For wheresoever the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered together. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Matthew xxv. 29.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: "Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Matthew xxvi. 41.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: "Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Mark iv. 9.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Mark v. 9.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: My name is Legion. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Mark ix. 44.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Luke iii. 9.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: And now also the ax is laid unto the root of the trees. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Luke iv. 23.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Physician, heal thyself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Luke x. 37.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Go, and do thou likewise. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Luke x. 42.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: "But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Luke xi. 23.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: He that is not with me is against me. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Luke xii. 19.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Luke xii. 35.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Luke xvi. 8.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: For the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Luke xvii. 2.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Luke xvii. 32.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Remember Lot's wife. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Luke xix. 22.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "John i. 29.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "John i. 46.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "John iii. 3.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "John iii. 8.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: The wind bloweth where it listeth. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "John v. 35.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: He was a burning and a shining light. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "John vi. 12.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "John vii. 24.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Judge not according to the appearance. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "John xii. 8.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: For the poor always ye have with you. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "John xii, 35.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "John xiv. 1.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Let not your heart be troubled. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "John xiv. 2.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: In my Father's house are many mansions. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "John xv. 13.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Acts ix. 5.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Acts xx. 35.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: It is more blessed to give than to receive. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Romans ii. 11.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: For there is no respect of persons with God. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Romans vi. 23.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: For the wages of sin is death. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Romans viii. 28.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Romans xii. 16.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Be not wise in your own conceits. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Romans xii. 20.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: "Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Romans xii. 21.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Romans xiii. 1.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: The powers that be are ordained of God, rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Romans xiii. 7.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Render therefore to all their dues. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Romans xiii. 10.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Love is the fulfilling of the law. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Romans xiv. 5.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "1 Corinthians iii. 6.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "1 Corinthians iii. 13.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Every man's work shall be made manifest. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "1 Corinthians v. 3.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Absent in body, but present in spirit. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "1 Corinthians v. 6.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "1 Corinthians vii. 31.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: For the fashion of this world passeth away, rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "1 Corinthians ix. 22.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: I am made all things to all men. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "1 Corinthians x. 12.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "1 Corinthians xiii. 1.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: As sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "1 Corinthians xiii. 11.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: When I was a child I spake as a child. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "1 Corinthians xiii. 12.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: For now we see through a glass, darkly. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "1 Corinthians xv. 33.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: "Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "1 Corinthians xv. 47.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: The first man is of the earth, earthy. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "1 Corinthians xv. 55.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "2 Corinthians v. 7.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: We walk by faith, not by sight. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "2 Corinthians vi. 2.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Behold, now is the accepted time, rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "2 Corinthians vi. 8.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: By evil report and good report. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Galatians vi. 5.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: For every man shall bear his own burden, rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Galatians vi. 7.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Ephesians iv. 26.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: "Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Philippians i. 21.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Colossians ii. 21.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Touch not; taste not; handle not. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "1 Thessalonians i. 3.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "1 Thessalonians v. 21.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "1 Timothy iii. 3,Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Not greedy of filthy lucre. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "1 Timothy v. 18.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: The laborer is worthy of his reward. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "1 Timothy v. 23.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "1 Timothy 6:10Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: "For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "2 Timothy iv. 7.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Titus i. 15.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Unto the pure all things are pure. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Hebrews xi. 1.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Now faith is the substance of things hoped' for, the evidence of things not seen. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Hebrews xii. 6.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Hebrews xiii. 2.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "James i. 12.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Blessed is the man that endureth temptation for when he is tried he shall receive the crown of life. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "James iii. PBiblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "James iv. 7.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "1 Peter iv. 8.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Charity shall cover the multitude of sins. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "1 Peter v. 8.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about seeking whom he may devour. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "2 Peter iii. 10.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "1 John iv. 18.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Revelation ii. 10.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Be thou faithful unto death. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Revelation ii. 27.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: He shall rule them with a rod of iron. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Revelation xxii. 13.Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James M. Barrie info: Scottish dramatist & novelist (1860 - 1937) quote: A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James M. Barrie info: Scottish dramatist & novelist (1860 - 1937) quote: Always be a little kinder than necessary. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James M. Barrie info: Scottish dramatist & novelist (1860 - 1937) quote: Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James M. Barrie info: Scottish dramatist & novelist (1860 - 1937) quote: Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James M. Barrie info: Scottish dramatist & novelist (1860 - 1937) quote: Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James M. Barrie info: Scottish dramatist & novelist (1860 - 1937) quote: For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James M. Barrie info: (attributed)Scottish dramatist & novelist (1860 - 1937) quote: God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James M. Barrie info: Scottish dramatist & novelist (1860 - 1937) quote: His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James M. Barrie info: Scottish dramatist & novelist (1860 - 1937) quote: I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James M. Barrie info: Scottish dramatist & novelist (1860 - 1937) quote: Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James M. Barrie info: Scottish dramatist & novelist (1860 - 1937) quote: Strength instead of being the lusty child of passions, grows by grappling with and subduing them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James M. Barrie info: Scottish dramatist & novelist (1860 - 1937) quote: Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James M. Barrie info: Scottish dramatist & novelist (1860 - 1937) quote: That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James M. Barrie info: Scottish dramatist & novelist (1860 - 1937) quote: The best place a person can die, is where they die for others. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James M. Barrie info: Scottish dramatist & novelist (1860 - 1937) quote: The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James M. Barrie info: Scottish dramatist & novelist (1860 - 1937) quote: The most useless are those who never change through the years. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James M. Barrie info: Scottish dramatist & novelist (1860 - 1937) quote: The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James M. Barrie info: Scottish dramatist & novelist (1860 - 1937) quote: There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James M. Barrie info: Scottish dramatist & novelist (1860 - 1937) quote: Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James M. Barrie info: Scottish dramatist & novelist (1860 - 1937) quote: We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us are. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James M. Barrie info: Scottish dramatist & novelist (1860 - 1937) quote: You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bahya Ibn Paquda info: "" quote: If we could not forget, we would never be free from grief. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Abigail Van Buren info: US advice columnist (1918 - ) quote: If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Michael Josephson info: "" quote: "If we keep treating our most important values as meaningless relics, that's exactly what they'll become. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Paul Eldridge info: "" quote: "If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Percy Bysshe Shelley info: English poet (1792 - 1822) quote: "If winter comes, can spring be far behind? " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Plato info: Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC) quote: "If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Stanislaw J. Lec info: Polish writer (1909 - 1966) quote: If you are not a psychiatrist, stay away from idiots. They are too stupid to pay a layman for his company. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Herman Melville info: US novelist & sailor (1819 - 1891) quote: If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Yiddish Proverb info: "" quote: "If you can't bite, don't show your teeth. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Yiddish Proverb info: "" quote: "If you can't go over, you must go under. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marva Collins info: "" quote: "If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Irish Proverb info: "" quote: If you dig a grave for others, you might fall into it yourself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: American Proverb info: "" quote: If you don't have a plan for yourself, you'll be a part of someone else's. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Chinese Proverb info: "" quote: "If you don't want anyone to know, don't do it. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anonymous info: "" quote: If you enjoy the fruit, pluck not the flower. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Yiddish Proverb info: "" quote: If you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Irish Proverb info: "" quote: If you get a reputation as an early riser, you can sleep till noon. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: German Proverb info: "" quote: If you have a good friend, you don't need a mirror. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arab Proverb info: "" quote: "If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anonymous info: "" quote: If you hear that everybody is buying a certain stock, ask who is selling. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Korean Proverb info: "" quote: "If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: American Proverb info: "" quote: "If you look back, you'll soon be going that way. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: American Proverb info: "" quote: "If you take care of your character, your reputation will take care of itself. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mario Andretti info: US (Italian-born) automobile racer (1940 - ) quote: "If you wait, all that happens is that you get older. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: French Proverb info: "" quote: If you want the truth, ask a child. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Booker T. Washington info: US educator (1856 - 1915) quote: If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Benjamin Franklin info: US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790) quote: If you would know the value of money, go try to borrow some; for he that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Earl Wilson info: "" quote: If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ronald Reagan info: 40th president of US (1911 - 2004) quote: If you're afraid of the future, then get out of the way, stand aside. The people of this country are ready to move again. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henri Estienne info: French bookseller & printer (1470 - 1520) quote: "If youth only knew: if age only could. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lech Walesa info: Polish labor leader, politician, & reformer (1943 - ) quote: "I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Milton Friedman info: US economist (1912 - 2006) quote: In a bureaucratic system, useless work drives out useful work. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Japanese Proverb info: "" quote: "In a quarrel, the higher voiced person will win. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Calvin Coolidge info: 30th president of US (1872 - 1933) quote: In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anonymous info: "" quote: In every fat book there is a thin book trying to get out. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Boris Pasternak info: Russian novelist, poet, & translator (1890 - 1960) quote: "In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Francis Bacon info: English author, courtier, & philosopher (1561 - 1626) quote: "In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dutch Proverb info: "" quote: In the courtroom of the conscience, a case is always in progress. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Wendy Magruder info: "" quote: In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jose Narosky info: "" quote: In war, there are no unwounded soldiers. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aesop info: Greek slave & fable author (620 BC - 560 BC) quote: Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H. L. Mencken info: US editor (1880 - 1956) quote: Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Francois Rabelais info: French comic novelist & satirist (1494 - 1553) quote: It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Einstein info: US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) quote: It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Samuel Johnson info: English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784) quote: "It is better to live rich than to die rich. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas Fuller info: English clergyman & historian (1608 - 1661) quote: It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Josh Billings info: US Humorist (1818 - 1885) quote: It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those we intend to commit. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas Jefferson info: 3rd president of US (1743 - 1826) quote: It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which give happiness. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Louis Stevenson info: Scottish author (1850 - 1894) quote: It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Napoleon Bonaparte info: French general & politician (1769 - 1821) quote: It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Zelda Fitzgerald info: "" quote: It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Eric Hoffer info: " (1902 - 1983)" quote: It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rabindranath Tagore info: Indian educator & Bengali poet (1861 - 1941) quote: It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kahlil Gibran info: Lebanese artist & poet in US (1883 - 1931) quote: "It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Laurence J. Peter info: US educator & writer (1919 - 1988) quote: "It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry James info: British (US -born) author (1843 - 1916) quote: "It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry Ward Beecher info: US abolitionist & clergyman (1813 - 1887) quote: "It usually takes 100 years to make a law, and then, after it's done its work, it usually takes 100 years to be rid of it. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Irish Proverb info: "" quote: It's no use carrying an umbrella if your shoes are leaking. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sam Levenson info: " (1911 - 1980)" quote: It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: German Proverb info: "" quote: It's the whole, not the detail, that matters. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry James info: British (US -born) author (1843 - 1916) quote: I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alexandre Rollin info: "" quote: I've got to follow them - I am their leader. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J. Jacques info: "Questionable Content webcomic, #478, 10-27-05" quote: The quickest way to a man's heart really is through his stomach, because then you don't have to chop through that pesky rib cage. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Steve Almond info: "" quote: Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Virgil info: The AeneidRoman epic poet (70 BC - 19 BC) quote: I sing of arms and of the man, fated to be an exile. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: The IliadGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: Such was the burial they gave to Hector, tamer of horses. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: IliadGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: Sing, Muse, of the anger of Achilles, son of Peleus... rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Douglas Adams info: Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyEnglish humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001) quote: Today must be a Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas Jefferson info: Letter to the Danbury Baptist Association3rd president of US (1743 - 1826) quote: I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Nathaniel Hawthorne info: "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment: A Short StoryUS author (1804 - 1864)" quote: For my own part, having had much trouble in growing old, I am in no hurry to grow young again. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ellen Degeneres info: "Here and Now (in reference to therapy)US comedian and actress " quote: Why should I pay strangers to listen to me talk when I can get strangers to pay to listen to me talk? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ayn Rand info: The FountianheadUS (Russian-born) novelist (1905 - 1982) quote: Morality is judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, and integrity to stand by it at any price. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Elvis Presley info: US rock singer (1935 - 1977) quote: The truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time but it ain't goin' away. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marilyn Monroe info: US actress (1926 - 1962) quote: Everyone's a star and deserves the right to twinkle. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anne Frank info: German Jewish diarist (1929 - 1945) quote: We all live with the objective of being happy; yet our lives are all different and yet the same. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Seneca info: "Philosophy: A guide to happinessRoman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC - 65 AD)" quote: What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edgar Allan Poe info: The AssignationUS short story author, editor, & poet (1809 - 1849) quote: But in the expression of the countenance, which was beaming all over with smiles, there still lurked (incomprehensible anomaly!) that fitful stain of melancholy which will ever be found inseparable from the perfection of the beautiful. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry David Thoreau info: ArchivesUS Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862) quote: "To believe your own thought: To believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, that is genius." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rosa Parks info: US black civil rights leader (1913 - 2005) quote: I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rosa Parks info: (on refusing to give up her seat on the bus)US black civil rights leader (1913 - 2005) quote: The only tired I was, was tired of giving in. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rosa Parks info: US black civil rights leader (1913 - 2005) quote: I knew someone had to take the first step and I made up my mind not to move. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edna St. Vincent Millay info: US poet (1892 - 1950) quote: I love humanity, but I hate people. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mark Twain info: US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) quote: A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rosa Parks info: US black civil rights leader (1913 - 2005) quote: Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rosa Parks info: US black civil rights leader (1913 - 2005) quote: My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rosa Parks info: US black civil rights leader (1913 - 2005) quote: I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ellen DeGeneres info: "On Cordless phonesUS comedian and actress " quote: The way I see it... If you need both of your hands for whatever it is you're doing, then your brain should probably be in on it too. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Franz Kafka info: Austrian (Czechoslovakian-born) author (1883 - 1924) quote: You need not leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You need not even listen, simply wait, just learn to become quiet, still, and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice; it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ayn Rand info: "Capitalism: The Unknown IdealUS (Russian-born) novelist (1905 - 1982)" quote: The right to life is the source of all rights--and the right to property is their only implementation. Without property rights, no other rights are possible. Since man has to sustain his life by his own effort, the man who has no right to the product of his effort has no means to sustain his life. The man who produces while others dispose of his product, is a slave. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rosa Parks info: US black civil rights leader (1913 - 2005) quote: Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rosa Parks info: US black civil rights leader (1913 - 2005) quote: Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rosa Parks info: US black civil rights leader (1913 - 2005) quote: I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day, but I don't think there is anything such as complete happiness. It pains me that there is still a lot of Klan activity and racism. I think when you say you're happy, you have everything that you need and everything that you want, and nothing more to wish for. I haven't reached that stage yet. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Paulo Cuelho info: The Alchemist quote: "To realize one\x92s Personal Legend is a person\x92s only real obligation." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Paulo Cuelho info: The Alchemist quote: When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Paulo Cuelho info: The Alchemist quote: Every blessing ignored becomes a curse. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Paulo Cuelho info: The Alchemist quote: There is a language in the world that everyone understands. The language of enthusiasm, of things accomplished with love and purpose, and as part of a search for something believed in and desired. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Paulo Cuelho info: The Alchemist quote: "If you can concentrate always on the present, you\x92ll be a happy man." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Paulo Cuelho info: The Alchemist quote: The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Paulo Cuelho info: The Alchemist quote: Each day, in itself, brings with it an eternity. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Paulo Cuelho info: The Alchemist quote: "Love never keeps a man from pursuing his Personal Legend. If he abandons that pursuit, it\x92s because it wasn\x92t true love." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Paulo Cuelho info: The Alchemist quote: The fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Paulo Cuelho info: The Alchemist quote: "When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there\x92s no need at all to understand what\x92s happening, because everything happens within you." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Paulo Cuelho info: The Alchemist quote: When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Paulo Cuelho info: The Alchemist quote: The world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Paulo Cuelho info: The Alchemist quote: Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rosa Parks info: US black civil rights leader (1913 - 2005) quote: Each person must live their life as a model for others. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rosa Parks info: US black civil rights leader (1913 - 2005) quote: Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ralph Waldo Emerson info: US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) quote: No one ever stated their troubles As lightly as they might. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ralph Waldo Emerson info: AstraeaUS essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) quote: Pure by impure is not seen. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ralph Waldo Emerson info: US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) quote: Our life is not so much threatened, As our perception. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ralph Waldo Emerson info: US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) quote: "Courtesy: Wishes not to be loved, but to be lovely; Not to be benefitted, but to be a benevolence." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ralph Waldo Emerson info: from "The American Scholar"US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) quote: A scholar is the favorite of Heaven and of earth; The excellence of one's country, The happiest of mankind. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ralph Waldo Emerson info: US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) quote: There is a melody born of melody, That melts the world into a sea. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ralph Waldo Emerson info: "\"Threnody\" (mourning little son's death)US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)" quote: "And did you think that such a guest Would in thy hall take up his rest? --High gifts ask diviner guess: Not to be conned to tediousness." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ralph Waldo Emerson info: Threnody (mourning little son's death)US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) quote: Not nail a great star to its track, . . . Tell when to go and when come back;. . . But open up thy heart to know What rainbows teach and sunsets show. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ralph Waldo Emerson info: WoodnotesUS essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) quote: "Nature: I give to thee for thy defence Thy formidable innocence." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ralph Waldo Emerson info: US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) quote: The very thought of the Diety, Is as bright, effulgent daybeams. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ralph Waldo Emerson info: Concord Hymn (Revolutionary War)US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) quote: Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rosa Parks info: US black civil rights leader (1913 - 2005) quote: It was not pre-arranged. It just happened that the driver made and demand and I just didn't feel like obeying his demand . . . I was quite tired after spending a full day working. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bruce Lee info: US martial arts expert & movie actor (1940 - 1973) quote: True refinement seeks simplicity. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aldous Huxley info: Crome Yellow, chapter 4English critic & novelist (1894 - 1963) quote: Things somehow seem more real and vivid when one can apply somebody else's ready-made phrase about them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bill Clinton info: at Rosa Park's funeral, CNN.com, 11-02-0542nd president of the United States (1946 - ) quote: The world knows of Rosa Parks because of a single, simple act of dignity and courage that struck a lethal blow to the foundations of legal bigotry. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jennifer Granholm info: Michigan Governor at Rosa Park's funeral, CNN.com, 11-02-05 quote: Her greatness lay in doing what everybody could do but doesn't. She was unexpected. She was untitled. (She was) an improbable warrior that was leading an unlikely army of waitresses and street sweepers and shopkeepers and auto mechanics. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: G. K. Chesterton info: Said about W.W Jacob's horror storiesEnglish author & mystery novelist (1874 - 1936) quote: His horror is wild, but it is a sane horror. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Heinlein info: US science fiction author (1907 - 1988) quote: The Office does not sanctify the holder of it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Harriet Beecher Stowe info: US abolitionist & novelist (1811 - 1896) quote: When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, until it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the time and place that the tide will turn. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gustav Klimt info: "" quote: Truth is a fire that burns and shines. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Orwell info: Politics and the English Language, 1946English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950) quote: Words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas Merton info: US religious author, clergyman, & Trappist monk (1915 - 1968) quote: "Propaganda makes up our minds for us, but in such a way that it leaves us the sense of pride and satisfaction of men who have made up their own minds. And in the last analysis, propaganda achieves this effect because we want it to. This is one of the few real pleasures left to modern man: this illusion that he is thinking for himself when, in fact, someone else is doing his thinking for him." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Karl Friedrich Gauss info: In A. Arber The Mind and the Eye 1954. quote: "I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John F. Kennedy info: From the speech President Kennedy was to deliver at the Dallas Trade Mart, 22 Nov 1963; he was assassinated on his way to the Trade Mart35th president of US 1961-1963 (1917 - 1963) quote: Overwhelming nuclear strength cannot stop a guerrilla war. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sun Tzu info: The Art of War quote: Thus, though we have heard of stupid haste in war, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hugh Elliott info: "Standing Room Only weblog, September 29, 2005Author of the Standing Room Only Weblog (http://blogs.salon.com/0001573/). " quote: You thought I was writing The Truth? Honey, I don't even know what The Truth means. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Margaret Cho info: I'm The One That I Want, 1999 quote: "I\x92m not going to die because I failed as someone else. I\x92m going to succeed as myself." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Randy K. Milholland info: "Something Positive Comic, 11-06-05Webcomic pioneer " quote: Slow and steady wins the race, then wastes no time grinding salt-caked glass in your open wounds. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Randy K. Milholland info: "Something Positive Comic, 11-07-05Webcomic pioneer " quote: Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Ruskin info: Unto This Last, essay 2 (1862)English critic, essayist, & reformer (1819 - 1900) quote: Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edwin Teale info: "" quote: For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Eric Sloane info: "" quote: A few days ago I walked along the edge of the lake and was treated to the crunch and rustle of leaves with each step I made. The acoustics of this season are different and all sounds, no matter how hushed, are as crisp as autumn air. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Percy Bysshe Shelley info: English poet (1792 - 1822) quote: There is a harmony In autumn, and a lustre in its sky, Which through the summer is not heard or seen, As if it could not be, as if it had not been! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry Beston info: Northern Farm quote: The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Nathaniel Hawthorne info: US author (1804 - 1864) quote: I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rose G. Kingsley info: The Autumn Garden, 1905 quote: In the garden, Autumn is, indeed the crowning glory of the year, bringing us the fruition of months of thought and care and toil. And at no season, safe perhaps in Daffodil time, do we get such superb colour effects as from August to November. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Camus info: French existentialist author & philosopher (1913 - 1960) quote: Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: B. Cybrill info: "" quote: When the bold branches Bid farewell to rainbow leaves - Welcome wool sweaters. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henri Cartier Bresson info: "" quote: Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Arthur Wellesley info: "" quote: The only thing worse than losing a battle is winning one rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alexander Pope info: English poet & satirist (1688 - 1744) quote: "Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest: The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aleister Crowley info: English occultist (1875 - 1947) quote: I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: David Letterman info: On Top Ten Yankee Excuses, 2005US comedian & television host (1947 - ) quote: "Aren\x92t used to rat-free outfield" rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Julie Andrews info: "" quote: As my mother said, I never sprang out of bed with a glad shout! My voice needed oiling and then it took off. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Peter Drucker info: American (Austrian-born) management writer (1909 - 2005) quote: Almost everybody today believes that nothing in economic history has ever moved as fast as, or had a greater impact than, the Information Revolution. But the Industrial Revolution moved at least as fast in the same time span, and had probably an equal impact if not a greater one. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Peter Drucker info: American (Austrian-born) management writer (1909 - 2005) quote: We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Peter Drucker info: Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 1985American (Austrian-born) management writer (1909 - 2005) quote: Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship... the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ken Rockwell info: Your Camera Does Not Matter, 2005 quote: Maybe because it's entirely an artist's eye, patience and skill that makes an image and not his tools. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ken Rockwell info: Your Camera Does Not Matter, 2005 quote: Your equipment DOES NOT affect the quality of your image. The less time and effort you spend worrying about your equipment the more time and effort you can spend creating great images. The right equipment just makes it easier, faster or more convenient for you to get the results you need. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ken Rockwell info: Your Camera Does Not Matter, 2005 quote: The camera's only job is to get out of the way of making photographs. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ernst Haas info: Comment in workshop, 1985 quote: The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to SEE. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ernst Haas info: Comment in workshop, 1985 quote: Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ken Rockwell info: Your Camera Does Not Matter, 2005 quote: No matter how advanced your camera you still need to be responsible for getting it to the right place at the right time and pointing it in the right direction to get the photo you want. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ken Rockwell info: Your Camera Does Not Matter, 2005 quote: You need to learn to see and compose. The more time you waste worrying about your equipment the less time you'll have to put into creating great images. Worry about your images, not your equipment. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Heather Armstrong info: Dooce, 11-15-05 quote: This is part of the essence of motherhood, watching your kid grow into her own person and not being able to do anything about it. Otherwise children would be nothing more than pets. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J. K. Rowling info: "Harry Potter and the Goblet of FireBritish fantasy author " quote: Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J. K. Rowling info: "Harry Potter and the Goblet of FireBritish fantasy author " quote: It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J. K. Rowling info: "Harry Potter and the Goblet of FireBritish fantasy author " quote: Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J. K. Rowling info: "Harry Potter and the Goblet of FireBritish fantasy author " quote: Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J. K. Rowling info: "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: The MovieBritish fantasy author " quote: Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Eddie Izzard info: "" quote: I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Janeane Garofalo info: "" quote: To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Carol Burnett info: US actress & comedienne (1936 - ) quote: When you have a dream you've got to grab it and never let go. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Carol Burnett info: US actress & comedienne (1936 - ) quote: When someone who is known for being comedic does something straight, it' s always 'a big breakthrough' or a 'radical departure.' Why is it no one ever says that if a straight actor does comedy? Are they presuming comedy is easier? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Carol Burnett info: US actress & comedienne (1936 - ) quote: Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jeff Foxworthy info: "" quote: The problem with the designated driver program, it's not a desirable job, but if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At the end of the night, drop them off at the wrong house. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jeff Foxworthy info: "" quote: If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.' rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jeff Foxworthy info: "" quote: My whole career can be summed up with 'Ignorance is bliss.' When you do not know better, you do not really worry about failing. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jeff Foxworthy info: "" quote: There's a whole segment of the population with a mentality that bases good times on where they can go and what they can buy. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Billy Crystal info: US comedian & movie actor (1947 - ) quote: Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mary Tyler Moore info: US television actress (1936 - ) quote: Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mary Tyler Moore info: US television actress (1936 - ) quote: Having a dream is what keeps you alive. Overcoming the challenges make life worth living. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jay Leno info: US comedian & television host (1950 - ) quote: I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, 'I'd like some fries.' The girl at the counter said, 'Would you like some fries with that?' rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jay Leno info: US comedian & television host (1950 - ) quote: If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jay Leno info: US comedian & television host (1950 - ) quote: Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you've met your New Year's resolution. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jay Leno info: US comedian & television host (1950 - ) quote: Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Roseanne Barr info: "" quote: Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Roseanne Barr info: "" quote: The world makes you into a bitch, no matter how quietly you go, so you may as well go kicking and screaming. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Roseanne Barr info: "" quote: I hate the word housewife; I don't like the word home-maker either. I want to be called Domestic Goddess. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Roseanne Barr info: "" quote: The thing women have got to learn is that nobody gives you power. You just take it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Roseanne Barr info: "" quote: I know how to do anything - I'm a mom. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Whoopi Goldberg info: "" quote: I don't have pet peeves, I have whole kennels of irritation. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Whoopi Goldberg info: "" quote: We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Whoopi Goldberg info: "" quote: When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Whoopi Goldberg info: "" quote: You've got to vote for someone. It's a shame, but it's got to be done. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Whoopi Goldberg info: "" quote: I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Whoopi Goldberg info: "" quote: That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Burns info: US actor & comedian (1896 - 1996) quote: If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Burns info: US actor & comedian (1896 - 1996) quote: It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Burns info: US actor & comedian (1896 - 1996) quote: I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Burns info: US actor & comedian (1896 - 1996) quote: I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Burns info: US actor & comedian (1896 - 1996) quote: You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Burns info: US actor & comedian (1896 - 1996) quote: You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Burns info: US actor & comedian (1896 - 1996) quote: Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Burns info: US actor & comedian (1896 - 1996) quote: If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Burns info: US actor & comedian (1896 - 1996) quote: This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Burns info: US actor & comedian (1896 - 1996) quote: I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Burns info: US actor & comedian (1896 - 1996) quote: I'd go out with women my age, but there are no women my age. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bertrand Russell info: British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970) quote: The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Peter McWilliams info: Life 101, 1991 quote: If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Waiter Rant info: Waiter Rant weblog, 11-29-05 quote: "But seduction isn\x92t making someone do what they don\x92t want to do. Seduction is enticing someone into doing what they secretly want to do already." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Faulkner info: US novelist (1897 - 1962) quote: Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Euripides info: Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC - 406 BC) quote: When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Friedrich Nietzsche info: German philosopher (1844 - 1900) quote: The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edith Sitwell info: As quoted in The Observer (30 April 1950)English biographer, critic, novelist, & poet (1887 - 1964) quote: I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edith Sitwell info: "\"Some notes on my poetry\" Collected Poems, 1957English biographer, critic, novelist, & poet (1887 - 1964)" quote: My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edith Sitwell info: Life magazine, 01-04-63English biographer, critic, novelist, & poet (1887 - 1964) quote: Poetry is the deification of reality. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edith Sitwell info: Life magazine, 01-04-63English biographer, critic, novelist, & poet (1887 - 1964) quote: I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edith Sitwell info: Taken Care Of ,1965English biographer, critic, novelist, & poet (1887 - 1964) quote: Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edith Sitwell info: "As quoted in The Last Years of a Rebel : A Memoir of Edith Sitwell by Elizabeth Salter, 1967English biographer, critic, novelist, & poet (1887 - 1964)" quote: The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edith Sitwell info: "Her last words, as quoted in The Last Years of a Rebel : A Memoir of Edith Sitwell by Elizabeth Salter, 1967English biographer, critic, novelist, & poet (1887 - 1964)" quote: I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ernest Hemingway info: "\"On the Blue Water,\" Esquire, April 1936US author & journalist (1899 - 1961)" quote: Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything else thereafter. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Carl Jung info: Swiss psychologist (1875 - 1961) quote: The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rhys Alexander info: Writing Gooder, 12-09-05 quote: "Detail makes the difference between boring and terrific writing. It\x92s the difference between a pencil sketch and a lush oil painting. As a writer, words are your paint. Use all the colors." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: C. S. Lewis info: English essayist & juvenile novelist (1898 - 1963) quote: Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: C. S. Lewis info: English essayist & juvenile novelist (1898 - 1963) quote: Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: C. S. Lewis info: English essayist & juvenile novelist (1898 - 1963) quote: Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: C. S. Lewis info: English essayist & juvenile novelist (1898 - 1963) quote: Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: C. S. Lewis info: English essayist & juvenile novelist (1898 - 1963) quote: Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: C. S. Lewis info: English essayist & juvenile novelist (1898 - 1963) quote: Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: C. S. Lewis info: English essayist & juvenile novelist (1898 - 1963) quote: "Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: C. S. Lewis info: English essayist & juvenile novelist (1898 - 1963) quote: Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: C. S. Lewis info: English essayist & juvenile novelist (1898 - 1963) quote: If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: C. S. Lewis info: English essayist & juvenile novelist (1898 - 1963) quote: It is hard to have patience with people who say "There is no death" or "Death doesn't matter." There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: C. S. Lewis info: English essayist & juvenile novelist (1898 - 1963) quote: It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Randy K. Milholland info: "Something Positive Comic, 12-06-05Webcomic pioneer " quote: There are people I know who won't hurt me. I call them corpses. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Richard Pryor info: US movie actor & comedian (1940 - 2005) quote: Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Malcolm Gladwell info: "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2005" quote: There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Malcolm Gladwell info: "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2005" quote: It is quite possible for people who have never met us and who have spent only twenty minutes thinking about us to come to a better understanding of who we are than people who have known us for years. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Malcolm Gladwell info: "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2005" quote: You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Malcolm Gladwell info: "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2005" quote: If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Malcolm Gladwell info: "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2005" quote: We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Malcolm Gladwell info: "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2005" quote: We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Malcolm Gladwell info: "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2005" quote: Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Malcolm Gladwell info: "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2005" quote: It is the new and different that is always most vulnerable to market research rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Malcolm Gladwell info: "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2005" quote: The face is not a secondary billboard for our internal feelings. It is an equal partner in the emotional process. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lynn Johnston info: Lynn on IdeasCanadian cartoonist (1947 - ) quote: The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lynn Johnston info: Lynn on IdeasCanadian cartoonist (1947 - ) quote: We are all born with wonderful gifts. We use these gifts to express ourselves, to amuse, to strengthen, and to communicate. We begin as children to explore and develop our talents, often unaware that we are unique, that not everyone can do what we're doing! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lynn Johnston info: Lynn on IdeasCanadian cartoonist (1947 - ) quote: On a lazy Saturday morning when you're lying in bed, drifting in and out of sleep, there is a space where fantasy and reality become one. Are you awake, or are you dreaming? You see people and things; some are familiar; some are strange. You talk, you feel, but you move without walking; you fly without wings. Your mind and your body exist, but on separate planes. Time stands still. For me, this is the feeling I have when ideas come. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Oxton Bolton info: "" quote: A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Nikita Khrushchev info: Russian Soviet politician (1894 - 1971) quote: Berlin is the testicle of the West. When I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Peter Ustinov info: English actor & author (1921 - 2004) quote: Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: April Foiles info: "" quote: Life is like getting dropped off in the middle of the woods, and then year by year, gradually walking home. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Randy K. Milholland info: "Something Positive Comic, 12-09-05Webcomic pioneer " quote: Why do we have to wait for special moments to say nice things or tell people we care about them? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Randy K. Milholland info: "Something Positive Comic, 12-09-05Webcomic pioneer " quote: Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Samuel Beckett info: "\"The Expelled\", 1946Irish author, dramatist, & novelist in France (1906 - 1989)" quote: "Yes, I don\x92t know why, but I have never been disappointed, and I often was in the early days, without feeling at the same time, or a moment later, an undeniable relief." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Samuel Beckett info: "\"Molloy\", 1951Irish author, dramatist, & novelist in France (1906 - 1989)" quote: The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Samuel Beckett info: "\"Molloy\", 1951Irish author, dramatist, & novelist in France (1906 - 1989)" quote: "I don\x92t like animals. It\x92s a strange thing, I don\x92t like men and I don\x92t like animals. As for God, he is beginning to disgust me." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: General John Stark info: (State motto of New Hampshire) quote: Live Free Or Die; Death Is Not The Worst Of Evils. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery info: French writer (1900 - 1944) quote: Language is the source of misunderstandings. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edith Wharton info: US novelist (1862 - 1937) quote: A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edith Wharton info: US novelist (1862 - 1937) quote: After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edith Wharton info: US novelist (1862 - 1937) quote: Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edith Wharton info: US novelist (1862 - 1937) quote: Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edith Wharton info: US novelist (1862 - 1937) quote: How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edith Wharton info: US novelist (1862 - 1937) quote: I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edith Wharton info: US novelist (1862 - 1937) quote: I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edith Wharton info: US novelist (1862 - 1937) quote: In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edith Wharton info: US novelist (1862 - 1937) quote: Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edith Wharton info: US novelist (1862 - 1937) quote: Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edith Wharton info: US novelist (1862 - 1937) quote: The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edith Wharton info: US novelist (1862 - 1937) quote: True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Randy K. Milholland info: "Something Positive, 12-29-05Webcomic pioneer " quote: Forgiveness is one of the many horrible side effects of loving someone. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Starline X. Hodge info: Candi, 12-30-05 quote: Just because it's only 'stuff' doesn't mean I can't appreciate it while I have it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Waiter Rant info: Waiter Rant weblog, 12-30-05 quote: "Character is forged in the smallest of struggles. Then, when the big challenges come, we\x92re ready." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bill Watterson info: The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, 2005, IntroductionUS cartoonist (1958 - ) quote: As a kid, I knew I wanted to be either a cartoonist or an astronaut. The latter was never much of a possibility, as I don't even like riding in elevators. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anna Quindlen info: " (1953 - )" quote: But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anna Quindlen info: " (1953 - )" quote: I came to the realization that there were certain public issues that were most usefully dealt with within some sort of framework of at least my private beliefs, if not my private life. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anna Quindlen info: " (1953 - )" quote: The truth about your own life is not always easy to accept, and sometimes hasn't even occurred to you. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anna Quindlen info: " (1953 - )" quote: I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anna Quindlen info: " (1953 - )" quote: When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women? In some ways we're as committed to the old madonna-whore dichotomy as ever. And the madonna stays home, feeding the baby behind the blinds, a vestige of those days when for a lady to venture out was a flagrant act of public exposure. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anna Quindlen info: " (1953 - )" quote: "There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new book. The word \"banal\" sometimes rears its by-now banal head; you say \"underedited,\" I say \"derivative.\" The conversation goes around and around various literary criticisms, and by the time it moves on one thing is clear: No one read the book; we just read the reviews." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anna Quindlen info: " (1953 - )" quote: I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anna Quindlen info: " (1953 - )" quote: I think that anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at some time in history when torture was considered a reasonable alternative to diplomacy. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Graham Chapman info: "" quote: I can't talk to a man who bears an undeserved animosity towards ferrets. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Stephen Harwood info: "" quote: An aspiring politician should know that attacking a man is much easier than attacking his points, but attacking his points is much more useful. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Chuck Colson info: Radio Broadcast on 10/3 and 10/4 quote: You find the meaning in life by giving yourself away not by satisfying yourself. The most gratifying thing, at 73 years old, is to be able to think that your life was used to help others. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mother Teresa info: Indian (Albanian-born) humanitarian & missionary (1910 - 1997) quote: The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; Do good anyway. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bill Hybels info: Speaker quote: What will you do with the rest of your life that will last forever? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bill Hybels info: "" quote: The only thing worse than the fear of death is the fear of a wasted life. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Paul Harvey info: "" quote: The world to a blind man is his touch. The world to a stupid man is his mouth. The world to a great man is his vision. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alan Turing info: Final sentence in his "Computing Machinery and Intelligence"English logician & mathematician (1912 - 1954) quote: We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there thats needs to be done. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rhoberta Shaler, PhD info: "" quote: There is no such thing as worklife balance. I don't know about you, but I only have one life and every moment is about living my values and balancing my priorities--wherever I am. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rhoberta Shaler, PhD info: "" quote: There is a big difference between ideas and beliefs. Ideas live above your nose. Beliefs make it all the way to your toes. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ronald Reagan info: 40th president of US (1911 - 2004) quote: "Some people go their whole life wondering if they ever made a difference. Marines don\x92t have that problem." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Po Bronson info: What Should I Do With My Life? quote: True writers have a lot more invested in the way they've written their books than in what those books happen to be about. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lloyd Biggle Jr. info: "Novel: The Still, Small Voice of Trumpets, 1968" quote: Democracy imposed from without is the severest form of tyranny. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Winston Churchill info: Speech given on 6 March 1936, commenting on Hitler's re-occupation of the Rhineland and how it could be used for a future attack on France. This prediction came true four years later. quote: The creation of a line of forts opposite to the French frontier will enable the German troops to be economized on that line and will enable the main forces to swing round through Belgium and Holland. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Walther Darre, German Minister of Agriculture under Hitler info: "Book: \"Is Tomorrow Hitler's?\", H.R. Knickerbocker, 1941 (Reynal & Hitchcock)" quote: The United States is at present so demoralized and so corrupted that, like England and France, it need not be taken into consideration as a military adversary. The United States will also be forced by Germany to complete and final capitulation. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anna Quindlen info: Newsweek, 01-02-06 (1953 - ) quote: O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anna Quindlen info: Newsweek, 01-02-06 (1953 - ) quote: If God is watching us, as some believers suggest, as though we were a television show and God had a lot of free time, the deity would surely be bemused by how dumbed-down devotion has sometimes become in this so-called modern era. How might an omnipotent being with the long view of history respond to those who visit the traveling exhibit of a grilled-cheese sandwich, sold on eBay, that is said to bear the image of the Virgin Mary? It certainly argues against intelligent design, or at least intelligent design in humans. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anna Quindlen info: Newsweek, 01-02-06 (1953 - ) quote: Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James Dickey info: "\"Adultery\"" quote: Guilt is magical. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Katheryn Phillips info: stated when asked about why she drove the IOC to make rules allowing transgendered athletes to participate in the Olympics. quote: Above all things you've got to be yourself, and if some rule or guideline excludes you because of who you are, then you are obligated to change the rules. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lloyd Cole info: "The song \"A long way down\x94 from the album \x93Lloyd Cole\x94" quote: "The reason it's a clich\xE9 is because it's true." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mark Twain info: US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) quote: I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edward R. Murrow info: US broadcast journalist & newscaster (1908 - 1965) quote: We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven into an age of unreason if we dig deep into our history and remember we are not descended from fearful men. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rod Serling info: closing to Twilight Zone episode "Steel"US actor, producer, & screenwriter (1924 - 1975) quote: "Portrait of a losing side, proof positive that you can't outpunch machinery. Proof also of something else: that no matter what the future brings, man's capacity to rise to the occasion will remain unaltered. His potential for tenacity and optimism continues, as always, to outfight and outlive any and all changes made by his society." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gene Roddenberry info: "" quote: I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people of their free will -- and a hell of a lot of money in the bargain. Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all. For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marilyn Manson info: interview 1997American musician (1969 - ) quote: Music and image has continued to get more extreme as the world gets more extreme. We are the consequence of the modern decaying civilization. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edgar Allan Poe info: Bernice - the complete stories (of Edgar Allan Poe)US short story author, editor, & poet (1809 - 1849) quote: But as in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Cesar Chavez info: "" quote: If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... The people who give you their food give you their heart. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Pierre Trudeau info: Canadian politician (1919 - 2000) quote: The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Pierre Trudeau info: Canadian politician (1919 - 2000) quote: Some things I never learned to like. I didn't like to kiss babies, though I didn't mind kissing their mothers. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jane Goodall info: "" quote: In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them? Surely we should treat them with the same consideration and kindness as we show to other humans; and as we recognize human rights, so too should we recognize the rights of the great apes? Yes. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James Baldwin info: African-American Quotations, Richard NewmanUS author (1924 - 1987) quote: Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is growing up. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Stephen Covey info: the 8th habit quote: Leadership is communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it in themselves. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Napoleon Bonaparte info: History's MysteriesFrench general & politician (1769 - 1821) quote: Death is nothing, but to live defeated is to die every day. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry Louis Gates Jr. info: IBM/Linux Commercials quote: Collecting data is only the first step toward wisdom, but sharing data is the first step toward community. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Paul Jones info: "" quote: I have not yet begun to fight! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Carl Sagan info: US astronomer & popularizer of astronomy (1934 - 1996) quote: Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ayn Rand info: Atlas Shrugged. Part2, IIIUS (Russian-born) novelist (1905 - 1982) quote: A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue. A viler evil than to throw a man into a sacrificial furnace, is to demand that he leap in, of his own will, and that he build the furnace, besides. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Neil Gaiman info: Sandman, a Hope In Hell quote: What power would Hell have if those imprisoned there were not able to dream of Heaven? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: The Ballad of Reading GaolIrish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Eric Hoffer info: " (1902 - 1983)" quote: In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Solomon, King of Israel, 970 B.C. info: Book of Proverbs quote: The fear of the Lord is the begginning of wisdom. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Randy Milholland info: from Midnight Macabre quote: The key to gainful employment is creating a work environment and filing system too complex to train a new person on. Competency gets you work. Confusion keeps you employed. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: W. H. Auden info: US (English-born) critic & poet (1907 - 1973) quote: Evil is unspectacular and always human, And shares our bed and eats at our own table. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sasha Azevedo info: "" quote: To believe in yourself and to follow your dreams, to have goals in life and a drive to succeed, and to surround yourself with the things and the people that make you happy - this is success! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sasha Azevedo info: "" quote: If you want success, then don't rely on other people to do what YOU can do! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Picasso info: "" quote: "When I was a child, my mom told me: 'If you want to be a soldier, you'll become a general. If you want to be a monk, you'll become pope' I wanted to be a painter, and I became Picasso." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dylan Thomas info: And Death Shall Have No Dominion, from Collected PoemsWelsh poet (1914 - 1953) quote: Though lovers be lost, love shall not and death shall have no dominion. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sojourner Truth info: US abolitionist (1797 - 1883) quote: If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sojourner Truth info: US abolitionist (1797 - 1883) quote: Truth burns up error. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sojourner Truth info: US abolitionist (1797 - 1883) quote: Religion without humanity is poor human stuff. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sojourner Truth info: Equal Rights Convention, New York, 1867US abolitionist (1797 - 1883) quote: There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before. So I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring; because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Johnny Cash info: MTV.com quote: I used to [have regrets]. But I forgave myself. When God forgave me, I figured I'd better do it, too. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Snoop Dogg info: Time Magazine quote: Labels try to make you say what they want or write the songs they think you should write. [Johnny] Cash did his own thing. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Pharrell Williams info: MTV.com quote: I don't think there's a rap artist that has more songs about killing somebody than Johnny Cash does. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Billy Graham info: Cash quote: I've never met a man who combined spiritual depth, musical ability, and international fame with such grace, charm, and humility as Johnny. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Johnny Cash info: Time Magazine quote: I'm an artist who is a Christian. I'm not a Christian artist. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Joan Rivers info: US comedienne (1935 - ) quote: I don't exercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tom Robbins info: Even Cowgirls Get the BluesUS novelist (1936 - ) quote: Actually, there are countless ways to live upon this tremorous sphere in mirth and good health, and probably only one way - the industrial, urbanized, herding way - to live here stupidly, and man has hit upon that one way. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Salmaan Rushdie info: East, West - 'At the Auction of the Ruby Slippers' quote: In fiction's grip, we may mortage our homes, sell our children, to have whatever it is we crave. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oliver Wendell Holmes info: US author & physician (1809 - 1894) quote: Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Pierre Teilhard De Chardin info: "" quote: We are one, after all, you and I. Together we suffer, together exist, and forever will recreate each other. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Meister Eckhart info: "" quote: The eye by which I see God is the same as the eye by which God sees me. My eye and God's eye are one and the same-one in seeing, one in knowing, and one in loving. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Avadhuta Gita info: "" quote: When a jar is broken, the space that was inside Merges into the space outside. In the same way, my mind has merged in God; To me, there appears no duality. Avadhuta Gita rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Avadhuta Gita info: "" quote: Truly, it is by the grace of God That the knowledge of Unity arises within. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Christopher Reeve info: "" quote: "What I do is based on powers we all have inside us; the ability to endure; the ability to love, to carry on, to make the best of what we have \x96 and you don\x92t have to be a \x91Superman\x92 to do it." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Vince Lombardi info: US football coach (1913 - 1970) quote: The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their committment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Steven Wright info: US comedian and actor (1955 - ) quote: A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sun Tzu info: "" quote: Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle, but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Philip K. Dick info: How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later (1978)US science fiction author (1928 - 1982) quote: The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Philip K. Dick info: Dictionary of Literary Biography, 1981 ed., vol. 8, part 1US science fiction author (1928 - 1982) quote: My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality?' Many of my stories and novels deal with psychotic states or drug-induced states by which I can present the concept of a multiverse rather than a universe. Music and sociology are themes in my novels, also radical political trends; in particular I've written about fascism and my fear of it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anna Quindlen info: A Short Guide to a Happy Life, 2000 (1953 - ) quote: Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. That's what I have to say. The second is only a part of the first. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anna Quindlen info: A Short Guide to a Happy Life, 2000 (1953 - ) quote: When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anna Quindlen info: A Short Guide to a Happy Life, 2000 (1953 - ) quote: It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anna Quindlen info: A Short Guide to a Happy Life, 2000 (1953 - ) quote: I show up. I listen. I try to laugh. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anna Quindlen info: A Short Guide to a Happy Life, 2000 (1953 - ) quote: You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anna Quindlen info: A Short Guide to a Happy Life, 2000 (1953 - ) quote: All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anna Quindlen info: A Short Guide to a Happy Life, 2000 (1953 - ) quote: Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Francoise Sagan info: French author (1935 - ) quote: It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Matthew Adams info: "" quote: In this life we get only those things for which we hunt, for which we strive, and for which we are willing to sacrifice. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Susan B. Anthony info: US abolitionist & suffragist (1820 - 1906) quote: The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled, the more I gain. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas Szasz info: "" quote: Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life's currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William H. Sheldon info: "" quote: Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Maya Angelou info: US author & poet (1928 - ) quote: We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lydia M. Child info: "" quote: You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Milton Berle info: US television actor & comedian (1908 - 2002) quote: Laughter is an instant vacation. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ayn Rand info: US (Russian-born) novelist (1905 - 1982) quote: "Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sarah Orne Jewett info: US author (1849 - 1909) quote: A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing... It takes something from the world, and has something to give in return. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles Darwin info: English biologist (1809 - 1882) quote: The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Benjamin Haydon info: "" quote: Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Shelley info: "" quote: He who promises more than he is able to perform, is false to himself; and he who does not perform what he has promised, is a traitor to his friend. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Franklin D. Roosevelt info: 32nd president of US (1882 - 1945) quote: The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Eleanor Roosevelt info: US diplomat & reformer (1884 - 1962) quote: The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lorraine Anderson info: "" quote: Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alvin Toffler info: "" quote: Change is the process by which the future invades our lives. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oliver Wendell Holmes info: US author & physician (1809 - 1894) quote: Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Angela L. Wozniak info: "" quote: I have come to realize that all my trouble with living has come from fear and smallness within me. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jeremy Bentham info: English jurist, philosopher, & legal reformer (1748 - 1832) quote: Stretching his hand out to catch the stars, he forgets the flowers at his feet. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Freeman Dyson info: US (English-born) physicist (1923 - ) quote: It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles de Gaulle info: French general & politician (1890 - 1970) quote: We may go to the moon, but that's not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Louis Stevenson info: Scottish author (1850 - 1894) quote: There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dan Millman info: "" quote: The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Van Horne info: "" quote: Nothing is too small to know, and nothing is too big to attempt. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Shirley Trusty Corey info: "" quote: The arts must be considered an essential element of education... They are tools for living life reflectively, joyfully and with the ability to shape the future. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Desiderius Erasmus info: Dutch author, philosopher, & scholar (1466 - 1536) quote: The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ben Jonson info: English dramatist & poet (1572 - 1637) quote: "Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Arthur Ward info: "" quote: Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Wayne Dyer info: "" quote: The more I give myself permission to live in the moment and enjoy it without feeling guilty or judgmental about any other time, the better I feel about the quality of my work. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Benjamin Franklin info: US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790) quote: Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Miguel de Cervantes info: Spanish adventurer, author, & poet (1547 - 1616) quote: The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas Moore info: Irish poet (1779 - 1852) quote: By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Veninga info: "" quote: Human pain does not let go of its grip at one point in time. Rather, it works its way out of our consciousness over time. There is a season of sadness. A season of anger. A season of tranquility. A season of hope. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lucille Ball info: US television actress (1911 - 1989) quote: Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry David Thoreau info: US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862) quote: When a dog runs at you, whistle for him. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Octavio Paz info: Mexican author & diplomat (1914 - ) quote: "Beyond happiness or unhappiness, though it is both things, love is intensity; it does not give us eternity but life, that second in which the doors of time and space open just a crack: here is there and now is always." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jean de la Bruyere info: French moralist (1645 - 1696) quote: It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Eric Hoffer info: " (1902 - 1983)" quote: We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Joshua Reynolds info: English portrait painter (1723 - 1792) quote: If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles Bukowski info: US (German-born) author & poet (1920 - 1994) quote: You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Franklin D. Roosevelt info: 32nd president of US (1882 - 1945) quote: We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Katherine Mansfield info: New Zealand short story author (1888 - 1923) quote: Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Samahria Lyte Kaufman info: "" quote: Person to person, moment to moment, as we love, we change the world. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Andre Gide info: French critic, essayist, & novelist (1869 - 1951) quote: The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ethel Barrett info: "" quote: We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: W. Lee Grant info: "" quote: Shared laughter creates a bond of friendships. When people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, teacher and pupils, worker and boss. They become a single group of human beings. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ann Landers info: US advice columnist (1918 - 2002) quote: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it quarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.' rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Joan McIntosh info: "" quote: Accept the pain, cherish the joys, resolve the regrets; then can come the best of benedictions - 'If I had my life to live over, I'd do it all the same.' rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Confucius info: Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC) quote: Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kanye West info: Rolling Stone, 2006 quote: If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kanye West info: Rolling Stone, 2006 quote: In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kanye West info: "" quote: If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don`t appreciate the moment until it's passed. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kanye West info: "" quote: Nothing in life is promised except death. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kanye West info: "" quote: We buy our way out of jail but we can't buy freedom, We buy a lot of clothes when we don't really need them, Things we buy to cover up what's inside. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kanye West info: "" quote: We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mitch Hedberg info: American comedian (1968 - 2005) quote: I like rice. Rice is great if you're hungry and want 2000 of something. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mitch Hedberg info: American comedian (1968 - 2005) quote: I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mitch Hedberg info: American comedian (1968 - 2005) quote: I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mitch Hedberg info: American comedian (1968 - 2005) quote: The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Flip Wilson info: Comedian and television actor, starred in The Flip Wilson Show (1933 - 1998) quote: Funny is an attitude. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Flip Wilson info: Comedian and television actor, starred in The Flip Wilson Show (1933 - 1998) quote: The devil made me do it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Flip Wilson info: Comedian and television actor, starred in The Flip Wilson Show (1933 - 1998) quote: You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Flip Wilson info: Comedian and television actor, starred in The Flip Wilson Show (1933 - 1998) quote: When you're hot, you're hot; when you're not, you're not. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Flip Wilson info: Comedian and television actor, starred in The Flip Wilson Show (1933 - 1998) quote: Violence is a tool of the ignorant. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Flip Wilson info: Comedian and television actor, starred in The Flip Wilson Show (1933 - 1998) quote: My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Nickolas Muray info: "" quote: Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Frida Kahlo info: Letter to Nickolas Muray, 12-18-1939Mexican painter (1907 - 1954) quote: I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Frida Kahlo info: Mexican painter (1907 - 1954) quote: I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Frida Kahlo info: (on Andre Breton and the European surrealists) letter to Nickolas Muray, 02-16-1939Mexican painter (1907 - 1954) quote: They are so damn 'intellectual' and rotten that I can't stand them anymore....I [would] rather sit on the floor in the market of Toluca and sell tortillas, than have anything to do with those 'artistic' bitches of Paris. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Frida Kahlo info: Mexican painter (1907 - 1954) quote: I drank to drown my pain, but the damned pain learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good behavior. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Frida Kahlo info: Mexican painter (1907 - 1954) quote: I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Frida Kahlo info: Letter to Nickolas Muray, 02-27-1939Mexican painter (1907 - 1954) quote: People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibition have been a failure, because the rich - don't want to buy anything. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Frida Kahlo info: Mexican painter (1907 - 1954) quote: I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Frida Kahlo info: Mexican painter (1907 - 1954) quote: Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Titus Maccius Plautus info: Trinummus, IV, c. 190 BCRoman comic dramatist (254 BC - 184 BC) quote: Speak no evil of an absent friend. (Non male loquare absenti amico) rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: English Proverb info: "" quote: The absent are always in the wrong. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Russell info: Address to London electors, April 6, 1859 quote: Conspicuous by its absence. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Saint Augustine info: On the Good of Marriage, c. 401 ADCarthaginian author, saint, & church father (354 AD - 430 AD) quote: Total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: Troilus and Cressida, Act IVGreatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616) quote: How my achievements mock me! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Miguel de Cervantes info: Don Quixote, 1605Spanish adventurer, author, & poet (1547 - 1616) quote: The most difficult character in comedy is that of a fool, and he must be no simpleton who plays the part. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Francois de La Rochefoucauld info: Maxims, 1665French author & moralist (1613 - 1680) quote: However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Friedrich Nietzsche info: Twilight of the Idols, 1888German philosopher (1844 - 1900) quote: What does not kill me, makes me stronger. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bill Vaughan info: "" quote: The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: W. J. Vogel info: "" quote: To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton info: English dramatist, novelist, & politician (1803 - 1873) quote: Alas! must it ever be so? Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go, And fight our own shadows forever? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Patrick Young info: "" quote: The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Santayana info: US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 - 1952) quote: To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Doug Larson info: "" quote: Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aesop info: Greek slave & fable author (620 BC - 560 BC) quote: United we stand, divided we fall. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Patricia E. Presutti info: 1986 winner of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest quote: The bone-chilling scream split the warm summer night in two, the first half being before the scream when it was fairly balmy and calm and pleasant for those who hadn't heard the scream at all, but not calm or balmy or even very nice for those who did hear the scream, discounting the little period of time during the actual scream itself when your ears might have been hearing it but your brain wasn't reacting yet to let you know. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ward Jenkins info: Ward-O-Matic, 03-14-2005 quote: Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Carl Sagan info: US astronomer & popularizer of astronomy (1934 - 1996) quote: In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Adams info: Letter to Benjamin Rush, 18 April 1808US diplomat & politician (1735 - 1826) quote: Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oprah Winfrey info: 20th Anniversary DVDUS actress & television talk show host (1954 - ) quote: I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Salma Hayek info: Conversation with Salma Hayek, 2002 quote: It's very easy to feel someone's pain when you love them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Salma Hayek info: Conversation with Salma Hayek, 2002 quote: The biggest thing [Frida] brought into my life was this peacefulness. I still get passionate about things, but my passion is not so scattered and it's not needy. It's a lot more powerful because it comes with this groundedness and peacefulness. That it's about the process, not about the results. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James Russell Lowell info: US diplomat, essayist, & poet (1819 - 1891) quote: Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Ellis info: "" quote: The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You don't blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the President. You realize that you control your own destiny. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Patrick info: "" quote: Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Wayne Dyer info: "" quote: Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Joanna Field info: "" quote: I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Eric Hoffer info: " (1902 - 1983)" quote: Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Raoul Vaneigem info: "" quote: In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: G. K. Chesterton info: English author & mystery novelist (1874 - 1936) quote: The most astonishing thing about miracles is that they happen. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Olga Ilyin info: "" quote: It had only been my repeated experience that when you said to life calmly and firmly... 'I trust you; do what you must,' life had an uncanny way of responding to your need. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Antonia Brenner info: "" quote: I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Santayana info: US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 - 1952) quote: Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arnold Bennett info: "" quote: Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marie Ebner von Eschenbach info: "" quote: Those whom we support hold us up in life. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Herbert info: English clergyman & metaphysical poet (1593 - 1633) quote: Storms make oaks take deeper root. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas Moore info: Irish poet (1779 - 1852) quote: The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Victor Hugo info: French dramatist, novelist, & poet (1802 - 1885) quote: Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ilya Prigogine info: Belgian-US (Russian-born) chemist & physicist (1917 - ) quote: The future is uncertain... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arnold Palmer info: US golfer (1929 - ) quote: The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg info: " (1742 - 1799)" quote: The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Emmet Fox info: "" quote: There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer; no disease that enough love will not heal; no door that enough love will not open. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: W. Beran Wolfe info: "" quote: If you observe a really happy man, you will find... that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours each day. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Agatha Christie info: English mystery author (1890 - 1976) quote: I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: G. K. Chesterton info: English author & mystery novelist (1874 - 1936) quote: Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Salma Hayek info: "" quote: I have gotten a lot more attention than...other women that I find incredibly beautiful. And this has happened to me ever since I was a girl, when I was flat, had no teeth, was skinny and small as I could be. I always got more attention than anyone else. If I hadn't, I would have made sure I did. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Salma Hayek info: "" quote: My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Salma Hayek info: "" quote: People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Salma Hayek info: "" quote: Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Salma Hayek info: "" quote: I'm a bit of an abstract figure that people can project their fantasies on; it's pretty much what we all are, otherwise we wouldn't be stars, and people wouldn't be interested. But people project things on you that have nothing to do with what you really are, or they see a little something and then exaggerate it. And you can't really control that. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Salma Hayek info: "" quote: Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Michael Drayton info: English poet (1563 - 1631) quote: Must, bid the Morn awake! Sad Winter now declines, Each bird doth choose a mate; This day's Saint Valentine's. For that good bishop's sake Get up and let us see What beauty it shall be That Fortune us assigns. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Orwell info: "\"Politics and the English Language\", 1946English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950)" quote: In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Orwell info: "\"Politics and the English Language\", 1946English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950)" quote: "A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?" rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hanns Johst info: Schlageter, act 1 scene 1 quote: Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton info: English dramatist, novelist, & politician (1803 - 1873) quote: Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jim Bishop info: "" quote: Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Lehman info: US administrator (1942 - ) quote: We are opening up an enormous new era in archaeology. Time capsules in the deep oceans. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Michel Foucault info: French philosopher & historian of ideas (1926 - 1984) quote: As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: The Critic as ArtistIrish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Finley Peter Dunne info: US author & humorist (1867 - 1936) quote: The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gerald White Johnson info: American Heroes and Hero-Worships, Chapter 1 quote: Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what men believe happened. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Donne info: Devotions XVIIEnglish clergyman & poet (1572 - 1631) quote: No man is an Island, intire of itselfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine... rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hermann Goering info: German Nazi marshal & politician (1893 - 1946) quote: When I hear anyone talk of culture, I reach for my revolver. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: V. Gordon Childe info: Man Makes Himself, p. 31 quote: Men cling passionately to old traditions and display intense reluctance to modify customary modes of behavior, as innovators at all times have found to their cost. The dead-weight of conservatism, largely a lazy and cowardly distaste for the strenuous and painful activity of real thinking, has undoubtedly retarded human progress... rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ian Macleod info: in The Observer (July 16, 1961) quote: History is too serious to be left to historians. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Plutarch info: Greek biographer & moralist (46 AD - 120 AD) quote: So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Igor Stravinsky info: Poetics of Music in the Form - Six LessonsRussian composer in US (1882 - 1971) quote: The past slips from our grasp. It leaves us only scattered things. The bond that united them eludes us. Our imagination usually fills in the void by making use of preconceived theories...Archaeology, then, does not supply us with certitudes, but rather with vague hypotheses. And in the shade of these hypotheses some artists are content to dream, considering them less as scientific facts than as sources of inspiration. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Denis Diderot info: French author, encyclopedist, & philosopher (1713 - 1784) quote: The number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Lucas info: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, 1989US movie director & screenwriter (1944 - ) quote: Archaeology is the search for fact... not truth. If it's truth you're looking for, Dr. Tyree's philosophy class is right down the hall. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Lucas info: Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1981US movie director & screenwriter (1944 - ) quote: Look at this. It's worthless - ten dollars from a vendor in the street. But I take it, I bury it in the sand for a thousand years, it becomes priceless. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tom Bissell info: Truth in Oxiana, 2004 quote: A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tom Bissell info: Truth in Oxiana, 2004 quote: This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Judith Hayes info: "" quote: If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James D. Watson info: US biochemist (1928 - ) quote: Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Einstein info: US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) quote: Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Stephen Jay Gould info: US author, naturalist, paleontologist, & popularizer of science (1941 - 2002) quote: Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Richard Dawkins info: British ethologist, geneticist, & popularizer of genetics (1941 - ) quote: The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Real Live Preacher info: "Real Live Preacher weblog, 02-15-06Anonymous author of RealLivePreacher.com " quote: No one forgives with more grace and love than a child. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Betty Friedan info: US feminist (1921 - 2006) quote: When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Betty Friedan info: US feminist (1921 - 2006) quote: Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Betty Friedan info: US feminist (1921 - 2006) quote: "The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban housewife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night, she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question: 'Is this all?'" rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Betty Friedan info: US feminist (1921 - 2006) quote: The problem that has no name - which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities - is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Betty Friedan info: US feminist (1921 - 2006) quote: Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Betty Friedan info: US feminist (1921 - 2006) quote: It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Betty Friedan info: US feminist (1921 - 2006) quote: Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework - an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Betty Friedan info: US feminist (1921 - 2006) quote: There needs to be bolder thinking, ... on how to measure the quality of life of men and women in the work force. Currently, success is measured by material advancements. We need to readjust the definition of success to account for time outside of work and satisfaction of life, not just the dollars-and-cents bottom line. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Betty Friedan info: US feminist (1921 - 2006) quote: A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty, 'Who am I, and what do I want out of life?' She mustn't feel selfish and neurotic if she wants goals of her own, outside of husband and children. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Betty Friedan info: US feminist (1921 - 2006) quote: I never set out to write a book to change women's lives, to change history. It's like, 'Who, me?' Yes, me. I did it. And I'm not that different from other women. ... Maybe my power and glory was that I could speak my truth as a woman and it was the truth of every woman. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Betty Friedan info: US feminist (1921 - 2006) quote: A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex but neither should she adjust to prejudice and discrimination. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Betty Friedan info: US feminist (1921 - 2006) quote: If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Clare Booth Luce info: US diplomat, dramatist, journalist, & politician (1903 - 1987) quote: Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes.' They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.' rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Shirley Chisholm info: US politician (1924 - 2005) quote: The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl.' rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Faith Whittlesey info: "" quote: Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marlo Thomas info: "" quote: I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Evelyn Cunningham info: "" quote: Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry Kissinger info: US (German-born) diplomat & scholar (1923 - ) quote: Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Cheris Kramarae info: and Paula Treichler quote: Feminism is the radical notion that women are people. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: "Ana\xEFs Nin" info: US (French-born) author & diarist (1903 - 1977) quote: "I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me na\xEFve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alanis Morissette info: Reader's Digest, March 2000Canadian singer/songwriter (1974 - ) quote: I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jane Galvin Lewis info: "" quote: You don't have to be anti-man to be pro-woman. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Julia Ward Howe info: US reformer, songwriter, & suffragist (1819 - 1910) quote: When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the most herculean undertakings. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lois Wyse info: "" quote: Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rabbi Sofer info: "" quote: No woman is required to build the world by destroying herself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sally Kempton info: "" quote: I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Susan B. Anthony info: US abolitionist & suffragist (1820 - 1906) quote: It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marlo Thomas info: "" quote: One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: "Sarah Moore Grimk\xE9" info: US Quaker abolitionist & feminist (1792 - 1873) quote: I ask no favors for my sex.... All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Florynce Kennedy info: "" quote: There are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other jobs should be open to everybody. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bella Abzug info: US politician (1920 - ) quote: The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Joan Baez info: Sexism Seen but not Heard, Los Angeles Times, 1974US folksinger (1941 - ) quote: Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gloria Steinem info: US feminist (1934 - ) quote: I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Susan B. Anthony info: US abolitionist & suffragist (1820 - 1906) quote: Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robin Morgan info: "" quote: Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sheila Rowbotham info: "" quote: Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Margaret Mead info: US anthropologist & popularizer of anthropology (1901 - 1978) quote: Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Grover Cleveland info: 190522nd and 24th US president (1837 - 1908) quote: Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mary Astell info: "" quote: If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jerry Falwell info: US clergyman & conservative commentator (1933 - ) quote: I listen to feminists and all these radical gals - most of them are failures. They've blown it. Some of them have been married, but they married some Casper Milquetoast who asked permission to go to the bathroom. These women just need a man in the house. That's all they need. Most of the feminists need a man to tell them what time of day it is and to lead them home. And they blew it and they're mad at all men. Feminists hate men. They're sexist. They hate men - that's their problem. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Pat Robertson info: US broadcaster, evangelist, & conservative commentator (1930 - ) quote: "[Feminism is] a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Margaret Trudeau info: "" quote: I can't be a rose in any man's lapel. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Nancy Linn-Desmond info: "" quote: Easy is an adjective used to describe a woman who has the sexual morals of a man. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marya Mannes info: "" quote: Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco info: "" quote: You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa just as well as without, and a mild interest in the length of hemlines doesn't necessarily disqualify you from reading Das Kapital and agreeing with every word. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bono info: Oprah Winfrey Show, 2002Irish lead singer of U2 (1960 - ) quote: There's the country of America, which you have to defend, but there's also the idea of America. America is more than just a country, it's an idea. An idea that's supposed to be contagious. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bono info: Oprah Winfrey Show, 2002Irish lead singer of U2 (1960 - ) quote: In Ethiopia during the famine, I saw stuff there that reorganized how I saw the world. I didn't quite know what to do about it. At a certain point, I felt God is not looking for alms. God is looking for action. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Meg Ryan info: Oprah Winfrey Show, 2000US movie actress (1963 - ) quote: I do press junkets and people will tell me what I've supposedly said in articles and I always disagree with myself. 'Why in the world would I say that?' rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jim Carrey info: Oprah Winfrey Show, 1997 quote: I would visualize things coming to me. It would just make me feel better. Visualization works if you work hard. That's the thing. You can't just visualize and go eat a sandwich. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jim Carrey info: Oprah Winfrey Show, 1997 quote: I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jarvis Klem info: "" quote: Make a decision, even if it's wrong. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Abraham Lincoln info: The Gettysburg Address, November 19, 186316th president of US (1809 - 1865) quote: Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Abraham Lincoln info: The Gettysburg Address, November 19, 186316th president of US (1809 - 1865) quote: But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Abraham Lincoln info: The Gettysburg Address, November 19, 186316th president of US (1809 - 1865) quote: It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Og Mandino info: " (1923 - 1996)" quote: Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Og Mandino info: " (1923 - 1996)" quote: Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Og Mandino info: " (1923 - 1996)" quote: Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Og Mandino info: " (1923 - 1996)" quote: Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. rating: 0 tags: []