--- - !ruby/object:Quote author: Epictetus info: DiscoursesRoman (Greek-born) slave & Stoic philosopher (55 AD - 135 AD) quote: When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Epictetus info: DiscoursesRoman (Greek-born) slave & Stoic philosopher (55 AD - 135 AD) quote: What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Juvenal info: SatiresRoman poet & satirist (55 AD - 127 AD) quote: It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Juvenal info: SatiresRoman poet & satirist (55 AD - 127 AD) quote: |- Who will guard the guards themselves? (quis custodiet ipsos custodes?) rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Juvenal info: SatiresRoman poet & satirist (55 AD - 127 AD) quote: Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes life worth having. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Juvenal info: SatiresRoman poet & satirist (55 AD - 127 AD) quote: The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Juvenal info: SatiresRoman poet & satirist (55 AD - 127 AD) quote: You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Cornelius Tacitus info: HistoriesRoman historian & politician (55 AD - 117 AD) quote: It is the rare fortuene of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Pliny the Younger info: LettersRoman author & politician (62 AD - 114 AD) quote: There is nothing to write about, you say. Well then, write and let me know just this - that there is nothing to write about; or tell me in the good old style if you are well. That's right. I am quite well. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Pliny the Younger info: LettersRoman author & politician (62 AD - 114 AD) quote: An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Pliny the Younger info: LettersRoman author & politician (62 AD - 114 AD) quote: That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Pliny the Younger info: LettersRoman author & politician (62 AD - 114 AD) quote: His only fault is that he has no fault. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus info: MeditationsRoman Emperor, A.D. 161-180 (121 AD - 180 AD) quote: You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus info: MeditationsRoman Emperor, A.D. 161-180 (121 AD - 180 AD) quote: Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus info: MeditationsRoman Emperor, A.D. 161-180 (121 AD - 180 AD) quote: By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus info: MeditationsRoman Emperor, A.D. 161-180 (121 AD - 180 AD) quote: The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus info: MeditationsRoman Emperor, A.D. 161-180 (121 AD - 180 AD) quote: How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus info: MeditationsRoman Emperor, A.D. 161-180 (121 AD - 180 AD) quote: Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus info: MeditationsRoman Emperor, A.D. 161-180 (121 AD - 180 AD) quote: "In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'" rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus info: MeditationsRoman Emperor, A.D. 161-180 (121 AD - 180 AD) quote: Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus info: MeditationsRoman Emperor, A.D. 161-180 (121 AD - 180 AD) quote: Very little is needed to make a happy life. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus info: MeditationsRoman Emperor, A.D. 161-180 (121 AD - 180 AD) quote: Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Quintus Septimius Tertullianus info: Adversus ValentinianosCarthaginian church father (160 AD - 230 AD) quote: Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Quintus Septimius Tertullianus info: De Carne ChristiCarthaginian church father (160 AD - 230 AD) quote: Out of the frying pan into the fire. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Saint Ambrose info: TaylorItalian saint & church father (339 AD - 397 AD) quote: When you are at Rome live in the Roman style; when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Saint Jerome info: Letterchurch father & saint (374 AD - 419 AD) quote: The friendship that can cease has never been real. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Saint Jerome info: Letterchurch father & saint (374 AD - 419 AD) quote: The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Saint Jerome info: Letterchurch father & saint (374 AD - 419 AD) quote: An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Saint Jerome info: Letterchurch father & saint (374 AD - 419 AD) quote: No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Saint Jerome info: Letterchurch father & saint (374 AD - 419 AD) quote: Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, 'Why do you not practice what you preach?' rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Saint Jerome info: Letterchurch father & saint (374 AD - 419 AD) quote: A fat paunch never breeds fine thoughts. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Saint Jerome info: Letterchurch father & saint (374 AD - 419 AD) quote: The scars of others should teach us caution. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Saint Jerome info: Letterchurch father & saint (374 AD - 419 AD) quote: When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Saint Jerome info: On the Epistle to the Ephesianschurch father & saint (374 AD - 419 AD) quote: Never look a gift horse in the mouth. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Saint John Chrysostom info: Letter to Olympiasaint, church father, & patriarch (347 AD - 407 AD) quote: No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Flavius Vegetius Renatus info: " (~375 AD)" quote: Let him who desires peace prepare for war. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Saint Augustine info: ConfessionsCarthaginian author, saint, & church father (354 AD - 430 AD) quote: I was in love with loving. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Talmud info: Mishna. Sanhedrin quote: Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world; and whoever rescues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire world. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ali ibn-Abi-Talib info: A Hundred Sayings (602 AD - 661 AD) quote: He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Saint Bernard info: EpistleFrench abbot & saint (1090 - 1153) quote: You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Heloise info: Letter (1098 - 1164) quote: Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alain de Lille info: " (~1202)" quote: Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Eike von Repkow info: " (~1220)" quote: "He who comes first, eats first. [Familiar as: First come first served.]" rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Saint Thomas Aquinas info: Two Precepts of CharityItalian saint & theologian (1225 - 1274) quote: "Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dante Alighieri info: The Divine ComedyItalian national epic poet (1265 - 1321) quote: In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dante Alighieri info: The Divine ComedyItalian national epic poet (1265 - 1321) quote: All hope abandon, ye who enter here! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dante Alighieri info: The Divine ComedyItalian national epic poet (1265 - 1321) quote: There is no greater sorrowThan to be mindful of the happy timeIn misery. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dante Alighieri info: The Divine ComedyItalian national epic poet (1265 - 1321) quote: He listens well who takes notes. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dante Alighieri info: The Divine ComedyItalian national epic poet (1265 - 1321) quote: A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dante Alighieri info: The Divine ComedyItalian national epic poet (1265 - 1321) quote: Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dante Alighieri info: The Divine ComedyItalian national epic poet (1265 - 1321) quote: If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dante Alighieri info: The Divine ComedyItalian national epic poet (1265 - 1321) quote: A great flame follows a little spark. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dante Alighieri info: The Divine ComedyItalian national epic poet (1265 - 1321) quote: The experience of this sweet life.L'esperienza de questa dolce vita. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Petrarch info: De RemediesItalian humanist, lyric poet, & scholar (1304 - 1374) quote: Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William of Wykeham info: Motto of Winchester College and New College, Oxford (1324 - 1404) quote: Manners maketh man. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Langland info: The Vision of Piers PlowmanEnglish poet (1332 - 1400) quote: Who will bell the cat? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Julian of Norwich info: Revelations of Divine Love (1342 - 1416) quote: He said not 'Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be dis-eased'; but he said, 'Thou shalt not be overcome.' rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas a Kempis info: Imitation of ChristGerman mystic & religious author (1380 - 1471) quote: Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas a Kempis info: Imitation of ChristGerman mystic & religious author (1380 - 1471) quote: And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas a Kempis info: Imitation of Christ, 1420German mystic & religious author (1380 - 1471) quote: First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Thomas Malory info: Le Morte d'ArthurEnglish epic poet & translator (1400 - 1471) quote: I shall curse you with book and bell and candle. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Francois Villon info: Ballade des Menus PropresFrench poet (1431 - 1463) quote: I know all except myself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aldus Manutius info: Placard on the door of the Aldine PressItalian printer (1449 - 1515) quote: Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Leonardo da Vinci info: The NotebooksItalian engineer, painter, & sculptor (1452 - 1519) quote: Intellectual passion dries out sensuality. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Leonardo da Vinci info: The NotebooksItalian engineer, painter, & sculptor (1452 - 1519) quote: As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Leonardo da Vinci info: The NotebooksItalian engineer, painter, & sculptor (1452 - 1519) quote: Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sebastian Brant info: The Ship of FoolsGerman humanist & poet (1457 - 1521) quote: The world wants to be deceived. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Skelton info: Replication Against Certain Young ScholarsEnglish humorist & poet (1460 - 1529) quote: I say, thou mad March hare. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Niccolo Machiavelli info: The PrinceItalian dramatist, historian, & philosopher (1469 - 1527) quote: Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Niccolo Machiavelli info: The PrinceItalian dramatist, historian, & philosopher (1469 - 1527) quote: A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study but war and it organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Niccolo Machiavelli info: The PrinceItalian dramatist, historian, & philosopher (1469 - 1527) quote: When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the marjority of men live content. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Niccolo Machiavelli info: The PrinceItalian dramatist, historian, & philosopher (1469 - 1527) quote: "There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Niccolo Machiavelli info: The PrinceItalian dramatist, historian, & philosopher (1469 - 1527) quote: There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Niccolo Machiavelli info: Discourse upon the First Ten Books of LivyItalian dramatist, historian, & philosopher (1469 - 1527) quote: Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ludovico Ariosto info: Orlando FuriosoItalian epic poet (1474 - 1533) quote: Nature made him, and then broke the mold. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Thomas More info: UtopiaEnglish author, courtier, humanist, & saint (1478 - 1535) quote: They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Thomas More info: WorksEnglish author, courtier, humanist, & saint (1478 - 1535) quote: A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Thomas More info: As he drew his beard aside upon placing his head on the block, From BaconEnglish author, courtier, humanist, & saint (1478 - 1535) quote: This hath not offended the king. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bud Abbott info: and Lou Costello, Naughty Nineties, 1943 filmUS comedian with Lou Costello (1895 - 1974) quote: "Abbott: Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third. Costello: That's what I want to find out." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Franklin P. Adams info: Nods and Becks (1944)US journalist (1881 - 1960) quote: When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Nelson Algren info: Newsweek, July 2, 1956 (1909 - 1981) quote: Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Maya Angelou info: Quoting a lyric by Paul Laurence DunbarUS author & poet (1928 - ) quote: I know why the caged bird sings. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hannah Arendt info: US (German-born) historian & social philosopher (1906 - 1975) quote: Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Brooks Atkinson info: Once Around the Sun (1951) (1894 - 1984) quote: In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: W. H. Auden info: Collected PoemsUS (English-born) critic & poet (1907 - 1973) quote: "A poet's hope: to be,like some valley cheese,local, but prized elsewhere." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: W. H. Auden info: US (English-born) critic & poet (1907 - 1973) quote: Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: W. H. Auden info: US (English-born) critic & poet (1907 - 1973) quote: One cannot review a bad book without showing off. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tex Avery info: Bugs Bunny's catch phraseUS cartoonist & animator of Warner Brothers cartoons (1908 - 1980) quote: What's up, Doc? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: A. J. Ayer info: Humanist Outlook (1910 - 1989) quote: No moral system can rest solely on authority. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Stanley Baldwin info: English politician (1867 - 1947) quote: A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Samuel Beckett info: The Unnamable (1959) page 418Irish author, dramatist, & novelist in France (1906 - 1989) quote: Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Samuel Beckett info: Waiting for Godot (1955)Irish author, dramatist, & novelist in France (1906 - 1989) quote: "Vladimir: That passed the time.Estragon: It would have passed in any case.Vladimir: Yes, but not so rapidly." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Samuel Beckett info: Waiting for Godot (1955)Irish author, dramatist, & novelist in France (1906 - 1989) quote: We are all born mad. Some remain so. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Brendan Behan info: Hostage (1958)Irish author & dramatist (1923 - 1964) quote: He was born an Englishman and remained one for years. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Irving Berlin info: Song titleUS (Russian-born) songwriter & writer of musicals (1888 - 1989) quote: There's no business like show business. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John B. Bogart info: " (1848 - 1921)" quote: When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Omar Bradley info: Speech to Boston Chamber of Commerce, 1948US general (1893 - 1981) quote: The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mel Brooks info: The Producers (1968)US actor, comedian, & movie director (1926 - ) quote: That's it baby, when you got it, flaunt it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Frederick Browning info: " (1896 - 1965)" quote: I think we might be going a bridge too far. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Nat Burton info: White Cliffs of Dover (song, 1941) quote: There'll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover,Tomorrow, just you wait and see. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Otto Von Bismarck info: remark, Aug. 11, 1867German Prussian politician (1815 - 1898) quote: Politics is the art of the possible. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Samuel Butler info: Erewhon (1872)English composer, novelist, & satiric author (1835 - 1902) quote: It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James M. Cain info: Book titleUS crime novelist & screenwriter (1892 - 1977) quote: The postman always rings twice. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Camus info: La Chute (The Fall),1956French existentialist author & philosopher (1913 - 1960) quote: "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Camus info: L'Homme revolte (The Rebel), 1951French existentialist author & philosopher (1913 - 1960) quote: What is a rebel? A man who says no. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Al Capone info: Quoted in the Philidelphia Public Ledger, 1929US gangster (1899 - 1947) quote: Once in the racket you're always in it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jimmy Carter info: Spech in March 1976US diplomat & Democratic politician (1924 - ) quote: We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Willa Cather info: O Pioneers! (1913)US novelist (1873 - 1947) quote: I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Coco Chanel info: French fashion designer & perfumer (1883 - 1971) quote: "Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charlie Chaplin info: in My Autobiography (1964)British actor, director, & screenwriter (1889 - 1977) quote: All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: G. K. Chesterton info: Defendant (1901)English author & mystery novelist (1874 - 1936) quote: Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: G. K. Chesterton info: Defendant (1901)English author & mystery novelist (1874 - 1936) quote: All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: G. K. Chesterton info: Flying Inn (1914)English author & mystery novelist (1874 - 1936) quote: The rich are the scum of the earth in every country. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: G. K. Chesterton info: Scandal of Father Brown (1935)English author & mystery novelist (1874 - 1936) quote: It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Noam Chomsky info: in a television interviewUS activist & linguist (1928 - ) quote: As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Agatha Christie info: Autobiography (1977)English mystery author (1890 - 1976) quote: One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Winston Churchill info: Radio speech, 1941British politician (1874 - 1965) quote: Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt... We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Winston Churchill info: Speech in March 1946British politician (1874 - 1965) quote: From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Winston Churchill info: Speech in November 1942British politician (1874 - 1965) quote: Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Winston Churchill info: (attributed)British politician (1874 - 1965) quote: Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Winston Churchill info: Hansard, November 12, 1936British politician (1874 - 1965) quote: So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Winston Churchill info: Hansard, May 13, 1940British politician (1874 - 1965) quote: "I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government: 'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.\"" rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Winston Churchill info: Hansard, June 10, 1941British politician (1874 - 1965) quote: The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Winston Churchill info: Hansard, November 11, 1947British politician (1874 - 1965) quote: Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Winston Churchill info: Radio speech, 1939British politician (1874 - 1965) quote: "I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Winston Churchill info: Speech at Harvard University, September 6, 1943British politician (1874 - 1965) quote: The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Winston Churchill info: Second World War (1948)British politician (1874 - 1965) quote: One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Brian Clark info: Play title (1932 - ) quote: Whose life is it anyway? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jean Cocteau info: French dramatist, director, & poet (1889 - 1963) quote: The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Cyril Connolly info: Enemies of Promise (1938) (1903 - 1974) quote: Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Calvin Coolidge info: in a telegram, 191930th president of US (1872 - 1933) quote: There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Calvin Coolidge info: Speech in Washington, Jan. 17, 192530th president of US (1872 - 1933) quote: The chief business of the American people is business. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Francis Darwin info: Eugenics Review, April 1914 (1848 - 1925) quote: In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not the man to whom the idea first occurs. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles De Gaulle info: French general & politician (1890 - 1970) quote: Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle info: (Sherlock Holmes) A Scandal in Bohemia, 1892British mystery author & physician (1859 - 1930) quote: You see, but you do not observe. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle info: (Sherlock Holmes) A Case of Identity, 1892British mystery author & physician (1859 - 1930) quote: The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle info: (Sherlock Holmes) The Sign of Four, 1890British mystery author & physician (1859 - 1930) quote: How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Einstein info: In a letter to Max Born, 1926US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) quote: At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Einstein info: Telegram, 24 May 1946US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) quote: The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Einstein info: Observer, Jan. 15, 1950US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) quote: If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Einstein info: "\"Science, Philosophy and Religion: a Symposium\", 1941US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)" quote: Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sigmund Freud info: Collected Writings, 1924Austrian psychologist (1856 - 1939) quote: Anatomy is destiny. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: R. Buckminster Fuller info: New Yorker, Jan. 8, 1966US architect & engineer (1895 - 1983) quote: Either war is obsolete or men are. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Warren G. Harding info: Speech in Boston, 1920US politician (1865 - 1923) quote: America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aldous Huxley info: "\"Texts and Pretexts\", 1932English critic & novelist (1894 - 1963)" quote: Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henrik Ibsen info: "\"The Master builder\", 1892, act 3Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)" quote: Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build, too. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Carl Jung info: "\"On the Psychology of the Unconciousness\", 1917Swiss psychologist (1875 - 1961)" quote: Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John F. Kennedy info: Speech to UN General Assembly, Sept. 25, 196135th president of US 1961-1963 (1917 - 1963) quote: Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John F. Kennedy info: Describing a dinner for Nobel Prize winners, 196235th president of US 1961-1963 (1917 - 1963) quote: ...probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John F. Kennedy info: In a speech at the White House, 196235th president of US 1961-1963 (1917 - 1963) quote: Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Joyce Kilmer info: "\"Trees\" (poem), 1914US poet (1886 - 1918)" quote: I think that I shall never seeA poem lovely as a tree. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Martin Luther King Jr. info: Speech in Detroit, June 23, 1963US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 - 1968) quote: I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Martin Luther King Jr. info: Speech at Civil Rights March on Washington, August 28, 1963US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 - 1968) quote: "Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: - 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'" rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Martin Luther King Jr. info: Strength to Love, 1963US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 - 1968) quote: Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Martin Luther King Jr. info: Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 - 1968) quote: Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Martin Luther King Jr. info: Speech at St. Louis, March 22, 1964US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 - 1968) quote: We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Martin Luther King Jr. info: Speech in Memphis, April 3, 1968, the day before King was assassinatedUS black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 - 1968) quote: ...And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Paul Klee info: Creative Credo, 1920Swiss Abstractionist painter (1879 - 1940) quote: Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Stanley Kubrick info: in Guardian, June 5, 1963British (US-born) movie director (1928 - ) quote: The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Stephen Leacock info: "\"Nonsense Novels\",1911Canadian economist & humorist (1869 - 1944)" quote: Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lenin info: "\"State and Revolution\", 1919Russian Communist politician & revolutionary (1870 - 1924)" quote: While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Art Linkletter info: "\"A Child's Garden of Misinformation\", 1965 (1912 - )" quote: The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence and obsolescence. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Norman Mailer info: "\"Esquire\", June 1960US journalist & novelist (1923 - )" quote: Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mao Tse-Tung info: Chinese Communist politician (1893 - 1976) quote: Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Masefield info: "\"Window in Bye Street\", 1912English author (1878 - 1967)" quote: In this life he laughs longest who laughs last. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: W. Somerset Maugham info: "\"Of Human Bondage\", 1915English dramatist & novelist (1874 - 1965)" quote: Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edna St. Vincent Millay info: "\"A Few Figs from Thistles\", 1920US poet (1892 - 1950)" quote: My candle burns at both endsIt will not last the night;But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -It gives a lovely light. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Richard M. Nixon info: In a press conference, November 11, 197337th president of US (1913 - 1994) quote: I made my mistakes, but in all my years of public life, I have never profited from public service. I've earned every cent. And in all of my years in public life I have never obstructed justice. And I think, too, that I can say that in my years of public life that I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Captain Lawrence Oates info: Last words, quoted in R. F. Scott's diary (1880 - 1912) quote: I am just going outside and may be some time. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Eric Hoffer info: " (1902 - 1983)" quote: People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Eric Hoffer info: " (1902 - 1983)" quote: To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats- we know it not. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Eric Hoffer info: " (1902 - 1983)" quote: No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Eric Hoffer info: " (1902 - 1983)" quote: The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Eric Hoffer info: " (1902 - 1983)" quote: "The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbors as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant of others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Eric Hoffer info: " (1902 - 1983)" quote: Take man's most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Eric Hoffer info: " (1902 - 1983)" quote: To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Eric Hoffer info: " (1902 - 1983)" quote: "People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a \"have\" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a \"have not\" type of self." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Eric Hoffer info: " (1902 - 1983)" quote: The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Ingersoll info: Letters of Robert Ingersoll (letter to his brother)US agnostic, agnostic apologist, lawyer, & orator (1833 - 1899) quote: I'd rather smoke one cigar than hear two sermons. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Colley Cibber info: Love's Last Shift, Act 2English actor & dramatist (1671 - 1757) quote: "We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman,\x97scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Colley Cibber info: The Double Gallant, PrologueEnglish actor & dramatist (1671 - 1757) quote: "Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they \x92re ended." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Colley Cibber info: Woman's Wit, Act 1English actor & dramatist (1671 - 1757) quote: Possession is eleven points in the law. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Richard Gere info: to The Guardian (UK), June 2002 quote: I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe, and someone said I was a snake, I'd think, no, actually I'm a giraffe. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Pablo Picasso info: Spanish Cubist painter (1881 - 1973) quote: God is really only another artist, he made the elephant, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but keeps trying new ideas. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry James info: "\"The Ambassadors\", Book Sixth, Chapter 1British (US -born) author (1843 - 1916)" quote: His idea was simply what a man's idea always is--to put every effort off on the woman. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry James info: "\"The Ambassadors\", Book Fifth, Chapter 2British (US -born) author (1843 - 1916)" quote: People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course--with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here--to keep an eye on the fleeting hour. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry James info: "\"The Ambassadors\", Book Fifth, Chapter 3British (US -born) author (1843 - 1916)" quote: There are women who are for all your 'times of life.' They're the most wonderful sort. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry James info: "\"The Ambassadors\", Book First, Chapter 1British (US -born) author (1843 - 1916)" quote: It has been my fate, and one's fate one accepts. It's a dreadful thing to have to say, in so wicked a world. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry James info: "\"The Ambassadors\", Book First, Chapter 3British (US -born) author (1843 - 1916)" quote: Thank goodness you're a failure-- it's why I so distinguish you! Anything else to-day is too hideous. Look about you--look at the successes. Would you BE one, on your honour? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry James info: "\"The Ambassadors\", Book Fourth, Chapter 2British (US -born) author (1843 - 1916)" quote: Thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising as usual into his draught. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Clive Jones info: "" quote: Common sense and sense of humor are the same thing moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Carl Jung info: Swiss psychologist (1875 - 1961) quote: I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and an equal number who do use their minds, but in an amazingly stupid way. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Elizabeth Henry info: "" quote: It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep for your whole life. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jillian Graham info: Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul quote: Never let a stain from the past put a mark on your future. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Stephen King info: US horror novelist & screenwriter (1947 - ) quote: The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Wallace info: Braveheart quote: Everyone dies. Not everyone really lives. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Terry Pratchett info: "\"Small Gods\" (1992)" quote: Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rabbi Mark David Finkel info: Gov. Craig Benson Inaugural Speech, January 9, 2003 quote: We are wise when we learn from one another. We are strong when we contain our impulses. We are honored when we honor others. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anthony Burgess info: You've Had Your Time, 1990British composer & novelist (1917 - 1993) quote: Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: O. Henry info: "\"A Ruler of Men.\"US short story author (1862 - 1910)" quote: A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: O. Henry info: "\"Gift of the Magi,\" 1906US short story author (1862 - 1910)" quote: Life is sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: O. Henry info: In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994.US short story author (1862 - 1910) quote: Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of life. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: O. Henry info: In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994.US short story author (1862 - 1910) quote: Write what you like; there is no other rule. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ingmar Bergman info: "" quote: I hope I never get so old I get religious. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn info: "" quote: One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Theodore Rubin info: "" quote: The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jerry Seinfeld info: US comedian & television actor (1954 - ) quote: A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: W. H. Auden info: The Dyer's Hand, 1962US (English-born) critic & poet (1907 - 1973) quote: What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Anthony info: "" quote: Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Carl Sagan info: US astronomer & popularizer of astronomy (1934 - 1996) quote: Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Carl Sagan info: US astronomer & popularizer of astronomy (1934 - 1996) quote: When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: W. H. Auden info: US (English-born) critic & poet (1907 - 1973) quote: When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dante Alighieri info: The Divine ComedyItalian national epic poet (1265 - 1321) quote: Avarice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all On Fire. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Spiro T. Agnew info: "" quote: Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sylvia Ashton-Warner info: Spinster quote: "No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Allston info: "" quote: The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Wordsworth info: "\"Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood\", 1803English poet (1770 - 1850)" quote: To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edmund Burke info: Irish orator, philosopher, & politician (1729 - 1797) quote: There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edmund Burke info: Irish orator, philosopher, & politician (1729 - 1797) quote: Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Wordsworth info: The World is Too Much With UsEnglish poet (1770 - 1850) quote: "The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!" rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Joseph Addison info: English essayist, poet, & politician (1672 - 1719) quote: Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Joseph Addison info: English essayist, poet, & politician (1672 - 1719) quote: Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ansel Adams info: US nature photographer (1902 - 1984) quote: Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Toni Morrison info: Interview in Salon May 2000US novelist (1931 - ) quote: I'm just trying to look at something without blinking. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: G. K. Chesterton info: English author & mystery novelist (1874 - 1936) quote: The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lewis Carroll info: English author & recreational mathematician (1832 - 1898) quote: It is one of the great secrets of life that those things which are most worth doing, we do for others. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry Ford info: US automobile industrialist (1863 - 1947) quote: Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Winston Churchill info: British politician (1874 - 1965) quote: We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Publilius Syrus info: " (~100 BC)" quote: The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Malcolm Forbes info: US art collector, author, & publisher (1919 - 1990) quote: You can judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing to them or for them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oliver Wendell Holmes info: The autocrat of the breakfast-table quote: Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow info: US poet (1807 - 1882) quote: If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lord Alfred Tennyson info: "" quote: His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Laura Ingalls Wilder info: "" quote: It is the simple things in life that make living worthwhile - sweet fundamental things such as love. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mother Teresa info: Indian (Albanian-born) humanitarian & missionary (1910 - 1997) quote: It's not how much we give, but how much love we put into giving. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Eliot info: English novelist (1819 - 1880) quote: Wear a smile and have friends, wear a scowl and have wrinkles. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Joseph Parry info: "" quote: Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rita Mae Brown info: "BingoUS author and social activist " quote: "Why can't peace be a single overriding common purpose: why do we wait for a crisis to pull us together? Let's pull together for peace." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry James info: "\"The Ambassadors\", Book Sixth, Chapter 2British (US -born) author (1843 - 1916)" quote: For the worst sign of all--as I must have it for you-- is that you can't help me. That's when a woman pities. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Benjamin Franklin info: US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790) quote: Our critics are our friends; they show us our faults. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry James info: "\"The Ambassadors\", Book Seventh, Chapter 2British (US -born) author (1843 - 1916)" quote: I feel how little she can like being told of her owing me anything. No woman ever enjoys such an obligation to another woman. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry James info: "\"The Ambassadors\", Book Seventh, Chapter 3British (US -born) author (1843 - 1916)" quote: It struck him really that he had never so lived with her as during this period of her silence; the silence was a sacred hush, a finer clearer medium, in which her idiosyncrasies showed. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alexander Pope info: An essay on CriticismEnglish poet & satirist (1688 - 1744) quote: "A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: T. E. Lawrence info: ...when asked, Why do men go to war?British soldier (1888 - 1935) quote: Because the women are watching. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Christopher Marlowe info: Jew of Malta, Act 1 Scene 1English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1593) quote: Who hateth me but for my happiness? Or who is honour'd now but for his wealth? Rather had I, a Jew, be hated thus, Than pitied in a Christian poverty; For I can see no fruits in all their faith, But malice, falsehood, and excessive pride, Which methinks fits not their profession. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Christopher Marlowe info: Jew of Malta, PrologueEnglish dramatist & poet (1564 - 1593) quote: I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no sin but ignorance. Birds of the air will tell of murders past. I am asham'd to hear such fooleries! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Max Frisch info: "" quote: Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ernest Rutheford info: "" quote: It was the most incredible thing that has ever happened to me in my life. It was as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ernest Rutheford info: "" quote: Splitting the atom is like trying to shoot a gnat in the Albert Hall at night and using ten million rounds of ammunition on the off chance of getting it. That should convince you that the atom will always be a sink of energy and never a reservoir of energy. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Secretary Donald Rumsfeld info: Camp Pendleton Town Hall Meeting 27 August 2002 quote: It's less important to have unanimity than it is to be making the right decisions and doing the right thing, even though at the outset it may seem lonesome. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry James info: "\"The Ambassadors\", Book Eleventh, Chapter 1British (US -born) author (1843 - 1916)" quote: "\"There are certainly moments,\" said Chad, \"when you seem to me too good to be true. Yet if you are true,\" he added, \"that seems to be all that need concern me.\"" rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: D. H. Lawrence info: Studies in Classic American LiteratureEnglish novelist (1885 - 1930) quote: Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry James info: "\"The Ambassadors\", Book Ninth, Chapter 2British (US -born) author (1843 - 1916)" quote: Even when a thing's already nice there mostly is some other thing that would have been nicer - or as to which we wonder if it wouldn't. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry James info: "\"The Ambassadors\", Book Ninth, Chapter 2British (US -born) author (1843 - 1916)" quote: She had fortunately always her appetite for news. The pure flame of the disinterested burned in her cave of treasures as a lamp in a Byzantine vault. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Friedrich Nietzsche info: German philosopher (1844 - 1900) quote: At the bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique human being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg info: " (1742 - 1799)" quote: A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can not expect an apostle to peer out. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jesse Shelley info: "" quote: Conformity is the ruin of the mind. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry James info: "\"The Ambassadors\", Book Eighth, Chapter 3British (US -born) author (1843 - 1916)" quote: Small and fat and constantly facetious, straw- coloured and destitute of marks, he would have been practically indistinguishable hadn't his constant preference for light-grey clothes, for white hats, for very big cigars and very little stories, done what it could for his identity. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry James info: "\"The Ambassadors\", Book Eighth, Chapter 2British (US -born) author (1843 - 1916)" quote: He had the entertainment of thinking that if he had for that moment stopped the clock it was to promote the next minute this still livelier motion. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dorothy Sayers info: "" quote: The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people seem to think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and sudden acquisition of wealth. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: "Anastasio Somoza Garc\xEDa" info: Dictator of Nicaragua 1936-1956 quote: Gold for friends, Lead for foes. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sigmond Freud info: "" quote: One day the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Franklin D. Roosevelt info: About Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza32nd president of US (1882 - 1945) quote: He [Somoza] may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Friedrich Nietzsche info: German philosopher (1844 - 1900) quote: Morality is the greatest of all tools for leading mankind by the nose. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henny Youngman info: US (English-born) comedian (1906 - 1998) quote: I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henny Youngman info: US (English-born) comedian (1906 - 1998) quote: I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Aiken info: "" quote: If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Richard Bach info: "" quote: The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Walter Bagehot info: English economist & journalist (1826 - 1877) quote: The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tallulah Bankhead info: US movie actress (1903 - 1968) quote: "Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles Baudelaire info: French poet (1821 - 1867) quote: It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Victor Hugo info: French dramatist, novelist, & poet (1802 - 1885) quote: Popularity? It is glory's small change. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Miguel de Unamuno info: " (1864 - 1936)" quote: Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: E. H. Gombrich info: " (1909 - )" quote: Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Herman Melville info: US novelist & sailor (1819 - 1891) quote: Life's a voyage that's homeward bound. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Blake info: "\"The Marriage of Heaven and Hell\", 1790English engraver, illustrator, & poet (1757 - 1827)" quote: As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Ingersoll info: The Philosophy of Ingersoll (1906), "Fragments"US agnostic, agnostic apologist, lawyer, & orator (1833 - 1899) quote: There is no slavery but ignorance. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Pearl Buck info: US novelist in China (1892 - 1973) quote: There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream - whatever that dream might be. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry Miller info: The Henry Miller Reader (1959), "Reunion in Brooklyn"US author (1891 - 1980) quote: To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Samuel Johnson info: RasselasEnglish author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784) quote: Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Samuel Johnson info: "Rambler #18English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784)" quote: There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sigmund Freud info: Letter to Carl Jung, January 17, 1909Austrian psychologist (1856 - 1939) quote: We are certainly getting ahead; if I am Moses, then you are Joshua and will take possession of the promised land of psychiatry, which I shall only be able to glimpse from afar. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jean Cocteau info: Journey to Freedom (1969)French dramatist, director, & poet (1889 - 1963) quote: The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Franklin D. Roosevelt info: Speech, September 22, 193632nd president of US (1882 - 1945) quote: In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Niccolo Machiavelli info: The PrinceItalian dramatist, historian, & philosopher (1469 - 1527) quote: ...it is a base thing to look to others for your defense instead of depending upon yourself. That defense alone is effectual, sure, and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valor. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Christopher Reeve info: From speech at Democratic National Convention, August 1996 quote: So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) info: To his orchestra quote: Assassins! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mother Teresa info: Indian (Albanian-born) humanitarian & missionary (1910 - 1997) quote: Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the worst poverty of all. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tim McGraw info: "" quote: We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we all take a little of each other everywhere. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Will Rogers info: Autobiography (1949) chapter 6US humorist & showman (1879 - 1935) quote: There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Will Rogers info: New York Times, Sept 30 1923US humorist & showman (1879 - 1935) quote: Well, all I know is what I read in the papers. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Will Rogers info: Saturday Evening Post, Nov. 6, 1926US humorist & showman (1879 - 1935) quote: I bet you if I had met him [Trotsky] and had a chat with him, I would have found him a very interesting and human fellow, for I never yet met a man that I didn't like. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Will Rogers info: Weekly Articles (1981), first published 1927US humorist & showman (1879 - 1935) quote: Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Franklin D. Roosevelt info: Address to Congress, Dec. 8, 194132nd president of US (1882 - 1945) quote: Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live on in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) quote: Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bertrand Russell info: Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 1British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970) quote: Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bertrand Russell info: Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 9British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970) quote: One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bertrand Russell info: Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 12British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970) quote: Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bertrand Russell info: Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 5British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970) quote: The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bertrand Russell info: Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970) quote: To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bertrand Russell info: Mysticism and Logic (1917) ch. 4British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970) quote: Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bertrand Russell info: Sceptical Essays (1928), "On the Value of Scepticism"British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970) quote: It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bertrand Russell info: Sceptical Essays (1928), "Dreams and Facts"British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970) quote: Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bertrand Russell info: Sceptical Essays (1928), "Eastern and Western Ideals of Happiness"British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970) quote: "We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bertrand Russell info: Sceptical Essays (1928), "Recrudescence of Puritanism"British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970) quote: It is obvious that 'obscenity' is not a term capable of exact legal definition; in the practice of the Courts, it means 'anything that shocks the magistrate.' rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bertrand Russell info: Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970) quote: Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Blaise Pascal info: French mathematician, physicist (1623 - 1662) quote: The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jorge Luis Borges info: Argentine novelist & poet (1899 - 1986) quote: There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas Gray info: "\"On a Distant Prospect of Eton College\" 1742" quote: Yet ah! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Camus info: French existentialist author & philosopher (1913 - 1960) quote: When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rush Limbaugh info: "" quote: America guarantees equal opportunity, not equal outcome. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robin Williams info: Live on BroadwayUS actor & comedian (1951 - ) quote: Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lewis Carroll info: English author & recreational mathematician (1832 - 1898) quote: It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Johnny Carson info: US comedian & television host (1925 - 2005) quote: If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hannah Arendt info: US (German-born) historian & social philosopher (1906 - 1975) quote: The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry Sanders info: in Sports Illustrated, Dec. 26, 1955 quote: Sure, winning isn't everything. It's the only thing. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Santayana info: Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, ch. 10US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 - 1952) quote: Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: Parents and Children (1914) "Children's Happiness"Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) quote: A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Logan Pearsall Smith info: Afterthoughts (1931) "Myself" (1865 - 1946) quote: People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas Jefferson info: Notes on the State of Virginia - denouncing the evils of slavery3rd president of US (1743 - 1826) quote: "Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Max Lucado info: "" quote: If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent an educator. If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist. If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us an economist. But since our greatest need was forgiveness, God sent us a Savior. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J. K. Rowling info: "Harry Potter and the Goblet of FireBritish fantasy author " quote: If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gertrude Stein info: The Geographical History of America (1936)US author in France (1874 - 1946) quote: In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Carl Friedrich Gauss info: from Sartorius von Waltershausen, "Gauss zum Gedachtniss" [1856]German mathematician, physicist, & prodigy (1777 - 1855) quote: Mathematics is the queen of the sciences. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Theodore Roosevelt info: Speech in Chicago, 3 Apr. 190326th president of US (1858 - 1919) quote: "There is a homely old adage which runs: \"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.\" If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Helen Keller info: US blind & deaf educator (1880 - 1968) quote: Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Helen Keller info: The Open Door (1957)US blind & deaf educator (1880 - 1968) quote: Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Eleanor Roosevelt info: My DayUS diplomat & reformer (1884 - 1962) quote: People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Eleanor Roosevelt info: US diplomat & reformer (1884 - 1962) quote: I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Eleanor Roosevelt info: US diplomat & reformer (1884 - 1962) quote: Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tom Stoppard info: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967)British dramatist & screenwriter (1937 - ) quote: We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lytton Strachey info: in Michael Holroyd Lytton, Strachey vol. 1 (1967)English biographer (1880 - 1932) quote: Discretion is not the better part of biography. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Igor Stravinsky info: Russian composer in US (1882 - 1971) quote: I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Booth Tarkington info: Penrod (1914)US novelist (1869 - 1946) quote: There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Margaret Thatcher info: in Observer April 4, 1989British politician (1925 - ) quote: I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Harry S Truman info: Letter to his sister, Nov. 14, 194733rd president of US (1884 - 1972) quote: All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mark Twain info: Notebooks (1935)US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) quote: What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mark Twain info: Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) quote: Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Laurens Van der Post info: The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958) quote: Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Harry Vaughan info: Time, Apr. 28, 1952 quote: If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thorstein Veblen info: Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)US economist & social philosopher (1857 - 1929) quote: Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dame Edna Everage info: In a television interview with Joan RiversAustralian Comedian (character of Barry Humphries) (1934 - ) quote: Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe info: German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 - 1832) quote: When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Theodore Roosevelt info: Theodore Roosevelt, an autobiography26th president of US (1858 - 1919) quote: Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth, the tyranny of plutocracy. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ray Kurzweil info: "The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence" quote: "Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we\x92d find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Winnie the Pooh info: Pooh's Little Instruction Book quote: People who don't think probably don't have brains; rather, they have gray fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Eliot info: "\"Middlemarch\", Book I, ch.1English novelist (1819 - 1880)" quote: Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Paul Rodriguez info: "" quote: Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Virginia Woolf info: The Waves (1931)English novelist (1882 - 1941) quote: I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Carl Sandburg info: Chicago Poems (1916) "Fog"US biographer & poet (1878 - 1967) quote: The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Carl Sandburg info: Cornhuskers (1918) "Prairie"US biographer & poet (1878 - 1967) quote: I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Carl Sandburg info: New York Times Feb. 13, 1959US biographer & poet (1878 - 1967) quote: Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Santayana info: Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 3US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 - 1952) quote: An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Santayana info: Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 8US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 - 1952) quote: Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Santayana info: Little Essays (1920) "Ideal Immortality"US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 - 1952) quote: The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Santayana info: Winds of Doctrine (1913) ch. 2US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 - 1952) quote: For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Santayana info: Winds of Doctrine (1913) ch. 4US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 - 1952) quote: Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Singer Sargent info: quoted in Bentley and Esar, Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951)US (Italian-born) portrait painter (1856 - 1925) quote: Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jean-Paul Sartre info: The Devil and the Good Lord (1951) act 1French author & existentialist philosopher (1905 - 1980) quote: When the rich wage war it's the poor who die. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jean-Paul Sartre info: Upon refusing the Nobel Prize, Oct. 22, 1964French author & existentialist philosopher (1905 - 1980) quote: A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jean-Paul Sartre info: Being and Nothingness (1943)French author & existentialist philosopher (1905 - 1980) quote: Existence precedes and rules essence. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jean-Paul Sartre info: Closed Doors (1944)French author & existentialist philosopher (1905 - 1980) quote: Hell is other people. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arthur Schnabel info: in Chicago Daily News, June 11 1958Austrian composer & pianist (1882 - 1951) quote: The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes--ah, that is where the art resides! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arthur Schnabel info: My Life and Music (1961)Austrian composer & pianist (1882 - 1951) quote: When I am asked, "What do you think of our audience?" I answer, "I know two kinds of audiences only--one coughing, and one not coughing." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Budd Schulberg info: On the Waterfront (film, 1954) quote: You don't understand. I could have had class. I could have been a contender. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Service info: Ballads of a Bohemian (1921)Canadian poet (1874 - 1958) quote: Ah! the clock is always slow; It is later than you think. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bill Shankly info: In Sunday Times (UK) Oct. 4 1981 quote: Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: The Apple Cart (1930)Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) quote: I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: Candida (1898) act 1Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) quote: We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: Candida (1898) act 1Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) quote: "Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: Everybody's Political What's What? (1944) ch. 9Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) quote: Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: Major Barbara (1907) act 2Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) quote: I am a Millionaire. That is my religion. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: Major Barbara (1907) act 2Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) quote: Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: Major Barbara (1907) act 3Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) quote: He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: Man and Superman (1903) act 1Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) quote: There is no love sincerer than the love of food. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: Man and Superman (1903) act 3Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) quote: "Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: Man and Superman (1903) act 3Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) quote: An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) quote: Every man over forty is a scoundrel. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) quote: "Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) quote: Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant (1898)Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) quote: There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: Pygmalion (1916) prefaceIrish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) quote: It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gloria Shayne info: Title of song (1961) quote: Goodbye cruel world. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Logan Pearsall Smith info: Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature" (1865 - 1946) quote: "There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Logan Pearsall Smith info: Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature" (1865 - 1946) quote: How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Logan Pearsall Smith info: Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death" (1865 - 1946) quote: What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Logan Pearsall Smith info: Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People" (1865 - 1946) quote: Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Logan Pearsall Smith info: Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People" (1865 - 1946) quote: All Reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Logan Pearsall Smith info: Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People" (1865 - 1946) quote: When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Logan Pearsall Smith info: Afterthoughts (1931) "In the World" (1865 - 1946) quote: To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and keep absolutely sober. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Logan Pearsall Smith info: Afterthoughts (1931) "Art and Letters" (1865 - 1946) quote: The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oswald Spengler info: The Hour of Decision, 1933German historian & philosopher (1880 - 1936) quote: Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gertrude Stein info: Everybody's Autobiography (1937)US author in France (1874 - 1946) quote: It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Steinbeck info: The Grapes of Wrath (1939)US novelist (1902 - 1968) quote: Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Steinbeck info: The Grapes of Wrath (1939)US novelist (1902 - 1968) quote: I know this--a man got to do what he got to do. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lytton Strachey info: Eminent Victorians (1918)English biographer (1880 - 1932) quote: "The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Igor Stravinsky info: In Observer 8 Oct. 1961Russian composer in US (1882 - 1971) quote: My music is best understood by children and animals. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Simeon Strunsky info: No Mean City (1944) (1879 - 1948) quote: People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dylan Thomas info: Collected poems (1952)Welsh poet (1914 - 1953) quote: Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edward Thomas info: Poems (1917) "Early One Morning" quote: The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Peter Ustinov info: Dear Me (1977)English actor & author (1921 - 2004) quote: Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alfred North Whitehead info: Dialogues (1954)English mathematician & philosopher (1861 - 1947) quote: Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alfred North Whitehead info: Introduction to Mathematics (1911)English mathematician & philosopher (1861 - 1947) quote: Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kenneth Williams info: Acid Drops (1980) quote: The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tennessee Williams info: A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)US dramatist (1911 - 1983) quote: I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Wendell Willkie info: An American Programme (1944)US businessman & politician (1892 - 1944) quote: The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Woodrow Wilson info: in John Dos Passos, "Mr Wilson's War"28th president of US (1856 - 1924) quote: Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Woodrow Wilson info: Speech in New York, Apr. 20, 191528th president of US (1856 - 1924) quote: No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Woodrow Wilson info: Speech in Philadelphia, May 10, 191528th president of US (1856 - 1924) quote: There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight; there is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ludwig Wittgenstein info: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)Austrian philosopher (1889 - 1951) quote: The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ludwig Wittgenstein info: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)Austrian philosopher (1889 - 1951) quote: " The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Virginia Woolf info: A Room of One's Own (1929)English novelist (1882 - 1941) quote: Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of a man at twice its natural size. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Virginia Woolf info: A Room of One's Own (1929)English novelist (1882 - 1941) quote: Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alexander Woollcott info: Letter to Rex O'Malley, 1942US author (1887 - 1943) quote: I have no need of your God-damned sympathy. I only wish to be entertained by some of your grosser reminiscences. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alexander Woollcott info: in R. E. Drennan, Wit's End (1973)US author (1887 - 1943) quote: All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: W. Somerset Maugham info: The Moon and SixpenceEnglish dramatist & novelist (1874 - 1965) quote: Life isn't long enough for love and art. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: W. Somerset Maugham info: The Moon and SixpenceEnglish dramatist & novelist (1874 - 1965) quote: I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: W. Somerset Maugham info: The Moon and SixpenceEnglish dramatist & novelist (1874 - 1965) quote: A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: W. Somerset Maugham info: The Moon and SixpenceEnglish dramatist & novelist (1874 - 1965) quote: Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mahatma Gandhi info: (attributed)Indian political and spiritual leader (1869 - 1948) quote: An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edgar Allan Poe info: BereniceUS short story author, editor, & poet (1809 - 1849) quote: Convinced myself, I seek not to convince. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lord Essex info: "" quote: Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Helen Keller info: US blind & deaf educator (1880 - 1968) quote: I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: Romeo and JulietGreatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616) quote: Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books; but love from look, toward school with heavy looks. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Walt Disney info: On the inside wall of the American Adventure in Epcot CenterUS cartoonist & movie producer (1901 - 1966) quote: Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James Lovell info: speech to Girl Scouts in DuPage County, Illinois, 1997 - quoted in the Chicago Tribune 2-3-03 quote: There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bill Watterson info: "\"Calvin\", Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow GoonsUS cartoonist (1958 - )" quote: Today my spirit is going to school while my body stays in bed. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Peter Kunkel info: "" quote: Nudists have no fashion sense. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Abraham Lincoln info: 16th president of US (1809 - 1865) quote: Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bill Watterson info: "\"Calvin\", It's a Magical WorldUS cartoonist (1958 - )" quote: I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Booker T. Washington info: US educator (1856 - 1915) quote: Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Soren Kierkegaard info: Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855) quote: If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Julia Roberts info: Steel Magnolias quote: I'd rather have 30 minutes of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Voltaire info: French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778) quote: True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld info: State Department, Washington, 22 January 2003 quote: You're thinking of Europe as Germany and France, I don't. I think that's old Europe. You look at vast numbers of other countries in Europe. They're not with France and Germany on this. They're with the United States. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Claude Bernard (1813-78) info: "" quote: The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Isaac Asimov info: US science fiction novelist & scholar (1920 - 1992) quote: To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: " Friedrich Neitzsche" info: "" quote: He who fights monsters should look into it that he himself does not become a monster. When you gaze long into the Abyss, the Abyss also gazes into you. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arabian Proverb info: "" quote: Four things come not back -- the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Serbian Proverb info: "" quote: Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Benjamin Franklin info: US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790) quote: I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Chapman Cohen info: " (1868-1954)" quote: Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John D. Barrow info: (1735-1811) (1952 - ) quote: If a `religion' is defined to be a system of ideas that contains unprovable statements, then Godel taught us that mathematics is not only a religion, it is the only religion that can prove itself to be one. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Napoleon info: "" quote: Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edward Teller info: quoted in "Nuclear Reactions", by Joel Davis in Omni, May 1988US (Hungarian-born) physicist (1908 - 2003) quote: There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gaius Plinius Secundus info: " (\"The Elder\") (23-79)" quote: This only is certain, that there is nothing certain; and nothing more miserable and yet more arrogant than man. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Elbert Hubbard info: US author (1856 - 1915) quote: In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Ruskin (1819-1900) info: British poet, artist, quote: "There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse cannot make a little cheaper and the people who consider price only are this man\x92s lawful prey." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Richard Jeni info: Humorist/Comedian quote: "On going to war over religion: You're basically killing each other to prove who's got the better imaginary friend." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Richard Jeni info: "" quote: It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Winston Churchill info: "" quote: The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H. Ross Perot info: "" quote: If you see a snake just kill it. Don't appoint a committee on snakes. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: e e cummings info: US poet (1894 - 1962) quote: "Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marie Curie info: French (Polish-born) chemist & physicist (1867 - 1934) quote: Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Herro info: "" quote: An elephant is a mouse, built to government specifications. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bertrand Russell info: British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970) quote: Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Erma Bombeck info: God's Little Devotional Book for mothersUS author & humorist (1927 - 1996) quote: "Worry is like a rocking chair: It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles Franklin Kettering info: (1876-1958) quote: Whenever you look at a piece of work and you think the fellow was crazy, then you want to pay some attention to that. One of you is likely to be, and you had better find out which one it is. It makes an awful lot of difference. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George W. Bush info: State of the Union address 200343rd President of US (1946 - ) quote: Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world; it is God's gift to humanity. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anders Fogh Rasmussen info: (Prime Minister of Denmark) Family photo after the European Council meeting in Copenhagen, 13 December 2002 quote: "Europe is spreading its wings. In freedom. In prosperity. And in peace. It is a truly proud moment for the European Union. It is a triumph for liberty and democracy. To our new members I say: \x93Warmly welcome to our family\x94. Our new Europe is born." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer Simpson info: from "The Simpsons" quote: English? Who needs that? I'm never going to England. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Thomas Brown info: "" quote: It is a brave act of valor to condemn death, but where life is more terrible than death it is then the truest valor to dare to live. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Vladimir Nabakov info: Lolita quote: Life is beautiful. Life is sad. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henrik Ibsen info: Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906) quote: A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle info: (Sherlock Holmes) The Sign of FourBritish mystery author & physician (1859 - 1930) quote: ...chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Terry Pratchett info: (on the big bang theory) quote: In the begining there was nothing, and it exploded. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gordon Moore info: in a keynote address at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco in 2003 quote: No physical quantity can continue to change exponentially forever. Your job is delaying forever. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dolly Parton info: "" quote: We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dolly Parton info: "" quote: You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kenny Rogers info: "" quote: Do not be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry David Thoreau info: US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862) quote: "In the long run, you hit only what you aim at: Therefore aim high." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jim Morrison info: US rock singer (1943 - 1971) quote: Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jim Morrison info: US rock singer (1943 - 1971) quote: I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Frost info: US poet (1874 - 1963) quote: We dance in a circle and suppose, while the secret sits in the middle and knows. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Imam Ali info: Peak of Eloquence (Nahjul Balagha) quote: The sin which makes you sad and repentant is more liked by Allah than the good deed which turns you arrogant. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Imam Ali info: Peak of Eloquence (Nahjul Balagha) quote: 205. A greedy man will always find himself in the shackles of humility. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Imam Ali info: Peak of Eloquence (Nahjul Balagha) quote: 148. One who does not realize his own value is condemned to utter failure. (Every kind of complex, superiority or inferiority is harmful to man). rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bruce Schneier info: Cryptogram, 16/04/2002 quote: There's no reason to treat software any differently from other products. Today Firestone can produce a tire with a single systemic flaw and they're liable, but Microsoft can produce an operating system with multiple systemic flaws discovered per week and not be liable. This makes no sense, and it's the primary reason security is so bad today. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jed Babbin info: " former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense" quote: Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. You just leave a lot of useless, noisy baggage behind. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Einstein info: US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) quote: I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Carl Sagan info: US astronomer & popularizer of astronomy (1934 - 1996) quote: Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Einstein info: US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) quote: Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Eintsein info: "" quote: Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Einstein info: US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) quote: Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Einstein info: US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) quote: He who cherishes the values of culture cannot fail to be a pacifist. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Einstein info: US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) quote: The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Einstein info: US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) quote: The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Einstein info: US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) quote: It is characteristic of the military mentality that nonhuman factors (atom bombs, strategic bases, weapons of all sorts, the possession of raw materials, etc) are held essential, while the human being, his desires, and thoughts - in short, the psychological factors - are considered as unimportant and secondary...The individual is degraded...to "human materiel". rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Einstein info: US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) quote: "There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Einstein info: US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) quote: After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest sceintists are always artists as well. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Einstein info: US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) quote: Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this counrty is closely related with this. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Einstein info: US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) quote: Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tamil Proverb info: "" quote: Great anger is more destructive than the sword rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alfred Montapert info: "" quote: Every time you get angry, you poison your own system. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas A. Edison info: (attributed)US inventor (1847 - 1931) quote: I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Einstein info: US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) quote: A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dalai Lama info: (in exile) Associated Press, 5/14/01 quote: It is essential to know that to be a happy person, a happy family, a happy society, it is very crucial to have a good heart, that is very crucial. World peach must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just the absence of violence but the manifestation of human compassion. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jawaharlal Nehru info: Indian politician (1889 - 1964) quote: Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Natalie Portman info: "" quote: Cute is when a person's personality shines through their looks. Like in the way they walk, every time you see them you just want to run up and hug them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Barbara Kingsolver info: "\"Life Without Go-Go Boots\" (personal essay)" quote: High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Galileo Galilei info: The AssayerItalian astronomer & physicist (1564 - 1642) quote: "Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rene Descartes info: Discourse on MethodFrench mathematician & philosopher (1596 - 1650) quote: "Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed: for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Malcolm X info: Autobiography of Malcolm X chap 4US black nationalist leader (1925 - 1965) quote: You can always chase a dream but it will not count if you never catch it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. info: US jurist (1841 - 1935) quote: The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: "S\xF8ren Kierkegaard" info: "" quote: "There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Imam Ali-Ibn-Abi-Talib info: Nahjul-Balgha (Peak of Eloquence), saying no1 quote: 1. During civil disturbance adopt such an attitude that people do not attach any importance to you - they neither burden you with complicated affairs, nor try to derive any advantage out of you. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Imam Ali-Ibn-Abi-Talib info: Nahjul Balgha (Peak of Eloquence), saying no. 2 quote: 2. He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Noam Chomsky info: "Ruth Anshen, Biography of an Idea (Mt. Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1986), pg. 196US activist & linguist (1928 - )" quote: Experience becomes possible because of language. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Noam Chomsky info: "Ruth Anshen, Biography of an Idea (Mt. Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1986), pg. 196US activist & linguist (1928 - )" quote: The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert J. Ringer info: "" quote: People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Richard D. Rosen info: "" quote: Are you going out after the truth, or are you going out after something you believe? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: W. Clement Stone info: "" quote: Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles M. Schulz info: US cartoonist (1922 - 2000) quote: Life is like a ten-speed bike; most of us have gears we never use. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry Ford info: US automobile industrialist (1863 - 1947) quote: It is well enough that the people of this nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Victor Hugo info: Les MiserablesFrench dramatist, novelist, & poet (1802 - 1885) quote: Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir William Osler info: British (Canadian-born) physician (1849 - 1919) quote: To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kurt Vonnegut info: Mother NightUS novelist (1922 - 2007) quote: We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kurt Vonnegut info: Sirens of TitanUS novelist (1922 - 2007) quote: A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jack Handy info: Deep Thoughts quote: I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Michaelangelo info: "" quote: I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set it free. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Seymour Skinner info: The Simpsons quote: There's nothing more exciting than science. You get all the fun of sitting still, being quiet, writing down numbers, paying attention. Science has it all. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marcus Aureluis info: "" quote: Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robin Williams info: Good Will HuntingUS actor & comedian (1951 - ) quote: She is not perfect. You are not perfect. The question is whether or not you are perfect for each other. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Karl von Clausewitz info: In Clausewitz's 1827 work "On War" quote: War is only a continuation of state policy by other means. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Curtin (1885-1945) info: Australian Prime Minister's controversial wartime appeal on 26 December 1941. For some it meant a disloyal rejection of Britain; for others a bold recognition of Australia's desperate position. quote: Without any inhibitions of any kind I make it quite clear that Australia looks to America, free of any pangs as to our traditional links or kinship with the United Kingdom. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John F. Kennedy info: Rice University speech on September 12, 196235th president of US 1961-1963 (1917 - 1963) quote: We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy - but because they are hard! Because that challenge is one we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone and one we intend to win! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mark Twain info: US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) quote: I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Shaquille O' Neal info: Page-a-Day sports calendar quote: I'm like the Pythagorean theorem. Not too many people know the answer to my game. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arthur Miller info: The Crucible, act IIUS dramatist (1915 - 2005) quote: Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Inge info: "" quote: The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason for being happy except that they are so. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Friedrich Nietzsche info: Beyond Good and EvilGerman philosopher (1844 - 1900) quote: Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Orson Scott Card info: XenocideUS science fiction author (1951 - ) quote: The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Steven B. Beach info: Paraglider magazine, Vol. 1 No. 2 quote: Since the dawn of time there have been those among us who have been willing to go to extraordinary lengths to gain access to that domain normally reserved for birds, angels, and madmen. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Matt Groening info: US cartoonist & satirist (1954 - ) quote: Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig, and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Brian Wilson info: "" quote: The more you sweat during peace, The less you bleed during war. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry Miller info: The Books in My LifeUS author (1891 - 1980) quote: In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George W. Bush info: Speech to the United Nations, September 12, 200243rd President of US (1946 - ) quote: By heritage and by choice, the United States of America will make that stand. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry Miller info: US author (1891 - 1980) quote: I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry Miller info: The Wisdom of the HeartUS author (1891 - 1980) quote: "Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jane Austen info: Mansfield ParkEnglish novelist (1775 - 1817) quote: I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jane Austen info: Mansfield ParkEnglish novelist (1775 - 1817) quote: "There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ralph Waldo Emerson info: Address on The Method of Nature, 1841US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) quote: He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Porfirio Diaz info: Biography of Porfirio Diaz quote: Poor Mexico - so far from God and so close to the United States. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Jordan info: "" quote: The only thing sadder than a battle won is a battle lost. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kobsak Chutikul info: (deputy leader in Thailand), AP news release 3/7/03 quote: For all its flaws, I would feel safer to have my children grow up in a world dominated by the United States than by any other country. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bette Davis info: US movie actress (1908 - 1989) quote: There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau info: "" quote: Society's institutions, like government, schools, the arts, and the media, corrupt naturally good individuals. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Geoff Arbuthnot info: "" quote: Arrogant and right is surely better than humble and wrong. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Calvin Miller info: The Singer Trilogy quote: Love is substance; Lust, illusion. Only in the surge of passion do the two mingle in confusion. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Frank Herbert info: Chapterhouse Dune, Missionaria ProtectivaUS science fiction novelist (1920 - 1986) quote: "All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Frank Herbert info: Chapterhouse Dune, Mentat FixeUS science fiction novelist (1920 - 1986) quote: Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ablility to learn. The judgemental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Theodore Roosevelt info: 26th president of US (1858 - 1919) quote: A just war is in the long run far better for a nation's soul than the most prosperous peace obtained by acquiescence in wrong or injustice. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Martin Buber info: "" quote: God can be addressed, but not expressed. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tom Robbins info: US novelist (1936 - ) quote: Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert M. Pirsig info: "" quote: The real train of knowledge isn't a static entity that can be stopped and subdivided. Its always going somewhere. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Democritus info: Greek philosopher (460 BC - 370 BC) quote: I would rather discover one scientific fact than become King of Persia. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tom Robbins info: US novelist (1936 - ) quote: Maybe most people were fundamentally contradictory. The real people at any rate. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tom Robbins info: US novelist (1936 - ) quote: If the world gets any smaller I'll end up living next door to myself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tom Robbins info: US novelist (1936 - ) quote: There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tom Robbins info: US novelist (1936 - ) quote: Meditation... disolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lucretius (96 BC - 55 BC), info: De Rerum Natura III quote: Vitaque mancipio nulli datur, omnibus usu. ( Life isn't given to anyone, but just given on loan to everyone rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Democritus info: Greek philosopher (460 BC - 370 BC) quote: Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arnold Toynbee info: English historian & historical philosopher (1889 - 1975) quote: "History is a vision of God\x92s creation on the move." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Cicero info: Roman author, orator, & politician (106 BC - 43 BC) quote: The more laws, the less justice. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aristotle info: Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) quote: To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aristotle info: MetaphysicaGreek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) quote: The whole is more than the sum of its parts. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Margaret Atwood info: The Handmaid's TaleCanadian critic, feminist, novelist, & poet (1939 - ) quote: Whatever is silenced will clamour to be heard, though silently. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edward R. Murrow info: On Winston Churchill, 1954US broadcast journalist & newscaster (1908 - 1965) quote: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mark Twain info: US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) quote: Somewhere between the Angels and the French lies the rest of humanity. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert J. Oppenheimer info: After viewing 1st full test of manhattan project at trinity, NM. Invention and Technology magazine, 2001 quote: Now we are all sons of bitches. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Orwell info: 1984English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950) quote: War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Koran info: "" quote: Horse, you are truly a creature without equal, for you fly without wings and conquer without sword. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Leo Buscaglia info: US author & lecturer (1925 - ) quote: No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marcus Aurelius info: "" quote: All is ephemeral--fame and the famous as well. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jane Austen info: Mansfield ParkEnglish novelist (1775 - 1817) quote: Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jane Austen info: Mansfield ParkEnglish novelist (1775 - 1817) quote: It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jane Austen info: Mansfield ParkEnglish novelist (1775 - 1817) quote: Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jane Austen info: Mansfield ParkEnglish novelist (1775 - 1817) quote: Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Francis Bacon info: Of EmpireEnglish author, courtier, & philosopher (1561 - 1626) quote: For there is no question but a just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Enrico Fermi info: US (Italian-born) physicist (1901 - 1954) quote: "There are two possible outcomes: If the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marie Beyon Ray info: "" quote: "Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand \xAD and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Steinbeck info: "\"Once There Was A War\" 1943US novelist (1902 - 1968)" quote: All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James Boswell info: Scottish author & biographer (1740 - 1795) quote: The man who stops making new friends eventually will have none. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Harvey Allen info: "" quote: Religions change; beer and wine remain. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Francesco Caracciolo info: on alcohol quote: In England there are sixty different religions and only one sauce. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Frank Zappa info: US musician, singer, & songwriter (1940 - 1993) quote: Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ursula LeGuin info: Nine Lives - short story in The Wind's Twelve Quarters quote: We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Peter Cochrane info: Head of BT Labs UK taling about the internet - November 2000 quote: The world is divided into two kinds of people, those who spend a great deal of time saving money, and those who spend a great deal of money saving time. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Adolf Hitler info: Mein KampfGerman Nazi dictator, orator, & politician (1889 - 1945) quote: And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ethiopian Proverb info: "" quote: When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ronald Reagan info: 40th president of US (1911 - 2004) quote: Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lt. Col. (Ret.) Ralph Peters info: Interview in American Heritage quote: The shah always falls in the end, Saddam always turns on you, and the Saudis always betray you. If we support evil, the long-term price is almost always too high. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Noel Coward info: English actor, dramatist, & songwriter (1899 - 1973) quote: I can take any amount of criticism as long as I can consider it unqualified praise. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Greek proverb info: "" quote: A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas Carlyle info: Scottish author, essayist, & historian (1795 - 1881) quote: If you are ever in doubt as to whether or not you should kiss a pretty girl, give her the benefit of the doubt. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J. D. Higgins info: "" quote: "'Tis better to hear a truth which brings a tear, than a lie which brings a smile." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Samuel P. Huntington info: "" quote: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sefer HaMiddot Rubin info: "'A Treasury of Jewish Quotations,' edited by Joseph L. Baron, Jason Aronson Inc." quote: Death is experienced only once, but he who fears it dies each minute. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Susan Sontag info: US author & critic (1933 - 2004) quote: I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Martha Washington info: US wife of George Washington 1759 (1732 - 1802) quote: I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery info: The Little PrinceFrench writer (1900 - 1944) quote: It is only with one's heart that one can see clearly. What is essential is invisible to the eye. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kris Kristofferson info: "\"Me and Bobby McGee\"" quote: Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Don DeLillo info: White Noise quote: That which we fear to touch is often the fabric of our salvation. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dr. Thomas Fuller info: Gnomologia, 1732British physician (1654 - 1734) quote: He that plants trees loves others beside himself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dr. Thomas Fuller info: Gnomologia, 1732British physician (1654 - 1734) quote: Money is the sinew of love as well as war. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dr. Thomas Fuller info: Gnomologia, 1732British physician (1654 - 1734) quote: With foxes we must play the fox. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dr. Thomas Fuller info: Gnomologia, 1732British physician (1654 - 1734) quote: Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dr. Thomas Fuller info: Gnomologia, 1732British physician (1654 - 1734) quote: Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Donald H. Rumsfeld info: Department of Defense news briefing, February 12, 2002US Secretary of Defense (1932 - ) quote: Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - - the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edwin Schlossberg info: "" quote: The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Martin Luther King Jr. info: US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 - 1968) quote: Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sigmund Freud info: Austrian psychologist (1856 - 1939) quote: Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jane Austen info: Mansfield ParkEnglish novelist (1775 - 1817) quote: If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jane Austen info: Mansfield ParkEnglish novelist (1775 - 1817) quote: One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jane Austen info: Mansfield ParkEnglish novelist (1775 - 1817) quote: Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jane Austen info: Mansfield ParkEnglish novelist (1775 - 1817) quote: The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Steven Wright info: US comedian and actor (1955 - ) quote: Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ulysses S. Grant info: Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Chapter 46US general & politician (1822 - 1885) quote: It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Logan Pearsall Smith info: " (1865 - 1946)" quote: What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oliver Goldsmith info: British-Irish author (1730 - 1774) quote: Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sophie Tucker info: US (Russian-born) vaudeville singer (1884 - 1966) quote: From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on, she needs good cash. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dean Koontz info: Fear Nothing, Page 4 , final paragraph quote: I believe in the possibility of miracles but more to the point, I believe in our need for them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Martin Luther King Jr. info: US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 - 1968) quote: It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tom Robbins info: "\"Still Life With Woodpecker\" pub. 1980US novelist (1936 - )" quote: Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tom Robbins info: "\"Still Life With Woodpecker\" 1980US novelist (1936 - )" quote: If by the last quarter of the twentiesth century godliness wasn't next to something a little more interesting than cleanliness, it might be time to reevaluate our notions of godliness. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Louis Stevenson info: The Children's Garden of VersesScottish author (1850 - 1894) quote: The world is so full of a number of things I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oliver Wendell Holmes info: US author & physician (1809 - 1894) quote: Beat a man with the strength of you argument, not with the strength of your arm. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alexander Senturia info: "" quote: Love is not a crime, denying it is. Having dreams is not a crime, not chasing them is. Making mistakes is not a crime, not learning from them is. Life is not a crime, not living it is. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: C. S. Lewis info: English essayist & juvenile novelist (1898 - 1963) quote: "There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, in the end, 'Thy will be done.'" rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Santayana info: US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 - 1952) quote: A child only educated at school is an uneducated child. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Doisneau info: "" quote: Life is short. Forgive quickly. Kiss slowly. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Woody Allen info: "'Annie Hall'US movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 - )" quote: Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable. The horrible would be terminal cases, blind people, criples. The miserable is everyone else. When you go through life you should be thankful that you're miserable. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Branch Rickey/ Dogers GM (1943-50) info: "" quote: Thou shall not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, thou shall steal and thou must. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Frank Herbert info: "Chenoeh: \"Coversations with Leto II\"US science fiction novelist (1920 - 1986)" quote: Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Butler Yeats info: The Celtic Twilight, IntroductionIrish dramatist & poet (1865 - 1939) quote: Have not all races had their first unity from a mythology that marries them to rock and hill? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rossella Camerlingo info: "" quote: Let them have their ways, but let us never loose ours. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Butler Yeats info: Irish dramatist & poet (1865 - 1939) quote: We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason outselves into it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Butler Yeats info: AutobiographyIrish dramatist & poet (1865 - 1939) quote: Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alben W. Barkley info: (vice president under Harry Truman) quote: The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arthur William Edgar O' Shaugnessy info: "" quote: "We are the music makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-beakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world forever, it seems." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Waylon Jennings info: "" quote: I've always been crazy, but it's kept me from going insane. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J. K. Rowling info: "Harry Potter and the Chamber of SecretsBritish fantasy author " quote: It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J. K. Rowling info: "Harry Potter and the Goblet of FireBritish fantasy author " quote: If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J. K. Rowling info: "Hagrid's Dad, Harry Potter and The Goblet of FireBritish fantasy author " quote: Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Michael J. Fox info: Lucky Man - a memoirUS (Canadian-born) actor (1961 - ) quote: What other people think about me is not my business. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Plato info: Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC) quote: Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Eleanor Roosevelt info: US diplomat & reformer (1884 - 1962) quote: Never be bored, and you will never be boring. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Einstein info: The World As I See It (autobio, 1934)US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) quote: The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice, and the desire for personal independence - these are the features of Jewish tradition that make me thank my stars that I belong to it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Woodrow Wilson info: 28th president of US (1856 - 1924) quote: Here is a great body of our Jewish citizens from whom have sprung men of genius in every walk of our varied life; men who have conceived of its ideals with singular clearness; and led enterprises with sprit & sagacity... They are not Jews in America, they are American citizens. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: E. M. Forster info: Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951British novelist (1879 - 1970) quote: I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our own particular path than we have yet got ourselves. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kurt Vonnegut info: Timequake, 1997US novelist (1922 - 2007) quote: I am eternally grateful.. for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kurt Vonnegut info: Timequake, 1997US novelist (1922 - 2007) quote: I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles did'. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J. D. Salinger info: US novelist & short story author (1919 - ) quote: I can't be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Carlin info: US comedian and actor (1937 - ) quote: Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Machiavelli info: The Prince quote: Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thucydides info: Greek historian (471 BC - 400 BC) quote: A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Stephen King info: The Shawshank RedemptionUS horror novelist & screenwriter (1947 - ) quote: I have to remind myself that some birds weren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knew it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice. But your world is just that much colder and emptier when they're gone. I don't know... maybe I just miss my friend. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jane Austen info: Mansfield ParkEnglish novelist (1775 - 1817) quote: I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jane Austen info: Mansfield ParkEnglish novelist (1775 - 1817) quote: We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Desiderius Erasmus info: Adagia (III, IV, 96)Dutch author, philosopher, & scholar (1466 - 1536) quote: In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. [In regione caecorum rex est luscus.] rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dante Alighieri info: Italian national epic poet (1265 - 1321) quote: The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Yogi Berra info: "\"When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It\" -- Ch. 3US baseball player, coach, & manager (1925 - )" quote: When you're part of a team, you stand up for your teammates. Your loyalty is to them. You protect them through good and bad, because they'd do the same for you. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Yogi Berra info: "\"When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It\"US baseball player, coach, & manager (1925 - )" quote: If you don't know where you're going, you might not get there. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oprah Winfrey info: US actress & television talk show host (1954 - ) quote: There's no such thing as failure. Mistakes happen in your life to bring into focus more clearly who you really are. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J. Gregory Keyes info: "\"Babylon 5: Dark Genesis: The Birth of the Psi Corps\"" quote: Evolution crawls to imperfection. It ends in extinction. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J. Gregory Keyes info: "\"Babylon 5: Dark Genesis: The Birth of the Psi Corps\"" quote: The mirror never sees itself. The reflection never is itself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: David & Leigh Eddings info: "\"Polgara: The Sorceress\"" quote: ...and in the long run, disease is more humane than war or starvation. My, isn't that gloomy? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Melaine Rawn info: "Dragon Star 1: Stronghold" quote: Consult your dragon before you wager his hide. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Melaine Rawn info: "\"Dragon Prince 1: Dragon Prince\"" quote: In that instant he learned what jealousy was. He wanted to know the name of every other man she had ever looked at, whether they had touched her- and most especially where to find these men so that he could kill them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Terry Goodkind info: "\"Temple of the Winds\"" quote: Fate occasionally touches us all in ways we don't always understand... rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Terry Goodkind info: "\"Stone of Tears\"" quote: And yesterday he would have killed me to get to his foe. But now we serve each other. Only a fool walks into the future backward. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Terry Goodkind info: "\"Blood of the Fold\"" quote: But if used for retribution, magic is vengeance incarnate. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alexis de Tocqueville info: Democracy in America 1835 quote: "There are now two great nations in the world, which starting from different points, seem to be advancing toward the same goal: the Russians and the Anglo-Americans...Each seems called by some secret design of Providence one day to hold in its hands the destinies of half the world." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: "\"Swedish Proverb\"" info: "" quote: Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Winston Churchill info: Speech about World War II quote: Never in the course of history, have so many owed so much to so few. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Roger Waters info: Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon quote: All you touch and all you see, is all your life will ever be. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Winston Churchill info: The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy quote: Why, you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together- what do you get? The sum of all fears. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles Caleb Colton info: " (1780 - 1832)" quote: Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: LtGen Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe info: "" quote: "Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot display his ability. Tie him to a narrow and confined task, rob him of his initiative, and you take away from him the best and most valuable qualities he posses: aggressive spirit, joy of action, and the passion of the hunter." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: LtGen Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe info: "" quote: Only in the spirit of attack, born in a brave heart, will bring success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Col Erich ' Bubi' Hartmann (world's leading ace with 352 victories in WWII) info: translated from book "Holt Hartmann vom Himmel" quote: Of all my accomplishments I may have achieved during the war, I am proudest of the fact that I never lost a wingman. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: "Doyle \x91Wahoo\x92 Nicholson, USMC" info: "" quote: "There are only two types of aircraft \x96 fighters and targets." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Baron Manfred von Richthofen ("Red Baron") info: "" quote: The aggressive spirit, the offensive, is the chief thing everywhere in war, and the air is no exception. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: W.C. Fields info: radio broadcast (later released on records) quote: It's easy to quit drinking. I 've done it a thousand times. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bill Watterson info: Calvin and HobbesUS cartoonist (1958 - ) quote: I have plentyof common sense! I just choose to ignore it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Victor Hugo info: French dramatist, novelist, & poet (1802 - 1885) quote: The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Regina Barreca info: Envy quote: Envy is what makes you, when an aquaintance is lustily telling you that she's dating a Greek god of a guy, ask, "Which one, Hades?" rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Erksine info: The Complete Life quote: In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James Russell Lowell info: US diplomat, essayist, & poet (1819 - 1891) quote: All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jake Johanson info: "" quote: A lady came up to me on the street and pointed to my suede jacket. "You know a cow was murdered for that jacket?" she sneered. I replied in a psychotic tone, "I didn't know there were any witnesses. Now I'll have to kill you too." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Max Beerbohm info: English author and satirist (1872 - 1956) quote: Nobody ever died of laughter. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Herbert Beerbohm Tree info: "" quote: I was born old and get younger every day. At present I am sixty years young. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Orwell info: English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950) quote: Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jules Feiffer info: US cartoonist & satirist (1929 - ) quote: At sixteen I was stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self- confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tom Lehrer info: US humorist, singer, & songwriter (1928 - ) quote: It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Gordon Noel Byron info: "" quote: Those who will not reason are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dick Cavett info: US comedian & television host (1936 - ) quote: As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Arthur Ward info: "" quote: God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you"? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Erik Pepke info: "" quote: Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Frederick Langbridge info: " (1849 - 1923)" quote: Two men look out through the same bars; one sees the mud and one the stars. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas Carlyle info: Scottish author, essayist, & historian (1795 - 1881) quote: "A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Herbert Hoover info: US mining engineer & politician (1874 - 1964) quote: About the time we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Herrick info: To the Virgins, to Make Much of TimeEnglish lyric poet (1591 - 1674) quote: Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Benjamin Disraeli info: British politician (1804 - 1881) quote: Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arthur Miller info: Death of a SalesmanUS dramatist (1915 - 2005) quote: The jungle is dark but full of diamonds... rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Stephen King info: US horror novelist & screenwriter (1947 - ) quote: The road to hell is paved with adverbs. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sebastian R. N. Chamfort info: "" quote: The most wasted day of all is that during which we have not laughed. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Abraham Lincoln info: 16th president of US (1809 - 1865) quote: He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Austin L. Sorensen info: "" quote: A child is not likely to find a father in God unless he finds something of God in his father. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Unknown info: "Quotations by unknown authors " quote: The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he doesn't exist. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dale Carnegie info: "" quote: Big shots are only little shots who kept on shooting. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bob Hope info: US (English-born) actor & comedian (1903 - 2003) quote: Middle age is when your age starts to show around the middle. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: A. Mark Wells info: "" quote: The Christian does not consider death to be the end of his life, but the end of his troubles. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Joe Girard info: "" quote: The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Winston Churchill info: British politician (1874 - 1965) quote: I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Martin Luther King, Jr. info: "" quote: If a man hasn't discovered something that he would die for, he isn't fit to live. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry Van Dyke info: "" quote: Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, and to work, and to play and to look up at the stars. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mary Ellen Kelly info: "" quote: Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dan Bennett info: "" quote: Real charity doesn't care if it's tax-deductible or not. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edward Chapin info: "" quote: Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thornton Wilder info: US dramatist & novelist (1897 - 1975) quote: My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Eleanor Roosevelt info: US diplomat & reformer (1884 - 1962) quote: If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Krishnamurti info: Beginnings of Learning quote: When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: A. S. Neill info: Summerhill quote: Love and hate are not opposites. The opposite of love is indifference. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Krishnamurti info: Beginnings of Learning quote: In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: A. S. Neill info: Summerhill quote: Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: A. S. Neill info: Summerhill quote: The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself; and in consequence, he is at war with the world. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edward de Bono info: Textbook of Wisdom quote: Cleverness is like a lens with a very sharp focus. Wisdom is more like a wide-angle lens. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jelaluddin Rumi info: "" quote: Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rollo May info: "" quote: The neurotic and the artist - since both live out the unconscious of the race - reveal to us what is going to emerge endemically in the society later on. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jelaluddin Rumi info: "" quote: Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Harrison info: English singer & songwriter (1943 - 2001) quote: It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Warren Bennis info: From an article in a meeting industry magazine. quote: "No leader sets out to become a leader. People set out to live their lives, expressing themselves fully. When that expression is of value, they become leaders. So the point is not to become a leader. The point is to become yourself, to use yourself completely\x97all your skills, gifts, and energies\x97in order to make your vision manifest. You must withhold nothing. You must, in sum, become the person you started out to be and enjoy the process of becoming." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Beverly D'Onfrio info: Riding In Cars With Boys quote: One day can make your life, one day can ruin your life. All life is, is four or five days that can change everything. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John F. Kennedy info: Amherst College, Oct 26, 1963 - Source JFK Library, Boston, Mass.35th president of US 1961-1963 (1917 - 1963) quote: "The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nation\x92s greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Eddie Van Halen info: "" quote: Some people think a song without words isn't a real song. Tell that to Beethoven and he'll kick your ass! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kurt Cobain info: US grunge rock musician, guitarist, singer, & songwriter (1967 - 1994) quote: Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William F. Buckley, Jr. info: "" quote: Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Richard Wagner info: "" quote: I believe in God, Mozart, and Beethoven. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ludwig van Beethoven info: German Romantic composer (1770 - 1827) quote: We mortals with immortal minds are only born for sufferings and joys, and one could almost say that the most excellent receive joy through sufferings. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ludwig van Beethoven info: German Romantic composer (1770 - 1827) quote: Music is a higher revelation than philosophy. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ludwig van Beethoven info: German Romantic composer (1770 - 1827) quote: Music, verily, is the mediator between intellectual and sensuous life... the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ludwig van Beethoven info: German Romantic composer (1770 - 1827) quote: I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ludwig van Beethoven info: German Romantic composer (1770 - 1827) quote: I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Larry Flint info: on the evidence against Pres Bill Clinton quote: "(Kenneth) Star...(has) done what I could not do in a quarter century: make pornography more widely available." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kermit the Frog info: "" quote: It isn't easy being green. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Donald Rumsfeld info: 1st briefing after "shock and awe" started quote: Dick, frankly you do not have the war plan... which makes me quite happy. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: A. Huxley info: Island quote: Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver, dear God, from Belief. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Prine info: "\"Christmas In Prison\"" quote: I Dream of Her Always , Even When I Don't Dream ... rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Hughes info: Fatal Shore quote: ...simple fact that any land looks like Eden after months at sea. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George S. Patton info: US general (1885 - 1945) quote: A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bertrand Russell info: "\"Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?\", 1947British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970)" quote: Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bertrand Russell info: "\"Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?\", 1947British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970)" quote: When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John F. Kennedy info: 35th president of US 1961-1963 (1917 - 1963) quote: We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Lennon info: When asked how the Beatles found America on their first U.S. visitEnglish singer & songwriter (1940 - 1980) quote: Just turn left at Greenland... rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alice Thomas Ellis info: "" quote: There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Calvin Coolidge info: 30th president of US (1872 - 1933) quote: Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Jackson info: "" quote: The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) quote: Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Paul Valery info: French critic & poet (1871 - 1945) quote: "Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lenny Bruce info: " (1923 - 1966)" quote: When you are eight years old, nothing is any of your business. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J. B. Priestley info: English critic, dramatist, & novelist (1894 - 1984) quote: Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Evelyn Waugh info: English novelist & satirist (1903 - 1966) quote: What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: E. B. White info: US author & humorist (1899 - 1985) quote: The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Feather info: " (1908 - 1976)" quote: Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jerry Seinfeld info: US comedian & television actor (1954 - ) quote: There is no such thing as "fun for the whole family." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: The Importance of Being Earnest, Act 3Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: I. F. Stone info: US journalist & newspaper publisher (1907 - 1989) quote: If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in; first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edgar Allan Poe info: Tamerlane, Part IIUS short story author, editor, & poet (1809 - 1849) quote: Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Einstein info: Gary Young M.D.'s lecture on chaos theory and Buddhism in Oregon State University on 04/17/03 (SGI-USA)US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) quote: If there is any religion that could cope with modern scientific needs, it would be Buddhism. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jack Benny info: US comedian (1894 - 1974) quote: My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Friedrich Nietzsche info: German philosopher (1844 - 1900) quote: All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Joe Gores info: "" quote: Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jerry Garcia info: "" quote: It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Howard Dietz info: "" quote: I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Virgil Thomson info: US composer, conductor, & music critic (1896 - 1989) quote: The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Pablo Neruda info: Chilean dilpomat & poet (1904 - 1973) quote: Es tan corto el amor, y tan largo el olvido. (Love is so short, and forgetting is so long.) rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Woodrow Wilson info: 28th president of US (1856 - 1924) quote: The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Helen Keller info: US blind & deaf educator (1880 - 1968) quote: We would never learn to be patient if there were only joy in the world. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lao-Tzu info: Chinese philosopher (604 BC - 531 BC) quote: Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lao-Tzu info: Chinese philosopher (604 BC - 531 BC) quote: Conquering others takes force, conquering yourself is true strength. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ralph Waldo Emerson info: Society and SolitudeUS essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) quote: "The true test of a civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops\x97no, but the kind of man the country turns out." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Steinbeck info: The Moon is DownUS novelist (1902 - 1968) quote: Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Beatles info: Song 'The End' quote: In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aldous Huxley info: Vedanta for the Western World, 1945English critic & novelist (1894 - 1963) quote: Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bruce Lee info: "Film: (Dragon The Bruce Lee Story. Quotation posted at end of film just before credits)US martial arts expert & movie actor (1940 - 1973)" quote: The key to immortality is first to live a life worth remembering. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anne Bronte info: Agnes GreyEnglish novelist (1820 - 1849) quote: It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Frank Zappa info: Liner notes from the album, "Freak Out," 1965US musician, singer, & songwriter (1940 - 1993) quote: Drop out of school before your mind rots from our mediocre educational system. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Frank Zappa info: Interview with this submitter, New York City, 5/08/1980US musician, singer, & songwriter (1940 - 1993) quote: I'll give you a simple formula for straightening out the problems of the United States. First, you tax the churches. You take the tax off of capital gains and the tax off of savings. You decriminalize all drugs and tax them same way as you do alcohol. You decriminalize prostitution. You make gambling legal. That will put the budget back on the road to recovery, and you'll have plenty of tax revenue coming in for all of your social programs, and to run the army. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Frank Zappa info: Interview with this submitter, New York City, 5/08/1980US musician, singer, & songwriter (1940 - 1993) quote: "The function of government ought to be: make sure you have good water to drink, somebody picking up the garbage, good roads to drive on, enough electricity to turn your light bulbs and your record player on, and whatever smaller amounts of regulatory assistance is necessary to make this society work." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Frank Zappa info: Interview with this submitter, New York City, 5/08/1980US musician, singer, & songwriter (1940 - 1993) quote: I'm interested in the capitalistic way of life, and the reason I like it better than anything else I've seen so far is because competition produces results. Every socialistic type of government where the State theoretically owns everything, and everybody does their little part to help the State, inevitably produces bad art, it produces social inertia, it produces really unhappy people, and it is more repressive than any other kind of government. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rosalene Glickman, Ph.D. info: "Optimal Thinking: How to Be Your Best Self" quote: Your purpose in relationships is simply to be your best self, regardless of the circumstances. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: E. M. Forster info: "\"A Room with a View\"British novelist (1879 - 1970)" quote: Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hanif Kureishi info: in his book, Intimacy quote: But why do people who are good at families have to be smug and assume it is the only way to live, as if everybody else is inadequate? Why can't they be blamed for being bad at promiscuity? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Les Brown info: "" quote: Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: "V\xE1clav Havel" info: Disturbing the Peace, ch. 5 (1986; tr. 1990).Czech dissident, dramatist, & politician (1936 - ) quote: Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Adolf Hitler info: Mein KampfGerman Nazi dictator, orator, & politician (1889 - 1945) quote: ...obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: General Douglas MacArthur info: His final address to the joint session of the congressUS WWII general & war hero (1880 - 1964) quote: My soldiers ask of me, why surrender a military advantage in the field ... I could not answer. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Orson Wells info: "" quote: I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aristotle info: quoted in http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Pythagoras.htmlGreek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) quote: The Pythagorean ... having been brought up in the study of mathematics, thought that things are numbers ... and that the whole cosmos is a scale and a number. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Barbara De Angelis info: "" quote: The journey in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life really takes place. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Einstein info: US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) quote: Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ludwig van Beethoven info: German Romantic composer (1770 - 1827) quote: Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Lucas info: Skywalking The Life and Film of George Lucas p. 273US movie director & screenwriter (1944 - ) quote: Maybe someday I'll be able to shoot a film I'm proud of. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J. M. Barrie info: "" quote: God gives us memory so that we may have roses in December. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dwight D. Eisenhower info: 34th president of US 1953-1961 (1890 - 1969) quote: Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Eknath Easwaran info: "" quote: The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate we ask ourselves, Are these words true? If so, we let them pass on; if not, back they go. At the second gate we ask, Are they necessary? At the last gate we ask, Are they kind? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Camus info: French existentialist author & philosopher (1913 - 1960) quote: In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: St. Augustine info: "" quote: Men go abroad to wonder the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Pablo Picasso info: Spanish Cubist painter (1881 - 1973) quote: Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: F. Scott Fitzgerald info: US novelist (1896 - 1940) quote: He waited for the mask to drop off, but at the same time he did not question her right to wear it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Michael Burke info: "" quote: Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Elie Wiesel info: US (Romanian-born) activist, novelist (1928 - ) quote: Peace is not God's gift to His creatures. It is our gift - to each other. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Schweitzer info: French philosopher & physician (1875 - 1965) quote: Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edmund Burke info: Irish orator, philosopher, & politician (1729 - 1797) quote: Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Herbert Hoover info: US mining engineer & politician (1874 - 1964) quote: A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas Jefferson info: 3rd president of US (1743 - 1826) quote: The Price Of Freedom Is Eternal Vigilance. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anson Dorrance info: Go for the Goal by Mia Hamm quote: The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when no one else is watching. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Winfield Hancock info: Gods and Generals, pg 128, paragraph 3 quote: Sir, it is not God who will assemble us on the battlefield, nor position our troops, nor place the cannon, and it is not God who will aim the musket. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba info: "" quote: Love as Thought is Truth. Love as Action is Right Conduct. Love as Understanding is Peace. Love as Feeling is Non-violence. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Michel de Montaigne info: French essayist (1533 - 1592) quote: There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Yiddish Proverb info: "" quote: Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Buddha info: Indian philosopher & religious leader (563 BC - 483 BC) quote: He is able who thinks he is able. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: American Indian Proverb info: "" quote: Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba info: "" quote: Duty without love is deplorable. Duty with love is desirable. Love without duty is Divine. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: e e cummings info: US poet (1894 - 1962) quote: It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jane Austen info: Northanger AbbeyEnglish novelist (1775 - 1817) quote: But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jane Austen info: Northanger AbbeyEnglish novelist (1775 - 1817) quote: Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Washington Carver info: US horticulturist (1864 - 1943) quote: One of the things that has helped me as much as any other, is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles Baudelaire info: French poet (1821 - 1867) quote: It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Claypool info: "" quote: We do not first get all the answers and then live in the light of our understanding. We must rather plunge into life meeting what we have to meet and experiencing what we have to experience and in the light of living try to understand. if insight comes at all, it will not before, but only through and after experience. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rodney Dangerfield info: monologueUS actor & comedian (1921 - 2004) quote: My mother had morning sickness after I was born. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Horace Walpole info: English author (1717 - 1797) quote: The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Martha Brooks info: True Confessions of a Heartless Girl quote: When you helped somebody, right away you were responsible for that person. And things always followed for which you were never prepared. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Niccolo Machiavelli info: Italian dramatist, historian, & philosopher (1469 - 1527) quote: There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Abbie Hoffman info: US radical activist (1936 - 1989) quote: Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Norse Proverb info: Myth and Meaning page 72 quote: The foolish man lies awake all night Thinking of his many problems; When the morning comes he is worn out And his trouble is just as it was. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Groucho Marx info: US comedian with Marx Brothers (1890 - 1977) quote: I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Groucho Marx info: US comedian with Marx Brothers (1890 - 1977) quote: Here's to our girlfriends and wives; may they never meet! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Groucho Marx info: US comedian with Marx Brothers (1890 - 1977) quote: I have nothing but confidence in you. And very little of that. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Chico Marx info: "\"A Night at the Opera\"US comedian with Marx Brothers (1891 - 1961)" quote: I'd give you my seat, but I'm sitting in it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Publilius Syrus info: " (~100 BC)" quote: Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Eleanor Roosevelt info: US diplomat & reformer (1884 - 1962) quote: Women are like teabags. You dont know how strong they are until you put them in hot water. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: Twelfth Night , Act I scene iiGreatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616) quote: What the great ones do, the less will prattle of rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Steven Wright info: Standup Comedy RoutineUS comedian and actor (1955 - ) quote: I installed a skylight in my apartment. The people who live above me are furious! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Steven Wright info: Standup Comedy RoutineUS comedian and actor (1955 - ) quote: I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time". So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Steven Wright info: Standup Comedy RoutineUS comedian and actor (1955 - ) quote: I just bought a microwave fireplace. You can spend an evening in front of it in only eight minutes. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert A. Heinlein info: Starship Troopers chapter 4 quote: Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishfull thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas Mann info: German writer (1875 - 1955) quote: Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Einstein info: The World as I See It.US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) quote: When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jean Chretien info: " (Canadian Prime Minister) in an interview in 2003" quote: When you're a mayor and you have a problem you blame the provincial government. If you are provincial government and you have a problem you blame the federal government. We don't blame the Queen any more, so once in a while we might blame the Americans. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas Jefferson info: 3rd president of US (1743 - 1826) quote: We never regret having eaten too little. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edgar Allan Poe info: From a letter to Frederick W. Thomas (February 14, 1849).US short story author, editor, & poet (1809 - 1849) quote: Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sylvia Plath info: US novelist & poet (1932 - 1963) quote: Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Joseph B. Wirthlin info: "" quote: Our friends should be companions who inspire us, who help us rise to our best. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: David B. Haight info: "" quote: Love is this divine ingredient. It alone describes what can be our perfect relationship to our Heavenly Father and our family and neighbors, and the means by which we accomplish His work. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas Paine info: US patriot & political philosopher (1737 - 1809) quote: I fear not, I see not reason for fear. In the end we will be the victors. For though at times the flame of liberty may cease to shine, the ember will never expire. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Flannery O'Connor info: US author (1925 - 1964) quote: Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: W. Somerset Maugham info: The Moon and SixpenceEnglish dramatist & novelist (1874 - 1965) quote: Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ovid info: Roman poet (43 BC - 17 AD) quote: It is the mind that makes the man. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marcus Aurelius info: "" quote: Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J.R.R. Tolkien info: "" quote: "\"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door,\" he used to say. \"You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alan of Lille info: "" quote: After the greatest clouds, the sun. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alonzo Newton Benn info: "" quote: Meet the sunrise with confidence. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Katherine Hepburn info: Interview with Barbara Walters quote: I don't believe men and women were meant to live together. I think perhaps they should just live next door. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Unknown info: "The Bhagavad GitaQuotations by unknown authors " quote: For the uncontrolled there is no wisdom. For the uncontrolled there is no concentration, and for him without concentration, there is no peace. And for the unpeaceful how can there ever be happiness? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Despair.com info: "" quote: The downside to being better than everyone is that people seem to think you are pretentious. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Peter de Vries info: "" quote: Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Socrates info: The ApologyGreek philosopher in Athens (469 BC - 399 BC) quote: To find yourself, think for yourself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J. R. R. Tolkien info: British scholar & fantasy novelist (1892 - 1973) quote: ...for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Milton info: Paradise LostEnglish poet (1608 - 1674) quote: Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav'n. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Milton info: Paradise LostEnglish poet (1608 - 1674) quote: Awake, arise, or be forever fall'n. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Milton info: Paradise LostEnglish poet (1608 - 1674) quote: Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Milton info: Paradise LostEnglish poet (1608 - 1674) quote: The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hunter S. Thompson info: Fear and Loathing in Las VegasUS journalist (1939 - 2005) quote: When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ernesto "Che" Guevara info: "\"Second Economic Seminar of Afro-Asian Solidarity\", February 1965" quote: There are no frontiers in this struggle to the death... A victory for any country against imperialism is our victory, just as any country's defeat is a defeat for all. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616) quote: Let the coming hour overflow with joy, and let pleasure drown the brim. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Emiliano Zapata info: Mexican reformer & revolutionary (1877 - 1919) quote: Land and Freedom! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Che Guevara info: when asked his nationalityLatin American (Argentine-born) revolutionary & guerrilla leader (1928 - 1967) quote: I am Cuban, Argentine, Bolivian, Peruvian, Ecuadorian, etc... You understand. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Voltaire info: French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778) quote: It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mao Tse-tung info: Chinese Communist politician (1893 - 1976) quote: The revolution is not a tea party. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: KMFDM info: from "Dogma" quote: Ask not what you can do for your country, ask what your country did to you. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry David Thoreau info: "Walden, Chapter 1: EconomyUS Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862)" quote: The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert A. Heinlein info: Time Enough For Love quote: "Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime: the sentence is death, there is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Abbie Hoffman info: In response to the success of his book; Steal this BookUS radical activist (1936 - 1989) quote: Its embarrassing, you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on a Best Sellers List. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tallyrand info: "" quote: I am more afriad of an army of 100 sheep lead by a lion than an army of 100 lions lead by a sheep. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Frank Sinatra info: US actor & singer (1915 - 1998) quote: I feel sorry for those who do not drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gary L. Francione info: " (American Legal Philosopher), Reaction to quote by Joseph Joubert" quote: An aim of an argument should be progress, but progress ultimately means little without victory. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Dryden info: English dramatist & poet (1631 - 1700) quote: Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes... Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anatole France info: French novelist (1844 - 1924) quote: Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry David Thoreau info: US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862) quote: In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Erich Fromm info: US (German-born) psychologist (1900 - 1980) quote: Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Carl Jung info: Swiss psychologist (1875 - 1961) quote: To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aesop info: Greek slave & fable author (620 BC - 560 BC) quote: Look before you leap. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alexander Pope info: English poet & satirist (1688 - 1744) quote: Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call; She comes unlook'd for, if she comes at all. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Samuel Johnson info: English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784) quote: Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley info: English novelist (1797 - 1851) quote: Virtue can only flourish among equals. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Harry Truman info: "" quote: The only thing new in the world is the history that you don't know. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Herrick info: English lyric poet (1591 - 1674) quote: "What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Michel de Montaigne info: French essayist (1533 - 1592) quote: I believe it to be true that dreams are the true interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Donne info: English clergyman & poet (1572 - 1631) quote: Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bill Beham info: "" quote: Dreams take us to levels we would otherwise be afraid to strive for. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Blake info: English engraver, illustrator, & poet (1757 - 1827) quote: If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry Vaughn info: "" quote: And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth sleep, So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes, And into glory peep. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Isak Dinesen info: (Karen Blixen) quote: I belong to an ancient, idle, wild, and useless tribe... I am a storyteller. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mary Shelley info: "" quote: Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lord Byron info: English poet & satirist (1788 - 1824) quote: And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; They leave a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off our waking toils, They do divide our being. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lord Byron info: English poet & satirist (1788 - 1824) quote: "[Poetry] is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lord Byron info: English poet & satirist (1788 - 1824) quote: But words are things; and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Percy Bysshe Shelley info: English poet (1792 - 1822) quote: A man, to be greatly good, must magine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and in many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lord Byron info: English poet & satirist (1788 - 1824) quote: Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alfred, Lord Tennyson info: "" quote: ...For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Meg Cabot info: (Jenny Carroll), Sanctuary, 2002 quote: No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jean De La Fontaine info: French poet (1621 - 1695) quote: By the work one knows the workmen. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Stuart Mill info: English economist & philosopher (1806 - 1873) quote: One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jacques Yves-Cousteau info: "" quote: Sometimes we are lucky enough to know our lives have been changed, to discard the old and embrace the new and run headlong down an immutable course. It happened to me... on that summer's day when my eyes were opened to the sea. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley info: FrankensteinEnglish novelist (1797 - 1851) quote: Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Carlin info: US comedian and actor (1937 - ) quote: Ever notice that anyone going slower than you is an idiot, but anyone going faster is a maniac? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Carlin info: Napalm and Silly PuttyUS comedian and actor (1937 - ) quote: The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in opposite directions. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Carlin info: US comedian and actor (1937 - ) quote: Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice?" rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Einstein info: US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) quote: The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books - a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Richard Feynman info: US educator & physicist (1918 - 1988) quote: Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sam Levenson info: " (1911 - 1980)" quote: You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Vince Lombardi info: US football coach (1913 - 1970) quote: Winning isn't everything, it is the only thing. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Victor Hugo info: Les MiserablesFrench dramatist, novelist, & poet (1802 - 1885) quote: To love another person is to see the face of God. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: W. H. Auden info: US (English-born) critic & poet (1907 - 1973) quote: Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Leonardo da Vinci info: Italian engineer, painter, & sculptor (1452 - 1519) quote: When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas Paine info: "\"The American Crisis\"US patriot & political philosopher (1737 - 1809)" quote: What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. It is dearness only that gives everything its value. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ralph Waldo Emerson info: "\"Nature\"US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)" quote: The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eyes and the heart of the child. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry David Thoreau info: WaldenUS Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862) quote: Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Richard Nixon info: Farewell address quote: Always give your best, never get discouraged, never be petty; always remember others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ralph Waldo Emerson info: "\"The Rhodora\"US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)" quote: If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Miles Davis info: "Film: The Miles Davis StoryUS jazz musician & trumpeter (1926 - 1991)" quote: The reason I dont play ballads? Because I love to play them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Frank Sinatra info: US actor & singer (1915 - 1998) quote: When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Schumaker info: "" quote: Without cultural sanction, most or all our religious beliefs and rituals would fall into the domain of mental disturbance. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) quote: "No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Stephen Roberts info: "" quote: I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Friedrich Nietzsche info: German philosopher (1844 - 1900) quote: Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Friedrich Nietzsche info: German philosopher (1844 - 1900) quote: I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Friedrich Nietzsche info: German philosopher (1844 - 1900) quote: All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Friedrich Nietzsche info: German philosopher (1844 - 1900) quote: A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Friedrich Nietzsche info: German philosopher (1844 - 1900) quote: Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anne Lamott info: "" quote: You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dalai Llama info: "" quote: This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Ingersoll info: US agnostic, agnostic apologist, lawyer, & orator (1833 - 1899) quote: If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert A. Heinlein info: "" quote: Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Judith Hayes info: "" quote: The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example, while loading his ark, did Noah find penguins and polar bears in Palestine? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ayn Rand info: Atlas ShruggedUS (Russian-born) novelist (1905 - 1982) quote: That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only freedom, the choice that controls all the choices you make and determines your life and your character. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: M.C. Escher info: "" quote: I believe that producing pictures, as I do, is almost solely a question of wanting so very much to do it well. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Isoroku Yamamoto info: After Pearl Harbor, Japanese Admiral quote: I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dudley Moore info: The movie "Arthur"English movie actor & musician (1935 - 2002) quote: Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: The Picture of Dorian GrayIrish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: Brothers? Oh, I hate brothers. My older brother just doesn't know when to die, and my younger brothers seem to do nothing but. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jane Austen info: English novelist (1775 - 1817) quote: One half of the world can not understand the pleasures of the other. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Pike info: "" quote: What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Bolt info: "" quote: Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Soren Kierkegaard info: Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855) quote: In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known -- no wonder, then, that I return the love. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Francois La Rochefoucauld info: "" quote: The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than about what others are saying, and we never listen when we are eager to speak. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Leo Buscaglia info: US author & lecturer (1925 - ) quote: Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Buddha info: Indian philosopher & religious leader (563 BC - 483 BC) quote: To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rabindranath Tagore info: Indian educator & Bengali poet (1861 - 1941) quote: Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Cyrus Corteise info: "" quote: Not many can admit their fears, but those who can lead a fulfilling life of happiness knowing they hide nothing and need not to. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer Simpson info: The Simpsons quote: Trying is the first step towards failure. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Warren Zevon info: discussing the progression of his illness with David Letterman, 30 October 2002 quote: I might have made a tactical error not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that didn't pay off. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Abraham Lincoln info: Gettysburg Address16th president of US (1809 - 1865) quote: ...and that this country shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government, of the people, for the people, by the people, shall not perish from the Earth. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Emily Dickinson info: US poet (1830 - 1886) quote: Becuase I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jimmy Carter info: US diplomat & Democratic politician (1924 - ) quote: War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry David Thoreau info: US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862) quote: Heroes are often the most ordinary of men. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Washington Carver info: US horticulturist (1864 - 1943) quote: I hold before you my hand with each finger standing erect and alone, and as long as they are held thus, not one of the tasks that the hand may preform can be accomplished. I cannot lift. I cannot grasp. I cannot hold. I cannot even make an intelligible sign until my fingers organize and work together. In this we should also learn a lesson. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton info: English dramatist, novelist, & politician (1803 - 1873) quote: Talent does what it can, Genius does what it must. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles A. Lindbergh info: "" quote: I was astonished at the effect my successful landing in France had on the nations of the world. To me, it was like a match lighting a bonfire. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Madeleine L'Engle info: US juvenile science fiction novelist (1918 - ) quote: If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart info: Austrian composer & prodigy (1756 - 1791) quote: I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lois McMaster Bujold info: "A Civil Campaign, 1999US science fiction author " quote: You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lois McMaster Bujold info: "A Civil Campaign, 1999US science fiction author " quote: Adversity does teach who your real friends are. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lois McMaster Bujold info: "A Civil Campaign, 1999US science fiction author " quote: You have to be careful who you let define your good. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lois McMaster Bujold info: "A Civil Campaign, 1999US science fiction author " quote: When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lois McMaster Bujold info: "A Civil Campaign, 1999US science fiction author " quote: You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lois McMaster Bujold info: "A Civil Campaign, 1999US science fiction author " quote: Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lois McMaster Bujold info: "A Civil Campaign, 1999US science fiction author " quote: Never... ever suggest they don't have to pay you. What they pay for, they'll value. What they get for free, they'll take for granted, and then demand as a right. Hold them up for all the market will bear. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lois McMaster Bujold info: "\"A Civil Campaign\", 1999US science fiction author " quote: Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lois McMaster Bujold info: "\"A Civil Campaign\", 1999US science fiction author " quote: Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lois McMaster Bujold info: "A Civil Campaign, 1999US science fiction author " quote: Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lois McMaster Bujold info: "A Civil Campaign, 1999US science fiction author " quote: A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that. Only the use made it mean something. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lois McMaster Bujold info: "A Civil Campaign, 1999US science fiction author " quote: A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lois McMaster Bujold info: "A Civil Campaign, 1999US science fiction author " quote: If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Meg Cabot info: The Boy Next Door, 2002 quote: In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jim Bishop info: "" quote: Nothing is as far away as one minute ago. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Wally Lamb info: "" quote: Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rodney Yee info: "" quote: As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Doris Mortman info: "" quote: Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Joseph Campbell info: US folklorist & expert on mythology (1904 - 1987) quote: You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning... a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Eckhart Tolle info: "" quote: Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oprah Winfrey info: O MagazineUS actress & television talk show host (1954 - ) quote: Living in the moment brings you a sense of reverence for all of life's blessings. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Emmet Fox info: "" quote: Life is consciousness. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Shantideva info: "" quote: If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: the Dhammapada info: "" quote: If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oprah Winfrey info: O MagazineUS actress & television talk show host (1954 - ) quote: If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ugo Betti info: Struggle Till Dawn quote: When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Cardinal de Retz info: Memoires quote: A man who doesn't trust himself can never truly trust anyone else. rating: 0 tags: []