--- - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: "\"Hamlet\", Act 2 scene 2Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)" quote: The play's the thingWherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: "\"Hamlet\", Act 3 scene 1Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)" quote: Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: "\"Hamlet\", Act 3 scene 1Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)" quote: I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: "\"Hamlet\", Act 3 scene 1Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)" quote: O, woe is me,To have seen what I have seen, see what I see! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: "\"Hamlet\", Act 3 scene 2Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)" quote: The lady doth protest too much, methinks. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: "\"Hamlet\", Act 3 scene 2Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)" quote: "Hamlet: Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel?Polonius: By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed.Hamlet: Methinks it is like a weasel. Polonius: It is backed like a weasel. Hamlet: Or like a whale? Polonius: Very like a whale." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: "\"Hamlet\", Act 3 scene 3Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)" quote: O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven;It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't, A brother's murder. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: "\"Hamlet\", Act 3 scene 4Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)" quote: I must be cruel, only to be kind:Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: "\"Hamlet\", Act 3 scene 4Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)" quote: For 'tis the sport to have the engineerHoist with his own petard... rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: "\"Hamlet\", Act 4 scene 5Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)" quote: So full of artless jealousy is guilt,It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: "\"Hamlet\", Act 5 scene 1Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)" quote: "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now; your gambols, your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? Quite chap-fallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: "\"Hamlet\", Act 5 scene 2Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)" quote: A hit, a very palpable hit. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: "\"Hamlet\", Act 5 scene 2Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)" quote: The rest is silence. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: "\"Hamlet\", Act 5 scene 2Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)" quote: Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince:And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: "\"King Lear\", Act 1 scene 1Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)" quote: Although the last, not least. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: "\"King Lear\", Act 1 scene 4Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)" quote: How sharper than a serpent's tooth it isTo have a thankless child! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: "\"King Lear\", Act 3 scene 4Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)" quote: Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: "\"King Lear\", Act 4 scene 1Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)" quote: The worst is notSo long as we can say, "This is the worst." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: "\"King Lear\", Act 4 scene 7Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)" quote: Pray you now, forget and forgive. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: "\"King Lear\", Act 5 scene 3Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)" quote: The gods are just, and of our pleasant vicesMake instruments to plague us. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: "\"Othello\", Act 1 scene 1Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)" quote: I will wear my heart upon my sleeveFor daws to peck at. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: "\"Othello\", Act 2 scene 1Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)" quote: I am not merry; but I do beguileThe thing I am, by seeming otherwise. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: "\"Othello\", Act 3 scene 3Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)" quote: Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul,But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: "\"Othello\", Act 3 scene 3Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)" quote: Speak to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst of words. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: "\"Othello\", Act 3 scene 3Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)" quote: "Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: "\"Othello\", Act 3 scene 3Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)" quote: O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!It is the green-eyed monster which doth mockThe meat it feeds on. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: "\"Othello\", Act 3 scene 3Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)" quote: He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen,Let him not know 't, and he's not robb'd at all. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: "\"Othello\", Act 3 scene 3Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)" quote: O, now, for ever Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! Farewell the plumed troop and the big wars That make ambition virtue! O, farewell! Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner, and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war! And, O you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell! Othello's occupation's gone! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: "\"Othello\", Act 4 scene 2Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)" quote: I understand a fury in your words,But not the words. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: "\"Othello\", Act 4 scene 3Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)" quote: "'Tis neither here nor there." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: "\"Antony and Cleopatra\", Act 1 scene 5Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)" quote: My salad days,When I was green in judgment. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: "\"Antony and Cleopatra\", Act 2 scene 2Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)" quote: Small to greater matters must give way. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: "\"Antony and Cleopatra\", Act 2 scene 2Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)" quote: Age cannot wither her, nor custom staleHer infinite variety. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: "\"Antony and Cleopatra\", Act 4 scene 14Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)" quote: Since Cleopatra died, I have liv'd in such dishonour that the gods Detest my baseness. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: "\"Antony and Cleopatra\", Act 5 scene 2Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)" quote: I have Immortal longings in me. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: "\"Cymbeline\", Act 3 scene 3Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)" quote: The game is up. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: "\"Cymbeline\", Act 3 scene 4Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)" quote: No, 'tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: "\"Cymbeline\", Act 3 scene 4Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)" quote: I have not slept one wink. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: Sonnet xxxGreatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616) quote: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: Sonnet lxxxviiGreatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616) quote: Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: Sonnet cxviGreatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616) quote: "Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: Epitaph on his gravestoneGreatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616) quote: Cursed be he that moves my bones. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Pierre Gallois info: "" quote: If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and no-one dares criticize it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edwin Markham info: "" quote: "He drew a circle that shut me out -- Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But Love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Moore info: "" quote: Nothing is more depressing than the conviction that one is not a hero. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Steinbeck info: The Pastures of Heaven, p 56US novelist (1902 - 1968) quote: After the bare requisites of living and reproducing, man wants most to leave some record of himself, a proof, perhaps, that he has really existed. He leaves his proof on wood, on stone, or on the lives of other people. This deep desire exists in everyone, from the boy who scribbles on a wall to the Buddha who etches his image in the race mind. Life is so unreal. I think that we seriously doubt that we exist and go about trying to prove that we do. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Confucius info: Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC) quote: Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William A. Ward info: "" quote: Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Critisize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: T. S Eliot info: "" quote: We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started-- and know the place for the first time. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Davis Barton info: "" quote: Sometimes the world puts a spin on life. When our equilibrium returns to us, we understand more because we've seen the whole picture. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Og Mandino info: " (1923 - 1996)" quote: I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William S. Burroughs info: US author (1914 - 1997) quote: Paranoia means having all the facts. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Wayne Gretski info: "" quote: It has been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that you miss 100% of the shots you do not take. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Fran Leibowitz info: Metropolitan Life quote: Inhabitants of underdeveloped nations and victims of natural disasters are the only people who have ever been happy to see soybeans. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Buddha info: The DhammapadaIndian philosopher & religious leader (563 BC - 483 BC) quote: Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Benjamin Franklin info: US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790) quote: I believe I shall,in some shape or other,always exist; and, with all the inconveniences human life is liable to, I shall not object to a new edition of mine, hoping, however, that the errata of the last may be corrected. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Paula Poundstone info: HBO stand-up routine quote: They say that the wages of sin is death. But after taxes its just a tired feeling really. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jack London info: Personal CredoUS adventurer, author, & sailor (1876 - 1916) quote: I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by a dryrot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in a magnificient glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edmund Burke info: Irish orator, philosopher, & politician (1729 - 1797) quote: No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Talmud info: "" quote: When love is strong, a man and a woman can make their bed on a sword's blade. When love grows weak, a bed of 60 cubits is not large enough. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Chan Yew Kuen info: "" quote: Everything on earth is created for a purpose, it's up to us to find out what purpose each thing serves. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alfred Lord Tennyson info: English poet (1809 - 1892) quote: I am a part of all I have seen. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mitch Ratcliffe info: "" quote: A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bill Clinton info: March 1, 1993 press conference in Piscataway, NJ, from Boston Globe, 3/2/93, page 342nd president of the United States (1946 - ) quote: The United States can't be so fixed on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans... rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Peggy Noonan info: special assistant and speech writer to Reagan, 1984-88US speechwriter for George Bush (1950 - ) quote: "The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George W. Bush info: On his meeting with John McCain, Dallas Morning News, May 10, 200043rd President of US (1946 - ) quote: I think we agree, the past is over. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sylvia Plath info: The Bell JarUS novelist & poet (1932 - 1963) quote: To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: G. K. Chesterton info: What's Wrong With the World; p.160English author & mystery novelist (1874 - 1936) quote: As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: G. K. Chesterton info: What's Wrong With the World; p. 122English author & mystery novelist (1874 - 1936) quote: For in all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: G. K. Chesterton info: What's Wrong With the World; p. 118English author & mystery novelist (1874 - 1936) quote: But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: G. K. Chesterton info: What's Wrong With the World; p. 111English author & mystery novelist (1874 - 1936) quote: Seemingly from the dawn of man all nations have had governments; and all nations have been ashamed of them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: G. K. Chesterton info: Orthodoxy; p. 14English author & mystery novelist (1874 - 1936) quote: The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: C. S. Lewis info: The Poison of Subjectivism (from Christian Reflections; p. 108)English essayist & juvenile novelist (1898 - 1963) quote: The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: T.S. Eliot info: "" quote: Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Helen Kelller info: "" quote: Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James Duffecy info: "" quote: A dead atheist is someone who's all dressed up with no place to go. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Roy Orbison info: The Great Rock 'N' Roll Quote Book quote: I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kenneth Cole info: fashion show speech quote: You can change an outfit, you can outfit change, or both. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: Work is the curse of the drinking class. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Conan O'Brien info: "" quote: A federal judge has ruled that Microsoft should be split into two different companies. One company will have the Windows operating system and the other will count Bill Gates' money. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Francis P. Church info: "" quote: The greatest things in the world are those that neither men nor children can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James Baldwin info: US author (1924 - 1987) quote: You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rabindranath Tagore info: Whisperings. The Inspirational Writings of Rabindranath Tagore on Nature, Love and Life.Indian educator & Bengali poet (1861 - 1941) quote: Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rabindranath Tagore info: Whisperings. The Inspirational Writings of Rabindranath Tagore on Nature, Love and Life.Indian educator & Bengali poet (1861 - 1941) quote: LOVE'S GIFT cannot be given, it waits to be accepted. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aldous Huxley info: English critic & novelist (1894 - 1963) quote: All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aldous Huxley info: English critic & novelist (1894 - 1963) quote: When truth is nothing but the truth, its unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world. In nature there are always so many other irrelevant things mixed up with the essential truth. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aldous Huxley info: English critic & novelist (1894 - 1963) quote: The silent bear no witness against themselves. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kurt Vonnegut info: Breakfast of ChampionsUS novelist (1922 - 2007) quote: New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles Dickens info: Great ExpectationsEnglish novelist (1812 - 1870) quote: So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Coyote Shivers info: the song "Sugar High" (Empire Records soundtrack) quote: Sometimes reputations outlive their applications. Sometimes fires don't go out when you're done playing with them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Plontius info: "" quote: We are not separate from spirit, we are in it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Neil Finn info: "track #12 on his album \"Try Whistling This\"" quote: Praise will come to those whose kindness leaves you without debt. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bernard Butler info: song "Lets Go Away" (album Friends and Lovers) quote: There's only one way to fall down, but you won't know till you hit the ground. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Pink Floyd info: song "Wish You Were Here" quote: Did you exchange a walk-on part in a war, for a leading role in a cage? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Pink Floyd info: song "Money" (album Dark Side of the Moon) quote: Money, so they say, is the root of all evil today. But if you ask for a raise it's no surprise that they're giving none away. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mark Twain info: The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnUS humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) quote: You can't pray a lie. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Einstein info: US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) quote: Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex ... it takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ralph Waldo Emerson info: US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) quote: Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer Simpson info: "The Simpsons: Halloween Special in October of 2000" quote: I'm just trying to get in, it's not like I'm running for Jesus. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Helen Keller info: US blind & deaf educator (1880 - 1968) quote: No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Space Ghost info: Space Ghost - Musical Bar-b-cue quote: People judge you not by the size of your feet, but by whether your socks match. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. info: US jurist (1841 - 1935) quote: A man's mind, stretched by new ideas, may never reurn to it's original dimensions. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Louis V. Gerstner Jr. info: "" quote: "No machine can replace the human spark: spirit, compassion, love and understanding." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Emad Hasan info: "" quote: I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Emad Hasan info: "" quote: Everyone should free their mind and soul. Some are ready to free them now, and some will be ready to free them in the future. Some will never be ready and that is what makes their lives not worth living. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Andrew Jackson info: 7th President of the United States (1767 - 1845) quote: Justice Marshall has made his decision. Let him enforce it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alfred E. Neuman info: The Half-Wit and Wisdom of Alfred E. Neuman (MAD magazine) quote: We live in a world where lemonade is made from aritificial flavoring and furniture polish is made from real lemons rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Fiorello LaGuardia info: New York City Mayor quote: It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me - I never retreat. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Eleanor Roosevelt info: US diplomat & reformer (1884 - 1962) quote: A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Howard Baker Jr. info: Former U.S. Senator (R-TN), New York Times (11-12-00) quote: Eventually, somebody is going to be a hero, and somebody's going to be president. Not necessarily the same person. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Diogenes info: "" quote: When two friends part they should lock up each other's secrets and exchange keys. The truly noble mind has no resentments. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Seneca info: Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC - 65 AD) quote: The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Brian Andreas info: "" quote: She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: C.S. Lewis info: Chicken Soup for the Soul (book) quote: "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Stephen Mansfield info: "" quote: There is a schizophrenic nature in modern politics. A leader is expected to have a religious faith but he is not supposed to let it influence him in his duties. Somehow, the truths that determine everything else about his existence are not allowed to influence how he conducts himself in public life. Not only that, his principles are usually considered so personal that the public is not even allowed to know for certain what they are. This passes for noble statecraft in our time. It was once thought cowardice. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Joel Patrick Warneke info: "" quote: At points of clarity, I realize that my life on earth is meaningless, and that I am merely a pawn in a bigger game. A game I cannot possible understand or have control of. Thankfully, before depression sets in, I drift back into my cloudy, bewildered daily routine. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ayn Rand info: The FountainheadUS (Russian-born) novelist (1905 - 1982) quote: Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Einstein info: US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) quote: Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Auguste Renoir info: "" quote: The pain passes. The beauty remains. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Heinlein info: Time Enough For LoveUS science fiction author (1907 - 1988) quote: Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gururaj Ananda Yogi info: "" quote: It's so simple to be happy, but so difficult to be simple. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry Ford info: US automobile industrialist (1863 - 1947) quote: Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Walt Whitman info: Preface to Leaves of Grass, 1855US poet (1819 - 1892) quote: The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bette Davis info: "\"The Lonely Life\"(1962). Chapter Four.US movie actress (1908 - 1989)" quote: The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Virgil info: Virgil's AeneidRoman epic poet (70 BC - 19 BC) quote: "The gates of hell are open night and day; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way: But to return, and view the cheerful skies, In this the task and mighty labor lies." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Eleanor Roosevelt info: US diplomat & reformer (1884 - 1962) quote: The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: R. S. Donnell info: "" quote: The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Muriel Strode info: "" quote: Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bryan White info: Reader's Digest Magazine 1999 quote: We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Unknown info: "Epitaph on headstone of actor John Wayne (author unknown)Quotations by unknown authors " quote: "Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight, very clean. When it arrives it is perfect. It puts itself in our hands. It hopes we learned something from yesterday. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jose Maria Peman info: Spanish writer, El Divino Impaciente quote: "The most eminent virtue is doing simply what we have to do. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ani DiFranco info: "'Unleashed' in the Yakima Herald Republic" quote: What if no one's watching? What if when we're dead we are just dead? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: Hamlet. Polonius says this as Hamlet kills him behind the curtain.Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616) quote: O, I am slain! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Niccolo Machiavelli info: The PrinceItalian dramatist, historian, & philosopher (1469 - 1527) quote: Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Grace Slick info: "" quote: "Insignificant events can take on monumental proportions when your head is full of practically nothing. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Camus info: French existentialist author & philosopher (1913 - 1960) quote: "If there is a sin against life, it consist perhaps not so much in despairing of life as hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. \t\t\t\tAlbert Camus " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gilbert Chesterton info: "" quote: Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tori Amos info: "" quote: "Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change because if it does change then it won\x92t have anything to complain about." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Abraham Lincoln info: 16th president of US (1809 - 1865) quote: How many legs does a dog have if you count his tail as a leg? Four. You can call a tail a leg if you want to, but that doesn't make it a leg. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jason Hurst info: "" quote: "Lots of people are willing to die for the person they love, which is a pity, for it is a much grander thing to live for that person. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: The Ballad of Reading GaolIrish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: "Vile deeds like poison weeds bloom well in prison air, it is only what is good in man, that wastes and withers there. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: T.S. Elliot info: "" quote: "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edmund Burke info: Irish orator, philosopher, & politician (1729 - 1797) quote: When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jayanth Komarneni info: "" quote: Brilliance is born of desperation. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Luis Cernada info: "" quote: "Everything beautiful has its moment, and then passes away. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: As You Like ItGreatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616) quote: I like this place, and willingly would waste my time in it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gaston Leroux info: The Phantom of the Opera quote: He had a heart that could have held the empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alexander Pope info: " \"Ode to Solitude\"English poet & satirist (1688 - 1744)" quote: Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; thus unlamented let me die; steal from the world, and not a stone tell where I lie. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Langston Coleman info: "" quote: Luck is what you have left over after you give 100%. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Confucius info: Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC) quote: The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Benjamin Franklin info: US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790) quote: By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Elizabeth Taylor info: British movie actress (1932 - ) quote: Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Pam Brown info: "1928" quote: Horses lend us the wings we lack. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Cokie Roberts info: TV interview in either 1992 or 1996 quote: Washington DC is the only place in America where people put bumper stickers on their cars the day *after* the election. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Einstein info: speechUS (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) quote: Never underestimate your own ignorance. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marcel Proust info: French novelist (1871 - 1922) quote: The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Stuart Mill info: On Liberty, 1859English economist & philosopher (1806 - 1873) quote: No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study, and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Stuart Mill info: On Liberty, 1859English economist & philosopher (1806 - 1873) quote: "He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties. He must use observation to see, reasoning and judgment to foresee, activity to gather materials for decision, discrimination to decide, and when he has decided, firmness and self-control to hold to his deliberate decision. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Stuart Mill info: On Liberty, 1859English economist & philosopher (1806 - 1873) quote: The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental or spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry Ford info: US automobile industrialist (1863 - 1947) quote: There is no man living that cannot do more than he thinks he can! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kurt Vonnegut info: God Bless You, Dr. KevorkianUS novelist (1922 - 2007) quote: Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Helen Keller info: US blind & deaf educator (1880 - 1968) quote: When one door of happiness closes, another one opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened to us. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry David Thoreau info: Walden, Economy.US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862) quote: I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Groucho Marx info: In the film A Day at the RacesUS comedian with Marx Brothers (1890 - 1977) quote: I don't have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They're upstairs in my socks. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Helen Hayes info: US actress (1900 - 1993) quote: Every human being is born with a tragedy , and it isn't orginal sin. He is born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Josh Billings info: US Humorist (1818 - 1885) quote: You can buy a pretty good dog with a lot of money, but you can't buy the wag of its tail. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Markey Ash info: "" quote: If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Carl Polloi info: "" quote: True role models don't stand on a pedestal and tell you how to climb up; they jump down and help push you up. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Carl Polloi info: "" quote: Unlike those who pretend to be immaculate, fallen angels are usually more intriguing because their earthliness is heavenly. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lewis Carroll info: English author & recreational mathematician (1832 - 1898) quote: "i can't go back to yesterday, because I was a different person then. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Erica Jong info: "" quote: Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything its cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it...it really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everthing for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J. Paul Getty info: US oil industrialist (1892 - 1976) quote: If you can actually count your money you are not really a rich man. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sidd'hartha Gautama info: "" quote: The Way is harshness greeted with kindness, fear greeted with fortitude. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oprah Winfrey info: O Magazine February 2001 issueUS actress & television talk show host (1954 - ) quote: Failure is defined by our reaction to it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Emily Dickinson info: US poet (1830 - 1886) quote: I dwell in possiblities. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jorge Luis Borges info: Argentine novelist & poet (1899 - 1986) quote: Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mark Twain info: US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) quote: Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Simon MacDonald info: "" quote: A leader must be constantly aware of the power of his words .... and his silences. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Bhagavad Gita info: The Bhagavad Gita, The Bhagavad Gita as translated by Eknath Easwaran quote: "Fear Not. What is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Muhammed Ali info: in a television interview quote: Lakes, rivers, streams...all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anais Nin info: US (French-born) author & diarist (1903 - 1977) quote: We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marge Piercy info: Circles in the Water "Intruding" quote: The price of seeing is silence. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Audre Lorde info: "" quote: "Sometimes we could not bear the face of each other's differences because of what we feared it might say about ourselves. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jimmy Buffett info: "" quote: Without geography you're nowhere. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George W. Bush Jan. 21, 2001 info: Inauguration speech quote: "....it is better to succeed with success than failure. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alfred North Whitehead info: English mathematician & philosopher (1861 - 1947) quote: Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Agnes Repplier info: US essayist (1855 - 1950) quote: It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tom Stoppard info: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are DeadBritish dramatist & screenwriter (1937 - ) quote: Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one, a moment, in childhood when it first occurred to you that you don't go on for ever. It must have been shattering- stamped into one's memory. And yet I can't remember it. It never occurred to me at all. What does one make of that? We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the words for it, before we know that there are words, out we come, bloodied and squalling with the knowledge that for all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tom Stoppard info: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are DeadBritish dramatist & screenwriter (1937 - ) quote: All your life you live so close to truth it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it's like being ambushed by a grotesque. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jack Kerouac info: "\"On the Road\"US novelist (1922 - 1969)" quote: The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved...the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Abraham Lincoln info: 16th president of US (1809 - 1865) quote: If I only had an hour to chop down a tree, I would spend the first 45 minutes sharpening my axe. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Isaac Asimov info: US science fiction novelist & scholar (1920 - 1992) quote: "Old people think young people haven't learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Frank Zappa info: US musician, singer, & songwriter (1940 - 1993) quote: A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Fischinger info: "" quote: Everything in the world has a spirit which is released by its sound. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn info: The Gulag ArchipelagoRussian author & dissident in US (1918 - ) quote: If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gustave Flaubert info: Charles BovaryFrench realist novelist (1821 - 1880) quote: For none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Norman Lewis Smith info: "" quote: My boy will learn by what I am and what I do far more than what I tell him. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John F. Kennedy info: inaugural address, 196135th president of US 1961-1963 (1917 - 1963) quote: All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1,000 days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry David Thoreau info: US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862) quote: A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anais Nin info: US (French-born) author & diarist (1903 - 1977) quote: I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Andy Warhol info: US artist (1928 - 1987) quote: I broke something today, and I realized I should break something once a week...to remind me how fragile life is. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aristotle info: Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) quote: To give money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in everyman's power nor an easy matter. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Groucho Marx info: "\"Duck Soup\" 1934US comedian with Marx Brothers (1890 - 1977)" quote: Love goes out the door when money comes innuendo. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dorothy Parker info: US author, humorist, poet, & wit (1893 - 1967) quote: You can't teach an old dogma new tricks. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: C. S. Lewis info: English essayist & juvenile novelist (1898 - 1963) quote: Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art...It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Machiavelli info: "" quote: It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all those who would profit by the old order, only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marcel Proust info: French novelist (1871 - 1922) quote: "All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Helen Keller info: US blind & deaf educator (1880 - 1968) quote: Keep your eyes to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Margaret Atwod info: "" quote: We thought we were running away from the grown-ups, and now we are the grown-ups. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Greenleaf Whittier info: "" quote: Of all sad words of tongue and pen the saddest are these, what might have been. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Pierre Trudeau info: CBC ArchivesCanadian politician (1919 - 2000) quote: The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Joseph Batten info: "" quote: It is the responsibility of the sender to make sure the receiver understands the message. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Billy Joel info: Song "Only the Good Die Young"US rock singer (1949 - ) quote: I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints, sinners are much more fun. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Arther Connan Doyle info: Sherlock Holmes quote: And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Arther Connan Doyle info: Sherlock Holmes quote: The game is afoot. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Vince Lombardi info: US football coach (1913 - 1970) quote: The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alfred North Whitehead info: From the viewbook of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical UniversityEnglish mathematician & philosopher (1861 - 1947) quote: The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gough Whitlam info: Prime Minister of Australia, in a speech in 1975. quote: Well may we say God save the Queen, because nothing will save the Governor-General. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Neil Gaiman info: "" quote: Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Japanese Proverb info: Also quoted in the movie Rising Sun quote: If you sit by the river long enough, you will see the body of your enemy float by. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kurt Angle, Gold Medal Olympic Wrestler info: "" quote: New Jersey needs a hero. Bon Jovi does not count. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bertrand Barere de Vieuzac info: "" quote: The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Vince Lombardi info: US football coach (1913 - 1970) quote: Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off the goal. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Martin Luther King, Jr. info: "" quote: In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert A. Heinlein info: "" quote: A poet that reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert A. Heinlein info: "" quote: The greatest productive force is human selfishness. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert A. Heinlein info: "" quote: Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Maya Angelou info: US author & poet (1928 - ) quote: "When you learn, teach. When you get, give. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oliver Wendell Holmes info: US author & physician (1809 - 1894) quote: "Greatness is not in were we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind, and somtimes agaisnt it - but sail we must. And not drift, nor lie at anchor. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Channing Pollock info: "" quote: "He admits there are two sides to every question: his own and the wrong side." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alfred, Lord Tennyson info: "" quote: Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am but twenty-five? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe info: German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 - 1832) quote: If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain as he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought and could be. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Niccolo Machiavelli info: Italian dramatist, historian, & philosopher (1469 - 1527) quote: Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Niccolo Machiavelli info: Italian dramatist, historian, & philosopher (1469 - 1527) quote: If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Niccolo Machiavelli info: Italian dramatist, historian, & philosopher (1469 - 1527) quote: War cannot be avoided; it can only be postponed to the other's advantage. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Steven Wright info: I Have a PonyUS comedian and actor (1955 - ) quote: My girlfriend sleeps in a queen-sized bed and I sleep in a court jester-sized bed. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henri Bergson info: French author, mystic, & philosopher (1859 - 1941) quote: Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lady Bird Johnson info: US wife of Lyndon Johnson 1934 (1912 - ) quote: Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas Szasz info: "" quote: The stupid neither forgive or forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Laurence J. Peter info: US educator & writer (1919 - 1988) quote: Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Reverend Oliver G. Wilson info: "" quote: Use what talents you have; the woods would have little music if no birds sang their song except those who sang best. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hugh Prather info: "" quote: Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Orwell info: English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950) quote: The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Einstein info: US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) quote: Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) quote: Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thoreau info: "" quote: The question is not what you look at but what you see. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Stuart Mill info: English economist & philosopher (1806 - 1873) quote: Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Andrew Grove, Co-founder and Chairman of Intel Corporation info: Only the Paranoid Survive quote: "The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your business. You own it as a sole proprietor. You have one employee: yourself. You need to accept ownership of your career, your skills and the timing of your moves." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: As he passed through customsIrish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: I have nothing to declare but my genius. 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: Albert Einstein info: US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) quote: When all think alike, no one thinks very much. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jean Jacques Rousseau info: The Social ContractFrench political philosopher (1712 - 1778) quote: Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: A. A. Milne info: English juvenile author (1882 - 1956) quote: The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dorothy Parker info: US author, humorist, poet, & wit (1893 - 1967) quote: Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Franklin P. Jones info: "" quote: One thing you will probably remember well is anytime you forgive and forget. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arsene Houssaye info: "" quote: We must always have old memories and young hopes. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Fred Allen info: US radio comedian (1894 - 1956) quote: Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bertrand Russell info: British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970) quote: "The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather that hostile." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Malcolm Cowley info: "" quote: Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kahlil Gibran info: Lebanese artist & poet in US (1883 - 1931) quote: It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Celia Green info: "" quote: The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Raquel Welch info: "" quote: The mind can also be an erogenous zone. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mae West info: US movie actress (1892 - 1980) quote: A woman is like a teabag, you never know how strong she is until you put her in hot water. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Helen Keller info: US blind & deaf educator (1880 - 1968) quote: Is there anything worse than being blind? Yes, a man with sight and no vision. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery info: French writer (1900 - 1944) quote: Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dale Dauten info: from a 1997 column quote: Nothing important can be taught, only learned. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sun Tzu info: "" quote: Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first then seek to win. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charlton Ogburn info: "\"Merrill's Marauders\", Harpers Magazine, January 1957" quote: We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. Presumably the plans for our employment were being changed. I was to learn later in life that, perhaps because we are so good at organizing, we tend as a nation to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Yogi Berra info: Sports IllustratedUS baseball player, coach, & manager (1925 - ) quote: Ninety percent of all mental errors are in your head. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Yogi Berra info: quoted in Sports IllustratedUS baseball player, coach, & manager (1925 - ) quote: When you come to a fork in the road, take it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Voltaire info: Letter to Frederick, 1767French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778) quote: As long as there are fools and rascals, there will be religions. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alan Watts info: "" quote: Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jean Cocteau info: French dramatist, director, & poet (1889 - 1963) quote: The extreme limit of wisdom-- that is what the public calls madness. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Josephine Herbst info: "" quote: No one ever understood disaster until it came. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ulysses S. Grant info: US general & politician (1822 - 1885) quote: I know no method to secure the repeal of bad, obnoxious, or unjust laws so effective as their strict execution. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Burrough info: "" quote: I still find each day to short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Benjamin Franklin info: In response to the situation of the colonistsUS author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790) quote: Passion governs, and she never governs wisely. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle info: Dr. John H. Watson, referring to Sherlock Holmes, in "A Scandal in Bohemia"British mystery author & physician (1859 - 1930) quote: The stage lost a fine actor, just as science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in crime. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Louis Stevenson info: Scottish author (1850 - 1894) quote: Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles Dickens info: A Tale Of Two CitiesEnglish novelist (1812 - 1870) quote: It is a far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Zig Ziglar info: "" quote: "The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mahatma Gandhi info: 1869 - 1948Indian political and spiritual leader (1869 - 1948) quote: The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: C.S. Lewis info: "" quote: We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Brault info: "" quote: Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ayn Rand info: US (Russian-born) novelist (1905 - 1982) quote: "I can accept anthing, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Helen Keller info: US blind & deaf educator (1880 - 1968) quote: "People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: F. Nietzsche info: The Wanderer and His Shadow quote: The greatest giver of alms is cowardice. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hanna Arendt info: 1906 - 1975 quote: "Under conditions of tyranny it is far easer to act than to think. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Winston Churchill info: Reffering to the RAFBritish politician (1874 - 1965) quote: Never in the history of mankind have so many owed so much to so few. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Steven Wright info: US comedian and actor (1955 - ) quote: I have the worlds largest seashell collection. You may have seen it, I keep it spread out on beaches all over the world. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anne Rice info: US novelist (1941 - ) quote: Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Francis Bacon info: English author, courtier, & philosopher (1561 - 1626) quote: The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dr. Seuss info: US author & illustrator (1904 - 1991) quote: If you never did, you should. These things are fun and fun is good! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Orwell info: English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950) quote: If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mark Twain info: US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) quote: Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Friedrich Nietzsche info: Thus Spoke ZarathustraGerman philosopher (1844 - 1900) quote: In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Friedrich Nietzsche info: Thus Spoke ZarathustraGerman philosopher (1844 - 1900) quote: It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Friedrich Nietzsche info: Thus Spoke ZarathustraGerman philosopher (1844 - 1900) quote: "One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Friedrich Nietzsche info: Thus Spoke ZarathustraGerman philosopher (1844 - 1900) quote: Life without music would be a mistake. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Andy Warhol info: US artist (1928 - 1987) quote: Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art of all. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: The Ballad of Reading GaolIrish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: "And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats, None knew so well as I: For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Walter Wangerin, Jr. info: Book of the Dun Cow quote: It is entirely possible to win against the enemy, it is possible, even, to kill the enemy... and still be defeated by the battle. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alfred Lord Tennyson info: English poet (1809 - 1892) quote: For I dipped into the future, as far as human eye could see, saw a vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry Kissinger info: US (German-born) diplomat & scholar (1923 - ) quote: No one will ever win the battle of the sexes, because there is too much fraternizing with the enemy. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Euripedes info: Medea quote: "Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Einstein info: US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) quote: "The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Linda Dillow info: "\"Calm My Anxious Heart\"" quote: Ultimately, contentment is more a shift in attitude than a change in circumstances. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anatole France info: French novelist (1844 - 1924) quote: All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Plato info: Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC) quote: "Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Helen Keller info: US blind & deaf educator (1880 - 1968) quote: Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Plato info: Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC) quote: We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Napoleon Bonaparte info: French general & politician (1769 - 1821) quote: In politics, absurdity is not a handicap. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles Dickens info: Great ExpectationsEnglish novelist (1812 - 1870) quote: Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: I have the simplest of tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Winston Churchill info: British politician (1874 - 1965) quote: The best argument against democracy is a five minute talk with the average voter. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Norman Maclean info: A River Runs Through It quote: How can a question be answered that asks a lifetime of questions? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ralph Waldo Emerson info: US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) quote: What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sylvia Plath info: US novelist & poet (1932 - 1963) quote: I talk to God, but the sky is empty. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Camus info: French existentialist author & philosopher (1913 - 1960) quote: A slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sylvia Plath info: US novelist & poet (1932 - 1963) quote: What did my hands do before they held you? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alfred du Masset info: "" quote: Great artists have no country. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Susan Sontag info: US author & critic (1933 - 2004) quote: The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Umberto Eco info: Travels in Hyperreality (Harcourt)Italian novelist & semiotician (1932 - ) quote: The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Shimon Peres info: Israeli (Polish-born) politician (1923 - ) quote: If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact- not to be solved, but to be coped with over time. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Donald H. Rumsfeld info: US Secretary of DefenseUS Secretary of Defense (1932 - ) quote: If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H. P. Lovecraft info: US horror & supernatural author (1890 - 1937) quote: Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dave Barry info: US columnist & humorist (1947 - ) quote: Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Noel Coward info: English actor, dramatist, & songwriter (1899 - 1973) quote: Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it about like marmalade. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jonathan Swift info: Irish essayist, novelist, & satirist (1667 - 1745) quote: As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Muhammad Ali info: US boxer (1942 - ) quote: Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jello Biafra info: "" quote: For every prohibition you create you also create an underground. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Michael W. Moore info: "" quote: Paranoia is a finer scale of reality. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gustave Flaubert info: "\"Madame Bovary\"French realist novelist (1821 - 1880)" quote: Human speech is a cracked cauldron on which we knock out tunes for dancing bears, when we wish to conjure pity from the stars. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Nietzsche info: "" quote: We have art so that we shall not die of reality. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gertrude Stein info: US author in France (1874 - 1946) quote: The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh info: "" quote: "The most exhausting thing you can do is to be inauthentic. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Josh Billings info: US Humorist (1818 - 1885) quote: Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are and doing things as they ought to be done. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry Royce info: "" quote: The quality will remain when the price is forgotten. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bette Davis info: US movie actress (1908 - 1989) quote: From the age of six, I have known that I was sexy. And let me tell you it has been hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ralph Waldo Emerson info: US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) quote: When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ralph Ellison info: "\"The Invisible Man\"" quote: I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Vaclev Havel info: "" quote: Hope 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: Oscar Wilde info: Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: "It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give really unbiased opinions, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always valueless. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Carl Sagan info: US astronomer & popularizer of astronomy (1934 - 1996) quote: "If you want to bake an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the Universe. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Publilius Syrus info: " (~100 BC)" quote: Necessity knows no law. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Fyodor Dostoevsky info: Russian novelist (1821 - 1881) quote: There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) quote: If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must man be of learning from experience. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: We can forgive a man for making a useful thing, as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Santayana info: US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 - 1952) quote: Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Einstein info: US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) quote: There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Patrick Henry info: a speech before the American RevolutionUS orator, patriot, & politician in American Revolution (1736 - 1799) quote: Give me liberty, or give me death. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Martin Luther King info: "" quote: True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice that produces beggars needs restructuring. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ani DiFranco info: "" quote: Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dr. Martin Luther King info: "" quote: "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Steven Wright info: US comedian and actor (1955 - ) quote: When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall looking frantic. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas Carlyle info: Scottish author, essayist, & historian (1795 - 1881) quote: The true university of these days is a collection of books. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John F. Kennedy info: 35th president of US 1961-1963 (1917 - 1963) quote: The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Elvis Presley info: US rock singer (1935 - 1977) quote: Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jimi Hendrix info: Quoted in Charles Shaar Murray,Crosstown Traffic, ch. 6 (1989).US rock musician & singer (1942 - 1970) quote: Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hippocrates info: Greek physician (460 BC - 377 BC) quote: To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Margaret Thatcher info: British politician (1925 - ) quote: I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds; and I very rarely change it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lana Turner info: "" quote: A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marilyn Monroe info: US actress (1926 - 1962) quote: It is better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone else. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Carl Jung info: "\"Modern Man in Search of a Soul\"Swiss psychologist (1875 - 1961)" quote: "The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bruce Lee info: Tao of Jeet Kune Do, Ohara PublicationsUS martial arts expert & movie actor (1940 - 1973) quote: To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Douglas Adams info: The GuardianEnglish humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001) quote: The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he, by peddling second-rate technology, who led them into it in the first place. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gyles Lytton Sitrachy info: "" quote: Perhaps of all the creations of man, language is the most astonishing. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: C. S. Lewis info: English essayist & juvenile novelist (1898 - 1963) quote: "Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Natalie Clifford Barney info: "" quote: Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow info: US poet (1807 - 1882) quote: Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Patty Labelle info: "" quote: The only time you ever run out of chances is when you stop taking them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche info: "" quote: "The last Christian died on the cross. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Malcolm X info: The Autobiography of Malcolm XUS black nationalist leader (1925 - 1965) quote: I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Malcom X info: My counselor, Mrs. Ross quote: I have no mercy or compassion for a society that crushes people, and then penalizes them for not being able to stand up under the weight. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Simone de Beauvoir info: "\"A Very Easy Death\"" quote: "There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dr. Seuss info: "\"Oh, the Places You'll Go\"US author & illustrator (1904 - 1991)" quote: Will you succeed? Yes you will indeed! (98 and 34 percent guaranteed.) rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Le Carre info: Magnus Pym in "A Perfect Spy"English suspense novelist (1931 - ) quote: Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry Drummond info: "" quote: The world is not a playground; it's a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. And the one eternal question for us all is how better we can love. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Moliere info: French actor & comic dramatist (1622 - 1673) quote: Doctors pour drugs of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, into patients of whom they know nothing. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry David Thoreau info: "\"Resistance to Civil Government\"US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862)" quote: I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry David Thoreau info: "\"Resistance to Civil Government\"US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862)" quote: I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Theodore Roosevelt info: An Autobiography26th president of US (1858 - 1919) quote: "Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare \t" rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H. G. Wells info: English author, historian, & utopian (1866 - 1946) quote: "When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Leo Tolstoy info: Anna KareninaRussian mystic & novelist (1828 - 1910) quote: She had wit, she had grace, she had beauty; But above all, she had truth. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John F. Kennedy info: in a speech on May 25, 196135th president of US 1961-1963 (1917 - 1963) quote: I believe this nation should commit itself, to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Terry Pratchett info: "\"Hogfather\", footnote" quote: The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: A. F. Shaw info: "" quote: "I am loving before I am patriotic: I am human before I am American." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Benjamin Franklin info: US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790) quote: Three people can keep a secret so long as two of them are dead. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Steven Wright info: US comedian and actor (1955 - ) quote: They say the sun never sets over the British Empire, but it rises every morning. The sky must get awfully crowded. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Willy Wonka info: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory quote: There is so much time and so little to do; strike that, reverse it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jack Kerouac info: US novelist (1922 - 1969) quote: "The fact was I had the vision... I think everyone has... what we lack is the method. \t\t\t" rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gustav Mahler info: "" quote: Tradition is laziness. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Douglas Adams info: "\"So Long and Thanks For All The Fish\"English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001)" quote: This is an important announcement. This is flight 121 to Los Angeles. If your travel plans today do not include Los Angeles, now would be a perfect time to disembark. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Dalai Lama info: 1992 SpeechTibetan Buddhist religious leader (1935 - ) quote: I believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change such as the present one come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Norman Cousins info: US editor & essayist (1915 - 1990) quote: We will not have peace by afterthought. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Brian K. Blackden info: "1996" quote: "Justice: To seek it, one must be willing to give up the right to privacy, as nothing more private will become more public." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Walt Whitman info: "\"Leaves of Grass\"US poet (1819 - 1892)" quote: Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her that it is just as lucky to die, and I know it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Walt Whitman info: "\"Leaves of Grass\"US poet (1819 - 1892)" quote: Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: C. S. Lewis info: English essayist & juvenile novelist (1898 - 1963) quote: No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J. R. R. Tolkien info: The Fellowship of the RingBritish scholar & fantasy novelist (1892 - 1973) quote: I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J. R. R. Tolkien info: The Fellowship of the RingBritish scholar & fantasy novelist (1892 - 1973) quote: It's a dangerous business going out your front door. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J. R. R. Tolkien info: The Fellowship of the RingBritish scholar & fantasy novelist (1892 - 1973) quote: "Courage is found in unlikely places. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George W. Bush info: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/10/20011011-7.html43rd President of US (1946 - ) quote: ... if you find a person that you've never seen before getting in a crop duster that doesn't belong to you -- report it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Irish Proverb info: "" quote: May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Carlin info: US comedian and actor (1937 - ) quote: I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Carlin info: US comedian and actor (1937 - ) quote: If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Carlin info: US comedian and actor (1937 - ) quote: Why is the man (or woman) who invests all your money called a broker? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Carlin info: US comedian and actor (1937 - ) quote: When cheese gets its picture taken, what does it say? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Carlin info: US comedian and actor (1937 - ) quote: "When someone asks you, A penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny? " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Carlin info: US comedian and actor (1937 - ) quote: "If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled? " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Carlin info: US comedian and actor (1937 - ) quote: Why do croutons come in airtight packages? It's just stale bread to begin with. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Carlin info: US comedian and actor (1937 - ) quote: "\"I am\" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that \"I do\" is the longest sentence? " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lauren Edwards info: "" quote: I have learned that you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved, the rest is up to them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George W. Bush info: On TV, about his passing out eating a pretzel43rd President of US (1946 - ) quote: Chew before you swallow. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oliver Wendel Holmes, Jr. info: "" quote: A mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J. Wilbur Chapman info: "" quote: Look for strengths in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Elvis Costello info: from "Riot Act" quote: Don't wear your heart on your sleeve when your remarks are off the cuff. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dave Barry info: US columnist & humorist (1947 - ) quote: Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Voltaire info: on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce SatanFrench author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778) quote: "Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jean Froissart info: "1359" quote: Nothing in the world is as certain as death. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George W. Bush info: 43rd President of US (1946 - ) quote: Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: LaDawnna Burnett (1975 - ) info: Letters on Ethics quote: Shame is that intrinstic meter of our own heart to tell us that we have failed to follow our own moral compass. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Larry Niven info: Ringworld quote: The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: The Picture of Dorian Gray, chapter 6Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: The Picture of Dorian Gray, the prefaceIrish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their own peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their own peril. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: The Picture of Dorian Gray, the prefaceIrish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Zaki Yamani info: (chief architect of OPEC) quote: The Stone Age came to an end not for a lack of stone, and the oil age will end, but not for a lack of oil. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Einstein info: US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) quote: My sense of God is my sense of wonder about the Universe. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: LaDawnna Burnett info: (1975-), Letters on Ethics quote: Shame is that intrinsic meter of our own heart to tell us that we have failed to follow our own moral compass. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sugar Ray Leonard info: "" quote: We've all been blessed with God-given talents. Mine just happens to be beating people up. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gahan Wilson info: "" quote: When I was young, I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness... I was right. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Billy Graham info: "" quote: Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,the spines of others are often stiffened. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry James info: British (US -born) author (1843 - 1916) quote: She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry James info: British (US -born) author (1843 - 1916) quote: "She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry James info: British (US -born) author (1843 - 1916) quote: The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ralph Waldo Emerson info: US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) quote: The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Gibson info: US science fiction novelist in Canada (1948 - ) quote: The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Juan Ramon Jiminez info: "" quote: If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Abraham Lincoln info: 16th president of US (1809 - 1865) quote: You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Abraham Lincoln info: 16th president of US (1809 - 1865) quote: Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Al Batt info: in National Enquirer quote: The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alice Walker info: "\"In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens\"US novelist (1944 - )" quote: Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Andre Agassi info: on "Charlie Rose"US tennis player (1970 - ) quote: What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Andy Rooney info: US news commentator (1919 - ) quote: Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Andy Warhol info: The Philosophy of Andy WarholUS artist (1928 - 1987) quote: They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anna Quindlen info: " (1953 - )" quote: If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anne Tyler info: Celestial NavigationUS novelist (1941 - ) quote: People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anthony Walton info: "" quote: America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aristotle info: Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) quote: Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arnold Palmer info: US golfer (1929 - ) quote: Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arthur Golden info: Memoirs of a Geisha quote: A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arthur Hays Sulzberger info: "" quote: I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arthur Schopenhauer info: German philosopher (1788 - 1860) quote: All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Baltasar Gracian info: "" quote: It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Baltasar Gracian info: "" quote: Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ben Stein info: "" quote: "The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Benjamin Franklin info: US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790) quote: Well done is better than well said. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Benjamin Franklin info: US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790) quote: You may delay, but time will not. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bern Williams info: "" quote: Sooner or later we all quote our mothers. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bern Williams info: "" quote: September tries its best to have us forget summer. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bill Gates info: Business @ The Speed of ThoughtUS computer software designer & industrialist (1955 - ) quote: Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bill Gates info: Business @ The Speed of ThoughtUS computer software designer & industrialist (1955 - ) quote: The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bonnie Friedman info: in New York Times quote: An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Cherie Carter-Scott info: "\"If Love Is a Game, These Are the Rules\"" quote: Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Clare Ansberry info: The Women of Troy Hill quote: Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Clifton Fadiman info: US author, editor, & radio host (1904 - 1999) quote: One's first book, kiss, home run, is always the best. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Confucius info: Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC) quote: I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dave Meurer info: "\"Daze of Our Wives\"" quote: A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: David Starr Jordan info: The Philosophy of DespairUS biologist, educator, & ichthyologist (1851 - 1931) quote: Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Don Snyder info: Of Time and Memory quote: Let us hope that we are all preceded in this world by a love story. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Donald Trump info: "\"Trump: Art of the Deal\"US real estate construction & development businessman (1946 - )" quote: Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Elizabeth Taylor info: "\"A Wreath of Roses\"British movie actress (1932 - )" quote: It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Eric Gibson info: in The Wall Street Journal quote: Anonymity is the truest expression of altruism. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Garrison Keillor info: in Salon.comUS humorist & radio broadcaster (1942 - ) quote: It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H. Norman Schwarzkopf info: US general (1934 - ) quote: You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bush info: "\"All the Best, George Bush\"41st president of US (1924 - )" quote: Don't confuse being 'soft' with seeing the other guy's point of view. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George F. Will info: Statecraft as SoulcraftUS editor, commentator, & columnist (1941 - ) quote: Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gerry Spence info: How to Argue and Win Every Time quote: To freely bloom - that is my definition of success. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Grant Frazier info: "" quote: Life is full of obstacle illusions. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hal Lancaster info: in The Wall Street Journal quote: Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Harold B. Lee info: US Mormon clergyman (1899 - 1973) quote: The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry Winkler info: US television actor (1945 - ) quote: Assumptions are the termites of relationships. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Herbert W. Boyer info: "co-founder of Genentech, Inc.co-founder of Genentech, Inc. " quote: Wonder is what sets us apart from other life forms. No other species wonders about the meaning of existence or the complexity of the universe or themselves. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jacquelyn Mitchard info: The Deep End of the Ocean quote: Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James Lane Allen info: "" quote: You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jane Howard info: "\"Families\"" quote: Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Japanese proverb info: "" quote: One kind word can warm three winter months. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jerry Flint info: in Forbes quote: Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Joan Didion info: "\"Slouching Towards Bethlehem\"US author & journalist (1934 - )" quote: Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Gray info: "\"Children Are From Heaven\"" quote: It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John M. Capozzi info: Why Climb the Corporate Ladder When You Can Take the Elevator? quote: "Dig where the gold is\x85unless you just need some exercise." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Updike info: Problems and Other StoriesUS author (1932 - ) quote: America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jorge Luis Borges info: Argentine novelist & poet (1899 - 1986) quote: Life itself is a quotation. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Joseph Campbell info: US folklorist & expert on mythology (1904 - 1987) quote: We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Joyce Maynard info: "\"Domestic Affairs\"" quote: A good home must be made, not bought. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Julian Jaynes info: "\"The Origin of Consciousness\"" quote: Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ken Keyes Jr. info: Handbook of Higher Consciousness quote: A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Leon Wieseltier info: in The New Republic quote: No great deed, private or public, had ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Leona Helmsly info: "" quote: I don't hire people who have to be told to be nice. I hire nice people. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lois McMaster Bujold info: "\"Borders of Infinity\", 1989US science fiction author " quote: If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lois McMaster Bujold info: "\"The Vor Game\", 1990US science fiction author " quote: A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lois McMaster Bujold info: "\"The Vor Game\", 1990US science fiction author " quote: War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lois McMaster Bujold info: "\"Shards of Honor\", 1986US science fiction author " quote: Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lois McMaster Bujold info: "\"Shards of Honor\", 1986US science fiction author " quote: An honor is not diminished for being shared. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lois McMaster Bujold info: "\"Barrayar\", 1991US science fiction author " quote: Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lois McMaster Bujold info: "\"Barrayar\", 1991US science fiction author " quote: My home is not a place, it is people. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lois McMaster Bujold info: "\"Barrayar\", 1991US science fiction author " quote: Our children change us... whether they live or not. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lois McMaster Bujold info: "\"Barrayar\", 1991US science fiction author " quote: Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lois McMaster Bujold info: "\"Barrayar\", 1991US science fiction author " quote: Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lois McMaster Bujold info: "\"Barrayar\", 1991US science fiction author " quote: But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lois McMaster Bujold info: "\"Barrayar\", 1991US science fiction author " quote: Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We're not giving up. We're waiting for a better opportunity to win. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lois McMaster Bujold info: "\"Barrayar\", 1991US science fiction author " quote: Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lois McMaster Bujold info: "\"The Warrior's Apprentice\", 1986US science fiction author " quote: If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lois McMaster Bujold info: "\"Memory\", 1996US science fiction author " quote: You try to give away what you want yourself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lois McMaster Bujold info: "\"Memory\", 1996US science fiction author " quote: It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lois McMaster Bujold info: "\"Memory\", 1996US science fiction author " quote: How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lois McMaster Bujold info: "\"Memory\", 1996US science fiction author " quote: "I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose\x85though not always what I pleased." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lois McMaster Bujold info: "\"Memory\", 1996US science fiction author " quote: "His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lois McMaster Bujold info: "\"Memory\", 1996US science fiction author " quote: Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lois McMaster Bujold info: "\"Memory\", 1996US science fiction author " quote: If you can't do what you want, do what you can. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lois McMaster Bujold info: "\"Mirror Dance\", 1994US science fiction author " quote: It's important that someone celebrate our existence... People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lois McMaster Bujold info: "\"Mirror Dance\", 1994US science fiction author " quote: "I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is\x85the higher achievement." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mark Jenkins info: "\"To Timbuktu\"" quote: Maps encourage boldness. They're like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Martha Stewart info: in McCall's quote: I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it's not a waste of time. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Martha Stewart info: quoted in Harper's Bazaar quote: Life is too complicated not to be orderly. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Martina Navratilova info: US (Czechoslovakian-born) tennis player (1956 - ) quote: The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mary Hirsch info: "" quote: Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey info: "1995" quote: May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Maya Angelou info: in Daily NewsUS author & poet (1928 - ) quote: Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.' rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Michael J. Fox info: in "Saving Milly" by Morton KondrakeUS (Canadian-born) actor (1961 - ) quote: One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mother Teresa info: Indian (Albanian-born) humanitarian & missionary (1910 - 1997) quote: Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Muhammad Ali info: "\"More Than a Hero\"US boxer (1942 - )" quote: Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Nicole Kidman info: in The Scotsman quote: When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: P. D. James info: Time to Be in Earnest quote: What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Paul Brown info: US football coach & owner (1908 - 1991) quote: When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Payne Stewart info: "" quote: I'm going to a special place when I die, but I want to make sure my life is special while I'm here. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Peggy Noonan info: in Good HousekeepingUS speechwriter for George Bush (1950 - ) quote: Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Po Bronson info: quoted in Publishers Weekly quote: As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ralph Waldo Emerson info: "\"Self-Reliance\", 1841US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)" quote: Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rick Pitino info: Lead to Success quote: When you build bridges you can keep crossing them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rita Mae Brown info: "Venus EnvyUS author and social activist " quote: The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Bringle info: quoted in Redbook quote: Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder for what you want. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert J. Sawyer info: "\"Calculating God\", 2000Canadian science fiction writer (1960 - )" quote: Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert J. Sawyer info: "\"Calculating God\", 2000Canadian science fiction writer (1960 - )" quote: You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert J. Sawyer info: "\"Calculating God\", 2000Canadian science fiction writer (1960 - )" quote: Honor does not have to be defended. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert J. Sawyer info: "\"Calculating God\", 2000Canadian science fiction writer (1960 - )" quote: Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert J. Sawyer info: "\"Calculating God\", 2000Canadian science fiction writer (1960 - )" quote: General principles should not be based on exceptional cases. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert J. Sawyer info: "\"Calculating God\", 2000Canadian science fiction writer (1960 - )" quote: The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert J. Sawyer info: "\"Calculating God\", 2000Canadian science fiction writer (1960 - )" quote: How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert J. Shiller info: Irrational Exuberance quote: The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert S. McNamara info: former U.S. Secretary of DefenseUS businessman (1916 - ) quote: Brains, like hearts, go where they are appreciated. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Roberto Benigni info: in NewsweekItalian actor, comedian, and director (1952 - ) quote: It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robin Williams info: US actor & comedian (1951 - ) quote: You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sam Donaldson info: US television newscaster (1934 - ) quote: I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sam Ewing info: "" quote: It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sam Rayburn info: US politician (1882 - 1961) quote: No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Senator Dianne Feinstein info: US Democratic politician (1933 - ) quote: Toughness doesn't have to come in a pinstriped suit. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Seneca info: Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC - 65 AD) quote: It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Susan Ertz info: Anger in the Sky quote: Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Reverend Edward A. Malloy info: Monk's Reflections quote: A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas Jefferson info: 3rd president of US (1743 - 1826) quote: I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tom Nolan info: in The Wall Street Journal quote: In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Warren Buffett info: US financier & investment businessman (1930 - ) quote: In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Wayne Gretzky info: Canadian hockey player (1961 - ) quote: You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Zig Ziglar info: "\"Secrets of Closing the Sale\", 1984" quote: You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Frederich Nietzsche info: "" quote: The search for truth begins with the doubt of all 'truths' in which one has previously believed. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Fyodor Dostoevsky info: "\"The Brothers Karamazov\"Russian novelist (1821 - 1881)" quote: Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles Spurgeon info: "" quote: Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charlotte Bronte info: English novelist (1816 - 1855) quote: Look twice before you leap. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anne Frank info: German Jewish diarist (1929 - 1945) quote: Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Harriet Beecher Stowe info: US abolitionist & novelist (1811 - 1896) quote: To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Browning info: English poet (1812 - 1889) quote: My business is not to remake myself, But make the absolute best of what God made. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charlotte Bronte info: English novelist (1816 - 1855) quote: If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ani Difranco info: "" quote: There is nothing that is personal and private, it is all universal. All that stuff we share but don't admit to, and don't talk about...what is that about? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henri Bergson info: 1859-1938French author, mystic, & philosopher (1859 - 1941) quote: The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lewis Grizzard info: "" quote: Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Orwell info: English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950) quote: "We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Carl Von Clausewitz info: quoted by Gene Hackman in "Crimson Tide" quote: War is a continuation of politics by other means. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: General Douglas MacArthur info: Farewell address, quoted on "We Interrupt This Broadcast" CD-ROMUS WWII general & war hero (1880 - 1964) quote: And now, like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career, and just fade away...an old soldier who tried to do his duty, as God gave him the light to see that duty. Good-bye. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George W. Bush info: Speech after 9/11 attacks43rd President of US (1946 - ) quote: We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Larry McMurtry info: "\"Flim Flam - Essays on Hollywood\"US author (1936 - )" quote: Mystery is underrated, and understanding is overrated. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ship's Cook, United Planets Cruiser C-57D info: The movie Forbidden Planet, MGM, 1956 quote: Another one of them new worlds. No beer, no women, no pool parlors - nothin'. Nothing to do but throw rocks at tin cans and we got to bring our own tin cans. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Nikita Khrushchev info: Russian Soviet politician (1894 - 1971) quote: About the capitalist states, it doesn't depend on you whether we (Soviet Union) exist. If you don't like us, don't accept our invitations, and don't invite us to come to see you. Whether you like it our not, history is on our side. We will bury you. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William "Bull" Halsey info: Admiral, USN quote: Hit hard, hit fast, hit often. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Horation Nelson info: Admiral British Navy, dying words quote: Thank God I have done my duty. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Paul Jones info: "" quote: "I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast for I intend to go in harm\x92s way." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Blaise Pascal info: Lettres Proviciales (1657)French mathematician, physicist (1623 - 1662) quote: I have made this letter long because i have not the time to make it shorter. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Johan Wolfgang von Goethe info: "" quote: The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities, but to know that there is someone who, though distant, thinks and feels with us -- this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anatole France info: French novelist (1844 - 1924) quote: To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan but also believe. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Allen White info: "" quote: I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Johan Wolfgang von Goethe info: "" quote: Talents are best nurtured in solitude; but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Scott Adams info: The Dilbert FutureUS cartoonist (1957 - ) quote: No matter how smart you are, you spend most of your day being an idiot. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Chuck Yeager info: "" quote: You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don't give up. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: e e cummings info: US poet (1894 - 1962) quote: Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Winnie the Pooh info: "" quote: When late morning rolls around and you're feeling a bit out of sorts, don't worry; you're probably just a little eleven o'clockish. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Johnny Hart info: B. C. Comic strip. quote: Love is a common bond that occurs between two people when each thinks they have something to gain through the other's stupidity. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert & Emily Vail info: Transforming Light (pg 254) quote: "The measuring rod of a civilization is the prosperity of the masses. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Heinlein info: US science fiction author (1907 - 1988) quote: "If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say: Let the damned thing go down the drain!" rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Winnie the Pooh info: "" quote: A fly can't bird, but a bird can fly. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Steinbeck info: The Winter of our DiscontentUS novelist (1902 - 1968) quote: Most people live ninety percent in the past, seven percent in the present, and that only leaves three percent for the future. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Steinbeck info: The Winter of our DiscontentUS novelist (1902 - 1968) quote: Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dr. Seuss info: Oh! The Places You'll Go!US author & illustrator (1904 - 1991) quote: "You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go.... " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Martin Van Buren info: taking over from Andrew Jackson in 18378th President of US (1782 - 1862) quote: I cannot expect to perform the task with equal ability and success. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Andrew Jackson info: 18217th President of the United States (1767 - 1845) quote: The great can protect themselves, but the poor and humble require the arm and shield of the law. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Adams info: US diplomat & politician (1735 - 1826) quote: No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles Krauthammer info: "" quote: Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aesop info: Greek slave & fable author (620 BC - 560 BC) quote: No act of kindness, no matter how small, is wasted. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Keith Degreen info: "" quote: You can never learn less, you can only learn more. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Pioneer Motto info: "" quote: Fix it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Prince Philip of England info: "" quote: Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Steven Wright info: US comedian and actor (1955 - ) quote: If dracula can't see his reflection in the mirror, how come his hair is always so neatly combed? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bob Hope info: US (English-born) actor & comedian (1903 - 2003) quote: Middle age is when you still believe you'll feel better in the morning. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bill Watterson info: "\"Calvin and Hobbes\"US cartoonist (1958 - )" quote: Careful. We don't want to learn from this. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Abrahm Lincoln info: "" quote: No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. info: "" quote: Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Expediency asks the question - is it politic? Vanity asks the question - is it popular? But conscience asks the question - is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: David Letterman info: US comedian & television host (1947 - ) quote: Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles Bukowski info: From "Betting on the Muse"US (German-born) author & poet (1920 - 1994) quote: Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ralph Waldo Emerson info: US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) quote: I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well, remembering that she has seen dark times before, indeed with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bill Watterson info: Calvin and Hobbes, "The Revenge of the Babysat"US cartoonist (1958 - ) quote: Unfortunately, we're all "someone else" to someone else. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ernest Thompson Seton info: "" quote: Have the wild things no moral or legal rights? What right has man to inflict such long and fearful agony on a fellow creature, simply because that creature does not speak his language? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas Calyle info: "" quote: The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Pablo Casals info: Spanish Catalan cellist, composer, & conductor (1876 - 1973) quote: "The love of one\x92s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?" rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alexander Pope info: (1712?)English poet & satirist (1688 - 1744) quote: Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ian Fleming info: Goldfinger (1959) ch. 14British novelist (1908 - 1964) quote: "They have a saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action.'" rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Josiah Stamp info: Attibuted to Sir Josiah Stamp (1849 - 1941) HM Collector of Inland Revenue. quote: The government (is) extremely fond of amassing great quantities of statistics. These are raised to the nth degree, the cube roots are extracted, and the results are arranged into elaborate and impressive displays. What must be kept ever in mind, however, is that in every case, the figures are first put down by a village watchman, and he puts down anything he damn well pleases. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gene Roddenberry info: "" quote: "I think God is as much a basic ingredient in the universe as neutrons and positrons. This is the prime force, when we look around the universe. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Beau M. Jackson info: "" quote: Don't be content by just beating others expectations, beat your own expectations as well. And you should expect nothing less but to win. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: Dreamers can find their way by moonlight and their only punishment is that they see the dawn before the rest of the world. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anne Frank info: The diary of Anne FrankGerman Jewish diarist (1929 - 1945) quote: In spite of everything that has happened, I still believe that people are really good at heart. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Scott Adams info: "\"Dilbert\" comic stripUS cartoonist (1957 - )" quote: "Dogbert: \"Well you know what they say, when life gives you lemon, make lemonade.\" Dilbert: \"But i'm allergic to citrus.\" Dogbert: \"Well you know what they say, when life gives you lemons, swell up and die.\"" rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Douglas Adams info: alt.fan.douglas-adams, 1 Dec 1993English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001) quote: Cyberspace is - or can be - a good, friendly and egalitarian place to meet. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Douglas Adams info: alt.fan.douglas-adams, 13 Sep 1998English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001) quote: Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Stephen Hawking info: English cosmologist and physicist (1942 - ) quote: We shouldn't be surprised that conditions in the universe are suitable for life, but this is not evidence that the universe was designed to allow for life. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Stephen Hawking info: English cosmologist and physicist (1942 - ) quote: We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the laws of physics. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arthur Schopenhauer info: German philosopher (1788 - 1860) quote: Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Molana Jalal-e-Din Mohammad Molavi Rumi info: the poem Joy at Sudden Disappointment quote: "Ask a difficult question, and the marvelous answer appears. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Einstein info: (attributed)US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) quote: "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Browning info: English poet (1812 - 1889) quote: Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp - or what's a heaven for? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Walter Bagehot info: "\"Biographical Studies\", 1863English economist & journalist (1826 - 1877)" quote: It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles M. Schulz info: Charlie Brown in "Peanuts"US cartoonist (1922 - 2000) quote: Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act IIIIrish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J. Frank Dobie info: "\"A Texan in England\", 1945US folklorist (1888 - 1964)" quote: "The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bill Watterson info: Calvin in "Calvin and Hobbes"US cartoonist (1958 - ) quote: Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Einstein info: US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) quote: Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Frank Lloyd Wright info: US architect (1869 - 1959) quote: Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry Fielding info: English dramatist & novelist (1707 - 1754) quote: Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: E. M. Forster info: British novelist (1879 - 1970) quote: Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Andre Gide info: French critic, essayist, & novelist (1869 - 1951) quote: Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Paul Gauguin info: French Post-Impressionist painter (1848 - 1903) quote: Art is either plagiarism or revolution. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kate Reid info: "" quote: Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edith Wharton info: US novelist (1862 - 1937) quote: Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alfred E. Wiggam info: "" quote: A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Anton Wilson info: "" quote: It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tallulah Bankhead info: US movie actress (1903 - 1968) quote: It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Elizabeth Taylor info: British movie actress (1932 - ) quote: The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lane Olinghouse info: "" quote: Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mae West info: US movie actress (1892 - 1980) quote: I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J. Paul Getty info: US oil industrialist (1892 - 1976) quote: If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John H. Patterson info: "" quote: An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mark Twain info: US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) quote: I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Ciardi info: US poet (1916 - 1986) quote: A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Laurence J. Peter info: US educator & writer (1919 - 1988) quote: Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) quote: A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Cary Grant info: US movie actor (1904 - 1986) quote: Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act IIIIrish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Francis Bacon info: English author, courtier, & philosopher (1561 - 1626) quote: Silence is the virtue of fools. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles Caleb Colton info: " (1780 - 1832)" quote: Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Doug Larson info: "" quote: The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Niels Bohr info: Danish physicist (1885 - 1962) quote: Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Benjamin Disraeli info: British politician (1804 - 1881) quote: What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Burns info: US actor & comedian (1896 - 1996) quote: Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Saki info: British (Burman-born) short story author (1870 - 1916) quote: He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jean Paul Richter info: German author (1763 - 1825) quote: A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Will Rogers info: Newspaper article, Feb. 15, 1925US humorist & showman (1879 - 1935) quote: Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dwight D. Eisenhower info: 34th president of US 1953-1961 (1890 - 1969) quote: Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Paul Harvey info: "" quote: In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lee Simonson info: "" quote: Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Voltaire info: French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778) quote: Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Victor Borge info: US (Danish-born) comedian & pianist (1909 - 2000) quote: Laughter is the closest distance between two people. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Peter McArthur info: "" quote: A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Franklin P. Adams info: US journalist (1881 - 1960) quote: I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Groucho Marx info: US comedian with Marx Brothers (1890 - 1977) quote: A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Winston Churchill info: British politician (1874 - 1965) quote: From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: Pygmalion (1916) prefaceIrish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) quote: The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James F. Byrnes info: US jurist & politician (1879 - 1972) quote: Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Stanislaw J. Lec info: "\"Unkempt Thoughts\"Polish writer (1909 - 1966)" quote: People find life entirely too time-consuming. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mickey Mantle info: (attributed)US baseball player (1931 - 1995) quote: If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: The Critic as Artist, part 2, 1891Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Einstein info: US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) quote: Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bertrand Russell info: British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970) quote: Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oliver Wendell Holmes info: US author & physician (1809 - 1894) quote: Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. info: US jurist (1841 - 1935) quote: The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Emerson Pugh info: "" quote: If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) quote: Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Woodrow Wilson info: 28th president of US (1856 - 1924) quote: I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Winston Churchill info: British politician (1874 - 1965) quote: Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Evan Esar info: American Humorist (1899 - 1995) quote: A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Vladimir Nabokov info: US (Russian-born) author & translator (1899 - 1977) quote: "My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Laurence J. Peter info: US educator & writer (1919 - 1988) quote: Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Francois de La Rochefoucauld info: French author & moralist (1613 - 1680) quote: We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Santayana info: US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 - 1952) quote: Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Havelock Ellis info: English sexual psychologist (1859 - 1939) quote: The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William H. Borah info: "" quote: The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arthur C. Clarke info: English physicist & science fiction author (1917 - ) quote: Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Kenneth Galbraith info: US (Canadian-born) administrator & economist (1908 - 2006) quote: Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Kenneth Galbraith info: US (Canadian-born) administrator & economist (1908 - 2006) quote: Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Abbie Hoffman info: US radical activist (1936 - 1989) quote: The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lyndon B. Johnson info: 36th president of US (1908 - 1973) quote: If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim". rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Will Rogers info: US humorist & showman (1879 - 1935) quote: I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Will Rogers info: US humorist & showman (1879 - 1935) quote: Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Judge Gideon J. Tucker info: "" quote: No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gore Vidal info: US author & dramatist (1925 - ) quote: Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: R. Buckminster Fuller info: US architect & engineer (1895 - 1983) quote: When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Einstein info: US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) quote: My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Heinrich Heine info: German critic & poet (1797 - 1856) quote: Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir William Bragg info: British physicist (1862 - 1942) quote: God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir William Bragg info: British physicist (1862 - 1942) quote: The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Vannevar Bush info: US electrical engineer (1890 - 1974) quote: If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas H. Huxley info: English biologist (1825 - 1895) quote: "Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas H. Huxley info: English biologist (1825 - 1895) quote: The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Immanuel Kant info: German philosopher (1724 - 1804) quote: Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Louis Pasteur info: French biologist & bacteriologist (1822 - 1895) quote: There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ernest Rutherford info: in J. B. Birks "Rutherford at Manchester" (1962)British chemist & physicist (1871 - 1937) quote: All science is either physics or stamp collecting. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Paul Valery info: 1895French critic & poet (1871 - 1945) quote: The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Zsa Zsa Gabor info: US (Hungarian-born) actress (1919 - ) quote: I know nothing about sex because I was always married. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Virginia Woolf info: English novelist (1882 - 1941) quote: For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Lithgow info: "" quote: Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Steven Weinberg info: US physicist (1933 - ) quote: The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Russell Baker info: US columnist & journalist (1925 - ) quote: The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Winston Churchill info: British politician (1874 - 1965) quote: The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Christopher Hampton info: "" quote: Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bertrand Russell info: British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970) quote: So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry David Thoreau info: "\"Walden\", 1854US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862)" quote: The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Francis Bacon info: "\"Of Beauty\"English author, courtier, & philosopher (1561 - 1626)" quote: There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Douglas Adams info: "\"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy\"English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001)" quote: He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John McCrae info: "\"In Flanders Fields\"" quote: If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James Thurber info: "\"Carpe Noctem, If You Can\", in \"Credos and Curios\" (1962)US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 - 1961)" quote: I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lewis Thomas info: US author, biologist, physician (1913 - 1993) quote: The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Isaac Newton info: English mathematician & physicist (1642 - 1727) quote: I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J. Bartlett Brebner info: "" quote: Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Juvenal info: Roman poet & satirist (55 AD - 127 AD) quote: Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arthur Stringer info: "\"The Silver Poppy\"" quote: Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Stephen Jay Gould info: US author, naturalist, paleontologist, & popularizer of science (1941 - 2002) quote: In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Richard Feynman info: US educator & physicist (1918 - 1988) quote: Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry Ward Beecher info: US abolitionist & clergyman (1813 - 1887) quote: Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Arnold Bax info: Farewell my Youth (1943)British composer (1883 - 1953) quote: A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Miguel de Cervantes info: Spanish adventurer, author, & poet (1547 - 1616) quote: Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rudyard Kipling info: British (Indian-born) author (1865 - 1936) quote: Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dr. Thomas Fuller info: Gnomologia, 1732British physician (1654 - 1734) quote: All things are difficult before they are easy. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alan Turing info: English logician & mathematician (1912 - 1954) quote: Machines take me by surprise with great frequency. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles Haddon Spurgeon info: English preacher (1834 - 1892) quote: You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Emile Chartier info: "" quote: There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Fulford info: "" quote: I have seen the future and it doesn't work. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dalton Camp info: "" quote: Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sydney Smith info: English essayist (1771 - 1845) quote: Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Laurence J. Peter info: US educator & writer (1919 - 1988) quote: America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henri Poincare info: French mathematician & physicist (1854 - 1912) quote: Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Frederick G. Banting info: Canadian physician & physiologist (1891 - 1941) quote: No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James Thurber info: US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 - 1961) quote: I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Isaac Asimov info: US science fiction novelist & scholar (1920 - 1992) quote: If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Samuel Johnson info: quoted in Boswell's Life of JohnsonEnglish author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784) quote: Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Horace Walpole info: English author (1717 - 1797) quote: The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mark Twain info: US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) quote: We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Frank Herbert info: US science fiction novelist (1920 - 1986) quote: The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Daniel Webster info: US diplomat, lawyer, orator, & politician (1782 - 1852) quote: The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Einstein info: US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) quote: Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Richard Feynman info: US educator & physicist (1918 - 1988) quote: Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John A. Wheeler info: "" quote: If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe info: German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 - 1832) quote: To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Will Rogers info: US humorist & showman (1879 - 1935) quote: I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: David Russell info: "" quote: We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Enrico Fermi info: US (Italian-born) physicist (1901 - 1954) quote: It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Friedrich von Schiller info: German dramatist & poet (1759 - 1805) quote: Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Richard Feynman info: US educator & physicist (1918 - 1988) quote: We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George C. Marshall info: US general (1880 - 1959) quote: If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Zend info: "" quote: There are too many people, and too few human beings. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Poul Anderson info: US science fiction author (1926 - 2001) quote: I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Peter McArthur info: "" quote: Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alfred North Whitehead info: English mathematician & philosopher (1861 - 1947) quote: Seek simplicity, and distrust it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: G. K. Chesterton info: English author & mystery novelist (1874 - 1936) quote: An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John C. Dvorak info: "" quote: In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Douglas Adams info: English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001) quote: He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Philip G. Hamerton info: "\"The Intellectual Life\"" quote: Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: C. E. Montague info: "\"A Writer's Notes on His Trade\"" quote: To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry David Thoreau info: "\"Walden\", 1854US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862)" quote: Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robertson Davies info: "\"The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks\"" quote: To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robertson Davies info: "" quote: " There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bertrand Russell info: British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970) quote: There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edward Gibbon info: English historian of Rome (1737 - 1794) quote: All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robertson Davies info: "\"Fifth Business\"" quote: He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robertson Davies info: "\"What's Bred in the Bone\"" quote: A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robertson Davies info: "" quote: "A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robertson Davies info: "\"A Voice from the Attic\", 1960" quote: The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Cheever info: " The Stories of John Cheever (1978)" quote: Homesickness is. . . absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. . . You don't really long for another country. You long for something in yourself that you don't have, or haven't been able to find. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jean Toomer info: "" quote: We learn the rope of life by untying its knots. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Maya Angelou info: US author & poet (1928 - ) quote: One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thucydides info: Greek historian (471 BC - 400 BC) quote: The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry David Thoreau info: US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862) quote: In wildness is the preservation of the world. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616) quote: To be a well-flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Peter Farquharson info: "" quote: Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to look not only to our own interests, but also the interests of others. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry Boye info: "" quote: The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Barbara Johnson info: " The Joy Journal" quote: Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Joseph Sobran info: "" quote: The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Clarence Jordan info: "" quote: It is not enough to limit your love to your own nation, to your own group. You must respond with love even to those outside of it. . . . This concept enables people to live together not as nations, but as the human race. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Sheehan info: "" quote: Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Will Smith info: "" quote: Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jimmy Johnson info: "" quote: Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mark Yost info: "" quote: History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Eugene Ionesco info: " Decouvertes (1969)French (Romanian-born) Absurdist dramatist (1909 - 1994)" quote: Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Washington Carver info: US horticulturist (1864 - 1943) quote: How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong -- because someday you will have been all of these. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Camus info: " Resistance, Rebellion and Death (1960)French existentialist author & philosopher (1913 - 1960)" quote: A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to bet better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lewis Thomas info: " The Medusa and the Snail (1979)US author, biologist, physician (1913 - 1993)" quote: We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a "common goal" of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lewis Carroll info: " Alice in WonderlandEnglish author & recreational mathematician (1832 - 1898)" quote: Be what you would seem to be -- or, if you'd like it put more simply -- Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Margaret Fuller info: US Transcendentalist author & editor (1810 - 1850) quote: A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow info: US poet (1807 - 1882) quote: Age is opportunity no less than youth itself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Octavio Paz info: " The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950)Mexican author & diplomat (1914 - )" quote: Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Socrates info: Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC - 399 BC) quote: The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Matsuo Basho info: "" quote: Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gail Sheehy info: "" quote: If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas Hughes info: "" quote: Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lewis Thomas info: " The Medusa and the Snail (1979)US author, biologist, physician (1913 - 1993)" quote: We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dwight D. Eisenhower info: 34th president of US 1953-1961 (1890 - 1969) quote: I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: P. J. O'Rourke info: " Parliament of Whores (1991)US humorist & political commentator (1947 - )" quote: Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: P. J. O'Rourke info: " Parliament of Whores (1991)US humorist & political commentator (1947 - )" quote: There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H. G. Wells info: English author, historian, & utopian (1866 - 1946) quote: The past is but the past of a beginning. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Frank Zappa info: US musician, singer, & songwriter (1940 - 1993) quote: Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There's a world, you see, which has people in it who believe in a variety of different things. Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Clint Eastwood info: US movie actor & director (1930 - ) quote: Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Clint Eastwood info: US movie actor & director (1930 - ) quote: It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: P. J. O'Rourke info: " Parliament of Whores (1991)US humorist & political commentator (1947 - )" quote: Politics are a lousy way for a free man to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dolly Parton info: "" quote: When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jack Nicklaus info: US golfer (1940 - ) quote: Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band-Aid remedies never last. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jack Nicklaus info: US golfer (1940 - ) quote: Focus on remedies, not faults. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Susan Taylor info: "" quote: We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly. . . spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Susan Taylor info: "" quote: Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Susan Taylor info: "" quote: Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Susan Taylor info: "" quote: We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Somerset Maugham info: "" quote: Genius is talent provided with ideals. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Pablo Picasso info: Spanish Cubist painter (1881 - 1973) quote: I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William S. Burroughs info: US author (1914 - 1997) quote: Junk is the ultimate merchandise. The junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to the product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise, he degrades and simplifies the client. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Makepeace Thackeray info: English novelist (1811 - 1863) quote: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Osler info: "" quote: In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Martin Luther King Jr. info: US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 - 1968) quote: If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values -- that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Martin Luther King Jr. info: "\"Strength to Love\"US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 - 1968)" quote: The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edwin Whipple info: "" quote: The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lester R. Bittel info: " The Nine Master Keys of Management" quote: Good plans shape good decisions. That's why good planning helps to make elusive dreams come true. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Abraham Lincoln info: 16th president of US (1809 - 1865) quote: With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds. . . to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marvin Gaye info: "" quote: If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Milton Katselas info: "" quote: Within the problem lies the solution rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. info: " Jr.US jurist (1841 - 1935)" quote: It is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it, to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J. P. Donleavy info: "" quote: When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health. If everything is simply jake, then you're frightened of death. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John P. Grier info: "" quote: The will to believe is perhaps the most powerful, but certainly the most dangerous human attribute. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Harold Geneen info: "" quote: We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Myron Tribus info: "" quote: Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word "academic" in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: W. Edwards Deming info: US business advisor & author (1900 - 1993) quote: What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Pirsig info: "" quote: Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Herman Melville info: US novelist & sailor (1819 - 1891) quote: He who has never failed somewhere. . . that man can not be great. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lloyd Dobyns and Clare Crawford-Mason info: " Thinking About Quality" quote: Continual improvement is an unending journey. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: W. Edwards Deming info: US business advisor & author (1900 - 1993) quote: It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone. . . . The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lloyd Dobyns and Clare Crawford-Mason info: " Thinking About Quality" quote: It is not a question of how well each process works, the question is how well they all work together. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Russell L. Ackoff info: "" quote: To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Reich info: "" quote: Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ecclesiastes 9:11 info: "" quote: The race is not [always] to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Wilbur Wright info: US airplane designer & aviation pioneer with brother Orville Wright (1867 - 1912) quote: It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hebrews 13:2 info: "" quote: Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hiram Johnson info: "" quote: The first casualty when war comes is truth. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lloyd Dobyns and Clare Crawford-Mason info: " Thinking About Quality" quote: Nothing in life is static; it either gets better, or it gets worse. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Wim Wenders info: "" quote: The more opinions you have, the less you see. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lloyd Dobyns and Clare Crawford-Mason info: " Thinking About Quality" quote: If there is no worker involvement, there is no quality system. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Reich info: "" quote: A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Daniel J. Boorstin info: US historian (1914 - ) quote: More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lloyd Dobyns and Clare Crawford-Mason info: " Thinking About Quality" quote: The only lifelong, reliable motivations are those that come from within, and one of the strongest of those is the joy and pride that grow from knowing that you've just done something as well as you can do it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Heinlein info: " Time Enough for Love (1972)US science fiction author (1907 - 1988)" quote: History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Isaiah 58:12 info: "" quote: Thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations, and thou shalt be called, the repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to dwell in. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Frederick Chiluba info: "" quote: The greatest lesson we can learn from the past. . . is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation in the world. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Eduard Sagalaev info: "" quote: The process of creating new, democratic organs of government power is beginning, and, as never before, the greatest responsibility rests with the broadcast media. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Boutros Boutros-Ghali info: "" quote: A new vision of development is emerging. Development is becoming a people-centered process, whose ultimate goal must be the improvement of the human condition. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dominique de Menil info: "" quote: "What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: UNICEF info: " \"The State of the World's Children\" (1995)" quote: Unless the investment in children is made, all of humanity's most fundamental long-term problems will remain fundamental long-term problems. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Naguib Mahfouz info: "" quote: Happy is he who can give himself up. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Philip Crosby info: " Reflections on Quality" quote: You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Philip Crosby info: " Reflections on Quality" quote: Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sammy Davis Jr. info: "" quote: I gotta be me. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Eddie Myers info: "" quote: Words were never invented to fully explain the peaceful aura that surrounds us when we are in communion with minds of the same thoughts. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edmund Everett Hale info: "" quote: I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Solow info: "" quote: It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is no that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Phylicia Rashad info: "" quote: There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: "S\xF8ren Kierkegaard" info: "" quote: If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential -- for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Claude Roy info: "" quote: "Love is an attachment to another self. Humor is a form of self-detachment -- a way of looking at one's existence, one's misfortune, or one's discomfort. If you really love, if you really know how to laugh, the result is the same: you forget yourself." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Maya Lin info: "" quote: To fly we have to have resistance. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Stephen W. Comiskey info: "" quote: You can delegate authority, but not responsibility. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Michael Landon info: US actor (1936 - 1991) quote: Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Michael Johnson info: "" quote: Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Phil Condit info: "" quote: None of us is as smart as all of us. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alexandra Stoddard info: " Gracious Living in a New World" quote: The world is extremely interesting to a joyful soul. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Philip Crosby info: " Reflections on Quality" quote: We can spend our whole lives underachieving. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Philip Crosby info: " Reflections on Quality" quote: The great discoveries are usually obvious. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Philip Crosby info: " Reflections on Quality" quote: Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Philip Crosby info: " Reflections on Quality" quote: Selecting the right person for the right job is the largest part of coaching. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Philip Crosby info: " Reflections on Quality" quote: Just being honest is not enough. The essential ingredient is executive integrity. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Brenda Hammond info: "" quote: If fear alters behavior, you're already defeated. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Brenda Ueland info: "" quote: Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Philip Crosby info: " Reflections on Quality" quote: "A rule to live by: I won't use anything I can't explain in five minutes." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Philip Crosby info: " Reflections on Quality" quote: Quality has to be caused, not controlled. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: W. Kelly Griffith info: "" quote: Any necessary work that pays an honest wage carries its own honor and dignity. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Samuel Johnson info: English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784) quote: An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon info: "" quote: Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Philip Crosby info: " Reflections on Quality" quote: If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Philip Crosby info: " Reflections on Quality" quote: Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Honore de Balzac info: French realist novelist (1799 - 1850) quote: All human power is a compound of time and patience. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Proverbs 25:15 info: "" quote: Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Peter Marshall info: "" quote: Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: " Unknown" info: "" quote: Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dorothy Law Nolte info: "" quote: If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Confucius info: Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC) quote: If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rudyard Kipling info: " \"If\"British (Indian-born) author (1865 - 1936)" quote: If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. . . . The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marya Mannes info: "" quote: The great omission in American life is solitude. . . that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus info: Roman Emperor, A.D. 161-180 (121 AD - 180 AD) quote: The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dee W. Hock info: " Fast Company" quote: Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Elaine Agather info: "" quote: The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marabel Morgan info: " The Electric Woman" quote: Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Graham Greene info: " The Power and the Glory" quote: There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: David W. Johnson info: "" quote: There are no speed limits on the road to excellence. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dr. Seuss info: US author & illustrator (1904 - 1991) quote: Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So. . . get on your way. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Scott Adams info: " The Dilbert FutureUS cartoonist (1957 - )" quote: There are many methods for predicting the future. For example, you can read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls. Collectively, these methods are known as "nutty methods." Or you can put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer models, more commonly referred to as "a complete waste of time." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert South info: "" quote: If there be any truer message of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: General Curtis Le May info: "" quote: I don't have time to distinguish between the unfortunate and the incompetent. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J. B. S. Haldane info: British geneticist & scientist (1892 - 1964) quote: I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don't know why I do things. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bob Dole info: "" quote: When it's all over, it's not who you were. . . it's whether you made a difference. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thich Nhat Hanh info: "" quote: The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Julia Cameron info: " The Vein of Gold" quote: When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Deepak Chopra info: " The Path to Love" quote: The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant to heal. Love is meant to renew. Love is meant to bring us closer to God. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Joan Borysenko info: " A Woman's Book of Life" quote: When we are capable of living in the moment free from the tyranny of "shoulds," free from the nagging sensation that this moment isn't right, we will have peaceful hearts. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: R.W. Emerson info: " Self-Reliance" quote: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Colton info: "" quote: War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aristotle info: Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) quote: No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dryden info: "" quote: Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Seneca info: Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC - 65 AD) quote: There is no great genius free from some tincture of madness. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Karl Kraus info: Austrian author and journalist (1874 - 1936) quote: Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Samuel Butler info: " The Way of All FleshEnglish composer, novelist, & satiric author (1835 - 1902)" quote: Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it out with charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lou Holtz info: "" quote: Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Bennett info: "" quote: There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Nathaniel Emmons info: "" quote: Insanity destroys reason, but not wit. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Richard Dawkins info: British ethologist, geneticist, & popularizer of genetics (1941 - ) quote: Nature is not cruel, pitiless, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous -- indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe info: German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 - 1832) quote: We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oliver Wendell Holmes info: US author & physician (1809 - 1894) quote: Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe info: German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 - 1832) quote: A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Samuel Ullman info: "" quote: Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Adolph Monod info: "" quote: Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hannah Moore info: "" quote: Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Madame Swetchine info: "" quote: Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rabindranath Tagore info: Indian educator & Bengali poet (1861 - 1941) quote: Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Fitzgerald info: "" quote: I want to live my life so that my nights are full of regrets. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aristophanes info: Greek Athenian comic dramatist (450 BC - 388 BC) quote: Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Chinese proverb info: "" quote: I dreamed a thousand new paths. . . I woke and walked my old one. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Willie Nelson info: "" quote: Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Benjamin Spock info: US activist, pacifist, physician, & child care reformer (1903 - ) quote: Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Golda Meir info: Israeli (Russian-born) politician (1898 - 1978) quote: Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Winston Churchill info: "" quote: I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dante Alighieri info: Italian national epic poet (1265 - 1321) quote: For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Clarence Darrow info: US defense lawyer (1857 - 1938) quote: Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Clarence Darrow info: US defense lawyer (1857 - 1938) quote: As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles de Gaulle info: French general & politician (1890 - 1970) quote: For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles de Gaulle info: French general & politician (1890 - 1970) quote: To govern is always to choose among disadvantages. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: D. H. Lawrence info: English novelist (1885 - 1930) quote: I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Franklin Delano Roosevelt info: "" quote: They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers. . . call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Steve Crosby info: "" quote: You have to believe that the universe will provide. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Louis Stevenson info: Scottish author (1850 - 1894) quote: Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Maurice Baring info: "" quote: Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Wyndham info: " The Day of the Triffids" quote: When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Francis Cardinal Spellman info: US cardinal 1946 (1889 - 1967) quote: When you say Yes, say it quickly. But always take a half hour to say No, so you can understand the other fellow's side. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Margaret Thatcher info: British politician (1925 - ) quote: You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: F. P. Jones info: "" quote: Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Unknown info: "Quotations by unknown authors " quote: After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Buddha info: " The DharmapadaIndian philosopher & religious leader (563 BC - 483 BC)" quote: "Do not speak harshly to any one; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful: blows for blows will touch thee." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Friedrich Nietzsche info: German philosopher (1844 - 1900) quote: One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Peter Drucker info: American (Austrian-born) management writer (1909 - 2005) quote: There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dale Carnegie info: "" quote: Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lou Holtz info: "" quote: You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alexander Hamilton info: US (Scottish-born) lawyer & politician (1755 - 1804) quote: Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Voltaire info: French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778) quote: A witty saying proves nothing. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marvin Minsky info: " The Society of Mind" quote: In general we are least aware of what our minds do best. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: Greek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ralph Waldo Emerson info: US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) quote: We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting the best property of all -- friends? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry Ward Beecher info: US abolitionist & clergyman (1813 - 1887) quote: It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Epicurus info: Greek philosopher (341 BC - 270 BC) quote: It is not so much our friend's help that helps us as the confidence of their help. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edgar Lee Masters info: "" quote: Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: E. R. Bulwer-Lytton info: " Last Words (1860)" quote: Talk not of genius baffled, Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ralph Waldo Emerson info: " The Method of Nature (1841)US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)" quote: Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oliver Wendell Holmes info: US author & physician (1809 - 1894) quote: There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, and predict. Their best illuminations come from above through the skylight. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tuscarora proverb info: "" quote: Man has responsibility, not power. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hazlitt info: "" quote: The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kahlil Gibran info: Lebanese artist & poet in US (1883 - 1931) quote: Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Samuel Johnson info: English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784) quote: Our aspirations are our possibilities. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross info: "" quote: It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth -- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up -- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Abraham Lincoln info: 16th president of US (1809 - 1865) quote: Whatever you are, be a good one. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ursula K. LeGuin info: "" quote: It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end. rating: 0 tags: []