--- - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alice Walker info: O Magazine, May 2003US novelist (1944 - ) quote: How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H. R. Schaffer info: O Magazine, May 2003 quote: "There is\x85nothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Barbara Schapiro info: O Magazine, May 2003 quote: Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jill Churchill info: O Magazine, May 2003 quote: The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sonia Taitz info: O Magazine, May 2003 quote: "What children take from us, they give\x85We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anna Quindlen info: O Magazine, May 2003 (1953 - ) quote: The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James Beard info: "" quote: Food is our common ground, a universal experience. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Michel de Montaigne info: French essayist (1533 - 1592) quote: The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Epictetus info: Roman (Greek-born) slave & Stoic philosopher (55 AD - 135 AD) quote: Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: M. F. K. Fisher info: "" quote: Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Budd Schulberg info: O Magazine, November 2003 quote: Isn't everyone a part of everyone else? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Niccolo Machiavelli info: quoted in O Magazine, November 2003Italian dramatist, historian, & philosopher (1469 - 1527) quote: God creates men, but they choose each other. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kristin Hunter info: O Magazine, November 2003 quote: First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Martha Nussbaum info: O Magazine, November 2003 quote: But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Real Live Preacher info: "weblog, 04-29-04Anonymous author of RealLivePreacher.com " quote: Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Nick Nolte info: TV interview quote: I'm not a fan of reality. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Eden Ahbez info: "\"Nature Boy\" (song, recorded by Nat King Cole)" quote: The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ho Chi Minh info: When asked how Vietnam could possibly wage war against the West. quote: They will kill a great many of us. We will kill a few of them. They will tire of it first. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tich Nhat Han info: The sun my heart quote: Shallow understanding accompanies poor compassion, great understanding goes with great compassion. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Douglas Adams info: Marvin from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001) quote: She is the least benightedly unintelligent organic lifeform it has ever been my distinct lack of pleasure not to have been able to avoid meeting. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marie Henri Beyle info: " (1783-1842)French biographer & novelist (1783 - 1842)" quote: "All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. \xA0" rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bill Gates info: US computer software designer & industrialist (1955 - ) quote: Your parents weren't always like this, they only became this way after you came along. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Emily Dickinson info: US poet (1830 - 1886) quote: If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one Life the Aching, or cool one Pain, Or help one fainting Robin into his Nest again, I shall not live in Vain. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: General Patton info: "" quote: Success is measured on how high you bounce once you've hit rock bottom. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Joseph Conrad info: English (Polish-Ukrainian-born) novelist (1857 - 1924) quote: For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hugh Elliott info: "Standing Room Only weblog, 05-01-04Author of the Standing Room Only Weblog (http://blogs.salon.com/0001573/). " quote: If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Joe Orton info: " (1933 - 1967)" quote: You cannot compile a wit out of two half-wits. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Walt Disney info: Inauguration day of Disney WorldUS cartoonist & movie producer (1901 - 1966) quote: If it can be dreamed, it can be done. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lily Tomlin info: US actress & comedienne (1939 - ) quote: I may be schizophrenic, but I'll always have each other. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Adams info: US diplomat & politician (1735 - 1826) quote: I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ray Bradbury info: Fahrenheit 451US science fiction author (1920 - ) quote: "Those who don\x92t build must burn. It\x92s as old as history and juvenile delinquence." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Winston Churchill info: "" quote: We shape our buildings and they shape us. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: F. Scott Fitzgerald info: The Great GatsbyUS novelist (1896 - 1940) quote: I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William James info: US Pragmatist philosopher & psychologist (1842 - 1910) quote: The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Percy Bysshe Shelley info: English poet (1792 - 1822) quote: Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Steinbeck info: East of EdenUS novelist (1902 - 1968) quote: When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Peter Townsend info: from the Who's 1965 song "My Generation" quote: I hope I die before I get old. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Johnny Depp info: http://www.imdb.com quote: With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anne Rice info: "\"Tale of the Body Thief\"US novelist (1941 - )" quote: The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anne Rice info: "\"Blood and Gold\"US novelist (1941 - )" quote: No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alexis DeTocqueville info: "" quote: This Rock has become an object of veneration in the United States. I have seen bits of it carefully preserved in several towns in the Union. Does this sufficiently show that all human power and greatness is in the soul of man? Here is a stone which the feet of a few outcasts pressed for an instant; and the stone becomes famous; it is treasured by a great nation; its very dust is shared as a relic. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anonymous info: "" quote: If you chase two rabbits, both will escape. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Michael Fry and T. Lewis info: Over the Hedge, 05-09-04 quote: The more things change, the more they remain... insane. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Benjamin Franklin info: US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790) quote: He is a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: HamletGreatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616) quote: Things are neither good nor bad but thinking makes it so. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Seneca info: Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC - 65 AD) quote: I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: T. S. Eliot info: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, line 105British (US-born) critic, dramatist & poet (1888 - 1965) quote: It is impossible to say just what I mean! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J. R .R. Tolkien info: "" quote: I am in fact a Hobbit, in all but size. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J. R. R. Tolkien info: British scholar & fantasy novelist (1892 - 1973) quote: Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works... rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J. R. R. Tolkien info: British scholar & fantasy novelist (1892 - 1973) quote: With hope or without hope we will follow the trail of our enemies. And woe to them, if we prove the swifter! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J. R. R. Tolkien info: Mandos, The Silmarillion, Of the Flight of the NoldorBritish scholar & fantasy novelist (1892 - 1973) quote: Their Oath shall drive them, and yet betray them, and ever snatch away the very treasures that they have sworn to pursue. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J. R. R. Tolkien info: Gandalf on Saruman, The Two TowersBritish scholar & fantasy novelist (1892 - 1973) quote: The treacherous are ever distrustful. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J. R. R. Tolkien info: The Fellowship of the Ring, spoken by ElrondBritish scholar & fantasy novelist (1892 - 1973) quote: He should not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J. R. R. Tolkien info: British scholar & fantasy novelist (1892 - 1973) quote: Few can foresee whither their road will lead them, till they come to its end. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J. R. R. Tolkien info: British scholar & fantasy novelist (1892 - 1973) quote: It's wisdom to recognize necessity, when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J. R. R. Tolkien info: The Fellowship of the Ring, spoken by BoromirBritish scholar & fantasy novelist (1892 - 1973) quote: For though I do not ask for aid, we need it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J. R. R. Tolkien info: The Return of the KingBritish scholar & fantasy novelist (1892 - 1973) quote: I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J. R. R. Tolkien info: The HobbitBritish scholar & fantasy novelist (1892 - 1973) quote: What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good on this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H. P. Lovecraft info: US horror & supernatural author (1890 - 1937) quote: It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Harper Lee info: To Kill A MockingbirdUS novelist (1926 - ) quote: Daylight, in my mind, the night faded. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marilyn Manson info: American musician (1969 - ) quote: There are people accusing me that I'm sick, that I'm a danger to morals, western civilization and basically everything under the sun. And they've got these wild stories about me, completely off the wall, completely untrue. They thought them up and it makes you wonder what goes on in their brain, but of course, they don't consider themselves sick. They think they're normal because they don't dress like I do. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marilyn Manson info: American musician (1969 - ) quote: I view my job as being someone who is supposed to piss people off. I don't want to be just one-of-the-guys. I don't want to be just a smiling face you see on television presenting some vapid kind of easily- digestible garbage. This is rock and roll. I want to be a rock and roll star! Rock and roll is about shaking things up, making people act and react. That's what I do. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George R. R. Martin info: A Game of Thrones, page 16 quote: The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marilyn Manson info: American musician (1969 - ) quote: I'm tired of people calling me a devil worshipper. It's kind of pointless you know. Because if the Devil did exist, he'd be worshipping me, because I'm more successful than he is. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marilyn Manson info: I Don't Like The Media But The Media Likes Me - Columbine statementAmerican musician (1969 - ) quote: Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gene Stratton-Porter info: "The Harvester (1911) Ch. III: Harvesting the Forest" quote: Where is your mate? For any sake, don't tell me you don't know. One case of that kind at Medicine Woods is enough. Say you came ahead to see if it is too cold or to select a home and get ready for her. Say anything on earth except that you love her, and want her until your body is one quivering ache, and you don't know where she is. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ancient Egyptian Blessing info: "" quote: God be between you and harm in all the empty places where you must walk. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: St, Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774-1821) Foundress of the Sisters of Charity, USA info: Speech given in the Diocese of Baltimore quote: Live simply, so that all may simply live. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Joseph Stalin info: Georgian Soviet politician (1879 - 1953) quote: The people who cast the votes do not decide an election, the people who count the votes do. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Joseph Stalin info: Georgian Soviet politician (1879 - 1953) quote: I believe in one thing only, the power of the human will. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Joseph Stalin info: Georgian Soviet politician (1879 - 1953) quote: The only real power comes out of a long rifle. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Joseph Stalin info: Georgian Soviet politician (1879 - 1953) quote: Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Joseph Stalin info: Georgian Soviet politician (1879 - 1953) quote: Die, but do not retreat. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Joseph Stalin info: Georgian Soviet politician (1879 - 1953) quote: Gratitude is a sickness, suffered by dogs. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jasper Johns (lithographer) info: Newsweek, Oct. 24, 1977 - page 42. quote: I liked New York when it was an up-and-down city for me, low streets and high buildings. But then, for me, it grew horizontal---monotonous. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Douglas Leonard Martin info: Douglas Leonard Martin in a letter to FDA in 1975. quote: There is no eraser on the end of a scalpel. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mary Anne Radmacher info: "" quote: Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of that day that says, "I will try again tomorrow." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Soren Kierkegaard info: Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855) quote: The most painful state of living is remembering the future. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Katherine Hepburn info: "" quote: If you follow all the rules, you miss all the fun. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kurt Cobain info: US grunge rock musician, guitarist, singer, & songwriter (1967 - 1994) quote: "I want to do something different, really different, and if it alienates people that\x92s too bad." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Martin Luther King Jr. info: A Christmas Sermon for Peace on Dec 24, 1967US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 - 1968) quote: "I\x92ve seen too much hate to want to hate, myself, and every time I see it, I say to myself, hate is too great a burden to bear. Somehow we must be able to stand up against our most bitter opponents and say:\x94We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will and we will still love you.... But be assured that we\x92ll wear you down by our capacity to suffer, and one day we will win our freedom. We will not only win freedom for ourselves; we will appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Martin Luther King Jr. info: The Christmas Sermon On Peace in on Dec 24, 1967US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 - 1968) quote: Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mario Cuomo info: "" quote: You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Frank Zappa info: US musician, singer, & songwriter (1940 - 1993) quote: If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to a library. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: Algernon from The Importance of Being EarnestIrish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: I don't play accurately-any one can play accurately- but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: Jack from The Importance of Being EarnestIrish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Walter Reuther info: "" quote: If you are not big enough to lose, you are not big enough to win. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Buddha info: Indian philosopher & religious leader (563 BC - 483 BC) quote: To keep the body in good health is a duty otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Donald Creighton info: "" quote: History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Benjamin Disraeli info: British politician (1804 - 1881) quote: The secret of success is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ronald Reagan info: 40th president of US (1911 - 2004) quote: There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Maxwell info: "" quote: The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mike Singletary info: "" quote: My favorite part of the game is the opportunity to play. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Boris Becker info: "" quote: Every time you are not practicing someone else is. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ralph Waldo Emerson info: US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) quote: Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Cesare Pavese info: Italian author, novelist, & translator (1908 - 1950) quote: We do not remember days, we remember moments. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Black Elk, Native American info: "" quote: Continuous effort is the key to unlocking our potential. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Claude M Bristol info: "" quote: Constant and determined effort breaks down all resistence and sweeps away all obstacles. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alexander Woolcott info: "" quote: There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry Van Dyke info: "" quote: Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Louis L. Mann info: "" quote: What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Franklin Roosevelt info: "" quote: Happiness is in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Michael Korda info: "" quote: In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Elbert Hubbard info: US author (1856 - 1915) quote: The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry Ford info: US automobile industrialist (1863 - 1947) quote: Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ralph Waldo Emerson info: US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) quote: The first wealth is health. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Arthur Wood info: "" quote: Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aesop info: Greek slave & fable author (620 BC - 560 BC) quote: Outside show is a poor substitution for inner worth. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Martin Luther King Jr. info: US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 - 1968) quote: Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Zig Ziglar info: "" quote: Where you start is not as important as where you finish. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Einstein info: US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) quote: Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sandra Carey info: "" quote: Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Einstein info: US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) quote: Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the life- long attempt to acquire it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Vernon Law info: "" quote: Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lessons afterwards. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dwight D. Eisenhower info: 34th president of US 1953-1961 (1890 - 1969) quote: I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Eleanor Roosevelt info: US diplomat & reformer (1884 - 1962) quote: You must do the things you think you cannot do. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Joshua J. Marine info: "" quote: Challenges are what makes life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Zig Ziglar info: "" quote: Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Roy Moody info: "" quote: The greatest motivational act one person can do for another is to listen. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Vincent Van Gogh info: Dutch painter (1853 - 1890) quote: Great things are done by a seris of small things brought together. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Einstein info: US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) quote: The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Feather info: " (1908 - 1976)" quote: Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Abraham Lincoln info: 16th president of US (1809 - 1865) quote: The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oswald Chambers info: "" quote: Never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Melody Beattie info: "" quote: Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: General Douglas McArthur info: "" quote: "The enemy is in front of us, the enemy is behind us, the enemy is to the right and to the left of us. They can\x92t get away this time!!!" rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: R. Goldberg info: "" quote: The shortest distance between two points is not a very interesting journey. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oswald Chambers info: My Utmost for His Highest, September 10 quote: "We presume that we would be ready for battle if confronted with a great crisis, but it is not the crisis that builds something within us\x97it simply reveals what we are made of already." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Wubbolding info: "" quote: To fail to plan is to plan to fail. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: West African proverb info: "" quote: Perhaps you do not understand me because you do not love me. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Michelangelo info: "" quote: The idea is there, locked inside, and all you have to do is remove the excess stone. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marian Wright Edelman info: "" quote: Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edward R. Murrow info: US broadcast journalist & newscaster (1908 - 1965) quote: To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas Dewar info: "" quote: Minds are like parachutes...they only function when they are open. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J. K. Rowling info: "British fantasy author " quote: Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Vincent Van Gogh info: Dutch painter (1853 - 1890) quote: One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tom Wilson info: from comic strip "Ziggy" quote: You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Lucas info: US movie director & screenwriter (1944 - ) quote: I wanted Yoda to be the traditional kind of character you find in fairy tales and mythology. And that character is usually a frog or a wizened old man on the side of the road. The hero is going down the road and meets this poor and insignificant person. The goal or lesson is for the hero to learn to respect everybody and to pay attention to the poorest person because that's where the key to his success will be. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Burns info: US actor & comedian (1896 - 1996) quote: First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Louis Armstrong info: US jazz musician, scat singer, & trumpeter (1900 - 1971) quote: All music if folk music. I ain't never heard no horse sing a song. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dorothy Parker info: US author, humorist, poet, & wit (1893 - 1967) quote: If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Einstein info: US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) quote: It's not that I'm so smart , it's just that I stay with problems longer. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bill Cosby info: US comedian & television actor (1937 - ) quote: A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robin Williams info: US actor & comedian (1951 - ) quote: Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Abraham Lincoln info: 16th president of US (1809 - 1865) quote: "Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Winston Churchill info: "" quote: Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill- designed for the purpose. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: Algernon from The Importance of Being EarnestIrish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Louis Stevenson info: Scottish author (1850 - 1894) quote: We are all travelers in the wilderness of the World, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Walter Scott info: MarmionScottish author & novelist (1771 - 1832) quote: Heap on more wood - the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Walter Scott info: Lady of the LakeScottish author & novelist (1771 - 1832) quote: The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new, And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. The rose is sweetest with morning dew, And love is loveliest when embalmed in tears. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Walter Scott info: The BetrothedScottish author & novelist (1771 - 1832) quote: Too much rest is rust. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Walter Scott info: Scottish author & novelist (1771 - 1832) quote: "'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poorest man's heart thru half the year." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn info: Peace and Violence, sct. 2, in Index, no. 4 (London, 1973.Russian author & dissident in US (1918 - ) quote: "It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions\x97 especially selfish ones." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Katharn Hepburn info: "" quote: It is the ordinary woman who knows something about love; the gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Andy Rooney info: US news commentator (1919 - ) quote: "The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn info: The Gulag ArchipelagoRussian author & dissident in US (1918 - ) quote: Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn info: Commencement Address at Harvard University, June 8, 1978. quote: A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its civic courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, in each government, in each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elites... rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn info: Speech to the graduating class at Harvard (1978)Russian author & dissident in US (1918 - ) quote: "We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H. L. Mencken info: US editor (1880 - 1956) quote: The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sallust info: Roman historian and politician (c. 86-c. 35 B.C.)Roman historian & politician (86 BC - 34 BC) quote: Necessity makes even the timid brave. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Toni Morrison info: American writer (1931-)US novelist (1931 - ) quote: As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you speak. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Baruch Spinoza info: Dutch Jewish philosopher (1632 - 1677) quote: Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Orwell info: 1984English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950) quote: If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: David Frost info: "" quote: He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Howard W. Hunter info: Speech given in October 1994 quote: The path of repentance, though hard at times, lifts one ever upwards and leads to a perfect forgiveness. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: " Gordon B. Hinkley" info: Speech given in October 2001 quote: Are these perilous times? They are. But we can have peace in our hearts and in our homes. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Joshua L. Chamberlain info: General Commander 20th Maine, Union Forces, quote: We know not of the future, and cannot plan for it much. But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be whenever and wherever the hour stricks that calls to noble action..., No man becomes suddenly different from his habit and cherished thought. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Neil A. Maxwell info: "" quote: Although we were sent into a failing world, we were not sent to fail. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: C. S. Lewis info: First things FirstEnglish essayist & juvenile novelist (1898 - 1963) quote: "Pride is a spiritual Cancer: It eats up the very possibilty of love, or contentment, or even common sense." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: T. S. Eliot info: Quoted in the May, 24 edition of "The Montreal Gazette"British (US-born) critic, dramatist & poet (1888 - 1965) quote: An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Stephen Covey info: First things First quote: If there is no gardener there is no garden. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tori Amos info: "" quote: I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ben Folds info: song title quote: There's always someone cooler than you. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Joesph Conrad info: "\"Carnival of Wit\"" quote: The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Frost info: "\"The Death of a Hired Man\"US poet (1874 - 1963)" quote: Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Martin Luther info: German religious reformer (1483 - 1546) quote: Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Robert Owen info: "" quote: All the world is queer save thee and me. And even thou art a little queer. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Richard Bach info: "'One'" quote: I gave my life to be the person I am today. Was it worth it? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles Dickens info: Great expectationsEnglish novelist (1812 - 1870) quote: Spring is the time of the year, when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry David Thoreau info: Vol. 2, p.318 Houghton MifflinUS Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862) quote: Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry David Thoreau info: Simplify SimplifyUS Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862) quote: How sweet it would be to treat men and things, for an hour, for just what they are! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry David Thoreau info: Simplify SimplifyUS Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862) quote: Say what you have to say, not what you ought. any truth is better than make-Believe! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry David Thoreau info: Simplify simplifyUS Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862) quote: Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Jordan info: The Eye Of The World, Book 1 quote: Hope is like a piece of string when you're drowning; it just isn't enough to get you out by itself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Medgar Evers info: Quoted by his wife, Myrlie Evers-Williams quote: Hate is a wasteful emotion. Most of the people you hate never know it. The others don't care. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: R. Smith info: Complete Idiot's Guide to E-commerce quote: Advancements in technology have provided us the wonderful freedom to procrastinate faster than ever before. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Myrlie Evers-Williams info: In her book, "Watch Me Fly" quote: Don't measure your wealth by how much money you have. Measure your wealth by how many things you have that you wouldn't take money for. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Knowles info: "" quote: Everyone has a moment in history that belongs particularly to him. It is the moment when his emotions achieve their most powerful sway over him, and afterward when you say to this person 'the world today' or 'life' or 'reality' he will assume you mean this moment, even if it is fifty years past. The world, through his unleashed emotion, imprinted itself on him and he carries that stamp of that passing moment forever. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Woody Allen info: US movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 - ) quote: Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. Those who can't teach, teach gym. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Calvin Coolidge info: 30th president of US (1872 - 1933) quote: Advertising is the most potent influence in adapting and changing the habits and modes of life affecting what we eat, what we wear, and the work and play of a whole nation. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Garrison Keillor info: time mag page 92 april 4 2004US humorist & radio broadcaster (1942 - ) quote: Writers are vaccuum cleaners who suck up other people's lives and weave them into stories like a sparrow builds a nest from scraps. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Joan Rivers info: US comedienne (1935 - ) quote: Money can't buy you happiness but it can pay for the plastic surgery. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: "Hermann G\xF6ring" info: "" quote: Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Muriel Rukeyser info: "" quote: The world is not made of molecules, the world is made of stories. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Adams info: On his bed, not knowing Jefferson had died only a few hours earlier-July 4th, 1826US diplomat & politician (1735 - 1826) quote: Thomas Jefferson still lives. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Kerry info: Statement on Vietnam before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, April 22, 1971US Democratic politician (1943 - ) quote: How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arnold Schwarzenegger info: "" quote: The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Helen Keller info: US blind & deaf educator (1880 - 1968) quote: No pessimest ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bertrand Russell info: from the essay "The Science to Save Us From Science"British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970) quote: "But all who are not lunitics are agreed about certain things: That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than to be a slave. Many people desire these things only for themselves and their friends; they are quite content that their enemies should suffer. These people can be refuted by science: Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Judge Learned Hand info: Address "A Fanfare for Prometheus", January 29,1955 quote: Nor need we be surprised that men so often embrace almost any doctrines, if they are proclaimed with a voice of absolute assurance. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton info: Paul Clifford (1830)English dramatist, novelist, & politician (1803 - 1873) quote: It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hugh Elliott info: "Standing Room Only weblog, 06-02-04Author of the Standing Room Only Weblog (http://blogs.salon.com/0001573/). " quote: When a miracle happens, even if not to you, its nature is to naturally expand. You can almost feel the warmth on your face. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ronald Reagan info: 40th president of US (1911 - 2004) quote: Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ronald Reagan info: 40th president of US (1911 - 2004) quote: People don't start wars, governments do. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ronald Reagan info: 40th president of US (1911 - 2004) quote: The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.' rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ronald Reagan info: 40th president of US (1911 - 2004) quote: To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last--but eat you he will. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ronald Reagan info: 40th president of US (1911 - 2004) quote: Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ronald Reagan info: 40th president of US (1911 - 2004) quote: "The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas-a trial of spiritual resolve: the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ronald Reagan info: 40th president of US (1911 - 2004) quote: How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ronald Reagan info: 40th president of US (1911 - 2004) quote: "I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ronald Reagan info: 40th president of US (1911 - 2004) quote: The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kurt Vonnegut info: "\"Cold Turkey\", In These Times, May 10, 2004US novelist (1922 - 2007)" quote: "One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kurt Vonnegut info: "\"Cold Turkey\", In These Times, May 10, 2004US novelist (1922 - 2007)" quote: "There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edward Gibbon info: English historian of Rome (1737 - 1794) quote: History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kurt Vonnegut info: "\"Cold Turkey\", In These Times, May 10, 2004US novelist (1922 - 2007)" quote: Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Peter Borden info: "" quote: Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Darby Conley info: "Get Fuzzy, 06-07-04US cartoonist " quote: It's hard to take over the world when you sleep 20 hours a day. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Real Live Preacher info: "Real Live Preacher weblog, 06-10-04Anonymous author of RealLivePreacher.com " quote: Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hugh Elliott info: "Standing Room Only weblog comments, 06-11-04Author of the Standing Room Only Weblog (http://blogs.salon.com/0001573/). " quote: I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Holly Lisle info: Fire In The Mist, 1992 quote: Actions have consequences...first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Holly Lisle info: Fire In The Mist, 1992 quote: If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions, then you are forever chained to a position of defense. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Holly Lisle info: Fire In The Mist, 1992 quote: You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Holly Lisle info: Fire In The Mist, 1992 quote: I would rather be right and die than be wrong and kill. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Holly Lisle info: Fire In The Mist, 1992 quote: The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aaron McGruder info: Boondocks, 07-04-04 quote: When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Frank Herbert info: DuneUS science fiction novelist (1920 - 1986) quote: Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alfred North Whitehead info: English mathematician & philosopher (1861 - 1947) quote: It takes a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Frank Herbert info: Dune (First Law of Mentat)US science fiction novelist (1920 - 1986) quote: A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Allan Williams info: "" quote: Character is who you are when no one is looking. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Frank Herbert info: Dune (Reverend Mother Mohiam)US science fiction novelist (1920 - 1986) quote: The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Real Live Preacher info: "Real Live Preacher weblog, 07-08-04Anonymous author of RealLivePreacher.com " quote: When you really trust someone, you have to be okay with not understanding some things. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Margaret Cho info: Margaret Cho's Weblog, 07-05-04 quote: Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Maxwell Maltz info: Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004 quote: We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dean Acheson info: Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004 quote: The thing to remember is that that the future comes one day at a time. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Les Brown info: Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004 quote: Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Branch Rickey info: Lecture title, 1950US baseball administrator (1881 - 1965) quote: Luck is the residue of design. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Cheryl Tiegs info: O Magazine, May 2004US actress & model (1947 - ) quote: Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Frances Moore Lappe info: O Magazine, May 2004 quote: I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Frances Moore Lappe info: O Magazine, May 2004 quote: Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oprah Winfrey info: O Magazine, August 2004US actress & television talk show host (1954 - ) quote: Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hunter S. Thompson info: US journalist (1939 - 2005) quote: I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hunter S. Thompson info: US journalist (1939 - 2005) quote: It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hunter S. Thompson info: San Francisco Examiner, 1985US journalist (1939 - 2005) quote: The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hunter S. Thompson info: US journalist (1939 - 2005) quote: No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hunter S. Thompson info: US journalist (1939 - 2005) quote: If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hunter S. Thompson info: US journalist (1939 - 2005) quote: Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arnold Bennett info: "" quote: The real tradegy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jimi Hendrix info: US rock musician & singer (1942 - 1970) quote: Castles made of sand fall in the sea eventually. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sean Covey info: "" quote: Make as many friends as you can, but don't build your life on them alone. It's an unstable foundation. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Vince Lombardi info: US football coach (1913 - 1970) quote: Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Lennon info: in ImagineEnglish singer & songwriter (1940 - 1980) quote: You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us and the world will live as one. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mary Ross info: "" quote: Perfection can be achieved by no one, because perfection is achieved from faults- yet faults tear away the perfection in you. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aldous Huxley info: "'Vulgarity in Literature' Music Night 1931English critic & novelist (1894 - 1963)" quote: Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardour, for their curiosity and tolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lewis Thomas info: US author, biologist, physician (1913 - 1993) quote: Statistically the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you would think the mere possibility of existence would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ronald Reagan info: 40th president of US (1911 - 2004) quote: "I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there\x92s purpose and worth to each and every life." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J. K. Rowling info: "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 36British fantasy author " quote: What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mark Twain info: US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) quote: To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know, I've done it a thousand times. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Clare Boothe Luce info: "" quote: There are no hopeless situations; There are only people who have grown hopeless about them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alexandre Dumas info: The Count of Monte CristoFrench dramatist & novelist (1802 - 1870) quote: Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,--'Wait and hope'. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Heywood Broun info: Sitting on the World, 1924US journalist (1888 - 1939) quote: Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edgar Watson Howe info: Country Town Sayings, 1911US journalist (1853 - 1937) quote: A poem is no place for an idea. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James Thurber info: US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 - 1961) quote: Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James Thurber info: US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 - 1961) quote: Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James Thurber info: US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 - 1961) quote: There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ronald Reagan info: 40th president of US (1911 - 2004) quote: "The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles Baudelaire info: French poet (1821 - 1867) quote: The world only goes round by misunderstanding. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles Baudelaire info: French poet (1821 - 1867) quote: "We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles Baudelaire info: French poet (1821 - 1867) quote: Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles Baudelaire info: French poet (1821 - 1867) quote: Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles Baudelaire info: French poet (1821 - 1867) quote: I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jeff Mallett info: Frazz, 08-03-04 quote: Do what you love, love what you do, leave the world a better place and don't pick your nose. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Cory Doctorow info: "Eastern Standard Tribe, 2004Canadian science fiction writer " quote: Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Nathaniel Hawthorne info: US author (1804 - 1864) quote: Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Richard Pryor info: Guardian Unlimited (UK) August 9, 2004US movie actor & comedian (1940 - 2005) quote: I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Theodore Roosevelt info: 1916 (quoted in the Theodore Roosevelt Centennial CD-ROM)26th president of US (1858 - 1919) quote: Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Randy K. Milholland info: "Something Positive Comic, 10-30-03Webcomic pioneer " quote: The key is to commit crimes so confusing that police feel too stupid to even write a crime report about them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Orwell info: "\"1984\", first sentenceEnglish essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950)" quote: It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry David Thoreau info: Walden, 1854US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862) quote: I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Margaret Cho info: Margaret Cho's Weblog, 08-24-04 quote: The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Carlos Santana info: Associated Press interview, September 1, 2004 quote: Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Randy K. Milholland info: "Something Positive Comic, 09-07-04Webcomic pioneer " quote: It hurts to find out that what you wanted doesn't match what you dreamed it would be. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: R. A. Butler info: British (Indian-born) politician (1902 - 1982) quote: In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: R. A. Butler info: British (Indian-born) politician (1902 - 1982) quote: Politics is largely a matter of heart. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Elizabeth Taylor info: British movie actress (1932 - ) quote: I have a woman's body and a child's emotions. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mustafa Kemal Ataturk info: Founder of modern Turkey 22.09.1924Turkish politician & reformer (1881 - 1938) quote: Science is the only true guide in life. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mustafa Kemal Ataturk info: Founder of modern Turkey 24.04.1921Turkish politician & reformer (1881 - 1938) quote: Freedom and independence form my character. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George S. Patton info: US general (1885 - 1945) quote: If a man does his best, what more is there to ask for? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles Grodin info: "" quote: Everyone is having a harder time than it appears. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bob Dylan info: "\"To Ramona\"US singer & songwriter (1941 - )" quote: Everything passes. Everything changes. Just do what you think you should do. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mississippi John Hurt info: "" quote: The Blues ain't nothin' but a good woman on your mind. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lenny Bruce info: " (1923 - 1966)" quote: There are no dirty words, only dirty minds. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Terry Pratchett info: Hogfather quote: An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Terry Pratchett info: The Fifth Elephant quote: A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Terry Pratchett info: Jingo quote: It could not be happening because this sort of thing did not happen. Any contradictory evidence could be safely ignored. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Terry Pratchett info: Hogfather quote: Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Chinese Proverb info: "" quote: Unles we change direction, we are likely to wind up where we are headed. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Katharine Hepburn info: US actress (1907 - 2003) quote: If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Richard Stubbs info: Comedian, Book - " Still Life" quote: "\"Whoops\" is a word that should never be said by some professions - Pilots, Racing car drivers, and hair colourists come immediately to mind but Dentists also have to be up in the top five." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Garth Brooks info: "" quote: Heaven's not beyond the clouds, it's just beyond the fear. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dave Matthews info: "\"Cry Freedom\"" quote: The future is no place to place your better days. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) quote: Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tupac Shakur info: "" quote: The only thing that comes to a sleeping man are dreams. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mitch Albom info: The Five People You Meet In Heaven, pg. 1 line 3-4 quote: But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kurt Vonnegut info: Interview, Mcsweeneys.netUS novelist (1922 - 2007) quote: Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery info: "\"The Wisdom of the Sands\"French writer (1900 - 1944)" quote: If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Philip R. Zimmermann info: "" quote: If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alanis Morissette info: Canadian singer/songwriter (1974 - ) quote: I'd rather walk through life than be dragged through it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Walter Winchell info: American Columnist and Broadcaster (1897-1972)US gossip columnist & broadcast journalist (1897 - 1972) quote: Nothing recedes like success. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Karl Marx (1845) info: Theses on Feuerbach (Thesis XI) quote: The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels info: German Ideology, Chapter 3 quote: One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world. Language is the immediate actuality of thought. Just as philosophers have given thought an independent existence, so they were bound to make language into an independent realm. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Karl Marx info: Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of RightGerman economist & Communist political philosopher (1818 - 1883) quote: Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J. R.R. Tolkien info: Spoken by Gandalf quote: He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Ingersoll info: Newspaper interview, 1880'sUS agnostic, agnostic apologist, lawyer, & orator (1833 - 1899) quote: I hope there is another life, for I would like to see how things come out in this world when I am dead. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Ingersoll info: Speech, 1880'sUS agnostic, agnostic apologist, lawyer, & orator (1833 - 1899) quote: Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henny Youngman info: US (English-born) comedian (1906 - 1998) quote: "What\x92s the use of happiness? It can\x92t buy you money." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J. R. R. Tolkien info: Spoken by AragornBritish scholar & fantasy novelist (1892 - 1973) quote: The deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J. R. R. Tolkien info: Spoken by FaramirBritish scholar & fantasy novelist (1892 - 1973) quote: I love you. I used to pity your sorrow. But now, were you sorrowless, without fear or any lack, still i would love you. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: -Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: When I was young, I thought money was the most important thing in life. Now, when I'm old, I know it is. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Ingersoll info: "\x93What Must We Do To Be Saved?\x94 (1880)US agnostic, agnostic apologist, lawyer, & orator (1833 - 1899)" quote: If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles for it, and it cannot be destroyed by unbelief. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sydney James info: "" quote: Dont get married, just find someone you dont like and buy them a house. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Winston Churchill info: responding to a journalist quote: Are you insinuating that I am a purveyor of terminological inexactitudes? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Josh Billings info: US Humorist (1818 - 1885) quote: The trouble with most folks isn't so much their ignorance. It's know'n so many things that ain't so. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Margaret Atwood info: Canadian critic, feminist, novelist, & poet (1939 - ) quote: Being kind to your dog doesn't make you a better artist. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: G. M. Trevelyan info: British historian (1876 - 1962) quote: Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry Rollins info: "" quote: When life hands you a lemon, say 'Yeah, I like lemons. What else ya got?' rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bob Marley info: "\"Three Little Birds\" - song \"Legend\"- albumJamaican reggae musician & singer (1945 - 1981)" quote: Don't worry about a thing, 'cause every little thing gonna be all right. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James Hetfield info: Lead Singer, Metallica quote: It's all fun and games 'til someone loses an eye; Then it's just fun you can't see. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ayn Rand info: Atlas ShruggedUS (Russian-born) novelist (1905 - 1982) quote: Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplacable spark. In the hopeless swamps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all, do not let the hero in your soul perish and leave only frustration for the life you deserved, but never have been able to reach. The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Friedrich Nietzsche info: German philosopher (1844 - 1900) quote: Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Vince Lombardi info: US football coach (1913 - 1970) quote: Mental toughness is essential to success. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Vince Lombardi info: US football coach (1913 - 1970) quote: There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything. I do, and I demand that my players do. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Browning info: English poet (1812 - 1889) quote: God's in His Heaven, all's right with the world rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Linda R. Dominguez info: How to Shine at Work, (McGraw-Hill) quote: Strength, courage and power do not exclude kindness, understanding and consideration. You can be strong and kind; you can be courageous and understanding; you can be powerful and considerate. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: P. J. O'Rourke info: National LampoonUS humorist & political commentator (1947 - ) quote: When it comes to taking chances, some people like to play poker or shoot dice; other people prefer to parachute jump, go rhino hunting, or climb ice floes, while still others engage in crime or marriage. But I like to get drunk and drive like a fool. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: A woman begins by resisting a man's advances, and ends by blocking his retreat. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Theodore Roosevelt info: 26th president of US (1858 - 1919) quote: It's not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the doer of deeds might have done them better. Instead, the credit belongs to the man in the arena whose face is marred by sweat and blood and tears. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Joanne K. Rowling info: Harry Potter and the Prisinor of Azkaban, Dumbledore quote: A Dream is where a boy can swim in the deepest oceans and fly over the highest clouds. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ayn Rand info: AnthemUS (Russian-born) novelist (1905 - 1982) quote: The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who seek them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Whelton info: "" quote: The resounding echo of the mortal coil, echoes in the ears of those who are unprepared for it. To some, it sounds like a symphony - to others, a death toll. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kahlil Gibran info: The ProphetLebanese artist & poet in US (1883 - 1931) quote: "Give your hearts, but not into each other\x92s keeping, For only the hand of God can contain your hearts." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ellen DeGeneres info: "US comedian and actress " quote: Stuffed deer heads on walls are bad enough, but it's worse when they are wearing dark glasses and have streamers in their antlers because then you know they were enjoying themselves at a party when they were shot. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bob Marley info: unknownJamaican reggae musician & singer (1945 - 1981) quote: I don't stand for the black man's side, I don't stand for the white man's side, I stand for God's side. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lewis Black info: "\"Black on Broadway\" (2004)" quote: There are two things I know about life... Only the good die young but the real jerks will live forever. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe info: German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 - 1832) quote: When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Winston Churchill info: "" quote: Immature love says, I love you because I need you, mature love says, I need you because I love you. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Winston Churchill info: "" quote: When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot and hang on. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jerry Garcia info: "" quote: Every silver lining has a touch of grey. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Raymond Chandler info: US detective novelist & screenwriter (1888 - 1959) quote: Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval ooze. You don't have to concentrate. You don't have to react. You don't have to remember. You don't miss your brain because you don't need it. Your heart and liver and lungs continue to function normally. Apart from that, all is peace and quiet. You are in the man's nirvana. And if some poor nasty minded person comes along and says you look like a fly on a can of garbage, pay him no mind. He probably hasn't got the price of a television set. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Gibson info: US science fiction novelist in Canada (1948 - ) quote: Virtual Reality is like mainlining television. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Washington Irving info: American writer and poetUS essayist, historian, & novelist (1783 - 1859) quote: Happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Pablo Picasso info: Spanish Cubist painter (1881 - 1973) quote: Art washes away from the soul, the dust of everyday living. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Thomas More info: Utopia, Book 1English author, courtier, humanist, & saint (1478 - 1535) quote: For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Katharine Hepburn info: US actress (1907 - 2003) quote: Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get--only with what you are expecting to give--which is everything. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Milton info: Paradise LostEnglish poet (1608 - 1674) quote: Hell has no benefits, only torture. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas Fuller info: English clergyman & historian (1608 - 1661) quote: Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mother Teresa info: Indian (Albanian-born) humanitarian & missionary (1910 - 1997) quote: Intense love does not measure, it just gives. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Roger Zelazny info: The Courts of Chaos quote: My feelings would never change, but... now she was gone, and this thought meant more to me than the impending destruction of the world. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry Kissinger info: US (German-born) diplomat & scholar (1923 - ) quote: Power is the great aphrodisiac. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Groucho Marx info: US comedian with Marx Brothers (1890 - 1977) quote: I like my cigar, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: Venus & AdonisGreatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616) quote: Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everyone else. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Roger Zelazny info: The Courts of Chaos quote: I felt that I had done my duty. Nothing drove me now. I had run out of causes and was as close as I might ever be to peace. With all this behind me, I felt that if I had to die now, it was all right. I would not protest quite so loudly as I would have at any other time. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edgar Allan Poe info: US short story author, editor, & poet (1809 - 1849) quote: I have great faith in fools; self-confidence, my friends call it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Michael Caine info: www.aint-it-cool-news.com quote: "About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James W. Gray info: "" quote: A wise man is never to sure of what he knows to be true. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Donald Trump info: "Trump: How to Get RichUS real estate construction & development businessman (1946 - )" quote: When I say altitude, I'm not referring to my jet. It's my own interpretation of the word attitude. I like flying because it gets me where I'm going, fast. Likewise, if you have the right attitude, you can get where you're going, fast. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Donald Trump info: "Trump: How to Get RichUS real estate construction & development businessman (1946 - )" quote: In an argument, you have to learn to control your emotions. The other person is the revolver, but you are the trigger. The revolver won't hurt you as long as the trigger isn't pulled. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Napoleon Bonaparte info: French general & politician (1769 - 1821) quote: A leader has the right to be beaten, but never the right to be surprised. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Donald Trump info: How to Get RichUS real estate construction & development businessman (1946 - ) quote: Show me someone without an ego, and I'll show you a loser. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ronald Reagan info: Address to the Nation, Jan 16, 198440th president of US (1911 - 2004) quote: History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: "Dinesh D\x92Souza" info: "" quote: Compulsion cannot produce virtue; it can only produce the outward semblance of virtue. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Woodrow Wilson info: 28th president of US (1856 - 1924) quote: When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mark Twain info: US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) quote: "At the beginning of a great national change, the patriot is a scarce man: scorned, ridiculed and forgotten. When his cause succeeds, however, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Galileo Galilei info: Italian astronomer & physicist (1564 - 1642) quote: Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Frost info: US poet (1874 - 1963) quote: The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bill Watterson info: US cartoonist (1958 - ) quote: I think most of us would be horrified to meet ourselves and discover what everyone else already knows about us. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Osho info: "My Way: The Way of The White Clouds" quote: "If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful you cannot lead them to war -- to Vietnam, or to Egypt, or to Israel. No. Someone who is blissful will just laugh and say: This is nonsense!" rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Osho info: The art of Dying quote: A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dave Matthews info: "VH1 Special: Trey And Dave Go To Africa" quote: Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Reinhold Niebuhr info: Rockford (IL) Register Star newspaperUS Protestant theologian (1892 - 1971) quote: Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Plato info: The RepublicGreek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC) quote: Necessity, who is the mother of invention. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Friedrich Nietzsche info: Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153German philosopher (1844 - 1900) quote: What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Friedrich Nietzsche info: Twilight of the Idols, What I owe to the AncientsGerman philosopher (1844 - 1900) quote: Plato is boring. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Friedrich Nietzsche info: Also Sprach Zarathustra, Chapter 29German philosopher (1844 - 1900) quote: "But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!" rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Friedrich Nietzsche info: Ecce Homo, ForewordGerman philosopher (1844 - 1900) quote: The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Friedrich Nietzsche info: The Gay Science, section 41German philosopher (1844 - 1900) quote: A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Friedrich Nietzsche info: The Gay Science, section 108German philosopher (1844 - 1900) quote: God is dead. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Friedrich Nietzsche info: The Gay Science, section 158German philosopher (1844 - 1900) quote: To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Friedrich Nietzsche info: The Gay Science, section 191German philosopher (1844 - 1900) quote: The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Friedrich Nietzsche info: The Gay Science, section 283German philosopher (1844 - 1900) quote: "For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Friedrich Nietzsche info: The Gay Science, section 166German philosopher (1844 - 1900) quote: We are always in our own company. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Friedrich Nietzsche info: The Gay Science, section 381German philosopher (1844 - 1900) quote: I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Friedrich Nietzsche info: Twilight of the Idols, Maxims and ArrowsGerman philosopher (1844 - 1900) quote: Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Friedrich Nietzsche info: The Antichrist, section 2German philosopher (1844 - 1900) quote: What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Orwell info: (attributed)English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950) quote: People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ben Stein info: E! Online, 12-20-03 quote: I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty...This is my highest and best use as a human. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Paul Graham info: September 2004 quote: Nerds don't just happen to dress informally. They do it too consistently. Consciously or not, they dress informally as a prophylactic measure against stupidity. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Paul Graham info: September 2004 quote: Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as "suits." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Michael J. Fox info: Lucky ManUS (Canadian-born) actor (1961 - ) quote: I don't want people to kiss my ass, I just want to get to a point where they can't kick it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sojourner Truth info: Ain't I A Woman, a speech delivered in 1851US abolitionist (1797 - 1883) quote: That little man in black over there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: The Picture of Dorian GrayIrish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: The Importance of Being EarnestIrish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ayn Rand info: US (Russian-born) novelist (1905 - 1982) quote: Doctors are not servants of their patients, they are traders like everyone else in a free society and they should bear that title proudly considering the crucial importance of the services they offer. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Johnny Depp info: interview quote: Unfortunately, money is freedom in today's world. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George W. Bush info: "Klein, J. (2004). The perils of a righteous president. Time, May 17: 25.43rd President of US (1946 - )" quote: God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments [as a nation] have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Louis L'Amour info: US novelist of westerns (1908 - 1988) quote: For you and me, today is all we have; tomorrow is a mirage that may never become a reality. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dame Rebecca West info: "" quote: "If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: \"It seemed a good idea at the time.\"" rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Taylor info: former president of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints quote: The kingdom of God or nothing. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bill Bernbach info: "" quote: The real giants have been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mies van der Rohe info: "" quote: God is in the details. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mae West info: US movie actress (1892 - 1980) quote: When I'm good I'm great, when I'm bad I'm excellent. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kurt Vonnegut info: Slaughterhouse FiveUS novelist (1922 - 2007) quote: And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned to a pillar of salt. So it goes. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Carlin info: You Are All DiseasedUS comedian and actor (1937 - ) quote: You have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montana, are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas H. Huxley info: English biologist (1825 - 1895) quote: Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bill Watterson info: Calvin and HobbesUS cartoonist (1958 - ) quote: God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: G. K. Chesterton info: OrthodoxyEnglish author & mystery novelist (1874 - 1936) quote: Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J. Michael Straczynski info: Babylon 5 (Television Series) quote: There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J. Michael Straczynski info: Babylon 5 (Television Series) "Comes the Inquisitor" quote: No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his brother. Not for millions, .. not for glory, not for fame. For one person, .. in the dark .. where no one will ever know .. or see. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert E. Lee info: Conversation with Gen. LongstreetUS-Confederate general (1807 - 1870) quote: To be a good soldier, you must love the army. To be a good commander, you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Helen Keller info: "\"The World at Her Fingertips\" by Joan DashUS blind & deaf educator (1880 - 1968)" quote: Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ellen DeGeneres info: "US comedian and actress " quote: Procrastination isn't the problem, it's the solution. So procrastinate now, don't put it off. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lillian Helman info: The Senate Committee on Un-American Activities, 1952 quote: I am not an American who "will cut the cloth of my conscience to fit this year's fashions." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles F. Kettering info: quoted in Globe and Mail, Toronto, June 18, 2004, page A16, mkesterton@globeandmail.caUS electrical engineer & inventor (1876 - 1958) quote: Every great improvement has come after repeated failure. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are the posts on the road to achievement. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Chateaubriand info: "" quote: What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to grief, or the one who likes becomes powerful. Love? it is deceived, fleeting, or guilty. Fame? You share it with mediocrity or crime. Fortune? Could that frivolity be counted a blessing? All that remains are those so-called happy days that flow past unnoticed in the obscurity of domestic cares, leaving man with the desire neither to lose his life nor to begin it over. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Paul Valery info: French critic & poet (1871 - 1945) quote: ...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it is the musical value that tends to disappear - so that verse stands symmetrically, as it were, between song, on the one hand, and prose on the other - and is thus admirably and delicately balanced between the sensual and the intellectual power of language. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Garrison Keillor info: Prairie Home Companion radio showUS humorist & radio broadcaster (1942 - ) quote: It's better to be burnished with use than rusty with principle. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Brandon Lee info: "" quote: The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Beatles info: "" quote: It's getting hard to be someone, but it all works out. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jim Morrison info: US rock singer (1943 - 1971) quote: Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jim Morrison info: US rock singer (1943 - 1971) quote: I am the lizard king. I can do anything. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Julius Ceasar info: when crossing the rubicon and thus starting civil war that effectively ended the Roman republic quote: Alea Iacta est... (the dice is cast) rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: seneca info: Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC - 65 AD) quote: truth never perishes (Veritas numquam perit) rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dan Gable info: University of Iowa wrestling coach quote: Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit. Give everything you got today for tomorrow may never come. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Milan Kundera info: The Book of Laughter and ForgettingCzechoslovakian novelist (1929 - ) quote: The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jesse Jackson info: "" quote: Our flag is red,white, and blue. But our nation is a rainbow-Red,Yellow,brown,black, and white-and we're all precious in God's sight. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: "Tor N\xF8rretranders" info: "M\xE6rk Verden (English title not known)" quote: Religion is far too important a thing for atheists to leave to the religious. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: D. H. Lawrence info: The White PeacockEnglish novelist (1885 - 1930) quote: Here, you can't live as you like - in any way or circumstance. You're like a bit out of those coloured mosaics in the hall, you have to fit in your own set, fit into your own pattern, because you're put there from the first. But you don't want to be like a fixed bit of a mosaic - you want to fuse into life, and melt and mix with the rest of folk, to have some things burned out of you. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jimi Hendrix info: US rock musician & singer (1942 - 1970) quote: I feel guilty when people say I'm the greatest on the scene. What's good or bad doesn't matter to me; what does matter is feeling and not feeling. If only people would take more of a true view and think in terms of feelings. Your name doesn't mean a damn, it's your talents and feelings that matter. You've got to know much more than just the technicalities of notes; you've got to know what goes between the notes. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rodney Dangerfield info: US actor & comedian (1921 - 2004) quote: My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rodney Dangerfield info: US actor & comedian (1921 - 2004) quote: My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rodney Dangerfield info: US actor & comedian (1921 - 2004) quote: A girl phoned me the other day and said "Come on over, there's nobody home." I went over. Nobody was home. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rodney Dangerfield info: US actor & comedian (1921 - 2004) quote: I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rodney Dangerfield info: US actor & comedian (1921 - 2004) quote: When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rodney Dangerfield info: US actor & comedian (1921 - 2004) quote: My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rodney Dangerfield info: US actor & comedian (1921 - 2004) quote: I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marie Curie info: Lecture at Vassar College, May 14, 1921French (Polish-born) chemist & physicist (1867 - 1934) quote: We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marie Curie info: French (Polish-born) chemist & physicist (1867 - 1934) quote: "I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marie Curie info: French (Polish-born) chemist & physicist (1867 - 1934) quote: Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marie Curie info: French (Polish-born) chemist & physicist (1867 - 1934) quote: There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marie Curie info: French (Polish-born) chemist & physicist (1867 - 1934) quote: You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jacques Derrida info: French (Algerian-born) philosopher (1930 - 2004) quote: "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jacques Derrida info: Quoted in New York Times, January 23, 1994French (Algerian-born) philosopher (1930 - 2004) quote: "But psychoanalysis has taught that the dead\x97a dead parent, for example\x97can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jascha Heifetz info: Russian-American violinist (1901 - 1987) quote: No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: R. D. Laing info: "" quote: The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: R. D. Laing info: "" quote: We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: R. D. Laing info: "" quote: From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities. This enterprise is on the whole successful. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Dukane info: "" quote: It takes a village to raise an idiot. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Plato info: Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC) quote: Justice will only exist where those not affected by injustice are filled with the same amount of indignation as those offended. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ernesto "Che" Guevara info: "" quote: At the risk of sounding ridiculous, a true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Cesar E. Chavez info: "" quote: The end of all education should surely be service to others. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jose Antonio Burciaga info: "" quote: To the Nahuas, words were flowers, metaphors that gave birth to thoughts and actions. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sandra Cisneros info: "" quote: I have to say that the traditional role is kind of a myth. I think the traditional Mexican woman is a fierce woman. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas Paine info: "\"Age of Reason\"US patriot & political philosopher (1737 - 1809)" quote: All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Eleanor Anna Roosevelt info: Remarks at presentation of booklet on human rights quote: "Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home- so close and so smallthat they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they arethe world of the individual person: the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, and equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them so close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Einstein info: US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) quote: People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Leonardo Da Vinci info: Italian engineer, painter, & sculptor (1452 - 1519) quote: Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Michael Joseph Savage info: "" quote: We might make mistakes but we will make other things too. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dean Martin info: "" quote: I don't drink anymore... I freeze it and eat it like a popsicle. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dean Martin info: "" quote: I once shook hands with Pat Boone and my whole right side sobered up. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Frank Sinatra info: US actor & singer (1915 - 1998) quote: Here's to the confusion of our enemies! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Frank Sinatra info: US actor & singer (1915 - 1998) quote: Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Frank Sinatra info: US actor & singer (1915 - 1998) quote: Put your sunglasses on, because you ain't going home till the morning comes. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Michael Bakunin info: God and State quote: A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Berthald Auerbach info: "" quote: Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dean Martin info: "" quote: You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Joe Lewis info: "" quote: I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: Wisdom comes with winters. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kirk Brothers info: The Revolutionary Right quote: Politics is the science of getting more power than anyone deserves to have. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a word of what I'm saying. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Samuel Adams info: "" quote: Comtemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen and then ask yourself, What should be the reward of such sacrifices... If ye love wealth better than freedom, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands that feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Yogi Berra info: US baseball player, coach, & manager (1925 - ) quote: A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Yogi Berra info: US baseball player, coach, & manager (1925 - ) quote: You guys over there, pair up into groups of three. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Casey Stengel info: attributed to him by Ken Burn's "Baseball" documentary, 1994US baseball manager (1890 - 1975) quote: I'll never make the mistake of turning seventy again. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Casey Stengel info: US baseball manager (1890 - 1975) quote: Most people my age are dead at the present time. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hans Christian Anderson info: "" quote: When words fail, music speaks. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Auguste Comte info: Philosophie Positive (1830) quote: Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit of chemistry... If mathematical analysis should ever had prominent place in chemistry - an aberration, which is happily almost impossible - it would be a rapid and widespread degeneration of that science. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Lyon Phelps info: "" quote: If happiness truly consisted of physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Theodore Roosevelt info: 26th president of US (1858 - 1919) quote: It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again. Because there is no effort without error and shortcomings, he who knows the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the high achievement of triumph and who at worst, if he fails while daring greatly, knows his place shall never be with those timid and cold souls who know neither victory nor defeat". rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Abraham Lincoln info: 16th president of US (1809 - 1865) quote: If you look for the bad in people, you will surely find it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marylin Monroe info: "" quote: Sex is part of nature, I go with nature. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Upton Sinclair info: US novelist & socialist politician (1878 - 1968) quote: It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Britney Spears info: American singer (1981 - ) quote: I would like to be called an inspiration to people, not a role model--because I make mistakes like everybody else. When I'm offstage, I'm just like everybody else. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Britney Spears info: American singer (1981 - ) quote: I still have a lot to learn - about the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Britney Spears info: American singer (1981 - ) quote: Onstage I'm the happiest person in the world. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Britney Spears info: American singer (1981 - ) quote: With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt... because love is an amazing feeling. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Paris Hilton info: American actress (1981 - ) quote: It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's true of me, but it actually was. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Paris Hilton info: American actress (1981 - ) quote: I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Paris Hilton info: American actress (1981 - ) quote: No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rachel Hunter info: New Zealand model (1968 - ) quote: I am as vulnerable and fragile as it is possible to be. I am shredded to the core. I am at the point where I am stripped bare. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rachel Hunter info: on ex-husband Rod StewartNew Zealand model (1968 - ) quote: You can't really expect a 22-year-old girl to react the same way as a man 24 years older than her. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Carmen Electra info: American actress (1972 - ) quote: You know criticism when you get into this business. You accept the bad with the good, the tabloids and the positive side of it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Carmen Electra info: American actress (1972 - ) quote: Is there a rehab center for Coke drinkers? I drink six to eight cans a day. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lindsay Lohan info: American actress (1986 - ) quote: I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lindsay Lohan info: American actress (1986 - ) quote: I write a lot of lyrics and I'm involved in the producing process, because it's like, if I'm singing it, I want it to be something that I can relate to. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Pamela Anderson info: Canadian actress (1967 - ) quote: I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday. If I think too much, it kind of freaks me out. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Pamela Anderson info: Canadian actress (1967 - ) quote: I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Pamela Anderson info: Canadian actress (1967 - ) quote: My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Angelina Jolie info: American actress (1975 - ) quote: I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Angelina Jolie info: American actress (1975 - ) quote: I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Angelina Jolie info: American actress (1975 - ) quote: If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Angelina Jolie info: American actress (1975 - ) quote: Therapy? I don't need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Angelina Jolie info: American actress (1975 - ) quote: If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hilary Duff info: American actress (1987 - ) quote: My life is very crazy and busy, but I love it that way. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hilary Duff info: American actress (1987 - ) quote: Mom always tells me to celebrate everyone's uniqueness. I like the way that sounds. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Kerry info: speech in 2004US Democratic politician (1943 - ) quote: American can do better, and help is on the way. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Kerry info: US Democratic politician (1943 - ) quote: I believe America's best days are ahead of us because I believe that the future belongs to freedom, not to fear. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Kerry info: US Democratic politician (1943 - ) quote: I would rather be the candidate of the NAACP than the NRA. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Kerry info: US Democratic politician (1943 - ) quote: I'm glad the President finally found an economic development program. I'm just sad that it's only in Baghdad. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Kerry info: Speech at Democratic Convention, May 31, 2002US Democratic politician (1943 - ) quote: We must uphold the promise of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never allow the President and his Republican friends to threaten Social Security by putting it on the Wall Street trading block. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Kerry info: speech in New York, August 24, 2004US Democratic politician (1943 - ) quote: At every step of the way, George W. Bush has put the narrow interests of the few ahead of the interests of most Americans. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Kerry info: speech in New York, August 24, 2004US Democratic politician (1943 - ) quote: I defended this country as a young man, and I will defend it as president. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George W. Bush info: September 7, 200343rd President of US (1946 - ) quote: We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited by the perception of weakness. And the surest way to avoid attacks on our own people is to engage the enemy where he lives and plans. We are fighting that enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan today so that we do not meet him again on our own streets, in our own cities. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George W. Bush info: October 7, 200243rd President of US (1946 - ) quote: As Americans, we want peace -- we work and sacrifice for peace. But there can be no peace if our security depends on the will and whims of a ruthless and aggressive dictator. I'm not willing to stake one American life on trusting Saddam Hussein. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George W. Bush info: St. Charles, Missouri, November 2, 200043rd President of US (1946 - ) quote: They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George W. Bush info: September 20, 200143rd President of US (1946 - ) quote: Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George W. Bush info: State of the Union address, January 20, 200443rd President of US (1946 - ) quote: I believe that God has planted in every human heart the desire to live in freedom. And even when that desire is crushed by tyranny for decades, it will rise again. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jonathan Swift info: Irish essayist, novelist, & satirist (1667 - 1745) quote: It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Christopher Reeve info: Testimony to US House of Representative, 1999 quote: We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Christopher Reeve info: "" quote: I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ray Bradbury info: Fahrenheit 451, 1953US science fiction author (1920 - ) quote: I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ray Bradbury info: Fahrenheit 451, 1953US science fiction author (1920 - ) quote: We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marcus Brigstocke info: "" quote: Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: R. Buckminster Fuller info: Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1963US architect & engineer (1895 - 1983) quote: Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: R. Buckminster Fuller info: Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1963US architect & engineer (1895 - 1983) quote: Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Eliot info: Romola, 1863English novelist (1819 - 1880) quote: "Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Eliot info: The Mill on the Floss, 1860English novelist (1819 - 1880) quote: There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Philip K. Dick info: ValisUS science fiction author (1928 - 1982) quote: Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: E. M. Forster info: A Passage to India, 1924British novelist (1879 - 1970) quote: "Pathos, piety, courage, \x97 they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: E. M. Forster info: Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951British novelist (1879 - 1970) quote: If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ernest Hemingway info: A Farewell to Arms, 1929US author & journalist (1899 - 1961) quote: The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George W. Bush info: speech, November 19, 199943rd President of US (1946 - ) quote: In the defense of our nation, a president must be a clear-eyed realist. There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George W. Bush info: speech, November 19, 199943rd President of US (1946 - ) quote: "American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George W. Bush info: speech, November 19, 199943rd President of US (1946 - ) quote: The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George W. Bush info: Inaugural address, 200143rd President of US (1946 - ) quote: The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new beginnings. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George W. Bush info: Inaugural address, 200143rd President of US (1946 - ) quote: America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George W. Bush info: Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 200443rd President of US (1946 - ) quote: We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George W. Bush info: Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 200443rd President of US (1946 - ) quote: The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George W. Bush info: Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 200443rd President of US (1946 - ) quote: For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression became common, but stability never arrived. We must take a different approach. We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George W. Bush info: Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 200443rd President of US (1946 - ) quote: The advance of liberty is the path to both a safer and better world. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Real Live Preacher info: "RealLivePreacher.com weblog, 10-09-04Anonymous author of RealLivePreacher.com " quote: Good writing takes more than just time; it wants your best moments and the best of you. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Abigail Adams info: US wife of John Adams 1764 (1744 - 1818) quote: Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Abigail Adams info: US wife of John Adams 1764 (1744 - 1818) quote: Great necessities call out great virtues. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ansel Adams info: US nature photographer (1902 - 1984) quote: I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term -- meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arnold Toynbee info: English historian & historical philosopher (1889 - 1975) quote: Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arnold Toynbee info: English historian & historical philosopher (1889 - 1975) quote: Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arnold Toynbee info: English historian & historical philosopher (1889 - 1975) quote: We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Ruskin info: (attributed)English critic, essayist, & reformer (1819 - 1900) quote: There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Britney Spears info: on her web site, October 2004American singer (1981 - ) quote: My prerogative right now is to just chill and let all the other overexposed blondes on the cover of Us Weekly (magazine) be your entertainment. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arthur C. Clarke info: First on the Moon, 1970English physicist & science fiction author (1917 - ) quote: It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arthur C. Clarke info: First on the Moon, 1970English physicist & science fiction author (1917 - ) quote: The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and engineering by the romance of space. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arthur C. Clarke info: Address to US Congress, 1975English physicist & science fiction author (1917 - ) quote: I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write about this and made people think about it. I'm rather proud of the fact that I know several astronauts who became astronauts through reading my books. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arthur C. Clarke info: 1983English physicist & science fiction author (1917 - ) quote: At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arthur C. Clarke info: The Exploration of Space, 1951English physicist & science fiction author (1917 - ) quote: If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arthur C. Clarke info: First on the Moon, 1970English physicist & science fiction author (1917 - ) quote: A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible - indeed, inevitable - the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Richard Francis Burton info: British explorer & orientalist (1821 - 1890) quote: "All Faith is false, all Faith is true: Truth is the shattered mirror strown In myriad bits; while each believes His little bit the whole to own." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Randy K. Milholland info: "Something Positive webcomic, 11-11-04Webcomic pioneer " quote: The only way to be truly misogynistic is to be a woman. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Avril Lavigne info: "Canadian singer " quote: I won't change anything because I think the most important thing is being yourself and that's what I'm going to continue to do. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Will Rogers info: US humorist & showman (1879 - 1935) quote: An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Carl Sandburg info: US biographer & poet (1878 - 1967) quote: A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Abigail Van Buren info: US advice columnist (1918 - ) quote: A bad habit never disappears miraculously; it's an undo-it-yourself project. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Scottish Proverb info: "" quote: "A bad wound may heal, but a bad name will kill. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Scottish Proverb info: "" quote: A bird in the hand's worth two fleeing by. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jewish Proverb info: "" quote: A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Chinese Proverb info: "" quote: A bit of fragrance clings to the hand that gives flowers. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Chinese Proverb info: "" quote: "A book holds a house of gold. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles Baudelaire info: French poet (1821 - 1867) quote: A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Chinese Proverb info: "" quote: A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Chinese Proverb info: "" quote: A book tightly shut is but a block of paper. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Native American Proverb info: "" quote: "A brave man dies but once, a coward many times. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: African Proverb info: "" quote: "A camel never sees its own hump. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Maria de Jesus info: "" quote: "A child is the root of the heart. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Scottish Proverb info: "" quote: A child may have too much of his mother's blessing. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Yiddish Proverb info: "" quote: "A child's tear rends the heavens. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alfred North Whitehead info: English mathematician & philosopher (1861 - 1947) quote: A clash of doctrines is not a disaster--it is an opportunity. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: W. E. B. du Bois info: US black civil rights leader (1868 - 1963) quote: "A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: American Proverb info: "" quote: A clear conscience is a good pillow. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anonymous info: "" quote: A closed mind is a good thing to lose. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anonymous info: "" quote: "A closed mouth gathers no feet. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Scottish Proverb info: "" quote: "A cold needs the cook as much as the doctor. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Harold Fricklestein info: "" quote: A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anonymous info: "" quote: A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: American Proverb info: "" quote: A contented mind is a continual feast. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Benjamin Franklin info: US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790) quote: A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: French Proverb info: "" quote: A crow is no whiter for being washed. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Cheyenne Proverb info: "" quote: A danger foreseen is half-avoided. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Chinese Proverb info: "" quote: A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Federico Fellini info: Italian movie director (1920 - 1993) quote: A different language is a different vision of life. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Irish Proverb info: "" quote: A diplomat must always think twice before he says nothing. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Josh Billings info: US Humorist (1818 - 1885) quote: A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Irish Proverb info: "" quote: A dog owns nothing, yet is seldom dissatisfied. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Levant info: " (1906 - 1972)" quote: A dollar saved is a quarter earned. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Washington Irving info: US essayist, historian, & novelist (1783 - 1859) quote: "A father may turn his back on his child, \x85 . but a mother's love endures through all." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Polish Proverb info: "" quote: A fault confessed is half redressed. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hannah Whitall Smith info: "" quote: A feeling of real need is always a good enough reason to pray. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Chinese Proverb info: "" quote: A filthy mouth will not utter decent language. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aristotle info: Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) quote: A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: African Proverb info: "" quote: A fool and water will go the way they are diverted. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Chinese Proverb info: "" quote: "A fool judges people by the presents they give him. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry Adams info: US author, autobiographer, & historian (1838 - 1918) quote: "A friend in power is a friend lost. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ralph Waldo Emerson info: US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) quote: "A friend is one before whom I may think aloud. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anonymous info: "" quote: A friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Erma Bombeck info: US author & humorist (1927 - 1996) quote: "A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Erma Bombeck info: US author & humorist (1927 - 1996) quote: "A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend-and he's a priest. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Celtic Proverb info: "" quote: A friend's eye is a good mirror. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William S. Burroughs info: US author (1914 - 1997) quote: "A functioning police state needs no police. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Chinese Proverb info: "" quote: A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man perfected without trials. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery info: French writer (1900 - 1944) quote: A goal without a plan is just a wish. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: R. D. Cumming info: "" quote: A good book has no ending. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Benjamin Franklin info: US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790) quote: A good conscience is a continual Christmas. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Danish Proverb info: "" quote: "A good example is like a bell that calls many to church. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anonymous info: "" quote: A good exercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Venezuelan Proverb info: "" quote: "A good friend will fit you like ring to finger. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mexican Proverb info: "" quote: A good resolution is like an old horse, which is often saddled but rarely ridden. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: American Proverb info: "" quote: A good son makes a good husband. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Barry Goldwater info: US politician (1909 - 1998) quote: A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Saul Bellow info: US (Canadian-born) author (1915 - 2005) quote: A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Fontenelle info: "" quote: A great obstacle to happiness is the expectation of too great a happiness. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anonymous info: "" quote: A groundless rumor often covers a lot of ground. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Yiddish Proverb info: "" quote: "A guest is like rain: when he lingers on, he becomes a nuisance. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Polish Proverb info: "" quote: A guest sees more in an hour than the host in a year. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anonymous info: "" quote: A guilty conscience needs no accuser. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Irish Proverb info: "" quote: A hair on the head is worth two on the brush. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Yiddish Proverb info: "" quote: A half-truth is a whole lie. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: O. A. Battista info: "" quote: "A happy marriage is the world's best bargain. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: American Proverb info: "" quote: "A harvest of peace is produced from a seed of contentment. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: German Proverb info: "" quote: A hedge between keeps friendship green. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Romain Rolland info: "" quote: A hero is one who does what he can. The others don't. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alexandre Dumas info: French dramatist & novelist (1802 - 1870) quote: A husband is always a sensible man; he never thinks of marrying. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles Churchill info: "\"The Ghost\", 1762" quote: A joke's a very serious thing. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: American Proverb info: "" quote: A joy that's shared is a joy made double. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Washington Irving info: US essayist, historian, & novelist (1783 - 1859) quote: A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Russian Proverb info: "" quote: "A kind word is like a spring day. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Irish Proverb info: "" quote: "A kind word never broke anyone's mouth. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: American Proverb info: "" quote: A lady is a woman who makes it easy for a man to be a gentleman. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Cuban Proverb info: "" quote: A lie runs until it is overtaken by the truth. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Irish Proverb info: "" quote: "A lie travels farther than the truth. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Irish Proverb info: "" quote: A light heart lives long. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sting info: English actor & rock singer (1951 - ) quote: A lot of people approach risk as if it's the enemy when it's really fortune's accomplice. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Cuban Proverb info: "" quote: "A love that can last forever takes but a second to come about. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anonymous info: "" quote: A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: English Proverb info: "" quote: A man is as old as he feels himself to be. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Russian Proverb info: "" quote: "A man is judged by his deeds, not by his words. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anonymous info: "" quote: "A man is known by the company he avoids. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Samuel Johnson info: English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784) quote: A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir James Glover info: "" quote: A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arnold Bennett info: "" quote: A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Michel de Montaigne info: French essayist (1533 - 1592) quote: "A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Michelangelo Buonarroti info: Italian architect, painter, & sculptor (1475 - 1564) quote: "A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anna Quindlen info: " (1953 - )" quote: A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles Dickens info: English novelist (1812 - 1870) quote: "A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of paper. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Stephen Dooley, Jr. info: "" quote: A man who wants to do something will find a way; a man who doesn't will find an excuse. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas Mann info: German writer (1875 - 1955) quote: A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Yiddish Proverb info: "" quote: A man's worst enemies can't wish on him what he can think up himself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. info: US jurist (1841 - 1935) quote: A moment's insight is sometimes worth a lifetime's experience. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jewish Proverb info: "" quote: A mother understands what a child does not say. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alexander Hamilton info: US (Scottish-born) lawyer & politician (1755 - 1804) quote: A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Chinese Proverb info: "" quote: A nation's treasure is in its scholars. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Yiddish Proverb info: "" quote: "A person should want to live, if only out of curiosity. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dr. Seuss info: US author & illustrator (1904 - 1991) quote: "A person's a person, no matter how small. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jewish Proverb info: "" quote: "A pessimist, confronted with two bad choices, chooses both. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Butler Yeats info: Irish dramatist & poet (1865 - 1939) quote: A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: German Proverb info: "" quote: A poor person isn't he who has little, but he who needs a lot. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lord Byron info: English poet & satirist (1788 - 1824) quote: A pretty woman is a welcome guest. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles F. Kettering info: US electrical engineer & inventor (1876 - 1958) quote: A problem well stated is a problem half solved. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bolivian Proverb info: "" quote: "A quarrel is like buttermilk, the more you stir it, the more sour it grows. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Chinese Proverb info: "" quote: A rat who gnaws at a cat's tail invites destruction. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dr. Smiley Blanton info: "" quote: "A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Clive James info: "" quote: A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Daniel J. Boorstin info: US historian (1914 - ) quote: A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Irish Proverb info: "" quote: "A silent mouth is sweet to hear. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Benjamin Franklin info: US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790) quote: A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: English Proverb info: "" quote: A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bertrand de Jouvenal info: "" quote: "A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Milton Friedman info: US economist (1912 - 2006) quote: "A society that puts equality... ahead of freedom will end up with neither. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Proverbs 15:1 (KJV)Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: "A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Russian Proverb info: "" quote: A spoken word is not a sparrow. Once it flies out, you can't catch it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: English Proverb info: "" quote: A stumble may prevent a fall. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Stephane Mallarme info: French Symbolist poet (1842 - 1898) quote: "A throw of the dice will never abolish chance. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Irish Proverb info: "" quote: A turkey never voted for an early Christmas. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jim Sorensen info: "" quote: A vision without action is called a daydream; but then again, action without a vision is called a nightmare. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Theodore Roosevelt info: 26th president of US (1858 - 1919) quote: "A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas Carlyle info: Scottish author, essayist, & historian (1795 - 1881) quote: "A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Italian Proverb info: "" quote: A wise man cares not for that which he cannot have. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Solomon Ibn Gabirol info: "" quote: "A wise man's question contains half the answer. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Washington Irving info: US essayist, historian, & novelist (1783 - 1859) quote: A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Greek Proverb info: "" quote: "A word out of season may mar a whole lifetime. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas Mann info: German writer (1875 - 1955) quote: A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: English Proverb info: "" quote: "Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles Dickens info: English novelist (1812 - 1870) quote: "Accidents will occur in the best regulated families. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Leo Rosten info: US (Polish-born) author (1908 - ) quote: Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616) quote: "Action is eloquence. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tony Robbins info: "" quote: Action is the foundational key to all success. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: G. M. Trevelyan info: British historian (1876 - 1962) quote: "Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charlie Chaplin info: British actor, director, & screenwriter (1889 - 1977) quote: Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: French Proverb info: "" quote: Adversity is the touchstone of friendship. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: American Proverb info: "" quote: "Advice is least heeded when most needed. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge info: English critic & poet (1772 - 1834) quote: "Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Italian Proverb info: "" quote: After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Saul Bellow info: US (Canadian-born) author (1915 - 2005) quote: All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ronald Reagan info: 40th president of US (1911 - 2004) quote: All great change in America begins at the dinner table. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Winston Churchill info: British politician (1874 - 1965) quote: "All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ralph Waldo Emerson info: US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) quote: "All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas Mann info: German writer (1875 - 1955) quote: All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Samuel Butler info: English composer, novelist, & satiric author (1835 - 1902) quote: All philosophies, if you ride them, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jonathan Eibeschutz info: "" quote: All pleasures contain an element of sadness. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aristotle info: Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) quote: All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sun-Tzu info: Chinese general & military strategist (~400 BC) quote: "All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Harvey info: English physician (1578 - 1657) quote: All we know is still infinitely less than all that remains unknown. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Benjamin Franklin info: US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790) quote: All would live long, but none would be old. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Abraham Lincoln info: 16th president of US (1809 - 1865) quote: "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: American Proverb info: "" quote: Ambition is putting a ladder against the sky. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George W. Bush info: 43rd President of US (1946 - ) quote: America will never run... And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Miguel De Cervantes info: Spanish adventurer, author, & poet (1547 - 1616) quote: Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Butler Yeats info: Irish dramatist & poet (1865 - 1939) quote: An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Franklin P. Jones info: "" quote: An atheist is one who hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his disbelief. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alexander Pope info: English poet & satirist (1688 - 1744) quote: An honest man is the noblest work of God. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Benjamin Franklin info: US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790) quote: An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry Clay info: US orator & politician (1777 - 1852) quote: An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alexander Pope info: English poet & satirist (1688 - 1744) quote: And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Butler Yeats info: Irish dramatist & poet (1865 - 1939) quote: And say my glory was I had such friends. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: French Proverb info: "" quote: "Anger is a bad counselor. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: G. M. Trevelyan info: British historian (1876 - 1962) quote: "Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Ingersoll info: US agnostic, agnostic apologist, lawyer, & orator (1833 - 1899) quote: Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas Fuller info: English clergyman & historian (1608 - 1661) quote: "Anger is one of the sinners of the soul. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Czech Proverb info: "" quote: Anger is the only thing to put off until tomorrow. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: German Proverb info: "" quote: Anger without power is folly. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Proverbs 26:4 (NIV)Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will be wise in his own eyes. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert G. Allen info: "" quote: Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Saul Bellow info: US (Canadian-born) author (1915 - 2005) quote: Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edwin Teale info: "" quote: "Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dwight D. Morrow info: "" quote: Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lily Langtry info: British actress (1853 - 1929) quote: Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: "Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Saint Teresa of Avila info: Spanish ascetic, nun, & saint (1515 - 1582) quote: "Anyone who truly loves God travels securely. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Rotsler info: "" quote: Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William S. Burroughs info: US author (1914 - 1997) quote: "Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sun-Tzu info: Chinese general & military strategist (~400 BC) quote: Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: American Proverb info: "" quote: "Arrogance is a kingdom without a crown. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Japanese Proverb info: "" quote: "Art is the illusion of spontaneity. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Proverbs 23:7Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Franklin D. Roosevelt info: 32nd president of US (1882 - 1945) quote: As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: German Proverb info: "" quote: As fast as laws are devised, their evasion is contrived. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jewish Proverb info: "" quote: As he thinks in his heart, so he is. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jewish Proverb info: "" quote: As you teach, you learn. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Omaha Proverb info: "" quote: Ask questions from your heart and you will be answered from the heart. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Benjamin Franklin info: US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790) quote: "At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgment. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas Tusser info: "" quote: "At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thai Proverb info: "" quote: "At high tide fish eat ants; at low tide ants eat fish. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: "At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anonymous info: "" quote: Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Danish Proverb info: "" quote: Bad is never good until worse happens. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Welsh Proverb info: "" quote: Bad news goes about in clogs, Good news in stockinged feet. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Fulton J. Sheen info: "" quote: Baloney is the lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Leo Durocher info: US baseball manager (1906 - 1991) quote: Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas Fuller info: English clergyman & historian (1608 - 1661) quote: "Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Steve Jobs info: US computer engineer & industrialist (1955 - ) quote: "Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anonymous info: "" quote: Be alert to give service. What counts a great deal in life is what we do for others. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Saint Teresa of Avila info: Spanish ascetic, nun, & saint (1515 - 1582) quote: Be gentle to all and stern with yourself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jimmy Durante info: US actor, comedian, pianist, & singer (1893 - 1980) quote: "Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Confucius info: Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC) quote: "Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Franklin D. Roosevelt info: 32nd president of US (1882 - 1945) quote: "Be sincere; be brief; be seated. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas a Kempis info: German mystic & religious author (1380 - 1471) quote: Be thankful for the least gift, so shalt thou be meant to receive greater. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Will Rogers info: US humorist & showman (1879 - 1935) quote: "Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Chinese Proverb info: "" quote: "Be the first to the field and the last to the couch. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry David Thoreau info: US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862) quote: "Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Eleanor Roosevelt info: US diplomat & reformer (1884 - 1962) quote: Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Michelangelo Buonarroti info: Italian architect, painter, & sculptor (1475 - 1564) quote: "Beauty is the purgation of superfluities. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Scottish Proverb info: "" quote: "Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dwight D. Eisenhower info: 34th president of US 1953-1961 (1890 - 1969) quote: Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alexander Graham Bell info: US (Scottish-born) inventor (1847 - 1922) quote: "Before anything else, preparation is the key to success. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Erma Bombeck info: US author & humorist (1927 - 1996) quote: "Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Japanese Proverb info: "" quote: "Beginning is easy - Continuing is hard. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hans Christian Andersen info: Danish poet & fairy tale author (1805 - 1875) quote: Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Irish Proverb info: "" quote: Better be quarrelling than lonesome. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aesop info: Greek slave & fable author (620 BC - 560 BC) quote: "Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Italian Proverb info: "" quote: Better no law than laws not enforced. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: French Proverb info: "" quote: Better the foot slip than the tongue. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Raymond Loewy info: "" quote: "Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the better looking will out sell the other. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lebanese Proverb info: "" quote: Beware of the man to whom you have done a good turn. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Cosino DeGregrio info: "" quote: "Beware the flatterer: he feeds you with an empty spoon." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James D. Watson info: US biochemist (1928 - ) quote: Biology has at least 50 more interesting years. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hamilton Wright Mabi info: "" quote: "Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kenyan Proverb info: "" quote: "Blind belief is dangerous. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Venezuelan Proverb info: "" quote: Blood is inherited and virtue is acquired. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alice Hoffman info: "" quote: Books may well be the only true magic. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Benjamin Disraeli info: British politician (1804 - 1881) quote: "Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Phillips info: "" quote: "Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Makepeace Thackeray info: English novelist (1811 - 1863) quote: Bravery never goes out of fashion. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Puerto Rican Proverb info: "" quote: Break the leg of a bad habit. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Irish Proverb info: "" quote: Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Knute Rockne info: US (Norwegian-born) football player & coach (1888 - 1931) quote: "Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alexandre Dumas info: French dramatist & novelist (1802 - 1870) quote: "Business? It's quite simple. It's other people's money. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Adams info: US diplomat & politician (1735 - 1826) quote: But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Italian Proverb info: "" quote: "By asking for the impossible we obtain the possible. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Italian Proverb info: "" quote: By learning to obey, you will know how to command. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles Haddon Spurgeon info: English preacher (1834 - 1892) quote: "By perseverance the snail reached the ark. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Yiddish Proverb info: "" quote: Bygone troubles are a pleasure to talk about. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Saul Bellow info: US (Canadian-born) author (1915 - 2005) quote: California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Harry S Truman info: 33rd president of US (1884 - 1972) quote: Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alfred Lord Tennyson info: English poet (1809 - 1892) quote: Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry James info: British (US -born) author (1843 - 1916) quote: Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ralph Waldo Emerson info: US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) quote: "Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Horace Mann info: US educator (1796 - 1859) quote: "Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: American Proverb info: "" quote: Character is what you are in the dark. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Phillips Brooks info: US Episcopal bishop (1835 - 1893) quote: "Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Scottish Proverb info: "" quote: Charity begins at home, but shouldn't end there. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Cuban Proverb info: "" quote: "Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Haim Ginott info: "" quote: "Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jess Lair info: "" quote: "Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Harold S. Hulbert info: "" quote: "Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Adams info: US diplomat & politician (1735 - 1826) quote: Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Scottish Proverb info: "" quote: "Children speak in the field what they hear in the house. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lord Chesterfield info: " (1694 - 1773)" quote: "Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jean Francois Revel info: "" quote: Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ronald Reagan info: 40th president of US (1911 - 2004) quote: Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ralph Waldo Emerson info: US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) quote: "Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anonymous info: "" quote: Concern should drive us into action and not into depression. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H. L. Mencken info: US editor (1880 - 1956) quote: Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Emanuel Swedenborg info: Swedish mystic & scientist (1688 - 1772) quote: "Conscience is God's presence in man. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H. L. Mencken info: US editor (1880 - 1956) quote: "Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Polish Proverb info: "" quote: Conscience is the voice of the soul. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anonymous info: "" quote: Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Epictetus info: Roman (Greek-born) slave & Stoic philosopher (55 AD - 135 AD) quote: "Control thy passions, lest they take vengeance on thee. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mexican Proverb info: "" quote: Conversation is food for the soul. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George S. Patton info: US general (1885 - 1945) quote: Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ruth Gordon info: "" quote: Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Frank A. Clark info: "" quote: "Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry David Thoreau info: US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862) quote: Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Talmud info: "" quote: Customs are more powerful than laws. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: English Proverb info: "" quote: Danger and delight grow on one stalk. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Scottish Proverb info: "" quote: "Danger past, God forgotten. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: R. Buckminster Fuller info: US architect & engineer (1895 - 1983) quote: Dare to be naive. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Maasai Proverb info: "" quote: Daylight follows a dark night. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Socrates info: Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC - 399 BC) quote: Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Chinese Proverb info: "" quote: Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ralph Waldo Emerson info: US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) quote: "Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Chinese Proverb info: "" quote: Dig the well before you are thirsty. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: American Proverb info: "" quote: Diligence is the mother of good luck. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Zhou En Lai info: Chinese diplomat & Communist politician (1898 - 1976) quote: Diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: American Proverb info: "" quote: Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Isaac Goldberg info: "" quote: Diplomacy is to do and say, the nastiest thing in the nicest way. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Frederick the Great info: king of Prussia 1740-1786 (1712 - 1786) quote: "Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oliver Hereford info: "" quote: "Diplomacy: lying in state." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Spanish Proverb info: "" quote: "Discretion is knowing how to hide that which we cannot remedy. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anonymous info: "" quote: Discretion is the better part of valor. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe info: German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 - 1832) quote: "Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mexican Proverb info: "" quote: "Do good and don't worry to whom. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Chinese Proverb info: "" quote: Do good, reap good; do evil, reap evil. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Czech Proverb info: "" quote: Do not always expect good to happen, but do not let evil take you by surprise. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Stanislaw J. Lec info: Polish writer (1909 - 1966) quote: Do not ask God the way to heaven; he will show you the hardest one. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jewish Proverb info: "" quote: Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas Jefferson info: 3rd president of US (1743 - 1826) quote: Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hebrew Proverb info: "" quote: "Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Persian Proverb info: "" quote: "Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Chinese Proverb info: "" quote: Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Haitian Proverb info: "" quote: "Do not insult the mother alligator until after you have crossed the river. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: C. S. Lewis info: English essayist & juvenile novelist (1898 - 1963) quote: Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry James info: British (US -born) author (1843 - 1916) quote: Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mary Schmich info: "" quote: Do not read beauty magazines. They only make you feel ugly. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Egyptian Proverb info: "" quote: "Do not rejoice over what has not yet happened. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Agnes Macphail info: "" quote: "Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Russian Proverb info: "" quote: "Do not spit in the well - you may be thirsty by and by. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: African Proverb info: "" quote: Do not try to fight a lion if you are not one yourself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Pope Julius III info: Italian pope 1550-1555 (1487 - 1555) quote: Do you know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Roger Caras info: "" quote: Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ann Landers info: US advice columnist (1918 - 2002) quote: Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Quintus Ennius info: "" quote: Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ronald Reagan info: 40th president of US (1911 - 2004) quote: Don't be afraid to see what you see. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Irish Proverb info: "" quote: Don't break your shin on a stool that is not in your way. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Russian Proverb info: "" quote: Don't buy the house; buy the neighborhood. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dr. Seuss info: US author & illustrator (1904 - 1991) quote: "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Calvin Coolidge info: 30th president of US (1872 - 1933) quote: Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jewish Proverb info: "" quote: "Don't live in a town where there are no doctors. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Satchel Paige info: US baseball player (1906 - 1982) quote: "Don't look back: Something may be gaining on you." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Chinese Proverb info: "" quote: Don't open a shop unless you like to smile. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dutch Proverb info: "" quote: Don't throw away your old shoes until you have got new ones. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: American Proverb info: "" quote: Dreams are wishes your heart makes. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Spanish Proverb info: "" quote: Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Knute Rockne info: US (Norwegian-born) football player & coach (1888 - 1931) quote: "Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Quincy Adams info: US diplomat & politician (1767 - 1848) quote: Duty is ours, results are God's. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arab Proverb info: "" quote: Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arapaho Proverb info: "" quote: "Each bird loves to hear himself sing. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: American Proverb info: "" quote: "Each day provides its own gifts. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Chinese Proverb info: "" quote: "Each generation will reap what the former generation has sown. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Deborah Tannen info: "" quote: Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Polish Proverb info: "" quote: Eagles fly alone, but sheep flock together. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Benjamin Franklin info: US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790) quote: Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Greek Proverb info: "" quote: "Eat and drink with your relatives; do business with strangers. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edward Everett info: US clergyman, educator, orator, & politician (1794 - 1865) quote: Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mark Twain info: US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) quote: "Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Benjamin Franklin info: US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790) quote: Energy and persistence conquer all things. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hans Christian Andersen info: Danish poet & fairy tale author (1805 - 1875) quote: Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas Jefferson info: 3rd president of US (1743 - 1826) quote: Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ronald Reagan info: 40th president of US (1911 - 2004) quote: Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Irish Proverb info: "" quote: Even the longest day has its end. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sean O'Casey info: Irish dramatist (1880 - 1964) quote: Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas Jefferson info: 3rd president of US (1743 - 1826) quote: Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry Kissinger info: US (German-born) diplomat & scholar (1923 - ) quote: "Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hans Christian Andersen info: Danish poet & fairy tale author (1805 - 1875) quote: Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H. L. Mencken info: US editor (1880 - 1956) quote: "Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H. Jackson Brown Jr. info: "" quote: "Every once in a while, take the scenic route. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: G. Stanley Hall info: US educator & experimental psychologist (1844 - 1924) quote: "Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Honduran Proverb info: "" quote: "Every time one laughs a nail is removed from one's coffin. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: African Proverb info: "" quote: Everybody has been young before, but not everybody has been old before. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Guatemalan Proverb info: "" quote: "Everyone is the age of their heart. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Italian Proverb info: "" quote: Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Julia T. Alvarez info: "" quote: "Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas A. Edison info: US inventor (1847 - 1931) quote: "Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Publilius Syrus info: " (~100 BC)" quote: "Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: French Proverb info: "" quote: "Everything passes, everything breaks, everything wearies. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edgar Watson Howe info: US journalist (1853 - 1937) quote: Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Paul Theroux info: US novelist (1941 - ) quote: Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Barry Goldwater info: acceptance speech as Republican candidate for President, 1963US politician (1909 - 1998) quote: I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Nicaraguan Proverb info: "" quote: Eyes that see do not grow old. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas Hobbes info: "\"The Leviathan\"English political philosopher (1588 - 1679)" quote: The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Foster info: "" quote: When you don't know what you are doing, you don't know when to quit. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Herman Melville info: Moby DickUS novelist & sailor (1819 - 1891) quote: Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shores our bed and eats at our own table. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James Joyce info: Irish author (1882 - 1941) quote: Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins commited in previous lives. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery info: French writer (1900 - 1944) quote: You become responsible forever, for what you have tamed. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John F. Kennedy info: 35th president of US 1961-1963 (1917 - 1963) quote: Conformity is the jailer of freedom, and the enemy of growth. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Joseph Stalin info: Georgian Soviet politician (1879 - 1953) quote: In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than to advance. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Zora Neale Hurston info: US novelist of Harlem Renaissance (1901 - 1960) quote: Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do it enough to impress themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Chuck Palahniuk info: US writer (1962 - ) quote: "Which is worse: Hell or nothing?" rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Chuang Tzu info: "" quote: A well frog knows nothing of the ocean for it is bound by its space. The Spring insect knows nothing of the Winter because it is bound to a single season. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Chuang Tzu info: "" quote: If The Way is made clear, it is no longer The Way. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ronald Reagan info: Nov. 5, 199440th president of US (1911 - 2004) quote: I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Steven Jay Gould info: "" quote: I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) quote: While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ben Harper info: "" quote: Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Winston Spencer Churchill info: "" quote: The truth is so precious that she must be surrounded by a bodyguard of lies. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Steve Allen info: "" quote: Do not allow children to mix drinks. It is unseemly and they use too much vermouth. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ayn Rand info: The Romantic ManifestoUS (Russian-born) novelist (1905 - 1982) quote: Art is the indespensible medium for the communication of a moral idea. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sue Grafton info: US mystery novelist (1940 - ) quote: If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Katharine Hepburn info: US actress (1907 - 2003) quote: Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should just live next door and just visit now and then. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tim Allen info: "" quote: To get a man's attention, just stand in front of the TV and don't move. He'll talk to you. I promise. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Napoleon info: "" quote: Men, in general, are but great children. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bill Cosby info: US comedian & television actor (1937 - ) quote: Sigmund Freud once said, "What do women want?" The only thing I have learned in fifty-two years is that women want men to stop asking dumb questions like that. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Joseph Conrad info: English (Polish-Ukrainian-born) novelist (1857 - 1924) quote: Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles Darwin info: English biologist (1809 - 1882) quote: An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George D. Prentice info: "" quote: When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it is a pretty certain sign that she has his. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Abraham Lincoln info: 16th president of US (1809 - 1865) quote: I'm not concerned that you have fallen, I'm concerned that you arise. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Al Gore info: Democratic National Convention, July 26 2004 quote: You win some, you lose some. And then there's that little-known third category. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George W. Bush info: President Bush' Address to the Nation on the Capture of Saddam Hussein, December 14, 200343rd President of US (1946 - ) quote: Our security is assured by our perseverance and by our sure belief in the success of liberty. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dick Cheney info: KCI Expo Center, June 1 2004 quote: This nation will never go back to the false comforts of the world before 911. We are engaging the enemy as we must, in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, so we will not have to face them here at home. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ludwig Wittgenstein info: Austrian philosopher (1889 - 1951) quote: A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: St. Augistine info: "" quote: Patience is the companion of wisdom. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Martin Schulze info: "" quote: Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bill Clinton info: 2004 democratic convention speech42nd president of the United States (1946 - ) quote: Strength and wisdom are not opposing values. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles Lindbergh info: Toronto Globe and Mail newspaper (letter to the editor)US aviator (1902 - 1974) quote: I have seen the science I worshipped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Karl Marx info: German economist & Communist political philosopher (1818 - 1883) quote: The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gen Alfred Gray, USMC info: "" quote: Communications without intelligence is noise; Intelligence without communications is irrelevant. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Heinlein info: The voice of Lazarus LongUS science fiction author (1907 - 1988) quote: Specialization is for insects. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Lubbock info: "" quote: The important is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Butler Yeates info: "" quote: Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: David Pratt info: "" quote: Jargon allows us to camouflage intellectual poverty with verbal extravagance. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Quoted by Benjamin Franklin info: Pearls of Wisdom, by Jerome Agel and Walter D. Glanze quote: A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hermione Gingold info: from a press report, 1973 quote: A diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anne Frank info: from The Diary of a Young Girl, January 5, 1944German Jewish diarist (1929 - 1945) quote: I go into ecstasies every time I see the naked figure of a woman, such as Venus, for example. It strikes me as so wonderful and exquisite that I have difficulty in stopping the tears rolling down my cheeks. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jane Austen info: from a letter to her niece, November 18, 1814English novelist (1775 - 1817) quote: Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bible info: "Paul, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7Biblical quotations (various authors) " quote: Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gloria Steinem info: US feminist (1934 - ) quote: Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Einstein info: ScUS (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) quote: I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: L. M. Montgomery info: Emily ClimbsCanadian novelist (1874 - 1942) quote: If we don't chase things--sometimes the things following us can catch up. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James Joyce info: Irish author (1882 - 1941) quote: Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Morrie Schwartz info: Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom quote: Death ends a life, not a relationship. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Joespeh Goebbels info: "" quote: If you tell a lie -- tell a big one. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Terry Pratchett info: Sourcery quote: "\"I meant,\" said Ipslore bitterly, \"what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?\" Death thought about it. \"Cats,\" he said eventually. \"Cats are nice.\"" rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: S. S. Biddle info: "" quote: The first thing a girl hopes for from the garden of love is at least one carat. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Margo Kaufman info: "" quote: The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Washington Irving info: Rip Van WinkleUS essayist, historian, & novelist (1783 - 1859) quote: ...but what courage can withstand the ever-enduring and all-besetting terrors of a woman's tongue? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gregory Macguire info: Wicked quote: As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tim Allen info: Home Improvement quote: ...But separate a man from his car- that's inhuman. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Elizabeth Peters info: "" quote: The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal--or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Eudora Welty info: "\"Is Pheonix Jackson's Grandson Really Dead?\"US novelist & short story author (1909 - )" quote: The habit of love cuts through confusion and stumbles or contrives its way out of difficulty, it remembers the way even when it forgets, for a dumfounded moment, its reason for being. The path is the thing that matters. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sean Connery info: "" quote: I've always hated that damn James Bond. I'd like to kill him. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mohandas K. Gandhi info: "" quote: It is for us to make the effort. The result is always in God's hands. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alexander Pope info: English poet & satirist (1688 - 1744) quote: What will a child learn sooner than a song? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: W. H. Auden info: US (English-born) critic & poet (1907 - 1973) quote: A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Santayna info: "" quote: Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Will info: "" quote: The phrase "domestic cat" is an oxymoron. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Calvin info: Calvin and Hobbes quote: The way I see it, God put me on Earth to achieve a certain number of things. By now I'm so far behind, I'll never die. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis info: "" quote: If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: David Fisher info: Conversations with My Cat quote: "The golden rule of cats that governs all relationships we have with people: you scratch my back, you scratch my back." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Percy Bysshe Shelley info: English poet (1792 - 1822) quote: The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charlie Brown info: Peanuts, Charles M. Schulz quote: Aunt Marion was right... Never marry a musician, and never answer the door. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mitch Albom info: The Five People You Meet in Heaven quote: Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mitch Albom info: The Five People You Meet in Heaven quote: Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mitch Albom info: The Five People You Meet in Heaven quote: Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from the inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Maya Angelou info: US author & poet (1928 - ) quote: We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas Carlyle info: "Proflies in Courage by: John F. KennedyScottish author, essayist, & historian (1795 - 1881)" quote: The Courage that we all prize and seek is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully. rating: 0 tags: []