Quotes and Sayings

Philip gulley - fear can keep us up all night long, but faith...
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
George Santayana, Dialogues in Limbo (1925) ch. 3
Heraclitus, on the universe - it is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to...
Nancy kerrigan - doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see....
Get the best out of your body that you can get.
Pat Hall
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.
Thomas Carlyle
Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely.
The Land Before Time
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
Malcom S. Forbes
To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
Barbara Walters
It takes a lot of money to look as cheap as I do.
Dolly Parton
No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.
Scott Adams
I have found you an argument: but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
Samuel Johnson
Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence.
Sun - Tzu
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.
Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death".
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Sigmund Freud
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Plato
I want freedom for the full expression on my personality.
Mahatma Gandhi
O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us. O would some power the gift to give us to see ourselves as others see us.
Robert Burns, Poem "To a Louse" - Verse 8
If you follow all the rules, you miss all the fun.
Katherine Hepburn
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most profound statements are often said in silence.
Lynn Johnston, For Better or For Worse, 01 - 15 - 04
What we think about, expands.
Marc Allen, Interview with Michael Toms
Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.
Saint Francis de Sales
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
George Bernard Shaw
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
Willa Cathe
Come quickly, I am tasting stars!
Dom Perignon, at the moment of his discovery of champagne
If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may study his commentators.
William Hazlitt
Our institutions and values are in jeopardy as the mores of the market pervade all social life in this country. Loyalty, honesty, courage, discipline, patriotism, and commitment to family are being crowded out by the goals and rules of economic rationality - - Do whatever makes the most money.
Barry Schwartz
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
Noam Chomsky
If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world.
Young
Tell me thy company, and I will tell thee what thou art.
Miguel de Cervantes
One must really have suffered oneself to help others.
Mother Theresa
I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.
Anwar el - Sadat
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.
Ayn Rand
If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture than you are a victim of it.
S. I. Hayakawa
The eyes believe themselves the ears believe other people.
German prove
Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
Saint Basil
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
Abraham Lincoln, (attributed)
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
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