Quotes and Sayings
The process of creating new, democratic organs of government power is beginning, and, as never before, the greatest responsibility rests with the broadcast media.Eduard Sagalaev
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.Henry David Thoreau
It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.Oscar Wilde
Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.Hodding Carte
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.Dorothy Nevill
He that can have patience can have what he will.Benjamin Franklin
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.Bertrand Russell
They were going to die. They knew it, and their last words were I love you. Even in great pain, their last words were of love... People who could have saved themselves and they ran back in to save others instead. If humanity is capable of that, how can I lose hope in humanity?Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun - Times, November 5, 2001
Who lies for you will lie against you.Bosnian Prove
A friend is a gift you give yourself.Robert Louis Stevenson
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.Immanuel Kant
I never know how much of what I say is true.Bette Midle
Grown - Ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.Antoine de Saint - Exupery, "The Little Prince", 1943
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum.Ambrose Bierce
The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.Scott Adams
Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.Michael Crichton, Caltech Michelin Lecture, January 17, 2003
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.Jane Austen, Emma
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
How vain is learning unless intelligence go with it.Stobaeus
Have no fear of perfection - - You will never reach it.Salvador Dali
I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.Jefferson Davis
O what fine thought we had because we thought that the worst rogues and rascals had died out.W. B. Yeats, Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen
Family means too much, Friends are too valuable, And life is too short, To put - Off sharing with people, How much they really mean to you, And pursuing whatever it is that makes you happy.Unknown
We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.Golda Mei
The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.Heinrich Heine
Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.Marion Howard
Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.Anthelme Brillat - Savarin, The Physiology of Taste, 1825
Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.Bhagavad Gita
Success will not lower its standard to us. We must raise our standard to success.Rev. Randall R. McBride, Jr.
I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.Steve Martin
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.Abraham Lincoln
As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling Sometimes it seemed that way.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
I think it would be a good idea.Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thought of Western civilization
Wait until it is night before saying that is has been a fine day.French Prove
The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.Mata Hari
Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication.Lord Byron, Don Juan
