Quotes and Sayings

There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases; it is the easiest thing of all to deceive one? s self.
Demosthenes, Olynthiac
Dorothy fields - love is the reason for it all....
Poetry the best words in the best order.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
H. p. lovecraft - the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is...
Judge a tree from its fruit not from the leaves.
Euripides
What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?
William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1 Scene 2
If your cat falls out of a tree, go indoors to laugh.
Patricia Hitchcock
Round numbers are always false.
Samuel Johnson
When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.
Jawahar Lal Neheru
The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.
Pauline Kael
Truth is the daughter of time.
Aulus Gellius
I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
Benjamin Disraeli
Christians rejoice because God is their heavenly Father who forgives the penitent, because God sent his Son into the world for the salvation of all who have faith, because Jesus Christ not only died but was raised again from the dead and because joy is one of the ninefold fruits of the Spirit.
W. G. Morrice
The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominate political mythology.
Michael Parenti
Every government is run by liars. Nothing they say should be believed.
I. F. Stone 1907 - 1989
I love America because America trusts me. When I go into a shop to buy a pair of shoes I am not asked to produce my Identity Card. I love it because my mail is not censored. My phone is not tapped. My conversation with friends is not reported to the secret police.
Janina Atkins
I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.
Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop
Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help shall all be saved.
Jane Goodall
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
Jean Ke
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. You cannot escape the results of your thoughts.
Author Unknown
Battles are won by iron hearts in wooden ships.
Ernst Jnger, In Stahlgewittern (The Storm of Steel)
Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present and keep the promise to posterity.
Harold J. Seymore
Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993
No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
Robert Burton
And yet, what is bravery but the capacity to reject our fears, ignore and supress them, then go on to do whatever it is we are afraid to do.
L. Neil Smith
An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.
Samuel Johnson
Big Brother is watching you.
George Orwell
I opened the window and my heart. The sun flooded my house and love flooded my soul.
Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I sat down and wept
Have I inadvertently said some evil thing.
Phocion
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.
Robert A. Heinlein
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
William Arthur Ward
Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.
A. Alvarez
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.
Martin Luther King Jr.
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
Aeschylus
Diplomacy is the art of knowing what not to say.
Matthew Trump, in Mother Earth News
Words do two major things They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Jim Rohn
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work.
Anatole France
We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.
Maxwell Maltz, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004