Quotes and Sayings
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.Woodrow Wilson
What the superior man seeks is in himself what the small man seeks is in others.Confucius
I strive to be brief, and become obscure.Horace
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.Vincent Lombardi
If someone is going to kill me, they are going to kill me. - - John F. Kennedy to Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., 1962.John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days, " by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr [1965]
The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society.Robert Francis Kennedy
In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.Thomas Pickering
We live, as we dream, alone.Joseph Conrad
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.Unknown
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.Ralph Waldo Emerson
We presuppose two things that there is yet to be learned infinitely more than is now known, and that man can learn it.John Wood Campbell, Jr.
In the lexicon of the political class, the word sacrifice means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.George Will, Newsweek, 2/22/93
The body is a marvelous machine... a chemical laboratory, a power - House. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels!Theodor Herzl
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.Brian Adams
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.Terry Cohen
Dare to be yourself.Andre Gide
The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.William John Bennett
Be fully in the moment, open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.Ernest Hemingway
Love is not blind - It sees more and not less, but because it sees more, it is willing to see less.Will Moss
An atheist is one who hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his disbelief.Franklin P. Jones
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.Roald Dahl
The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.George Eliot, Middlemarch
Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.Henry Steele Commage
Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.Charles Farrar Browne
This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.Captain J. A. Hadfield
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.Herman Cain
We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.Thomas Jefferson, letter to Samuel Kercheval, July 12, 1816
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.Giordano Bruno
The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.Marshall McLuhan
If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mister Brave Man, I guess I am a coward.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.Henri Bergson
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.Plato
If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.Henry Fielding
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.Johann von Goethe
If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr Martin Luther King.Ramsey Clark
Be ready when opportunity comes... Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.Roy D. Chapin, Jr.
As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence.Dwight D Eisenhowe
