Quotes and Sayings

Euripides, 438 b. c. - i have found power in the mysteries of thought....
The world belongs to the energetic.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
John a. locke - that which is static and repetitive is boring....
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
Anonymous
Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.
Author Unknown
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
Martha Graham
One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.
Lewis Lew Wallace
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage.
Sydney Smith
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897)
The smaller the understanding of the situation, the more pretentious the form of expression.
John Romano
Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking and now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage.
Ronald Reagan
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Age is no guarantee of maturity.
Lawana Blackwell
People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
Rebecca West
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
Thomas Hardy
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Kahlil Gibran
Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
Voltaire
The basis of a democratic state is liberty.
Aristotle, Politics
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
Henry ward beeche - troubles are often the tools god fashions us for...
Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.
Confucius
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney
Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities, like two sides of a dollar bill, each different in design. ... Her problem is to keep one from draining the life from the other.
Ivy Baker Priest
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 12
Our greatest glory was not in never falling, but in rising when we fell.
Vince Lombardi
I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight.
Robin Green, Northern Exposure, Burning Down the House, 1992
Trifles go to make perfection, And perfection is no trifle.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.
Hunter S Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
He that commends me to mine own content Commends me to the thing I cannot get.
William Shakespeare, A Comedy of Errors
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
Home
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
Charles Dickens
Distributed file systems are a cruel hoax.
Zalman Stern, former ITC hacker diety
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Dylan Thomas
The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.
Saint Jerome, Letter 48
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
Gandhi
I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.
Neil Postman
There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - To do nothing at all.
Sydney Smith
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.
Albert Einstein
It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings.
Dale Carnegie