Quotes and Sayings

Lets have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Abraham Lincoln

Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations.

Ralph Charell

It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.

Andre Gide

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

Samuel Butle

There is no harm in doubt and scepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.

Richard Feynman, Letter to Armando Garcia J, December 11, 1985

A hair on the head is worth two on the brush.

Irish Prove

Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does it is one of the sensible things that nature does.

George E. Woodbury

The question our century puts before us is: is it possible to regain the lost dimension, the encounter with the Holy, the dimension which cuts through the world of subjectivity and objectivity and goes down to that which is not world but is the Mystery of the Ground of Being.

Paul Tillich, From a lecture

It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I intend to live forever or die trying.

Joseph Heller, Catch - 22

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.

Ellen Goodman

Everything that can be invented, has been invented.

Charles H. Duell

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

Charles Darwin

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

Aristotle

As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow - Citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear their private arms.

Tench Coxe

When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck men risk theirs.

Oscar Wilde

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.....

Douglas Noel Adams

In the spider - web of facts, many a truth is strangled.

Paul Eldridge

All of our dreams can come true - - If we have the courage to pursue them.

Walt Disney

The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.

Martha Graham

Eloquence is in the assembly, not merely in the speaker.

William Pitt

The most enviable writers are those who, quite often unanalytically and unconsciously, have realized that there are different facets to their nature and are able to live and work with now one, now another, in the ascendant.

Dorothea Brande

Love builds bridges where there are none.

R. H. Delaney

Somewhere between the Angels and the French lies the rest of humanity.

Mark Twain

One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it.

Henry Moore

Better reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.

John Milton, Paradise Lost

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Prove

That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.

Unknown

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

Henry Kissinge

The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.

Mother Teresa

My mother - In - Law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.

Phyllis Dille

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare, Sonnet cxvi

The law must be stable, but it must not stand still.

Roscoe Pound

I believe that producing pictures, as I do, is almost solely a question of wanting so very much to do it well.

M. C. Esche

An idea is salvation by imagination.

Frank Lloyd Wright