Age Quotes
The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.Real Live Preacher, reallivepreacher. com weblog, September 4, 2003
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you? re doing, or it comes out flat. You can? t fake your way through this.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, January 29, 2004
The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.Horace Greeley
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.Henry Ford
Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management.Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.William Blake
Knowing that I am not the one in control gives great encouragement. Knowing the One who is in control is everything.Alexander Michael
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.Robertson Davies
The average, healthy, well - Adjusted adult gets up at seven - Thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.Jean Ke
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.La Bruyere
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.Doug Larson
Me, we. Supposedly the shortest quote in the English language delivered at a Harvard graduation.Muhammad Ali
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.Sam Rayburn
With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.Clark Gable, Gone With the Wind
The biggest shortage of all is the shortage of common sense.Author Unknown
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.Samuel Johnson
It is the responsibility of the sender to make sure the receiver understands the message.Joseph Batten
We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction.Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fourth Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1945
Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.Dan Quayle
Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.Jean Jacques Rousseau
I do not ask to walk smooth paths nor bear an easy load. I pray for strength and fortitude to climb the rock strewn road. Give me such courage and I can scale the hardest peaks alone, And transform every stumbling block into a stepping stone.Gale Brook Burket
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.Russell Green
Go around asking a lot of damfool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by gambling can we take advantage of them.Clarence Birdseye
Dans ce pays - Ci il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres. In this country England it is thought well to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others. from Candide.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
A man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.Sir Walter Besant
Language is the dress of thought.Samuel Johnson
A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization.Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto p. 74 (pb 93)
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.Seneca, Epistulae Morales
If there be any truer message of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.Robert South
Happines is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of all are those who have the courage to reach for it again.Mary Higgins Clark, Kitchen Privileges, A Memoi
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.Mark Twain
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.Ambrose Redmoon
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.Mignon McLaughlin
A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.Ralph W. Sockman
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.Jean Cocteau
Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.Elizabeth Harrison
