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When you cease to dream you cease to live.
~Author : Malcolm S Forbes Famous Quotes

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
~Author : Kahlil Gibran Inspirational Sayings

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
~Author : Sophocles Nice Quotes

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
~Author : HL Mencken Great Sayings

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show for any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Meaningful Sayings

All that we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
~Author : J R R Tolkien The Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring Wise Quotes

Progress always involves risk you can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first base.
~Author : Frederick Wilcox Motivational Sayings

Name me and emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.
~Author : Charles V Famous Quotes

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
~Author : Al Bernstein Inspirational Sayings

A book … unlike a television program, moving picture or any other ‘modern means of communication’ … can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed.
~Author : Joseph Wood Krutch Nice Quotes

Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find – nothing.
~Author : Aesop The Goose with the Golden Eggs Great Sayings

No amount of artificial reinforcement can offset the natural inequalities of human individuals.
~Author : Henry P Fairchild Meaningful Sayings

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present– which seldom happens to us.
~Author : La Bruyere Wise Quotes

Drop out of school before your mind rots from our mediocre educational system.
~Author : Frank Zappa Liner notes from the album Freak Out 1965 Motivational Sayings

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
~Author : George Bernard Shaw Famous Quotes

All zoos actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling.
~Author : HL Mencken Inspirational Sayings

We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
~Author : Walt Kelly Nice Quotes

Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.
~Author : Gerald R Ford Great Sayings

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
~Author : Albert Einstein Meaningful Sayings

Define your business goals clearly so that others can see them as you do.
~Author : George F Burns Wise Quotes

Love is not a crime, denying it is. Having dreams is not a crime, not chasing them is. Making mistakes is not a crime, not learning from them is. Life is not a crime, not living it is.
~Author : Alexander Senturia Motivational Sayings

Read not to contradict and confute?nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
~Author : Sir Francis Bacon O Magazine April 2003 Famous Quotes

Eternity’s a terrible thought. I mean, where’s it all going to end
~Author : Tom Stoppard Inspirational Sayings

One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.
~Author : G E Lessing Nice Quotes

There is no substitute for hard work.
~Author : Thomas Alva Edison Great Sayings

‘At this festive season of the year, Mr Scrooge,’ said the gentleman, taking up a pen, ‘it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. … We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices.’
~Author : Charles Dickens Meaningful Sayings

How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
~Author : Annie Dillard Wise Quotes

Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.
~Author : Benjamin Disraeli Motivational Sayings

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Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell the saddest thoughts.
~Author : Percy Bysshe Shelley Famous Quotes

Many of us are more capable than some of us…
but none of us is as capable as all of us!!
~Author : Tom Wilson Ziggy comic Inspirational Sayings

In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think.
~Author : Henry David Thoreau Nice Quotes

To die will be an awfully big adventure.
~Author : James Barrie Great Sayings

If you take a dog which is starving and feed him and make him prosperous, that dog will not bite you. This is the primary difference between a dog and a man.
~Author : Mark Twain Meaningful Sayings

Batman I’m not going to kill you. I want you to do me a favor. I want you to tell all your friends about me. Nic What are you Batman I’m Batman
~Author : Batman Wise Quotes

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
~Author : Kurt Vonnegut Jr Motivational Sayings

Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.
~Author : William Shakespeare The Tempest Act 1 Scene 2 Famous Quotes

The journey in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life really takes place.
~Author : Barbara De Angelis Inspirational Sayings

God, I dont have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.
~Author : Real Live Preacher Nice Quotes

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
~Author : James Earl Jimmy Carter Jr Great Sayings

We make war that we may live in peace.
~Author : Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics bk 10 ch 7 sct 1177b Meaningful Sayings

Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.
~Author : Katherine Paterson The Spying Heart 1989 Wise Quotes

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
~Author : Frank Lloyd Wright Motivational Sayings

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
~Author : Abraham Lincoln Famous Quotes

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.
~Author : Martin Luther King Jr Inspirational Sayings

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
~Author : Harry S Truman Nice Quotes

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
~Author : Tacitus Great Sayings

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
~Author : Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts 1931 Life and Human Nature Meaningful Sayings

You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge yourself one.
~Author : James A Froude Wise Quotes

No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books.
~Author : Elizabeth Barrett Browning Motivational Sayings

A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.
~Author : Author Unknown Famous Quotes

If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost 100, get one million miles to the gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
~Author : Robert X Cringely Inspirational Sayings

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
~Author : Frederick Douglas Nice Quotes

Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature, where the weaker individual is not secured against the violence of the stronger; and as, in the latter state, even the individuals are prompted, by the uncertainty of their condition, to submit to a government which may protect the weak as well as themselves; so, in the former state, will the more powerful factions or parties be gradually induced, by a like motive to wish for a government which will protect all parties, the weaker as well as the more powerful.
~Author : Alexander Hamilton Great Sayings

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
~Author : Franklin D Roosevelt Meaningful Sayings

It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another.
~Author : Odell Shepard Wise Quotes

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.
~Author : Sigmund Freud Motivational Sayings

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Everything is energy in motion.

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
~Author : Bill Watterson cartoonist Calvin and Hobbes Famous Quotes

To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery-into something that no mortal eye hath yet seen, and no intelligence has yet declared.
~Author : E H Chapin Inspirational Sayings

A signature always reveals a man’s character – and sometimes even his name.
~Author : Evan Esar Nice Quotes

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
~Author : Dr Robert Schuller Great Sayings

Everything is energy in motion.
~Author : Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan Meaningful Sayings

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
~Author : George Baker Wise Quotes

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.
~Author : Ivy Baker Priest in Parade 1958 Motivational Sayings

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
~Author : Walter Winchell Famous Quotes

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
~Author : Germaine Greer Inspirational Sayings

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
~Author : Marcus Aelius Aurelius Nice Quotes

The person who knows how will always have a job. The person who knows why will always be his boss.
~Author : Diane Ravitch Great Sayings

The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
~Author : Francis Bacon Meaningful Sayings

Heidi Well, do you want me to be honest or do you want me to tell you this is the first time
~Author : Old School Wise Quotes

Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience.
~Author : Azel Backus Motivational Sayings

The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary.
~Author : Vidal Sassoon Famous Quotes

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
~Author : Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill Inspirational Sayings

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.
~Author : Jim Bishop Nice Quotes

In all the work we do, our most valuable asset can be the attitude of self-examination. It is forgivable to make mistakes, but to stand fast behind a wall of self-righteousness and make the same mistake twice is not forgivable.
~Author : Dr Dale E Turner Great Sayings

The last dejected effort often becomes the winning stroke.
~Author : W J Cameron Meaningful Sayings

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
~Author : Franklin P Jones Wise Quotes

Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way.
~Author : John Stuart Mill Motivational Sayings

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.
~Author : Laotzu Famous Quotes

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.
~Author : Friedrich Nietzsche Inspirational Sayings

#3529. That which ought to have been done is to be regarded as done.
~Author : California Civil Code Maxims of Jurisprudence Nice Quotes

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common.
~Author : John Locke Great Sayings

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.
~Author : Ephesians 426 Bible New Testament Meaningful Sayings

Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone.
~Author : Pyrrhus from Plutarch Lives Wise Quotes

He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.
~Author : Hesiod Motivational Sayings

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