Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

After the cheers have died down and the stadium is empty, after the headlines have been written and after you are back in the quiet of your room and the championship ring has been placed on the dresser and all the pomp and fanfare has faded, the enduring things that are left are the dedication to excellence, the dedication to victory, and the dedication to doing with our lives the very best we can to make the world a better place in which to live.
~Author : Vince Lombardi Famous Quotes

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
~Author : Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville Inspirational Sayings

Nixon had three goals to win by the biggest electoral landslide in history to be remembered as a peacemaker and to be accepted by the ‘Establishment’ as an equal. He achieved all these objectives at the end of 1972 and the beginning of 1973. And he lost them all two months later-partly because he turned a dream into an obsession.
~Author : Henry Kissinger Nice Quotes

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
~Author : Ella Wheeler Wilcox Great Sayings

Language study is a route to maturity. Indeed, in language study as in life, if a person is the same today as he was yesterday, it would be an act of mercy to pronounce him dead and to place him in a coffin, rather than in a classroom.
~Author : John A Rassias Meaningful Sayings

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
~Author : Oliver Wendell Holmes Wise Quotes

The more I know about men the more I like dogs.
~Author : Gloria Allred Motivational Sayings

If we can not trust a freeman with his right to keep and bear arms, then how can we trust him with the right to vote. Surely the right of a freeman to vote has a much greater effect on our collective lives than does any individual’s firearm. If one argues that the effect of any one freeman’s vote is minimal, then why allow it in the first place To be armed is to secure one’s right to representation.
~Author : Thomas Mincher Famous Quotes

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
~Author : General Omar Bradley Inspirational Sayings

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in circumstances confronting him.
~Author : Saint Thomas Aquinas Nice Quotes

The Earth is the Cradle of the Mind — but one cannot eternally live in a cradle.
~Author : Konstantin E Tsiolkovsky Great Sayings

Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
~Author : Ludwig van Beethoven Meaningful Sayings

There is a destiny That makes us brothers None goes his way alone All that we send into the lives of others Comes back into our own.
~Author : Edwin Markham Wise Quotes

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
~Author : Alfred Hitchcock Motivational Sayings

When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
~Author : Kenneth Kaunda Famous Quotes

A politician thinks of the next election a statesman, of the next generation.
~Author : Eubie Inspirational Sayings

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick — not wounded — dead.
~Author : Woody Allen Nice Quotes

General Grant had a simple, childlike recipe for meeting life … I am terribly afraid, but the other fellow is afraid, too.
~Author : Sherwood Anderson Great Sayings

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.
~Author : Marie Curie Meaningful Sayings

Creditors have better memories than debtors.
~Author : Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard s Almanac 1758 Wise Quotes

Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.
~Author : Friedrich Nietzche Motivational Sayings

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
~Author : Rose Dorothy Franken Famous Quotes

There are only 3 sports, Bullfighting, Motor Racing and Mountain climbing. All the rest are games.
~Author : Earnest Hemingway Inspirational Sayings

Making the simple complicated is commonplace making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.
~Author : Charles Mingu Nice Quotes

The capacity for passion is both cruel and divine.
~Author : George Sand Great Sayings

The whole life of man is but a point of time let us enjoy it.
~Author : Plutarch Meaningful Sayings

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
~Author : Samuel Butler Wise Quotes

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
~Author : Socrates In Apology sct 21 by Plato Motivational Sayings

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What is the answer I was silent. In that case, what is the question

Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that.
~Author : D H Lawrence Famous Quotes

Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men their wars, their concentration camps, their justice.
~Author : Marcel Ayme Inspirational Sayings

What is the answer I was silent. In that case, what is the question
~Author : Gertrude Stein Nice Quotes

No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.
~Author : John Peter Zenger Great Sayings

It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.
~Author : Professor Scott Elledge on his retirement from Cornell Meaningful Sayings

Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
~Author : Jean de La Fontaine Wise Quotes

Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man….such a man is a true gentleman.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Motivational Sayings

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
~Author : Abraham Lincoln Famous Quotes

He who knows does not speak.
He who speaks does not know.
~Author : Laotzu The Way of Laotzu Inspirational Sayings

If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.
~Author : Cicero Nice Quotes

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
~Author : Rabbi H Schachtel Great Sayings

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
~Author : John Stuart Mill Meaningful Sayings

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
~Author : John Adams Journal 1772 Wise Quotes

Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable of serving quite other purposes. By instilling nonsense it unifies populations and generates collective enthusiasm.
~Author : Bertrand Russell Motivational Sayings

Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.
~Author : Sophocles Electra Famous Quotes

It was no Insurrection or Rebellion, or even Civil War in any proper sense of these terms… The war… was a war between States regularly organized into two separate Federal Republics… In the beginning, and throughout the contest, the object of the ‘Confederates’ was to maintain the separate Sovereignty of each State, and the right of self-government, which that necessarily carries with it. The object of the ‘Federals,’ on the contrary, was to maintain a Centralized Sovereignty over all the States on both sides. This was the fundamental principle involved in the Conflict, which must be kept continually in mind.
~Author : Alexander Hamilton Stephens Inspirational Sayings

We are always in our own company.
~Author : Friedrich Nietzsche The Gay Science section 166 Nice Quotes

Force has no place where there is need of skill.
~Author : Herodotus The Histories of Herodotus Great Sayings

When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Journals 1824 Meaningful Sayings

O for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
~Author : William Shakespeare Wise Quotes

You don’t seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.
~Author : Jean Kerr Motivational Sayings

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
~Author : Plato Famous Quotes

A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she’s a tramp.
~Author : Joan Rivers Inspirational Sayings

Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.
~Author : Arnold H Glasgow Nice Quotes

Youth fades love droops, the leaves of friendship fall A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.
~Author : Oliver Wendell Holmes Great Sayings

This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
~Author : James Reston New York Times June 12 1968 Meaningful Sayings

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
~Author : Martin Luther King Jr Wise Quotes

I’ve never known any trouble that an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.
~Author : Charles De Secondat Motivational Sayings

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Lying is done with words and also with silence.

Tomorrow is often the busiest time of the year.
~Author : Danish proverb Famous Quotes

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness too much insensibility leads to crime.
~Author : Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Inspirational Sayings

There are two million interesting people in New York and only seventy-eight in Los Angles.
~Author : Neil Simon in Playboy Feb 1979 Nice Quotes

Lying is done with words and also with silence.
~Author : Adrienne Rich Great Sayings

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
~Author : EV Lucas Meaningful Sayings

What is a seer? A man who with luck tells the truth sometimes, with frequent falsehoods, but when his luck deserts him, collapses then and there.
~Author : Achilles Euripides Iphigenia in Aulis 955 Wise Quotes

Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are.
~Author : Alford Motivational Sayings

He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.
~Author : Chinese proverb Famous Quotes

Isn’t it surprising how many things, if not said immediately, seem not worth saying ten minutes from now
~Author : Arnot L Sheppard Jr Inspirational Sayings

People want to know how much you care before they care how much you know.
~Author : James F Hind Nice Quotes

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.
~Author : Fred Rogers Great Sayings

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
~Author : Woodrow Wilson Speech to Congress Apr 2 1917 Meaningful Sayings

It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain and some of our griefs . . . have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.
~Author : Miguel de Cervantes Wise Quotes

Life is full of obstacle illusions.
~Author : Grant Frazier Motivational Sayings

You know something that would really make me applaud A guy gets stuck in quicksand, then sinks, then suddenly comes shooting out, riding on water skis How do they do that
~Author : Jack Handey Deep Thoughts Famous Quotes

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.
~Author : Shirley Temple Inspirational Sayings

Men have become the tools of their tools
~Author : Henry David Thoreau Nice Quotes

Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.
~Author : Confucius The Confucian Analects Great Sayings

If I could kick the person in the tail that causes me the most problems I could not sit down for a week.
~Author : Will Rogers Meaningful Sayings

I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term — meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching — there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.
~Author : Ansel Adams Wise Quotes

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.
~Author : Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray 1891 Motivational Sayings

I told you he had a cash register mind. Rings every time he opens his mouth.
~Author : Dennis O’Keefe Famous Quotes

And the wind said May you be as strong as the oak, yet flexible as the birch may you stand as tall as the redwood, live gracefully as the willow and may you always bear fruit all your days on this earth.
~Author : Native American Prayer Inspirational Sayings

Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
~Author : Margaret Atwood Nice Quotes

Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
~Author : Cicero On Friendship 44 BC Great Sayings

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I’m beginning to believe it.
~Author : Clarence Darrow Meaningful Sayings

During the Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn’t have time to sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There were urgent, pressing problems. If you think you have it tough, read history books.
~Author : Bill Maher Wise Quotes

Union gives strength.
~Author : Aesop Motivational Sayings

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

All the passions make us commit faults love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
~Author : La Rochefoucauld Famous Quotes

The defects of the understanding, like those of the face, grow worse as we grow old.
~Author : Francois De La Rochefoucauld Inspirational Sayings

People find life entirely too time-consuming.
~Author : Stanislaw J Lec Unkempt Thoughts Nice Quotes

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
~Author : Amos Bronson Alcott Great Sayings

The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.
~Author : Edwin Whipple Meaningful Sayings

A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.
~Author : William Hazlitt on the Pleasure of Hating Wise Quotes

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
~Author : Josh Billings Motivational Sayings

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
~Author : James Thurber New Yorker Feb 4 1939 The Fairly Intelligent Fly Famous Quotes

Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
~Author : Lewis Mumford Inspirational Sayings

If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness.
~Author : Theodore Roosevelt Nice Quotes

Anybody remotely interesting is mad, in some way or another.
~Author : Doctor Who Great Sayings

Kisses blown are kisses wasted. Kisses aren’t kisses unless they are tasted. Kisses spread germs and germs are hated. So kiss me baby I’m vaccinated.
~Author : Unknown Meaningful Sayings

After last night’s debate, the reputation of Messieurs Lincoln and Douglas is secure.
~Author : Edward R Murrow Wise Quotes

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. . .
~Author : Isaac Asimov Motivational Sayings

Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
~Author : Ursula K LeGuin Famous Quotes

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
~Author : F H Bradley Inspirational Sayings

We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
~Author : William Gladstone Nice Quotes

‘Art’ is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game.
~Author : Octavio Paz Great Sayings

Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.
~Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Meaningful Sayings

Samir No, not again. I… why does it say paper jam when there is no paper jam I swear to God, one of these days, I just kick this piece of shit out the window.
~Author : Office Space Wise Quotes

Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
~Author : John Dryden Motivational Sayings

Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back.
~Author : Edgar Lee Masters Famous Quotes

I am the only guinea pig I have.
~Author : R Buckminster Fuller Inspirational Sayings

The Lord gets His best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
~Author : Charles Haddon Spurgeon Nice Quotes

If we don’t succeed, we run the risk of failure.
~Author : Dan Quayle Great Sayings

The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.
~Author : Joanne Field Meaningful Sayings

I would fain die a dry death.
~Author : William Shakespeare The Tempest Act 1 scene 1 Wise Quotes

Christ is the Master the Scriptures are only the servant. The true way to test all the Books is to see whether they work the will of Christ or not. No Book which does not preach Christ can be apostolic, though Peter or Paul were its author. And no Book which does preach Christ can fail to be apostolic though Judas, Ananias, Pilate or Herod were its author.
~Author : Martin Luther Motivational Sayings

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You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
~Author : Socrates Famous Quotes

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.
~Author : Ethel Barrymore Inspirational Sayings

After you’ve been in a place for a while, everything starts to look… I won’t say better, there’s no need to go to extremes…but your everyday life does start to become…familiar.
~Author : David Assael Nice Quotes

There is no way to peace peace is the way.
~Author : A J Muste Great Sayings

I do not care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.
~Author : Groucho Marx Meaningful Sayings

Never let your inferiors do you a favor – it will be extremely costly.
~Author : HL Mencken Wise Quotes

Anger is only one letter short of danger.
~Author : Unknown Motivational Sayings

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self, but the point is not only to get out, you must stay out and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
~Author : Henry James Famous Quotes

Maturity beings to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.
~Author : John MacNaughton Inspirational Sayings

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
~Author : John Fitzgerald Kennedy Nice Quotes

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
~Author : Pablo Picasso Great Sayings

All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner but they disbelieve the other nations’s professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.
~Author : Oscar W Firkins Meaningful Sayings

In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
~Author : Pliny the Elder Wise Quotes

People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.
~Author : Author Unknown Motivational Sayings

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
~Author : Thomas Jefferson Famous Quotes

History is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
~Author : Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Inspirational Sayings

A liar should have a good memory.
~Author : Quintilian De Institutione Oratoria Nice Quotes

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.
~Author : Mark Twain Following the Equator 1897 Great Sayings

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.
~Author : Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Meaningful Sayings

Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.
~Author : Gloria Swanson Wise Quotes

In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
~Author : Friedrich Von Schlegel Motivational Sayings

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
~Author : Charles Lamb Famous Quotes

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
~Author : Dalai Lama Inspirational Sayings

The final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusions.
~Author : Maurice Chapelain Nice Quotes

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
~Author : Fran Lebowitz Great Sayings

The harder I work, the luckier I get.
~Author : Samuel Goldwyn Meaningful Sayings

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
~Author : Michael Caine Wise Quotes

Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.
~Author : Mark Twain Motivational Sayings

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Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don’t.

The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.
~Author : John F Kennedy Famous Quotes

You should respect each other and refrain from disputes you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together.
~Author : Buddha Inspirational Sayings

They laughed at Einstein. They laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
~Author : Carl Sagan Nice Quotes

Malice drinks one half of its own poison.
~Author : Lucius Annaeus Seneca Great Sayings

The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
~Author : J Frank Dobie A Texan in England 1945 Meaningful Sayings

Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.
~Author : William Orville Douglas Wise Quotes

I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell you see, I have friends in both places.
~Author : Mark Twain Motivational Sayings

America is not like a blanket — one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt — many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.
~Author : Henry M Jackson Famous Quotes

The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.
~Author : Unknown Inspirational Sayings

Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don’t.
~Author : Brett Butler Nice Quotes

Funny how the new things are the old things.
~Author : Rudyard Kipling With the Night Mail 1909 Great Sayings

Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage.
~Author : Henry Adams Meaningful Sayings

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.
~Author : Dan Quayle 113088 Wise Quotes

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
~Author : Abraham Lincoln Motivational Sayings

The law isn’t justice. It’s a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
~Author : Raymond Chandler Famous Quotes

When I was a small boy growing up in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing and as we sat there in the warmth of a summer afternoon on a riverbank we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him that I wanted to be a real major-league baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he’d like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.
~Author : Dwight D Eisenhower Inspirational Sayings

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it.
~Author : Immanuel Hermass von Fichte Nice Quotes

All men have the stars, but they do not mean the same things for different people. For some they are guides, for others, no more than little lights in the sky. But all these are silent. You–you alone have the stars as no one else has them
~Author : Antoine De SaintExupery Great Sayings

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
~Author : Johann von Goethe Meaningful Sayings

What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?
~Author : Henry Miller Wise Quotes

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
~Author : Milton Friedman Motivational Sayings

Golf isn’t a game, it’s a choice that one makes with one’s life.
~Author : Charles Rosin Famous Quotes

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted
~Author : Author Unknown Inspirational Sayings

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.
~Author : Phillips Brooks Nice Quotes

The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
~Author : Eric Hoffer Great Sayings

When the opponent expand, I contract, When he contracts, I expand, And when there is an opportunity, I do not hit–it hits all by itself.
~Author : Bruce Lee Meaningful Sayings

There are two types of people–those who come into a room and say, ‘Well, here I am’ and those who come in and say, ‘Ah, there you are.’
~Author : Frederick L Collins Wise Quotes

It’s interesting to think that my ancestors used to live in the trees, like apes, until finally they got the nerve to head out onto the plains, where some were probably hit by cars.
~Author : Jack Handey Deep Thoughts Motivational Sayings

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Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something.

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
~Author : Edna St Vincent Millay Famous Quotes

I honestly believe that in my lifetime we will see a country once again governed by Christians…and Christian values. What Christians have got to do is take back this country, one precinct at a time, one neighborhood at a time, and one state at a time.
~Author : Ralph Reed Executive Director the Christian Coalition Inspirational Sayings

The man who rolls up his sleeves seldom loses his shirt.
~Author : Thomas Cowan Nice Quotes

He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.
~Author : Persian Proverb Great Sayings

Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something.
~Author : Johann von Goethe Meaningful Sayings

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
~Author : Barry Goldwater Wise Quotes

I think a new, different kind of bowling should be ‘carpet bowling.’ It’s just like regular bowling, only the lanes are carpet instead of wood. I don’t know why we should do this, but my God, we’ve got to try something
~Author : Jack Handey Deep Thoughts Motivational Sayings

The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
~Author : Edgar Watson Howe Famous Quotes

Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
~Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Inspirational Sayings

I’ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust Now all that’s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust.
~Author : Alekandr Sergeyevick Pushkin Nice Quotes

I don’t know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God.
~Author : W Somerset Maugham Great Sayings

The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.
~Author : Jean Kerr Meaningful Sayings

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
~Author : Maria Montessori Wise Quotes

A pessimist, confronted with two bad choices, chooses both.
~Author : Jewish Proverb Motivational Sayings

Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand.
~Author : Leo Durocher Famous Quotes

We have the best Congress money can buy.
~Author : Will Rogers Inspirational Sayings

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
~Author : John Mason Brown Nice Quotes

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything — or nothing.
~Author : Lady Nancy Astor Great Sayings

They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.
~Author : Kahil Gibran Spirits Rebellious Meaningful Sayings

It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go.
~Author : Homer Wise Quotes

I wouldn’t trust Nixon from here to that phone.
~Author : Barry Goldwater Motivational Sayings

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
~Author : Benjamin Cardozo Famous Quotes

I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music, that song, that vibration of God that was inside of ME.
~Author : Shirley MacLaine Inspirational Sayings

It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.
~Author : Thomas Elliot Nice Quotes

Buy on the rumor sell on the news.
~Author : Wall Street Proverb Great Sayings

The speciality of the future is generalism.
~Author : Wayne Van Dyck Meaningful Sayings

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
~Author : Cyril Northcote Parkinson Wise Quotes

Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.
~Author : Thomas Carlyle Motivational Sayings

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Poor Mexico – so far from God and so close to the United States.

To hold a pen is to be at war.
~Author : Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire Famous Quotes

Poor Mexico – so far from God and so close to the United States.
~Author : Porfirio Diaz Biography of Porfirio Diaz Inspirational Sayings

There is a good side to every situation.
~Author : David Schwartz Nice Quotes

Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
~Author : Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Great Sayings

Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own.
~Author : Author Unknown Meaningful Sayings

There is a strength in the union even of very sorry men.
~Author : Homer The Iliad Wise Quotes

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
~Author : Joseph Stalin Motivational Sayings

All last year we tried to teach him English, and the only word he learned was million.
~Author : Tommy Lasorda on pitcher Fernando Valenzuela Famous Quotes

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.
~Author : Michael Pritchard Inspirational Sayings

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
~Author : Derek Bethune Nice Quotes

There are three things men can do with women love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.
~Author : Stephen Stills Great Sayings

I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty and joy to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble.
~Author : Helen Keller Meaningful Sayings

Your problems and mine, they are nothing new. They are all just another small part of the generic nightmare.
~Author : Lewis Ward Wise Quotes

The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time.
~Author : Publilius Syrus Motivational Sayings

Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
~Author : Dan Quayle Famous Quotes

…it is as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.
~Author : Woodrow Wilson Inspirational Sayings

Sport is imposing order on what was chaos.
~Author : Anthony Starr Nice Quotes

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.
~Author : Benjamin Franklin Great Sayings

A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
~Author : John Locke Meaningful Sayings

No one worth possessing
Can be quite possessed.
~Author : Sara Teasdale Wise Quotes

Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, They think of you.
~Author : H Jackson Brown Jr Motivational Sayings

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
~Author : Carl Jung Famous Quotes

My mind to me a kingdom is,
Such present joys therein I find,
That it excels all other bliss.
~Author : Sir Edward Dyer Inspirational Sayings

Genius is born–not paid.
~Author : Oscar Wilde Nice Quotes

Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus?
~Author : Neil Gaiman Great Sayings

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
~Author : William Faulkner Meaningful Sayings

Unles we change direction, we are likely to wind up where we are headed.
~Author : Chinese Proverb Wise Quotes

Cranes carry this heavy mystical baggage. They’re icons of fidelity and happiness. The Vietnamese believe cranes cart our souls up to heaven on our wings.
~Author : Mitchell Burgess Motivational Sayings

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Time is: Too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear.

The acquisition of knowledge is the mission of research, the transmission of knowledge is the mission of teaching and the application of knowledge is the mission of public service.
~Author : James A Perkins Famous Quotes

Time is: Too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear.
~Author : Henry van Dyke Inspirational Sayings

I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Nice Quotes

A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.
~Author : Joseph Addison Great Sayings

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
~Author : George Santayana Vol 53 No 18 MMWR page 391 Meaningful Sayings

What makes the engine go Desire, desire, desire.
~Author : Stanley Kunitz Wise Quotes

The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.
~Author : Karl Marx The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx Motivational Sayings

The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
~Author : Willa Sibert Cather Famous Quotes

I don’t like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
~Author : Howard Dietz Inspirational Sayings

As I was going up the stairI met a man who wasn’t thereHe wasn’t there again todayI wish, I wish he’d stay away.
~Author : Hughes Mearns Nice Quotes

There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.
~Author : Adela Rogers St Johns Great Sayings

The play’s the thing Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king.
~Author : William Shakespeare Meaningful Sayings

Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen depart, be lost, but climb.
~Author : Edna St Vincent Millay Wise Quotes

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
~Author : Friedrich Nietzsche Motivational Sayings

We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love… and then we return home.
~Author : Australian Aboriginal Proverb Famous Quotes

Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.
~Author : George Lucas Inspirational Sayings

A week is a long time in politics.
~Author : Harold Wilson Nice Quotes

The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife’s spirits.
~Author : John Gay Great Sayings

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
~Author : Woodrow Wilson Meaningful Sayings

Boldness in itself is genius.
~Author : L Ron Hubbard Wise Quotes

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.
~Author : Louis Pasteur Motivational Sayings

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
~Author : Sir Winston Churchill Hansard June 10 1941 Famous Quotes

Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else.
~Author : William Rotsler Inspirational Sayings

There’s not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.
~Author : Dante Alighieri Nice Quotes

In crises the most daring course is often safest.
~Author : Robert Francis Kennedy Great Sayings

To endure the cross is not tragedy it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.
~Author : Dietrich Bonhoeffer Meaningful Sayings

If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.
~Author : Leo Tolstoy Wise Quotes

A groundless rumor often covers a lot of ground.
~Author : Anonymous Motivational Sayings

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Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.

People would never fall in love if they had not heard love talked about.
~Author : La Rochefoucauld Famous Quotes

Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.
~Author : Henry David Thoreau Inspirational Sayings

The three fundamental Rules of Robotics…One: a robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm…Two:..a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law…Three: a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First and Second Laws.
~Author : Isaac Asimov Nice Quotes

There is a schizophrenic nature in modern politics. A leader is expected to have a religious faith but he is not supposed to let it influence him in his duties. Somehow, the truths that determine everything else about his existence are not allowed to influence how he conducts himself in public life. Not only that, his principles are usually considered so personal that the public is not even allowed to know for certain what they are. This passes for noble statecraft in our time. It was once thought cowardice.
~Author : Stephen Mansfield Great Sayings

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.
~Author : Thomas Jefferson Meaningful Sayings

Fate only takes you so far. The rest is up to you.
~Author : Unknown Wise Quotes

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Motivational Sayings

Everything proceeds as if of its own accord, and this can all too easily tempt us to relax and let things take their course without troubling over details. Such indifference is the root of all evil.
~Author : I Ching Famous Quotes

Where there is no belief in the soul, there is very little drama . . . . Either one is serious about salvation or one is not. And it is well to realize that the maximum amount of seriousness admits the maximum amount of comedy. Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe.
~Author : Flannery O’Connor Inspirational Sayings

What is defeat Nothing but education nothing but the first step to something better.
~Author : Wendell Phillips Nice Quotes

Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.
~Author : Manly P Hall Great Sayings

People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
~Author : Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Meaningful Sayings

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
~Author : Mother Theresa Wise Quotes

Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
~Author : George Santayana Life of Reason 1905 vol 4 ch 4 Motivational Sayings

There are no dirty words, only dirty minds.
~Author : Lenny Bruce Famous Quotes

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting,
~Author : Benjamin Franklin Inspirational Sayings

Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
~Author : Caesar Augustus from Plutarch Apothegms Nice Quotes

I think my favorite monster movie is ‘Gone With the Wind’, because it has that ear monster and that big-dress monster.
~Author : Jack Handey Deep Thoughts Great Sayings

Old people like to give good advice, as solace for no longer being able to provide bad examples.
~Author : Francois de La Rochefoucauld Meaningful Sayings

His only fault is that he has no fault.
~Author : Pliny the Younger Letters Wise Quotes

With true friends…even water drunk together is sweet enough.
~Author : Chinese Proverb Motivational Sayings

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
~Author : Elisabeth KueblerRoss Famous Quotes

The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.
~Author : Henry Kissinger Inspirational Sayings

If you would be pungent, be brief for it is with words as with sunbeams – the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
~Author : Robert Southey Nice Quotes

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
~Author : Sir Winston Churchill Great Sayings

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.
~Author : Auguste Rodin Meaningful Sayings

We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
~Author : Carl Jung Wise Quotes

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
~Author : Orson Welles Motivational Sayings

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