Frank Herbert Famous Quotes

Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. …The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.
~Author : Frank Herbert Famous Quotes

From the still-vexed Bermoothes.
~Author : William Shakespeare The Tempest Act 1 scene 2 Inspirational Sayings

He who does not hope to win has already lost.
~Author : Jose Joaquin de Olmedo Nice Quotes

Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you.
~Author : Nicholai Velimirovic Great Sayings

Always love your enemies–nothing annoys them so much.
~Author : Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde Meaningful Sayings

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
~Author : Bertrand Russell Wise Quotes

It’s not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.
~Author : Jeff Melvoin Motivational Sayings

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
~Author : William Shakespeare Famous Quotes

Do not speak ill of the dead.
~Author : The Seven Sages Bias Chilon Cleobulus Periander PittacusSolon Thales c 650 c 550 BC From Diogenes Laertius Lives Inspirational Sayings

This is our purpose to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.
~Author : Oswald Spengler Nice Quotes

Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defence Where is the difference between having our arms in our own possession and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress If our defence be therealobject of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands
~Author : Patrick Henry Great Sayings

Describing her first day back in grade school after a long absence, a teacher said, It was like trying to hold 35 corks under water at the same time.
~Author : Mark Twain Meaningful Sayings

The term “learning disability” has appeal because it implies a specific neurological condition for which no one can be held particularly responsible, and yet it escapes the stigma of mental retardation. There is no implication of neglect, emotional disturbance, or improper training or education, nor does it imply a lack of motivation on the part of the child. For these cosmetic reasons, it is a rather nice term to have around.
~Author : U S Government Study On The Labeling Of Children Wise Quotes

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
~Author : e e cummings Motivational Sayings

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.
~Author : Og Mandino Famous Quotes

There are three social classes in America upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.
~Author : Judith Martin Inspirational Sayings

Broke is a temporary condition, poor is a state of mind.
~Author : Sir Richard Francis Burton Nice Quotes

We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
~Author : Phyllis Great Sayings

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
~Author : Benjamin Disraeli Meaningful Sayings

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.
~Author : Richard Milhous Nixon Wise Quotes

Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat.
~Author : Sri da Avabhas Motivational Sayings

Shouldn’t someone tag Mr Kennedy’s bold new imaginative program with its proper age Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx-first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a government being Big Brother.
~Author : Ronald Reagan Famous Quotes

Courage is a special kind of knowledge the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.
~Author : David BenGurion Inspirational Sayings

There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies against despots — suspicion.
~Author : Demosthenes Nice Quotes

Ring Announcer What’s your name kid Peter The Human Spider. Ring Announcer That’s it The Human Spider That’s the best you’ve got Peter Yeah. Ring Announcer Well that sucks.
~Author : SpiderMan Great Sayings

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
~Author : Tom Robbins Meaningful Sayings

Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There’s a world, you see, which has people in it who believe in a variety of different things. Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.
~Author : Frank Zappa Wise Quotes

Accurate scholarship can
unearth the whole offence
from luther untill noe
that has driven a culture mad.
From what occured at linz
what huge imago made
a psychopathic god.
i and the public know
what all schoolchildren learn
those to whom evil is done
do evil in return.
~Author : W H Auden Motivational Sayings

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Random Wise Sayings

Do not fear to step into the unknown For where there is risk, there is also reward.
~Author : Lori Hard Famous Quotes

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
~Author : Thomas Babington Macaulay Inspirational Sayings

If a rich man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
~Author : Socrates Nice Quotes

There is no man living that cannot do more than he thinks he can!
~Author : Henry Ford Great Sayings

Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.
~Author : Aldous Huxley Meaningful Sayings

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
~Author : Adlai E Stevenson Jr quoted by Human Behavior May 1978 Wise Quotes

Be gentle with the young.
~Author : Juvenal Motivational Sayings

I don’t believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.
~Author : Clarence Thomas Famous Quotes

Space isn’t remote at all. It’s only an hour’s drive away if your car could go straight upwards.
~Author : Fred Hoyle Inspirational Sayings

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouthTame the dragon and the gift is yours.
~Author : Noela Evans Nice Quotes

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.
~Author : Madame Curie Great Sayings

Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.
~Author : Hesketh Pearson Meaningful Sayings

In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.
~Author : Aesop Wise Quotes

Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel.
~Author : Author Unknown Motivational Sayings

I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.
~Author : Ben Shahn Famous Quotes

Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?
~Author : Jules Feiffer Inspirational Sayings

All of us are working together for the same end; some of us knowingly and purposefully, others unconsciously.
~Author : Marcus Aurelius Meditations Book Seven Nice Quotes

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
~Author : Confucius Great Sayings

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
~Author : George Eliot Meaningful Sayings

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
~Author : Hellen Keller Wise Quotes

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to opress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
~Author : Frederick Douglass Speech April 1886 Motivational Sayings

Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its one sure defense.
~Author : Mark Twain Famous Quotes

Philanthropy is the refuge of rich people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.
~Author : Oscar Wilde Inspirational Sayings

O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day!
~Author : William Shakespeare The Two Gentlemen of Verona Act 1 scene 3 Nice Quotes

Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self-understanding and self-discipline.
~Author : Lewis Mumford Great Sayings

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
~Author : Robert Louis Stevenson Meaningful Sayings

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
~Author : Stella Adler Wise Quotes

We find comfort among those who agree with us–growth among those who don’t.
~Author : Frank A Clark Motivational Sayings

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Random Famous Quotes

Cliques are groups, groups are great, great are cliques of people.
~Author : Arthur McNallan Famous Quotes

Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that’s been our unifying cry, More light. Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlight. Neon, incandescent lights that banish the darkness from our caves to illuminate our roads, the insides of our refrigerators. Big floods for the night games at Soldier’s field. Little tiny flashlights for those books we read under the covers when we’re supposed to be asleep. Light is more than watts and footcandles. Light is metaphor. Light is knowledge, light is life, light is light.
~Author : Andrew Schneider Inspirational Sayings

Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric.
~Author : Philip Crosby Reflections on Quality Nice Quotes

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
~Author : Bette Davis The Lonely Life 1962 Great Sayings

Life is an unanswered question, but let’s believe in the dignity and important of the question.
~Author : Tennessee Williams Meaningful Sayings

Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge of thine own cause.
~Author : William Shakespeare Wise Quotes

The reason the Mets have played so well at Shea this year is they have the best home record in baseball.
~Author : Ralph Kiner Motivational Sayings

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
~Author : George Bernard Shaw Famous Quotes

Everyday happiness means getting up in the morning, and you can’t wait to finish your breakfast. You can’t wait to do your exercises. You can’t wait to put on your clothes. You can’t wait to get out — and you can’t wait to come home, because the soup is hot.
~Author : George Burns Inspirational Sayings

And yesterday he would have killed me to get to his foe. But now we serve each other. Only a fool walks into the future backward.
~Author : Terry Goodkind Stone of Tears Nice Quotes

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary and it is they alone who are masters.
~Author : Paul Gauguin Great Sayings

To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy — and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
~Author : Robert Heinlein Meaningful Sayings

All we know is still infinitely less than all that remains unknown.
~Author : William Harvey Wise Quotes

The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.
~Author : William Shakespeare Motivational Sayings

To be amused by what you read–that is the great spring of happy quotations.
~Author : C E Montague Famous Quotes

Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream.
~Author : W S Gilbert Inspirational Sayings

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self- esteem.
~Author : Dr Laura Schlessinger Nice Quotes

Et tu, Brute
~Author : William Shakespeare Great Sayings

Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show.
~Author : David Gerrold Meaningful Sayings

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
~Author : Vincent Van Gogh Wise Quotes

The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself.
~Author : James Thurber Motivational Sayings

This only is certain, that there is nothing certain; and nothing more miserable and yet more arrogant than man.
~Author : Pliny the Elder Famous Quotes

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Random Famous Sayings

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
~Author : Henry Miller Famous Quotes

One essential to success is that your desire be an all-obsessing one, your thoughts and aims be co-ordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup.
~Author : Claude M Bristol Inspirational Sayings

Nothing is stronger than habit.
~Author : Ovid Ars Amatoria Nice Quotes

All romantics meet the same fate someday. Cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark cafe.
~Author : Joni Mitchell songThe Last Time I Saw Richard Great Sayings

But he that is the greatest among you shall be your servant. And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abused and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.
~Author : Matthew 2311 12 Bible Meaningful Sayings

George So in the end, was it worth it Jesus Christ. How irreparably changed my life has become. It’s always the last days of summer and I’ve been left out in the cold with no door to get back in. I’ll grant you I’ve had more than my share of poignant moments. Life passes most people by when they’re busy making grand plans for it. Throughout my lifetime I’ve left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there’s almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent. There are no more white horses or pretty ladies at my door.
~Author : Blow Wise Quotes

A sensible man knows you can’t please everybody. A wise man knows you can’t please anybody.
~Author : Richard Needham Motivational Sayings

He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
~Author : Charles Caleb Colton Famous Quotes

Familiarity breed contempt.
~Author : Aesop Inspirational Sayings

It is better to live rich than to die rich.
~Author : Samuel Johnson Nice Quotes

We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.
~Author : Henry David Thoreau Great Sayings

If we couldn’t laugh, we would all go insane.
~Author : Jimmy Buffett Meaningful Sayings

Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.
~Author : Jonathan Swift Wise Quotes

A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.
~Author : Homer The Iliad Motivational Sayings

Woe be to him that reads but one book.
~Author : George Herbert Famous Quotes

Work ’em hard, play ’em hard, feed ’em up to the nines and send ’em to bed so tired that they are asleep before their heads are on the pillow.
~Author : Frank L Boyden Inspirational Sayings

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
~Author : Josh Billings Nice Quotes

How vain is learning unless intelligence go with it.
~Author : Stobaeus Great Sayings

What used to be called liberal is now called radical, what used to be called radical is now called insane, what used to be called reactionary is now called moderate, and what used to be called insane is now called solid conservative thinking.
~Author : Tony Kushner Meaningful Sayings

You must live with people to know their problems, and live with God in order to solve them.
~Author : P T Forsyth Wise Quotes

Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.
~Author : E B White Some Remarks on Humor introduction Motivational Sayings

I demand more of myself than anyone else could ever expect.
~Author : Julius Irving Famous Quotes

If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat.
~Author : Proverbs Bible Inspirational Sayings

War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.
~Author : General Smedley Butler Nice Quotes

The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats *and* dogs!
~Author : Sonjay Anand Great Sayings

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
~Author : Plato Meaningful Sayings

Ed, we just witnessed a peaceful transition in government. Do you realize how miraculous that is…Today, tiny Cicely, Alaska, stood up and put another W in the win category for democracy.
~Author : Jeff Melvoin Wise Quotes

I have always said that if I were a rich man I would employ a profesional praiser.
~Author : Osbert Sitwell Motivational Sayings

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