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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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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