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T S Eliot Famous Quotes August 21, 2009

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It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.
~Author : T S Eliot Famous Quotes

Every time you state what you want or believe, you’re the first to hear it. It’s a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don’t put a ceiling on yourself.
~Author : Oprah Winfrey Inspirational Sayings

The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.
~Author : Cicero Nice Quotes

He was burned, so he ran into the bamboo grove, but the grove caught fire.
~Author : Punjabi proverb Translated by Gurinder Singh Mann Great Sayings

Exploit or get exploited.
~Author : B J Gupta Meaningful Sayings

This–this was what made life a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl’s voice…a moment of captured beauty. He who is truly wise will never permit such moments to escape.
~Author : Roger Bannister Wise Quotes

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.
~Author : Publilius Syrus Motivational Sayings

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action – I will write it out.
~Author : Hortense Calisher Famous Quotes

I say, thou mad March hare.
~Author : John Skelton Inspirational Sayings

Mark Famous Quotes August 21, 2009

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If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
~Author : Mark Famous Quotes

The key is to commit crimes so confusing that police feel too stupid to even write a crime report about them.
~Author : Randy K Milholland Something Positive Comic 103003 Inspirational Sayings

All marriages are mixed marriages.
~Author : Chantal Saperstein Nice Quotes

Sped up my XT ran it on 220v Works greO
~Author : Anon Great Sayings

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
~Author : Helen Keller Meaningful Sayings

Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth.
~Author : Edgar Watson Howe Wise Quotes

Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God.
~Author : Dwight D Eisenhower Motivational 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 Famous Quotes

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
~Author : Albert Einstein Inspirational Sayings

Nicanor Parra Famous Quotes August 21, 2009

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In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food-outside are only great stretches of freedom.
~Author : Nicanor Parra Famous Quotes

No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses to sing.
~Author : Author Unknown Inspirational Sayings

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
~Author : Lloyd Alexander Nice Quotes

The tired and thirsty prospector threw himself down at the edge of the watering hole and started to drink. But then he looked around and saw skulls and bones everywhere. ‘Uh-oh,’ he thought. ‘This watering hole is reserved for skeletons.’
~Author : Jack Handey Deep Thoughts Great Sayings

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
~Author : William Shakespeare Meaningful Sayings

Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.
~Author : Daniel Patrick Moynihan Wise Quotes

All of our dreams can come true — if we have the courage to pursue them.
~Author : Walt Disney Motivational Sayings

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.
~Author : Roosevelt Eleanor Famous Quotes

Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.
~Author : Author Unknown Inspirational Sayings

Erma Bombeck Famous Quotes August 21, 2009

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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, I used everything you gave me.
~Author : Erma Bombeck Famous Quotes

I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.
~Author : Herbert Rappaport Inspirational Sayings

Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life.
~Author : Julia T Alvarez Nice Quotes

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
~Author : Danny Kaye Great Sayings

Life’s simplest things are love, and kindly friends, Nature’s sweet charm of earth and sea and sky gladness of soul that with right living blends — home’s dear content, so cheap that all may buy.
~Author : Ripley D Saunders Meaningful Sayings

Vladimir: That passed the time.
Estragon: It would have passed in any case.
Vladimir: Yes, but not so rapidly.
~Author : Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot 1955 Wise Quotes

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.
~Author : Aldous Huxley unknown Motivational Sayings

We make war that we may live in peace.
~Author : Aristotle Nichomachean Ethics Famous Quotes

The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what they have to say as if it had never been said before.
~Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Inspirational Sayings

Yogi Berra Famous Quotes August 21, 2009

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Half this game is 90 mental.
~Author : Yogi Berra Famous Quotes

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth.
~Author : Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky Inspirational Sayings

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
~Author : Sylvia Plath Nice Quotes

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.
~Author : Walter Lippmann Great Sayings

What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.
~Author : Pearl Bailey Meaningful Sayings

Dear brightest star o’er Bethlehem, O let your precious light shine in with hope and peace toward men in every home tonight.
~Author : Swedish Carol Wise Quotes

She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.
~Author : Dorothy Parker speaking of Katharine Hepburn Motivational Sayings

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
~Author : Sigmund Freud Famous Quotes

A dog owns nothing, yet is seldom dissatisfied.
~Author : Irish Proverb Inspirational Sayings

Eddie Cantor Famous Quotes July 10, 2009

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Truth or tact You have to choose. Most times they are not compatible.
~Author : Eddie Cantor Famous Quotes

A gentle word is never lost…It cheers the heart when sorrow-tossed, And lulls the cares that bruise it.
~Author : Hastings Inspirational Sayings

A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.
~Author : Richard Byrd Nice Quotes

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
~Author : Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill Great Sayings

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.
~Author : Henry David Thoreau Meaningful Sayings

Learn to be pleased with everything with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others with poverty, for not having much to care for, and with obscurity, for being unenvied.
~Author : Plutarch Wise Quotes

Man is more ape than many of the apes.
~Author : Friedrich Nietzsche Motivational Sayings

Basically, there are three ways the skunk and I are a lot alike. The first is, we both like to spread our ‘stink’ around. The second is we both get hit by cars a lot. The third is stripes.
~Author : Jack Handey Deep Thoughts Famous Quotes

There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue they’re called humorists.
~Author : Cullen Hightower Inspirational Sayings

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
~Author : George Bernard Shaw Nice Quotes

In war there is no substitute for victory.
~Author : Douglas MacArthur Great Sayings

Cannot find REALITY.SYS…Universe Halted.
~Author : Anon Meaningful Sayings

Delores breezed along the surface of her life like a flat stone forever skipping along smooth water, rippling reality sporadically but oblivious to it consistently, until she finally lost momentum, sank, and due to an over- dose of flouride as a child which caused her to suffer from chronic apathy, doomed herself to lie forever on the floor of her life as useless as an appendix and as lonely as a five-hundred pound barbell in a steroid-free fitness center.
~Author : Winning sentence 1990 BulwerLytton bad fiction contest Wise Quotes

Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see.
~Author : Jim Morrison Motivational Sayings

It is my observation that being beaten is often a temporary condition, that giving up is what makes it permanent.
~Author : Marilyn vos Savant Famous Quotes

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
~Author : Henry Ward Beecher Inspirational Sayings

What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
~Author : Paul Valery Nice Quotes

Short sentences drawn from long experiences.
~Author : Cervantes Great Sayings

He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.
~Author : Confucius Meaningful Sayings

Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious database outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This database is the source of your hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are. The wise people regularly consult that smarter part.
~Author : Michael J Gelb Wise Quotes

Nice guys finish last.
~Author : Leo Durocher attributed see notes Motivational Sayings

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won’t, you most assuredly won’t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
~Author : Denis Watley Famous Quotes

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
~Author : Aristotle Inspirational Sayings

Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us
~Author : Orison Swett Marden Nice Quotes

As long as Nazi violence was unleashed only, or mainly, against the Jews, the rest of the world looked on passively and even treaties and agreements were made with the patently criminal government of the Third Reich…. The doors of Palestine were closed to Jewish immigrants, and no country could be found that would admit those forsaken people. They were left to perish like their brothers and sisters in the occupied countries. We shall never forget the heroic efforts of the small countries, of the Scandinavian, the Dutch, the Swiss nations, and of individuals in the occupied part of Europe who did all in their power to protect Jewish lives.
~Author : Albert Einstein Great Sayings

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
~Author : Arthur C Clarke Meaningful Sayings

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
~Author : Sir Winston Churchill Wise Quotes

All the best stories are but one story in reality–the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
~Author : A C Benson Motivational Sayings

Albert Einstein Famous Quotes July 10, 2009

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As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
~Author : Albert Einstein Famous Quotes

It is difficult for sorrow to intrude on a busy life.
~Author : Unknown Inspirational Sayings

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.
~Author : Alexis Carrel Nice Quotes

Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world.
~Author : Henry Drummond Great Sayings

When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
~Author : Confucius Meaningful Sayings

Think, In mounting higher, The angels would press on us, and aspire To drop some golden orb of perfect song Into our deep, dear silence.
~Author : Elizabeth Barrett Browning Wise Quotes

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
~Author : Kahlil Gibran Motivational Sayings

One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun.
~Author : Elmer Davis Famous Quotes

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.
~Author : Bette Davis The Lonely Life 1962 Inspirational Sayings

Statistics are like a drunk with a lampost: used more for support than illumination.
~Author : Sir Winston Churchill Nice Quotes

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
~Author : A E Housman Great Sayings

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one ‘O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.’ And God granted it.
~Author : Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire Meaningful Sayings

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers.
~Author : Earl Nightingale Wise Quotes

Too often we… enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
~Author : John F Kennedy Motivational Sayings

We must overcome the notion that we must be regular. It robs us of the chance to be extraordinary and leads us to the mediocre.
~Author : Uta Hagan Famous Quotes

Action is the foundational key to all success.
~Author : Tony Robbins Inspirational Sayings

The tongue like a sharp knife… Kills without drawing blood.
~Author : Buddha Nice Quotes

Do as most do, and men will speak well of you.
~Author : Thomas Fuller Great Sayings

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given Freedom is something that people take and people are as free as they want to be.
~Author : James Arthur Baldwin Meaningful Sayings

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.
~Author : Josh Billings Wise Quotes

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
~Author : Paul Valery Motivational Sayings

Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you.
~Author : Catherine de Hueck Doherty Famous Quotes

The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in one page.
~Author : Neil Postman Inspirational Sayings

Slow and steady wins the race.
~Author : Aesop Nice Quotes

The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
~Author : Ernest Dimnet Great Sayings

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
~Author : Marie Curie Meaningful Sayings

…obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken.
~Author : Adolf Hitler Wise Quotes

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
~Author : Charlotte Bronte Motivational Sayings

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts Famous Quotes July 10, 2009

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If I had the time to sit down and write a thank-you note to everyone who sent me a nice, expensive present, what a wonderful world that would be
~Author : Jack Handey Deep Thoughts Famous Quotes

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.
~Author : Ed Parker Inspirational Sayings

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
~Author : Stephen Covey Nice Quotes

Liberty without learning is always in peril learning without liberty is always in vain.
~Author : John F Kennedy Great Sayings

What power has love but forgiveness In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise
~Author : William Carlos Williams Meaningful Sayings

My favorite part of the game is the opportunity to play.
~Author : Mike Singletary Wise Quotes

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
~Author : Hippocrates Regimen Motivational Sayings

Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.
~Author : Glenda Jackson Famous Quotes

To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.
~Author : David Brooks Inspirational Sayings

There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments, there are consequences.
~Author : Robert Ingersoll Nice Quotes

Man is always more than he can know of himself consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
~Author : Golo Mann Great Sayings

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
~Author : Dwight D Eisenhower Meaningful Sayings

What distinguishes us one from another is our dreams . . . and what we do to make them come about.
~Author : Joseph Epstein Wise Quotes

Everyone hears what you say, Friends listen to what you say, Best friends listen to what you dont say.
~Author : Unknown Motivational Sayings

The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
~Author : Bertrand Russell Famous Quotes

There is no disinfectant like success.
~Author : Daniel J Boorstin Inspirational Sayings

Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
~Author : Duke Ellington Nice Quotes

Humor is a rubber sword – it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.
~Author : Mary Hirsch Great Sayings

The classes that wash most are those that work least.
~Author : GK Chesterton Meaningful Sayings

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
~Author : F Scott Fitzgerald The CrackUp 1936 Wise Quotes

There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth…lust. When he is strong…quarrelsomeness. When he is old…covetousness.
~Author : Confucius Motivational Sayings

The attempt and not the deed Confounds us.
~Author : William Shakespeare Famous Quotes

Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.
~Author : Rita Mae Brown Starting From Scratch 1988 Inspirational Sayings

I have a cat named Trash. In the current political climate it would seem that if I were trying to sell him (at least to a Computer Scientist), I would not stress that he is gentle to humans and is self-sufficient, living mostly on field mice. Rather, I would argue that he is object-oriented.
~Author : Roger King Nice Quotes

The word ‘politics’ is derived from the word ‘poly’, meaning ‘many’, and the word ‘ticks’, meaning ‘blood sucking parasites’.
~Author : Larry Hardiman Great Sayings

Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
~Author : Voltaire Meaningful Sayings

There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one’s self… Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.
~Author : Vash Young Wise Quotes

All my possessions for a moment of time.
~Author : Queen Elizabeth I Motivational Sayings

Charles Dickens Famous Quotes July 10, 2009

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It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
~Author : Charles Dickens Famous Quotes

As long as we focus on the outside, there will always be that empty, hungry, lost place inside that needs to be filled.
~Author : Shakti Gawain Inspirational Sayings

A contented mind is the best source for trouble.
~Author : Titus Maccius Plautus Nice Quotes

Two roads diverged in a wood and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
~Author : Robert Frost Great Sayings

Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter the temple of wisdom. When we are in doubt and puzzle out the truth by our own exertions, we have gained something that will stay by us and will serve us again. But if to avoid the trouble of the search we avail ourselves of the superior information of a friend, such knowledge will not remain with us; we have not bought, but borrowed it.
~Author : C C Colton Meaningful Sayings

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought.
~Author : John Kenneth Galbraith Wise Quotes

Wit makes its own welcome and levels all distinctions.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Motivational Sayings

…happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it…
~Author : Aristotle Famous Quotes

Hope is a thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without words
And never stops at all.
~Author : Emily Dickinson Inspirational Sayings

How can anyone govern a nation that has 246 different kinds of cheese
~Author : Charles De Gaulle Nice Quotes

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
~Author : Johann von Goethe Great Sayings

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.
~Author : Marie Beyon Ray Meaningful Sayings

Don’t dig your grave with your own knife and fork.
~Author : English Proverb Wise Quotes

Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.
~Author : Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Motivational Sayings

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.
~Author : William Shakespeare Famous Quotes

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Inspirational Sayings

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
~Author : Arnold J Toynbee Nice Quotes

I am sure you will be guided right in your decision, to place implicit faith in his integrity and honesty. Best wishes from one who has known Richard longer than anyone else. His mother.
~Author : Hannah Nixon Great Sayings

The New Testament makes it abundantly clear that whenever the Kingdom of God was concerned Jesus was absolutely uncompromising, even when he realized that for him personally the alternative to compromise was crucifixion.
~Author : Ernest Fremont Title Meaningful Sayings

At every step of the way, George W. Bush has put the narrow interests of the few ahead of the interests of most Americans.
~Author : John Kerry speech in New York August 24 2004 Wise Quotes

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
~Author : Sir John Denham Motivational Sayings

Personal isn’t the same as important.
~Author : Terry Pratchett Famous Quotes

Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church’s agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism.
~Author : Michael Horton Inspirational Sayings

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
~Author : Lyndon B Johnson Nice Quotes

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, Ours.
~Author : Father Andrew SDC Great Sayings

A good exercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up.
~Author : Anonymous Meaningful Sayings

Every morning is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new. Today is a new day. Today is my world made new. I have lived all my life up to this moment, to come to this day. This moment–this day–is as good as any moment in all eternity. I shall make of this day–each moment of this day–a heaven on earth. This is my day of opportunity.
~Author : Dan Custer Wise Quotes

Words are wise men’s counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.
~Author : Thomas Hobbes Motivational Sayings

Lord Byron last words Famous Quotes July 10, 2009

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Goodnight
~Author : Lord Byron last words Famous Quotes

The real danger from advertising is that it helps to shatter and ultimately destroy our most precious non-material possessions the confidence in the existence of meaningful purposes of human activity and respect for the integrity of man.
~Author : Paul Sweezy Inspirational Sayings

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.
~Author : Napolean Hill Nice Quotes

A little rebellion now and then…is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
~Author : Thomas Jefferson Letter to James Madison 1787 Great Sayings

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.
~Author : Lyndon Johnson Meaningful Sayings

. . . .When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer – say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep – it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best, and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them…
~Author : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wise Quotes

We come and go just like ripples in a stream.
~Author : John V Politis Motivational Sayings

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
~Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Famous Quotes

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
~Author : Aldous Huxley Inspirational Sayings

Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.
~Author : Elie Wiesel Chicago SunTimes November 5 2001 Nice Quotes

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
~Author : Napoleon Bonaparte Great Sayings

Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn’t in us. It’s almost as if we’re put here on earth to show how silly they aren’t.
~Author : Russell Hoban Meaningful Sayings

In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric.
~Author : Maya Angelou Wise Quotes

The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake…
~Author : Nelson Boswell Motivational Sayings

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn’t mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
~Author : Edward R Murrow Famous Quotes

SCCS is the source-code motel — your code checks in but it never checks out.
~Author : Ken Thompson Inspirational Sayings

College football would be more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students – there would be a great increase in broken arms, legs and necks.
~Author : H L Mencken Nice Quotes

However far the stream flows, it never forgets its source.
~Author : Nigerian Proverb Great Sayings

We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
~Author : Roald Dahl Meaningful Sayings

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
~Author : Anais Nin Wise Quotes

Facts are stubborn things and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
~Author : John Adams Motivational Sayings

To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man’s lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times
~Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero Famous Quotes

No, Ernest, don’t talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
~Author : Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde Inspirational Sayings

We have entered the era of the ‘imperial’ former presidency with lavish libraries, special staffs and benefits, around-the-clock Secret Service protection for life and other badges of privilege.
~Author : Lawton Chiles Nice Quotes

Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried.
~Author : William Shakespeare Great Sayings

Every burned book or house enlightens the world every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Meaningful Sayings

For certain people after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex.
~Author : Gore Vidal Wise Quotes

The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
~Author : Epicures Motivational Sayings

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