# Quotes

author: Georges Bernanos (1888 - 1948).
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"The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means."


author: James Goldsmith.
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"The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one."


author: Ian Stewart.
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"The flapping of a single butterfly's wing today produces a tiny change in the state of the atmosphere. Over a period of time, what the atmosphere actually does diverges from what it would have done. So, in a month's time, a tornado that would have devastated the Indonesian coast doesn't happen. Or maybe one that wasn't going to happen, does."


author: Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967).
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"The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on."


author: Helen Rowland (1876 - 1950).
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"The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity."


author: Helen Rowland (1876 - 1950).
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"The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity."


author: Paul Valery (1871 - 1945).
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"The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us."


author: Norse Proverb.
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"The foolish man lies awake all night Thinking of his many problems; When the morning comes he is worn out And his trouble is just as it was."


author: Sovereign.
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"The forces of good and evil are working within and around me, I must choose, and in a free will universe I do have a choice."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
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"The fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and flow like the sea, being governed, as the sea is, by the moon."


author: Bible.
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"The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of Man hath not where to lay his head."


author: Emma Goldman (1869 - 1940).
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"The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society."


author: Noam Chomsky (1928 - ).
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"The freedom of speech is worthless without the freedom of offensive speech. Goebbels and Himmler were for freedom of speech that was inoffensive to the state."


author: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894).
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"The friendly cow all red and white, I love with all my heart: She gives me cream with all her might; to eat with apple tart."


author: Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993).
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"The function of government ought to be: make sure you have good water to drink, somebody picking up the garbage, good roads to drive on, enough electricity to turn your light bulbs and your record player on, and whatever smaller amounts of regulatory assistance is necessary to make this society work."


author: Ferdinand Foch (1851 - 1929).
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"The fundamental qualities for good execution of a plan is first; intelligence; then discernment and judgment, which enable one to recognize the best method as to attain it; the singleness of purpose; and, lastly, what is most essential of all, will-stubborn will."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
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"The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge."


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


author: John Schaar.
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"The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created--created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination."


author: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963).
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"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is."


author: John Green.
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"The future will erase everythingâthereâs no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion. The infinite future makes that kind of mattering impossible."


author: Florence Shinn.
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"The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy."


author: Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC).
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"The gates of hell are open night and day;  Smooth the descent, and easy is the way:  But to return, and view the cheerful skies,  In this the task and mighty labor lies."


author: Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744).
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"The general cry is against ingratitude, but the complaint is misplaced, it should be against vanity; none but direct villains are capable of willful ingratitude; but almost everybody is capable of thinking he hath done more that another deserves, while the other thinks he hath received less than he deserves."


author: Stuart Brown M.D. and Christopher Vaughan.
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"The genius of play is that, in playing, we create imaginative new cognitive combinations. And in creating those novel combinations, we find what works."


author: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892).
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"The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people."


author: Gamel Abdel Nasser.
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"The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them we are missing."


author: Gamel Abdel Nasser.
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"The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves, which leave us to wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them that we are missing."


author: Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD).
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"The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever."


author: Steven King.
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"The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
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"The glory of friendship is not the outstreched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him."


author: Wil Wheaton.
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"The goal isnât to make something everyone will love; the goal is to get excited, and make a thing where something wasnât before."


author: U.S. Senate Chaplain Richard Halverson.
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"The Godless would deny and destroy human rights .... the liberties of a nation cannot be secure when belief in God is abandoned."


author: Homer (800 BC - 700 BC).
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"The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men."


author: George Eliot (1819 - 1880).
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"The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone."


author: David Fisher.
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"The golden rule of cats that governs all relationships we have with people: you scratch my back, you scratch my back."


author: Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471).
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"The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice; rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
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"The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good."


author: Author Unknown.
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"The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment I can worry as much as it would take others a whole year to achieve."


author: Lao-Tzu (604 BC - 531 BC).
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"The good man is the teacher of the bad, And the bad is the material from which the good may learn. He who does not value the teacher, Or greatly care for the material, Is greatly deluded although he may be learned. Such is the essential mystery."


author: Marin Luther King.
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"The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers."


author: Woody Allen (1935 - ).
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"The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more."


author: Karl Shapiro.
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"The good poet sticks to his real loves, to see within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race."


author: Ellen DeGeneres.
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"The good psychic would pick up the phone before it rang. Of course it is possible there was noone on the other line. Once she said "God Bless you" I said, "I didn't sneeze" She looked deep into my eyes and said, "You will, eventually." And damn it if she wasn't right. Two days later I sneezed."


author: Josiah Stamp.
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"The government (is) extremely fond of amassing great quantities of statistics. These are raised to the nth degree, the cube roots are extracted, and the results are arranged into elaborate and impressive displays. What must be kept ever in mind, however, is that in every case, the figures are first put down by a village watchman, and he puts down anything he damn well pleases."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
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"The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office."


author: Woody Allen (1935 - ).
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"The government is unresponsive to the needs of the little man. Under 5'7", it is impossible to get your congressman on the phone."


author: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004).
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"The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."


author: Frederick Buechner.
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"The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us. It's for you I created the universe. I love you. There's only one catch. Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you'll reach out and take it. Maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift too."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
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"The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms."


author: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719).
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"The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for."


author: John Christian Bovee.
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"The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better."


author: Robert Fulghum (1937 - ).
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"The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be."


author: Arnold Bennett.
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"The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is."


author: William O. Douglas (1898 - 1980).
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"The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think."


author: Baltasar Gracian.
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"The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated."


author: Bishop John Shelby Spong.
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"The great danger... in believing yourself especially chosen is that it becomes easy to view those who are not your people as God's especially unchosen."


author: Tryon Edwards (1809 - 1894).
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"The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others."


author: George Orwell (1903 - 1950).
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"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink."


author: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
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"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."


author: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
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"The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'"


author: Herbert Hoover (1874 - 1964).
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"The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers. He cannot, like the architects, cover his failures with trees and vines. He cannot, like the politicians, screen his sort-comings by blaming his opponents and hope the people will forget. The engineer simply cannot deny he did it. If his works do not work, he is damned."


author: Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960).
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"The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what bring you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn't just a fiction, it's part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space and is inside us, like teeth in our mouth. It can't be forever violated with impunity."


author: Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945).
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"The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one."


author: Marya Mannes.
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"The great omission in American life is solitude. . . that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit."


author: Doris Lessing.
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"The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all."


author: Robert Collier.
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"The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations, they think ahead and create their mental picture, and then go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that bit, but steadily building, steadily building."


author: Bill Gates (1955 - ).
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"The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier."


author: From "Taxi".
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"The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day or night, you can always change the channel."


author: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894).
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"The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving."


author: Robert Collier.
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"The great thing is the start - to see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer - and him for nothing."


author: William James (1842 - 1910).
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"The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy."


author: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919).
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"The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side."


author: Epicures.
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"The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."


author: Robert Hughes.
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"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize."


author: Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC).
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"The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."


author: Rensis Likert.
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"The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals."


author: Vauvenargues.
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"The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources."


author: Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744).
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"The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is that it gives me the greater freedom of playing the fool."


author: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961).
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"The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown."


author: Frederick The Great (1712 - 1786).
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"The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices."


author: Justice Louis D. Brandeis.
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"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."


author: Joseph Stalin (1879 - 1953).
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"The greatest delight is to mark one's enemy, prepare everything, avenge oneself thoroughly, and then go to sleep."


author: William James (1842 - 1910).
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"The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude."


author: William James (1842 - 1910).
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"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind."


author: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832).
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"The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility."


author: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881).
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"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own."


author: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885).
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"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."


author: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885).
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"The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."


author: Frederick Chiluba.
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"The greatest lesson we can learn from the past. . . is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation in the world."


author: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD).
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"The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty."


author: Andre Malraux (1901 - 1976).
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"The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness."


author: L. Schefer.
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"The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry."


author: Marilyn Ferguson.
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"The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives."


author: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900).
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"The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one."


author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935).
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"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in which direction we are moving."


author: Francis P. Church.
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"The greatest things in the world are those that neither men nor children can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there."


author: Richard M. Nixon (1913 - 1994).
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"The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain."


author: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948).
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"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."


author: Gordon Parks.
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"The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed."


author: Eudora Welty (1909 - ).
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"The habit of love cuts through confusion and stumbles or contrives its way out of difficulty, it remembers the way even when it forgets, for a dumfounded moment, its reason for being. The path is the thing that matters."


author: Learned Hand.
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"The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country."


author: Ruth Benedict (1887 - 1948).
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"The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good."


author: Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778).
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"The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure."


author: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826).
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"The happiest moments of my life have a been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family."


author: William Lyon Phelps.
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"The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others."


author: William Inge.
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"The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason for being happy except that they are so."


author: Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892).
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"The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions."


author: Ernest Dimnet.
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"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: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD).
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"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly; and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature."


author: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809).
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"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."


author: John Seely Brown.
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"The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them."


author: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965).
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"The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning."


author: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011).
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"The hardest thing when you think about focusing. You think focusing is about saying "Yes." No. Focusing is about saying "No." And when you say "No," you piss off people."


author: Lawana Blackwell.
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"The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them."


author: Nicolas Martin.
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"The headline reads, "Docs say patients make  them prescribe useless antibiotics." This puts a  physician in roughly the same predicament as a  serial killer. The latter says, "Stop me before I kill  again, while the former says, "Stop me before I  prescribe again.""


author: Ralph Emerson.
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"The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough."


author: Rona Barrett.
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"The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul."


author: Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804).
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"The height of progress, when peopleâs propensity to strive for what is dispensable begins to interfere with what is indispensable, is called luxury."


author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882).
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"The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night."


author: Thomas Aquinas.
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"The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing."


author: Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882).
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"The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts."


author: Henry Ford (1863 - 1947).
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"The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life."


author: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924).
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"The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it."


author: Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980).
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"The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
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"The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal."


author: Karl R. Popper.
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"The history of science is everywhere speculative. It is a marvelous hiatory. It makes you proud to be a human being."


author: Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804).
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"The history of the human race, viewed as a whole may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally, and for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed."


author: Lytton Strachey (1880 - 1932).
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"The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art."


author: J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973).
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"The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination."


author: Dan Quayle (1947 - ).
text:
"The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
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"The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
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"The holy passion of Friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money."


author: Laura Moncur (1969 - ).
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"The home of a clergyman is constantly judged by its parishioners. If it is too large and richly decorated, it is the subject of jealousy. If it is too small and humble, it is the subject of scorn. If it is too clean and orderly, it is considered a museum where charity is untouched and kept in a box. If it is slovenly, it is the subject of disgust."


author: Charles Peguy.
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"The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors."


author: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968).
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"The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood."


author: O. S. Marden .
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"The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm."


author: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945).
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"The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth."


author: Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321).
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"The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality."


author: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC).
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"The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows."


author: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC).
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"The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways--I to die and you to live. Which is the better, only God knows."


author: Unknown.
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"The human brain is like a railroad freight car -- guaranteed to have a certain capacity but often running empty."


author: Glenn Doman.
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"The human brain is unique in that it is the only container of which it can be said that the more you put into it, the more it will hold."


author: George Jessel.
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"The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public."


author: Gordon Atkinson.
text:
"The human heart cannot love the whole world. And if you try to put the whole world into your heart, you will eventually lose touch with your own humanity."


author: Martin Luther (1483 - 1546).
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"The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven."


author: Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880).
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"The human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out a tune for a dancing bear, when we hope with our music to move the stars."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books - a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects."


author: Charles Tupper.
text:
"The human mind naturally adapts itself to the position it occupies. The most gigantic intellect may be dwarfed by being cabin'd, cribbed and confined. It requires a great country and great circumstances to develop great men."


author: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977).
text:
"The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open."


author: Jeff Melvoin.
text:
"The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment."


author: Julian the Apostate.
text:
"The idea of an incarnation of God is absurd: why should the human race think itself so superior to bees, ants, and elephants as to be put in this unique relation to its maker? . . Christians are like a council of frogs in a marsh or a synod of worms on a dung-hill croaking and squeaking "for our sakes was the world created.""


author: Walter Truett Anderson - "Reality Isn't What it Used to Be".
text:
"The idea of hunting and gathering as the best way for life has become quite popular recently, much more popular in some circles than the idea of simple farming as the best way of life. Many of the new primitives regard the beginnings of agriculture as one of humanity's major steps in the wrong direction. Most of the people who are drawn to such ideas do their actual hunting and gathering in grocery stores, but the *feeling* is there; it takes the form of a religion...expressed by particpating in American Indian rituals - or primitive-style rituals that are created anew."


author: George Jellinek.
text:
"The idea of legally establishing inalienable, inherent and sacred rights of the individual is not of political but religious origin."


author: John Eliot, Ph.D..
text:
"The idea of perfect closes your mind to new standards. When you drive hard toward one ideal, you miss opportunities and paths, not to mention hurting your confidence. Believe in your potential and then go out and explore it; don't limit it."


author: Jesse Sanchez.
text:
"The idea of selling out is not so much a dollar amount, but are you sacrificing the service to the customers. You have to ask yourself, 'Are you betraying your users?'"


author: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001).
text:
"The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he, by peddling second-rate technology, who led them into it in the first place."


author: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ).
text:
"The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems."


author: David Riesman.
text:
"The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong; he can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way."


author: Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC).
text:
"The ideal conditionWould be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct;But since we are all likely to go astray,The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach."


author: N. W. Dougherty.
text:
"The ideal engineer is a composite ... He is not a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not a sociologist or a writer; but he may use the knowledge and techniques of any or all of these disciplines in solving engineering problems."


author: Phillips Brooks (1835 - 1893).
text:
"The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing -- where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do."


author: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC).
text:
"The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible."


author: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762).
text:
"The idle mind will sometimes fall into contemplations that serve for nothing but to ruin the health, destroy good humour, hasten old age and wrinkles, and bring on an habitual melancholy. 'Tis a maxim with me to be young as long as one can: there is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth; those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity, which make all the happiness of life. To my extreme mortification I grow wiser every day..."


author: Alvin Toffler.
text:
"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."


author: Alvin Toffler.
text:
"The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn."


author: John Lubbock.
text:
"The important is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn."


author: Jennifer Hudson.
text:
"The important message I heard about working out and what I want to share is that you create your own opportunities and your own limitations."


author: Sir William Bragg (1862 - 1942).
text:
"The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity."


author: Charles Du Bos.
text:
"The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become."


author: Charles DuBois.
text:
"The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become."


author: Roderic Owen.
text:
"The important thing is to know when to laugh, or since laughing is somewhat undignified to smile. But the smile must be of the right kind must have understanding in it, and friendliness, and a good deal of patience."


author: Philip Caldwell.
text:
"The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none."


author: Michael Howard.
text:
"The important thing when you are going to do something brave is to have someone on hand to witness it."


author: Margaret Cho.
text:
"The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide."


author: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935).
text:
"The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr."


author: Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946).
text:
"The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives meaning to our life on this unavailing star."


author: Donald N. Smith.
text:
"The individual choice of garnishment of a burger can be an important point to the consumer in this day when individualism is an increasingly important thing to people."


author: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
text:
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell."


author: Eleanor H. Porter (1868 - 1920).
text:
"The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious and may revolutionize a whole town."


author: Sir Philip Sidney (1554 - 1586).
text:
"The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care."


author: Churchill.
text:
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery."


author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965).
text:
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."


author: Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804).
text:
"The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted."


author: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ).
text:
"The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and engineering by the romance of space."


author: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809).
text:
"The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security."


author: Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963).
text:
"The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head."


author: Ed Parker.
text:
"The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more."


author: Clifford Stoll.
text:
"The Internet has no such organization - files are made available at random locations. To search through this chaos, we need smart tools, programs that find resources for us."


author: Esther Dyson.
text:
"The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect."


author: George Carlin (1937 - 2008).
text:
"The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in opposite directions."


author: Dave Barry (1947 - ).
text:
"The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they're useless. So, for guidance, you want to look to big business. Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes..."


author: Paul McCartney.
text:
"The issues are the same. We wanted peace on earth, love, and understanding between everyone around the world. We have learned that change comes slowly."


author: Barbara De Angelis.
text:
"The journey in between what you once were and who you are now beoming is where the dance of life really takes place."


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


author: Loren Eiseley.
text:
"The journey is difficult, immerse. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know."


author: Max Lucado.
text:
"The journey to the cross began long before. As the echo of the crunching of the fruit was still sounding in the garden, Jesus was leaving for Calvary."


author: Daniel Dennett.
text:
"The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it! (It's rather like getting tenure.)"


author: Randy K. Milholland.
text:
"The key is to commit crimes so confusing that police feel too stupid to even write a crime report about them."


author: Rufus Griscom.
text:
"The key part of your brand is a quality product. Creating exceptional content is the number one thing."


author: Casey Stengal.
text:
"The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"The key to every man is his thought.... He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own."


author: Randy Milholland.
text:
"The key to gainful employment is creating a work environment and filing system too complex to train a new person on. Competency gets you work. Confusion keeps you employed."


author: J. P. Morgan.
text:
"The key to living a moral life is this: Do nothing in private that you would be ashamed to discuss openly with your mother."


author: Reverend Sean Parker Dennison.
text:
"The key to non-anxious sermon-writing is that itâs not about me. Itâs about the congregation. I honor the fact that the listeners bring more to the sermon than I do. I remind myself of the hundreds of times someone says, 'I loved how you saidâ¦' and then tell me things that they heard that were nowhere in my text and that I never said. But they heard what they needed to hear."


author: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ).
text:
"The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning."


author: Ruby Dee.
text:
"The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity."


author: Diane Ackerman.
text:
"The knowing, I told myself, is only a vapor of the mind, and yet it can wreck havok with one's sanity."


author: J. K. Rowling.
text:
"The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive."


author: Pearl S. Buck.
text:
"The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born."


author: Rita Mae Brown.
text:
"The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have."


author: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001).
text:
"The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79."


author: Roy Blount Jr..
text:
"The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs.'"


author: Jeff Melvoin.
text:
"The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in and out with the tide."


author: John Dalberg.
text:
"The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realization of a political ideal; it is the discharge of a moral obligation."


author: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924).
text:
"The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgement that the community has already reached."


author: Anatole France (1844 - 1924).
text:
"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread."


author: Anatole France (1844 - 1924).
text:
"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."


author: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983).
text:
"The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist."


author: Barack Obama (1961 - ).
text:
"The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing."


author: Elaine Agather.
text:
"The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it."


author: Henry Beston.
text:
"The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools."


author: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826).
text:
"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."


author: Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968).
text:
"The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after."


author: Hugh Macleod.
text:
"The less you can live on, the more chance your idea will succeed. This is true even after youâve 'made it'."


author: John Burroughs (1837 - 1921).
text:
"The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think."


author: Kirby Larson.
text:
"The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else."


author: James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937).
text:
"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction."


author: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931).
text:
"The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities."


author: David Graham.
text:
"The Lilly may fade and its leaves decay, The Rose from its stem may sever, The Shamrock and Thistle may pass away, But the Stars will shine forever."


author: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983).
text:
"The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action."


author: Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC).
text:
"The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over."


author: John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946).
text:
"The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is past the ocean is flat again."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time."


author: Paulo Coelho.
text:
"The Lord listens to the pryers of those who ask to be able to forget hatred, but is deaf to those who want to flee love."


author: Paolo Giordano.
text:
"The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates."


author: George Santayana (1863 - 1952).
text:
"The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise."


author: Alfred A. Montapert.
text:
"The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed."


author: Jean-Francois Rameau.
text:
"The main thing is you and I should exist, and that we should be you and I. Apart from that let everything go as it likes. The best order of things to my way thinking, is the one I was meant to be part of, and to hell with the most perfect of worlds if I am not in it. I would rather exist, even as an impudent argufier, than not exist at all."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection."


author: Carl Rogers.
text:
"The mainspring of creativity appears to be the same tendency which we discover so deeply as the curative force in psychotherapy, man's tendency to actualize himself, to become his potentialities. By this I mean the organic and human life, the urge to expand, extend, develop, mature - the tendency to express and activate all the capacities of the organism, or the self."


author: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001).
text:
"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair."


author: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001).
text:
"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair."


author: Alan Bennett.
text:
"The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when the nobody is looking, that the spirit falters."


author: Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962).
text:
"The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure."


author: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC).
text:
"The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration."


author: William Shakespeare.
text:
"The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted."


author: Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC).
text:
"The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not."


author: Andrew Carnegie (1835 - 1919).
text:
"The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled."


author: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC).
text:
"The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him."


author: Charles M. Schwab.
text:
"The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life."


author: Alan Ashley-Pitt.
text:
"The man who follows the crowd will get no farther than the crowd. A man who walks alone is likely to get places no one has ever been before."


author: Ernest Hello.
text:
"The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready."


author: Dale Carnegie.
text:
"The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore."


author: Thomas Overbury (1581 - 1613).
text:
"The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground."


author: Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC).
text:
"The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once."


author: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC).
text:
"The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness; who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life; and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - such a man may be reckoned a complete man."


author: Henri-FrÃ©dÃ©ric Amiel (1856).
text:
"The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret."


author: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915).
text:
"The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. That is part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure continously without resentment."


author: Voltaire (1694 - 1778).
text:
"The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him."


author: George R. R. Martin.
text:
"The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die."


author: Tiresias.
text:
"The man who practices the prophet's art is a fool; for if he happens to give an adverse answer, he makes himself disliked by those for whom he takes the omens; while if he pities and deceives those who are consulting him, he wrongs the gods."


author: Lord Acton.
text:
"The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority."


author: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826).
text:
"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self-love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self-absorption."


author: Muhammad Ali (1942 - ).
text:
"The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life."


author: Joseph Smith Jr..
text:
"The man who willeth to do well... we should extol his virtues and speak not of his faults behind his back."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time."


author: Adam Smith (1723 - 1790).
text:
"The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become."


author: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935).
text:
"The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How's the President?""


author: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935).
text:
"The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'"


author: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881).
text:
"The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you."


author: William Stekel.
text:
"The mark of an immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one."


author: J.D. Salinger.
text:
"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one."


author: Mikhail Gorbachev.
text:
"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization."


author: Carolyn Heilbrun (1926 - ).
text:
"The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible."


author: William H. Borah.
text:
"The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments."


author: C. Wright Mills.
text:
"The mass production of distraction is now as much a part of the American way of life as the mass production of automobiles."


author: Eugene V. Debs.
text:
"The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose - especially their lives."


author: Daniel Webster (1782 - 1852).
text:
"The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions."


author: James Joseph Sylvester.
text:
"The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life."


author: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887).
text:
"The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a "but". "


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later."


author: Jimmy Carter (1924 - ).
text:
"The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life."


author: William Arthur Ward.
text:
"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."


author: Jim Coudal.
text:
"The meek shall inherit the earth? Well... I don't think so. If by meek you mean friendly and introverted, okay maybe, but if by meek you mean unwilling to take a chance, then never. If I was a betting man and I had to wager on who I thought would inherit the earth, my money would be on the curious."


author: R. A. Salvatore.
text:
"The meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. A poor man is more deadly than a rich man because he puts less value on his own life."


author: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961).
text:
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."


author: Jung.
text:
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed."


author: Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860).
text:
"The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"The men the American public admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth."


author: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
text:
"The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nationâs greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us."


author: S. G. Tallentyre.
text:
"The men who had hated [the book], and had not particularly loved HelvÃ©tius, flocked round him now. Voltaire forgave him all injuries, intentional or unintentional. 'What a fuss about an omelette!' he had exclaimed when he heard of the burning. How abominably unjust to persecute a man for such an airy trifle as that! 'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it,' was his attitude now. "


author: Lloyd Jones.
text:
"The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try nothing and succeed."


author: John Alejandro King.
text:
"The mightiest of weapons is truth. And everyone knows youâre not permitted to enter a Government building with a weapon."


author: D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930).
text:
"The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept."


author: Francis William Bourdillon.
text:
"The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one; Yet the life of a whole life dies When love is done."


author: Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677).
text:
"The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary."


author: Arnold Schwarzenegger.
text:
"The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it."


author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935).
text:
"The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract."


author: William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830).
text:
"The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit."


author: Jeremy Rifkin.
text:
"The modern age has been characterized by a Promethean spirit, a restless energy that preys on speed records and shortcuts, unmindful of the past, uncaring of the future, existing only for the moment and the quick fix. The earthly rhythms that characterize a more pastoral way of life have been shunted aside to make room for the fast track of an urbanized existence. Lost in a sea of perpetual technological transition, modern man and woman find themselves increasingly alienated from the ecological choreography of the planet."


author: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006).
text:
"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."


author: Eric Berne (1910 - 1970).
text:
"The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing."


author: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902).
text:
"The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls."


author: Gloria Steinem (1934 - ).
text:
"The moment we find the reason behind an emotion...the wall we have built is breached, and the positive memories it has kept from us return too. That's why it pays to ask those painful questions. The answers can set you free."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it."


author: Larry Page.
text:
"The moments that we have with friends and family, the chances that we have to make a big difference in the world or even to make a small difference to the ones we love, all those wonderful chances that life gives us, life also takes away. It can happen fast and a whole lot sooner than you think."


author: Michael Kinsley.
text:
"The moral arc of a Washington career could be divided into four parts: idealism, pragmatism, ambition and corruption."


author: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC).
text:
"The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit."


author: Barbara de Angelis.
text:
"The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are for loving in the present."


author: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881).
text:
"The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do."


author: Oscar Arias Sanchez (1941 - ).
text:
"The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves."


author: Wayne Dyer.
text:
"The more I give myself permission to live in the moment and enjoy it without feeling guilty or judgmental about any other time, the better I feel about the quality of my work."


author: Laura Moncur (1969 - ).
text:
"The more I know about business, the more I'm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings."


author: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817).
text:
"The more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!"


author: Sir Richard F. Burton.
text:
"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself."


author: Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821).
text:
"The more I study the world, the more I am convinced of the inability of brute force to create anything durable."


author: Dr. Thomas Arnold Mindell.
text:
"The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given "disease." The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom."


author: Pascal.
text:
"The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in men. Ordinary people see no difference between men."


author: Benjamin Spock (1903 - ).
text:
"The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mother and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all."


author: Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980).
text:
"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."


author: Peter McWilliams.
text:
"The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones."


author: Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939).
text:
"The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief."


author: Jane Goodall (1934 - ).
text:
"The more we learn of the true nature of non-human animals, especially those with complex brains and corresponding complex social behavior, the more ethical concerns are raised regarding their use in the service of man -- whether this be in entertainment, as "pets," for food, in research laboratories, or any of the other uses to which we subject them."


author: Coventry Patmore.
text:
"The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so."


author: Wilfred Funk.
text:
"The more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think and the more ideas you will invite into your mind."


author: Bill Watterson (1958 - ).
text:
"The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you become informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of gray. You realize that nothing is as clear and simple as it first appears. Ultimately, knowledge is paralyzing."


author: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935).
text:
"The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best."


author: James Fallows.
text:
"The most annoying trait of Right-Wing Outlaws in general is a lazy incuriosity about the real world. They know their lines, they're sure who the good guys and the bad guys are. Therefore they view the passing world as a kind of animated "Bartlett's Quotations" - that is, as handy source material with which to illustrate, rather than challenge, preconceived views."


author: Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980).
text:
"The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It's the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and science. Whoever does not know it can no longer wander, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."


author: Lord Acton.
text:
"The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities."


author: Lord Acton.
text:
"The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security for the minorities."


author: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945).
text:
"The most common of all antagonisms arises from a man's taking a seat beside you on the train, a seat to which he is completely entitled."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind."


author: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680).
text:
"The most dangerous folly of old people who were once attractive is to forget that they are not so any longer."


author: Andre Gide (1869 - 1951).
text:
"The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered."


author: Andre Gide (1869 - 1951).
text:
"The most decisive actions of our life -- I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future -- are, more often than not, unconsidered."


author: Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616).
text:
"The most difficult character in comedy is that of a fool, and he must be no simpleton who plays the part."


author: Randy Pausch.
text:
"The most difficult part of writing a book is not devising a plot which will captivate the reader. It's not developing characters the reader will have strong feelings for or against. It is not finding a setting which will take the reader to a place he or she as never been. It is not the research, whether in fiction or non-fiction. The most difficult task facing a writer is to find the voice in which to tell the story."


author: T. H. White.
text:
"The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else do it wrong without comment."


author: Dorothea Brande.
text:
"The most enviable writers are those who, quite often unanalytically and unconsciously, have realized that there are different facets to their nature and are able to live and work with now one, now another, in the ascendant."


author: Stephen Jay Gould (1941 - 2002).
text:
"The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question."


author: Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992).
text:
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny ...""


author: Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992).
text:
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'"


author: Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992).
text:
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny...'"


author: David Rogers.
text:
"The most extensive computation known has been conducted over the last billion years on a planet-wide scale: it is the evolution of life. The power of this computation is illustrated by the complexity and beauty of its crowning achievement, the human brain."


author: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983).
text:
"The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and must compensate for what they miss by realizing and cultivating their capacities and talents."


author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834).
text:
"The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman."


author: Abdul Baha.
text:
"The most important principle of divine philosophy is the oneness of the world of humanity, the unity of mankind, the bond conjoining East and West, the tie of love which blends human hearts."


author: Stephen Jay Gould (1941 - 2002).
text:
"The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos."


author: Jill Churchill.
text:
"The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one."


author: Nathaniel Borenstein (1957 - ).
text:
"The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents."


author: H.P. Lovecraft.
text:
"The most merciful thing in the world . . . is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents."


author: H.P. Lovecraft.
text:
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."


author: H. P. Lovecraft (1890 - 1937).
text:
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents."


author: Joe Martin.
text:
"The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little."


author: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
text:
"The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments."


author: J. Arthur Thomson.
text:
"The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will."


author: Thich Nhat Hanh.
text:
"The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers."


author: Calvin Trillin (1935 - ).
text:
"The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way."


author: Robert P. Vanderpoel.
text:
"The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better."


author: Bertrand Russell V. Delong.
text:
"The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith."


author: Sir Hugh Walpole.
text:
"The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident."


author: Sidney Madwed.
text:
"The motivation for all personal behavior is to produce a sense of "FEEL GOOD," a sense of inner peace and well being. To expect a person to go against his desire to feel good or as good as he can feel under any momentary condition is illogical and irrational. In the observation of human behavior, one will notice every human act is a response to a personal need. This is true whether one signs a million dollar contract, scratches one's nose, rolls over in bed, or just day dreams his life away. People will do things which seem contrary to this concept, but the bottom line is they perceive some kind of payoff which will make them feel good. And the payoff is almost always emotional. When you ask people why they want to be financially independent, they might say that they could buy things without having to worry about where the money will come from. And when they worry, they don't FEEL GOOD. A drug addict, a compulsive eater, an alcoholic and anyone with a compulsive habit will continue with their habits because at the moment of action they believe and feel it will make them feel good. That is why breaking compulsive habits are so difficult."


author: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC).
text:
"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: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919).
text:
"The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value."


author: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC).
text:
"The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced, if the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance."


author: Eddie Izzard.
text:
"The National Rifle Association says, 'Guns don't kill people. People do'. But I think the gun helps."


author: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983).
text:
"The nature of society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow-by the tilt of the social landscape."


author: George Santayana (1863 - 1952).
text:
"The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about."


author: Rollo May.
text:
"The neurotic and the artist - since both live out the unconscious of the race - reveal to us what is going to emerge endemically in the society later on."


author: George F. Will (1941 - ).
text:
"The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. "


author: Kenneth Williams.
text:
"The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive."


author: Francis William Bourdillon.
text:
"The Night has a thousand eyes, And the Day but one;  Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun.  The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one;  Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done."


author: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004).
text:
"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'"


author: Arthur Schnabel (1882 - 1951).
text:
"The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes--ah, that is where the art resides!"


author: Pam Davis.
text:
"The notion of picking one time of year to be decent to other people is obscene because it's actually validating the notion of being miserable wretches the rest of the year."


author: Stephen Nachmanovitch.
text:
"The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge."


author: Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - ).
text:
"The novel we sit down to write, and the one we end up writing may be very different, just as the Jesus we grasp and the Jesus who grasps us may also differ."


author: Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784).
text:
"The number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes."


author: Marcus Terentius Varro (116 BC - 27 BC).
text:
"The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine."


author: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD).
text:
"The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."


author: Lord William Beveridge (1879 - 1963).
text:
"The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man."


author: Marcus Aurelius.
text:
"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."


author: George Orwell (1903 - 1950).
text:
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power."


author: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914).
text:
"The ocean is a body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills."


author: Benny Hill.
text:
"The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb."


author: Wilfred Owen.
text:
"The old lie; Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. (Sweet and fitting it is to die for the fatherland)"


author: Hugh Macleod.
text:
"The old ways are dead. And you need people around you who concur. That means hanging out more with the creative people, the freaks, the real visionaries, than you're already doing. Thinking more about what their needs are, and responding accordingly. Avoid the dullards; avoid the folk who play it safe. They can't help you any more. Their stability model no longer offers that much stability. They are extinct, they are extinction."


author: Susan B. Anthony (1820 - 1906).
text:
"The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled, the more I gain."


author: H. P. Lovecraft (1890 - 1937).
text:
"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. And the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."


author: Lorne Bloch.
text:
"The one bonus of not lifting the ban on gays in the military is that the next time the government mandates a draft, we can all declare we are homosexual instead of running off to Canada."


author: David Brinkley (1920 - 2003).
text:
"The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety."


author: Joss Whedon.
text:
"The one thing a creator can bring to the table when everybody else has all the money and power is centeredness and the ability to walk away. Never sit at a table you can't walk away from."


author: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986).
text:
"The one-eyed view of our universe says you must not look far afield for problems. Such problems may never arrive. Instead tend to the wolf within your fences. The packs ranging outside may not even exist."


author: Ali Vincent.
text:
"The only battle to win is the battle within, that place where we realize that we deserve to have and create all that we want in our lives."


author: Gordon Atkinson.
text:
"The only comfort comes in thinking about how nice it was to know them, and how nice it was to brush against goodness for a season."


author: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948).
text:
"The only devils in this world are those running around in our own hearts, and that is where all our battles should be fought."


author: Abbe Guillaume Raynal.
text:
"The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents him; it is the lapidary who gives value to the diamond which the peasant has dug up without knowing its value."


author: Woody Allen (1935 - ).
text:
"The only difference between sex and death is, with death you can do it alone and nobody's going to make fun of you."


author: Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972).
text:
"The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too."


author: John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873).
text:
"The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental or spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest."


author: John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873).
text:
"The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it."


author: Dag Hammarskjold (1905 - 1961).
text:
"The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others."


author: Lloyd Dobyns and Clare Crawford-Mason.
text:
"The only lifelong, reliable motivations are those that come from within, and one of the strongest of those is the joy and pride that grow from knowing that you've just done something as well as you can do it."


author: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945).
text:
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith."


author: Jules Renard (1864 - 1910).
text:
"The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse."


author: Jules Renard (1864 - 1910).
text:
"The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving any excuse."


author: e e cummings (1894 - 1962).
text:
"The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors is dead."


author: John Keats (1795 - 1821).
text:
"The only means of strengthening one's intelligence is to make up one's mind about nothing-- to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts."


author: Henry James (1843 - 1916).
text:
"The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting."


author: Jack Kerouac (1922 - 1969).
text:
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars."


author: Jack Kerouac (1922 - 1969).
text:
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars..."


author: Jack Kerouac (1922 - 1969).
text:
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing."


author: Jack Kerouac (1922 - 1969).
text:
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved...the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars."


author: G.K. Chesterton.
text:
"The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents."


author: John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873).
text:
"The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant."


author: John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873).
text:
"The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant."


author: Dave Barry (1947 - ).
text:
"The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes."


author: Rod Wensley.
text:
"The only reason there isn't life on other planets is because their scientists were more advanced than ours."


author: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ).
text:
"The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend."


author: Louis C. K..
text:
"The only road to good shows is bad ones. Just go start having a bad time, and if you don't give up, you will get better."


author: E. B. White (1899 - 1985).
text:
"The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change-and we all instinctively avoid it."


author: Tupac Shakur.
text:
"The only thing America respects is power and power concedes nothing. After the LA Riots, they tried to calm us down and nothing changed since."


author: Russell Baker (1925 - ).
text:
"The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any."


author: Randy K. Milholland.
text:
"The only thing that lasts longer than a friend's love is the stupidity that keeps us from knowing any better."


author: Ursula K. LeGuin.
text:
"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next."


author: Eugene McCarthy (1916 - 2005).
text:
"The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty."


author: Ellen DeGeneres.
text:
"The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens. We can't be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we're not all there is. If so, we're in big trouble."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling I have always cultivated."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated."


author: Joan Baez (1941 - ).
text:
"The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence."


author: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945).
text:
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."


author: Ernst Rutherford.
text:
"The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some don't."


author: Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005).
text:
"The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance."


author: L. Ron Hubbard (1911 - 1986).
text:
"The only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided he could do nothing about something."


author: Randy K. Milholland.
text:
"The only time anyone's admitted they were a Christian before was when they were busy telling me why they're better than me."


author: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817).
text:
"The only time I ever really suffered in body or mind, the only time that I ever fancied myself unwell, or had any ideas of danger, was the winter that I passed by myself. As long as we could be together, nothing ever ailed me, and I never met with the smallest inconvenience."


author: Eugene H. Spafford.
text:
"The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards -- and even then I have my doubts."


author: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947).
text:
"The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not."


author: Lisa Williams.
text:
"The only way to last a really long time is to build something useful enough that people will want to keep it going after you die, and to cultivate a sense of ownership in other people. In short: make good shit and give it away as fast as you can."


author: Jennifer Hudson.
text:
"The only way you can sustain a permanent change is to create a new way of thinking, acting, and being."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately."


author: Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962).
text:
"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."


author: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983).
text:
"The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not."


author: Karl Marx (1818 - 1883).
text:
"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them."


author: James Branch Cabell (1879 - 1958).
text:
"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true."


author: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931).
text:
"The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose."


author: Thomas Moore (1779 - 1852).
text:
"The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest."


author: Bette Davis (1908 - 1989).
text:
"The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being."


author: Thorstein Veblen (1857 - 1929).
text:
"The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before."


author: John Alejandro King.
text:
"The outstanding problem of cryogenics isn't whether future advances in technology will enable you to be unfrozen and brought back to life 10,000 years from now. The outstanding problem of cryogenics is whether 250 consecutive generations of security guards earning $6.50 an hour will remember to check the thermostat every night."


author: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948).
text:
"The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within."


author: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
text:
"The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment."


author: Joseph Joubert.
text:
"The pain of dispute exceeds, by much, its utility. All disputation makes the mind deaf, and when people are deaf I am dumb."


author: Hugh Macleod.
text:
"The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure."


author: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983).
text:
"The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than production for use, and play older than work. Man was shaped less by what he had to do than by what he did in playful moments. It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities."


author: Brian Sutton-Smith.
text:
"The parent who gets down on the floor to play with a child on Christmas Day is usually doing a most remarkable thing -- something seldom repeated during the rest of the year. These are, after all, busy parents committed to their work or their success in the larger society, and they do not have much left-over time in which to play with their children."


author: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC).
text:
"The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions."


author: Harpo Marx.
text:
"The passing of an ordinary man is sad. The passing of a great man is tragic, and doubly tragic when the greatness passes before the man does."


author: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823).
text:
"The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured. Unhappy they who have never been taught the art to govern them!"


author: Stephen Ambrose (1936 - 2002).
text:
"The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future."


author: Rebecca Beard.
text:
"The past is finished. There is nothing to b gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know."


author: Rebecca Beard.
text:
"The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know."


author: William Gibson (1948 - ).
text:
"The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be."


author: Pierre Trudeau (1919 - 2000).
text:
"The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness."


author: Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971).
text:
"The past slips from our grasp. It leaves us only scattered things. The bond that united them eludes us. Our imagination usually fills in the void by making use of preconceived theories...Archaeology, then, does not supply us with certitudes, but rather with vague hypotheses. And in the shade of these hypotheses some artists are content to dream, considering them less as scientific facts than as sources of inspiration."


author: Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984).
text:
"The past with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, it punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be."


author: Israel Zangwill.
text:
"The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition."


author: Howard W. Hunter.
text:
"The path of repentance, though hard at times, lifts one ever upwards and leads to a perfect forgiveness."


author: Barbara Hall.
text:
"The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark."


author: George W. Bush (1946 - ).
text:
"The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new beginnings."


author: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885).
text:
"The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones."


author: Elliot Perlman.
text:
"The peculiar striations that define someone's personality are too numerous to know, no matter how close the observer. A person we think we know can suddenly become someone else when previously hidden strands of his character are called to the fore by circumstance."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence."


author: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945).
text:
"The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success."


author: Hermann Goering (1893 - 1946).
text:
"The people can always be brought to the bidding of their leaders. All you have to do is tell them that they are in danger of being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger."


author: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC).
text:
"The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector."


author: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986).
text:
"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."


author: Robertson Davies.
text:
"The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity."


author: Alexis De Tocqueville (1805 - 1859).
text:
"The people reign over the American political world as God rules over the universe. It is the cause and the end of all things; everything rises out of it and is absorbed back into it."


author: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011).
text:
"The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others."


author: Edward Ugel.
text:
"The people who can most successfully lose weight and maintain a healthy life style are foodies. When it comes to healthy eating, people who know how to cook and make ingredients taste good have a distinct advantage over those who can't."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and , if they can't find them, make them."


author: Anthony J. D'Angelo.
text:
"The people who oppose your ideas the most are those who represent the establishment that your ideas will upset."


author: Brooks Atkinson (1894 - 1984).
text:
"The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility."


author: Chuang Tzu.
text:
"The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror.It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing.It receives but does not keep."


author: Bruce Lee (1940 - 1973).
text:
"The perfect way is only difficult for those who pick  and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will  then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and  heaven and earth are set apart; if you want the truth  to stand clear before you, never be for or against.  The struggle between "for" and "against" is the  mind's worst disease.  "


author: Charles de Gaulle (1890 - 1970).
text:
"The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art."


author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
text:
"The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences."


author: Diane Ravitch.
text:
"The person who knows "how" will always have a job. The person who knows "why" will always be his boss."


author: Diane Ravitch.
text:
"The person who knows how will always have a job. The person who knows why will always be his boss."


author: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996).
text:
"The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such."


author: Cecil B. DeMille (1881 - 1959).
text:
"The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication."


author: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817).
text:
"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."


author: Monica Fairview.
text:
"The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing."


author: John Maxwell.
text:
"The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails."


author: Karl Marx (1818 - 1883).
text:
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it."


author: Lilly Tomlin.
text:
"The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year --- everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth."


author: Devin J. Monroe (1983 - ).
text:
"The phrase "action speaks louder than words," is most easily proven by a swift kick to the genitals."


author: Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long.
text:
"The phrase "we (I) (you) simply must..." designates something that need not be done. "That goes without saying" is a red warning. "Of course" means you had best check it yourself. These small-change cliches and others like them, when read correctly, are reliable channel markers."


author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832).
text:
"The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence."


author: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959).
text:
"The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings."


author: Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971).
text:
"The Pig, if I am not mistaken, Supplies us sausage, ham, and Bacon. Let others say his heart is big, I think it stupid of the Pig."


author: (Anon.).
text:
"The Pilgrim Fathers landed on the shores of America and fell upon their knees. Then they fell upon the aborigines."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf."


author: John Green.
text:
"The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things weâd done were less real and important than they had been hours before."


author: John Dean Caton.
text:
"The pleasure of the sportsman in the chase is measured by the intelligence of the game and its capacity to elude pursuit and in the labor involved in the capture."


author: Madame de Lambert.
text:
"The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us despair in losing them."


author: Lionel Trilling.
text:
"The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy."


author: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936).
text:
"The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits."


author: Leonardo Da Vinci (1452 - 1519).
text:
"The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things."


author: William Faulkner (1897 - 1962).
text:
"The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail."


author: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947).
text:
"The poet, the artist, the sleuth - whoever sharpens our perception tends to be antisocial... he cannot go along with currents and trends."


author: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran.
text:
"The point is that no matter what your feelings are, your children will be better off if you make them your central focus and work diligently at keeping the parenting relationship civil and cooperative."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province."


author: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004).
text:
"The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it."


author: Noam Chomsky (1928 - ).
text:
"The point of public relations slogans like "Support our troops" is that they don't mean anything... That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything. Its crucial value is that it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something: Do you support our policy? That's the one you're not allowed to talk about."


author: Gary Taubes.
text:
"The point to keep in mind is that you don't lose fat because you cut calories; you lose fat because you cut out the foods that make you fat-the carbohydrates."


author: James Dale Davidson.
text:
"The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless. When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both."


author: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983).
text:
"The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility."


author: Ann Landers (1918 - 2002).
text:
"The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead."


author: Titus Livius (59 BC - 17 AD).
text:
"The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze."


author: Thomas Bailey.
text:
"The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks."


author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
text:
"The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest of human creature that walks."


author: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887).
text:
"The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection."


author: David P. Mikkelson.
text:
"The power of illustrative anecdotes often lies not in how well they present reality, but in how well they reflect the core beliefs of their audience."


author: Martha Beck.
text:
"The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine."


author: Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971).
text:
"The Preacher, the Politicain, the Teacher, Were each of them once a kiddie. A child, indeed, is a wonderful creature. Do I want one? God Forbiddie!"


author: Eduard Hanslick.
text:
"The prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the Italian painting of the martyr whose intestines are slowly being unwound from his body on a reel."


author: The Tribune.
text:
"The prelude to Tristan and Isolde sounded as if a bomb had fallen into a large music factory and had thrown all the notes into confusion."


author: George Washington (1732 - 1799).
text:
"The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply, ...finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people."


author: Robert Jackson.
text:
"The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish."


author: James Baldwin (1924 - 1987).
text:
"The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side."


author: James R. Angell.
text:
"The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter."


author: Fortran manual for Xerox Computers.
text:
"The primary purpose of the Data statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable Pi can be given that value with a Data statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change."


author: John Randolph (1773 - 1833).
text:
"The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men."


author: David Thomas.
text:
"The principles now planted in thy bosom will grow, and one day reach maturity; and in that maturity thou wilt find thy heaven or thy hell."


author: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865).
text:
"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just."


author: Dee Hock.
text:
"The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it."


author: Theodore Rubin.
text:
"The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem."


author: Don Feder.
text:
"The problem isn't easy access to guns, but easy access to oxygen. Certain people shouldn't be breathing."


author: Betty Friedan (1921 - 2006).
text:
"The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban housewife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night, she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question: 'Is this all?'"


author: Steve Martini.
text:
"The problem most people have with resisting temptation is that they never really want to discourage it altogether."


author: Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968).
text:
"The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public."


author: Betty Friedan (1921 - 2006).
text:
"The problem that has no name - which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities - is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease."


author: George F. Will (1941 - ).
text:
"The problem with intelligent design theory is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable: Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is not a testable hypothesis. Hence it is not a scientific but a creedal tenet--a matter of faith, unsuited to a public schoolâs curriculum."


author: Elizabeth Taylor (1932 - ).
text:
"The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues."


author: Jeff Foxworthy.
text:
"The problem with the designated driver program, it's not a desirable job, but if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At the end of the night, drop them off at the wrong house."


author: Eduard Sagalaev.
text:
"The process of creating new, democratic organs of government power is beginning, and, as never before, the greatest responsibility rests with the broadcast media."


author: John Gray.
text:
"The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again."


author: Donald E. Knuth (1938 - ).
text:
"The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can be economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music."


author: John Adams (1735 - 1826).
text:
"The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body."


author: Phillip Lopate.
text:
"The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'."


author: Brendan Francis.
text:
"The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?"


author: Simms.
text:
"The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly exploded in the air."


author: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865).
text:
"The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us."


author: Ann Richards.
text:
"The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you're not. And the other thing that the public really does like is the self-examination to say, you know, I'm not perfect. I'm just like you. They don't ask their public officials to be perfect. They just ask them to be smart, truthful, honest, and show a modicum of good sense."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands."


author: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC).
text:
"The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government is to live under the government of worse men."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"The purest treasure mortal times afford is spotless reputation; that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay."


author: Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800 - 1859).
text:
"The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators."


author: Finley Peter Dunne (1867 - 1936).
text:
"The Puritans gave thanks for being preserved from the Indians, and we give thanks for being preserved from the Puritans."


author: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - ).
text:
"The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a funeral to display excessive grief. This will show others how kind-hearted and loving you are and their improved opinion of you will be very comforting."


author: Otto Kleppner.
text:
"The purpose of all higher education is to make men aware of what was and what is; to incite them to probe into what may be. It seeks to teach them to understand, to evaluate, to communicate."


author: Mortimer Adler.
text:
"The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we live."


author: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962).
text:
"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."


author: C. P. Snow (1905 - 1980).
text:
"The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice, and the desire for personal independence - these are the features of Jewish tradition that make me thank my stars that I belong to it."


author: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC).
text:
"The Pythagorean ... having been brought up in the study of mathematics, thought that things are numbers ... and that the whole cosmos is a scale and a number."


author: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC).
text:
"The qualities which a man seeks in his beloved are those characteristics of his own soul, whether he knows it or not."


author: Vincent T. Lombardi.
text:
"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor."


author: Vince Lombardi (1913 - 1970).
text:
"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their committment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor."


author: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
text:
"The quality of American life must keep pace with the quantity of American goods. This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. 'T is mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew, Though justice be thy plea, consider this, That in the course of justice none of us Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"The quality of mercy is not strain'd, it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes."


author: Queen Victoria.
text:
"The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of ``Women's Rights.'' It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself."


author: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
text:
"The quest for philosophy's beginning is idle, for everywhere in all beginnings we find only the crude, the unformed, the empty, and the ugly. What matters in all things is the higher levels."


author: E. W. Dijkstra.
text:
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."


author: Paul Tillich (1886 - 1965).
text:
"The question our century puts before us is: is it possible to regain the lost dimension, the encounter with the Holy, the dimension which cuts through the world of subjectivity and objectivity and goes down to that which is not world but is the Mystery of the Ground of Being."


author: Henry Ford (1863 - 1947).
text:
"The question, "Who ought to be boss?" is like asking "Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?" Obviously, the man who can sing tenor."


author: Jeph Jacques.
text:
"The quickest way to a man's heart really is through his stomach, because then you don't have to chop through that pesky rib cage."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them."


author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
text:
"The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore."


author: R. D. Laing.
text:
"The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds."


author: Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650).
text:
"The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts."


author: Dorothy Nevill.
text:
"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."


author: Dorothy Nevill.
text:
"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave the unsaid the wrong thing thing at the tempting moment."


author: Henry Kissinger (1923 - ).
text:
"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: Frank H. Underhill.
text:
"The real division in the world today is not between socialism and capitalism, it's between freedom and totalitarianism."


author: Bill Bernbach.
text:
"The real giants have been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas."


author: Umberto Eco (1932 - ).
text:
"The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else."


author: Tina Turner (1938 - ).
text:
"The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself - something that's in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered."


author: Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988).
text:
"The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity and until they do (and find the cure) all ideal plans will fall into quicksand."


author: Ingrid Bengis.
text:
"The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you "come to terms with" only to discover that they are still there. The real questions refuse to be placated. They barge into your life at the times when it seems most important for them to stay away. They are the questions asked most frequently and answered most inadequately, the ones that reveal their true natures slowly, reluctantly, most often against your will."


author: Johnson.
text:
"The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain."


author: Arnold Bennett.
text:
"The real tradegy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature."


author: Robert M. Pirsig.
text:
"The real train of knowledge isn't a static entity that can be stopped and subdivided. Its always going somewhere."


author: Ravi Zacharias.
text:
"The reality is that there is nothing so vulgar left in human experience for which some educator from some institution cannot be found to justify it. In the name of literary license, anything passes off as permissible."


author: Martha Beck.
text:
"The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that make you feel special, desirable, precious, innately good. Your lover couldn't have seen [these qualities] in you, even temporarily, if they weren't part of your essential being."


author: Yann Martel.
text:
"The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity-it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is just a passing shadow of a cloud."


author: Willie Tyler.
text:
"The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time."


author: Denis Watley.
text:
"The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them."


author: La Rochefoucauld.
text:
"The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves."


author: Maureen Murphy.
text:
"The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror."


author: C. C. Colton.
text:
"The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude."


author: Francois La Rochefoucauld.
text:
"The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than about what others are saying, and we never listen when we are eager to speak."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."


author: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915).
text:
"The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge."


author: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823).
text:
"The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as well as the descriptions, of those in health."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one."


author: Robert Graves (1895 - 1985).
text:
"The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good."


author: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983).
text:
"The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbors as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant of others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves."


author: Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC).
text:
"The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession."


author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965).
text:
"The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning."


author: George Whelton.
text:
"The resounding echo of the mortal coil, echoes in the ears of those who are unprepared for it. To some, it sounds like a symphony - to others, a death toll."


author: W. E. B. DuBois.
text:
"The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as close to heaven as you can get. Without this - with work which you despise, which bores you can which the world does not need - this life is hell."


author: Dr. Laura Schlessinger.
text:
"The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self- esteem."


author: Robert J. Sawyer (1960 - ).
text:
"The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore."


author: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982).
text:
"The right to life is the source of all rights--and the right to property is their only implementation. Without property rights, no other rights are possible. Since man has to sustain his life by his own effort, the man who has no right to the product of his effort has no means to sustain his life. The man who produces while others dispose of his product, is a slave."


author: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982).
text:
"The right to vote is a *consequence*, not a primary cause, of a free social system -- and its value depends on the constitutional structure implementing and strictly delimiting the voters' power; unlimited majority rule is an instance of the principle of tyranny."


author: Portuguese-Jewish Wedding Ceremony.
text:
"The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children."


author: Joseph J. Lamb.
text:
"The road to success leads through the valley of humility, and the path is up the ladder of patience and across the wide barren plains of perseverance. As yet, no short cut has ever been discovered."


author: Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856).
text:
"The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin."


author: Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832).
text:
"The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new, And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. The rose is sweetest with morning dew, And love is loveliest when embalmed in tears."


author: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ).
text:
"The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus."


author: Sun Tzu.
text:
"The ruler cannot mobilize the army out of personal anger. The general cannot engage in battle because of personal frustration. Anger can revert to happiness, annoyance can revert to joy, but a vanquished state cannot be revived, the dead cannot be brought back to life."


author: Anthony J. D'Angelo.
text:
"The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet."


author: Andrew Grove, Co-founder and Chairman of Intel Corporation.
text:
"The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your business. You own it as a sole proprietor. You have one employee: yourself. You need to accept ownership of your career, your skills and the timing of your moves."


author: Goria Estefan.
text:
"The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come."


author: Edwin Whipple.
text:
"The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed."


author: Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804).
text:
"The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them, for opposition to tyranny and oppression, very naturally leads them to a contempt and disregard of all authority."


author: Henry J. Tillman.
text:
"The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines."


author: Johann Von Neumann (1903 - 1957).
text:
"The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work."


author: Mark Russell (1932 - ).
text:
"The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage."


author: Claude Levi-Strauss.
text:
"The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions."


author: Nikola Tesla (1857 - 1943).
text:
"The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane."


author: South.
text:
"The Scripture vouches Solomon for the wisest of men; and his proverbs prove him so, The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame each of them by a single sentence, consisting of two or three words."


author: Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881).
text:
"The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half."


author: Paulo Cuelho.
text:
"The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better."


author: Norman Thomas (1884 - 1968).
text:
"The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values."


author: Norman Thomas (1884 - 1968).
text:
"The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and to hold them in the right scale of values."


author: Tryon Edwards (1809 - 1894).
text:
"The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds."


author: George Burns (1896 - 1996).
text:
"The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible."


author: George Burns (1896 - 1996).
text:
"The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and have the two as close together as possible."


author: R. D. Hitchcock.
text:
"The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing."


author: Arnold Palmer (1929 - ).
text:
"The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge."


author: Wilfred A. Peterson.
text:
"The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather that hostile."


author: Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC).
text:
"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly."


author: Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973).
text:
"The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it."


author: John Dewey (1859 - 1952).
text:
"The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"The sense of death is most in apprehension; and the poor beetle, that we tread upon, in corporal sufferance feels a pang as great as when a giant dies."


author: Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell.
text:
"The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not "to have and to hold" but "to give and serve." There can be no other meaning."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"The seven deadly sins ... Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven milestones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the milestones are lifted."


author: Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC).
text:
"The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction."


author: Lt. Col. (Ret.) Ralph Peters.
text:
"The shah always falls in the end, Saddam always turns on you, and the Saudis always betray you. If we support evil, the long-term price is almost always too high."


author: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865).
text:
"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty."


author: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961).
text:
"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."


author: Jean de la Bruyere (1645 - 1696).
text:
"The shortest and best ways to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interests to promote yours."


author: Henry Bolingbroke.
text:
"The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them."


author: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC).
text:
"The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them."


author: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC).
text:
"The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them."


author: Marya Mannes.
text:
"The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them."


author: Peter McWilliams.
text:
"The simple solution for disappointment depression: Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going."


author: Ernest Renan.
text:
"The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life."


author: Imam Ali.
text:
"The sin which makes you sad and repentant is more liked by Allah than the good deed which turns you arrogant."


author: Marcus Aurelius.
text:
"The sinners sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action."


author: Tyron Edwards.
text:
"The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with the other the tongue. The former is worse that the latter, for the last only kills the body, while the other murders the reputation."


author: Jean de la Bruyere (1645 - 1696).
text:
"The slave has but one master; the ambitious man has as many as can help him in making his fortune."


author: C. C. Colton.
text:
"The slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient if it produce amendment, and the greatest insufficient if it do not."


author: Noam Chomsky (1928 - ).
text:
"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate."


author: John W. Gardner (1912 - 2002).
text:
"The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy...neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water."


author: John W. Gardner (1912 - 2002).
text:
"The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exaulted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy...neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water."


author: Lao-tzu (604 BC - 531 BC).
text:
"The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.Through this I know the advantage of taking no action."


author: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
text:
"The solution is to gradually become free of societal rewards and learn how to substitute for them rewards that are under one's own powers. This is not to say that we should abandon every goal endorsed by society; rather, it means that, in addition to or instead of the goals others use to bribe us with, we develop a set of our own."


author: Elsa Barker.
text:
"The solving of almost every crime mystery depends on something which seems, at the first glance, to bear no relation whatever to the original crime."


author: Gwyn Thomas.
text:
"THe soul of most conservatism is sentimentality, and sentimentality, and sentimentality preserves the good and the bad with indiscriminate relish."


author: EugÃ¨ne Delacroix (1798 - 1863).
text:
"The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently."


author: Andrew Young.
text:
"The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents."


author: Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965).
text:
"The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue."


author: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD).
text:
"The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed."


author: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826).
text:
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive."


author: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826).
text:
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive."


author: Vince Lombardi (1913 - 1970).
text:
"The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur."


author: Deepak Chopra.
text:
"The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant to heal. Love is meant to renew. Love is meant to bring us closer to God."


author: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982).
text:
"The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles."


author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930).
text:
"The stage lost a fine actor, just as science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in crime."


author: Friedrich Engels (1820 - 1895).
text:
"The state is nothing but an instrument of oppression of one class by another--no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy."


author: Frederic Bastait.
text:
"The state is the great ficticious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else."


author: Rita Mae Brown.
text:
"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you."


author: Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745).
text:
"The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes."


author: Zaki Yamani.
text:
"The Stone Age came to an end not for a lack of stone, and the oil age will end, but not for a lack of oil."


author: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
text:
"The stories of past courage can define that ingredient-they can teach, they can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul."


author: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001).
text:
"The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."


author: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817).
text:
"The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away."


author: William James (1842 - 1910).
text:
"The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures."


author: Claiborne Pell (1918 - ).
text:
"The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, womenâ¦ merely adored."


author: Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778).
text:
"The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty."


author: Edwina Currie.
text:
"The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke."


author: Erich Gutkind.
text:
"The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything we do."


author: Thomas Szasz.
text:
"The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget."


author: Thomas Szasz.
text:
"The stupid neither forgive or forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget."


author: Milan Kundera (1929 - ).
text:
"The stupidity of people comes from having an answer to everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything... it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather than to ask, so that the voice of the novel can hardly be heard over the noisy foolishness of human certainties."


author: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626).
text:
"The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding."


author: Roy L. Smith.
text:
"The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do."


author: Thucydides (471 BC - 400 BC).
text:
"The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage."


author: Eknath Easwaran.
text:
"The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate we ask ourselves, Are these words true? If so, we let them pass on; if not, back they go. At the second gate we ask, Are they necessary? At the last gate we ask, Are they kind?"


author: Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939).
text:
"The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands."


author: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC).
text:
"The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters."


author: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC).
text:
"The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved."


author: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC).
text:
"The superior man...does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything; what is right he will follow."


author: Johnson.
text:
"The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit."


author: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885).
text:
"The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."


author: William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830).
text:
"The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others."


author: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
text:
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."


author: Alexis De Tocqueville (1805 - 1859).
text:
"The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors breaking through."


author: Maxine Hong Kingston.
text:
"The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods."


author: Lao-Tzu (604 BC - 531 BC).
text:
"The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name."


author: Maria Montessori (1870 - 1952).
text:
"The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity."


author: Maria Montessori (1870 - 1952).
text:
"The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon."


author: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961).
text:
"The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes became sheer terror and torture to me. I was so intimidated by my incomprehension that I did not dare to ask any questions."


author: Robert Brault.
text:
"The teacher who does not demand effort of his students does not educate - he merely extends ignorance to new subjects."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson.
text:
"The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contendâ¦ The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government."


author: According to an article in the New York Times.
text:
"The Ten Commandments contain 297 words, the Bill of Rights 463 words, and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address 266 words. A recent federal directive regulating the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words."


author: James Fenimore Cooper.
text:
"The tendencies of democracies are, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge and principles of the majority form the tribunal of the appeal."


author: Reinhold Niebuhr (1892 - 1971).
text:
"The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan values and ends is... the source of all religious fanaticism."


author: John Burroughs (1837 - 1921).
text:
"The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood."


author: U. S. Government Study On The Labeling Of Children.
text:
"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: F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940).
text:
"The test of a first-fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise."


author: F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940).
text:
"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: Thomas Higginson.
text:
"The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers...but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds."


author: Ralph W. Sockman.
text:
"The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority."


author: Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
text:
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."


author: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945).
text:
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."


author: Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
text:
"The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little."


author: Richard Dawkins (1941 - ).
text:
"The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity."


author: Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890).
text:
"The thing has already taken form in my mind before I start it. The first attempts are absolutely unbearable. I say this because I want you to know that if you see something worthwhile in what I am doing, it is not by accident but because of real direction and purpose."


author: Henry Miller (1891 - 1980).
text:
"The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing."


author: John Allen.
text:
"The thing that I'm always left with is this overwhelming desire for people to be rooted and the only way that they feel rooted is through another person."


author: Edwin Markham.
text:
"The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?"


author: Anna Quindlen (1953 - ).
text:
"The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself."


author: Charles W. Tobey .
text:
"The things that are wrong with the country today are the sum total of all the things that are wrong with individuals."


author: William Lippmann.
text:
"The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal."


author: A. A. Milne (1882 - 1956).
text:
"The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking."


author: The Buddha.
text:
"The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beings."


author: Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC).
text:
"The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character; So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beingsâ¦ As the shadow follows the body, As we think, so we become."


author: Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992).
text:
"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: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902).
text:
"The three most important parts a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money and his religious beliefs."


author: Dan Millman.
text:
"The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for."


author: Author Unknown.
text:
"The tipping custom originated in England when small sums were dropped into a box marked T.I.P.S. --TO INSURE PROMPT SERVICE."


author: Rod Serling (1924 - 1975).
text:
"The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices -- to be found in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own -- for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone."


author: Lynn Johnston (1947 - ).
text:
"The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!"


author: Irving Berlin (1888 - 1989).
text:
"The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there."


author: Jonathan Berry.
text:
"The tragic mistake of so many in the environmentalist movement is the belief that the rest of the world can afford to hold itself to our expensive green standards."


author: Louis L'Amour (1908 - 1988).
text:
"The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast and you miss all you are traveling for."


author: George Saunders.
text:
"The traveller must, of course, always be cautious of the overly broad generalisation. But I am an American, and a paucity of data does not stop me from making sweeping, vague, conceptual statements and, if necessary, following these statements up with troops."


author: Erica Jong.
text:
"The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses."


author: David Nicholls.
text:
"The trick of it, she told herself, is to be courageous and bold and make a difference. Not change the world exactly, just the bit around you. Go out there with your double-first, your passion and your new Smith Corona electric typewriter and work hard at ... something. Change lives through art maybe. Write beautifully. Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully well. Experience new things. Love and be loved if at all possible. Eat sensibly. Stuff like that."


author: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963).
text:
"The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed."


author: Faith Popcorn.
text:
"The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office)."


author: Herb Caen.
text:
"The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around."


author: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
text:
"The trouble with conservatives today is that most of their thinking is so naive. As for the liberals, their thinking is more sophisticated; but their function ought to be to provide new ideas, and they don't come up with any."


author: Walt West.
text:
"The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all."


author: Terry Pratchett.
text:
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."


author: Franklin P. Jones.
text:
"The trouble with jogging is that, by the time you realize you're not in shape for it, it's too far to walk back."


author: Elizabeth Aston.
text:
"The trouble with lies was that once started, the fiction had to be continued, and it was hard always to be remembering details that you had made up upon the spur of the moment."


author: Josh Billings (1818 - 1885).
text:
"The trouble with most folks isn't so much their ignorance. It's know'n so many things that ain't so."


author: Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951).
text:
"The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, "The trouble with this country is....""


author: Louis Kronenberger.
text:
"The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy."


author: Patrick Young.
text:
"The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it."


author: Frederick William Robertson.
text:
"The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds."


author: Robert Ingersoll (1833 - 1899).
text:
"The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself."


author: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945).
text:
"The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning."


author: Simms.
text:
"The true law of the race is progress and development. Whatever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian."


author: Hannah Whitall Smith.
text:
"The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right."


author: Peter James.
text:
"The true skeptic will never believe you no matter how much proof you offer him. The true believer does not need it."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"The true test of a civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the cropsâno, but the kind of man the country turns out."


author: Elgin Gates.
text:
"The true trophy hunter is a self-disciplined perfectionist seeking a single animal, the ancient patriarch well past his prime that is often an outcast from his own kind... If successful, he will enshrine the trophy in a place of honor. This is a more noble and fitting end than dying on some lost and lonely ledge where the scavengers will pick his bones, and his magnificent horns will weather away and be lost forever."


author: Claude Bernard (1813 - 1878).
text:
"The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek."


author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832).
text:
"The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths."


author: Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973).
text:
"The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanely sensitive. To them... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create -- so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, their very breath is cut off... They must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency they are not really alive unless they are creating."


author: Anna Quindlen (1953 - ).
text:
"The truth about your own life is not always easy to accept, and sometimes hasn't even occurred to you."


author: Tom Stoppard (1937 - ).
text:
"The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say."


author: Vaclav Havel (1936 - ).
text:
"The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why and how it is said."


author: Dr. Smiley Blanton.
text:
"The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent."


author: Whitney Young (1921 - 1971).
text:
"The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self."


author: Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
text:
"The truth is, marijuana probably isn't going to make you kill people. Most likely isn't going to fund terrorists, but pot makes you feel fine with being bored and it's when you're bored that you should be learning a new skill or some new science or being creative. If you smoke pot you may grow up to find out that you're not good at anything."


author: Robert M. Pirsig.
text:
"The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away."


author: Robert M. Pirsig.
text:
"The truth knocks on the door and you say,"Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away."


author: Thomas Merton (1915 - 1968).
text:
"The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt."


author: J. K. Rowling.
text:
"The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution."


author: Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971).
text:
"The turtle lives 'twixt plated decksWhich practically conceal its sex.I think it clever of the turtleIn such a fix to be so fertile."


author: Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005).
text:
"The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason."


author: Robyn Davidson.
text:
"The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of an endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision."


author: Clark Coleman.
text:
"The two most evangelical groups in the world are atheists and vegetarians, especially the least knowledgeable and least intelligent individuals within those groups."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made."


author: Seth MacFarlane.
text:
"The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change."


author: Robert Anthony.
text:
"The two things that many cherish and hold dear that I have found to be of little value or importance in my life would be -- getting credit for and being right."


author: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - ).
text:
"The U.S. Constitution is less than a quarter the length of the owner's manual for a 1998 Toyota Camry, and yet it has managed to keep 300 million of the world's most unruly, passionate and energetic people safe, prosperous and free."


author: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004).
text:
"The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas-a trial of spiritual resolve: the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated."


author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935).
text:
"The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market."


author: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968).
text:
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."


author: Martin Luther King Jr.
text:
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."


author: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983).
text:
"The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without."


author: Bernard Shaw.
text:
"The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it."


author: Somerset Maugham.
text:
"The unfortunate thing about this word is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones."


author: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919).
text:
"The United States does not have a choice as to whether or not is will or will not play a great part in the world. Fate has made that choice for us. The only question is whether we will play the part well or badly."


author: Robert A. Heinlein.
text:
"The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance."


author: Walther Darre, German Minister of Agriculture under Hitler.
text:
"The United States is at present so demoralized and so corrupted that, like England and France, it need not be taken into consideration as a military adversary. The United States will also be forced by Germany to complete and final capitulation."


author: Jim Samuels.
text:
"The United States is like the guy at the party who gives cocaine to everybody and still nobody likes him."


author: Roberto Bahruth.
text:
"The United States of America has more monolingual experts on bilingual education than any other country in the world."


author: Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804).
text:
"The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours."


author: Gordon Atkinson.
text:
"The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe."


author: John Green.
text:
"The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness."


author: E. W. Dijkstra.
text:
"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be reguarded as a criminal offense."


author: Gelett Burgess (1866 - 1951).
text:
"The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered."


author: Michael Palin.
text:
"The use of the word 'just' by an Australian means that whatever it is you have to do, it will not be easy, as in 'Just pull that sword out of the stone' or 'Just split that atom'."


author: Willmott.
text:
"The vain man is generally a doubter. It is Newton who sees himself as child on the sea shore, and his discoveries in the colored shell."


author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784).
text:
"The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it."


author: Gifford Pinchot.
text:
"The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future."


author: Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 - 1991).
text:
"The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual -- when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions -- it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance."


author: George Carlin (1937 - 2008).
text:
"The very existence of flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, "You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.""


author: Bill Cosby (1937 - ).
text:
"The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague."


author: John Burroughs (1837 - 1921).
text:
"The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!"


author: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963).
text:
"The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike."


author: Doctor Who.
text:
"The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views...which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering."


author: Quentin Crisp.
text:
"The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us."


author: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956).
text:
"The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference."


author: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996).
text:
"The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams."


author: Annson Dorrance.
text:
"The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when no one else is looking."


author: Anson Dorrance.
text:
"The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when no one else is watching."


author: John Green.
text:
"The voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again."


author: Paula Poundstone.
text:
"The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling."


author: Tim Mefford.
text:
"The wages of sin are death, but the benefits include dental, major medical, two week paid vacation, pension fund, and stock options. Actually, taken as a package, it's a rather attractive deal."


author: George Orwell (1903 - 1950).
text:
"The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact."


author: Alexander Haig.
text:
"The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood."


author: Niesha Butler.
text:
"The way I look at it, it's not enough to be talented; you have to reach deep down within yourself and make that extra effort that will put you over the top."


author: Calvin.
text:
"The way I see it, God put me on Earth to achieve a certain number of things. By now I'm so far behind, I'll never die."


author: Ellen DeGeneres.
text:
"The way I see it... If you need both of your hands for whatever it is you're doing, then your brain should probably be in on it too."


author: Lao-tzu (604 BC - 531 BC).
text:
"The Way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure.The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete."


author: Elizabeth Peters.
text:
"The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal--or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be."


author: Virgil Thomson (1896 - 1989).
text:
"The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish."


author: John Irving (1942 - ).
text:
"The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything."


author: Lady Bird Johnson (1912 - 2007).
text:
"The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid."


author: Austin O'Malley.
text:
"The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged."


author: Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856).
text:
"The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it... did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind."


author: John Green.
text:
"The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives."


author: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - ).
text:
"The weirder you are going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person."


author: Samuel P. Huntington.
text:
"The West did not come to rule the world through its superiority of religion or ideas, but rather through its superior application of organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do."


author: Samuel P. Huntington.
text:
"The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."


author: Anatole France (1844 - 1924).
text:
"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards."


author: Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880).
text:
"The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois."


author: William James (1842 - 1910).
text:
"The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist."


author: Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877).
text:
"The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards."


author: P. J. OâRourke.
text:
"The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it."


author: Alexander Woo.
text:
"The whole point in bein' a hero is to do somethin' greater than yerself. It'd be easy to do it for the glory or the girls. We're bigger men than that."


author: Aaron Copland (1900 - 1990).
text:
"The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'"


author: Neil Postman.
text:
"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: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."


author: Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797).
text:
"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well."


author: King Farouk of Egypt (1920 - 1965).
text:
"The whole world is in revolt. Soon there will be only five Kings left--the King of England, the King of Spades, The King of Clubs, the King of Hearts, and the King of Diamonds."


author: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919).
text:
"The wild life of today is not ours to do with as we please. The original stock was given to us in trust for the benefit both of the present and the future. We must render an accounting of this trust to those who come after us."


author: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826).
text:
"The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object."


author: John P. Grier.
text:
"The will to believe is perhaps the most powerful, but certainly the most dangerous human attribute."


author: Vince Lombardi (1913 - 1970).
text:
"The will to excel and the will to win, they endure. They are more important than any events that occasion them."


author: Paul S. Winalski.
text:
"The wine seems to be very closed-in and seems to have entered a dumb stage. Sort of a Marcel Meursault."


author: Homer (800 BC - 700 BC).
text:
"The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken."


author: William Feather (1908 - 1976).
text:
"The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations."


author: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC).
text:
"The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct."


author: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797).
text:
"The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands."


author: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983).
text:
"The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way."


author: Charles Dudley Warner (1829 - 1900).
text:
"The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about others things."


author: John Macy.
text:
"The wisest keeps something of the vision of a child. Though he may understand a thousand things that a child could not understand, he is always a beginner, close to the original meaning of life."


author: James Thurber (1894 - 1961).
text:
"The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people--that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature."


author: James Thurber (1894 - 1961).
text:
"The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself."


author: Elizabeth Jenkins.
text:
"The woman whose behavior indicates that she will make a scene if she is told the truth asks to be deceived."


author: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963).
text:
"The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep."


author: Larry Hardiman.
text:
"The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'."


author: A. L. Kitselman.
text:
"The words 'I am...' are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you."


author: Ricther.
text:
"The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity."


author: A. K. Kitselman.
text:
"The words `I am...' are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you."


author: Thomas Calyle.
text:
"The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured of one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one."


author: Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961).
text:
"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."


author: J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973).
text:
"The world has changed. I see it in the water.  I feel it in the Earth.  I smell it in the air.  Much that once was is lost,  For none now live who remember it."


author: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ).
text:
"The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons."


author: Peter Cochrane.
text:
"The world is divided into two kinds of people, those who spend a great deal of time saving money, and those who spend a great deal of money saving time."


author: Boileau.
text:
"The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass."


author: Robertson Davies.
text:
"The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past."


author: Anna Quindlen (1953 - ).
text:
"The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous."


author: Webster.
text:
"The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it."


author: Daniel Webster (1782 - 1852).
text:
"The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it."


author: J.R.R. Tolkien.
text:
"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair; and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater."


author: Bill Hicks.
text:
"The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question: "Is this real, or is this just a ride?" And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, "Hey, don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride." And we kill those people."


author: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968).
text:
"The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker."


author: Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878 - 1969).
text:
"The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it."


author: Henry Drummond.
text:
"The world is not a playground; it's a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. And the one eternal question for us all is how better we can love."


author: George Santayana (1863 - 1952).
text:
"The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns."


author: Swami Brahnmananda.
text:
"The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains. Whether you like it or not, you cannot have one without the other."


author: Johan Wolfgang von Goethe.
text:
"The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities, but to know that there is someone who, though distant, thinks and feels with us -- this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden."


author: Frances Willard (1839 - 1898).
text:
"The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum."


author: Raul Armesto.
text:
"The world isnât interested in the storms you encountered, but whether or not you brought in the ship."


author: Bill Clinton (1946 - ).
text:
"The world knows of Rosa Parks because of a single, simple act of dignity and courage that struck a lethal blow to the foundations of legal bigotry."


author: Roseanne Barr.
text:
"The world makes you into a bitch, no matter how quietly you go, so you may as well go kicking and screaming."


author: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924).
text:
"The world must be made safe for democracy.  Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty."


author: Raoul Vaneigem.
text:
"The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work."


author: Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864).
text:
"The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits."


author: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823).
text:
"The world ridicules a passion which it seldom feels; its scenes, and its interests, distract the mind, deprave the taste, corrupt the heart, and love cannot exist in a heart that has lost the meek dignity of innocence."


author: Paul Harvey.
text:
"The world to a blind man is his touch. The world to a stupid man is his mouth. The world to a great man is his vision."


author: Paulo Cuelho.
text:
"The world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse."


author: Sidney Madwed.
text:
"The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves."


author: John Foster Dulles.
text:
"The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith."


author: Jacques Bossuet (1627 - 1704).
text:
"The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are."


author: Henry Miller (1891 - 1980).
text:
"The worst is not death but being blind, blind to the fact that everything about life is in the nature of the miraculous."


author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873).
text:
"The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity."


author: Tellis Frank.
text:
"The worst thing about Europe is that you can't go out in the middle of the night and get a Slurpee."


author: David Viscott.
text:
"The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing."


author: Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988).
text:
"The worthwhile problems are the ones you can really solve or help solve, the ones you can really contribute something to."


author: John Muir (1838 - 1914).
text:
"The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right."


author: Quentin Crisp.
text:
"The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another."


author: Saki (1870 - 1916).
text:
"The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened."


author: Anne Rice (1941 - ).
text:
"The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect."


author: Sheila Graham.
text:
"The youthful sparkle in Ronald Reagan's eyes is caused by his contact lenses, which he keeps highly polished."


author: Richard Olney.
text:
"The [Interstate Commerce] commission, as its functions have now been limited by the courts is, or can be made, of great use to the railroads. It satisfies the public clamor for a government supervision of railroads, at the same time that that supervision is almost entirely nominal."


author: LtGen Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe.
text:
"Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot display his ability. Tie him to a narrow and confined task, rob him of his initiative, and you take away from him the best and most valuable qualities he posses: aggressive spirit, joy of action, and the passion of the hunter."


author: J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973).
text:
"Their Oath shall drive them, and yet betray them, and ever snatch away the very treasures that they have sworn to pursue."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze  By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet  Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods;  Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage,  But music for the time doth change his nature.  The man that hath no music in himself,  Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,  Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Their understanding Begins to swell and the approaching tide Will shortly fill the reasonable shores That now lie foul and muddy."


author: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902).
text:
"Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it out with charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies."


author: Bible.
text:
"Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was; and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it."


author: PJ O'Rourke.
text:
"Then there was LSD, which was supposed to make you think you could fly. I remember it made you think you couldn't stand up, and mostly it was right."


author: Robert A. Heinlein.
text:
"Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything."


author: Susan Sontag (1933 - 2004).
text:
"Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power, are always an index of how much is not understood about the physical terrain of a disease."


author: Lee Iacocca (1924 - ).
text:
"There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'"


author: Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988).
text:
"There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers."


author: A. Whitney Brown.
text:
"There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of it. More than a BILLION people. That means even if you're a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you.""


author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965).
text:
"There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true."


author: Andre Gide (1869 - 1951).
text:
"There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'"


author: Ruth Gordon.
text:
"There are all sorts of kisses... from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of them all, the kiss of an actress is the most unnerving. How can we tell is she means it or if she's just practicing?"


author: J. Paul Getty (1892 - 1976).
text:
"There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them."


author: Jane Goodall (1934 - ).
text:
"There are an awful lot of scientists today who believe that before very long we shall have unraveled all the secrets of the universe. There will be no puzzles anymore. To me it'd be really, really tragic because I think one of the most exciting things is this feeling of mystery, feeling of awe, the feeling of looking at a little live thing and being amazed by it and how its emerged through these hundreds of years of evolution and there it is and it is perfect and why."


author: George Sarton.
text:
"There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity."


author: Heather Armstrong.
text:
"There are certain sacred things in my life that I would never talk about. Because they are clear in my head, I can walk freely around the opposite side. I keep them completely separate in my mind."


author: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849).
text:
"There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction."


author: Harriet Van Horne.
text:
"There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, offers more entertainment than the TV set."


author: Colette (1873 - 1954).
text:
"There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall."


author: Jeremy Collier.
text:
"There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency."


author: Grenville Kleiser.
text:
"There are fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is surely yours is the present, hence this is the time to speak the word of appreciation and sympathy, to do the generous deed, to forgive the fault of a thoughtless friend, to sacrifice self a little more for others. Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed, and to use your God-given abilities for the enrichment of someone less fortunate. Today you can make your life - significant and worthwhile. The present is yours to do with as you will."


author: George Matthew Adams.
text:
"There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause."


author: Hippocrates (460 BC - 377 BC).
text:
"There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance."


author: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937).
text:
"There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time."


author: Peretz Smolenskin.
text:
"There are many fine ideals which are not realisable, and yet we do not refrain from teaching them."


author: Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997).
text:
"There are many in the world dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love."


author: Johann Kaspar Lavater.
text:
"There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness, and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness, and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity."


author: Scott Adams (1957 - ).
text:
"There are many methods for predicting the future. For example, you can read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls. Collectively, these methods are known as "nutty methods." Or you can put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer models, more commonly referred to as "a complete waste of time.""


author: SÃ¸ren Kierkegaard.
text:
"There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves."


author: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719).
text:
"There are many shining qualities on the mind of man; but none so useful as discretion. It is this which gives a value to all the rest, and sets them at work in their proper places, and turns them to the advantage of their possessor. Without it, learning is pedantry; wit, impertinence; virtue itself looks like weakness; and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice. Though a man has all other perfections and wants discretion, he will be of no great consequence in the world; but if he has this single talent in perfection, and but a common share of others, he may do what he pleases in his station of life."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"There are many things that we would throw away, if we were not afraid that others might pick them up."


author: Tom Robbins (1936 - ).
text:
"There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for."


author: John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873).
text:
"There are many truths by which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home."


author: Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973).
text:
"There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream - whatever that dream might be."


author: Ernest Hello.
text:
"There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions."


author: Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993).
text:
"There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another."


author: Bette Davis (1908 - 1989).
text:
"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: Ernesto "Che" Guevara.
text:
"There are no frontiers in this struggle to the death... A victory for any country against imperialism is our victory, just as any country's defeat is a defeat for all."


author: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004).
text:
"There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder."


author: Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850).
text:
"There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire."


author: Richard Bach.
text:
"There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go."


author: Colin Powell (1937 - ).
text:
"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."


author: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947).
text:
"There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil."


author: Jake Fulton.
text:
"There are no winners of war, only survivors and even they die inside from guilt. They only physically survive to warn us. To warn us that there is nothing more terrible than what they have done."


author: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936).
text:
"There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob."


author: Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978).
text:
"There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not even enough courts too enforce a law not supported by the people."


author: Alexis de Tocqueville (1805 - 1859).
text:
"There are now two great nations in the world, which starting from different points, seem to be advancing toward the same goal: the Russians and the Anglo-Americans...Each seems called by some secret design of Providence one day to hold in its hands the destinies of half the world."


author: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894).
text:
"There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, and predict. Their best illuminations come from above through the skylight."


author: Earnest Hemingway.
text:
"There are only 3 sports, Bullfighting, Motor Racing and Mountain climbing. All the rest are games."


author: Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821).
text:
"There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit."


author: Anais Nin (1903 - 1977).
text:
"There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions."


author: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963).
text:
"There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, in the end, 'Thy will be done.'"


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."


author: Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC).
text:
"There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting."


author: Jean de LaBruyere.
text:
"There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is."


author: Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973).
text:
"There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun."


author: J. W. Alexander.
text:
"There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage."


author: Marilyn Manson (1969 - ).
text:
"There are people accusing me that I'm sick, that I'm a danger to morals, western civilization and basically everything under the sun. And they've got these wild stories about me, completely off the wall, completely untrue. They thought them up and it makes you wonder what goes on in their brain, but of course, they don't consider themselves sick. They think they're normal because they don't dress like I do."


author: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948).
text:
"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."


author: Josh Billings (1818 - 1885).
text:
"There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them."


author: James Lovell.
text:
"There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen."


author: Unknown.
text:
"There are people who make things happen, those who watch what happens, and those who wonder what happened."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry."


author: Albert Guinon (1863 - 1923).
text:
"There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves."


author: Nancy Spain.
text:
"There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough."


author: Christian Friedrich Hebbel.
text:
"There are persons who always find a hair in their plate or soup for the simple reason that, when they sit down before it, they shake their heads until one falls in."


author: Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960).
text:
"There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel."


author: Robert Chapman.
text:
"There are plenty of people to whom the crucial problems of their lives never get presented in terms that they can understand."


author: Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924).
text:
"There are powers inside of you, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become."


author: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
text:
"There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the will of God on every possible subject."


author: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948).
text:
"There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle."


author: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983).
text:
"There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutionsto cut the knot rather than unravel it, the viewing of compromise as surrender. Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence, absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power."


author: Sean Stewart.
text:
"There are so many different ways lives work out, so many stories, and every one of them is precious: full of joy and heartbreak, and a fair amount of situation comedy."


author: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC).
text:
"There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment."


author: Maxwell Anderson (1888 - 1959).
text:
"There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime."


author: Kate Chopin.
text:
"There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water."


author: Robert Francis Kennedy.
text:
"There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?"


author: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC).
text:
"There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them."


author: Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527).
text:
"There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless."


author: Orson Welles (1915 - 1985).
text:
"There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women."


author: Guy Almes.
text:
"There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network."


author: Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784).
text:
"There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge. . . observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination."


author: Baron Rothschild.
text:
"There are three principal ways to lose money: wine, women, and engineers. While the first two are more pleasant, the third is by far the more certain."


author: Woody Allen (1935 - ).
text:
"There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering."


author: Timothy Leary (1920 - 1996).
text:
"There are three side effects of acid. Enchanced long term memory, decreased short term memory, and I forget the third."


author: Judith Martin.
text:
"There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class."


author: Henry James (1843 - 1916).
text:
"There are three things that are important in human life. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind."


author: Swahili proverb.
text:
"There are three things which if one does not know, one cannot live long in the world: what is too much for one, what is too little for one, and what is just right for one."


author: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC).
text:
"There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth...lust. When he is strong...quarrelsomeness. When he is old...covetousness."


author: Joyce Jillson.
text:
"There are times not to flirt. When you're sick. When you're with children. When you're on the witness stand."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love."


author: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902).
text:
"There are two great rules of life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule."


author: Cyrus H. Curtis (1850 - 1933).
text:
"There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else."


author: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945).
text:
"There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't."


author: Tim O'Brien.
text:
"There are two levels to it. On one level the stories are made up. But they're made up for a reason, and the reason has to do with a different kind of truth. It has to do with emotional and spiritual truths. It is a way of trying to use a lie, which is the story, to approach some deeper, more spiritual sense of truth. I don't mean truth with a capital T; I just mean small kinds of truth."


author: Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924).
text:
"There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise, it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return."


author: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
text:
"There are two main strategies we can adopt to improve the quality of life. The first is to try making external conditions match our goals. The second is to change how we experience external conditions to make them fit our goals better."


author: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832).
text:
"There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."


author: Enrico Fermi (1901 - 1954).
text:
"There are two possible outcomes: If the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery."


author: Jonathan Edwards.
text:
"There are two sorts of hypocrites; ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the other are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation; and men's own rigtheousness, and talk much of free grace; but at the same time make rigtheousness of their discoveries, and of their humiliation, and exalt themselves to heaven with them."


author: Lewis Black.
text:
"There are two things I know about life... Only the good die young but the real jerks will live forever."


author: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001).
text:
"There are two things in particular that it [the computer industry] failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet(...); the other was the fact that the century would end."


author: E. Atkinson.
text:
"There are two things needed in these days; first, for rich men to find out how poor men live; and second, for poor men to know how rich men work."


author: Booth Tarkington (1869 - 1946).
text:
"There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink."


author: Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946).
text:
"There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second."


author: Frederick L Collins.
text:
"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.
text:
"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: Phyllis Battone.
text:
"There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulities or you alter yourself to meet them."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war."


author: Jeph Jacques.
text:
"There are two ways to pass a hurdle: leaping over or plowing through... There needs to be a monster truck option."


author: Alfred Korzybski (1879 - 1950).
text:
"There are two ways to slide easily though life: To believe everything, or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking."


author: Alfred Korzybski (1879 - 1950).
text:
"There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking."


author: Alfred Korzybski (1879 - 1950).
text:
"There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking."


author: Florynce Kennedy.
text:
"There are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other jobs should be open to everybody."


author: Francois de La Rochefoucald.
text:
"There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other."


author: Frederika Bremer.
text:
"There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life."


author: Woody Allen (1935 - ).
text:
"There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?"


author: Joe Keenan.
text:
"There are, however, people in this world who seldom pick up a newspaper, people who, when watching television, sneer in displeasure and change channels at the first glimpse of an anchorperson. While such willfully uninformed citizens are rare, emerging from seclusion only to serve on juries in trials of great national significance, they do exist."


author: Louis L'Amour (1908 - 1988).
text:
"There are, in the affairs of men and nations, inexorable tides from which they cannot remain aloof."


author: Terry Pratchett.
text:
"There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass!"


author: William F. Halsey.
text:
"There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet."


author: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626).
text:
"There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy conveyance for men and goods from place to place."


author: Brian Buckner.
text:
"There comes a point in life when you realize everything you know about yourself, it's all just conditioning. It's the rare man who truly know who he is."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"There comes a time when a man must spit on his hands, hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats."


author: Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867).
text:
"There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create."


author: Tom Robbins (1936 - ).
text:
"There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue."


author: Indira Gandhi (1917 - 1984).
text:
"There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten."


author: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865).
text:
"There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it."


author: J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973).
text:
"There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumour of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone."


author: Rhoberta Shaler, PhD.
text:
"There is a big difference between ideas and beliefs. Ideas live above your nose. Beliefs make it all the way to your toes."


author: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797).
text:
"There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination."


author: Annie Dillard.
text:
"There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. There is no way you can tell the child that if language had been a melody, he had mastered it and done well, but that since it was in fact a sense, he had botched it utterly."


author: Jorge Luis Borges (1899 - 1986).
text:
"There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite."


author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832).
text:
"There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"There is a devilish mercy in the judge, if you'll implore it, that will free your life, but fetter you till death."


author: C. C. Colton.
text:
"There is a diabolical trio existing in the natural man, implacable, inextinguishable, co-operative and consentaneous, pride, envy, and hate; pride that makes us fancy we deserve all the goods that others possess; envy that some should be admired while we are overlooked; and hate, because all that is bestowed on others, diminishes the sum we think due to ourselves."


author: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626).
text:
"There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool."


author: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936).
text:
"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read."


author: George S. Patton, Jr..
text:
"There is a great deal of talk about loyalty from the bottom to the top. Loyalty from the top down is even more necessary and much less prevalent."


author: Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC).
text:
"There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases; it is the easiest thing of all to deceive oneâs self."


author: Sojourner Truth (1797 - 1883).
text:
"There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before. So I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring; because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again."


author: J. Michael Straczynski.
text:
"There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender."


author: Author Unknown.
text:
"There is a growing suspicion that what the world needs now is a religion that will cover the other six days of the week."


author: Washington Irving (1783 - 1859).
text:
"There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble."


author: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919).
text:
"There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far."


author: Paulo Cuelho.
text:
"There is a language in the world that everyone understands. The language of enthusiasm, of things accomplished with love and purpose, and as part of a search for something believed in and desired."


author: Alfred Adler (1870 - 1937).
text:
"There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution."


author: Horace (65 BC - 8 BC).
text:
"There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place."


author: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945).
text:
"There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny."


author: Heather Nova.
text:
"There is a paradise that can be found A better life to bring us round And all we really need to do Is see the world like lovers do."


author: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001).
text:
"There is a particular disdain with which Siamese cats regard you. Anyone who has walked in on the Queen cleaning her teeth will be familiar with the feeling."


author: Stephen Mansfield.
text:
"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: George Bird Grinnell.
text:
"There is a solitude, or perhaps a solemnity, in the few hours that precede the dawn of day which is unlike that of any others in the twenty-four, and which I cannot explain or account for. Thoughts come to me at this time that I never have at any other."


author: Marcus Aurelius.
text:
"There is a stream of things entering into being, and time is a raging torment; for no sooner does each thing enter our sight than it has been swept away, and another is passing in it's place, and that too will be swept away."


author: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001).
text:
"There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened."


author: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001).
text:
"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"There is a tide in the affairs of men which taken at the flood leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide."


author: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007).
text:
"There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president."


author: Martha Graham (1894 - 1991).
text:
"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost."


author: Laurens Van der Post.
text:
"There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living... a way in which life itself is sheer knowing."


author: R. A. Salvatore.
text:
"There is a wide world out there, my friend, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on the path of growth, and the latter makes the journey tolerable."


author: Marshall McLuhan (1911 - 1980).
text:
"There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening."


author: Melanie Benjamin.
text:
"There is always so much talk about the sins of the fathers, but it is the sins of the mothers that are the most difficult to avoid repeating."


author: Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973).
text:
"There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness."


author: William Hart Coleridge.
text:
"There is an art of which every man should be a master the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?"


author: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001).
text:
"There is an art, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."


author: Voltaire (1694 - 1778).
text:
"There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer."


author: Jack London (1876 - 1916).
text:
"There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive."


author: Robert Pirsig.
text:
"There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good."


author: J. K. Rowling.
text:
"There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction. The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, the responsibility lies with you."


author: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865).
text:
"There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration."


author: John Adams (1735 - 1826).
text:
"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: Alexis De Tocqueville (1805 - 1859).
text:
"There is hardly a political question in the United States which doesn't sooner or later turn into a judicial one."


author: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817).
text:
"There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to."


author: Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773).
text:
"There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing."


author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
text:
"There is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror."


author: John Ruskin (1819-1900).
text:
"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse cannot make a little cheaper and the people who consider price only are this manâs lawful prey."


author: Norman Douglas.
text:
"There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide."


author: Wernher Von Braun (1912 - 1977).
text:
"There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program: your dollar will go further."


author: Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870).
text:
"There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good life is to live."


author: Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973).
text:
"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality."


author: Ross Perot.
text:
"There is no accountability in the public school system - except for coaches. You know what happens to a losing coach. You fire him. A losing teacher can go on losing for 30 years and then go to glory."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us."


author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832).
text:
"There is no better deliverance from the world than through art; and a man can form no surer bond with it than through art."


author: Lao-tzu (604 BC - 531 BC).
text:
"There is no calamity greater than lavish desires.There is no greater guilt than discontentment.And there is no greater disaster than greed."


author: Lionel Trilling.
text:
"There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination."


author: Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924).
text:
"There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind."


author: Montesquieu.
text:
"There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel."


author: George Eliot (1819 - 1880).
text:
"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope."


author: Emmet Fox.
text:
"There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer; no disease that enough love will not heal; no door that enough love will not open."


author: John Dewey (1859 - 1952).
text:
"There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction."


author: Monica Hesse.
text:
"There is no glory in the tepid smiles of the thousands. It is better to have the uproarious laughter of the hundreds."


author: James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891).
text:
"There is no good arguing with the inevitible. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat."


author: Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007).
text:
"There is no greater importance in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you."


author: Sister Mary Rose McGeady.
text:
"There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life."


author: Henri Bergson (1859 - 1941).
text:
"There is no greater joy than of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation."


author: Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895).
text:
"There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued."


author: Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC).
text:
"There is no happiness where there is no wisdom;No wisdom but in submission to the gods.Big words are always punished,And proud men in old age learn to be wise."


author: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924).
text:
"There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed."


author: Karl Popper.
text:
"There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world."


author: Floyd Dell.
text:
"There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums, rather than the village bum's ability to whittle sticks and smoke cigarettes. The reason why the child does not is plain enough - the bum has put himself on an equality with him and the teacher has not."


author: Tish Grier.
text:
"There is no joy in a life that is all information. There is no 'juice' to that kind of life. No sweetness, no color. Like trading a beautiful golden-ripe orange for a stalk of whithered broccoli."


author: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790).
text:
"There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government."


author: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968).
text:
"There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his."


author: The National.
text:
"There is no law against composing music when one has no ideas whatsoever. The music of Wagner, therefore, is perfectly legal"


author: William Ralph Inge (1860 - 1954).
text:
"There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.'"


author: Gene Wolfe.
text:
"There is no limit to stupidity. Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity."


author: Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980).
text:
"There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers."


author: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross.
text:
"There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub."


author: Walt Kelly (1913 - 1973).
text:
"There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tiny blasts of tiny trumpets, we have met the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action."


author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784).
text:
"There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it."


author: Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922).
text:
"There is no one, no matter how wise he is, who has not in his youth said things or done things that are so unpleasant to recall in later life that he would expunge them entirely from his memory if that were possible."


author: Montesquieu.
text:
"There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window."


author: Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527).
text:
"There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect."


author: Robert Salvatore.
text:
"There is no pain greater than this; not the cut of a jagged-edged dagger nor the fire of a dragon's breath. Nothing burns in your heart like the emptiness of losing something, someone, before you truly have learned of its value."


author: Charles Handy - The Age of Unreason.
text:
"There is no place for the incompetent - there are few hiding places in these organizations. Do not look to the new intelligent organizations with their intelligent machines and their cultures of consent for days of gossipy coffee breaks or for boring but untaxing jobs. The culture of consent is not, as the British would say, going to be everyone's cup of tea unless they are educated and prepared for it. There lies the challenge for our society."


author: William Lecky.
text:
"There is no possible line of conduct which has art some time and place been condemned, and which has not at some other time and place been enjoined as a duty."


author: Josiah Gilbert Holland.
text:
"There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures."


author: Matthew Oliphant.
text:
"There is no silver bullet and frankly you probably donât need one. It is far more important to be able to find the right kind of gun, be able to load the gun â¦ and perhaps most importantly, be able to figure out where the werewolf is."


author: George Matthew Adams.
text:
"There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success."


author: Simone de Beauvoir.
text:
"There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation."


author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834).
text:
"There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve."


author: Schiller.
text:
"There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny."


author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873).
text:
"There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes."


author: Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988).
text:
"There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe."


author: Marina Arroyo.
text:
"There is no such thing as making the miracle happen spontaneously and on the spot. You've got to work."


author: Rhoberta Shaler, PhD.
text:
"There is no such thing as worklife balance. I don't know about you, but I only have one life and every moment is about living my values and balancing my priorities--wherever I am."


author: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936).
text:
"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."


author: Learned Hand.
text:
"There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. As nearly as we can, we must put ourselves in the place of those who uttered the words, and try to divine how they would have dealt with the unforeseen situation; and, evidence of what they would have done, they are by no means final."


author: Lisa Williams.
text:
"There is no Them, there is only Us. Some of Us think this or some of Us think that, but we're all Us."


author: Polybius (205 BC - 118 BC).
text:
"There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man."


author: Milton R. Sapirstein.
text:
"There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others."


author: John Davy.
text:
"There is not a flower or bird in sight, only a small screen on which lines are moving, while the child sits almost motionless, pushing at the keyboard with one finger. As a learning environment, it may be mentally rich, but it is perceptually extremely impoverished. No smells or tastes, no wind or bird song (unless the computer is programmed to produce electronic tweets), no connection with soil, water, sunlight, warmth, the actual learning environment is almost autistic in quality, impoverished sensually, emotionally, and socially."


author: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935).
text:
"There is not a man in the country that can't make a living for himself and family. But he can't make a living for them and his government, too, the way his government is living. What the government has got to do is live as cheap as the people."


author: Laura Moncur (1969 - ).
text:
"There is not a person in the world who is given the advantage of travel who does not return changed."


author: Pierre Bayle (1647 - 1706).
text:
"There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought."


author: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata.
text:
"There is nothing better than birthday cake. It's like a slice of concentrated love with buttercream frosting."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it."


author: Shestone.
text:
"There is nothing displays the quickness of genius more than a dispute - as two diamonds, encountering, contribute to each other's lustre. But perhaps the odds are against the man of taste in this particular."


author: James Roy Smith.
text:
"There is nothing in the world more powerful than an idea. No weapon can destroy it; no power can conquer it except the power of another idea."


author: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD).
text:
"There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage."


author: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900).
text:
"There is nothing in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and he who considers price only is that man's lawful prey."


author: Robert Lynd (1879 - 1949).
text:
"There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before."


author: Virginia Kelley.
text:
"There is nothing like a newborn baby to renew your spirit - and to buttress your resolve to make the world a better place."


author: Nelson Mandela (1918 - ).
text:
"There is nothing like returing to a place that remains uncganged to find how you yourself have altered."


author: Nelson Mandela (1918 - ).
text:
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered."


author: Laura Moncur (1969 - ).
text:
"There is nothing like the razor sharp tongue of a good friend to cut through the lies we tell ourselves."


author: Niccolo Machiavelli "The Prince" 1532.
text:
"There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things."


author: Homer (800 BC - 700 BC).
text:
"There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the foul deed which she plotted when she contrived her husband's murder."


author: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592).
text:
"There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent."


author: J. S . Bach.
text:
"There is nothing remarkable about it, all one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself."


author: Francis Jeffrey (1773 - 1850).
text:
"There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices."


author: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider.
text:
"There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it."


author: George Washington (1732 - 1799).
text:
"There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves."


author: Ani Difranco.
text:
"There is nothing that is personal and private, it is all universal. All that stuff we share but don't admit to, and don't talk about...what is that about?"


author: Pliny the Younger (62 AD - 114 AD).
text:
"There is nothing to write about, you say. Well then, write and let me know just this - that there is nothing to write about; or tell me in the good old style if you are well. That's right. I am quite well."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship."


author: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969).
text:
"There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure."


author: Milton Friedman (1912 - 2006).
text:
"There is one and only one social responsibility of business-to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud."


author: William Of Orange.
text:
"There is one certain means by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin -- I will die in the last ditch."


author: Mortimer Caplin.
text:
"There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist- the taxidermist leaves the hide."


author: Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845).
text:
"There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all."


author: Henry Ford (1863 - 1947).
text:
"There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible."


author: Steve Martin (1945 - ).
text:
"There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that."


author: Sean O'Faolain (1900 - 1991).
text:
"There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen."


author: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963).
text:
"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner."


author: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963).
text:
"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."


author: Edward Steichen.
text:
"There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is "man" himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism."


author: May Sarton.
text:
"There is only one real deprivation, I decided this morning, and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most."


author: Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957).
text:
"There is only one success... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it."


author: William James (1842 - 1910).
text:
"There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."


author: William James (1842 - 1910).
text:
"There is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers."


author: Francis A. Carter.
text:
"There is only one way in which a person acquires a new idea; by combination or association of two or more ideas he already has into a new juxtaposition in such a manner as to discover a relationship among them of which he was not previously aware."


author: Saul Bellow (1915 - 2005).
text:
"There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book."


author: Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD).
text:
"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will."


author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
text:
"There is only one way to win hearts and that is to make oneself like unto those of whom one would be loved."


author: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930).
text:
"There is plenty of peace in any home where the family doesn't make the mistake of trying to get together."


author: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983).
text:
"There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size."


author: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986).
text:
"There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man--with human flesh."


author: Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993).
text:
"There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment."


author: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900).
text:
"There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey."


author: Edward Wallis Hoch (1849 - 1925).
text:
"There is so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us, That it hardly behooves any of us To talk about the rest of us."


author: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823).
text:
"There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!"


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact."


author: Robert Half.
text:
"There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability."


author: Martin Gardner (1914 - ).
text:
"There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry."


author: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924).
text:
"There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight; there is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right."


author: Sir Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682).
text:
"There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun."


author: C. C. Colton.
text:
"There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool."


author: C. C. Colton.
text:
"There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so."


author: John Green.
text:
"There is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind of violates that contract."


author: Miyamoto Musashi.
text:
"There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, in his harmony and discord. Similarly, there is timing in the Way of the merchant, in the rise and fall of capital. All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this."


author: Diana Nyad.
text:
"There is... nothing greater than touching the shore after crossing some great body of water knowing that I've done it with my own two arms and legs."


author: Gordon Atkinson.
text:
"There isnât much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you arenât really living without it."


author: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942).
text:
"There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a very comforting thought."


author: Betty Friedan (1921 - 2006).
text:
"There needs to be bolder thinking, ... on how to measure the quality of life of men and women in the work force. Currently, success is measured by material advancements. We need to readjust the definition of success to account for time outside of work and satisfaction of life, not just the dollars-and-cents bottom line."


author: Anonymous.
text:
"There once was a young man from Lyme Who couldn't get his limericks to rhyme When asked "Why not?" It was said that he thought They were probably too long and badly structured and not at all very funny."


author: Tom Lehrer (1928 - ).
text:
"There used to be certain words you couldn't say in front of a girl. Now, you can say them, but you can't say 'girl.'"


author: Gregory Benford - Timescape.
text:
"There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities-- potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry-- that was a sublime experience. The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics."


author: Rebecca West (1892 - 1983).
text:
"There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time."


author: Saul Bellow (1915 - 2005).
text:
"There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger."


author: Anatole Broyard.
text:
"There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience."


author: Anonymous.
text:
"There was a young woman named Jenny, Whose limericks weren't worth a penny. Her rhythm and rhyme Were perfectly fine But whenever she tried to write any, She always had one line too many."


author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
text:
"There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed."


author: Book of Common Prayer.
text:
"There was never anything by the wit of man so well devised, or so sure established, which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted."


author: Elizabeth Aston.
text:
"There was no escaping by means of any journey, however adventurous, one took one's problems and sorrows with one."


author: Joseph Heller (1923 - 1999).
text:
"There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to."


author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930).
text:
"There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world."


author: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider.
text:
"There were always people like the pope. They serve a certain function, of course. They subsidize us. But, they don't create anything and they must never be allowed to stop the artist from creating."


author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784).
text:
"There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good."


author: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
text:
"There will always be dissident voices heard in the land expresing opposition without alternatives, finding fault but never favor, perceiving gloom on every side, and seeking influence without responsibility."


author: Richard Rybolt.
text:
"There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails."


author: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817).
text:
"There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere."


author: Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 - 1991).
text:
"There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is."


author: John Green.
text:
"There will come a time, when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything."


author: Anna Quindlen (1953 - ).
text:
"There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new book. The word "banal" sometimes rears its by-now banal head; you say "underedited," I say "derivative." The conversation goes around and around various literary criticisms, and by the time it moves on one thing is clear: No one read the book; we just read the reviews."


author: Stuart Stevens.
text:
"There's a dark side to each and every human soul. We wish we were Obi-Wan Kenobi, and for the most part we are, but there's a little Darth Vader in all of us. Thing is, this ain't no either or proposition. We're talking about dialectics, the good and the bad merging into us. You can run but you can't hide. My experience? Face the darkness, stare it down. Own it. As brother Nietzsche said, being human is a complicated gig. Give that old dark night of the soul a hug! Howl the eternal yes!"


author: Dorthy Parker.
text:
"There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words."


author: Po Bronson.
text:
"There's a powerful transformative effect when you surround yourself with like-minded people. Peer pressure is a great thing when it helps you accomplish your goals instead of distracting you from them."


author: Hal Hartley.
text:
"There's a right way and a wrong way to do things. If you make a chair, you want to make a nice chair. You want people to admire it. I think doing something well is a form of respect for humanity in general. I have found that all incompetence comes from not paying attention, which comes from people doing something that they don't want to do. And doing what you don't want to do means either you have no choice, or you don't think that the moments of your life are worth fighting for."


author: Michael J. Fox (1961 - ).
text:
"There's a rule in acting called, "Don't play the result." If you have a character who's going to end up in a certain place, don't play that until you get there. Play each scene and each beat as it comes. And that's what you do in life: You don't play the result."


author: Gabrielle Zevin.
text:
"There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker."


author: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - ).
text:
"There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause."


author: Jeff Foxworthy.
text:
"There's a whole segment of the population with a mentality that bases good times on where they can go and what they can buy."


author: Jennifer Aniston.
text:
"There's always farther to go and more to do and mountains to climb; that's what I look forward to."


author: Cullen Hightower.
text:
"There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else."


author: Phylicia Rashad.
text:
"There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving."


author: Min Kim.
text:
"There's always something to write about. If there's not then you need to live life more aggressively."


author: Matt Groening (1954 - ).
text:
"There's an empty spot I've always had inside me. I tried to fill it with family, religion, community service, but those were dead ends! I think this chair is the answer."


author: David Foster.
text:
"There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function."


author: Henry Bromel.
text:
"There's an old saying that if you come back to the place where you became a man, you will remember all those things you need to be happy... That saying never made sense to me, but I thought it was worth a try."


author: Barack Obama (1961 - ).
text:
"There's new energy to harness, new jobs to be created, new schools to build, and threats to meet, alliances to repair. The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term. But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you, we as a people will get there. There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as president. And we know the government can't solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And, above all, I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it's been done in America for 221 years â block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"There's no bottom, none, in my voluptuousness: Your wives, your daughters, your matrons and your maids, could not fill up the cistern of my lust."


author: Hugh Macleod.
text:
"There's no correlation between creativity and equipment ownership. None. Zilch. Nada. Actually, as the artist gets more into his thing, and as he gets more successful, his number of tools tends to go down. He knows what works for him. Expending mental energy on stuff wastes time."


author: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ).
text:
"There's no easy way out. If there were, I would have bought it. And believe me, it would be one of my favorite things!"


author: Wachowski Brothers.
text:
"There's no escaping reason, no denying purpose - because as we both know, without purpose, we would not exist."


author: Sean O'Casey (1880 - 1964).
text:
"There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible."


author: Bruce Schneier.
text:
"There's no reason to treat software any differently from other products. Today Firestone can produce a tire with a single systemic flaw and they're liable, but Microsoft can produce an operating system with multiple systemic flaws discovered per week and not be liable. This makes no sense, and it's the primary reason security is so bad today."


author: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ).
text:
"There's no such thing as failure. Mistakes happen in your life to bring into focus more clearly who you really are."


author: P.J. O'Rourke (commenting on _Moby Dick_).
text:
"There's not a woman in the book, the plot hinges on unkindness to animals, and the black characters mostly drown by Chapter 29."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple: If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with 't."


author: Eva Hoffman.
text:
"There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face."


author: Laura Moncur (1969 - ).
text:
"There's nothing like seeing a photo of yourself in happier days speeding toward your face in anger."


author: Seymour Skinner.
text:
"There's nothing more exciting than science. You get all the fun of sitting still, being quiet, writing down numbers, paying attention. Science has it all."


author: Clay Aiken.
text:
"There's nothing so wrong that it can't be easily fixed or easily ignored. I just let things roll off."


author: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980).
text:
"There's nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever."


author: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977).
text:
"There's one way to find out if a man is honest-ask him. If he says, "Yes," you know he is a crook."


author: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963).
text:
"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."


author: Clint Eastwood (1930 - ).
text:
"There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again."


author: Vince Lombardi (1913 - 1970).
text:
"There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything. I do, and I demand that my players do."


author: Charlize Theron.
text:
"There's only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn't give you a chance there is nothing you can do."


author: Robert Orben.
text:
"There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all."


author: Stephanie Klein.
text:
"There's something almost perfect in the ugly duckling syndrome. Because a sensitivity is tattooed on a part of you no one else can see but can somehow guess is there."


author: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata.
text:
"There's something amazing about the passion of youth and its power to sustain. If there's a more powerful energy source, I don't know about it."


author: Ali Vincent.
text:
"There's something fundamental you have to understand about yourself before you can change your life for good."


author: Harper Lee (1926 - ).
text:
"There's something in our world that makes men lose their heads--they couldn't be fair if they tried."


author: Charles Rosin.
text:
"There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park- like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand."


author: David Nicholls.
text:
"There's something unnatural about a woman finding babies or, more specifically, conversation about babies, boring. They'll think she's bitter, jealous, lonely. But she's also bored of everybody telling her how lucky she is, what with all that sleep and all that freedom and spare time, the ability to go on dates or head off to Paris at a moments notice. It sounds like they're consoling her, and she resents this and feels patronized by it."


author: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942).
text:
"There's such a difference between saying a thing yourself and hearing other people say it. You may know a thing is so, but you can't help hoping other people don't quite think it is."


author: Bono (1960 - ).
text:
"There's the country of America, which you have to defend, but there's also the idea of America. America is more than just a country, it's an idea. An idea that's supposed to be contagious."


author: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935).
text:
"There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign are an open book, generally a check book."


author: Jay Leno (1950 - ).
text:
"There's this big pie in show business, and you physically can't eat the whole pie. If you give everybody a slice of pie, you will still have more than enough. The real trick is not to try to get the whole pie, but to keep the biggest slice."


author: Jerry Seinfeld (1954 - ).
text:
"There's very little advice in men's magazines, because men think, I know what I'm doing. Just show me somebody naked."


author: Bible.
text:
"Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head."


author: Numbers 21:7.
text:
"Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee; pray unto the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. (Lesson of trust)"


author: Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC).
text:
"Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to Truth as a lamp; hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone beside yourselves. And those, who shall be a lamp unto themselves, shall betake themselves to no external refuge, but holding fast to the Truth as their lamp, and holding fast to the Truth as their refuge, they shall reach the topmost height."


author: Jennifer Hudson.
text:
"Thereâs something wonderful about entertaining people on vacation. Everyone is there to have a good time."


author: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980).
text:
"These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equaled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig."


author: David Nicholls.
text:
"These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger he will plunge through."


author: Robert Orben .
text:
"These detective series on TV always end at precisely the right moment-after the criminal is arrested and before the court turns him loose."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger."


author: William James (1842 - 1910).
text:
"These, then are my last words to you: be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact."


author: Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
text:
"They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers. . . call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order."


author: President John F. Kennedy.
text:
"They are a bunch of bastards - and I'm saying this on my own now, not just because my father told it to me. -- [Comment about businessmen in general, made a few days after the newspaperas printed his statement of 10 April 1962 that his father always told him that businessmen were "sons of bitches."]"


author: Richard Dawkins (1941 - ).
text:
"They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence. They have come a long way, those replicators. Now they go by the name of genes, and we are their survival machines."


author: Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954).
text:
"They are so damn 'intellectual' and rotten that I can't stand them anymore....I [would] rather sit on the floor in the market of Toluca and sell tortillas, than have anything to do with those 'artistic' bitches of Paris."


author: Ann Richards.
text:
"They blame the low income women for ruining the country because they are staying home with their children and not going out to work. They blame the middle income women for ruining the country because they go out to work and do not stay home to take care of their children."


author: Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936).
text:
"They copied all they could follow  but they couldn't copy my mind so I left them sweating and stealing a year and a half behind."


author: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931).
text:
"They deem me mad for I will not sell my days for gold; I deem them mad for they think my days have a price."


author: The Book of Joshua 6:21.
text:
"They devoted the city to the lord and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it - men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys."


author: Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC).
text:
"They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it."


author: Orson Scott Card (1951 - ).
text:
"They get us to fight each other, to hate each other, the game is everything. Win win win. It amounts to nothing."


author: Graham Greene.
text:
"They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn't name its price. A man open to bribes was to be relied upon below a certain figure, but sentiment might uncoil in the heart at a name, a photograph, even a smell remembered."


author: Ian Fleming (1908 - 1964).
text:
"They have a saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action.'"


author: Kahil Gibran.
text:
"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: Former LAPD Chief Daryl Gates.
text:
"They have, and bring with them, that upper-body strength. They have apparently developed that in their childhood and growing up, and they've further advanced in that regard."


author: Tom Bodett.
text:
"They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for."


author: Henry Bromel.
text:
"They say dreams are the windows of the soul--take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts."


author: Garrison Keillor (1942 - ).
text:
"They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days."


author: David Assael.
text:
"They say that blood is thicker than water. Maybe that's why we battle our own with more energy and gusto than we would ever expend on strangers."


author: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata.
text:
"They say that facing oneself is the sign of a zany man, but facing this flabby belly requires a lot of courage."


author: Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987).
text:
"They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men."


author: Steven Wright (1955 - ).
text:
"They say the sun never sets over the British Empire, but it rises every morning. The sky must get awfully crowded."


author: Ellen DeGeneres.
text:
"They say you just stand over there, he'll say thank you and you walk back off and that's what I thought was gonna happen, but in my head, I had for five or six years known that he was gonna call me over."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad."


author: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790).
text:
"They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles."


author: Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968).
text:
"They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze.  They should photograph me through linoleum."


author: George W. Bush (1946 - ).
text:
"They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program."


author: Elie Wiesel (1928 - ).
text:
"They were going to die. They knew it, and their last words were I love you. Even in great pain, their last words were of love... People who could have saved themselves and they ran back in to save others instead. If humanity is capable of that, how can I lose hope in humanity?"


author: Louise Erdrich.
text:
"They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness."


author: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983).
text:
"They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor."


author: Sir Thomas More (1478 - 1535).
text:
"They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is."


author: Gregory Thomas Garcia, Elijah Aron, Jordan Young.
text:
"They wouldn't call it falling in love if you didn't get hurt sometimes, but you just pick yourself up and move on."


author: Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961).
text:
"They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason."


author: Jack Nicholson.
text:
"They'll talk to ya and talk to ya and talk to ya about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, its gonna scare 'em."


author: Lucille Clifton.
text:
"Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept."


author: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963).
text:
"Things somehow seem more real and vivid when one can apply somebody else's ready-made phrase about them."


author: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC).
text:
"Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame."


author: Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman.
text:
"Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more."


author: Grace Speare.
text:
"Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life, you need to project the end-result. Think of the elation, the satisfaction, the joy! Carrying the ecstatic feeling will bring the desired goal into view."


author: Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993).
text:
"Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do, you'll put a touch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces. You'll love it into greatness."


author: Juvenal (55 AD - 127 AD).
text:
"Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living."


author: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ).
text:
"Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping-stone to greatness."


author: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD).
text:
"Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills."


author: Peacemaker.
text:
"Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground."


author: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC).
text:
"Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults."


author: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996).
text:
"Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?"


author: Randy K. Milholland.
text:
"Think of life as a giant, fat cat you're in charge of. Sometimes you can control it, but other times, it's going to do what it wants and you have to roll with it. And sometimes you can do everything - everything you're s'posed to do- and it'll still shred all the things you hold dear... The only thing you can really do with life is rub its belly and prepare for the worst."


author: Anna Quindlen (1953 - ).
text:
"Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived."


author: Tom Masson.
text:
"Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record."


author: Brenda Ueland.
text:
"Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers."


author: Horace (65 BC - 8 BC).
text:
"Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise."


author: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995).
text:
"Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once."


author: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986).
text:
"Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?"


author: Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939).
text:
"Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry."


author: Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi.
text:
"Thinking rationally is often different from "positive thinking," in that it is a realistic assessment of the situation, with a view towards rectifying the problem if possible."


author: Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC).
text:
"Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find - nothing."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years."


author: Western Union internal memo.
text:
"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us."


author: Western Union internal memo, 1876..
text:
"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"This above all: to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day; Thou canst not then be false to any man."


author: Voltaire (1694 - 1778).
text:
"This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire."


author: Captain J. A. Hadfield.
text:
"This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men."


author: Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850).
text:
"This coffee plunges into the stomach...the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle.... Memories charge at full gallop...the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp-shooters."


author: Ralph Nader (1934 - ).
text:
"This country has been strip-mined by rich and powerful interests. If you dont like what they're doing, don't just sit there. Vote them out."


author: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935).
text:
"This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer."


author: Berkeley Vax/Unix Assembler Reference Manual (1983).
text:
"This document describes the usage and input syntax of the Unix Vax-11 assembler As. As is designed for assembling code produced by the "C" compiler; certain concessions have been made to handle code written directly by people, but in general little sympathy has been extended."


author: Tom Bissell.
text:
"This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception."


author: Zig Ziglar.
text:
"This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward."


author: James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891).
text:
"This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion."


author: Rita Mae Brown.
text:
"This is a celebration of individual freedom, not of homosexuality. No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody."


author: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001).
text:
"This is an important announcement. This is flight 121 to Los Angeles. If your travel plans today do not include Los Angeles, now would be a perfect time to disembark."


author: General Omar Bradley.
text:
"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: Dalai Lama.
text:
"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: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them."


author: Oswald Spengler (1880 - 1936).
text:
"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: Heather Armstrong.
text:
"This is part of the essence of motherhood, watching your kid grow into her own person and not being able to do anything about it. Otherwise children would be nothing more than pets."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities."


author: Colleen Wainwright.
text:
"This is pretty much what journals are all about, at least to me. I knew as I wrote them that even though they provided an excellent place for brain (and heart, and psyche) dump, they were mainly a map of me."


author: Joss Whedon.
text:
"This is something that I do consider to be good advice: I took my first paycheck and I put it in the goddamn bank. Then I took my second paycheck and put it in the goddamn bank. I had seen the roller coaster of my father's career - top of the world, then unemployed - and I never wanted to take a job because I needed money."


author: Gordon Atkinson.
text:
"This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what youâre doing, or it comes out flat. You canât fake your way through this."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four."


author: James Reston (1909 - ).
text:
"This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim."


author: Arthur C Clarke.
text:
"This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one."


author: Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926).
text:
"This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess."


author: TH Nelson.
text:
"This is the rock-solid principle on which the whole of the Corporation's [IBM's] Galaxy-wide success is founded...their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.... There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"This is the true joy in life -- being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one..."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as I live it is my privilege - my *privilege* to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I love. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me; it is a sort of splendid torch which I've got a hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. "


author: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900).
text:
"This is the true nature of home -- it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division."


author: T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965).
text:
"This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper."


author: Aristophanes (450 BC - 388 BC).
text:
"This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never foughtShould contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native landNever to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand."


author: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ).
text:
"This is why I loved the support groups so much. If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you. People listened instead of just waiting for their turn to speak. And when they spoke, they weren't telling you a story. When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before."


author: Meryl Streep (1949 - ).
text:
"This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change."


author: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata.
text:
"This isn't the sort of thing you can leave to chance. You never know when you might find yourself in some sort of cake emergency."


author: Richard M. Nixon (1913 - 1994).
text:
"This land of ours cannot be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in."


author: Chris Dingess.
text:
"This life gets bitterly cold. Sometimes you just need to cling to the person that you can claw your way out of the dark with."


author: Unknown.
text:
"This life is a test. It is only a test. Had this been an actual life, you would have received further instructions as to what to do and where to go."


author: Susan Polis Schutz.
text:
"This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy."


author: W. H. Murray.
text:
"This may sound too simple, but is great in consequence. Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary&#12288;truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that&#12288;the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all&#12288;manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no&#12288; man could have dreamt would have come his way.""


author: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
text:
"This nation was founded by many men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened."


author: Dick Cheney.
text:
"This nation will never go back to the false comforts of the world before 911. We are engaging the enemy as we must, in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, so we will not have to face them here at home."


author: Gaius Plinius Secundus.
text:
"This only is certain, that there is nothing certain; and nothing more miserable and yet more arrogant than man."


author: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980).
text:
"This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop."


author: Alexis DeTocqueville.
text:
"This Rock has become an object of veneration in the United States. I have seen bits of it carefully preserved in several towns in the Union. Does this sufficiently show that all human power and greatness is in the soul of man? Here is a stone which the feet of a few outcasts pressed for an instant; and the stone becomes famous; it is treasured by a great nation; its very dust is shared as a relic."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands,-- This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England."


author: Lois McMaster Bujold.
text:
"This sheaf of paper with gaudy cover glued to the spine is not the book. The book is not an object on the table, it is an event in the readers mind.... The book, therefore is only finished when someone reads it."


author: Toni Morrisson.
text:
"This soil is bad for certain kinds of flowers. Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruits it will not bear. And when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say that the victim had no right to live. We're wrong, of course... but among the sunflowers and the garbage of my town, it's much, much, much too late."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long."


author: Frederick William Robertson.
text:
"This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For 'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love."


author: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963).
text:
"This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people."


author: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004).
text:
"Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying."


author: Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683).
text:
"Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art."


author: John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873).
text:
"Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Those that she makes fair she scarce makes honest; and those that she makes honest she makes very ill-favouredly."


author: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC).
text:
"Those who are able to see beyond the shadows  and lies of their culture will never be understood,  let alone believed, by the masses."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies."


author: Kongming (Zhuge Liang).
text:
"Those who are skilled in combat do not become angered, those who are skilled at winning do not become afraid. Thus the wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win."


author: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC).
text:
"Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber."


author: Simone Weil (1909 - 1943).
text:
"Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention."


author: Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519).
text:
"Those who become enamored of practices without science are like sailors who go aboard ship without a rudder and compass, for they are never certain where they will land."


author: Norm Papernick.
text:
"Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes."


author: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC).
text:
"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well."


author: Josh Billings (1818 - 1885).
text:
"Those who enter heaven may find the outer walls plastered with creeds, but they won't find any on the inside."


author: Alban Goodier.
text:
"Those who face that which is actually before them, unburdened by the past, undistracted by the future, these are they who live, who make the best use of their lives; these are those who have found the secret of contentment."


author: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945).
text:
"Those who have long enjoyed such privleges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them."


author: Polybius (205 BC - 118 BC).
text:
"Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories."


author: Frederick Douglas.
text:
"Those who profess to favor freedom, yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without planting up the ground. They want rain without thunder or lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. The struggle may not be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will."


author: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
text:
"Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great deal of what is known about the way the world works."


author: Konstantin Chernenko.
text:
"Those who try to give us advice on matters of human rights do nothing but provoke an ironic smile among us. We will not permit anyone to interfere in our affairs."


author: Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945).
text:
"Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live."


author: George Gordon Noel Byron.
text:
"Those who will not reason are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves."


author: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865).
text:
"Those who would deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it."


author: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790).
text:
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."


author: Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661).
text:
"Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them."


author: Isaiah 58:12.
text:
"Thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations, and thou shalt be called, the repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to dwell in."


author: W. M. L. Jay.
text:
"Though a good motive cannot sanction a bad action, a bad motive will always vitiate a good action. In common and trivial matters we may act without motives, but in momentous ones the most careful deliberation is wisdom."


author: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969).
text:
"Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and co-operation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace."


author: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ).
text:
"Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Though inclination be as sharp as will, My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Though it be honest, it is never good to bring bad news: give to a gracious message an host of tongues; but let ill tidings tell themselves when they be felt."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Though men can cover crimes with bold stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books."


author: William F. Buckley Jr. - in response to previous statement.
text:
"Though one should be prepared to vomit rather frequently and disport with pink elephants and assorted grotesqueries while trying often unsuccessfully to make one's way to the toilet."


author: Diane Ackerman.
text:
"Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative."


author: Emerson.
text:
"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."


author: Amos Bronson Alcott (1799 - 1888).
text:
"Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man."


author: Woody Allen (1935 - ).
text:
"Thought: Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage."


author: Woody Allen (1935 - ).
text:
"Thought: why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only for food: frequently there must be a beverage."


author: Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895).
text:
"Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady."


author: Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus (1493 - 1541).
text:
"Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him. For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth."


author: Tyron Edwards.
text:
"Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny."


author: Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC).
text:
"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind."


author: Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274).
text:
"Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do."


author: Henry James (1843 - 1916).
text:
"Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind."


author: Isak Dineson.
text:
"Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost."


author: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947).
text:
"Through and through the world is infested with quantity. To talk sense is to talk quantities, It is no use saying the nation is large- how large? It is no use s aying that radium is scarce- how scarce? You can not evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves."


author: Edwin Hubbel Chapin.
text:
"Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link, into the great chain of order."


author: Leo Braeck.
text:
"Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world; through action he is to give to it meaning."


author: Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321).
text:
"Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here."


author: Ed Greenwood.
text:
"Throughout life, one does not miss any chance to hold onto the things that are really precious, if one is truly wise."


author: Sharon Gold.
text:
"Throw out an alarming alarm clock. If the ring is loud and strident, you're waking up to instant stress. You shouldn't be bullied out of bed, just reminded that it's time to start your day."


author: Anais Nin (1903 - 1977).
text:
"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back; a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."


author: Homer (800 BC - 700 BC).
text:
"Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings."


author: Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744).
text:
"Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; thus unlamented let me die; steal from the world, and not a stone tell where I lie."


author: Dave Barry (1947 - ).
text:
"Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet."


author: Henri Poincare (1854 - 1912).
text:
"Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means....[A] machine might be imagined where the assumptions were put in at one end, while the theorems came out at the other, like the legendary Chicago machine where the pigs go in alive and come out transformed into hams and sausages. No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does."


author: Katherine Paterson.
text:
"Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility."


author: Sun Tzu.
text:
"Thus, though we have heard of stupid haste in war, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays."


author: John Locke (1632 - 1704).
text:
"Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing."


author: Waiter.
text:
"Time can burn. Time can hurt. But it can also purify. It can chase away shadows. It can melt the coldest heart."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours."


author: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC).
text:
"Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time."


author: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider.
text:
"Time for the weather report. It's cold out folks. Bonecrushing cold. The kind of cold which will wrench the spirit out of a young man, or forge it into steel."


author: From the last episode of "Cheers".
text:
"Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you."


author: Jerome K. Jerome (1859 - 1927).
text:
"Time has laid its healing hand upon the wound when we can look back at the the pain we once fainted under, and no bitterness or despair arises in our heart."


author: Thomas Mann (1875 - 1955).
text:
"Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back  Wherein he puts alms for oblivion,  A great-sized monster of ingratitudes:  Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd  As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish fill the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. I cannot count one. I know not the first letter of the alphabet. I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born."


author: William Faulkner (1897 - 1962).
text:
"Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life."


author: Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess.
text:
"Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Time is like a fashionable host  That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand,  And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly,  Grasps in the comer."


author: Malcolm X (1925 - 1965).
text:
"Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else."


author: Anonymous.
text:
"Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working."


author: Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967).
text:
"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you."


author: Ravi Zacharias.
text:
"Time isn't just a fleeting thing.  It never moves  forward without engraving it's mark upon the heart."


author: Swatch.
text:
"Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave."


author: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832).
text:
"Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms."


author: Jerry Garcia.
text:
"Tipper and Al came to a show the last time we were in Washington. They're nice people, a nice family. We made every effort not to frighten them."


author: Chamfort.
text:
"Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate, and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness."


author: South.
text:
"To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible."


author: Helen Rowland (1876 - 1950).
text:
"To a woman the first kiss is just the end of the beginning but to a man it is the beginning of the end."


author: Neil Gaiman.
text:
"To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due."


author: Anatole France (1844 - 1924).
text:
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."


author: Alexis Carrel (1873 - 1944).
text:
"To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us."


author: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919).
text:
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."


author: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919).
text:
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, right or wrong - is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."


author: R. A. Salvatore.
text:
"To any intelligent being, there is no emotion more important than hope. Individually or collectively, we must hope that the future will be better than the past, that our offspring, and theirs after them, will be a bit closer to an ideal society, whatever our perception of that might be... It is at those times when we feel we are contributing to that ultimate end... we feel true elation."


author: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809).
text:
"To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead."


author: Robertson Davies.
text:
"To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser."


author: Robert E. Lee (1807 - 1870).
text:
"To be a good soldier, you must love the army. To be a good commander, you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, not even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust."


author: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885).
text:
"To be a saint is the exception; to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. Sin is a gravitation."


author: Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961).
text:
"To be a successful father there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level."


author: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC).
text:
"To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue...[They are] gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness."


author: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC).
text:
"To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness."


author: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD).
text:
"To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature."


author: Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832).
text:
"To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed."


author: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996).
text:
"To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead."


author: Richard Whately.
text:
"To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself."


author: Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804).
text:
"To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But I maintain that in such a case an action of this kind, however proper, however amiable it may be, has nevertheless no true moral worth, but is on a level with other inclinations. ... For the maxim lacks the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from inclination."


author: Madonna (1958 - ).
text:
"To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt."


author: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817).
text:
"To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all."


author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680).
text:
"To be deceived by our enemies or betrayed by our friends in insupportable; yet by ourselves we are often content to be so treated."


author: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD).
text:
"To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind."


author: Author Unknown.
text:
"To be free of destructive stress don't sweat the small stuff and by realizing that all stuff is small."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability."


author: Tryon Edwards (1809 - 1894).
text:
"To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power."


author: Sidney Madwed.
text:
"To be healthy, wealthy, happy and successful in any and all areas of your life you need to be aware that you need to think healthy, wealthy, happy and successful thoughts twenty four hours a day and cancel all negative, destructive, fearful and unhappy thoughts. These two types of thought cannot coexist if you want to share in the abundance that surrounds us all."


author: Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC).
text:
"To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent."


author: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC).
text:
"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: George Santayana (1863 - 1952).
text:
"To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring."


author: Robert C. Murphy.
text:
"To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is small wonder that people who have been demanding all their lives to be heard so often fall speechless when confronted with one who gravely agrees to lend an ear. Man clamors for the freedom to express himself and for knowing that he counts. But once offered these conditions, he becomes frigthened."


author: Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988).
text:
"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: e e cummings (1894 - 1962).
text:
"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting."


author: e e cummings (1894 - 1962).
text:
"To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."


author: Irving Wallace.
text:
"To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity."


author: Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965).
text:
"To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful."


author: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896).
text:
"To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization."


author: Henry Miller (1891 - 1980).
text:
"To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself."


author: Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880).
text:
"To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost."


author: Karl Kraus (1874 - 1936).
text:
"To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an example? He is loyal to men, not to other dogs."


author: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849).
text:
"To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair."


author: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790).
text:
"To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible."


author: Quintus Fabius Maximus (275 BC - 203 BC).
text:
"To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"To be, or not to be: that is the question:Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep: No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heartache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to,--'t is a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub: For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action."


author: Robert J. Furey.
text:
"To become acquainted with kindness one must be prepared to learn new things and feel new feelings. Kindness is more than a philosophy of the mind. It is a philosophy of the spirit."


author: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887).
text:
"To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice."


author: Sophy Burnham.
text:
"To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"To believe your own thought: To believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, that is genius."


author: Thomas A. Buckner.
text:
"To bring one's self to a frame of mind and to the proper energy to accomplish things that require plain hard work continuously is the one big battle that everyone has. When this battle is won for all time, then everything is easy."


author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965).
text:
"To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day."


author: Wendell Berry.
text:
"To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival."


author: Yann Martel.
text:
"To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation."


author: Garrison Keillor (1942 - ).
text:
"To choose Norm Coleman over Walter Mondale is like going to a great steakhouse and ordering the tuna sandwich."


author: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948).
text:
"To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other."


author: Pliny The Elder (23 AD - 79 AD).
text:
"To conclude, all other living creatures live orderly and well, after their own kind: we see them flock and gather together, and ready to make head and stand against all others of a contrary kind: the lions as fell and savage as they be, fight not with one another: serpents sting not serpents, nor bite one another with their venomous teeth: nay the very monsters and huge fishes of the sea, war not amongst themselves in their own kind: but believe me, man at man's hand receiveth most harm and mischief."


author: Ancient Chinese Warlord.
text:
"To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy."


author: Abbie M. Dale.
text:
"To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life."


author: Monica Fairview.
text:
"To demand perfection is a sure way to be disappointed in everybody, for you will be bound to think ill of others."


author: Mel Levine, MD.
text:
"To deny a developing mind access to its specialty is cruel. To judge one's worthiness in the specialties of others is equally inhuman."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!"


author: William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830).
text:
"To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness."


author: Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845).
text:
"To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can."


author: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996).
text:
"To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can."


author: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986).
text:
"To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or any other intellect to solve it for you. There's no writ of inquest or calling of witness to provide answers. No servant or disciple can dress the wound. You dress it yourself or continue bleeding for all to see."


author: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC).
text:
"To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character."


author: David Brooks.
text:
"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: Anna Louise Strong.
text:
"To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be."


author: Geoffrey Parsons.
text:
"To feel the right emotions is fully as important as to hold the right ideas, and the great service of religion is the development of the right emotions."


author: Sun-Tzu (~400 BC).
text:
"To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."


author: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
text:
"To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished."


author: Moliere (1622 - 1673).
text:
"To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to."


author: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817).
text:
"To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment."


author: Bette Davis (1908 - 1989).
text:
"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: Tim Allen.
text:
"To get a man's attention, just stand in front of the TV and don't move. He'll talk to you. I promise."


author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784).
text:
"To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable."


author: Robert Copeland.
text:
"To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent."


author: Kelvin Throop.
text:
"To get the attention of a large animal, be it an elephant or a bureaucracy, it helps to know what part of it feels pain. Be very sure, though, that you want its full attention."


author: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC).
text:
"To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture."


author: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC).
text:
"To give money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in everyman's power nor an easy matter."


author: Gandhi.
text:
"To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer."


author: Bible.
text:
"To give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness."


author: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983).
text:
"To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world."


author: Anonymous.
text:
"To harken to evil conversation is the road to wickedness.. (Pravis Assuescere Sermonibus Est Via Ad Rem Ipsam)"


author: John Comenius.
text:
"To hate a man because he was born in another country, because he speaks a different language, or because he takes a different view of this subject or that, is a great folly. Desist, I implore you, for we are all equally human...Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity."


author: David Nicholls.
text:
"To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death."


author: Lawrence Sterne (1713 - 1768).
text:
"To have respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our manners."


author: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894).
text:
"To hold the same views at forty as we did at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser."


author: Henry Tuckerman.
text:
"To impress others we must be earnest; to amuse them, it is only necessary to be kindly and fanciful."


author: Marquis de Sade.
text:
"To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell."


author: Peter de Gaston Levis.
text:
"To judge the real importance of an individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce."


author: Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC).
text:
"To keep the body in good health is a duty otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear."


author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
text:
"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age."


author: George Santayana (1863 - 1952).
text:
"To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood."


author: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832).
text:
"To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail our pride supports us; when we succeed, it betrays us."


author: C. C. Colton.
text:
"To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports; when we succeed; it betrays us."


author: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983).
text:
"To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance."


author: C. C. Colton.
text:
"To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary."


author: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832).
text:
"To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it."


author: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894).
text:
"To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch of a redeemed social condition; to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."


author: Bruce Catton.
text:
"To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson."


author: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680).
text:
"To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation."


author: William Henry Channing.
text:
"To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony."


author: Unknown.
text:
"To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top."


author: Henry Miller (1891 - 1980).
text:
"To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in."


author: Margaret Fairless Barber.
text:
"To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."


author: Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD).
text:
"To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future."


author: Russell L. Ackoff.
text:
"To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately."


author: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968).
text:
"To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug."


author: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961).
text:
"To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can."


author: Edward Chapin.
text:
"To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery-into something that no mortal eye hath yet seen, and no intelligence has yet declared."


author: Tina Fey.
text:
"To me YES, AND means don't be afraid to contribute. Always make sure you're adding something to the discussion. Your initiations are worthwhile."


author: Jack Handey (1949 - ).
text:
"To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other."


author: President Bill Clinton.
text:
"To middle-class Americans who have paid a great deal for the last 12 years and from whom I ask a contribution tonight, I will say again... you're not going at it alone anymore - you're certainly not going first, and you're not going to pay more for less as you have too often in the past."


author: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983).
text:
"To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats- we know it not."


author: Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955).
text:
"To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest."


author: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
text:
"To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence."


author: Lao-tzu (604 BC - 531 BC).
text:
"To produce things and to rear them,To produce, but not to take possession of them,To act, but not to rely on one's own ability,To lead them, but not to master them -This is called profound and secret virtue."


author: Selwyn Champion.
text:
"To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of a new friend; to read it a second time is to meet an old one."


author: Aleister Crowley (1875 - 1947).
text:
"To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile.  The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter."


text: "To read your own poetry in public is a kind of mental incest."
author:
Brendan Behan's father quoted by Shay Duffrin in his one-man show "Confessions of an Irish Rebel" 1984.


author: Oscar Homolka.
text:
"To really enjoy the better things in life, one must have first experienced the things they are better than."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"To recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less."


author: Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778).
text:
"To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts."


author: Author Unknown.
text:
"To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to kill a fly on his friend's forehead."


author: Karl von Bonstetten.
text:
"To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love."


author: Nancy Friday.
text:
"To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off."


author: Herbert J. Muller.
text:
"To say that a man is made up of certain chemical elements is a satisfactory description only for those who intend to use him as a fertilizer."


author: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD).
text:
"To see a man fearless in dangers. untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body."


author: William Blake (1757 - 1827).
text:
"To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour."


author: William Blake (1757 - 1827).
text:
"To see a world in a Grain of Sand, And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour."


author: Archibald MacLeish (1892 - 1982).
text:
"To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold."


author: Michele de Montaigne.
text:
"To set a mark we can seldom hit is not an honest game. We take good care not to be righteous according to the laws of God, and we make it impossible to be righteous according to our own. From the same sheet of paper on which a judge writes his sentence against an adulterer, he tears off a piece to scribble a love note to his colleague's wife."


author: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004).
text:
"To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last--but eat you he will."


author: Aaron Copland (1900 - 1990).
text:
"To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable."


author: Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919).
text:
"To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all."


author: Charles Talleyrand.
text:
"To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man."


author: Marie Leneru.
text:
"To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character."


author: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001).
text:
"To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem."


author: Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946).
text:
"To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and keep absolutely sober."


author: Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992).
text:
"To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today."


author: J. B. S. Haldane (1892 - 1964).
text:
"To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size. The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern. I do not suppose that Henry Ford would find much difficulty in running Andorra or Luxembourg on a socialistic basis. He has already more men on his pay-roll than their population. It is conceivable that a syndicate of Fords, if we could find them, would make Belgium Ltd. or Denmark Inc. pay their way. But while nationalization of certain industries is an obvious possibility in the largest of states, I find it no easier to picture a completely socialized British Empire or United States than an elephant turning somersaults or a hippopotamus jumping a hedge."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone."


author: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790).
text:
"To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it."


author: Herman Melville (1819 - 1891).
text:
"To the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee."


author: Herman Melville (1819 - 1891).
text:
"To the last, I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine."


author: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892).
text:
"To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all."


author: Shakespeare.
text:
"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."


author: Ali Vincent.
text:
"To think about your life is to create it. You have to take ownership of where you are right now and know where you want to go before you can get there. Keep collecting evidence for your success. You can believe it, and you can be it."


author: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931).
text:
"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do."


author: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963).
text:
"To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time."


author: Peter McWilliams.
text:
"To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation."


author: H. L. Wayland.
text:
"To value riches is not to be covetous. They are the gift of God, and, like every gift of his, good in themselves, and capable of a good use. But to overvalue riches, to give them a place in the heart which God did not design them to fill, this is covetousness."


author: Margaret Thatcher (1925 - ).
text:
"To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best."


author: Michael Hanson.
text:
"To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action."


author: Saint Augustine (354 AD - 430 AD).
text:
"To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal."


author: F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940).
text:
"To write it, it took three months; to conceive it - three minutes; to collect the data in it - all my life."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing."


author: Grenville Kleiser.
text:
"Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed."


author: Lin Yutang.
text:
"Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick."


author: Joey Bishop (1918 - ).
text:
"Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money."


author: Gore Vidal (1925 - ).
text:
"Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either."


author: Nikola Tesla (1857 - 1943).
text:
"Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality."


author: John L. Jackley.
text:
"Today, a successful Congressman has the fundraising ability of a hooker trying to raise cab fare home...."


author: James D. Watson (1928 - ).
text:
"Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles."


author: Donald Trump (1946 - ).
text:
"Together, our nations remind the world of the boundless potential of societies that chose freedom over tyranny, and who set the free. And we will free, and we will sacrifice, and we will hope, and we will make things beautiful, especially the aspiration of your people."


author: Milan Kundera (1929 - ).
text:
"Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love."


author: Alice May Brock.
text:
"Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good."


author: John Wayne (1907 - 1979).
text:
"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday."


author: Unknown.
text:
"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight, very clean. When it arrives it is perfect. It puts itself in our hands. It hopes we learned something from yesterday. "


author: Bob Ekstrom.
text:
"Tongue - a variety of meat, rarely served because it clearly crosses the line between a cut of beef and a piece of dead cow."


author: George Burns (1896 - 1996).
text:
"Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves."


author: The William Feather Magazine.
text:
"Too many of us wait to do the perfect thing, with the result we do nothing. The way to get ahead is to start now. While many of us are waiting until conditions are "just right" before we go ahead, others are stumbling along, fortunately ignorant of the dangers that beset them. By the time we are, in our superior wisdom, decided to make a start, we discover that those who have gone fearlessly on before, have, in their blundering way, traveled a considerable distance. If you start now, you will know a lot next year that you don't know now, and that you will not know next year, if you wait."


author: James F. Byrnes (1879 - 1972).
text:
"Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death."


author: Author Unknown.
text:
"Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck."


author: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935).
text:
"Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like."


author: Kazuo Inamori.
text:
"Too many people think only of their own profit. But business opportunity seldom knocks on the door of self-centered people. No customer ever goes to a store merely to please the storekeeper."


author: Don Quixote.
text:
"Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all - to see life as it is, and not as it ought to be."


author: Winston Churchill.
text:
"Too often the strong silent man is silent because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent."


author: Leo Buscaglia (1925 - 1998).
text:
"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."


author: Douglas R. Hofstadter.
text:
"Tortoise: But we must be careful in combining sentences. For instance, you'd grant that "Politicians lie" is true, wouldn't you? Achilles: Who could deny it? Tortoise: Good. Likewise, "Cast-iron sinks" is a valid utterance, isn't it? Achilles: Indubitably. Tortoise: Then, putting them together, we get "Politicians lie in cast-iron sinks" ..."


author: Ernest Dimnet.
text:
"Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places."


author: James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891).
text:
"Toward no crime have men shown themselves so cold-bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief."


author: Herman Melville (1819 - 1891).
text:
"Toward the accomplishment of an aim, which in wantonness of atrocity would seem to partake of the insane, he will direct a cool judgement, sagacious and sound. These men are madmen, and of the most dangerous sort."


author: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936).
text:
"Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about."


author: Ellen Goodman (1941 - ).
text:
"Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education."


author: Diane Ackerman.
text:
"Tranquillity hides in small spaces, and when found needs to be treasured, because you know it's a phantom that will slip away again."


author: Rick Polito.
text:
"Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime."


author: Neil Young.
text:
"Traveling there was really boring so I headed for the ditch. It was a rough ride but I met more interesting people there."


author: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996).
text:
"Treasure the love you have received above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished."


author: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996).
text:
"Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished."


author: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996).
text:
"Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished."


author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832).
text:
"Treat a man as he appears to be, and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he were what he potentially could be, and you make him what he should be."


author: Jimmy Johnson.
text:
"Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be."


author: Jimmy Johnson.
text:
"Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and will become as he should be."


author: Quentin Crisp.
text:
"Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster."


author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832).
text:
"Treat people as if they were what they should be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming."


author: Henry S. Haskins.
text:
"Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine."


author: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider.
text:
"Trees like to have kids climb on them, but trees are much bigger than we are, and much more forgiving."


author: Willa Cather (1873 - 1947).
text:
"Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to feel anxious about them, and visit them as if they were persons. It must have been the scarcity of detail in that tawny landscape that made detail so precious."


author: Pericles (490 BC - 429 BC).
text:
"Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again."


author: Robertson Davies.
text:
"Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a year."


author: Dinah Shore (1917 - 1994).
text:
"Trouble is part of your life -- if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough."


author: Dinah Shore (1917 - 1994).
text:
"Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough."


author: Basil.
text:
"Troubles are usually brooms and shovels that smooth the road to the good man's fortune; and many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger."


author: Martin Luther King.
text:
"True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice that produces beggars needs restructuring."


author: Hugh Blair.
text:
"True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle."


author: Pliny The Elder (23 AD - 79 AD).
text:
"True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier for our living in it."


author: Richard Nixon.
text:
"True greatness comes not when things go always good for you; but true greatness comes when you are really tested, when you have taken some knocks, faced some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be atop the highest mountain."


author: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719).
text:
"True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings."


author: Hugh Prather.
text:
"True humor is fun - it does not put down, kid, or mock. It makes people feel wonderful, not separate, different, and cut off. True humor has beneath it the understanding that we are all in this together."


author: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881).
text:
"True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laugther, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper."


author: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945).
text:
"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made."


author: Edwin Schlossberg.
text:
"True interactivity is not about clicking on icons or downloading files, it's about encouraging communication."


author: Paulo Coelho.
text:
"True love allows each person to follow his or her own path, aware that doing so can never drive them apart."


author: Erich Segal.
text:
"True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked."


author: Jim Bishop.
text:
"True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkenss, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds, a handful of stars tossed into the night sky."


author: John Hay (1838 - 1905).
text:
"True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home."


author: Robert E. Lee (1807 - 1870).
text:
"True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels themthe desire to do rightis precisely the same."


author: Carl Polloi.
text:
"True role models don't stand on a pedestal and tell you how to climb up; they jump down and help push you up."


author: William Penn (1644 - 1718).
text:
"True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment."


author: Emanuel Swedenborg (1688 - 1772).
text:
"True wisdom is seeing what is beneficial to your eternal life, and managing your life according to that. You do this when you not only know these things and grasp them with your understanding, but also will and do them."


author: Po Bronson.
text:
"True writers have a lot more invested in the way they've written their books than in what those books happen to be about."


author: Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC).
text:
"Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;but when the truth entails tremendous ruin,To speak dishonorably is pardonable."


author: David Armistead.
text:
"Trust each other again and again. When the trust level gets high enough, people transcend apparent limits, discovering new and awesome abilities for which they were previously unaware."


author: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran.
text:
"Trust that your child is trying to be the best he can be and that he will do this more readily without your criticism. Know that he usually sees his own faults without you continually pointing them out."


author: Foster C. McClellan.
text:
"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement."


author: Marva Collins.
text:
"Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide."


author: Sidney Madwed.
text:
"Trust: Just as you would not want to do business with someone you can't trust, this law simply stated is: When you can completely trust the process of the universe and life, you will be supplied abundantly and you will be able to make your life work just the way you want it. And the trust you give and have must be 100% or it is zero. It cannot be given under one condition and not under another. There are many things we trust with our lives and have no concern about. Such as: the sun will come up every day; the law of gravity works all the time; the pilot who pilots the plane we fly on, is competent; our garbage is picked up on certain days. If we could not trust the things we take for granted will occur without any effort on our part, the fear for our well being would be so great we would not be able to enjoy our lives. Can you imagine what the world would be like, if we could not trust the food we buy, the water we drink or that the people we depend on would not manipulate or harm us? But the only way we can expect others to trust us is, we need to be trustworthy ourselves, and especially to ourselves. Unfortunately, many people don't trust themselves and the judgments and decisions they make. Therefore, they experience disharmony with their lives and their world."


author: Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965).
text:
"Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now -- always and indeed then most truly when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances."


author: Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616).
text:
"Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water."


author: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662).
text:
"Truth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established that unless one loves the truth, he cannot know it."


author: Henri-FrÃ©dÃ©ric Amiel.
text:
"Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life."


author: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894).
text:
"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."


author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935).
text:
"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."


author: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936).
text:
"Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it."


author: John Milton (1608 - 1674).
text:
"Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth."


author: James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891).
text:
"Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed."


author: Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910).
text:
"Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold."


author: Samuel McChord Crothers.
text:
"Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways."


author: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935).
text:
"Try to live your life so that you wouldn't be afraid to sell the family parrot to the town gossip."


author: Margaret Cho.
text:
"Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it."


author: Margaret Cho.
text:
"Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself."


author: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963).
text:
"Try to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean. That is the whole are and joy of words."


author: Bagdikian's Observation.
text:
"Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's 'St. Matthew's Passion' on a ukulele."


author: Ben Hecht (1893 - 1964).
text:
"Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock."


author: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC).
text:
"Tsze-Kung asked, saying, 'Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?" The Master said, "Is not Reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.""


author: Jane E. Brody.
text:
"Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline."


author: W. B. Yeats.
text:
"Turning and turning in the widening gyre, The falcone cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world..."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do then by the ones you did. So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."


author: James McNeill Whistler.
text:
"Two and two continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five."


author: Paul Williams.
text:
"Two people do not have to agree on what is right to be together. They just have to want to be together. If this sounds simple, try it sometime."


author: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963).
text:
"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 (1874 - 1963).
text:
"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 (1874 - 1963).
text:
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by,  And that has made all the difference."


author: Anonymous.
text:
"Two sodium atoms are walking along the street when one stops and says, "Oh my God, I think I've lost an electron!" "Are you sure?" asks the other sodium atom. "Yes," replies the first sodium atom, "I'm positive.""


author: C. C. Colton.
text:
"Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels; first to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms rather than things; and secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ in worth contending about."


author: Randy K. Milholland.
text:
"Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing."


author: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809).
text:
"Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."


author: Margaret Cho.
text:
"Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion."


author: Sun Tzu.
text:
"Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle, but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting."


author: J. K. Rowling.
text:
"Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it."


author: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881).
text:
"Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as eternity; speech is as shallow as time."


author: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881).
text:
"Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Under the greenwood tree who loves to lie with me ... Here shall he see no enemy but winter and rough weather."


author: Bourke Cockran.
text:
"Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future."


author: Dogen Zenji.
text:
"Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is a small need there is small use; it is obvious, then, that full use is made of all things at all times according to the necessity thereof."


author: Abbie Hoffman (1936 - 1989).
text:
"Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions."


author: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ).
text:
"Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possiblity."


author: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
text:
"Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated."


