# Quotes

author: Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000).
text:
"My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?"


author: Gordon Atkinson.
text:
"My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful process of learning to let go of things not essential."


author: Saint Augustine (354 AD - 430 AD).
text:
"My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of concious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming;  I love not less, though less the show appear:  That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming  The owner's tongue doth publish every where."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably."


author: Philip K. Dick (1928 - 1982).
text:
"My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality?' Many of my stories and novels deal with psychotic states or drug-induced states by which I can present the concept of a multiverse rather than a universe. Music and sociology are themes in my novels, also radical political trends; in particular I've written about fascism and my fear of it."


author: John Scalzi.
text:
"My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone."


author: Win Ng.
text:
"My method is different. I don't rush into actual work. When I get a new idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination, and make improvements and operate the devise in my mind. When I have gone as far as to embody everything in my invention, every possible improvement I can think of, and when I see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete form the final product of my brain."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity."


author: Waiter Rant.
text:
"My mom grew up in Spanish Harlem and the Bronx and gave me an invaluable piece of advice for dealing with people in New York - if someone's bugging you just act crazy. I've modified her approach somewhat. Public displays of religiosity work just as well as feigning psychosis."


author: Schlomo Rabinowitz.
text:
"My mom is the most famous thing about my video blog. Everyone likes moms. People enjoy watching people's family."


author: Elmore Leonard.
text:
"My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: when you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip."


author: Helen Hayes (1900 - 1993).
text:
"My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'"


author: Helen Hayes (1900 - 1993).
text:
"My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success."


author: Pablo Piccaso.
text:
"My mother said to me, if you go into the military, you will become a general. If you go into the clergy, you will become Pope. Instead, I became an artist, and I am Piccaso."


author: Dame Edna Everage (1934 - ).
text:
"My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia."


author: W. Somerset Maugham.
text:
"My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror."


author: Clay Aiken.
text:
"My own personal position is that it's much more special to wait for the person who you're married to."


author: J. B. S. Haldane (1892 - 1964).
text:
"My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we *can* suppose."


author: Steven Spielberg.
text:
"My parents taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. When you listen, you learn. You absorb like a sponge-and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time."


author: Bette Davis (1908 - 1989).
text:
"My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose."


author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
text:
"My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen --- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery --- just stark me."


author: Gene Oliver.
text:
"My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides."


author: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ).
text:
"My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."


author: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982).
text:
"My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute."


author: Britney Spears (1981 - ).
text:
"My prerogative right now is to just chill and let all the other overexposed blondes on the cover of Us Weekly (magazine) be your entertainment."


author: Stephen Hawking (1942 - ).
text:
"My publisher told me that the number of readers of this book will be inversely proportional to the number of equations it contains."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God"


author: Emo Philips.
text:
"My schoolmates would make love to anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself."


author: Erma Bombeck (1927 - 1996).
text:
"My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint."


author: Flip Wilson (1933 - 1998).
text:
"My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?"


author: Josh Billings (1818 - 1885).
text:
"My son, observe the postage stamp! Its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there."


author: Ralph Abraham.
text:
"My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species. Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future."


author: Meryl Streep (1949 - ).
text:
"My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert."


author: Jessica Alba.
text:
"My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing."


author: malcolm X (1925 - 1965).
text:
"My thinking had been opened up wide in Mecca. I wrote long letters to my friends, in which I tried to convey to them my new insights into the American black manâs struggle and his problems as well as the depths of my search for truth and justice. "Iâve had enough of someone elseâs propaganda," I had written to these friends. "I am for truth, no matter who tells it. I am for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I am a human being first and foremost, and as such Iâm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole." The American white manâs press called me the angriest Negro in America. I wouldnât deny that charge; I spoke exactly as I felt. I believe in anger. I believe it is a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself. I am for violence if non-violence means that we continue postponing or even delaying a solution to the American black manâs problem. White man hates to hear anybody, especially a black man, talk about the crime that the white man perpetrated on the black man. But let me remind you that when the white man came into this country, he certainly wasnât demonstrating non-violence."


author: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826).
text:
"My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war--and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair."


author: Jeff Foxworthy.
text:
"My whole career can be summed up with 'Ignorance is bliss.' When you do not know better, you do not really worry about failing."


author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965).
text:
"My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked."


author: Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004).
text:
"My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it."


author: Jack Benny (1894 - 1974).
text:
"My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never."


author: Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004).
text:
"My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was."


author: Su Shih.
text:
"My writing is like a ten gallon spring. It can issue from the ground anywhere at all. On smooth ground it rushes swiftly on and covers a thouasand li in a single day without difficulty. When it twists and turns among mountains and rocks, it fits its form to things it meets: unknowable. What can be known is, it always goes where it must go, always stops where it cannot help stopping -- nothing else. More than that, even I cannot know."


author: Ned Beauman.
text:
"Naming one thing after another cannot, logically, increase the chances of the new thing turning out like the old thing."


author: Abraham Flexner (1866 - 1959).
text:
"Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both."


author: Mary Ellen Kelly.
text:
"Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams."


author: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC).
text:
"Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."


author: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC).
text:
"Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."


author: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947).
text:
"Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind."


author: Lorraine Anderson.
text:
"Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion."


author: Louis Schwartzberg.
text:
"Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life."


author: David Seabury.
text:
"Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow."


author: Dick Gregory (1932 - ).
text:
"Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch your eyeball without blinking, you would never collect the money. At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own."


author: Richard Dawkins (1941 - ).
text:
"Nature is not cruel, pitiless, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous -- indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose."


author: Horace Binney.
text:
"Nature is the most thrifty thing in the world; she never wastes anything; she undergoes change, but there is no annihilation, the essence remains - matter is eternal."


author: R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983).
text:
"Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment"


author: R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983).
text:
"Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment."


author: Sir Thomas More (1478 - 1535).
text:
"Nay, tempt me not to love again: There was a time when love was sweet; Dear Nea! had I known thee then, Our souls had not been slow to meet! But oh! this weary heart hath run So many a time the rounds of pain, Not even for thee, thou lovely one! Would I endure such pangs again."


author: Louis D. Brandeis (1856 - 1941).
text:
"Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values."


author: J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973).
text:
"Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to."


author: William Pitt.
text:
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."


author: Scott Adams (1957 - ).
text:
"Needing someone is like needing a parachute. If they are not there the first time you need them, chances are you won't be needing them again."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. 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:
"Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry [economy]."


author: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC).
text:
"Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language."


author: Linda Berdoll.
text:
"Neither enemy faces, nor the mothers that love them, come to mind when one is thinking of nothing but endeavouring to survive. Philosophising about war is useless under fire."


author: Simms.
text:
"Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to proscribe, and honestly to award - these are the true aims and duties of criticism."


author: Hugh Macleod.
text:
"Neither should you fret too much about 'writer%uFFFDs block'. If you%uFFFDre looking at a blank piece of paper and nothing comes to you, then go do something else. Writer%uFFFDs block is just a symptom of feeling like you have nothing to say, combined with the rather weird idea that you SHOULD feel the need to say something."


author: Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC).
text:
"Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds."


author: Paul Graham.
text:
"Nerds don't just happen to dress informally. They do it too consistently. Consciously or not, they dress informally as a prophylactic measure against stupidity."


author: Author Unknown.
text:
"Neurotics chase after people and jobs they don't really want, just to prove that they are like everybody else - which is the last thing they really want."


author: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996).
text:
"Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!"


author: John Guerrero.
text:
"Never argue with an idiot, because they will only bring you down to their level and beat you by experience."


author: Dame Edna Everage (1934 - ).
text:
"Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century."


author: Unknown.
text:
"Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark, professionals built the Titanic."


author: Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471).
text:
"Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good."


author: Edward Everett Hale (1822 - 1909).
text:
"Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have."


author: Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005).
text:
"Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined."


author: Aaron Burr (1756 - 1836).
text:
"Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done."


author: Edward Chapin.
text:
"Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury."


author: Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978).
text:
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."


author: Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978).
text:
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtfully committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."


author: Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978).
text:
"Never doubt that a small, group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."


author: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD).
text:
"Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect."


author: The Talmud.
text:
"Never expose yourself unnecessarily to danger; a miracle may not save you...and if it does, it will be deducted from your share of luck or merit."


author: Ann E. Bray.
text:
"Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow - the wholesome warmth necessary to make the heart-blood circulate healthily and freely; unhappiness - the chilling pressure which produces here an inflammation, there an excrescence and worst, of all, "the mind's green and yellow sickness" - ill temper."


author: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826).
text:
"Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment."


author: Millicent Fenwick.
text:
"Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self."


author: Annie Besant.
text:
"Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle."


author: Keith Richman.
text:
"Never forget that you're a member of your own community. Don't do something that you wouldn't like to see done."


author: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827).
text:
"Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours."


author: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930).
text:
"Never get married while you're going to college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake."


author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965).
text:
"Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."


author: Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933).
text:
"Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you."


author: Rothschild.
text:
"Never have anything to do with an unlucky place, or an unlucky man. I have seen many clever men, very clever men, who had not shoes to their feet. I never act with them. Their advice sounds very well, but they cannot get on themselves; and if they cannot do good to themselves, how can they do good for me?"


author: Dee W. Hock.
text:
"Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom."


author: Anatole France (1844 - 1924).
text:
"Never lend books - nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me."


author: Amber Deckers.
text:
"Never let the fear of failure be an excuse for not trying. Society tells us that to fail is the most terrible thing in the world, but I know it isn't. Failure is part of what makes us human."


author: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD).
text:
"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."


author: Dag Hammarskjold (1905 - 1961).
text:
"Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road."


author: Johann Georg von Zimmermann.
text:
"Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement."


author: Unknown.
text:
"Never make anything simple and efficient when a way can be found to make it complex and wonderful."


author: Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825).
text:
"Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life."


author: Nelson Algren (1909 - 1981).
text:
"Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own."


author: Joel Spolsky.
text:
"Never put yourself in a position that will put yourself at risk if you make the wrong decision. We spent cash on everything. It's fashionable to make 'bet the company' decisions, but don't do it."


author: James Ramsey.
text:
"Never reason from what you do not know. If you do, you will soon believe what is utterly against reason."


author: Madame de Tencin.
text:
"Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs."


author: Gloria Swanson (1899 - 1983).
text:
"Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it."


author: Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773).
text:
"Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked."


author: Benjamin Haydon.
text:
"Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence."


author: Lynn Johnston (1947 - ).
text:
"Never tell anyone that you're writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting smoking. They'll encourage you to death."


author: George S. Patton (1885 - 1945).
text:
"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."


author: George S. Patton (1885 - 1945).
text:
"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."


author: Comte de Buffon (1707 - 1788).
text:
"Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius."


author: Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882).
text:
"Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning."


author: Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845).
text:
"Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out."


author: David M. Ogilvy.
text:
"Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine."


author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965).
text:
"Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events."


author: Lois McMaster Bujold.
text:
"Never... ever suggest they don't have to pay you. What they pay for, they'll value. What they get for free, they'll take for granted, and then demand as a right. Hold them up for all the market will bear."


author: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791).
text:
"Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music."


author: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ).
text:
"New ideas pass through three periods: - It can't be done. - It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. - I knew it was a good idea all along!"


author: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ).
text:
"New ideas pass through three periods: It can't be done. It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. I knew it was a good idea all along !"


author: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007).
text:
"New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become."


author: John Locke (1632 - 1704).
text:
"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common."


author: Russell Baker (1925 - ).
text:
"New York is the only city in the world where you can get deliberately run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian."


author: David Letterman (1947 - ).
text:
"New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn's make a sudden move."


author: David Letterman (1947 - ).
text:
"New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move."


author: Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944).
text:
"Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits."


author: James A. Garfield (1831 - 1881).
text:
"Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained."


author: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930).
text:
"Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit."


author: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881).
text:
"Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage. "


author: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881).
text:
"Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage."


author: John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873).
text:
"Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."


author: Luther.
text:
"Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song."


author: G.K. Chesterton.
text:
"Nietzche started a nonsensical idea that men had once sought as good what we now call evil; if it were so, we could not talk of surpassing or even falling short of them."


author: Lily Tomlin (1939 - ).
text:
"Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then--we elected them."


author: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972).
text:
"Nixon is a shifty-eyed goddamn liar....He's one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides."


author: Leo Buscaglia (1925 - 1998).
text:
"No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch."


author: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - ).
text:
"No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, the marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, become them with one half so good a grace as mercy does."


author: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963).
text:
"No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'"


author: C. C. Colton.
text:
"No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health."


author: Marvin Minsky.
text:
"No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either."


author: Clifford Stoll.
text:
"No computer network with pretty graphics can ever replace the salespeople that make our society work."


author: Emily Bronte.
text:
"No coward sould is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-toubled sphere: I see Heaven's glories shine, And faith shines equale, arming me from fear."


author: Barry Lopez.
text:
"No culture has yet solved the dilemma each has faced with the growth of a conscious mind: how to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in all life, when one finds darkness not only in one's own culture but within oneself... There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of a leaning into the light."


author: Harold Rosenberg.
text:
"No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating."


author: Robert Southey (1774 - 1843).
text:
"No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth."


author: George Orwell (1903 - 1950).
text:
"No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid, but sainthood is a thing that human beings must avoid."


author: Joseph J. Dewey.
text:
"No earthly teacher is flawless. If you limit yourself to learning according to the exact mindset of the teacher, you will also inherit his flaws."


author: George Eliot (1819 - 1880).
text:
"No evil dooms us hopelessly, except the evil we love, and desire to continue in and make no effort to escape from."


author: Orville Wright.
text:
"No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris ... [because] no known motor can run at the requisite speed for four days without stopping."


author: Henry Kissinger (1923 - ).
text:
"No foreign policy-no matter how ingenious-has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of few and carried in the hearts of many."


author: Robert Cecil Day Lewis.
text:
"No good poem, however confessional is may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?"


author: John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873).
text:
"No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought."


author: J. Michael Straczynski.
text:
"No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his brother. Not for millions, .. not for glory, not for fame. For one person, .. in the dark .. where no one will ever know .. or see."


author: Ellen Glasgow (1873 - 1945).
text:
"No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern; no idea is so modern  that it will not someday be antiquated."


author: Harold Laki.
text:
"No important institution is ever merely what the law makes it. It accumulates about itself traditions, conventions, ways of behaviour, which are not less formidable in their influence."


author: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826).
text:
"No instance exists of a person's writing two languages perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth."


author: W. Emerson Wright.
text:
"No law ever written has stopped any robber, rapist or killer, like cold blue steel in the hands of their last intended victim."


author: Warren Bennis.
text:
"No leader sets out to become a leader. People set out to live their lives, expressing themselves fully. When that expression is of value, they become leaders. So the point is not to become a leader. The point is to become yourself, to use yourself completelyâall your skills, gifts, and energiesâin order to make your vision manifest. You must withhold nothing. You must, in sum, become the person you started out to be and enjoy the process of becoming."


author: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924).
text:
"No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means."


author: Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984).
text:
"No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit."


author: James Madison (1751 - 1836).
text:
"No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity. With equal, nay with greater reason, a body of men are unfit to be both judges and parties at the same time."


author: John Donne (1572 - 1631).
text:
"No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee."


author: John Donne (1572 - 1631).
text:
"No man is an Island, intire of itselfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine..."


author: Christian Nestell Bovee.
text:
"No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities."


author: Ben Johnson.
text:
"No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master."


author: William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830).
text:
"No man is truly great, who is great only in his life-time. The test of greatness is the page of history."


author: Henry Adams (1838 - 1918).
text:
"No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about himself."


author: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC).
text:
"No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education."


author: Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870).
text:
"No man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner."


author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784).
text:
"No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned."


author: Andrew Carnegie (1835 - 1919).
text:
"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it."


author: Brown.
text:
"No man with a man's heart in him, gets far on his way without some bitter, soul searching disappointment. Happy he who is brave enough to push on another stage of the journey, and rest where there are living springs of water, and three score and ten palms."


author: Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864).
text:
"No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true."


author: Ken Rockwell.
text:
"No matter how advanced your camera you still need to be responsible for getting it to the right place at the right time and pointing it in the right direction to get the photo you want."


author: Jennifer Hudson.
text:
"No matter how big the glam squad, or how dramatic the dress, sometimes things just donât work out."


author: William James (1842 - 1910).
text:
"No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may retain entirely unaffected for the better. With mere good intentions, hell is proverbially paved."


author: Baudjuin.
text:
"No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible."


author: Wendy Wasserstein (1950 - 2005).
text:
"No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone."


author: Anne Rice (1941 - ).
text:
"No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems."


author: Dr. Joyce Brothers (1928 - ).
text:
"No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you'd be more productive."


author: Robin Renwick.
text:
"No matter how much spin, effort, lunch or dinner you give the media, they will not fail to notice whether you have won or lost."


author: Tom Thompson.
text:
"No matter how much you disagree with your kin, if you are a thoroughbred you will not discuss their shortcomings with the neighbors."


author: Meg Cabot.
text:
"No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back."


author: Michael Pritchard.
text:
"No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather."


author: Minor White.
text:
"No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen."


author: Elizabeth Moon.
text:
"No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic."


author: Jascha Heifetz (1901 - 1987).
text:
"No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other."


author: Jimmy Bise Jr..
text:
"No matter what we do, we are always going to have Us versus Them moments. We can separate, yell or talk to each other and draw a truce. You won't agree with everybody. It doesn't mean the other person is an idiot."


author: Randolph Silliman Bourne.
text:
"No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how many imperfect and jagged - in some places perhaps irreparably - our life has been, we cannot in our heart of hearts imagine how it could have been different. As we look back on it, it slips in behind us in orderly array, and, with all its mistakes, acquires a sort of eternal fitness, and even, at times, of poetic glamour."


author: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata.
text:
"No matter where you live, brothers are brothers and sisters are sisters. The bonds that keep family close are the same no matter where you are."


author: Lemony Snicket.
text:
"No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read."


author: Edwin Hubbel Chapin.
text:
"No more important duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions."


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


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself."


author: John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873).
text:
"No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study, and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think."


author: Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903).
text:
"No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy."


author: Carl L. Becker.
text:
"No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely and all the time for private profit is not to abuse the right of free speech, whether it is a violation of the law or not. But again the practical question is, how much lying for private profit is to be permitted by law?"


author: J. Paul Getty (1892 - 1976).
text:
"No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or "get rich" in business by being a conformist."


author: Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962).
text:
"No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't."


author: Franz Schubert.
text:
"No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by."


author: Moliere (1622 - 1673).
text:
"No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk."


author: Henry Adams (1838 - 1918).
text:
"No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous."


author: Ken Keyes.
text:
"No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life - you win some and you lose some."


author: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011).
text:
"No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new."


author: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924).
text:
"No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all- disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report...."


author: Henry Kissinger (1923 - ).
text:
"No one will ever win the battle of the sexes, because there is too much fraternizing with the enemy."


author: Croesus of Lydia.
text:
"No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace--in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons."


author: Sylvia Ashton-Warner.
text:
"No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide."


author: Ernest Shackleton.
text:
"No person who has not spent a period of his life in those 'stark and sullen solitudes that sentinel the Pole' will understand fully what trees and flowers, sun-flecked turf and running streams mean to the soul of a man."


author: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968).
text:
"No pessimest ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit."


author: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968).
text:
"No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit."


author: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968).
text:
"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit."


author: Author Unknown.
text:
"No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses to sing"


author: Author Unknown.
text:
"No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses to sing."


author: General George Patton.
text:
"No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country."


author: Richard Nixon.
text:
"No president in history has been more vilified or was more vilivied during the time he was President than Lincoln. Those who knew him, his secretaries, have written that he was deeply hurt by what was said about him and drawn about him, but on the other hand, Lincoln had the great strength of character never to display it, always able to stand tall and strong and firm no matter how harsh or unfair the criticism might be. These elements of greatness, of course, inspire us all today."


author: Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915).
text:
"No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem."


author: Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992).
text:
"No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. . .."


author: Adam Smith (1723 - 1790).
text:
"No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable."


author: Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978).
text:
"No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded."


author: Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long.
text:
"No state has an inherent right to survive through conscript troops and in the long run no state ever has. Roman matrons used to say to their sons: "Come back with your shield, or on it." Later on, this custom declined. So did Rome."


author: Thomas Hood (1799-1845).
text:
"No sun - no moon! No morn - no noon -  No dawn - no dusk - no proper time of day.  No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,  No comfortable feel in any member - No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November!"


author: John Muir (1838 - 1914).
text:
"No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movements of water, or gardening - still all is Beauty!"


author: Agnes de Mille (1909 - 1993).
text:
"No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently."


author: Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989).
text:
"No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets."


author: John Holt.
text:
"No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back."


author: Langston Hughes.
text:
"No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech."


author: Bill Clinton (1946 - ).
text:
"No wonder Americans hate politics when, year in and year out, they hear politicians make promises that won't come true because they don't even mean them - campaign fantasies that win elections but don't get nations moving again."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"No, 'tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world."


author: President George Bush.
text:
"No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God."


author: Larry Wall in .
text:
"No, I'm not going to explain it. If you can't figure it out, you didn't want to know anyway... :-)"


author: Dolly Parton.
text:
"No, I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb, and I also know I'm not blonde."


author: Jon Krakauer.
text:
"No, it is remrable that everest did not yield to the first few attempts; it would have been suprising and not a little sad if it had, for that is not the way of great mountains."


author: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935).
text:
"Noah must have taken into the Ark two taxes, one male and one female. And did they multiply bountifully! Next to guinea pigs, taxes must have been the most prolific animals."


author: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959).
text:
"Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall."


author: Henry Miller (1891 - 1980).
text:
"Nobody can feel better than the man who is completely taken in. To be intelligent may be a boon, but to be completely trusting, gulible to the point of idiocy, to surrender without reservation, is one of the supreme joys of life."


author: Malcolm X (1925 - 1965).
text:
"Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it."


author: Hugh Macleod.
text:
"Nobody can tell you if what you're doing is good, meaningful or worthwhile. The more compelling the path, the more lonely it is."


author: Martha Graham (1894 - 1991).
text:
"Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion."


author: Samuel Ullman.
text:
"Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul."


author: Robert A. Heinlein.
text:
"Nobody has ever seen an electron. Nor a thought. You can't see a thought, you can't measure, weigh, nor taste it- but thoughts are the most real things in the Galaxy."


author: Dr. Frank Crane.
text:
"Nobody has things just as he would like them. The thing to do is to make a success with what material I have. It is a sheer waste of time and soulpower to imagine what I would do if things were different. They are not different."


author: Conan O'Brien.
text:
"Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and youâre kind, amazing things will happen."


author: Joe Theismann.
text:
"Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein."


author: Anonymous.
text:
"Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better."


author: Marya Mannes.
text:
"Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive."


author: Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 - 1986).
text:
"Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time."


author: Unknown.
text:
"Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain."


author: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ).
text:
"Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course.""


author: Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860).
text:
"Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but is also a disruption of thought."


author: Sidney Madwed.
text:
"Non Judgment: In our world where it seems we are taught to judge everything all around and about us and we spend so much of our time doing just that, it might be wise to ask if we can judge anything. To judge anything with any degree of clarity and accuracy we would need all the information past, present and future and how it will affect all concerned to make a perfect judgment. Since no one has that skill, ability or information, you might agree, it may be unwise to judge. This idea may be hard to accept, but when you look back over your life and the judgments you made, ask yourself. How many of your judgments, when you made them, were you perfectly sure they were correct, would you want to change now with the benefit of 2020 hindsight? Since every judgment is only an opinion based on the limited information at hand, filtered through one's personal value system, it might be safe to assume no two people will judge anything exactly the same. Even concepts of right and wrong, good or bad, good or bad morals and ethics are only opinions, for what may be good in one case may be a disaster in another."


author: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948).
text:
"Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves."


author: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983).
text:
"Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity"


author: Julia Child (1912 - 2004).
text:
"Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet."


author: James Goldsmith.
text:
"None has more frequent conversations with a disagreeable self than the man of pleasure; his enthusiasms are but few and transient; his appetites, like angry creditors, are continually making fruitless demands for what he is unable to pay; and the greater his former pleasures, the more strong his regret, the more impatient his expectations. A life of pleasure is, therefore, the most unpleasing life."


author: Author Unknown.
text:
"None of us are responsible for all the things that happen to us, but we are responsible for the way we act when they do happen."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone."


author: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968).
text:
"Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness."


author: Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD).
text:
"Nor is it always in the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered: but very often an action of small note, a short saying, or a jest, shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battle."


author: Judge Learned Hand.
text:
"Nor need we be surprised that men so often embrace almost any doctrines, if they are proclaimed with a voice of absolute assurance."


author: Ellen Goodman (1941 - ).
text:
"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it."


author: Louis Kaplan.
text:
"Normally, children learn to gauge rather accurately from the tone of their parent's voice how seriously to take his threats. Of course, they sometimes misjudge and pay the penalty."


author: William Feather (1908 - 1976).
text:
"Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers."


author: Lynn Johnston (1947 - ).
text:
"Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night... without the satisfaction."


author: Scott Westerfeld.
text:
"Not everything made you stronger. It was possible to survive, yet still be crippled for your trouble. Sometimes it was okay to run away, to skip the test, to chicken out. Or at least to get some help."


author: Cyrus Corteise.
text:
"Not many can admit their fears, but those who can lead a fulfilling life of happiness knowing they hide nothing and need not to."


author: Joseph Sugarman.
text:
"Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces."


author: Peter Minard.
text:
"Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary."


author: Henry Luce.
text:
"Not much longer shall we have time for reading lessons of the past. An inexorable present calls us to the defense of a great future."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"Not nail a great star to its track, . . . Tell when to go and when come back;. . . But open up thy heart to know What rainbows teach and sunsets show."


author: Lucretia P. Hunter.
text:
"Not only have women been successful in entering fields in which men are supposed to have a more natural aptitude, but they have created entirely new businesses."


author: Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC).
text:
"Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed."


author: Sholem Asch (1880 - 1957).
text:
"Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize the infinite extent of our relations."


author: Saskya Pandita.
text:
"Not to be cheered by praise, Not to be grieved by blame, But to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers Are the characteristics of an excellent man."


author: Marcus Tullius Cicero.
text:
"Not to know what happened before you were born is always to remain a child. For what is a man's life if it is not linked with the life of future generations by memories of the past."


author: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC).
text:
"Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge."


author: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
text:
"Not to see many things, not to hear them, not to let them approach one--first piece of ingenuity, first proof that one is no accident but a necessity."


author: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817).
text:
"Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves."


author: A. Lou Vickery.
text:
"Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever searching and striving to become the best they possibly can. If we seek the average level we cannot hope to achieve a high level of success. Our only hope is to avoid being a failure."


author: Nido Qubein.
text:
"Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets."


author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965).
text:
"Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep them in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization."


author: Sidney J. Harris.
text:
"Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own."


author: Dave Kellett.
text:
"Nothing can do what a book can do. Lifts you out of your life... to a whole new world, whole new perspective. A book is like a dream you're borrowing from a friend."


author: Gerald White Johnson.
text:
"Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what men believe happened."


author: Mary Shelley.
text:
"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye."


author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797 - 1851).
text:
"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye."


author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797 - 1851).
text:
"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye."


author: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885).
text:
"Nothing discernable to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidible, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul."


author: Homer (800 BC - 700 BC).
text:
"Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength; but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them."


author: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826).
text:
"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."


author: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961).
text:
"Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent."


author: Anne Rice (1941 - ).
text:
"Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past."


author: Henry Adams (1838 - 1918).
text:
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance as it accumulates in the form of inert facts."


author: Pearl S. Buck.
text:
"Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself."


author: Marie Curie (1867 - 1934).
text:
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."


author: Quentin Crisp.
text:
"Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress."


author: Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD).
text:
"Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase "being born" is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while "dying" means ceasing to be the same. Though this thing may pass into that, and that into this, yet the sums of things remains unchanged."


author: Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933).
text:
"Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence.  Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.  Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.  Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.  Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."


author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
text:
"Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy."


author: Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933).
text:
"Nothing in the world will take away persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than an unsuccessful man with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."


author: Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933).
text:
"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."


author: Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881).
text:
"Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him."


author: Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD).
text:
"Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed than one is adversity."


author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680).
text:
"Nothing is less sincere than our mode of asking and giving advice. He who asks seems to have a deference for the opinion of his friend, while he only aims to get approval of his own and make his friend responsible for his action. And he who gives advice repays the confidence supposed to be placed in him by a seemingly disinterested zeal, while he seldom means anything by his advice but his own interest or reputation."


author: Jonathan Haidt.
text:
"Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it."


author: Rex Stout (1886 - 1975).
text:
"Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth."


author: Francois de Salignac (1651 - 1715).
text:
"Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this counrty is closely related with this."


author: Ellis Peters.
text:
"Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them."


author: George Santayana (1863 - 1952).
text:
"Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject."


author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935).
text:
"Nothing is so frequent as to mistake an ordinary human gift for a special and extraordinary endowment."


author: Saadi (1184 - 1291).
text:
"Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant."


author: C. C. Colton.
text:
"Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with a brother knave than with a fool, but he would rather avoid a quarrel with one honest man than with both. He can combat a fool by management and address, and he can conquer a knave by temptations. But the honest man is neither to be bamboozled nor bribed."


author: Jean Guehenno.
text:
"Nothing shocks me more in the men of religion and their flocks than their pretensions to be the only religious people."


author: Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850).
text:
"Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other."


author: Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882).
text:
"Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone. A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules."


author: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719).
text:
"Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency."


author: Charles Lamb (1775 - 1834).
text:
"Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a newly married couple."


author: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001).
text:
"Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws."


author: Jay Terpstra.
text:
"Nothing's ever really changed. What difference does it make whether it's the Corporate state or the Nation state? In our struggle for freedom we still find ourselves fighting the state."


author: Franklin P. Jones.
text:
"Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that make it."


author: Aaron Douglas Trimble.
text:
"Nothingâs better than the wind to your back, the sun in front of you, and your friends beside you."


author: Christopher Marlowe (1564 - 1593).
text:
"Now hast thou but one bare hour to live, And then thou must be damned perpetually. Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come."


author: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892).
text:
"Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth."


author: Felicia Day.
text:
"Now I understand what exhaustion is. Itâs not just a code word for heroin addiction. People donât teach you how to handle the workload that comes from a little bit of success, and itâs something Iâd never had to handle, because Iâd been rejected for so long."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Now is the winter of our discontent  Made glorious summer by this son of York,  And all the clouds that loured upon our house  In the deep bosom of the ocean buried."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York, And all the clouds that loured upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths, Our bruised arms hung up for monuments, Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front; And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph; I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them,-- Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image 'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was."


author: Gretchen Rubin.
text:
"Now that I've relinquished my fantasies of all the people I wish I could be, and stopped feeling guilty about [them], I have more time for the things that I truly enjoy."


author: Unix Programmer's Manual.
text:
"Now that we have all this useful information, it would be nice to do something with it. (Actually, it can be emotionally fulfilling just to get the information. This is usually only true, however, if you have the social life of a kumquat.)"


author: Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924).
text:
"Now the sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never."


author: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
text:
"Now the trumpet summons us againânot as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we areâbut a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation"âa struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself."


author: Jay Leno (1950 - ).
text:
"Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you've met your New Year's resolution."


author: R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983).
text:
"Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it."


author: Dick Francis.
text:
"Now they're bouncing messages off the stars. Bet the messages aren't worth the technology. Think of "See you Friday, Ethel", chattering round the eternal spheres."


author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965).
text:
"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."


author: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865).
text:
"Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this."


author: Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson).
text:
"Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"


author: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968).
text:
"Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: - 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'"


author: Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754).
text:
"Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are."


author: G.K. Chesterton.
text:
"Nowadays a citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."


author: David Brinkley (1920 - 2003).
text:
"Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians."


author: Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC).
text:
"O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"O sleep, O gentle sleep, nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, that thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, and steep my senses in forgetfulness."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"O sleep, thou ape of death, lie dull upon her and be her sense but as a monument, thus in a chapel lying."


author: William Cowper (1731 - 1800).
text:
"O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturb'd Retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know."


author: Robert Burns (1759 - 1796).
text:
"O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us. (O would some power the gift to give us to see ourselves as others see us.)"


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven;It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't, A brother's murder."


author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784).
text:
"Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people."


author: Stephen King (1947 - ).
text:
"Obession is dangerous. It's like a knife in the mind. In some cases... the knife can turn savagely upon the person wielding it... You use the knife carefully, because you know it doesn't care who it cuts."


author: Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005).
text:
"Objective journalism is one of the main reasons American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long."


author: Carl G. Jung.
text:
"Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it. It may help us to escape all criticism, we may even be able to deceive ourselves in the belief of our obvious righteousness. But deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, "There is something not right," no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or by the moral code."


author: Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman.
text:
"Obsessions and fixations are not really my field. All I know, when the mind really grabs hold of something, look out."


author: Leonardo DaVinci.
text:
"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind."


author: Andre Gide (1869 - 1951).
text:
"Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain."


author: President George Bush.
text:
"Obviously no country can claim a special place in God's heart, yet we are better as a people because He has a special place in ours...I want to thank you for helping America, as Christ ordained, to be a light unto the world..."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"October is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. Others are July, January, April, September, November, May, March, June, December, August and February."


author: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919).
text:
"Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth, the tyranny of plutocracy."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat."


author: Col Erich ' Bubi' Hartmann (world's leading ace with 352 victories in WWII).
text:
"Of all my accomplishments I may have achieved during the war, I am proudest of the fact that I never lost a wingman."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"Of all the creatures that were made, man is the most detestable. Of the entire brood he is the only one--the solitary one--that possesses malice. That is the basest of all instincts, passions, vices--the most hateful. He is the only creature that has pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. Also--in all the list he is the only creature that has a nasty mind."


author: Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.).
text:
"Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof."


author: Robert A. Heinlein.
text:
"Of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism' is the worst. People do what they want to do, every time."


author: Johann Von Schiller.
text:
"Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives."


author: Herman Melville (1819 - 1891).
text:
"Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed."


author: Henry Clay (1777 - 1852).
text:
"Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character."


author: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900).
text:
"Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave."


author: Bonnell.
text:
"Of all the riches that we hug, of all the pleasures we enjoy, we can carry no more out of this world than out of a dream."


author: Marilyn Ferguson.
text:
"Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest."


author: SÃ¸ren Kierkegaard.
text:
"Of all tyrannies democracy is the most agonizing, the most inane, the absolute fall of everything great and elevated."


author: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963).
text:
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."


author: Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966).
text:
"Of children as of procreation - the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable."


author: Danny DeVito.
text:
"Of course I've got lawyers. They are like nuclear weapons: I've got em coz everyone else has. But as soon as you use them they screw everything up."


author: Hermann GÃ¶ring.
text:
"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."


author: Arthur Rubinstein (1886 - 1982).
text:
"Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings."


author: David Adger.
text:
"Of course we can keep this going, in principle, forever. In practice we will keel over from exhaustion, boredom, or death."


author: Terry Pratchett.
text:
"Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street- cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact."


author: R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983).
text:
"Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking."


author: Bill McKibbon.
text:
"Of course, the person I was fleeing most fearfully was myself, for I drive, and I'm burning a collapsed barn behind the house next week because it is much the cheapest way to deal with it, and I live on about four hundred times the money that Thoreau conclusively proved was enough, so I've done my share to take this independent, eternal world and turn it into a science fair project."


author: Homer (800 BC - 700 BC).
text:
"Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven."


author: Frederick Buechner.
text:
"Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back--in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Oft expectations fails, and most oft there  Where most it promises; and oft it hits  Where hope is coldest, and despair most fits."


author: Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936).
text:
"Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established."


author: Margaret Young.
text:
"Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want."


author: Sharon Salzberg.
text:
"Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished."


author: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ).
text:
"Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny."


author: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817).
text:
"Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch."


author: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885).
text:
"Oh! love!... That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Oh, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial."


author: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967).
text:
"Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania."


author: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967).
text:
"Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania."


author: Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978).
text:
"Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left."


author: Hubert Humphrey.
text:
"Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. Its's what you do with what you have left."


author: Aaron Hill.
text:
"Oh, treacherous night! thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade."


author: Bill Tammeus.
text:
"Oil prices have fallen lately. We include this news for the benefit of gas stations, which otherwise wouldn't learn of it for six months."


author: Author Unknown.
text:
"Old age may seem a long way off. But on the day it doesn't, it will be too late to do anything about it."


author: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937).
text:
"Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death."


author: Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992).
text:
"Old people think young people haven't learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love. "


author: Herbert Hoover (1874 - 1964).
text:
"Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow, and the triumphs that are aftermath of war."


author: Ignazio Silone.
text:
"On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men."


author: Lynn Johnston (1947 - ).
text:
"On a lazy Saturday morning when you're lying in bed, drifting in and out of sleep, there is a space where fantasy and reality become one. Are you awake, or are you dreaming? You see people and things; some are familiar; some are strange. You talk, you feel, but you move without walking; you fly without wings. Your mind and your body exist, but on separate planes. Time stands still. For me, this is the feeling I have when ideas come."


author: Anita Loos.
text:
"On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach."


author: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935).
text:
"On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does."


author: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935).
text:
"On account of us being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does."


author: Bhagavad Gita (250 BC - 250 AD).
text:
"On action alone be thy interest,Never on its fruits.Let not the fruits of action be thy motive,Nor be thy attachment to inaction."


author: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ).
text:
"On game shows, some people will take the trip to France, but most people will take the washer dryer pair."


author: Richard Jeni.
text:
"On going to war over religion: You're basically killing each other to prove who's got the better imaginary friend."


author: Author Unknown.
text:
"On his examination paper a boy wrote, "A natural death is where you die by yourself without a doctor's help."


author: Tom Lehrer (1928 - ).
text:
"On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away."


author: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969).
text:
"On that day let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that all their efforts shall not have been in vain."


author: General Douglas MacArthur (1880 - 1964).
text:
"On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days and other fields will bear the fruits of victory."


author: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
text:
"On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow."


author: Fermat.
text:
"On the other hand, it is impossible for a cube to be written as a sum of two cubes or a fourth power to be written as a sum of two fourth powers or, in general, for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain."


author: Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956).
text:
"On thinking about Hell, I gather  My brother Shelley found it was a place  Much like the city of London. I  Who live in Los Angeles and not in London  Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be  Still more like Los Angeles."


author: Dick Solomon.
text:
"On this planet, there are people with talents and people with flaws. The smart ones learn to use their talents, but the happy ones learn to accept their flaws."


author: Dave Barry (1947 - ).
text:
"On Valentine's Day, millions of men give millions of women flowers, cards and candy as a heartfelt expression of the emotion that also motivates men to observe anniversaries and birthdays: fear."


author: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972).
text:
"Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear."


author: Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941).
text:
"Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul."


author: Shakespeare.
text:
"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger: Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood."


author: Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936).
text:
"Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth; Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth! Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain! Once there was The People - it shall never be again!"


author: e e cummings (1894 - 1962).
text:
"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit."


author: Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961).
text:
"Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy."


author: Goldie Hawn (1945 - ).
text:
"Once you can laugh at your own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Maybe... combat some of the ugliness in the world."


author: Jennifer Aniston.
text:
"Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place.""


author: Leonardo Da Vinci (1452 - 1519).
text:
"Once you have flown, your eyes will ever gaze skyward. For once you have been there ... There you will go again!"


author: Monica Fairview.
text:
"Once you have listened to the gossip for some time, you will soon feel as if you know everyone, even if you have never met them."


author: Pat Conroy (1945 - ).
text:
"Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers, that the mind can never break off from the journey."


author: Jonathan Haidt.
text:
"Once you understand the power of stimulus control, you can use it to your advantage by changing the stimuli in your environment and avoiding undesirable ones; or, if that's not possible, by filling your consciousness with thoughts about their less tempting aspects."


author: Susan Rice.
text:
"Once you've learned to study in a bathing suit on the grass with muscled men throwing frisbees over your head, you can accomplish almost anything."


author: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823).
text:
"One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world. Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions."


author: Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980).
text:
"One always dies too soon--or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are--your life, and nothing else."


author: Carol O'Connel.
text:
"One can always point to a time, a choice, an act that set the tone for a life and changed a personal destiny."


author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
text:
"One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her."


author: Fyodor Dostovesky.
text:
"One can know a man from a laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man."


author: J. Gustav White.
text:
"One can search the brain with a microscope and not find the mind, and can search the stars with a telescope and not find God."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation."


author: Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650).
text:
"One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another."


author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
text:
"One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul."


author: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817).
text:
"One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy."


author: Yvette Gilbert.
text:
"One cannot remain the same. Art is a mirror which should show many reflections, and the artist should not always show the same face, or the face becomes a mask."


author: Johnson.
text:
"One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich."


author: Robert Collier.
text:
"One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind."


author: J. D. Watson.
text:
"One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid."


author: Ida Scott Taylor..
text:
"One day at a time- this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering."


author: Beverly D'Onfrio.
text:
"One day can make your life, one day can ruin your life. All life is, is four or five days that can change everything."


author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965).
text:
"One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'."


author: Emil Zatopek.
text:
"One day the factory sports coach, who was very strict, pointed at four boys, including me, and ordered us to run in a race. I protested that I was weak and not fit to run, but the coach sent me for a physical examination and the doctor said that I was perfectly well. So I had to run, and when I got started I felt I wanted to win. But I only came in second. That was the way it started."


author: George Orwell (1903 - 1950).
text:
"One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish a dictatorship."


author: Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883 - 1955).
text:
"One does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, one kills in order to have hunted...If one were to present the sportsman with the death of the animal as a gift he would refuse it. What he is after is having to win it, to conquer the surly brute through his own effort and skill with all the extras that this carries with it: the immersion in the countryside, the healthfulness of the exercise, the distraction from his job."


author: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817).
text:
"One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering."


author: Andre Gide (1869 - 1951).
text:
"One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. "


author: Andre Gide (1869 - 1951).
text:
"One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."


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


author: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996).
text:
"One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time."


author: Steve Aylett.
text:
"One golfer a year is hit by lightning. This may be the only evidence we have of Godâs existence."


author: Alice Jones.
text:
"One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience."


author: Alice James.
text:
"One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience."


author: Percival.
text:
"One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict - girding up its armor to meet the most insidious foe."


author: Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976).
text:
"One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one."


author: Meryl Streep (1949 - ).
text:
"One is obliged to do a great deal of kissing in my line of work: air kissing, [butt] kissing, kissing up, and of course actual kissing. Much like hookers, actors have to do it with people we may not like or even know."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason."


author: Maya Angelou (1928 - ).
text:
"One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest."


author: Hannah More.
text:
"One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire help to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act."


author: Hannah More.
text:
"One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act."


author: Author Unknown.
text:
"One look around us ought to show that all our arbitrary measures and bounds have been clamped on us by mankind."


author: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915).
text:
"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."


author: Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989).
text:
"One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork."


author: Edward B. Butler.
text:
"One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life."


author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944).
text:
"One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born."


author: Cervantes.
text:
"One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this."


author: Anthony Chevins.
text:
"One man's brain plus one other will produce one half as many ideas as one man would have produced alone. These two plus two more will produce half again as many ideas. These four plus four more begin to represent a creative meeting, and the ratio changes to one quarter as many ..."


author: Sterne.
text:
"One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then"


author: Vincent Van Gogh (1853 - 1890).
text:
"One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way."


author: Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988).
text:
"One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns he must die and accepts his sentence undismayed. "


author: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983).
text:
"One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard."


author: Etty Hillesum.
text:
"One must also accept that one has 'uncreative' moments. The more honestly one can accept that, the quicker these moments will pass."


author: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662).
text:
"One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better."


author: Etty Hilsum.
text:
"One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life."


author: G.K. Chesterton.
text:
"One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly."


author: Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886).
text:
"One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place."


author: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948).
text:
"One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds."


author: Henry Moore (1898 - 1986).
text:
"One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it."


author: Josephine Preston Peabody.
text:
"One never learns by success. Success is the plateau that one rests upon to take breath and look down from upon the straight and difficult path, but one does not climb upon a plateau."


author: Norman Maclean.
text:
"One of life's quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself and watch yourself softly becoming the author of something beautiful, even if it is only falling ash."


author: John Barrymore (1882 - 1942).
text:
"One of my chief regrets during my recent years in the theater is that I couldn't sit in the audience and watch me."


author: William Shatner as Kirk.
text:
"One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it."


author: Marion Smith.
text:
"One of the advantages of living alone is that you don't have to wake up in the arms of a loved one."


author: Johnson.
text:
"One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of attention, and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied but to be read."


author: Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745).
text:
"One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid."


author: Claudia Jewett Jarrett.
text:
"One of the common causes of serious difficulty takes the form of parental self-discovery. The newly adopted child brings out submerged feelings or behavior in his parents that make them dislike themselves. This can be such a severe blow to their self- esteem that they must eradicate the cause of their distress. Sometimes the only way that parents are able to do that is by returning the child."


author: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007).
text:
"One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us."


author: Barry Lopez.
text:
"One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret."


author: Bill Cosby (1937 - ).
text:
"One of the great mistakes that can be made by a man of my age is to get involved in athletic competition with children--unless, of course, they are under six. And even then, stay away from hide-and-seek."


author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799).
text:
"One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them."


author: Henry Ford (1863 - 1947).
text:
"One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do."


author: Edward L. Flom.
text:
"One of the hardest tasks of leadership is understanding that you are not what you are, but what you're perceived to be by others."


author: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881).
text:
"One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission."


author: William Feather (1908 - 1976).
text:
"One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person."


author: Gordon Atkinson.
text:
"One of the joys we have in being human is in exercising our freedom to choose and to take each case as it comes to us. We are not robots who are forced into behaviors by their programming. We see things; we think about things; and we choose our course of action or beliefs appropriately. And as long as that remains true of us, we will live every day of our lives on one slippery slope or another. There is no reason to fear this."


author: Will Durant (1885 - 1981).
text:
"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say."


author: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001).
text:
"One of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them: It is a well known fact, that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. Anyone who is capable of getting themselves into a position of power should on no account be allowed to do the job. Another problem with governing people is people."


author: Jimmy Carter (1924 - ).
text:
"One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat."


author: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
text:
"One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world. Language is the immediate actuality of thought. Just as philosophers have given thought an independent existence, so they were bound to make language into an independent realm."


author: Jean Kerr.
text:
"One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind."


author: Stephen Covey.
text:
"One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present."


author: Randall Jarrell (1914 - 1965).
text:
"One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child."


author: Rabbi Harold Kushner.
text:
"One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick."


author: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC).
text:
"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."


author: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930).
text:
"One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."


author: Marlo Thomas.
text:
"One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man."


author: George Washington Carver (1864 - 1943).
text:
"One of the things that has helped me as much as any other, is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living."


author: Barbara Hall.
text:
"One of the things that keeps you from dropping them in the nearest volcano is that you had to work too hard to get them. You had to cry, you had to scream, you had to sweat, you had to cuss out health care officials, and when that's all over with, you'll be willing to put up with a lot more from your kids."


author: George Eliot (1819 - 1880).
text:
"One of the tortures of jealousy is that it can never turn its eyes away from the thing that pains it."


author: Author Unknown.
text:
"One of the weaknesses of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our need from our greed."


author: Dwight Eisenhower.
text:
"One of these days, the people are going to demand peace of the government, and the government is going to have to give it to them."


author: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
text:
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed."


author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832).
text:
"One ought every day at least to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words."


author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965).
text:
"One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half."


author: Diogenes Laertius.
text:
"One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist."


author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832).
text:
"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words."


author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832).
text:
"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words."


author: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider.
text:
"One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people...well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world."


author: Michael Cibenko.
text:
"One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us."


author: Wilfrid Sheed.
text:
"One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers."


author: Elizabeth Aston.
text:
"One remembers horrors, I think, for the rest of one's life, but memories do not always remain so sharp, and with time, and new circumstance, do not affect us so powerfully."


author: J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973).
text:
"One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways."


author: Author Unknown.
text:
"One should be more concerned about what his conscience whispers than about what other people shout."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community."


author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
text:
"One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."


author: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC).
text:
"One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy."


author: Author Unknown.
text:
"One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time."


author: Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007).
text:
"One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that."


author: Gordon Atkinson.
text:
"One thing is clear to me. You can't know everything you'd like to know. You can't do everything you'd like to do. You can't read everything you'd like to read. You must hold onto some things and let go of others. Learning to make that choice is one of the big lessons of this life."


author: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962).
text:
"One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else."


author: D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930).
text:
"One watches them on the seashore, all the people, and there is something pathetic, almost wistful in them, as if they wished their lives did not add up to this scaly nullity of possession, but as if they could not escape. It is a dragon that has devoured us all: these obscene, scaly houses, this insatiable struggle and desire to possess, to possess always and in spite of everything, this need to be an owner, lest one be owned. It is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease. One feels a sort of madness come over one, as if the world had become hell. But it is only superimposed: it is only a temporary disease. It can be cleaned away."


author: Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744).
text:
"One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity."


author: Imam Ali.
text:
"One who says unpleasant things about others, will himself quickly become a target of their scandal."


author: Marcus Aurelius.
text:
"One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding."


author: Dan Quayle (1947 - ).
text:
"One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'."


author: Jean-Jacques Rouseau.
text:
"One would see the multitude oppressed inside society as a consequence of the very precautions taken against threats from outside, one would see oppression increase continually without the oppressed ever being able to know where it would end, nor what legitimate means remained for them to halt it."


author: John Allen.
text:
"One would think that if you're anonymous, you'd do anything you want, but groups have their own sense of community and what we can do."


author: Dr. Thomas Arnold.
text:
"One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful."


author: Michael J. Fox (1961 - ).
text:
"One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered."


author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799).
text:
"One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything."


author: Elizabeth Aston.
text:
"One's life is not as fixed as one believes. Surprises may lie in store for you, the unexpected often tends to happen, sometimes bringing in its train the most delightful change in one's life or circumstances."


author: Karl Kraus (1874 - 1936).
text:
"One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well."


author: Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992).
text:
"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 or Second Laws."


author: Muhammad Ali (1942 - ).
text:
"Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even."


author: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924).
text:
"Only a peace between equals can last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit."


author: Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965).
text:
"Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see."


author: Nelson Mandela (1918 - ).
text:
"Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated."


author: Jane Goodall (1934 - ).
text:
"Only if we understand can we care. Only if we care will we help. Only if we help shall they be saved."


author: Jane Goodall (1934 - ).
text:
"Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help shall all be saved."


author: Hans Margolius.
text:
"Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world."


author: LtGen Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe.
text:
"Only in the spirit of attack, born in a brave heart, will bring success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be."


author: Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895).
text:
"Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists."


author: Willa Cather (1873 - 1947).
text:
"Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything."


author: Sterne.
text:
"Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at."


author: Eugene S. Wilson.
text:
"Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient."


author: Louis L'Amour (1908 - 1988).
text:
"Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, their lack of good fortunes or the quirks of fate. Everyone has within them the power to say, "This I am today, that I shall become tomorrow." The wish, however, must be implemented by deeds."


author: Anthony Robbins.
text:
"Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment."


author: Author Unknown.
text:
"Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."


author: David Shore.
text:
"Only two things you ignore: things that aren't important and things you wish weren't important, and wishing never works."


author: Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966).
text:
"Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography."


author: Cree Indian Prophecy.
text:
"Only when the last tree has been cut down Only when the last river has been poisoned Only when the last fish has been caught Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten."


author: Johann Georg von Zimmermann.
text:
"Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great."


author: Johann Georg Zimmermann.
text:
"Open your mouth and purse cautiously; and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great."


author: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914).
text:
"Opera, n. A play representing life in another world whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures, and no postures but attitudes."


author: Sir Julian Huxley (1887 - 1975).
text:
"Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat."


author: Lord Acton.
text:
"Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity."


author: Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962).
text:
"Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them."


author: Bill Clinton (1946 - ).
text:
"Opportunity for all means making taxes fair. I'm not out to soak the rich. But I do believe the rich should pay their fair share. For twelve years, the Republicans have raised taxes on the middle class. It's time to give the middle class tax relief."


author: Bible.
text:
"Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern."


author: Margaret Atwood (1939 - ).
text:
"Or perhaps she's just softening me up: she's a Baptist, she'd like me to find Jesus, or vice versa, before it's too late. That kind of thing doesn't run in her family: her mother Reenie never went in much for God. There was mutual respect, and if you were in trouble, naturally you'd call on him, as with lawyers, but as with lawyers, it would have to be bad trouble. Otherwise it didn't pay to get too mixed up with him."


author: Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883 - 1955).
text:
"Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoan to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoan, who gives us this assurance."


author: Woody Allen (1935 - ).
text:
"Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies."


author: James Stephens.
text:
"Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think of yourself."


author: Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 - 1991).
text:
"Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing."


author: Richter cartoon caption.
text:
"Orthodox medicine has not found an answer to your complaint. However, luckily for you, I happen to be a quack."


author: Ravi Zacharias.
text:
"Oscar Wilde said, 'The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.' Heâs got it wrong. The unrestrained appeasement of desire only expands hungers. Does not our experience tell us so?"


author: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983).
text:
"Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay."


author: Jimmy Carter (1924 - ).
text:
"Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings."


author: Mitchell Burgess.
text:
"Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual sojourn south. Why them and not us? Maybe it's because we humans are meant to be rooted in one spot."


author: Stewart B. Johnson.
text:
"Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today."


author: George Santayana (1863 - 1952).
text:
"Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be."


author: Author Unknown.
text:
"Our children seem to have wonderful taste, or none - depending, of course, on whether or not they agree with us."


author: Daniel Akst.
text:
"Our choices add up; each one influences others, and cumulatively a series of delightful short-term choices can leave us much worse off in the long run."


author: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887).
text:
"Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities."


author: George Eliot (1819 - 1880).
text:
"Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness."


author: Marianne Williamson.
text:
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us."


author: John Lubbock.
text:
"Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgement when we have not."


author: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900).
text:
"Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future."


author: Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978).
text:
"Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run."


author: Jesse Jackson.
text:
"Our flag is red,white, and blue. But our nation is a rainbow-Red,Yellow,brown,black, and white-and we're all precious in God's sight."


author: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826).
text:
"Our friendships are precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life;and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part is sunshine."


author: Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968).
text:
"Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. It is the shaping impulse of America that neither fate nor nature nor the irresistible tides of history, but the work of our own hands, matched to reason and principle, that will determine our destiny. There is pride in that, even arrogance, but there is also experience and truth. In any event, it is the only way we can live."


author: Tori Amos.
text:
"Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change because if it does change then it wonât have anything to complain about."


author: Viktor Frankl.
text:
"Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips."


author: Stephen A. Brennan.
text:
"Our goal can only be reached through a vehicle of a pain, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success."


author: Louis D. Brandeis (1856 - 1941).
text:
"Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man."


author: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983).
text:
"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."


author: Laura Moncur (1969 - ).
text:
"Our hearts can deceive us. Our hearts cannot reason. They cannot judge a man's character. All they can do is see a man and think, 'There is a fine specimen. He is handsome and attentive. He will father healthy children.' It is only our mind that we can trust. Our mind can catch him in lies. Our mind can fathom his honesty and honor."


author: David Mahoney.
text:
"Our heroes are those... who... act above and beyond the call of duty and in so doing give definition to patriotism and elevate all of us.... America is the land of the free because we are the home of the brave."


author: Robert Ingersoll (1833 - 1899).
text:
"Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope."


author: General Omar Bradley.
text:
"Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience."


author: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719).
text:
"Our imagination loves to be filled with an object or to grasp at anything that is too big for it's capacity. We are flung into a pleasing astonishment at such unbounded views and feel a delightful stillness and amazement in the soul at the apprehension of them."


author: John Locke (1632 - 1704).
text:
"Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip."


author: Tom Robbins (1936 - ).
text:
"Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures and rides it, in grace and love and wit, from peculiar station to peculiar station along life's bittersweet route."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end."


author: Anonymous.
text:
"Our land is more valuable than your money. As long as the sun shines and the waters flow, this land will be here to give life to men and animals; therefore, we cannot sell this land. It was put here for us by the Great Spirit and we cannot sell it because it does not belong to us."


author: Anais Nin (1903 - 1977).
text:
"Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!"


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."


author: Walter Anderson.
text:
"Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves."


author: Walter Anderson.
text:
"Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves."


author: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881).
text:
"Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand. "


author: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881).
text:
"Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand."


author: Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974).
text:
"Our memories are card indexes consulted, and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not control."


author: Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962).
text:
"Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin."


author: Quintilian.
text:
"Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetites."


author: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662).
text:
"Our notion of symmetry is derived from the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breath only, not vertically nor in depth."


author: Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784).
text:
"Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common."


author: Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744).
text:
"Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after."


author: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
text:
"Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings."


author: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
text:
"Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings."


author: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
text:
"Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource."


author: President Harry Truman.
text:
"Our religious faith gives us the answer to the false beliefs of Communism... I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose."


author: Thomas Troward.
text:
"Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable."


author: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680).
text:
"Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep."


author: Maximilien Robespierre (1758 - 1794).
text:
"Our revolution has made me feel the full force of the axiom that history is fiction and I am convinced that chance and intrigue have produced more heroes than genius and virtue."


author: Sidney Madwed.
text:
"Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives. Unfortunately most of us are completely unaware of this fact and we do not monitor our thoughts with the care needed so that we can create in our lives the results we say we want. Since the great majority of people do not feel worthy and deserving of abundant good fortune, radiant good health and total success in all areas of their lives that overriding thought pattern controls the results people get. The first order of business of anyone who wants to enjoy success in all areas of hisher life is to take charge of the internal dialogue they have and only think, say and behavior in a manner consistent with the results they truly desire."


author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935).
text:
"Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view."


author: Sir Ronald A. Fisher.
text:
"Our view. . . is that it is an essential characteristic of experimentation that it is carried out with limited resources, and an essential part of the subject of experimental design to ascertain how these should be best applied; or, in particular, to which causes of disturbance care should be given, and which ought to be deliberately ignored."


author: Nikola Tesla (1857 - 1943).
text:
"Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more."


author: Ruth Westheimer.
text:
"Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upward, forward, toward the sun."


author: Author Unknown.
text:
"Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience."


author: Graham Greene.
text:
"Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt."


author: Omar Bradley (1893 - 1981).
text:
"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner."


author: Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804).
text:
"Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination."


author: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931).
text:
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."


author: Louis C. K..
text:
"Out of the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead. There are way more dead people, and you're all gonna die and then you're gonna be dead for way longer than you're alive. Like that's mostly what you're ever gonna be. You're just dead people that didn't die yet."


author: Lydia M. Child.
text:
"Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow."


author: Marilyn Ferguson.
text:
"Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives."


author: David Letterman (1947 - ).
text:
"Overall Bush's European trip has been an overwhelming success. Not once has he gotten separated from his group."


author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918 - ).
text:
"Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag."


author: Mildred & Victor Goertzel.
text:
"Pablo Picasso resisted school stubbornly and seemed completely unable to learn to read or write. To other students grew used to seeing him come late with his pet pigeon -- and with the paintbrush he always carried as if it were an extension of his own body."


author: Peter McWilliams.
text:
"Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories: "We would be more alive if we did more of this," and, "Life would be more lovely if we did less of that." Once we get the pain's message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away."


author: Pat Conroy (1945 - ).
text:
"Pain doesn't travel in straight lines. It circles back around and comes up behind you. It's the circles that kill you."


author: Dan Gable.
text:
"Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit. Give everything you got today for tomorrow may never come."


author: Mary C. Taylor.
text:
"Painting in watercolor is like walking a tight-rope; one must achieve a perfect balance between what the paint wants to do and what the artist wants to do, or all is lost."


author: George Tooker.
text:
"Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings."


author: Laura Moncur (1969 - ).
text:
"Papa said that I should never be jealous of another's marriage. Whatever joys I imagine them having are just my imaginings. The reality is far more complicated and vast."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"Pardon him, Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children."


author: Marcelene Cox.
text:
"Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves."


author: Anne Frank (1929 - 1945).
text:
"Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters."


author: Hugh Macleod.
text:
"Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice."


author: Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007).
text:
"Part of the ability to keep writing over the years comes down to living with the expectation of disappointment. It's the exact opposite of capitalism. In capitalism you want your business to succeed, and to the degree it does your energy increases, and you go out and buy an even bigger business. In writing it's almost the exact opposite. You just want to keep the store going. You're not going to do as well this year as last year probably, but nonetheless let's keep the store going. What ruins most writers of talent is that they don't get enough experience, so their novels tend to develop a certain paranoid perfection."


author: Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992).
text:
"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside."


author: Hugh Macleod.
text:
"Part of understanding the creative urge is understanding that it's primal. Wanting to change the world is not a noble calling, it's a primal calling."


author: Kathryn L. Nelson.
text:
"Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect."


author: Robert Sternberg.
text:
"Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still."


author: Ty King.
text:
"Passion is the source of our finest moments, the joy of love, the clarity of hatred, and the ectasy of grief."


author: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983).
text:
"Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position."


author: E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970).
text:
"Pathos, piety, courage, â they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value."


author: Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519).
text:
"Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind."


author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784).
text:
"Patriotism having become one of our topicks, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined tone, an apophthegm, at which many will start: "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." But let it be considered that he did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak of self- interest."


author: Adlai E. Stevenson, Jr.
text:
"Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime."


author: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965).
text:
"Patriotism is not a short outburst of emotion, but is the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it."


author: Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870).
text:
"Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day."


author: Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957).
text:
"Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!"


author: Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957).
text:
"Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic."


author: Erykah Badu.
text:
"Peace and blessings manifest with every lesson learned - and if your knowledge were your wealth then it would be well earned."


author: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986).
text:
"Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos."


author: Emanuel Swedenborg (1688 - 1772).
text:
"Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end."


author: Carlos Santana.
text:
"Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner."


author: Dorothy Thompson (1894 - 1961).
text:
"Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism."


author: Will Durant and Arial Durant.
text:
"Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power."


author: Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964).
text:
"Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people."


author: Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677).
text:
"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."


author: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826).
text:
"Peace with all nations, and the right which that gives us with respect to all nations, are our object."


author: Saturday Review.
text:
"Penicillin was indeed the product of accidental discovery, but the discovery was made, and the knowledge developed, because certain scientists had definite goals in mind. "Chance," Pastuer wrote, "favors only the prepared mind." The mind must be prepared not only by scientific training and technological know-how, but also by the awareness of social needs."


author: Malcolm Cowley.
text:
"People always tell you that when you grow old you will lose your mind. What they fail to tell you is how little you'll miss it."


author: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ).
text:
"People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future."


author: Freddie Mercury (1946 - 1991).
text:
"People are always asking me what my lyrics mean. Well I say what any decent poet would say if you dared ask him to analyse his work: if you see it, darling, then it's there."


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


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. 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: Brian Buckner.
text:
"People are always trying to [mess] up other people's live's by telling lies about 'em. You wanna really [mess] somebody's life up? Tell the truth about 'em. They ain't never gonna be the same."


author: Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904).
text:
"People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them."


author: Hugh Macleod.
text:
"People are fond of spouting out the old clich%uFFFD about how Van Gogh never sold a painting in his lifetime. Somehow his example serves to justify to us, decades later, that there is somehow merit in utter failure. Perhaps, but the man did commit suicide."


author: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross.
text:
"People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in, their true beauty is only seen if there is a light within."


author: Elizabeth Kubler Ross.
text:
"People are like stained glass windows; they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light within."


author: Elizabeth Kubler-Ross.
text:
"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beuty is revealed only if there is a light from within."


author: Unknown.
text:
"People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs."


author: Somerset Maugham.
text:
"People are never so ready to believe you as when you say things in dispraise of yourself; and you are never so much annoyed as when they take you at your word."


author: Elizabeth Moon.
text:
"People are people, messy and mutable, combining differently with one another from day to day - even hour to hour."


author: Eucharista Ward.
text:
"People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them."


author: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006).
text:
"People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills, and the other familiar furniture of economic development.... But we are coming to realize... that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first."


author: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662).
text:
"People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others."


author: George Santayana (1863 - 1952).
text:
"People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious that that they are true."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity."


author: Earl Nightingale.
text:
"People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not."


author: Noel Coward (1899 - 1973).
text:
"People are wrong when they say that the opera isn't what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That's what's wrong with it."


author: E. B. White (1899 - 1985).
text:
"People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust."


author: P.J. O'Rourke.
text:
"People ask me if I've ever been called a Nazi. I answer that no one has ever had dreams of being tied down and sexually ravished by someone dressed as a liberal."


author: Rebecca West (1892 - 1983).
text:
"People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute."


author: Rebecca West (1892 - 1983).
text:
"People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute."


author: Henry James (1843 - 1916).
text:
"People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course--with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here--to keep an eye on the fleeting hour."


author: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902).
text:
"People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable."


author: Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855).
text:
"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."


author: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968).
text:
"People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant. "


author: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968).
text:
"People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant."


author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
text:
"People do tell a writer things that they don't tell others. I don't know why, unless it is that having read one or two of his books they feel on peculiarly intimate terms with him; or it may be that they dramatize themselves and, seeing themselves as it were as characters in a novel, are ready to be as open with him as they imagine the characters of his invention are."


author: Seth Godin.
text:
"People don't believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves."


author: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ).
text:
"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."


author: Margaret Cho.
text:
"People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in."


author: Craig Newmark (1952 - ).
text:
"People everywhere have the same needs and values. They need a place to live and a job. Beyond that, they may need to sell stuff or get a mate."


author: Patrick H. Edwards, Esq..
text:
"People frequently say that so and so died 'died doing what they loved.' I hope that when I die it's right before I was about to do something that I hated to do so I could at least avoid doing it one more time."


author: Jennifer Hudson.
text:
"People get comfortable with the way you areâthey have formed their opinion of you based on everything they see and know about you as a person. When you change that up by losing weight, they no longer understand you."


author: John Jay Chapman.
text:
"People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold."


author: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962).
text:
"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built."


author: Thich Nhat Hanh.
text:
"People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar."


author: Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954).
text:
"People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibition have been a failure, because the rich - don't want to buy anything."


author: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936).
text:
"People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains."


author: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942).
text:
"People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?"


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."


author: Michael Parenti.
text:
"People may like what third-party candidates say, because often they are the only ones saying anything, but they usually won't vote for someone who doesn't have a chance. Since third-party candidates are not in the news, they are considered to be not really in the race; and since they are not in the race, this justifies treating them as if they are not news."


author: Frederick Douglas.
text:
"People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get."


author: Salma Hayek.
text:
"People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves."


author: Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 - 1991).
text:
"People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times."


author: Zig Ziglar.
text:
"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathingâthat's why we recommend it daily."


author: Thomas Szasz.
text:
"People often say that this person is or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates."


author: Heather Armstrong.
text:
"People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a dog, and my answer is that I use a technique called Suffering From a Mental Illness."


author: Scott Westerfeld.
text:
"People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick."


author: Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992).
text:
"People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds up a mirror for you?"


author: Jane Goodall (1934 - ).
text:
"People say to me so often, 'Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want books signed, people are asking these questions and yet you seem peaceful,' and I always answer that it is the peace of the forest that I carry inside."


author: Russell Baker (1925 - ).
text:
"People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure."


author: Anne Sullivan.
text:
"People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved."


author: George Orwell (1903 - 1950).
text:
"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."


author: H. Jackson Browne.
text:
"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost."


author: H. Jackson Browne Jr..
text:
"People take different roads seeking fullfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost."


author: Dan Quayle (1947 - ).
text:
"People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history."


author: Dan Quayle (1947 - ).
text:
"People that are really weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history."


author: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983).
text:
"People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self."


author: William Bennet Munro.
text:
"People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something."


author: Hugh Macleod.
text:
"People who are 'ready' give off a different vibe than people who aren't. Animals can smell fear; maybe that's it. The minute you become ready is the the minute you stop dreaming. Suddenly it's no longer about 'becoming'. Suddenly it's about 'doing'."


author: Frederika Bremer.
text:
"People who are arrogant on account of their wealth are about equal to the Laplanders, who measure a man's worth by the number of his reindeer."


author: Brendan Francis.
text:
"People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly."


author: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
text:
"People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately."


author: Winnie the Pooh.
text:
"People who don't think probably don't have brains; rather, they have gray fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake."


author: Pooh's Little Instruction Book.
text:
"People who don't Think probably don't have Brains; rather, they have grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake."


author: Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988).
text:
"People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt."


author: Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924).
text:
"People who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They have not been content with mediocrity. They have not confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others so them, but always a little better. They always pushed things that came to their hands a little higher up, this little farther on, that counts in the quality of life's work. It is constant effort to be first-class in everything one attempts that conquers the heights of excellence."


author: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
text:
"People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights."


author: Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971).
text:
"People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it."


author: Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971).
text:
"People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they don't want it."


author: Richard Russo.
text:
"People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail."


author: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
text:
"People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy."


author: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004).
text:
"People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom."


author: James Baldwin (1924 - 1987).
text:
"People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned."


author: Simeon Strunsky (1879 - 1948).
text:
"People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway."


author: William Gibson (1948 - ).
text:
"People who were genuinely dangerous might not need to exhibit the fact at all, and that the ability to conceal a threat made them even more dangerous."


author: Anonymous.
text:
"People will forget what you did, people will forget what you said, but they won't forget the way you made them feel."


author: Wilbur N. Nesbit.
text:
"People will listen a great deal more patiently while you explain your mistakes than when you explain your successes."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them."


author: Audrey Hepburn.
text:
"People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone."


author: Miyamoto Musashi.
text:
"Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things."


author: Ivan Pavlov (1849 - 1936).
text:
"Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise."


author: Mary Ross.
text:
"Perfection can be achieved by no one, because perfection is achieved from faults- yet faults tear away the perfection in you."


author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944).
text:
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."


author: John Eliot, Ph.D..
text:
"Perfectionism is simply putting a limit on your future. When you have an idea of perfect in your mind, you open the door to constantly comparing what you have now with what you want. That type of self criticism is significantly deterring."


author: David P. Mikkelson.
text:
"Perhaps better we not obscure the idea that happiness and misery, kindness and greed, and good works and bad deeds are within the capacities of us all, not merely a select few."


author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
text:
"Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me."


author: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
text:
"Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter."


author: Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904).
text:
"Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be."


author: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790).
text:
"Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries. Truth is uniform and narrow; it constantly exists, and does not seem to require so much an active energy, as a passive aptitude of the soul in order to encounter it. But error is endlessly diversified; it has no reality, but is the pure and simple creation of the mind that invents it. In this field the soul has room enough to expand herself, to display all her boundless faculties, and all her beautiful and interesting extravagancies and absurdities."


author: George Eliot (1819 - 1880).
text:
"Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking."


author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
text:
"Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi."


author: Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895).
text:
"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not."


author: Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895).
text:
"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly."


author: Robert W. Shaunon.
text:
"Perhaps the reader may ask, of what consequence is it whether the author's exact language is preserved or not, provided we have his thought? The answer is, that inaccurate quotation is a sin against truth. It may appear in any particular instance to be a trifle, but perfection consists in small things, and perfection is no trifle."


author: Joseph Wood Krutch (1893 - 1970).
text:
"Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfect in all these things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly as the need for both."


author: Sylvia Plath (1932 - 1963).
text:
"Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected."


author: Jennifer Hudson.
text:
"Permanent weight loss doesnât come with an on and off switch. It is not something you do for a little while and think it is going to change your body."


author: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894).
text:
"Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things."


author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882).
text:
"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody."


author: Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD).
text:
"Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little."


author: Marabel Morgan.
text:
"Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time."


author: J. K. Rowling.
text:
"Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life."


author: Meri Williams.
text:
"Personally I have struggled massively with the dilemma of talent vs desire. Choosing desire may not always be the easiest thing to do. It may seem a waste to leave those natural talents behind and strike out in a new direction. But at least youâll feel alive."


author: Richard Dawkings:.
text:
"Personally I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world [chess] championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility."


author: Hugh Elliott.
text:
"Personally I think birthdays and anniversaries are like menstrual cramps, a regular pain in the ass that's somehow connected to birth."


author: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996).
text:
"Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out."


author: Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988).
text:
"Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong."


author: Karl Popper.
text:
"Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle - the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative."


author: Richard Dawkings:.
text:
"Philosophy and the subjects known as 'humanities' are still taught almost as if Darwin had never lived. No doubt this will change in time."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself."


author: Anonymous.
text:
"Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives."


author: Henri Cartier Bresson.
text:
"Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again."


author: Ward Jenkins.
text:
"Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint."


author: Nickolas Muray.
text:
"Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual."


author: Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938).
text:
"Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance."


author: Dick Francis.
text:
"Physics is the science of all the tremendously powerful invisibilities - of magnetism, electricity, gravity, light, sound, cosmic rays. Physics is the science of the mysteries of the universe. How could anyone think it dull?"


author: Jeff Meyer.
text:
"pixel, n.: A mischievous, magical spirit associated with screen displays. The computer industry has frequently borrowed from mythology: Witness the sprites in computer graphics, the demons in artificial intelligence, and the trolls in the marketing department."


author: Anthony Norvell.
text:
"Plant a kernel of wheat and you reap a pint; plant a pint and you reap a bushel. Always the law works to give you back more than you give."


author: Todd Andrew Reid.
text:
"Plato had slaves...George Washington had slaves... So, do I feel intrinsically better than these two men? Of course I do! They're dead!"


author: Margaret Lowenfeld.
text:
"Play is an essential function of the passage from immaturity to emotional maturity. Any individual without the opportunities for adequate play in early life will go on seeking them in the stuff of adult life."


author: Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997).
text:
"Please choose the way of peace. ... In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause."


author: Conan O'Brien.
text:
"Please do not be cynical. I hate cynicism. For the record, itâs my least favorite quality. It doesnât lead anywhere."


author: Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey.
text:
"Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment."


author: A. Lawrence Lowell (1856 - 1943).
text:
"Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way."


author: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
text:
"Pleasure is an important component of the quality of life, but by itself it does not bring happiness. Pleasure helps to maintain order, but by itself cannot create a new order in consciousness."


author: "The King of Hearts".
text:
"Plumpick: Don't you understand, the whole town will blow up in three minutes! Columbine: Yes--they will be wonderful, those three minutes."


author: Winnie-the-Pooh.
text:
"Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is go where they can find you."


author: Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867).
text:
"Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place."


author: Johnson.
text:
"Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language."


author: E.C. Stedman.
text:
"Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine arts; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest to reach true perfection."


author: T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965).
text:
"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things."


author: William E. Channing.
text:
"Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, reviews the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human mature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings, and through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold on the future life."


author: John Keats (1795 - 1821).
text:
"Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance."


author: David M. Ogilvy.
text:
"Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left."


author: Murray Edelman.
text:
"Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes."


author: George Orwell (1903 - 1950).
text:
"Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."


author: George Orwell (1903 - 1950).
text:
"Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."


author: George Orwell (1903 - 1950).
text:
"Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."


author: Nikita Khrushchev (1894 - 1971).
text:
"Politicians are the same the world over: they promise to build a bridge even when there is no river."


author: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - ).
text:
"Politics are a lousy way for a free man to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort."


author: Barack Obama (1961 - ).
text:
"Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult."


author: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004).
text:
"Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close."


author: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004).
text:
"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book."


author: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006).
text:
"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."


author: J. K. Galbraith.
text:
"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."


author: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004).
text:
"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."


author: Ernest Benn.
text:
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy."


author: Paul ValÃ©ry (1871 - 1945).
text:
"Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business."


author: George Jean Nathan (1882 - 1958).
text:
"Politics is the pursuit of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men."


author: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969).
text:
"Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage."


author: Barry Goldwater (1909 - 1998).
text:
"Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Poor and content is rich, and rich enough; but riches fineless is as poor as winter to him that ever that ever fears he shall be poor."


author: Sidney Madwed.
text:
"Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth."


author: Rod Serling (1924 - 1975).
text:
"Portrait of a losing side, proof positive that you can't outpunch machinery. Proof also of something else: that no matter what the future brings, man's capacity to rise to the occasion will remain unaltered. His potential for tenacity and optimism continues, as always, to outfight and outlive any and all changes made by his society."


author: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823).
text:
"Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value."


author: William Proxmire.
text:
"Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous."


author: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924).
text:
"Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation."


author: Dean Koontz.
text:
"Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action."


author: George Orwell (1903 - 1950).
text:
"Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power."


author: Samuel Smiles.
text:
"Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only."


author: James Goldsmith.
text:
"Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort."


author: Dag Hammarskjold (1905 - 1961).
text:
"Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for."


author: Chilo.
text:
"Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse."


author: Macduff.
text:
"Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which "bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things," which "thinks no evil.""


author: Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773).
text:
"Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do."


author: Jose Luis Chilavert.
text:
"Pressure? This is just a football match. When you do not know how to feed your children, that is pressure."


author: Sir William Draper.
text:
"Presumption means nothing more than as stated by Lord Mansfield, the weighing of probabilities, and deciding, by the powers of common sense, on which side the truth is."


author: Meryl Streep (1949 - ).
text:
"Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time."


author: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963).
text:
"Pride is a spiritual Cancer: It eats up the very possibilty of love, or contentment, or even common sense."


author: South.
text:
"Pride is the common forerunner of a fall. It was the devil's sin, and the devil's ruin; and has been, ever since, the devil's stratagem, who, like as expert wrestler, usually gives a man a lift before he gives a throw."


author: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982).
text:
"Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of manâs values, it has to be earned."


author: Frederick Saunders.
text:
"Pride, like laudanun and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others."


author: Margaret Cho.
text:
"Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary."


author: Frederick Winsor.
text:
"Probable-Possible, my black hen, She lays eggs in the Relative When. She doesn't lay eggs in the Positive Now Because she's unable to postulate how."


author: Demonax.
text:
"Probably all laws are useless, for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them."


author: Germaine Greer.
text:
"Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release."


author: Emo Phillips.
text:
"Probably the worst time in a person's life is when they have to kill a family member because they are the devil. But otherwise it's been a pretty good day."


author: From Unix User's Manual Manual.
text:
"program - A set of instructions, given to the computer, describing the sequence of steps the computer performs in order to accomplish a specific task. The task must be specific, such as balancing your checkbook or editing your text. A general task, such as working for world peace, is something we can all do, but not something we can currently write programs to do."


author: Unknown.
text:
"Programming today is a race between software engineers stirring to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning."


author: Rick Cook.
text:
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."


author: Susan Rice.
text:
"Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities."


author: Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988).
text:
"Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something."


author: George Santayana (1863 - 1952).
text:
"Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience. "


author: Jason Fried.
text:
"Projections are bullshit. They're just guesses. Wait until the real thing happens and then when it happens, then you can make the decision. Make decisions when you have a lot of information to make the decision. Not when you have to guess about what the decision is going to be or use data that doesn't exist yet."


author: Charles Simmons.
text:
"Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful."


author: Thomas Merton (1915 - 1968).
text:
"Propaganda makes up our minds for us, but in such a way that it leaves us the sense of pride and satisfaction of men who have made up their own minds. And in the last analysis, propaganda achieves this effect because we want it to. This is one of the few real pleasures left to modern man: this illusion that he is thinking for himself when, in fact, someone else is doing his thinking for him."


author: Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972).
text:
"Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand."


author: William Graham Sumner (1840 - 1910).
text:
"Property left to a child may soon be lost; but the inheritance of virtue--a good name an unblemished reputation--will abide forever. If those who are toiling for wealth to leave their children, would but take half the pains to secure for them virtuous habits, how much more serviceable would they be. The largest property may be wrested from a child, but virtue will stand by him to the last."


author: Roger Babson.
text:
"Property may be destroyed and money may lose it's purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge, and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions."


author: Charles Babbage.
text:
"Propose to any englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the english mind is directed to find a difficulty, defect or an impossibility in it."


author: Lawana Blackwell.
text:
"Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation."


author: Author Unknown.
text:
"Protest long enough that you are right, and you will be wrong. It is easier to admire hard work if you don't do it."


author: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942).
text:
"Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help."


author: D. March.
text:
"Proverbs are in the world of thought what gold coin is in the world of business - great value in small compass, and equally current among all people. Sometimes the proverb may be false, the coin counterfeit, but in both cases the false proves the value of the true."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions."


author: Anne-Sophie Swetchine.
text:
"Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them."


author: T. T. Munger.
text:
"Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success."


author: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965).
text:
"Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for."


author: PJ O'Rourke.
text:
"Public display of mourning is no longer made by people of fashion, although some flashier kinds of widows may insist on sleeping with only black men during the first year after the death."


author: Sir Robert Peel .
text:
"Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong felling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate."


author: Hugh Macleod.
text:
"Publishers are just middlemen. That's all. If artists could remember that more often, they'd save themselves a lot of aggrevation."


author: Hunter S Thompson.
text:
"Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times."


author: Dianne Hales.
text:
"Put duties aside at least an hour before bed and perform soothing, quiet activities that will help you relax."


author: Lady Duff-Gordon (1863 - 1935).
text:
"Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it."


author: Hugh Macleod.
text:
"Put your whole self into it, and you will find your true voice. Hold back and you won't. It's that simple."


author: Edward Young (1683 - 1765).
text:
"Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids; Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall."


author: Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005).
text:
"Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay for. A product is not quality because it is hard to make and costs a lot of money, as manufacturers typically believe. This is incompetence. Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality."


author: William A. Foster.
text:
"Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives."


author: Philip Crosby.
text:
"Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric."


author: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865).
text:
"Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention."


author: Hugh Macleod.
text:
"Question how much freedom your path affords you. Be utterly ruthless about it. It's your freedom that will get you to where you want to go."


author: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826).
text:
"Question with boldness even the existance of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear."


author: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826).
text:
"Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded faith."


author: Alfred A. Montapert.
text:
"Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world. And you don't have to be a poet or a philosopher to know which is best."


author: Tryon Edwards (1809 - 1894).
text:
"Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, "I did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction"."


author: Marcus Tullius Cicero.
text:
"Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas. (No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars.)"


author: Henry W. Fowler (1858 - 1933).
text:
"Quotation ... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium."


author: Louise Guiney.
text:
"Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external."


author: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956).
text:
"Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making."


author: Celia Hirschman.
text:
"Radio provides a place for me to not be alone. I still subscribe to the idea that I listen to a DJ because I care about what he or she thinks. I don't like to just hear my own voice.""


author: Jimmy Breslin.
text:
"Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers."


author: Jeff Melvoin.
text:
"Rain usually makes me feel mellow. Curl up in the corner time, slow down, smell the furniture. Today it just makes me feel wet."


author: Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805).
text:
"Random words, heard by chance, turn to hard facts in the eyes of a man of imagination, if there's any fire burning in his heart."


author: Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC).
text:
"Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past."


author: Francis Quarles (1592 - 1644).
text:
"Rather do what is nothing in the purpose than to be idle, that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot when the fliers escape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and is the self-made sepulcher of a living man."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board."


author: John C. Straffin.
text:
"Rather, she [Death] simply is the Ultimate Hostess who tells you when your table's ready. It's up to other powers what section you're seated in (smoking or non-smoking)."


author: Doris Egan.
text:
"Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people."


author: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982).
text:
"Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it."


author: Randy Pausch.
text:
"Read at least one book a month. This is self-serving, obviously. It's a proven fact that people who read buy more books than people who don't read. In truth, I wish you'd read ten books a month, or at least buy that many."


author: Francis Quarles (1592 - 1644).
text:
"Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness."


author: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626).
text:
"Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider."


author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784).
text:
"Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out."


author: Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957).
text:
"Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."


author: John Locke (1632 - 1704).
text:
"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."


author: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986).
text:
"Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ablility to learn. The judgemental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary."


author: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936).
text:
"Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as on a root."


author: Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964).
text:
"Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity."


author: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ).
text:
"Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not."


author: Sir Wilfred Grenfell (1865 - 1940).
text:
"Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile."


author: Emanuel Swedenborg (1688 - 1772).
text:
"Real joy, which comes from loving to do good things without wanting to be repaid, is the reward that lasts forever."


author: Thomas Arnold.
text:
"Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for."


author: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider.
text:
"Real meaningful endeavours, the biggies in human existence, often require the sacrifice of others."


author: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988).
text:
"Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going."


author: Anthony J. D'Angelo.
text:
"Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it."


author: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996).
text:
"Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself."


author: Mary Field Belenky.
text:
"Really listening and suspending one's own judgment is necessary in order to understand other people on their own terms... This is a process that requires trust and builds trust."


author: Ellen DeGeneres.
text:
"Really, he called me that? Ellen DeGenerate? I've been getting that since fourth grade. I guess I'm happy I could give him work."


author: Nathaniel Brandon.
text:
"Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle is a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling."


author: Chekov of Tolstoy.
text:
"Reason and Justice tell me that there is more love of man in electricity and steam, than in chastity and refusal to eat meat."


author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832).
text:
"Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals."


author: Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878 - 1969).
text:
"Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world - making the most of one's best."


author: Dolph Sharp.
text:
"Receiving a million dollars tax free will make you feel better than being flat broke and having a stomach ache."


author: Alexi Sayle.
text:
"Recently, my personal advisors have beeen telling me to go to America. Actually, people have been walking up to me in the street and telling me to sod off, but that's the same thing, isn't it?"


author: Corazon Aquino.
text:
"Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice."


author: Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870).
text:
"Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."


author: Juvenal (55 AD - 127 AD).
text:
"Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved."


author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873).
text:
"Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle."


author: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC).
text:
"Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear."


author: Sidney J. Harris.
text:
"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."


author: Peter Farquharson.
text:
"Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to look not only to our own interests, but also the interests of others."


author: Weekend Update.
text:
"Relative calm is expected in South Central Los Angeles for the next several weeks, as looters stay home and try to program their new VCRs."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of."


author: A. J. Toynbee.
text:
"Religion holds the solution to all problems of human relationship, whether they are between parents and children or nation and nation. Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God."


author: Mohammed Neguib.
text:
"Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there."


author: Richard Dawkins (1941 - ).
text:
"Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakeable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time."


author: Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939).
text:
"Religion is an illusion, and it derives its strength from its readiness to fit in with our instinctual wishful impulses."


author: Anonymous.
text:
"Religion is for those who don't want to go to Hell. Spirituality is for those of us who have already been through it."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines."


author: Arthur Shopenhauer.
text:
"Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think."


author: Jimmy Buffett.
text:
"Religion is the only thing left in the world that is free, which is why a lot of people 'find it.'"


author: Karl Marx (1818 - 1883).
text:
"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people. "


author: Karl Marx (1818 - 1883).
text:
"Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people."


author: Frederick Nietzsche.
text:
"Religiously strict people, who judge themselves without mercy, are also those who have most often spoken ill of mankind in general."


author: Dale Carnegie.
text:
"Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think."


author: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790).
text:
"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."


author: Dale Carnegie.
text:
"Remember that a person's name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language."


author: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - ).
text:
"Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you."


author: Dr. David M. Burns.
text:
"Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person."


author: Maurice Maeterlinck (1862 - 1949).
text:
"Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness."


author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
text:
"Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding."


author: Walter Winchell (1897 - 1972).
text:
"Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants."


author: The Grand Duchess Olga of Russia.
text:
"Remember that the evil which is now in the world will only get more powerful, and that it is not evil which conquers evil, but only love."


author: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC).
text:
"Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity."


author: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - ).
text:
"Remember the generational battles twenty years ago? Remember all the screaming at the dinner table about haircuts, getting jobs and the American dream? Well, our parents won. They're out living the American dream on some damned golf course in Vero Beach, and we're stuck with the jobs and haircuts."


author: Scott Adams (1957 - ).
text:
"Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end."


author: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD).
text:
"Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life."


author: Endicott Peabody (1857 - 1944).
text:
"Remember! Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend."


author: Richard M. Nixon (1913 - 1994).
text:
"Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself."


author: J. K. Rowling.
text:
"Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy."


author: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931).
text:
"Remember, nothing that's good works by itself, just to please you. You have to make the damn thing work."


author: Unknown.
text:
"Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold -- but so does a hard-boiled egg."


author: Sir Walter Raleigh (1552 - 1618).
text:
"Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied."


author: Cindy Lew.
text:
"Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends."


author: Roger Van Oech.
text:
"Remember, there are two benefits of failure: First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work. And second, the failure gives you an opportunity to try a new approach."


author: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011).
text:
"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life."


author: Robert A. Heinlein.
text:
"Remind me to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers."


author: W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946).
text:
"Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water."


author: Author Unknown.
text:
"Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; "I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure. Try to please everybody.""


author: Tom Margerison.
text:
"Report writing, like motor-car driving and love-making, is one of those activities which almost every Englishman thinks he can do well without instruction. The results are of course usually abominable."


author: Donald H. Rumsfeld (1932 - ).
text:
"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - - the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones."


author: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
text:
"Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through freely chosen discipline can life be enjoyed and still kept within the bounds of reason."


author: Moses Hasid.
text:
"Reprimand not a child immediately on the offence. Wait till the irritation has been replaced by serenity."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving."


author: Ali Vincent.
text:
"Resistance is never the agent of change. You have to embrace the actions that are going to get you closer to your goal."


author: Walt Kelly (1913 - 1973).
text:
"Resolve then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tinny blast on tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us."


author: Horace Mann (1796 - 1859).
text:
"Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year."


author: Susan B. Anthony (1820 - 1906).
text:
"Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776."


author: Clint Eastwood (1930 - ).
text:
"Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power."


author: Moliere (1622 - 1673).
text:
"Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed."


author: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931).
text:
"Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work."


author: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968).
text:
"Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."


author: Saadi (1184 - 1291).
text:
"Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend."


author: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626).
text:
"Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out."


author: Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965).
text:
"Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people."


author: Alexander Trocchi.
text:
"Revolt, my child, revolt is a quick axe cleaving dead wood in the forest by night. The woodsman of the day is the executioner."


author: Abbie Hoffman (1936 - 1989).
text:
"Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others."


author: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832).
text:
"Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give."


author: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719).
text:
"Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life."


author: Julie Brown.
text:
"Right now I'm a freshman in my fourth year at U.C.L.A., but my goal is to become a veternarian, 'cause I love children."


author: Terry Pratchett.
text:
"Rincewind had been told that death was just like going into another room. The difference is, when you shout, 'Where's my clean socks?' no-one answers."


author: Unknown.
text:
"Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."


author: Persian.
text:
"Risk - If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it."


author: Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923).
text:
"Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth."


author: Muhammad Ali (1942 - ).
text:
"Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams. They have different names but all contain water. Religions have different names, but all contain truth."


author: Saadi (1184 - 1291).
text:
"Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good."


author: Victor Hugo.
text:
"Robspierre replied softly, 'the question is to know where is the enemy.' 'He is out there, and I have hunted him,' said Danton. 'He is within, and I am watching him,' said Robespierre."


author: Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993).
text:
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read."


author: Matt Groening (1954 - ).
text:
"Romance is dead. It was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement."


author: Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC).
text:
"Romans, never forget that government is your medium! Be this your art:-to practice men in habit of peace, generosity to the conquered, and firmness against aggressors."


author: Bill Clinton (1946 - ).
text:
"Ronald Reagan and George Bush pushed through programs that raised taxes on the middle class. I think it's time to cut them. And in my administration I'll offer a middle-income tax cut that will cut rates on the middle class."


author: Jane Goodall (1934 - ).
text:
"Roots creep under the ground to make a firm foundation. Shoots seems new and small, but to reach the light they can break through brick walls."


author: Tom Stoppard (1937 - ).
text:
"Rosencrantz: Do you think death could possibly be a boat? Guildenstern: No, no, no...Death is...not. Death isn't. You take my meaning. Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not-be on a boat. Rosencrantz: I've frequently not been on boats. Guildenstern: No, no, no - what you've been is not on boats."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Ruin has taught me to ruminate,  That Time will come and take my love away.  This thought is as a death, which cannot choose  But weep to have that which it fears to lose."


author: C. K. Louis.
text:
"Sadness is poetic. You're lucky to live sad moments. When you let yourself be sad, your body has antibodies. It has happiness that comes rushing in to meet the sadness."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption."


author: Arlo Guthrie (1947 - ).
text:
"Santa Claus wears a Red Suit, He must be a communist. And a beard and long hair, Must be a pacifist. What's in that pipe that he's smoking?"


author: Bible.
text:
"Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided."


author: Ernest Haskins.
text:
"Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have."


author: Dean Koontz.
text:
"Savor the warmth of every sun-filled day, and the chill wind of every raging storm, weeds as much as flowers, the bitter and the sweet."


author: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900).
text:
"Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them."


author: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826).
text:
"Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one."


author: William Thayer Shedd.
text:
"Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them."


author: Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
text:
"Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it."


author: Jonathan Haidt.
text:
"Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feeling of moral superiority while asking nothing in return."


author: Dave Kellett.
text:
"School is learning things you don't want to know, surrounded by people you wish you didn't know, while working toward a future you don't know will ever come."


author: Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895).
text:
"Science ... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations."


author: Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992).
text:
"Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all."


author: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ).
text:
"Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non-existence of Zeus or Thor - but they have few followers now."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgements of all kinds remain necessary."


author: Pope John Paul II (aka: Karol Wojtyla).
text:
"Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes."


author: Elvin Stackman.
text:
"Science cannot stop while ethics catches up -- and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty."


author: Tyron Edwards.
text:
"Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated"


author: Henri Poincare (1854 - 1912).
text:
"Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science."


author: George Santayana (1863 - 1952).
text:
"Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated."


author: Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895).
text:
"Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club."


author: Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944).
text:
"Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers."


author: Linus Pauling (1901 - 1994).
text:
"Science is the search for truth - it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others. We need to have the spirit of science in international affairs, to make the conduct of international affairs the effort to find t he right solution, the just solution of international problems, not the effort by each nation to get the better of other nations, to do harm to them when it is possible."


author: Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895).
text:
"Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence."


author: Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895).
text:
"Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world."


author: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968).
text:
"Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all--the apathy of human beings."


author: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968).
text:
"Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings."


author: Hellen Keller.
text:
"Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all- the apathy of human beings."


author: Benoit Mandelbrot.
text:
"Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines."


author: Zambendorf.
text:
"Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and conjurors--they terrify me. Scientists are no problem; against them I feel quite confident."


author: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914).
text:
"Scriptures, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based."


author: Michael Patrick King.
text:
"Seasons change, so do cities. People come into your life and people go, but it's comforting to know: the ones you love are always in your heart and if you're very lucky, a plane ride away."


author: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968).
text:
"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."


author: Germaine Greer.
text:
"Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"See first that the design is wise and just: that ascertained, pursue it resolutely; do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect."


author: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001).
text:
"See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that."


author: Robin Williams (1951 - ).
text:
"See the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time."


author: Gordon Atkinson.
text:
"See things as they are and write about them. Donât waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know."


author: George W. Bush (1946 - ).
text:
"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."


author: Barbara Hall.
text:
"See, that's all you're thinking about, is winning. You're confirming your sense of self- worth through outward reward instead of through inner appreciation."


author: Robin Williams (1951 - ).
text:
"See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a  penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time. "


author: Susan L. Taylor.
text:
"Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth."


author: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980).
text:
"Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some."


author: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980).
text:
"Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some."


author: Terry Pratchett.
text:
"Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more."


author: Pindar (522 BC - 443 BC).
text:
"Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach."


author: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626).
text:
"Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt."


author: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936).
text:
"Seemingly from the dawn of man all nations have had governments; and all nations have been ashamed of them."


author: William Wirt (1772 - 1834).
text:
"Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance."


author: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817).
text:
"Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken."


author: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719).
text:
"Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another."


author: Arnold Schwarzenegger.
text:
"Self-confidence is something caught and not taught. And, risk-running and chance-taking are the only ways to catch it."


author: Shlomo Bernartzi.
text:
"Self-control is not a problem in the future. It's only a problem NOW when the chocolates is next to us."


author: Thucydides (471 BC - 400 BC).
text:
"Self-control is the chief element in self-respect and self-respect is the chief element in courage."


author: Bette Midler (1945 - ).
text:
"Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential."


author: Carlos Castaneda.
text:
"Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone."


author: Dr. Karl A. Menninger.
text:
"Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing people a favor, and vise versa."


author: Daniel Akst.
text:
"Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me."


author: Patricia Sampson.
text:
"Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward."


author: Rabbi Abraham Heschel.
text:
"Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live."


author: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran.
text:
"Sending important messages via text is the cowardâs way out. Donât be the person who texts important messages. Itâs rude, inconsiderate, and, yes, cowardly."


author: Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986).
text:
"Senescent judges show how patriotic they are by passing out hard sentences for tearing up a draft card or following one's conscience according to the principles established by our country at the Nuremburg trials."


author: Grover Cleveland (1837 - 1908).
text:
"Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours."


author: Lawrence Brooks.
text:
"Serendipity: Look for something, find something else, and realize what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for."


author: Damien Hess.
text:
"Service... Giving what you don't have to give. Giving when you don't need to give. Giving because you want to give."


author: Robert J. McKain.
text:
"Set priorities for your goals. A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed, the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first."


author: Richard Forsyth - Machine Learning for Expert Systems.
text:
"Setting loose on the battlefield weapons that are able to learn may be one of the biggest mistakes mankind has ever made. It could also be one of the last."


author: Karl Kraus (1874 - 1936).
text:
"Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world."


author: John Green.
text:
"Sexuality is important, but it's certainly not the most interesting or important thing happening to you right now. We live in a world that tells us that there are only two important things. One is the acquisition of goods and the other is either the acquisition or avoidance of sex, but it turns out that the question of who's a virgin and who's a virgout is not the most interesting question."


author: Jeff Melvoin.
text:
"Sexually,we are all competing for the same seat on the bus and the thing that holds it together is the tightly held conceit that we are all sexual gods. How can I believe in my own uniqueness when there's a cat out there exactly the same as me?"


author: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826).
text:
"Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?  Thou art more lovely and more temperate:  Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,  And summer's lease hath all too short a date."


author: Gay.
text:
"Shall ignorance of good and ill Dare to direct the eternal will? Seek virtue, and of that possest, To Providence resign the rest."


author: Tich Nhat Han.
text:
"Shallow understanding accompanies poor compassion, great understanding goes with great compassion."


author: Terry Pratchett.
text:
"Sham Harga had run a succesful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and realizing that most of his customers wanted meals properly balanced between the four food groups: sugar, starch, grease, and burnt crunchy bits."


author: LaDawnna Burnett.
text:
"Shame is that intrinsic meter of our own heart to tell us that we have failed to follow our own moral compass."


author: LaDawnna Burnett (1975 - ).
text:
"Shame is that intrinstic meter of our own heart to tell us that we have failed to follow our own moral compass."


author: Hugh Elliott.
text:
"Share your M&Ms. There are bags and bags of them all over the place. If you give them one of yours, even one of the green ones, you will not be lacking. Honust Injun. Now apply this to Time, Concern, Touch, Interest and Being Vulnerable."


author: W. Lee Grant.
text:
"Shared laughter creates a bond of friendships. When people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, teacher and pupils, worker and boss. They become a single group of human beings."


author: Dave Barry (1947 - ).
text:
"Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent."


author: Sylvia Levi.
text:
"She (India) has left indelible imprints on one fourth of the human race in the course of a long succession of centuries. She has the right to reclaim... her place amongst the great nations summarizing and symbolizing the spirit of humanity. From Persia to the Chinese sea, from the icy regions of Siberia to Islands of Java and Borneo, India has propagated her beliefs, her tales, and her civilization."


author: Marita Bonner.
text:
"She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if she were already in the shell. In their very shell."


author: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817).
text:
"She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped."


author: Henry James (1843 - 1916).
text:
"She had fortunately always her appetite for news. The pure flame of the disinterested burned in her cave of treasures as a lamp in a Byzantine vault."


author: Faith Sullivan.
text:
"She had learned the self-deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel."


author: Paolo Giordano.
text:
"She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else."


author: Eucharista Ward.
text:
"She heard and mentally recorded people's words in the same way she copied words she read. Could she ever hear what a person did not say?"


author: Toni Morrison (1931 - ).
text:
"She is a friend of my mind... The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order."


author: Hartley Coleridge.
text:
"She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be; Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me; Oh! then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light."


author: Robin Williams (1951 - ).
text:
"She is not perfect. You are not perfect. The question is whether or not you are perfect for each other."


author: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001).
text:
"She is the least benightedly unintelligent organic lifeform it has ever been my distinct lack of pleasure not to have been able to avoid meeting."


author: Patrick Macnee.
text:
"She just came in, pounced around this thing with me for a few years enjoyed herself, gave it a sort of beautiful quality and left. Excited a few men in the meantime."


author: John Mason Brown (1900 - 1969).
text:
"She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life."


author: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942).
text:
"She makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them."


author: Brian Andreas.
text:
"She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short."


author: Willa Cather (1873 - 1947).
text:
"She used to drag her mattress besider her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibrates from speed. Life rushed in upon her through that window - or so it seemed. In reality, of course, life rushes from within, not from without. There is no work of art so big or so beautiful that is was not once all contained in some youthful body, like this one which lay on the floor in the moonlight, pulsing with ardor and anticipation."


author: William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850).
text:
"She was a phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight; A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament."


author: David Nicholls.
text:
"She was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same-you couldn't just soak it up then squeeze it out again."


author: Adrienne Gusoff.
text:
"Shopping is better than sex. If you're not satisfied after shopping you can make an exchange for something you really like."


author: H. L. Wayland.
text:
"Show us a man who never makes a mistake and we will show you a man who never makes anything. The capacity for occasional blundering is inseparable from the capacity to bring things to pass. The only men who are past the danger of making mistakes are the men who sleep at Greenwood."


author: Sir Henry Taylor.
text:
"Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets; for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say."


author: Sacha Guitry (1885 - 1957).
text:
"Si vous rÃ©unissez Ã  table une douzaine de personnes, il y a toujours une femme "qui fait la gueule", un monsieur qui s'ennuie, un homme qui parle trop et quelqu'un de distrait qui fait gaffe sur gaffe. Lorsque vous avez un mÃ©decin Ã  votre table, pensez Ã  mettre auprÃ¨s de lui un bloc de papier et un stylo, afin qu'il puisse, entre la poire et le fromage, faire autant d'ordonnances qu'il y aura de convives. De quels repas se souvient-on ? De ceux qui furent dÃ©lectables - ou pour la bouche - ou pour l'esprit. Ce ne sont pas toujours les mÃªmes. Les plus exquis de tous n'ont ils pas Ã©tÃ© ceux que l'on improvisa ? On se souvient trente ans aprÃ¨s, de deux Åufs sur le plat - un peu trop cuits sans doute - mais la main qui tenait la poÃªle Ã©tait si belle!"


author: George Du Maurier (1834 - 1896).
text:
"Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling; The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,  Men were decievers ever,-  One foot in the sea and one on shore,  To one thing constant never."


author: Bill Cosby (1937 - ).
text:
"Sigmund Freud once said, "What do women want?" The only thing I have learned in fifty-two years is that women want men to stop asking dumb questions like that."


author: Ian Shoales.
text:
"Sigmund Freud was a half baked Viennese quack. Our literature, culture, and the the films of Woody Allen would be better today if Freud had never written a word."


author: Tom Blair.
text:
"Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, "there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it." A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence."


author: Tom Blair.
text:
"Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence."


author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784).
text:
"Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say."


author: Mike Myers.
text:
"Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again."


author: Harper Lee (1926 - ).
text:
"Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win."


author: Russell R. McIntyre.
text:
"Sin bravely...We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into the future."


author: Tyron Edwards.
text:
"Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong."


author: Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527).
text:
"Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved."


author: Lois McMaster Bujold.
text:
"Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same."


author: Steven B. Beach.
text:
"Since the dawn of time there have been those among us who have been willing to go to extraordinary lengths to gain access to that domain normally reserved for birds, angels, and madmen."


author: James Madison (1751 - 1836).
text:
"Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people, by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations."


author: John Masefield (1878 - 1967).
text:
"Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few."


author: Unknown.
text:
"Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defence of peace must be constructed."


author: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662).
text:
"Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."


author: James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891).
text:
"Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character."


author: Tillotson.
text:
"Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves."


author: Tyron Edwards.
text:
"Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end."


author: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790).
text:
"Sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its Faults, if they are such; because I think a General Government necessary for us, and there is no Form of Government but what may be a Blessing to the People if well administered; and I believe farther that this is likely to be well administered for a Course of Years, and can only end in Despotism as other Forms have done before it, when the People shall become so corrupted as to need Despotic Government, being incapable of any other."


author: Winfield Hancock.
text:
"Sir, it is not God who will assemble us on the battlefield, nor position our troops, nor place the cannon, and it is not God who will aim the musket."


author: Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895).
text:
"Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion... or you shall learn nothing."


author: Malcolm X (1925 - 1965).
text:
"Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American."


author: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996).
text:
"Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense."


author: George Santayana (1863 - 1952).
text:
"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness."


author: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - ).
text:
"Skiing consists of wearing $3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink."


author: Tom Stoppard (1937 - ).
text:
"Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art."


author: Bernard Joseph Saurin.
text:
"Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed."


author: Randy K. Milholland.
text:
"Slap a mask on a drunk and you're going to have trouble. It's like having a live reenactment of anonymous forum comments."


author: Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980).
text:
"Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, the death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, chief nourisher in life's feast."


author: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790).
text:
"Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him."


author: Eddie Cantor (1892 - 1964).
text:
"Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why."


author: Henry James (1843 - 1916).
text:
"Small and fat and constantly facetious, straw- coloured and destitute of marks, he would have been practically indistinguishable hadn't his constant preference for light-grey clothes, for white hats, for very big cigars and very little stories, done what it could for his identity."


author: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680).
text:
"Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them."


author: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968).
text:
"Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived."


author: Niccollo Machavelli.
text:
"So as a prince is forced to know how to act like a beast, he must learn from the fox and the lion; becouse the lion is defenceless against traps and the fox is defenceless against wolves. Therefore one must be a fox in order to recognise traps and lion to frighten off wolves."


author: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790).
text:
"So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do."


author: Joseph Heller (1923 - 1999).
text:
"so convincing were those dreams of being awake that he woke from them in a state of complete exhaustion, and had to go straight back to sleep again."


author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832).
text:
"So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked."


author: Caleb Carr.
text:
"So if it seems that some of what I'll have to say in the pages to come doesn't reflect the mellowing of age, that's only because I've never found that life and memories respond to time the way that tobacco does."


author: Neal A. Maxwell.
text:
"So if various trials are allotted to you, partake of life's bitter cups, but without becoming bitter."


author: Homer (800 BC - 700 BC).
text:
"So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence."


author: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592).
text:
"So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation."


author: Alfred Austin.
text:
"So long as faith with freedom reigns And loyal hope survives,  And gracious charity remains To leaven lowly lives;  While there is one untrodden tract For intellect or will,  And men are free to think and act, Life is worth living still."


author: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915).
text:
"So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill their.s"


author: Anatole France (1844 - 1924).
text:
"So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem."


author: Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683).
text:
"So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies."


author: Roger Baldwin.
text:
"So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy."


author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
text:
"So many Gods, so many creeds So many ways that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind is all this sad world needs."


author: J. B. S. Haldane (1892 - 1964).
text:
"So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination. "


author: Christopher Reeve.
text:
"So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable."


author: Jennifer Hudson.
text:
"So many people miss out on true talent because they canât get past a look. At the end of the day, losing weight was easy, but finding talent? Now thatâs hard."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: "Ye shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor's religion is." Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it. Divinity is claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough to add that new law to its code."


author: Haniel Long.
text:
"So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it."


author: Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881).
text:
"So that if a man rejects God, he will have to worship an idol that may be made of wood, gold, or ideas. So those who think they don't need God are really just idol worshipers, and that's what we should call them. But there must be true atheists too; only they're much more dangerous because they come to us with the name of God on their lips . . . There are some people like that, my friends, and there should be."


author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965).
text:
"So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent."


author: Philip K. Dick (1928 - 1982).
text:
"So we and our elaborately evolving computers may meet each other halfway. Someday a human being, named perhaps Fred White, may shoot a robot named Pete Something-or-other, which has come out of a General Electric factory, and to his surprise see it weep and bleed. And the dying robot may shoot back and, to its surprise, see a wisp of gray smoke arise from the electric pump that it supposed was Mr. White's beating heart. It would be rather a great moment of truth for both of them."


author: Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - ).
text:
"So we must daily keep things wound: that is, we must pray when prayer seems dry as dust; we must write when we are physically tired, when our hearts are heavy, when our bodies are in pain."


author: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011).
text:
"So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'"


author: Krishnamurti.
text:
"So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it."


author: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
text:
"So, let us not be blind to our differences - but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved."


author: Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870).
text:
"So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise."


author: Denis de Rougemont.
text:
"Social confusion has now reached a point at which the pursuit of immorality turns out to be more exhausting than compliance with the old moral codes."


author: John Dewey (1859 - 1952).
text:
"Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self-righteous isolation."


author: Lester Brown.
text:
"Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth; capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth."


author: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797).
text:
"Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without."


author: Abraham Myerson.
text:
"Society expects man to be a passive social animal who believes like the People of the Field in "Jurgen" that "to do what you always have done" and "what is expected of you" are the twin rules of life. This, of course, is not true. The wanton crucifixion of impulses, the unnecessary blocking and frustration of the drives and urges, are an evil that reflects itself in sophistication, ennui and boredom, dissatisfaction, melancholy, fatigue, anxiety and neurosis."


author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
text:
"Society's institutions, like government, schools, the arts, and the media, corrupt naturally good individuals."


author: Unknown.
text:
"Socrates seems to be the philosophical napkin with which the ensuing cultural thinkers of history wipe their mouths of pedantic ooze."


author: anonymous.
text:
"Soldiers who are not afraid of guns, bombs, capture, torture or death say they are afraid of homosexuals. Clearly we should not be used as soldiers; we should be used as weapons."


author: Alan Watts.
text:
"Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them."


author: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626).
text:
"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention."


author: Kernighan & Plauger - The Elements of Programming Style.
text:
"Some compilers allow a check during execution that subscripts do not exceed array dimensions. This is a help, but not sufficient. First, many programmers do not use such compilers because "They're not efficient." (Presumably, this means that it is vital to get the wrong answers quickly.)"


author: Author Unknown.
text:
"Some families can trace their ancestors back three hundred years, but can't tell you where their children were last night."


author: Peter Sellers (1925 - 1980).
text:
"Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat."


author: Garrison Keillor (1942 - ).
text:
"Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known."


author: Joseph Heller (1923 - 1999).
text:
"Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them."


author: Lois McMaster Bujold.
text:
"Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son."


author: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826).
text:
"Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched."


author: Edgar Watson Howe (1853 - 1937).
text:
"Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better."


author: George Carlin (1937 - 2008).
text:
"Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong."


author: Dale E. Turner.
text:
"Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future."


author: Doug Larson.
text:
"Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible."


author: Doug Larson.
text:
"Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enought to know they were impossible."


author: Margaret Cho.
text:
"Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion."


author: Steve Prefontaine.
text:
"Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more than just a race, it's a style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative."


author: George Eliot (1819 - 1880).
text:
"Some people did what their neighbors did so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them."


author: Anonymous.
text:
"Some people get angry because God put thorns on roses, while others praise him for putting roses among thorns."


author: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004).
text:
"Some people go their whole life wondering if they ever made a difference. Marines donât have that problem."


author: Jean Kerr.
text:
"Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them."


author: Stan Openshaw - Doomsday.
text:
"Some people imagine that nuclear war will mean instant and painless death. But for millions this will not be the case. The accounts of the injured at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and of the doctors who tried to tend them, witness to the horrors and torments which would be magnified thousands of times over in the kinds of attack we analyse here. . ."


author: Missy Dizick.
text:
"Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well."


author: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004).
text:
"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem."


author: Jim Morrison (1943 - 1971).
text:
"Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see."


author: Elvis Presley (1935 - 1977).
text:
"Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just sorta do 'em all together, I guess."


author: Eddie Van Halen.
text:
"Some people think a song without words isn't a real song. Tell that to Beethoven and he'll kick your ass!"


author: Bill Shankly.
text:
"Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that."


author: Dean Koontz.
text:
"Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy."


author: Lois McMaster Bujold.
text:
"Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart."


author: Lina Wertmuller.
text:
"Some rainy winter Sundays when there's a little boredom, you should always carry a gun. Not to shoot yourself, but to know exactly that you're always making a choice."


author: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata.
text:
"Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies."


author: Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993).
text:
"Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say that there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe."


author: Edgar Allen Poe.
text:
"Some things are so completely ludicrous that a man must laugh or die. To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!"


author: Pierre Trudeau (1919 - 2000).
text:
"Some things I never learned to like. I didn't like to kiss babies, though I didn't mind kissing their mothers."


author: Gordon Atkinson.
text:
"Some things you do because you want to. Some things you do because of the needs of others in your family."


author: Eugene Mirman.
text:
"Some tips for life: 1.Don't be afraid to follow your dreams, unless your dreams are stupid. 2.Be kind to people. 3.Don't get too excited when you read the Fountainhead 4.In times of recession, it is time for invention. 5.Things can kill you, so keep that in mind, you fearless know it alls."


author: John Green.
text:
"Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin."


author: J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973).
text:
"Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works..."


author: Joss Whedon.
text:
"Somebody once asked me if I have anything like faith, and I said I have faith in the narrative. I have a belief in a narrative that is bigger than me, that is alive and I trust will work itself out."


author: Neils Bohr.
text:
"Somebody once asked Niels Bohr why he had a horseshoe hanging above the front door of his house."Surely you, a world famous physicist, can't really believe that hanging a horseshoe above your door brings you luck?"."Of course not," Bohr replied, "but I have been reliably informed that it will bring me luck whether I believe in it or not.""


author: Michael J. Mosley and Nicholas Rossiter.
text:
"Somebody once said that beauty is the passport to success, but it's not a passport. It's a visa and it expires."


author: Michael Landon (1936 - 1991).
text:
"Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now!"


author: Rita Rudner.
text:
"Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be."


author: Sonny Liston.
text:
"Someday they're gonna write a blues song just for fighters. It'll be for slow guitar, soft trumpet, and a bell."


author: Author Unknown.
text:
"Someone has described science as an orderly arrangement of what, at the moment, seems to be facts."


author: Albert Gore, Jr..
text:
"Someone who expresses a view that is contrary to the view of the overwhelming majority should be allowed to stand undisturbed as a monument to our commitment to free speech."


author: Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956).
text:
"Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself."


author: Robert Collier.
text:
"Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires. You must set in operation a process of competition, from which one must emerge a victor and the other set be defeated."


author: Gloria Naylor.
text:
"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over."


author: Donna Summer.
text:
"Sometimes I get bored riding down the beautiful streets of L.A. I know it sounds crazy, but I just want to go to New York and see people suffer."


author: Robert Orben.
text:
"Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some smaller countries are neutral."


author: Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000).
text:
"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night.""


author: Bill Watterson (1958 - ).
text:
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."


author: R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983).
text:
"Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering."


author: Katharine Hepburn (1907 - 2003).
text:
"Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should just live next door and just visit now and then."


author: The Dalai Lama (1935 - ).
text:
"Sometimes in my dreams there are women...When such dreams happen, immediately I remember, 'I am a monk.'...It is very important to analyze 'What is the real benefit of sexual desire?' The appearance of a beautiful face or a beautiful body - as many scriptures describe - no matter how beautiful, they essentially decompose into a skeleton. When we penetrate to its human flesh and bones, there is no beauty, is there? A couple in a sexual experience is happy for that moment. Then very soon trouble begins."


author: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826).
text:
"Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the governing of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question."


author: Matthias.
text:
"Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them."


author: Darby Conley.
text:
"Sometimes it's good to contrast what you like with something else. It makes you appreciate it even more."


author: Loretta Lynn.
text:
"Sometimes it's like you're a big pie settin' on the table, and everybody runs up and gets their piece of you. When it's over, the plate's empty."


author: Randy K. Milholland.
text:
"Sometimes old things need to go away. That way, we have room for the new things that come into our lives."


author: Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - ).
text:
"Sometimes our freedom comes in the way we accept things over which we have no control, things which may cause us great pain and even death."


author: Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon.
text:
"Sometimes people are layered like that. There's something totally different underneath than what's on the surface. But sometimes, there's a third, even deeper level, and that one is the same as the top surface one. Like with pie."


author: Waiter Rant.
text:
"Sometimes people are on the outside looking in because they donât have any money. But sometimes people are on the outside looking in because they donât have any class."


author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
text:
"Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem."


author: Randy K. Milholland.
text:
"Sometimes people do things that hurt and it's not because they mean to. They just do. It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with you, but you end up hurt because of it."


author: John Green.
text:
"Sometimes people donât understand the promises theyâre making when they make them. Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. Thatâs what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway."


author: Coyote Shivers.
text:
"Sometimes reputations outlive their applications. Sometimes fires don't go out when you're done playing with them."


author: Scott Westerfeld.
text:
"Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing."


author: Laura Moncur (1969 - ).
text:
"Sometimes the joys of our youth do not translate to joys in adulthood and itâs hard to release them."


author: Barbara Schapiro.
text:
"Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight."


author: Brock Clarke.
text:
"Sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them."


author: Randy K. Milholland.
text:
"Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes."


author: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider.
text:
"Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk."


author: Davis Barton.
text:
"Sometimes the world puts a spin on life. When our equilibrium returns to us, we understand more because we've seen the whole picture."


author: Donald Trump (1946 - ).
text:
"Sometimes they say, âHe doesnât act presidential.â And I say, with the exception of the late, great Abraham Lincoln, I can be more presidential than any president thatâs held this office. That I can tell you. Itâs real easy."


author: Jacques Yves-Cousteau.
text:
"Sometimes we are lucky enough to know our lives have been changed, to discard the old and embrace the new and run headlong down an immutable course. It happened to me... on that summer's day when my eyes were opened to the sea."


author: Audre Lorde.
text:
"Sometimes we could not bear the face of each other's differences because of what we feared it might say about ourselves. "


author: John Le Carre (1931 - ).
text:
"Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers."


author: Ellen DeGeneres.
text:
"Sometimes when I am driving I get so angry at inconsiderate drivers that I want to scream at them. But then I remember how insignificant that is, and I thank God that I have a car and my health and gas. That was phrased wrong - normally you wouldn't say, thank God I have gas."


author: Margaret Cho.
text:
"Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever."


author: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011).
text:
"Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations."


author: Henry Bromel.
text:
"Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity."


author: Mitch Albom.
text:
"Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else."


author: Morrie Schwartz.
text:
"Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too--even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling."


author: Sean Stewart.
text:
"Sometimes you feel other people's pain worse than your own. We're armored against our own troubles. We can't afford to give in to despair. Then you see someone else struggling, and it breaks your... heart."


author: Thich Nhat Hanh.
text:
"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy."


author: Wil Wheaton.
text:
"Sometimes, a person who likes your work and a person who donât will show up within milliseconds of each other to let you know how they feel. One does not need to cancel out the other, positively or negatively; if youâre proud of the work, and you enjoyed the work, that is whatâs important."


author: Pooh's Little Instruction Book.
text:
"Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known."


author: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961).
text:
"Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better."


author: David Nicholls.
text:
"Sometimes, when it's going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationary. The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus ticket, on the wall of a cell."


author: John Green.
text:
"Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book."


author: Harvey Cox.
text:
"Somewhere deep down we know that in the final analysis we do decide things and that even our decisions to let someone else decide are really our decisions, however pusillanimous."


author: Harvey Cox.
text:
"Somewhere deep down we know that in the final analysis, we do decide things and that even our decisions to let someone else decide are really our decisions, however pusillanimous."


author: Sam Levenson (1911 - 1980).
text:
"Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"Sooner of later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song."


author: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996).
text:
"Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success."


author: Thomas Osbert Mordaunt.
text:
"Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife, Throughout the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life, Is worth an age without name."


author: Frances E. Willard.
text:
"Sow and act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap destiny."


author: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001).
text:
"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."


author: Author Unknown.
text:
"Spare minutes are the Gold-dust of time; the portions of life most fruitful in good and evil; the gaps through which temptations enter."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice: Then must you speak of one that loved not wisely but too well."


author: Johannes Trithemius.
text:
"Speak of things public to the public, but of things lofty and secret only to the loftiest and most private of your friends. Hay to the ox and sugar to the parrot."


author: William Penn (1644 - 1718).
text:
"Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Speak to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst of words."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today."


author: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - ).
text:
"Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special."


author: Charles Lindberg Sr..
text:
"Speculations and loans in foreign fields are likely to bring us into war... The war-for-profit group has counterfeited patriotism."


author: John Andrew Holmes.
text:
"Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both."


author: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881).
text:
"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. "


author: Ernest Rutheford.
text:
"Splitting the atom is like trying to shoot a gnat in the Albert Hall at night and using ten million rounds of ammunition on the off chance of getting it. That should convince you that the atom will always be a sink of energy and never a reservoir of energy."


author: Laura Moncur (1969 - ).
text:
"Spoken words evaporated into the air just as easily as burned letters, but the sound of them seemed immortal. It was as if a word spoken could not be destroyed."


author: Hugh Macleod.
text:
"Stamina is utterly important. And stamina is only possible if it's managed well. People think all they need to do is endure one crazy, intense, job-free creative burst and their dreams will come true. They are wrong, they are stupidly wrong."


author: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - ).
text:
"Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra."


author: George W. Bush (1946 - ).
text:
"States should have the right to enact... laws...particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live."


author: John Adams (1735 - 1826).
text:
"Statesmen may plan and speculate for liberty but it is religion and morality alone that can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand."


author: Lewis Thomas (1913 - 1993).
text:
"Statistically the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you would think the mere possibility of existence would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise."


author: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995).
text:
"Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits that under analysis some of them won't stand up either."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than on all other days of the year put together. This proves, by the numbers left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so."


author: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995).
text:
"Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions."


author: Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991).
text:
"Step with care and great tact And remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act Just never forget to be dexterous and deft And never mix up your right foot with your left."


author: The Nation.
text:
"Still other respected writes, such as Rufus Miles Jr. and Stanford Univerity's Barton Bernstein, have effectively refuted Truman's oft-repeated argument about the number of American lives saved by the bomb. Citing the most recently de-classified materials, Bernstein could not find a worst-case prediction of lives lost higher than 46,000-even if an invasion had been mounted, which, as noted, was deemed highly unlikely by July 1945. Most estimates went no higher than 20,000 combat deaths. "The myth of the 500,000 American lives saved", Bernstein concludes, "thus seems to have no bases in fact.""


author: Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005).
text:
"Stock option plans reward the executive for doing the wrong thing. Instead of asking, 'Are we making the right decision?' he asks, 'How did we close today?' It is encouragement to loot the corporation."


author: Ali Vincent.
text:
"Stop seeing the obstacles you face as reasons why you can't do something. See them as a reason why you can. And celebrate your accomplishments on a daily basis."


author: John Green.
text:
"Stories donât just make us matter to each otherâmaybe theyâre also the only way to the infinite mattering heâd been after for so long."


author: Madonna (1958 - ).
text:
"Straight men need to be emasculated. I'm sorry. They all need to be slapped around. Women have been kept down for too long. Every straight guy should have a man's tongue in his mouth at least once."


author: Stephen Vizinczey.
text:
"Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it."


author: Dan Tasman.
text:
"Strange how the older generations can't program a VCR if their life depended on it, but they managed to operate the climate contol system of their 1958 Ramblers, which consisted of six unmarked knobs, one labeled "AirFloMatic" in unreadable cursive script, and four levers underneath the dash, which you had to turn, then pull."


author: Betty Friedan (1921 - 2006).
text:
"Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework - an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life."


author: Frank Muir.
text:
"Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it."


author: Miyamoto Musashi.
text:
"Strategy is different from other things in that if your mistake the Way (of strategy), even a little, you will become bewildered and fall into bad ways."


author: Pete Johnson.
text:
"STRATEGY is; A style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring FUTURE SUCCESS."


author: Linda R. Dominguez.
text:
"Strength, courage and power do not exclude kindness, understanding and consideration. You can be strong and kind; you can be courageous and understanding; you can be powerful and considerate."


author: Natalie Goldberg.
text:
"Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important."


author: William Carleton.
text:
"Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him."


author: Peter McWilliams.
text:
"Stubbornness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from "won't power" to "will power.""


author: Dr. Maxwell Maltz.
text:
"Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course which gives the most promise and go ahead."


author: Ellen DeGeneres.
text:
"Stuffed deer heads on walls are bad enough, but it's worse when they are wearing dark glasses and have streamers in their antlers because then you know they were enjoying themselves at a party when they were shot."


author: Robert A. Heinlein.
text:
"Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime: the sentence is death, there is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity."


author: Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long.
text:
"Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death, there is no appeal and execution is carried out automatically and without pity."


author: Werner Herzog.
text:
"Stupidity is the devil. Look in the eye of a chicken and you'll know. It's the most horrifying, cannibalistic, and nightmarish creature in this world."


author: Danny Thomas.
text:
"Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others."


author: David Rockefeller (1915 - ).
text:
"Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were."


author: Napoleon Hill.
text:
"Success in highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which comes only to the man who has found the work he likes best."


author: Margaret Cho.
text:
"Success is meaningless if you can't sleep at night because of harsh things said, petty secrets sharpened against hard and stony regret, just waiting to be plunged into the soft underbelly of a 'friendship.'"


author: Herman Cain.
text:
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."


author: Eric Schmidt.
text:
"Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it."


author: Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882).
text:
"Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early."


author: Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915).
text:
"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed."


author: Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915).
text:
"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome."


author: Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915).
text:
"Success isn't measured by the position you reach in life: it's measured by the obstacles you overcome."


author: Zig Ziglar.
text:
"Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximumutilization of the ability that you have."


author: David Sarnoff.
text:
"Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us."


author: Reed Markham.
text:
"Successful innovators recognize that discovery of great ideas come from looking at the same thing as everyone else and observing something different."


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


author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784).
text:
"Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty."


author: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823).
text:
"Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest."


author: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809).
text:
"Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing. "


author: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809).
text:
"Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing."


author: Lois McMaster Bujold.
text:
"Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We're not giving up. We're waiting for a better opportunity to win."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature."


author: Henry James (1843 - 1916).
text:
"Summer afternoon-summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing they were dead and in heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in hell."


author: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900).
text:
"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, and snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."


author: Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519).
text:
"Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly."


author: Richard M. Nixon (1913 - 1994).
text:
"Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too."


author: Sir Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682).
text:
"Sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument. For there is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unus'd."


author: Joe Bob Briggs.
text:
"SURE-FIRE SINGLES AD: Famous Writer needs woman to organize his life and spend his money. Loves to turn off Sunday football and go to the Botanical Gardens with that special someone. Will obtain plastic surgery if necessary."


author: James Hilton (1900 - 1954).
text:
"Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Swear not by the moon, th' inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circled orb, lest that thy love prove likewise variable."


author: David Gridley.
text:
"Swearing is like any other music...If it is not done well, if it is not done with a fine and discriminating art, and vitalized with gracious and heartborn feeling, it lacks beauty, it lacks charm, it lacks expression, it lacks nobleness, it lacks majesty..."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Sweet are the uses of adversity,  Which like the toad, ugly and venomous,  Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;  And this our life, exempt from public haunt,  Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,  Sermons in stones, and good in everything."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head. "


author: Dale Carnegie.
text:
"Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare."


author: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894).
text:
"Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body."


author: Mary Tyler Moore (1936 - ).
text:
"Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave."


author: Ray Kurzweil.
text:
"Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet weâd find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it."


author: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983).
text:
"Take man's most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it."


author: J. D. Salinger (1919 - ).
text:
"Take most people, they're crazy about cars. I'd rather have a goddamn horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake."


author: Julius Schwartz.
text:
"Take something you love, tell people about it, bring together people who share your love and help make it better. Ultimately, you'll have more of whatever you love for yourself and for the world."


author: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996).
text:
"Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new."


author: Bible.
text:
"Take therefore no thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."


author: Booth Tarkington (1869 - 1946).
text:
"Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously."


author: Lemony Snicket.
text:
"Taking one's chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling to a plastic duck."


author: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran.
text:
"Taking responsibility gives us power and control, because when we recognize the relationship between our choices and their consequences, then the next time we donât like a consequence we can make a different choice."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within."


author: Jean Anouilh (1910 - 1987).
text:
"Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance."


author: Konstantin Stanislavsky (1863 - 1938).
text:
"Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and shortened period of mental assimilation."


author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834).
text:
"Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never."


author: Johan Wolfgang von Goethe.
text:
"Talents are best nurtured in solitude; but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world."


author: E. R. Bulwer-Lytton.
text:
"Talk not of genius baffled, Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can."


author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882).
text:
"Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted, If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters returning Back to their springs, like the rain shall fill them full of refreshment; That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain."


author: Ellen G. White.
text:
"Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest."


author: Ben Johnson.
text:
"Talking and eloquence are not the same thing: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks."


author: John Keats (1795 - 1821).
text:
"Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine -- how good how fine. It went down all pulpy, slushy, oozy, all its delicious embonpoint melted down my throat like a large, beautified Strawberry."


author: Jeff Melvoin.
text:
"Talking perceptions, people. Do we really see each other for what we really are, or do we just see what we want to see, the image distorted by our own personal lenses? I lost someone today and the funny thing is, I don't even know who she was."


author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
text:
"Tao. Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither."


author: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900).
text:
"Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is "What do you like?" Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are."


author: Unknown.
text:
"Teach children to be polite and courteous in the home, and, when he grows up, he will never be able to edge his car onto a freeway."


author: Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973).
text:
"Teaching is as sacred as priesthood. If one has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and artist, he must not teach."


author: Martin Heidegger.
text:
"Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by "learning" we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty."


author: Ann Richards.
text:
"Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date."


author: Andrew Carnegie (1835 - 1919).
text:
"Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results."


author: Matt Witten.
text:
"Technical term is narcissism. You can't believe everything is your fault unless you also believe you're all powerful."


author: Penn Jillette (1955 - ).
text:
"Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision."


author: Putt's Law.
text:
"Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand."


author: Rita Mae Brown.
text:
"Television and film demand that people at all levels have brass balls or brass ovaries. Unfortunately, we live in the reign of the eunuch."


author: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980).
text:
"Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it."


author: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956).
text:
"Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything."


author: T.S. Eliot.
text:
"Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome."


author: David Frost.
text:
"Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home."


author: Alan Corenk.
text:
"Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms."


author: Clive Barnes.
text:
"Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want."


author: Clive Barnes.
text:
"Television is the first truly democratic culture -- the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want."


author: Hodding Carter.
text:
"Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone."


author: Raymond Chandler (1888 - 1959).
text:
"Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval ooze. You don't have to concentrate. You don't have to react. You don't have to remember. You don't miss your brain because you don't need it. Your heart and liver and lungs continue to function normally. Apart from that, all is peace and quiet. You are in the man's nirvana. And if some poor nasty minded person comes along and says you look like a fly on a can of garbage, pay him no mind. He probably hasn't got the price of a television set."


author: Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD).
text:
"Tell me where I can escape death: discover for me the country, show me the men to whom I must go, whom death does not visit. Discover to me a charm against death. If I have not one, what do you wish me to do? I cannot escape from death, but shall I die lamenting and trembling? . . . Therefore if I am able to change externals according to my wish, I change them: but if I cannot, I am ready to tear the eyes out of him who hinders me."


author: Saadi (1184 - 1291).
text:
"Tell no one the secret that you want to keep, although he may be worthy of confidence; for no one will be so careful of your secret as yourself."


author: Herb Brody.
text:
"Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror."


author: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963).
text:
"Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey "people." People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest...."


author: W. N. Taylor.
text:
"Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred."


author: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968).
text:
"Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality."


author: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931).
text:
"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions."


author: Maximilien Robespierre (1758 - 1794).
text:
"Terror is nothing other than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is therefore an emanation of virtue; it is not so much a special principle as it is a consequence of the general principle of democracy applied to our country's most urgent needs."


author: Charles Boyle.
text:
"Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long-bow; its force depends on the strength of the hand that draws it. But argument is like an arrow from a cross-bow, which has equal force if drawn by a child or a man."


author: Henry James (1843 - 1916).
text:
"Thank goodness you're a failure-- it's why I so distinguish you! Anything else to-day is too hideous. Look about you--look at the successes. Would you BE one, on your honour?"


author: Margaret Cho.
text:
"Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again."


author: Henry James (1843 - 1916).
text:
"Thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising as usual into his draught."


author: Charles Kuralt.
text:
"Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything."


author: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007).
text:
"Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia."


author: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982).
text:
"Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production."


author: Albert Eintein.
text:
"That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed."


author: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963).
text:
"That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent."


author: Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804).
text:
"That all our knowledge begins with experience, there is indeed no doubt....but although our knowledge originates WITH experience, it does not all arise OUT OF experience."


author: William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850).
text:
"That best portion of a good man's life,  His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love."


author: William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850).
text:
"That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love."


author: Madonna (1958 - ).
text:
"That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give, we pull in what we put out. I know these things for sure."


author: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
text:
"That everybody is allowed to learn to read spoileth in the long run not only writing but thinking."


author: Felicia Day.
text:
"That is not what Geek means to me. We are more than the hobbies that we do or the things that we like. To me, Geek means an outsider, a rebel, a dreamer, a creator, a fighter. It's a person who dares to love something that isn't conventional."


author: Barack Obama (1961 - ).
text:
"That is the American story. People, just like you, following their passions, determined to meet the times on their own terms. They weren't doing it for the money. Their titles weren't fancy. But they changed the course of history and so can you."


author: Jacob Bronowski.
text:
"That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on your way to the pertinent answer."


author: Antoine de Saint-ExupÃ©ry (1900 - 1944).
text:
"That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man."


author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832).
text:
"That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us."


author: Doris Lessing.
text:
"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way."


author: Paul Tournier.
text:
"That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life."


author: Jennifer Hudson.
text:
"That isnât about money, fame, or power. Itâs about will, dedication, commitment, and knowing your self-worth. You can be poor as dirt and have those traits. Money canât buy you values. You just need to know what is important to you and then feel secure in your pursuit to achieve that."


author: George Santayana (1863 - 1952).
text:
"That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions."


author: Sojourner Truth (1797 - 1883).
text:
"That little man in black over there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him."


author: Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980).
text:
"That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life; he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate."


author: Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880).
text:
"That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust."


author: Sojourner Truth (1797 - 1883).
text:
"That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?"


author: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826).
text:
"That peace, safety, and concord may be the portion of our native land, and be long enjoyed by our fellow-citizens, is the most ardent wish of my heart, and if I can be instrumental in procuring or preserving them, I shall think I have not lived in vain."


author: Philip Dormer Stanhope.
text:
"That ready wit, which you so partially allow me, ... may create many admirers; but, take my word for it, it makes few friends. It shines and dazzles like the noonday sun, but, like that, too, it is very apt to scorch, and therefore is always feared. The milder morning and evening light and heat of that planet soothe and calm our minds. Never seek for wit; if it present itself, well and good; but even then, let your judgement interpose, and take care that it be not at the expense of anybody."


author: Terry Pratchett.
text:
"That seems to point up a significant difference between Europeans and Americans. A European says: "I can't understand this, what's wrong with me?" An American says: "I can't understand this, what's wrong with him?""


author: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865).
text:
"That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"That time of year thou may'st in me behold,  When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang  Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,-  Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang."


author: Hunter S Thompson.
text:
"That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation."


author: John Green.
text:
"That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people."


author: John A. Locke.
text:
"That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art."


author: M. Henry.
text:
"That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it which will waste it. The same corrupt dispositions which incline men to sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending."


author: John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873).
text:
"That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next."


author: Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus (1493 - 1541).
text:
"That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved."


author: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982).
text:
"That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only freedom, the choice that controls all the choices you make and determines your life and your character."


author: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967).
text:
"That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment."


author: William J. H. Boetcker.
text:
"That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong."


author: Marvin.
text:
"That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting."


author: Mary J. Blige.
text:
"That's how my life is now: I'm walking without fear, and if there are mistakes to be made, I'll make them, learn from them, and keep going."


author: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata.
text:
"That's just the way things go. We meet people, get to know them and then they get up and leave us behind."


author: Lester Maddox.
text:
"That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity."


author: Greg Garcia.
text:
"That's the funny thing about havin' a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly."


author: John Green.
text:
"That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius."


author: Cindy Chupack.
text:
"That's the key to having it all: stop expecting it to look like what you thought it was going to look like."


author: Barbara Hall.
text:
"That's the secret of entertaining. You make your guests feel welcome and at home. If you do that honestly, the rest takes care of itself."


author: Stephanie Klein.
text:
"That's the thing about being a former fat camp champ: when asked if I'd change my past if I could, I always answer no. The pain of being an overweight kid, the humiliation, make you think twice before ever cutting anyone else down."


author: Randy K. Milholland.
text:
"That's the thing about marriage. It's a shell game we play with ourselves. We're the suckers and we have to lose, but we play anyway because we lie to ourselves that we can win."


author: Randy K. Milholland.
text:
"That's the thing with suicide pacts. Sometimes they only really work if they catch you by surprise."


author: Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - ).
text:
"That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along."


author: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942).
text:
"That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them."


author: Barack Obama (1961 - ).
text:
"That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started."


author: Jeph Jacques.
text:
"That's what college is for - getting as many bad decisions as possible out of the way before you're forced into the real world. I keep a checklist of 'em on the wall in my room."


author: Simone de Beauvoir.
text:
"That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing."


author: Talib Kweli.
text:
"That's why Knowledge of Self is like life after death, Apply it to your life, and let destiny manifest."


author: Heather Armstrong.
text:
"Thatâs sort of a clichÃ© about parents. We all believe that our children are the most beautiful children in the world. But the thing is, what no one really talks about is the fact that we all really believe it."


author: Heather Armstrong.
text:
"Thatâs the miracle of babies, their ability to lay bare the tender, beating hearts of raging assholes."


author: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
text:
"The "highest" states of mind held up before mankind by christianity as of supreme value, are actually forms of convulsive epilepsy."


author: Andy Rooney (1919 - ).
text:
"The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong."


author: Reverend Sean Parker Dennison.
text:
"The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy."


author: Thucydides (471 BC - 400 BC).
text:
"The ability to understand a question from all sides meant one was totally unfit for action. Fanatical enthusiasm was the mark of the real man."


author: Francine Du Plessix Gray.
text:
"The act of nutrition is not a purely physiological event... The family meal is a formality that cultivates in us... a capacity for sharing, generosity, thoughtfulness, a talent for civilized conversation."


author: Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963).
text:
"The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them."


author: Dr. Karl Menninger (1893 - 1990).
text:
"The adjuration to be "normal" seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level. I think it is ignorance that makes people think of abnormality only with horror and allows them to remain undismayed at the proximity of "normal" to average and mediocre. For surely anyone who achieves anything is, essentially, abnormal."


author: Henry L. Ellsworth.
text:
"The advancement of the arts from year to year taxes our credulity, and seems to presage the arrival of that period when human improvement must end."


author: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
text:
"The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time."


author: Russell Green.
text:
"The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem."


author: Marvin E. Frankel.
text:
"The advertising industry is one of our most basic forms of communication and, allegedly, of information. Yet, obviously, much of this ostensible information is not purveyed to inform but to manipulate and to achieve a result -- to make somebody think he needs something that very possibly he doesn't need, or to make him think one version of something is better than another version when the ground for such a belief really doesn't exist."


author: Pierre Charron.
text:
"The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong."


author: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967).
text:
"The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature."


author: Adam Smith (1723 - 1790).
text:
"The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions."


author: Baron Manfred von Richthofen ("Red Baron").
text:
"The aggressive spirit, the offensive, is the chief thing everywhere in war, and the air is no exception."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement."


author: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC).
text:
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."


author: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960).
text:
"The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily. No great work has ever been based on hatred and contempt. On the contrary, there is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom of each person who has known and loved it."


author: Bill Beattie.
text:
"The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think--rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men."


author: William Faulkner (1897 - 1962).
text:
"The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life."


author: Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964).
text:
"The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for."


author: Henry Miller (1891 - 1980).
text:
"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware."


author: Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956).
text:
"The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error."


author: Gerald R. Ford (1913 - 2006).
text:
"The American wage earner and the American housewife are a lot better economists than most economists care to admit. They know that a government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have."


author: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
text:
"The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly."


author: Alexis de Tocqueville (1805 - 1859).
text:
"The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other."


author: Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860).
text:
"The amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity."


author: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
text:
"The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence."


author: Alice Walker (1944 - ).
text:
"The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen."


author: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959).
text:
"The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty."


author: Jerry Falwell (1933 - ).
text:
"The argument that making contraceptives available to young people would prevent teen pregnancies is ridiculous. That's like offering a cookbook as a cure to people who are trying to lose weight."


author: E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970).
text:
"The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul."


author: Tom Lehrer (1928 - ).
text:
"The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability."


author: Wilfred Peterson.
text:
"The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be. . . . Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others."


author: Voltaire (1694 - 1778).
text:
"The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of the citizens to give to the other."


author: S. L. A. Marshall.
text:
"The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of men, of being sympathetic with them, but equally, of insisting that they make a square facing toward their own problems."


author: E. V. Lucas.
text:
"The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception."


author: Sir Henry Taylor.
text:
"The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means."


author: E.M. Cioran.
text:
"The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperment of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone."


author: Jean Baptiste Colbert.
text:
"The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest amount of hissing."


author: Ulysses S. Grant (1822 - 1885).
text:
"The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on."


author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832).
text:
"The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them"


author: William Faulkner (1897 - 1962).
text:
"The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics.  The ones who want to be writers read the reviews,  the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews."


author: Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973).
text:
"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape..."


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


author: Auguste Rodin.
text:
"The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation."


author: Berenson.
text:
"The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows."


author: Shirley Trusty Corey.
text:
"The arts must be considered an essential element of education... They are tools for living life reflectively, joyfully and with the ability to shape the future."


author: Unknown.
text:
"The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions."


author: Joseph Sobran.
text:
"The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself."


author: Dorothea Brande.
text:
"The author of genius does keep till his last breath the spontaneity, the ready sensitiveness, of a child, the "innocence of eye" that means so much to the painter, the ability to respond freshly and quickly to new scenes, and to old scenes as though they were new; to see traits and characteristics as though each were new-minted from the hand of God instead of sorting them quickly into dusty categories and pigeon-holing them without wonder or surprise; to feel situations so immediately and keenly that the word "trite" has hardly any meaning for him; and always to see "the correspondences between things" of which Aristotle spoke two thousand years ago."


author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
text:
"The average American can get into the kingdom of heaven much more easily than he can get into the Boulevard St. Germain."


author: Anatole France (1844 - 1924).
text:
"The average man does not know what to do with his life, yet wants another one which will last forever."


author: Anatole France (1844 - 1924).
text:
"The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever."


author: Author Unknown.
text:
"The average person living to age 70 has 613,000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun."


author: Calvin Trillin (1935 - ).
text:
"The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives."


author: Jean Kerr.
text:
"The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible."


author: Paul Tillich (1886 - 1965).
text:
"The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity."


author: Saadi (1184 - 1291).
text:
"The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth."


author: Reginald McKenna.
text:
"The banks can, and do, create money... And they who control the credit of a nation direct the policy of Governments and hold in the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people."


author: A. Whitney Brown.
text:
"The Baptists believe in The Right to Life before you're born. They also believe in Life After Death, but that is a privilege and you have to earn it by spending the interim in guilt-ridden misery. At an early age I decided that living a life of pious misery in the hope of going to heaven when it's over is a lot like keeping your eyes shut all through a movie in the hope of getting your money back at the end."


author: A. Whitney Brown.
text:
"The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'"


author: Hugh Macleod.
text:
"The bars of West Hollywood and New York are awash with people throwing their lives away in the desperate hope of finding a shortcut, any shortcut. And a lot of them aren't even young anymore; their B-plans having been washed away by Vodka & Tonics years ago. Meanwhile their competition is at home, working their asses off."


author: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983).
text:
"The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do."


author: Philip K. Dick (1928 - 1982).
text:
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."


author: Milan Kundera (1929 - ).
text:
"The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone."


author: Peggy Noonan (1950 - ).
text:
"The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain."


author: Stephen King (1947 - ).
text:
"The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window."


author: Stephen King (1947 - ).
text:
"The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window."


author: Pierre Abelard.
text:
"The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth."


author: Joesph Conrad.
text:
"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness."


author: Robert Lynd (1879 - 1949).
text:
"The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions."


author: Michael Crichton (1942 - 2008).
text:
"The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief."


author: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968).
text:
"The best and most beautiful things cannot be seen or even heard, they must be felt with the heart."


author: Hellen Keller.
text:
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."


author: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968).
text:
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart."


author: Unknown.
text:
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt."


author: Hellen Keller.
text:
"The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen not touched... but felt in the heart."


author: Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC).
text:
"The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man."


author: Gail Godwin.
text:
"The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: there is a forward motion to yearning."


author: Arnold Bennett.
text:
"The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else."


author: Richard Clark.
text:
"The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition."


author: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935).
text:
"The best doctor in the world is the veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter-he's got to just know."


author: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919).
text:
"The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it."


author: George Bancroft.
text:
"The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority."


author: G. M. Trevelyan (1876 - 1962).
text:
"The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers."


author: Kenneth Patchen.
text:
"The best hope is that one of these days the ground will get disgusted enough just to walk away - leaving people with nothing more to stand on than what they have so bloody well stood for up to now."


author: Abigail van Buren (1918 - ).
text:
"The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back."


author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832).
text:
"The best is the deep quiet in which I live and grow against the world, and harvest what they cannot take from me by fire and sword."


author: Author Unknown.
text:
"The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self-restraint not to meddle with how they do their jobs."


author: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ).
text:
"The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale."


author: Scott Adams (1957 - ).
text:
"The best part about being my age is in knowing how my life worked out. Sure, there's a lot more living to go, but there isn't much doubt that I'll always be the 'Dilbert guy.' Unless I go on a crime spree, in which case I'll be 'that stabbin' Dilbert guy.'"


author: Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960).
text:
"The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary."


author: William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850).
text:
"The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love."


author: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965).
text:
"The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day."


author: Dorothy Sayers.
text:
"The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people seem to think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and sudden acquisition of wealth."


author: Sir W. Temple.
text:
"The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it."


author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873).
text:
"The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself."


author: Francis Maitland Balfour.
text:
"The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity."


author: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963).
text:
"The best things and the best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise."


author: Sun-tzu (~400 BC).
text:
"The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting."


author: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ).
text:
"The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger."


author: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967).
text:
"The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - and let the air out of the tires."


author: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967).
text:
"The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant --- and let the air out of their tires."


author: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967).
text:
"The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires."


author: Claudia Jewett Jarrett.
text:
"The best way to learn to be an honest, responsible adult is to live with adults who act honestly and responsibly."


author: Edward Clarke.
text:
"The best way to realize the pleasure of feeling rich is to live in a smaller house than your means would entitle you to have."


author: Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
text:
"The best way to try to motivate somebody is by being direct with them. To be honest with them. Lies are never the right way to get your message across."


author: Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962).
text:
"The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy."


author: Albert Ellis.
text:
"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You don't blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the President. You realize that you control your own destiny."


author: Albert Ellis .
text:
"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny."


author: Lao-tzu (604 BC - 531 BC).
text:
"The best [man] is like water.Water is good; it benefits all things and does not compete with them.It dwells in [lowly] places that all disdain.This is why it is so near to Tao."


author: Jonathan Edwards.
text:
"The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music."


author: Al Franken.
text:
"The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover."


author: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902).
text:
"The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation."


author: Lynn Lavner - as published in PFLAG.
text:
"The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision."


author: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887).
text:
"The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars."


author: G.K. Chesterton.
text:
"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people."


author: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936).
text:
"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people."


author: Judith Hayes.
text:
"The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example, while loading his ark, did Noah find penguins and polar bears in Palestine?"


author: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001).
text:
"The big corporations are suddenly taking notice of the web, and their reactions have been slow. Even the computer industry failed to see the importance of the Internet, but that's not saying much. Let's face it, the computer industry failed to see that the century would end."


author: Jules Feiffer (1929 - ).
text:
"The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen, and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean that you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten."


author: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ).
text:
"The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work."


author: Clay Aiken.
text:
"The biggest problem I had - and the biggest problem teenagers have - is not how they dress, how they look or how they act or talk. It's how they see themselves - their self-esteem. In the tenth grade, I realized I am who I am. I've got big ears and big feet. I can etiher sulk around or I can be happy with who I am. The minute I decided to be confident with who I was, all that other stuff stopped. It's all in the way you carry yourself."


author: Salma Hayek.
text:
"The biggest thing [Frida] brought into my life was this peacefulness. I still get passionate about things, but my passion is not so scattered and it's not needy. It's a lot more powerful because it comes with this groundedness and peacefulness. That it's about the process, not about the results."


author: Sidney Madwed.
text:
"The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow. And since the only real freedom a person has is the choice of what thoughts he will feed to his Inner-Consciousness he is totally responsible for the outcomes he gets."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny."


author: Jon Stewart.
text:
"The blend of fiction, bigotry and jingoism became known as 'yellow journalism.' Later, the phrase was shortened to 'journalism.'"


author: Richard Bach.
text:
"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof."


author: Richard Bach.
text:
"The bonds that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each others life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof."


author: Patricia E. Presutti.
text:
"The bone-chilling scream split the warm summer night in two, the first half being before the scream when it was fairly balmy and calm and pleasant for those who hadn't heard the scream at all, but not calm or balmy or even very nice for those who did hear the scream, discounting the little period of time during the actual scream itself when your ears might have been hearing it but your brain wasn't reacting yet to let you know."


author: Theodore Parker (1810 - 1860).
text:
"The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty."


author: Paxton Hood.
text:
"The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, "The medicines of the soul.""


author: Tom Robbins (1936 - ).
text:
"The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love."


author: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963).
text:
"The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."


author: Thucydides (471 BC - 400 BC).
text:
"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it."


author: Edward Chapin.
text:
"The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished, and glorified through the furnace of tribulation."


author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965).
text:
"The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality."


author: Will Rodgers.
text:
"The budget is like a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythicals beans into it, then reaches in and tries to pull real ones out."


author: Dio Lewis.
text:
"The building of a perfect body crowned by a perfect brain, is at once the greatest earthly problem and grandest hope of the race."


author: John Christian Bovee.
text:
"The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts; they are forever influencing the opinions and destinies of men."


author: George F. Will (1941 - ).
text:
"The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of America is justice and securing the blessings of liberty."


author: Bill Maher.
text:
"The cable TV sex channels don't expand our horizons, don't make us better people, and don't come in clearly enough."


author: Ernst Haas.
text:
"The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to SEE."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animals."


author: George W. Bush (1946 - ).
text:
"The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy."


author: C. C. Colton.
text:
"The celebrated Galen said that employment was nature's physician. It is indeed so important to happiness that indolence is justly considered the parent of misery."


author: Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804).
text:
"The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family to a more unprosperous station; and many who are now in obscurity, may look back upon the affluence and exalted rank of their ancestors."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way."


author: William Hutton.
text:
"The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation."


author: Henry L. Stimson (1867 - 1950).
text:
"The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust."


author: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963).
text:
"The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything."


author: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007).
text:
"The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were."


author: Maria Montessori (1870 - 1952).
text:
"The child's true constructive energy, a dynamic power, has remained unnoticed for thousands of years. Just as men have trodden the earth, and later tilled its surface, without thought for the immense wealth hidden in its depths, so the men of our day make progress after progress in civilized life, without noticing the treasures that lie hidden in the psychic world of infancy."


author: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
text:
"The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity."


author: Reverend Peter Marshall.
text:
"The choice before us is plain: Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise, discipline or disintegration. I am rather tired of hearing about our rights and privileges as American citizens. The time is come - it now is - when we ought to hear about the duties and responsibilities of our citizenship. America's future depends upon her accepting and demonstrating God's government."


author: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936).
text:
"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried."


author: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968).
text:
"The church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society."


author: Lewis Thomas (1913 - 1993).
text:
"The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep."


author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
text:
"The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people cruel and bitter."


author: William James (1842 - 1910).
text:
"The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community."


author: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986).
text:
"The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future."


author: Alan Patrick Herbert.
text:
"The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep."


author: Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973).
text:
"The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself."


author: George S. Arundale.
text:
"The conqueror and king in each of us is the Knower of truth. Let that Knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen."


author: Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924).
text:
"The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretense but an idea."


author: Ricther.
text:
"The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society."


author: Bruce Lee (1940 - 1973).
text:
"The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action. There is no fixed teaching. All I can provide is an appropriate medicine for a particular ailment."


author: Terry Pratchett.
text:
"The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking."


author: J. K. Rowling.
text:
"The consequences of our actions are so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed."


author: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919).
text:
"The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life."


author: Frank A. Vanderlip.
text:
"The conservative in financial circles I have often described as a man who thinks nothing new ought ever to be adopted for the first time."


author: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945).
text:
"The constant free flow of communication amount us-enabling the free interchange of ideas-forms the very bloodstream of our nation. It keeps the mind and body of our democracy eternally vital, eternally young."


author: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790).
text:
"The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."


author: Samuel Adams.
text:
"The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms."


author: Quentin Crisp.
text:
"The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden becomes intolerable at once."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run."


author: Daniel Boorstin.
text:
"The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life."


author: Winston Churchill.
text:
"The creation of a line of forts opposite to the French frontier will enable the German troops to be economized on that line and will enable the main forces to swing round through Belgium and Holland."


author: Louis I Kahn.
text:
"The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it."


author: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961).
text:
"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves."


author: Marcel Duchamp.
text:
"The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act."


author: Alan Alda (1936 - ).
text:
"The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself."


author: Hugh Macleod.
text:
"The creative person basically has two kinds of jobs: One is the sexy, creative kind. Second is the kind that pays the bills. Sometimes the task in hand covers both bases, but not often. This tense duality will always play center stage. It will never be transcended."


author: Scott Adams (1957 - ).
text:
"The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers."


author: Edward Filene.
text:
"The credit Union movement..It is a great movement, worthy of great deeds, deserving of great loyalty."


author: Sir Colin Marshall.
text:
"The customer doesn't expect everything will go right all the time; the big test is what you do when things go wrong."


author: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887).
text:
"The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is a human owl, vigilant in darkness, and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game."


author: Bernard Avishai.
text:
"The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.""


author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
text:
"The dark today leads into light tomorrow;  There is no endless joy,  ...and yet no endless sorrow."


author: Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321).
text:
"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis."


author: Colin Powell (1937 - ).
text:
"The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership."


author: Robert Maynard Hutchins.
text:
"The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment."


author: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919).
text:
"The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others."


author: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919).
text:
"The decisions of the courts on economic and social questions depend on their economic and social philosophy."


author: John Cheever.
text:
"The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable."


author: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680).
text:
"The defects and faults in the mind are like wounds in the body. After all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind."


author: William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830).
text:
"The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously; and those who have produced immortal works, have done so without knowing how or why. The greatest power operates unseen."


author: George Santayana (1863 - 1952).
text:
"The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity."


author: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - ).
text:
"The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it."


author: Simon Newcomb (declared in 1901).
text:
"The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery and known forms of force, can be united in a practical machine by which man shall fly long distances through the air, seems to the writer as complete as it is possible for the demonstration of any physical fact to be."


author: Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946).
text:
"The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood."


author: Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946).
text:
"The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood."


author: Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005).
text:
"The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall."


author: George W. Bush (1946 - ).
text:
"The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way."


author: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC).
text:
"The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete."


author: Charles Bukowski (1920 - 1994).
text:
"The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught."


author: Vincent Lombardi.
text:
"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will."


author: Vince Lombardi (1913 - 1970).
text:
"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will."


author: Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989).
text:
"The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant."


author: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902).
text:
"The difference between God and the historians consists above all in the fact that God cannot alter the past."


author: Charles F. Kettering (1876 - 1958).
text:
"The difference between intelligence and education is this: intelligence will make you a good living."


author: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ).
text:
"The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labor."


author: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887).
text:
"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will; and the other from a strong won't."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug."


author: Adam Smith (1723 - 1790).
text:
"The difference of natural talents in different men is, in reality, much less than we are aware of; and the very different genius which appears to distinguish men of different professions, when grown up to maturity, is not upon many occasions so much the cause as the effect of the division of labour. The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature as from habit, custom, and education. When they came into the world, and for the first six or eight years of their existence, they were perhaps very much alike, and neither their parents nor playfellows could perceive any remarkable difference..."


author: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881).
text:
"The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance."


author: A. S. Neill.
text:
"The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself; and in consequence, he is at war with the world."


author: John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946).
text:
"The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds."


author: John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946).
text:
"The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds."


author: David Friedman.
text:
"The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations."


author: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
text:
"THE DISAPPOINTED MAN SPEAKS.--I sought great human beings, I never found anything but the APES of their ideal."


author: Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924).
text:
"The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history."


author: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936).
text:
"The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world was like looking at the first ship or the first plough. It made a man feel what he should feel, that he was still in the childhood of the world."


author: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931).
text:
"The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will educate his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease."


author: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931).
text:
"The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease."


author: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865).
text:
"The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country."


author: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961).
text:
"The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach."


author: Leo Buscaglia (1925 - 1998).
text:
"The easiest thing in the world to be is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position."


author: Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC).
text:
"The easiest thing of all is to deceive one's self; for what a man wishes he generally believes to be true."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. I would not interfere with any one's religion, either to strengthen it or to weaken it. I am not able to believe one's religion can affect his hereafter one way or the other, no matter what that religion may be. But it may easily be a great comfort to him in this life--hence it is a valuable possession to him."


author: Hunter S Thompson.
text:
"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."


author: Steven Weinberg (1933 - ).
text:
"The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy."


author: John Fiske.
text:
"The elaborate caution with which the British commander now proceeded stands out in striking contrast with the temerity of his advance upon Bunker Hill in the preceding year."


author: Barack Obama (1961 - ).
text:
"The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what's truly important."


author: Berta Buxton.
text:
"The eleventh commandment --- Thou shalt not be found out --- is the only one that is virtually impossible to keep these days."


author: Shirley Chisholm (1924 - 2005).
text:
"The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl.'"


author: James Swan.
text:
"The emotions that good hunters need to cultivate are love and service more than courage. The sentiments of the hunt then become translated into art."


author: Krishnamurti.
text:
"The ending of sorrow is the beginning of wisdom. Knowledge is always within the shadow of ignorance. Meditation is freedom from thought and a movement in the ecstasy of truth. Meditation is explosion of intelligence."


author: General Douglas McArthur.
text:
"The enemy is in front of us, the enemy is behind us, the enemy is to the right and to the left of us. They canât get away this time!!!"


author: Sir Eric Ashby.
text:
"The engineer is the key figure in the material progress of the world. It is his engineering that makes a reality of the potential value of science by translating scientific knowledge into tools, resources, energy and labor to bring them into the service of man ... To make contributions of this kind the engineer requires the imagination to visualize the needs of society and to appreciate what is possible as well as the technological and broad social age understanding to bring his vision to reality."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"The English country gentleman galloping after a fox -- the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable."


author: Dave Kellett.
text:
"The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary."


author: Robert L Schwartz.
text:
"The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer. He can visualize something, and when visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter."


author: James Madison (1751 - 1836).
text:
"The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse."


author: Aleister Crowley (1875 - 1947).
text:
"The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without. Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become "one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions": a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have --- Greatness."


author: Vijay Krishna.
text:
"The essence of living is discovering. Indeed, it is the joy of discovering that makes life worth the effort."


author: Bruce Henderson.
text:
"The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior. Ordinarily, this means that any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage."


author: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC).
text:
"The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness."


author: Dr. Fuller.
text:
"The excessive desire of pleasing goes along almost always with the apprehension of not being liked."


author: Meister Eckhart.
text:
"The eye by which I see God is the same as the eye by which God sees me. My eye and God's eye are one and the same-one in seeing, one in knowing, and one in loving."


author: Malcolm Gladwell.
text:
"The face is not a secondary billboard for our internal feelings. It is an equal partner in the emotional process."


author: Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD).
text:
"The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be."


author: Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989).
text:
"The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle."


author: Jenny Bicks.
text:
"The fact is, sometimes it's hard to walk in a single woman's shoes. That's why we need really special ones now and then to make the walk a little more fun."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture, and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends."


author: Hugh Macleod.
text:
"The fact is, the old clich%uFFFDs work for us in abstract terms, but they never work out in real life quite the same way. Life is messy; clich%uFFFDs are clean and tidy."


author: Srully Blotnick.
text:
"The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually became wealthy clearly reveals that their "luck" arose from accidental dedication they had to an arena they enjoyed."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than saying a drunken man is happier than a sober man."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot."


author: Johannes Brahms.
text:
"The fact that most people do not understand and respect the very best things, such as Mozart's concertos, is what permits men like us to become famous."


author: Dugald Stewart.
text:
"The faculty of imagination is the great spring of human activity, and the principle source of human improvement. As it delights in presenting to the mind scenes and characters more perfect than those which we are acquainted with, it prevents us from ever being completely satisfied without present condition, or with our past attainments, and engages us continually in the pursuit of some untried enjoyment, or of some ideal excellence. Destroy this faculty, and the condition of man will become as stationary as that of the brutes."


author: Sir B. Brodie.
text:
"The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy."


author: Mary Catherine Bateson.
text:
"The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors."


author: Dodie Smith.
text:
"The family-that dear octopus from whese tentacles we never quite escape nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to."


author: P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975).
text:
"The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun."


author: E. W. Dijkstra.
text:
"The fathers of the field had been pretty confusing: John von Neumann speculated about computers and the human brain in analogies sufficiently wild to be worthy of a medieval thinker, and Alan Turing thought about criteria to settle the question of whether machines can think, a question of which we now know that it is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim."


author: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930).
text:
"The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you."


author: Edwin Markham.
text:
"The few little years we spend on earth are only the first scene in a Divine Drama that extends into Eternity."


author: Anonymous.
text:
"The fewer clear facts you have in support of an opinion, the stronger your emotional attachment to that opinion."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me."


author: John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968).
text:
"The fields were fruitful and starving men moved on the roads. The granaries were full and the children of the poor grew up rachitic."


author: Jonathan Haidt.
text:
"The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them."


author: Walter J. Lippmann.
text:
"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on."


author: Isadora Duncan.
text:
"The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet."


author: Alfred A. Montapert.
text:
"The finest piece of mechanism in all the universe is the brain of man. The wise person develops his brain, and opens his mind to the genius and spirit of the world's great ideas. He will feel inspired with the purest and noblest thoughts that have ever animated the spirit of humanity."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly."


author: Justice Anthony Kennedy (1936 - ).
text:
"The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech."


author: Andre Malraux (1901 - 1976).
text:
"The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself."


author: Charles Buxton.
text:
"The first duty to children is to make them happy, If you have not made them so, you have wronged them, No other good they may get can make up for that."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity."


author: Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946).
text:
"The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame."


author: Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989).
text:
"The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot."


author: Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650).
text:
"The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt."


author: John Cage (1912 - 1992).
text:
"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason."


author: Hugh Macleod.
text:
"The first rule of business, is never sell something you love. Otherwise, you may as well be selling your children."


author: Elizabeth Aston.
text:
"The first rule of life is to reveal nothing, to be exceptionally cautious in what you say, in whatever company you may find yourself. If you have a secret, you have only to whisper it to your dearest friend with the strictest injunction that it will go no further, and within half a day the story is all over town, and when you do make what would seem to be a perfectly sensible remark, you will find it reported in the most grotesque form, thus incurring no end of criticism to rebound upon you."


