# Quotes

author: William Claude Dunkenfield (W. C. Fields).
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"If at first you don't succeed, try, try, and try again. Then give up. There's no use being a damned fool about it."


author: Tom Stoppard (1937 - ).
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"If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation."


author: Eugene Edwards.
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"If by saying that all men are born free and equal, you mean that they are all equally born; it is true, but true in no other sense; birth, talent, labor, virtue, and providence, are forever making differences."


author: Tom Robbins (1936 - ).
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"If by the last quarter of the twentiesth century godliness wasn't next to something a little more interesting than cleanliness, it might be time to reevaluate our notions of godliness."


author: Lawana Blackwell.
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"If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well."


author: Betty Friedan (1921 - 2006).
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"If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based."


author: John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946).
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"If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid."


author: Nikola Tesla (1857 - 1943).
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"If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search... I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor."


author: Upham.
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"If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it."


author: Benito Mussolini.
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"If every age has its own characteristic doctrine, there are a thousand signs which point to Fascism as the characteristic doctrine of our time."


author: Anonymous.
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"If for a tranquil mind you seek, These things observe with care: Of whom you speak, to whom you speak, And how, and when and where. "


author: Anna Quindlen (1953 - ).
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"If God is watching us, as some believers suggest, as though we were a television show and God had a lot of free time, the deity would surely be bemused by how dumbed-down devotion has sometimes become in this so-called modern era. How might an omnipotent being with the long view of history respond to those who visit the traveling exhibit of a grilled-cheese sandwich, sold on eBay, that is said to bear the image of the Virgin Mary? It certainly argues against intelligent design, or at least intelligent design in humans."


author: Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870).
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"If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself."


author: William Lyon Phelps.
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"If happiness truly consisted of physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
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"If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience."


author: Bob Conklin.
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"If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities."


author: Stephen Hawking (1942 - ).
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"If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered."


author: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
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"If I am to die, this is the week for it. -- John F. Kennedy (to aide John McClone in response to a CIA report about rumours of an assassination plot), June 1962."


author: Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886).
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"If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one Life the Aching,  or cool one Pain,  Or help one fainting Robin into his Nest again,  I shall not live in Vain."


author: David Nicholls.
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"If I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle."


author: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935).
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"If I could kick the person in the tail that causes me the most problems I could not sit down for a week."


author: Ramtha.
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"If I could take all your words away and give you but a sparse few, they would be: âI now know, I am absolute, I am complete, I am God, I am.â If there were no other words but these, you would no longer be limited to this plane."


author: Angelina Jolie (1975 - ).
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"If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up."


author: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
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"If I do the right kind of a job, I don't know whether I am going to be here four years from now. -- John F. Kennedy (to Richard M. Nixon, right after the Bay of Pigs invasion, 1961)."


author: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931).
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"If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward."


author: Nadine Stair.
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"If I had my life to live over I'd like to make more mistakes next time. I'd relax. I would limber up. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I would take fewer things seriously. I would take more chances. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would eat more ice cream and less beans. I would perhaps have more actual trouble, but I'd have fewer imaginary ones. You see, I'm one of those people who live sensibly and sanely hour after hour, day after day. Oh, I've had my moments, and if I had to do it over again, I'd have more of them. In fact, I'd try to have nothing else. Just moments, one after another, instead of living so many years ahead of each day. I've been one of those persons who never goes anywhere without a thermometer, a hot water bottle, a raincoat, and a parachute. If I had to do it again, I would travel lighter than I have. If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. I would go to more dances. I would ride more merry-go-rounds, I would pick more daisies."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
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"If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be ineligible for any office of trust in the United States."


author: E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970).
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"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country."


author: Richard M. DeVos.
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"If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, "Here comes number seventy-one!""


author: Lee Iacocca (1924 - ).
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"If I had to sum up in one word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act."


author: James Thurber (1894 - 1961).
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"If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons."


author: Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727).
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"If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent."


author: Margot Fonteyn (1919 - 1991).
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"If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?"


author: Norah Jones.
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"If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won't matter."


author: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942).
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"If I really wanted to pray I'll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or into the deep, deep, woods, and I'd look up into the skyâupâupâupâinto that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just FEEL a prayer."


author: John Keats (1795 - 1821).
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"If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me - nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered."


author: Angelina Jolie (1975 - ).
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"If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do."


author: Bert Whitney.
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"If I traveled to the end of the rainbow As Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me The pot's at the other end."


author: Kanye West.
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"If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure."


author: Antoine de Saint-ExupÃ©ry (1900 - 1944).
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"If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine"


author: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865).
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"If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business."


author: SÃ¸ren Kierkegaard.
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"If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential -- for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never."


author: Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910).
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"If I were told that what I shall write will be read in twenty years by the children of today and that they will weep and smile over it and will fall in love with life, I would devote all my life and all my strengths to it."


author: Joss Whedon.
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"If I wrote what I really think, I would be so sad all the time. We create to fill a gap - not just to avoid the idea of dying, it's to fill some particular gap in ourselves."


author: Hunter S Thompson.
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"If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism."


author: Scott R. Kurtz.
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"If I've learned one thing in the 14 years I've been a full-time cartoonist, it's that you can not let anyone else define your professionalism. It has to be a personal ethos to which you adhere despite third party influence or acceptance. The old measuring sticks for professionalism are going away and now more than ever it's time for independent creatives to set the bar. Set it high."


author: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ).
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"If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. That's the lesson. That lesson alone, will save you a lot of grief. Even doubt means don't."


author: Woody Allen (1935 - ).
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"If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever."


author: Phyllis Chesler.
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"If it were natural for father to care for their sons, they would not need so many laws commanding them to do so."


author: Joe Martin.
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"If it weren't for my lawyer, I'd still be in prison. It went a lot faster with two people digging."


author: Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005).
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"If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners."


author: George Carlin (1937 - 2008).
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"If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little."


author: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881).
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"If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it."


author: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC).
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"If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything."


author: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC).
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"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost."


author: George Orwell (1903 - 1950).
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"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."


author: Russell P. Askue.
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"If living conditions don't stop improving in this country, we're going to run out of humble beginnings for our great men."


author: George C. Marshall (1880 - 1959).
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"If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known."


author: John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873).
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"If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind."


author: Andre Maurois (1885 - 1967).
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"If men could regard the events of their lives with more open minds they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the thing they failed to obtain."


author: Lucretius (96 BC - 55 BC).
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"If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets."


author: James Madison (1751 - 1836).
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"If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself."


author: Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677).
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"If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil."


author: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719).
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"If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling."


author: Henry Ford (1863 - 1947).
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"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. the only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability."


author: Henry Ford (1863 - 1947).
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"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
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"If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
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"If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour!"


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
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"If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die."


author: Jim Morrison (1943 - 1971).
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"If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel."


author: Einstein.
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"If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
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"If my theory of relativity proves to be correct, Germany will claim me a German, and France will claim me a citizen of the world. However, if it proves wrong, France will say Iâm a German, and Germany will say that Iâm a jew."


author: Fridjof Nansen.
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"If nations could overcome the mutual fear and distrust whose somber shadow is now thrown over the world, and could meet with confidence and good will to settle their possible differences, they would easily be able to establish a lasting peace."


author: Frances Burnett.
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"If nature made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that."


author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
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"If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech."


author: Thomas De Quincey.
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"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
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"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."


author: Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890).
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"If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things."


author: George Santayana (1863 - 1952).
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"If one is the master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time insight into and understanding of many things."


author: Lyndon B. Johnson (1908 - 1973).
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"If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim"."


author: Montesquieu.
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"If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are."


author: the Dhammapada.
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"If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source."


author: Woody Allen (1935 - ).
text:
"If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank."


author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918 - ).
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"If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?"


author: Aleksander Solzhenitsyn.
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"If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insiduously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to seperate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?"


author: Joan Boysenko.
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"If our actions stem from honesty, kindness, caring, and vision, then no matter what the result of our efforts, we have added something of value to our souls and to the world."


author: Henry Commager (1902 - 1998).
text:
"If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent."


author: Peter McWilliams.
text:
"If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be."


author: Max Lucado.
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"If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent an educator. If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist. If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us an economist. But since our greatest need was forgiveness, God sent us a Savior."


author: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826).
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"If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it."


author: Marcus Bridgstocke.
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"If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."


author: Osho.
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"If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful you cannot lead them to war -- to Vietnam, or to Egypt, or to Israel. No. Someone who is blissful will just laugh and say: This is nonsense!"


author: Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961).
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"If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."


author: George Orwell (1903 - 1950).
text:
"If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them."


author: Doug Larson.
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"If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles."


author: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826).
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"If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny."


author: Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888).
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"If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I donât believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river."


author: Vannevar Bush (1890 - 1974).
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"If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability."


author: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC).
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"If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"If someone can enjoy marching to music in rank and file, I can feel only contempt for him; he has received his large brain by mistake, a spinal cord would have been enough."


author: John F. Kennedy.
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"If someone is going to kill me, they are going to kill me. -- John F. Kennedy (to Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.), 1962."


author: Steve Pavlina.
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"If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks."


author: Mary McCarthy.
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"If someone tells you he is going to make ``a realistic decision,' you immediately understand that he is going to do something bad."


author: Niccola Sebastiani.
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"If someone tells you that the fully armored man of the Middle Ages was so encumbered by his armor that he could not rise if he fell, you may well ask yourself, first, if it is reasonable to assume that professional soldiers would go on wearing armor that kept them from fighting and second, if this theory is in line with what you know of the heavily armored men of your personal acquaintance."


author: Dorothy Gilman.
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"If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time."


author: Matt Groening (1954 - ).
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"If something is too hard to do, then it's not worth doing. You just stick that guitar in the closet next to your shortwave radio, your karate outfit and your unicycle and we'll go inside and watch TV."


author: Michael J. Fox (1961 - ).
text:
"If Spirituality is that you're humble in the face of forces greater than you and you believe those forces are more inclined toward being good than being bad, then I'm a spiritual person."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"If that the world and love were young,  And truth in every shepherd's tongue,  These pretty pleasures might me move  To live with thee and be thy love."


author: Robert X. Cringely.
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"If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside."


author: Robert X. Cringely.
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"If the automobile had followed the same development cyclee as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.""


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
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"If the day and the night are such that you greet them with with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, more elastic, more starry, more immortal--that is your success."


author: Fernand Point.
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"If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony."


author: Blake.
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"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru' chinks of his cavern."


author: Sojourner Truth (1797 - 1883).
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"If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them."


author: Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC).
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"If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another."


author: Gerald R. Ford (1913 - 2006).
text:
"If the government is big enough to give you everything you want, it is big enough to take away everything you have."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a footrule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved."


author: Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882).
text:
"If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin."


author: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942).
text:
"If the path set before her feet was to be narrow she knew that flowers of quiet happiness would bloom along it. The joy of sincere work and worthy aspiration and congenial friendship were to be hers; nothing could rob her of her birthright of fancy or her ideal world of dreams."


author: John Abrams.
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"If the people who make the decisions are the people who will also bear the consequences of those decisions, perhaps better decisions will result."


author: Pooh's Little Instruction Book.
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"If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear."


author: Bob Dylan (1941 - ).
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"If the point is sharp, and the arrow is swift, it can pierce through the dust no matter how thick."


author: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963).
text:
"If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place."


author: Guy L. Steele Jr..
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"If the programmer can simulate a construct faster then the compiler can implement the construct itself, then the compiler writer has blown it badly."


author: J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904 - 1967).
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"If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds."


author: Francois de Fenelon (1651 - 1715).
text:
"If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
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"If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of; but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His contributions to the world's list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also way out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers. He has made a marvelous fight in this world, in all the ages; and has done it with his hands tied behind him. He could be vain of himself and be excused for it. The Egyptian, the Babylonian, and the Persian rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, then faded to dream-stuff and passed away; the Greek and Roman followed, and made a vast noise, and they are gone; other peoples have sprung up and held their torch high for a time, but it burned out, and they sit in twilight now, or have vanished. The Jew saw them all, beat them all, and is now what he always was, exhibiting no decadence, no infirmity of age, no weakening of his parts, no slowing of his energies, no dulling of his alert and aggressive mind."


author: John Scalzi.
text:
"If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder."


author: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823).
text:
"If the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or, by its moral, taught him to sustain it - the effort, however humble, has not been vain, nor is the writer unrewarded."


author: Dame Rebecca West.
text:
"If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: "It seemed a good idea at the time.""


author: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004).
text:
"If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done."


author: E. B. White (1899 - 1985).
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"If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world, and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."


author: Author Unknown.
text:
"If the world were so organized that everything has to be fair, no living creature could survive for a day. The birds would be forbidden to eat worms, and everyone's self-interest would have to be served."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt."


author: Fidel Castro (1927 - ).
text:
"If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely Yankee imperialism."


author: Jim Posewitz.
text:
"If there is a sacred moment in the ethical pursuit of game, it is the moment you release the arrow or touch off the fatal shot."


author: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960).
text:
"If there is a sin against life, it consist perhaps not so much in despairing of life as hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. 				Albert Camus "


author: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960).
text:
"If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life."


author: Barack Obama (1961 - ).
text:
"If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer."


author: Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860).
text:
"If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity."


author: Bill Vaughan.
text:
"If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity."


author: Bill Vaughan.
text:
"If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity."


author: Frederick Douglass 1817-1895.
text:
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet renounce controversy are people who want crops without ploughing the ground."


author: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919).
text:
"If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name."


author: Teena Booth.
text:
"If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference."


author: Jeneane Sessum.
text:
"If there is pain in my life or something that is wrong. I try to go to that place in me and write from there. I donât necessarily write about the issue, but I write from the emotion."


author: Michael Harrington.
text:
"If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery."


author: Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005).
text:
"If there is, in fact, a Heaven and a Hell, all we know for sure is that Hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix..."


author: Josh Billings (1818 - 1885).
text:
"If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We couldn't even eat hash with safety."


author: Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951).
text:
"If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years."


author: Marlon Brando (1924 - 2004).
text:
"If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground."


author: Greg Proops.
text:
"If this election had gone down in another country we'd be invading them right now to install a democracy."


author: Francis Quarles (1592 - 1644).
text:
"If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail."


author: Francis Quarles (1592 - 1644).
text:
"If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if thy labor got it, let thy wisdom keep it; if oppression found it, let repentance restore it; if thy parent left it, let thy virtues deserve it; so shall thy honor be safer, better and cheaper."


author: Francis Quarles (1592 - 1644).
text:
"If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee. He that thinks he can never speak enough, may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted."


author: Jef Mallett.
text:
"If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough."


author: Erwin Schrodinger.
text:
"If we are going to stick to this damned quantum-jumping, then I regret that I ever had anything to do with quantum theory."


author: Judith Hayes.
text:
"If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction."


author: Robert Ingersoll (1833 - 1899).
text:
"If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles for it, and it cannot be destroyed by unbelief."


author: Kathleen Norris.
text:
"If we are lucky, we can give in and rest without feeling guilty. We can stop doing and concentrate on being."


author: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968).
text:
"If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values -- that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control."


author: Malcolm Gladwell.
text:
"If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments."


author: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902).
text:
"If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do."


author: Joseph J. Dewey.
text:
"If we believe we have no control, we acquiesce our real power, become subject to the decisions of others, and become like a leaf floating helplessly down a current of other people's decisions."


author: Nancy White.
text:
"If we can connect in some tiny way with a human that doesn't agree with us, then maybe we won't blow up the planet."


author: Barack Obama (1961 - ).
text:
"If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from."


author: Quintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus.
text:
"If we could get on without a wife, Romans, we would all avoid that annoyance; but since nature has ordained that we can neither live very comfortably with them nor at all without them, we must take thought for our lasting well-being rather than for the pleasure of the moment."


author: Robert Anthony.
text:
"If we could only share our hopes, our dreams, our disappointments, our fears, our achievements, and our discoveries.... the world would be a little kinder and a lot more forgiving."


author: Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross.
text:
"If we could raise one generation with unconditional love, there would be no Hitlers. We need to teach the next generation of children from Day One that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear."


author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882).
text:
"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."


author: Unknown.
text:
"If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater."


author: George Washington (1732 - 1799).
text:
"If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War."


author: Young.
text:
"If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world."


author: Ross Perot.
text:
"If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create something the size of N.A.S.A. to make one."


author: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963).
text:
"If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world."


author: Sharon Salzberg.
text:
"If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again."


author: Hans A. Bethe.
text:
"If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia."


author: Anne Bradstreet (1612 - 1672).
text:
"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."


author: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ).
text:
"If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative."


author: Mole.
text:
"If we have need of a strong will in order to do good, it is still more necessary for us in order not to do evil."


author: Margaret Cho.
text:
"If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach."


author: Michael Josephson.
text:
"If we keep treating our most important values as meaningless relics, that's exactly what they'll become. "


author: Ray Bradbury (1920 - ).
text:
"If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down."


author: Montesquieq.
text:
"If we only wanted to be happy it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, which is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are."


author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965).
text:
"If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future."


author: Saint Francis de Sales (1567 - 1622).
text:
"If we say a little it is easy to add, but having said too much it is hard to withdraw and never can it be done so quickly as to hinder the harm of our success."


author: Ernest K. Gann.
text:
"If we slide into one of those rare moments of military honesty, we realize that the technical demands of modern warfare are so complex a considerable percentage of our material is bound to malfunction even before it is deployed against a foe. We no longer waste manpower by carrying the flag into battle. Instead we need battalions of electronic engineers to keep the terrible machinery grinding."


author: David Hume (1711 - 1776).
text:
"If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, "Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number?" No. "Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence?" No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion."


author: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965).
text:
"If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain."


author: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965).
text:
"If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain."


author: Paul Eldridge.
text:
"If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows. "


author: Francois de Fenelon (1651 - 1715).
text:
"If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate."


author: Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860).
text:
"If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it."


author: George Aiken.
text:
"If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon."


author: Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860).
text:
"If we weren't all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting we couldn't endure it."


author: Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855).
text:
"If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own."


author: Anais Nin (1903 - 1977).
text:
"If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation."


author: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967).
text:
"If wild my breast and sore my pride, I bask in dreams of suicide, If cool my heart and high my head I think "How lucky are the dead."


author: Mitchell Burgess.
text:
"If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflection. It's a time of year when the leaves are down and the harvest is in and the perennials are gone. Mother Earth just closed up the drapes on another year and it's time to reflect on what's come before."


author: Robert Montgomery.
text:
"If you achieve success, you will get applause, and if you get applause, you will hear it. My advice to you concerning applause is this; enjoy it but never quite believe it."


author: Paul Fussell.
text:
"If you are an author and give one of your books to a member of the upper class, you must never expect him to read it."


author: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD).
text:
"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."


author: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD).
text:
"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."


author: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881).
text:
"If you are ever in doubt as to whether or not you should kiss a pretty girl, give her the benefit of the doubt."


author: Lemony Snicket.
text:
"If you are interested in stories with happy endings you would be better off reading some other book."


author: Sun-Tzu (~400 BC).
text:
"If you are near the enemy, make him believe you are far from him. If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near."


author: Winston Churchhill.
text:
"If you are not a liberal at twenty, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative at forty, you have no brain."


author: Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966).
text:
"If you are not a psychiatrist, stay away from idiots. They are too stupid to pay a layman for his company."


author: Randolph Bourne.
text:
"If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you don't have a heart, but if you are still an idealist by thirty you don't have a head."


author: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - ).
text:
"If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words."


author: Jamison Stafford.
text:
"If you are out there, you have fans. You have a champion. Organize these champions. You probably know who your best customers are. Make them a star on your site. Make those people your superheroes."


author: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD).
text:
"If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now."


author: Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661).
text:
"If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you."


author: Mena Trott.
text:
"If you arenât going to say something directly to someoneâs face, than donât use online as an opportunity to say it. It is this sense of bravery that people get when they are anonymous that gives the blogosphere a bad reputation."


author: George Burns (1896 - 1996).
text:
"If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it."


author: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC).
text:
"If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place."


author: Unknown.
text:
"If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day."


author: Dale Carnegie.
text:
"If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done."


author: Lord Salisbury.
text:
"If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe."


author: Jennifer Hudson.
text:
"If you can break down those walls youâve spent so many years building to protect yourself, you can achieve anything."


author: Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936).
text:
"If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. . . . The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son."


author: Chris Evert (1954 - ).
text:
"If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that is a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life."


author: Conan O'Brien.
text:
"If you can really laugh at yourself loud and hard every time you fall,people will think you're drunk."


author: Lin Yutang.
text:
"If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live."


author: George E. Woodberry.
text:
"If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live."


author: Dale Carnegie.
text:
"If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep."


author: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931).
text:
"If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work."


author: Xenophon (434 BC - 355 BC).
text:
"If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation."


author: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran.
text:
"If you continue to expend your energy trying to change things that donât really matter in the long run or that are not within your sphere of influence, youâll wind up exhausted and frustrated, with no positive results to show for your effort."


author: Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904).
text:
"If you cry "Forward!" you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. Don't you see that if, without doing so, you call out the word to both a monk and revolutionary, they will go in directions precisely opposite?"


author: John Cage (1912 - 1992).
text:
"If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience."


author: Koran.
text:
"If you disclose your alms, even then it is well done, but if you keep them secret, and give them to the poor, then that is better still for you; and this wipes off from you some of your evil deeds."


author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906 - 1945).
text:
"If you do a good job for others,  you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure."


author: Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924).
text:
"If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place."


author: Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD).
text:
"If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase."


author: Holly Lisle.
text:
"If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions, then you are forever chained to a position of defense."


author: Edward Hodnett.
text:
"If you don't ask the right questions, you don't get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the ABC of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems."


author: Dan Millman.
text:
"If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is a law, and no amount of pretending will alter that reality."


author: Mitch Album.
text:
"If you don't have a common set of values in life, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. Your values must be alike."


author: Alfred A. Montapert.
text:
"If you don't have solid beliefs you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon."


author: Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz.
text:
"If you don't know to the second when a drunk's gonna vomit on you, you don't survive as a strip club bouncer."


author: Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990).
text:
"If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues' initials on 'em, and pass them along. When in doubt, route."


author: Maya Angelou (1928 - ).
text:
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain. "


author: Author Unknown.
text:
"If you don't like your own character there may be a new one ready-made and waiting for you. The snake sheds its skin with impunity, relying on the same nature which you rely on."


author: Matthew V. Lewis.
text:
"If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now."


author: Wil Wheaton.
text:
"If you enjoyed making a thing, and youâre proud of the thing you made, thatâs enough. Not everyone is going to like it, and thatâs okay."


author: Jeff Foxworthy.
text:
"If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'"


author: Tina Fey.
text:
"If you ever start to feel too good about yourself, they have this thing called the Internet, and you can find a lot of people there who don't like you."


author: Joyce Carol Oates (1938 - ).
text:
"If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they'll divulge it."


author: Joseph Farrell.
text:
"If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself."


author: Horace Bushnell.
text:
"If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles. Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble."


author: Stanley J. Sarnoff.
text:
"If you had to define stress, it would not be far off if you said it was the process of living. The process of living is the process of having stress imposed on you and reacting to it."


author: Herman Hesse.
text:
"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is a part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us."


author: Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962).
text:
"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us."


author: Brendan Francis.
text:
"If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas."


author: Elaine Gill.
text:
"If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women's names."


author: Meryl Streep (1949 - ).
text:
"If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!"


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."


author: Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792).
text:
"If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency."


author: James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937).
text:
"If you have love you don't need to have anything else. If you don't have it it doesn't matter much what else you do have."


author: Mary Pickford (1893 - 1979).
text:
"If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down."


author: Marcus Garvey.
text:
"If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you started."


author: Marcus Garvey.
text:
"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started."


author: Marcus Garvey.
text:
"If you have no confidence in [yourself] you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won before you have started."


author: Walter Scott.
text:
"If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life - if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others."


author: anonymous (Usenet FOAF).
text:
"If you have one foot in tomorrow and one foot in yesterday, you're bound to find yourself pissing on today."


author: Hugh Macleod.
text:
"If you have something to say, then say it. If not, enjoy the silence while it lasts. The noise will return soon enough. In the meantime, you%uFFFDre better off going out into the big, wide world, having some adventures and refilling your well. Trying to create when you don%uFFFDt feel like it is like making conversation for the sake of making conversation."


author: Hugh Macleod.
text:
"If you have the creative urge, it isn't going to go away. But sometimes it takes a while before you accept the fact."


author: Kanye West.
text:
"If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don`t appreciate the moment until it's passed."


author: Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine.
text:
"If you have to have your weapon, at least run it through the grandma test. Take the weapon and hit your grandma with it. If she dies or writes you out of the will, don't bring it!"


author: Vincent Van Gough.
text:
"If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."


author: Vincent Van Gogh (1853 - 1890).
text:
"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."


author: Soichiro Honda.
text:
"If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people among those you don't particularly like."


author: Mignon McLaughlin.
text:
"If you jot down every silly thought that pops into your mind, you will soon find out everything you most seriously believe."


author: Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC).
text:
"If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way."


author: Imelda Marcos.
text:
"If you know how rich you are then you are not rich. But us, we do not know the vastness of our wealth. That's how rich we are."


author: Sun-Tzu (~400 BC).
text:
"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle."


author: Unknown.
text:
"If you laid all of the lawyers in the world, end to end, on the equator ---- It would be a good idea to just leave them there."


author: Krishnamurti.
text:
"If you leave the pool you have dug for yourself and go out into the river of life then life has an astonishing way of taking care of you, because then there is no taking care on your part."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"If you leave the smallest corner of your mind open for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters."


author: Robert Fritz.
text:
"If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise."


author: I. F. Stone (1907 - 1989).
text:
"If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in; first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had."


author: Winnie the Pooh.
text:
"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you."


author: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963).
text:
"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair."


author: Jane Goodall (1934 - ).
text:
"If you look through all the different cultures. Right from the earliest, earliest days with the animistic religions, we have sought to have some kind of explanation for our life, for our being, that is outside of our humanity."


author: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963).
text:
"If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it classified under the following three heads: Intelligence, Human; Intelligence, Animal; Intelligence, Military. My stepfather's a perfect specimen of Intelligence, Military."


author: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962).
text:
"If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all."


author: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935).
text:
"If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep."


author: Art Costa.
text:
"If you make people think they are thinking, they will love you. If you really make them think, they will hate you."


author: Don Marquis (1878 - 1937).
text:
"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you."


author: Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855).
text:
"If you marry you will regret it. If you do not marry you will regret it. If you marry or do not marry, you will regret it."


author: Sebastien-Roch Nicolas.
text:
"If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor."


author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832).
text:
"If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own."


author: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ).
text:
"If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race."


author: W. Beran Wolfe.
text:
"If you observe a really happy man, you will find... that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours each day."


author: Hazrat Ali Ibn-e-Abi Talib.
text:
"If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him."


author: Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993).
text:
"If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man."


author: Pierre Gallois.
text:
"If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and no-one dares criticize it."


author: Anonymous.
text:
"If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price."


author: Jane Goodall (1934 - ).
text:
"If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way."


author: J. D. Salinger (1919 - ).
text:
"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth."


author: Cesar Chavez.
text:
"If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... The people who give you their food give you their heart."


author: African Proverb.
text:
"If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry."


author: Clement Freud.
text:
"If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer."


author: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931).
text:
"If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees."


author: S. I. Hayakawa.
text:
"If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture than you are a victim of it."


author: Robert Collier.
text:
"If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be."


author: Rev. Ivan Stang - High Weirdness By Mail.
text:
"If you sincerely desire a _truly_ well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty". You need the balance! Your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, _no matter what_. Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket... even if you never watch, read, listen, or leave your house, even if you are deaf and blind, the _telepathic pressure alone_ of the uncountable normals surrounding you will insure that you are automatically well- grounded in consensus reality."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"If you take a dog which is starving and feed him and make him prosperous, that dog will not bite you. This is the primary difference between a dog and a man."


author: Henry Ford (1863 - 1947).
text:
"If you take all the experience and judgment of men over fifty out of the world, there wouldn't be enough left to run it."


author: Nelson Mandela (1918 - ).
text:
"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart."


author: Joseph Goebbels.
text:
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic andor military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."


author: Charles Gordon.
text:
"If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you."


author: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986).
text:
"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual."


author: John Cage (1912 - 1992).
text:
"If you think something is boring, try doing it for two minutes. If you still think it's boring, try it for four. If you still think it's boring, try it for eight, then sixteen, then thirty-two, and so on and so forth. Soon enough you'll find that it's really not boring at all."


author: Ann Richards.
text:
"If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities."


author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832).
text:
"If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain as he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought and could be."


author: Hugh Macleod.
text:
"If you try to make something just to fit your uninformed view of some hypothetical market, you will fail. If you make something special and powerful and honest and true, you will succeed."


author: Tupac Shakur.
text:
"If you walked by a street and you was walking on concrete and you saw a rose growing from concrete, even if it had messed up petals and it was a little to the side you would marvel at just seeing a rose grow through concrete. So why is it that when you see some ghetto kid grow out of the dirtiest circumstances and he can talk and he can sit across the room and make you cry, make you laugh, all you can talk about is my dirty rose, my dirty stems and how am leaning crooked to the side, you can't even see that I've come up from out of that."


author: The Dalai Lama (1935 - ).
text:
"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."


author: Carl Schurz (1829 - 1906).
text:
"If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other."


author: English proverb.
text:
"If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden;  if you want to be happy for life, plant a tree."


author: Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881).
text:
"If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you."


author: Sidney Madwed.
text:
"If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom."


author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944).
text:
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea."


author: Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860).
text:
"If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him."


author: Lee Iacocca (1924 - ).
text:
"If you want to make good use of your time, youâve got to know whatâs most important and then give it all youâve got."


author: Giovanni Jacopo Casanova.
text:
"If you want to make people weep, you must weep yourself. If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious."


author: Katharine Hepburn (1907 - 2003).
text:
"If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married."


author: John D. Rockefeller (1839 - 1937).
text:
"If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success."


author: John D. Rockefeller (1839 - 1937).
text:
"If you want to succeed,you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success."


author: George Will.
text:
"If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. It conveys precious little of the flavor of today's statecraft. Instead, read selected portions of the Washington telephone directory containing listings for all the organizations with titles beginning with the word `National'."


author: Willy Wonka.
text:
"If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it.  Anything you want to, do it.  Want to change the world?  There's nothing to it."


author: Dale Carnegie.
text:
"If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance."


author: Gordon Atkinson.
text:
"If you want to write you must have faith in yourself. Faith enough to believe that if a thing is true about you, it is likely true about many people. And if you can have faith in your integrity and your motives, then you can write about yourself without fear."


author: Lemony Snicket.
text:
"If you were going to give a medal to the least delightful person on Earth, you would have to give that medal to a person named Carmelita Spats, and if you didn't give it to her, Carmelita Spats was the sort of person who would snatch it from your hands anyway."


author: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider.
text:
"If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life."


author: Paul Tsongas.
text:
"If you were in a room with Kadaffi, Saddam Hussien, and John Sununu, and you only had two bullets, what would you do. Shoot John Sununu twice."


author: Brothers Karamazov.
text:
"If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be permissible, even cannibalism."


author: John Green.
text:
"If you were to go [to the Rijksmuseum], and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see Jesus on the cross, and you'd see a dude getting stabbed in the neck, and you'd see people dying at sea and in battle and a parade of martyrs. But Not. One. Single. Cancer. Kid. Nobody biting it from the plague or smallpox or yellow fever or whatever, because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of."


author: John R. Miller.
text:
"If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be."


author: W. S. Gilbert (1836 - 1911).
text:
"If you wish in this world to advance, your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or trust me, you haven't a chance."


author: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719).
text:
"If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius."


author: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719).
text:
"If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius."


author: Saint Augustine (354 AD - 430 AD).
text:
"If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing."


author: Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650).
text:
"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things."


author: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832).
text:
"If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city."


author: Robert Southey (1774 - 1843).
text:
"If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see."


author: Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD).
text:
"If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods."


author: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790).
text:
"If you would know the value of money, go try to borrow some; for he that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing."


author: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790).
text:
"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth reading or do things worth the writing."


author: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790).
text:
"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing."


author: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790).
text:
"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are rotten, either write things worth reading or do things worth the writing."


author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834).
text:
"If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself."


author: Josh Greenberg.
text:
"If you write a post and put it on a blog, that's a historical document. If you change your template, then that entry looks completely different. It's the same words, but not the same meaning. This all depends on what historical questions that people will be asking and we can't know what they will want."


author: Scott Berkun.
text:
"If you'd like to be good at something, the first thing to out the window is the notion of perfection."


author: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004).
text:
"If you're afraid of the future, then get out of the way, stand aside. The people of this country are ready to move again."


author: Julie Morgenstern.
text:
"If you're afraid to let someone else see your weakness, take heart: Nobody's perfect. Besides, your attempts to hide your flaws don't work as well as you think they do."


author: David Nicholls.
text:
"If you're at school and you're not that bright or good-looking or popular or whatever, and one day you say something and someone laughs, well, you sort of grab onto it, don't you? you think, well I run funny and I've got this stupid big face and big thighs and no-one fancies me, but at least I can make people laugh. And It's such a nice feeling, making someone laugh, that maybe you get a bit reliant on it. Like, if you're not funny then you're not... anything."


author: Eddie Izzard.
text:
"If you're choking in a restaurant you can just say the magic words, 'Heimlich maneuver,' and all will be well. Trouble is, it's difficult to say 'Heimlich maneuver' when you're choking to death."


author: Hugh Macleod.
text:
"If you're creative, if you can think independently, if you can articulate passion, if you can override the fear of being wrong, then your company needs you now more than it ever did. And now your company can no longer afford to pretend that isn't the case."


author: Marie Osmond.
text:
"If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now."


author: Karen Hall and Jerry Stahl.
text:
"If you're here for four more years or four more weeks, you're here right now. I think when you're somewhere, you ought to be there. It's not about how long you stay in a place, it's about what you do while you're there, and when you go, is that place any better for your having been there?"


author: J. K. Rowling.
text:
"If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time."


author: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ).
text:
"If you're hurting, you need to help somebody else ease their hurt. If you're in pain, help somebody else's pain."


author: John Alejandro King.
text:
"If you're not scared or angry at the thought of a human brain being controlled remotely, then it could be this prototype of mine is finally starting to work."


author: Erica Eisdorfer.
text:
"If you're servant enough, you can shrink into the shadows, even in the bright morning sun and even if you're large enough to often block it."


author: Lois McMaster Bujold.
text:
"If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door."


author: Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926).
text:
"If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place."


author: Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926).
text:
"If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches."


author: Sun Tzu.
text:
"If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected."


author: Napoleon Hill.
text:
"If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self-interest, you can have practically anything you go after."


author: Shunryu Suzuli.
text:
"If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few."


author: Anna Quindlen (1953 - ).
text:
"If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all."


author: Jennifer Hudson.
text:
"If youâre not eating the right foods in the right amounts, all the exercise in the world wonât combat the caloric intake."


author: Jennifer Hudson.
text:
"If youâre... asking yourself why I have this success and you donât, donât be angry with meâstop and ask yourself what your issues are that are holding you back."


author: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960).
text:
"If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one."


author: Margaret Thatcher (1925 - ).
text:
"Ifâ¦many influential people have failed to understand , or have just forgotten, what were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made."


author: Anatole France (1844 - 1924).
text:
"Ignorance is a necessary condition of human happiness, and it must be owned that in most cases we fulfill it well. We know almost nothing about ourselves; absolutely nothing about our neighbors. Ignorance constitutes our peace of mind; self- deception our felicity."


author: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826).
text:
"Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong."


author: Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882).
text:
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science."


author: Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882).
text:
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowlege: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science."


author: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC).
text:
"Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune."


author: John Selden (1584 - 1654).
text:
"Ignorance of the law excuses no man: Not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him."


author: Johnson.
text:
"Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent."


author: Oliver Goldsmith (1730 - 1774).
text:
"Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ill a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes and Lords may flourish, or may fade: A breath can make them, as a breath has made; but a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied."


author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
text:
"Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"Imagination is a quality given to man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humaor is provided to console him from what he is."


author: J. K. Rowling.
text:
"Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and relevetory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will."


author: Author Unknown.
text:
"Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is."


author: Helena Cronin.
text:
"Imagine a world without Darwin. Imagine a world in which Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace had not transformed our understanding of living things. What... would become baffling and puzzling..., in urgent need of explanation? The answer is: practically everything about living things...."


author: Barbra Streisand (1942 - ).
text:
"Imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we appreciate each other's differences; one in which we are all equal but definately not the same."


author: Jef Raskin.
text:
"Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining."


author: John Lennon (1940 - 1980).
text:
"Imagine thereâs no countries, it isnât hard to do; nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too. Imagine all the people living life in peace."


author: Marvin Minsky.
text:
"Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know."


author: Vinet.
text:
"Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves."


author: Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980).
text:
"Immature love says, "I love you because I need you." Mature love says, "I need you because I love you.""


author: Winston Churchill.
text:
"Immature love says, I love you because I need you, mature love says, I need you because I love you."


author: Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980).
text:
"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know."


author: Tupac Shalu.
text:
"Imperfection is inherited, therefore we all sin, but fighting the war of sin is the greatest war of all because we all die in the end no matter how hard we fight."


author: Josh Lieb.
text:
"Important days don't look like anything special when they start. Invariably, the sun rises and people wake up. Coffee is swilled and eggs are swallowed. Everybody goes about the business of acting like their lives matter and then, no matter how important the events of the day end up being, the sun invariably sets. The sun rose before the soldiers stormed Omaha Beach on D-Day, and the sun set after Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed. Sunrises and sunsets are real jerks about putting things in perspective."


author: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919).
text:
"In a civilized and cultivated country, wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen."


author: Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005).
text:
"In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity."


author: J. William Fulbright (1905 - ).
text:
"In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects."


author: Unknown.
text:
"In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it."


author: Richard M. Nixon (1913 - 1994).
text:
"In a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his way all the time and no one is right all the time."


author: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
text:
"In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him."


author: Carl Rogers.
text:
"In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness."


author: Gerald R. Ford (1913 - 2006).
text:
"In a political sense, there is one problem that currently underlies all of the others. That problem is making Government sufficiently responsive to the people. If we dont make government responsive to the people, we dont make it believable. And we must make government believable if we are to have a functioning democracy."


author: S. I. Hayakawa.
text:
"In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish."


author: Henry Clay (1777 - 1852).
text:
"In a scheme of policy which is devised for a nation, we should not limit our views to its operation during a single year, or even for a short term of years. We should look at its operation for a considerable time, and in war as well as in peace."


author: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983).
text:
"In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists."


author: Joesph Heller.
text:
"In a way the CID man was pretty lucky, because outside the hospital the war was still going on. Men went mad and were rewarded with medals. All over the world, boys on every side of the bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country, and no one seemed to mind, least of all the boys who were laying down their young lives."


author: Bruce Sterling.
text:
"In a way, staring into a computer screen is like staring into an eclipse. It's brilliant and you don't realize the damage until its too late.""


author: Eric Schmidt.
text:
"In a world where everything is remembered and everything is kept forever, you need to live for the future and things you really care about."


author: Dorothea Dix (1802 - 1887).
text:
"In a world where there is so much to be done. I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do."


author: Monty Python.
text:
"In accordance with our principles of free enterprise and healthy competition, I'm going to ask you two to fight to the death for it."


author: Edwin P. Whipple.
text:
"In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward."


author: Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855).
text:
"In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known -- no wonder, then, that I return the love."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted."


author: Connie Chung to Johnny Carson.
text:
"In all honesty, Johnny, we are often at the mercy of the White House for the news we report. Frequently, we simply repeat verbatim what the White House tells us."


author: James Allen.
text:
"In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of effort is the measure of the results."


author: John C. Dvorak.
text:
"In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear."


author: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006).
text:
"In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong."


author: Eda J. Le Shan.
text:
"In all our efforts to provide "advantages" we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history."


author: Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005).
text:
"In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from."


author: Henry Clay (1777 - 1852).
text:
"In all the affairs of life, social as well as political, courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest to the grateful and appreciating heart."


author: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817).
text:
"In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete: being prepared for matrimony by an hatred of home, restraint, and tranquillity; by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"In all things it is a good idea to hang a question mark now and then on the things we have taken for granted."


author: Barbara Paley.
text:
"In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of thine own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill-success and disappointments, and give thee an humble confidence before God, when the ingratitude of man, or the iniquity of the times may rob thee of other rewards."


author: Gary Lee Phillips.
text:
"In all things that involve social pressures, if we want to see change we have to force the envelope outwards."


author: Sovereign.
text:
"In all things there are three choices: Yes, No & no choice, except in this -- I either choose the truth or I am deceit."


author: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977).
text:
"In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people."


author: Kanye West.
text:
"In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?"


author: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004).
text:
"In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from."


author: Russell Baker (1925 - ).
text:
"In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved."


author: Kofi Annan.
text:
"In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and poor, if only those resources can be unleashed in the service of all peoples."


author: Raoul Vaneigem.
text:
"In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create."


author: Robert Anthony.
text:
"In an information world where we all seem to have so much to say -- it is important to remember that sometimes we need to listen."


author: Edward P. Tryon.
text:
"In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time."


author: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931).
text:
"In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people's wrath."


author: Laura Moncur (1969 - ).
text:
"In business, you must remain unattached to the outcome. It matters not who is chosen first and who is chosen second. The only thing that matters is the final verdict."


author: Truman Capote (1924 - 1984).
text:
"In California everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist."


author: Roger Allen.
text:
"In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation."


author: George Orwell (1903 - 1950).
text:
"In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer."


author: Pliny the Elder (23 AD - 79 AD).
text:
"In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment."


author: Joseph Priestley.
text:
"In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones."


author: Roberta Wohlstetter.
text:
"In conditions of great uncertainty people tend to predict the events that they want to happen actually will happen."


author: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849).
text:
"In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake."


author: Tao Te Ching.
text:
"In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present."


author: Mrs. Sigourney.
text:
"In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe."


author: Lydia Sigourney.
text:
"In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe."


author: Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944).
text:
"In Einstein's theory of relativity the observer is a man who sets out in quest of truth armed with a measuring-rod. In quantum theory he sets out with a sieve."


author: John Green.
text:
"In English, we don't have a word for people who aren't virgins. What the non-virgin lexical gap really made me think was that our obsession with sexual purity is such that once you are no longer this THING, you are indescribable."


author: Cornelius Bernardus Van Neil.
text:
"In essence, science is a perpetual search for an intelligent and integrated comprehension of the world we live in."


author: Bono (1960 - ).
text:
"In Ethiopia during the famine, I saw stuff there that reorganized how I saw the world. I didn't quite know what to do about it. At a certain point, I felt God is not looking for alms. God is looking for action."


author: Warren Buffett (1930 - ).
text:
"In evaluating people, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. If you don't have the first, the other two will kill you."


author: Brooks Atkinson (1894 - 1984).
text:
"In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them."


author: A. E. Housman (1859 - 1936).
text:
"In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning."


author: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ).
text:
"In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value? What is my worth? Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright."


author: John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968).
text:
"In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love."


author: James Agee (1909 - 1955).
text:
"In every child who is born under no matter what circumstances and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again, and in him, too, once more, and each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life: toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terrorism, and of God."


author: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996).
text:
"In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness."


author: Isaac Rosenfeld.
text:
"In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm."


author: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817).
text:
"In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty."


author: Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965).
text:
"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit."


author: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980).
text:
"In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man."


author: Ann Faraday.
text:
"In forming a bridge between body and mind, dreams may be used as a springboard from which man can leap to new realms of experience lying outside his normal state of consciousness."


author: Sir Philip Sidney (1554 - 1586).
text:
"In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow."


author: Voltaire (1694 - 1778).
text:
"In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one part of the citizens to give to the other."


author: George Orwell (1903 - 1950).
text:
"In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion: the more intelligent, the less sane."


author: John Green.
text:
"In general, watching children's television is a dark and surreal descent into madness where the characters on the screen talk directly to you."


author: Martin Niemoeller.
text:
"In Germany, they came first for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists but I didn't speak up because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time nobody was left to speak up."


author: John Muir (1838 - 1914).
text:
"In God's wildness lies the hope of the world - the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware."


author: Nicholas Chamfort (1741 - 1794).
text:
"In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are."


author: Hendrik W. Van Loon.
text:
"In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country."


author: Ben Hecht (1893 - 1964).
text:
"In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel."


author: Lauren Bacall.
text:
"In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity."


author: Susanne Langer (1895 - 1985).
text:
"In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth."


author: Walter V. Kaulfers.
text:
"In human relations a little language goes farther than a little of almost anything else. Whereas one language now often makes a wall, two can make a gate."


author: Orson Welles (1915 - 1985).
text:
"In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."


author: Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman.
text:
"In Kyudo philosophy, you don't aim--you become one with the target. Then, in fact, there's nothing to aim at. I find it works well with women, too. Give it a try."


author: Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825).
text:
"In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by like a distant army. One friend, one teacher, one beloved, one club, one dining table, one work table are the means by which one's nation and the spirit of one's nation affect the individual."


author: Abubakr Hussain.
text:
"In life every man is on a ladder. The steps of that ladder are different for everyone but the last step is the same, that being death."


author: Farrah Gray.
text:
"In life we donât get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection."


author: Alfred A. Montapert.
text:
"In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might."


author: Michael Monahan.
text:
"In making up the character of God, the old theologians failed to mention that He is of infinite cheerfulness. The omission has caused the world much tribulation."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel."


author: Daniel Akst.
text:
"In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives."


author: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC).
text:
"In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory."


author: Dean Koontz.
text:
"In moderate doses melancholy can be strangley comforting, darkly sweet; it can by providing contrast, give an exquisitely sharp edge to happiness, especially to pleasures of the flesh."


author: Calvin Trillin (1935 - ).
text:
"In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while the article is still on the presses."


author: Tina Fey.
text:
"In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!""


author: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011).
text:
"In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains of the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service."


author: Lisa Kudrow.
text:
"In most pursuits, one's self is one of the biggest hurdles to get over. You can't pursue something and be committed to it if you're apologizing for it at every party."


author: Tina Fey.
text:
"In my experience, the hardest thing about having someone "come out" to you is the "pretending to be surprised" part."


author: John Adams (1735 - 1826).
text:
"In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress."


author: Charles Mingus.
text:
"In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time."


author: Charles M. Schwab.
text:
"In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism."


author: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849).
text:
"In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed."


author: Legal Times.
text:
"In one celebrated incident, 300 members of Church of the New Song requested $6000 worth of filet mignon and Harvey's Bristol Cream for a crucial religious ceremony at the federal prison in Atlanta."


author: John Christian Bovee.
text:
"In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less."


author: Krishnamarti.
text:
"In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself."


author: Meg Cabot.
text:
"In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt."


author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784).
text:
"In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."


author: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900).
text:
"In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it."


author: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ).
text:
"In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself."


author: Bryant McGill.
text:
"In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love."


author: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914).
text:
"In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"In our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either."


author: Marya Mannes.
text:
"In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language."


author: Gloria Pitzer.
text:
"In parts of the world, people still pray in the streets. In this country they're called pedestrians."


author: Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC).
text:
"In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children."


author: Frank Wilczek (1951 - ).
text:
"In physics, your solution should convince a reasonable person. In math, you have to convince a person who's trying to make trouble. Ultimately, in physics, you're hoping to convince Nature. And I've found Nature to be pretty reasonable."


author: G. Hopper.
text:
"In pioneer days they used oxen for heavy pulling, and when one ox couldn't budge a log, they didn't try to grow a larger ox. We shouldn't be trying for bigger computers, but for more systems of computers."


author: R. A. Butler (1902 - 1982).
text:
"In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves."


author: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969).
text:
"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable."


author: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881).
text:
"In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it."


author: Jonathan Haidt.
text:
"In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?"


author: Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978).
text:
"In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be."


author: Peter McWilliams.
text:
"In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts."


author: Barack Obama (1961 - ).
text:
"In recent years, we've become enamored with our own past success. Lulled into complacency by the glitter of our own achievements. We've become accustomed to the title of Military Superpower, forgetting the qualities that got us there. We've become accustomed to our economic dominance in the world, forgetting that it wasn't reckless deals and get rich quick schemes that got us where we are, but hard work and smart ideas, quality products and wise investments."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination."


author: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996).
text:
"In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time someting like that happened in politics or religion."


author: Paul Dirac (1902 - 1984).
text:
"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite."


author: Sir Francis Darwin (1848 - 1925).
text:
"In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not the man to whom the idea first occurs."


author: Richard Osler.
text:
"In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs."


author: Stephen Jay Gould (1941 - 2002).
text:
"In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms."


author: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC).
text:
"In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body."


author: Richard Dawkings:.
text:
"In so far as virus-makers have any discernible motive, they presumably feel vaguely anarchistic. I appeal to them: do you really want to pave the way for a new fat-cat profession ['software-doctors']? If not, stop playing at silly memes, and put your modest programming talents to better use."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think."


author: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937).
text:
"In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways."


author: Cornelius Tacitus (55 AD - 117 AD).
text:
"In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue."


author: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961).
text:
"In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that the growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and that each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement. One could almost say that nothing is more hateful to man than to give up even a particle of his unconsciousness. Ask those who have tried to introduce a new idea!"


author: Melaine Rawn.
text:
"In that instant he learned what jealousy was. He wanted to know the name of every other man she had ever looked at, whether they had touched her- and most especially where to find these men so that he could kill them."


author: Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988).
text:
"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it. "


author: Tom Nolan.
text:
"In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras."


author: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948).
text:
"In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth."


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


author: Ellen DeGeneres.
text:
"In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better."


author: John Simon.
text:
"In the beginning was the word. But by the time the second word was added to it, there was trouble. For with it came syntax..."


author: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001).
text:
"In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea."


author: Dave Weinstein (dweinste@isis).
text:
"In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be Light.' And there was still nothing. But, you could see it."


author: Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894).
text:
"In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago."


author: Nicanor Parra.
text:
"In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food-outside are only great stretches of freedom."


author: Elzear Blaze.
text:
"In the career of glory one gains many things; the gout and medals, a pension and rheumatism....And also frozen feet, an arm or leg the less, a bullet lodged between two bones which the surgeon cannot extract....all of these fatigues experienced in your youth, you pay for when you grow old. Because one has suffered in years gone by, it is necessary to suffer more, which does not seem exactly fair."


author: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969).
text:
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."


author: George W. Bush (1946 - ).
text:
"In the defense of our nation, a president must be a clear-eyed realist. There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment."


author: Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939).
text:
"In the depths of my heart I can't help being convniced that my dear fellow men, with few exceptions, are worthless."


author: Lord Byron (1788 - 1824).
text:
"In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee."


author: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592).
text:
"In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books."


author: Sara Zarr.
text:
"In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete."


author: John C. Sawhill.
text:
"In the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create but by what we refuse to destroy."


author: Randy K. Milholland.
text:
"In the end, you'll know which people really love you. They're the ones who see you for who you are and, no matter what, always find a way to be at your side."


author: Paul Valery (1871 - 1945).
text:
"In the eyes of those lovers of perfection, a work is never finished--a word that for them has no sense--but abandoned; and this abandonment, whether to the flames or to the public (and which is the result of weariness or an obligation to deliver) is a kind of an accident to them, like the breaking off of a reflection, which fatigue, irritation, or something similar has made worthless."


author: Louis D. Brandeis (1856 - 1941).
text:
"In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action."


author: Bill Vaughan .
text:
"In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season."


author: Rose G. Kingsley.
text:
"In the garden, Autumn is, indeed the crowning glory of the year, bringing us the fruition of months of thought and care and toil. And at no season, safe perhaps in Daffodil time, do we get such superb colour effects as from August to November."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity."


author: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924).
text:
"In the last analysis, my fellow country men, as we in America would be the first to claim, a people are responsible for the acts of their government."


author: William Lyon Phelps.
text:
"In the late 19th century Evanston, Illinois, nicknamed "Heavenston" by Frances Willard, was a Methodist-minded town, so pious that the town fathers, resenting the dissipating influence of the soda fountain, passed an ordinance forbidding the sale of ice cream sodas on Sunday. Some ingenious confectioners, obeying the law, served ice cream with syrup but no soda. This sodaless soda was the Sunday soda, and became so popular that orders for "Sundays" crossed the counter everyday of the week. When objection was raised to christening the dish after the Sabbath, the spelling was changed to Sundae, and so developed one of America's most characteristic dishes."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"In the long run you only hit what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high."


author: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881).
text:
"In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government."


author: Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321).
text:
"In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost."


author: David Darlington.
text:
"In the mirrorlike relationship between wine and human beings, Zinfandel owned more reflective properties than any other grape; in its infinite mutability, it was capable of expressing almost any philosophical position or psychological function. As a result, its own "true" nature might never be known."


author: David M. Ogilvy.
text:
"In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman."


author: Charles W. Eliot (1834 - 1926).
text:
"In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress."


author: John Berger.
text:
"In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles. Writers who have neither product utopian trash."


author: Daniel Akst.
text:
"In the modern world, self-control buys a good life indeed. Having self-control to spare is rare enough nowadays that the marketplace lavishes huge rewards on society's scary new self-control elite, those lords of discipline who not only withstood all that boring stuff in graduate school, but keep themselves thin by carefully regulating what they eat after flogging themselves off to the gym at the crack of dawn. It's as if they got the news ahead of the rest of us-no doubt by waking up earlier-that self-control may well be the most important trait of the twenty-first century."


author: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD).
text:
"In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'"


author: Martin Terman.
text:
"In the Norse mythology Loki originally was on the side of the rest of the gods, helping them once or twice using a particularly nast forms of trickery. He was a cunning negotiator with a talent for technicalities. He was sort of the Norse equivalent of a lawyer, no doubt the reason they tied him down in a pit dripping acidic venom on him."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying."


author: Unknown.
text:
"In the sixties, the world was normal and people took acid to make it weird. Nowadays the world is weird and people take prozac to make it normal."


author: Farnsworth Crowder.
text:
"In the South of California has gathered the larges and most miscellaneous assortment of Messiahs, Sorcerers, Saints and Seers known to the history of aberrations."


author: Krishnamurti.
text:
"In the space which thought creates around itself there is no love. This space divides man from man, and in it is all the becoming, the battle of life, the agony and fear. Meditation is the ending of this space, the ending of the me."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, when birds do sing... sweet lovers love the spring."


author: Charles de Montesquieu (1689 - 1755).
text:
"In the state of nature, indeed, all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the laws."


author: Charles de Montesquieu (1689 - 1755).
text:
"In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law."


author: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931).
text:
"In the sweetness of friendship; let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed."


author: Ian Faith.
text:
"In the topsy-turvy world of heavy rock, it's often useful to have a nice, solid piece of wood in your hands."


author: Gregory Bateson.
text:
"In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not D.N.A."


author: William S. Burroughs (1914 - 1997).
text:
"In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or exist in extreme boredom... Make no mistake, all intellectuals are deviants in the U.S."


author: Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946).
text:
"In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is."


author: Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946).
text:
"In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is."


author: Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946).
text:
"In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell."


author: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960).
text:
"In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"In the world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it."


author: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915).
text:
"In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it."


author: Henry Miller (1891 - 1980).
text:
"In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest."


author: George Matthew Adams.
text:
"In this life we get only those things for which we hunt, for which we strive, and for which we are willing to sacrifice."


author: John Kerry (1943 - ).
text:
"In this remarkable time for the world, I refuse to believe it's time to stop believing in the possibilities of our remarkable country. I refuse to accept the downsizing of the American Dream. I refuse to bet against American entrepreneurial spirit and American ingenuity."


author: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865).
text:
"In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all... Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now realize that you will ever feel better... And yet this is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again."


author: John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801 - 1890).
text:
"In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"In this world of sin and sorrow, there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"In this world one must be like everybody else if he doesn't want to provoke scorn or envy or jealousy."


author: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001).
text:
"In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri."


author: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983).
text:
"In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists."


author: Kofi Annan.
text:
"In today's world, no State, however powerful, can protect itself on its own. Likewise, no country, weak or strong, can realize prosperity in a vacuum."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world."


author: Jane Goodall (1934 - ).
text:
"In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them? Surely we should treat them with the same consideration and kindness as we show to other humans; and as we recognize human rights, so too should we recognize the rights of the great apes? Yes."


author: Henri Cartier-Bresson.
text:
"In whatever one does, there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart. With the eye that is closed, one looks within, with the eye that is open, one looks without."


author: Sir George Savile.
text:
"In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness; do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown; and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, will gain you more respect than all your fine trappings."


author: Dale Carnegie.
text:
"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."


author: Russell Baker (1925 - ).
text:
"Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost."


author: Caterina Rando.
text:
"Increase your personal power through positive and powerful communication. Recognize and eliminate negative self talk."


author: African Proverb.
text:
"Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water."


author: John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873).
text:
"Indeed the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into common places, but which all experience refutes."


author: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826).
text:
"Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever."


author: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982).
text:
"Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it."


author: Arthur Garfield Hays.
text:
"Indignation boils my blood at the thought of the heritage we are throwing away; at the thought that, with few exceptions, the fight for freedom is left to the poor, forlorn and defenseless, and to the few radicals and revolutionaries who would make use of liberty to destroy, rather than to maintain, American institutions."


author: Vince Lombardi (1913 - 1970).
text:
"Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."


author: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948).
text:
"Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty, it is it's own reward. Everything else is in God's hands."


author: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ).
text:
"Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Ingratitude is monstrous, and for the multitude to be ingrateful, were to make a monster of the multitude."


author: Fran Leibowitz.
text:
"Inhabitants of underdeveloped nations and victims of natural disasters are the only people who have ever been happy to see soybeans."


author: Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939).
text:
"Innately, children seem to have little true realistic anxiety. They will run along the brink of water, climb on the window sill, play with sharp objects and with fire, in short, do everything that is bound to damage them and to worry those in charge of them, that is wholly the result of education; for they cannot be allowed to make the instructive experiences themselves."


author: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011).
text:
"Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it."


author: Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005).
text:
"Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship... the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth."


author: Nora Ephron.
text:
"Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy."


author: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
text:
"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."


author: Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973).
text:
"Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up."


author: Grace Slick.
text:
"Insignificant events can take on monumental proportions when your head is full of practically nothing. "


author: Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990).
text:
"Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long."


author: Aaron Copland (1900 - 1990).
text:
"Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self- consciousness."


author: Detroit Archbishop Adam J. Maida.
text:
"Instead of conceiving of society as something established for the defense of individual rights, fair contracts, and due process of law, we are invited to see it in terms of the biblical vision. This way of living, thinking, and acting where autonomy and related rights take priority has seriously jeopardized the meaning and values of all institutions in our society."


author: Betty Friedan (1921 - 2006).
text:
"Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery."


author: Joan Baez (1941 - ).
text:
"Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry."


author: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935).
text:
"Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth."


author: Diana Rankin.
text:
"Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success."


author: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982).
text:
"Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake existence."


author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784).
text:
"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful."


author: Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951).
text:
"Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country."


author: John Dewey (1859 - 1952).
text:
"Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it."


author: Albert Edward Wiggam.
text:
"Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence."


author: Woody Allen (1935 - ).
text:
"Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things."


author: Aimee Mullins.
text:
"Interestingly, from an identity standpoint, what does it mean to have a disability? Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do and nobody calls her disabled."


author: Andrew Brown.
text:
"Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life."


author: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914).
text:
"Interpreter: One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said."


author: Harriet Lerner.
text:
"Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships."


author: Isa Upanishad.
text:
"Into blinding darkness enter those who worship ignorance and those who delight in knowledge enter into still greater darkness, as it were."


author: Alexis Carrel (1873 - 1944).
text:
"Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality."


author: Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519).
text:
"Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind."


author: Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC).
text:
"Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. (Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.)"


author: Russell Baker (1925 - ).
text:
"Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down."


author: Woody Allen (1935 - ).
text:
"Is it better to be the lover or the loved one? Neither, if your cholesterol is over six hundred. By love, of course, I refer to romantic love -- the love between man and woman, rather than between mother and child, or a boy and his dog, or two headwaiters."


author: Jeff Melvoin.
text:
"Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?"


author: Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527).
text:
"Is necessary to take such measures that, when they believe no longer, it may be possible to make them believe by force."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?"


author: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896).
text:
"Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend, turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phrase of selfish, worldly society religion? Is that religion which is scrupulous, less generous, less just, less considerate for man, than even my own ungodly, worldly, blinded nature? No! When I look for religion, I must look for something above me, and not something beneath."


author: R. A. Salvatore.
text:
"Is yours an honest lament?...Most are not, you know. Most self-imposed burdens are founded on misperceptions. We - at least we of sincere character - always judge ourselves by stricter standards than we expect others to abide by. It is a curse, I suppose, or a blessing, depending on how one views it... Take it as a blessing, my friend, an inner calling that forces you to strive to unattainable heights."


author: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942).
text:
"Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it."


author: Jack Kerouac (1922 - 1969).
text:
"Isn't it true that you start your life a sweet child believing in everything under your father's roof? Then comes the day of the Laodiceans, when you know you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, and with the visage of a gruesome grieving ghost you go shuddering through nightmare life."


author: Jack Kerouac (1922 - 1969).
text:
"Isn't it true that you start your life a sweet child believing in everything under your father's roof? Then comes the day of the Laodiceans, when you know you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, and with the visage of a gruesome grieving ghost you go shuttering through nightmare life."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand."


author: H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946).
text:
"It becomes a bore doing imaginative books that do not touch imaginations, and at length one stops even planning them."


author: Diane Ackerman.
text:
"It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between."


author: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919).
text:
"It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things."


author: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826).
text:
"It behoves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others; or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own."


author: Jennifer Hudson.
text:
"It can be a real struggle to accept that sometimes appearance can be more important than talent or intelligence."


author: unattributed truth from r.g.frp.
text:
"It can be shown that for any nutty theory, beyond-the-fringe political view, or strange religion there exists a proponent on the Net. The proof is left as an exercise for your kill-file."


author: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011).
text:
"It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much."


author: Senator Homer T. Bone.
text:
"It cost about 75 cents to kill a man in Ceasar's time. The price rose to about $3,000 per man during the Napoleonic wars; to $5,000 in the American Civil War; and then to $21,000 per man in World War I. Estimates for the future wars indicate that it may cost the warring countries not less than $50,000 for each man killed."


author: Terry Pratchett.
text:
"It could not be happening because this sort of thing did not happen. Any contradictory evidence could be safely ignored."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"It could probably be show by facts and figures that there is no distinctively native American criminal class except Congress."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress."


author: Charles Kuralt.
text:
"It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals."


author: Samuel Adams.
text:
"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds."


author: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
text:
"It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life."


author: Sun Tzu.
text:
"It does not take sharp eyes to see the sun and the moon, nor does it take sharp ears to hear the thunderclap. Wisdom is not obvious. You must see the subtle and notice the hidden to be victorious."


author: Mrs. Patrick Campbell.
text:
"It doesn't make any difference what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses."


author: Jadelr and Cristina Cordova.
text:
"It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void."


author: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata.
text:
"It doesn't matter if you win or lose in the big, scary jungle of the real world. Winners and losers... Enemies and allies... We don't live in a comic book! This is the real deal."


author: John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968).
text:
"It doesn't matter that Cathy was what I have called a monster. Perhaps we can't understand Cathy, but on the other hand we are capable of many things in all directions, of great virtues and great sins. And who in his mind has not probed the black water?"


author: Winston Churchill.
text:
"It drives on with a courage which is stronger than the storm. It drives on with a mercy which does not quail in the presence of death. It drives on as proof, a symbol, a testimony that man is created in the image of God and that valour and virtue have not perished in the British race."


author: Pooh's Little Instruction Book.
text:
"It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation."


author: Olga Ilyin.
text:
"It had only been my repeated experience that when you said to life calmly and firmly... 'I trust you; do what you must,' life had an uncanny way of responding to your need."


author: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ).
text:
"It happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated."


author: Neil Gaiman.
text:
"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor."


author: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902).
text:
"It has beeen said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly."


author: John Green.
text:
"It has been my experience that maximizing income is a helluva lot less important than maximizing passion and fulfillment in your both professionally and personally."


author: Bette Davis (1908 - 1989).
text:
"It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies."


author: Henry James (1843 - 1916).
text:
"It has been my fate, and one's fate one accepts. It's a dreadful thing to have to say, in so wicked a world."


author: Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804).
text:
"It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity."


author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965).
text:
"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this."


author: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902).
text:
"It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly."


author: Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy.
text:
"It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, (protecting its sanity), covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But, it is never gone."


author: Rose Kennedy (1890 - 1995).
text:
"It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone."


author: Roy Chapman Andrews.
text:
"It has just been twenty-three years since I began to wander. In the next twenty-three years I wonder if there will come a time when life is no longer a wonderful adventure; when there is not some interesting experience in things or personalities waiting just around the corner. If that time does come, I hope that my release will be swift."


author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965).
text:
"It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear; about two, nothing can be done, so itâs no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled."


author: Sir Thomas Brown.
text:
"It is a brave act of valor to condemn death, but where life is more terrible than death it is then the truest valor to dare to live."


author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930).
text:
"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts."


author: George Eliot (1819 - 1880).
text:
"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."


author: Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966).
text:
"It is a curious thing ... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste."


author: Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966).
text:
"It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste."


author: Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976).
text:
"It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize how much you love them."


author: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD).
text:
"It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen; that is the common right of humanity."


author: Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870).
text:
"It is a far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."


author: Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870).
text:
"It is a far, far better thing that I do now, then I have ever done before... it is a far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known before."


author: Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870).
text:
"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known."


author: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006).
text:
"It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought."


author: D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930).
text:
"It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing."


author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
text:
"It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."


author: Robert Solow.
text:
"It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is no that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself."


author: Konrad Lorenz (1903 - 1989).
text:
"It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young."


author: P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975).
text:
"It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them."


author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965).
text:
"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more."


author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930).
text:
"It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own."


author: Maureen Dowd.
text:
"It is a lesson never learned: Matters of state and the heart that start with a lie rarely end well."


author: George Sand (1804 - 1876).
text:
"It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides."


author: Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922).
text:
"It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since as soon as a choice exists, it can only be bad."


author: Samuel Smiles.
text:
"It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done."


author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965).
text:
"It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time."


author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784).
text:
"It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done."


author: Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975).
text:
"It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it."


author: Richard Jeni.
text:
"It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!"


author: Elizabeth Aston.
text:
"It is a sadness of growing older that we lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult."


author: Claude Monet.
text:
"It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare."


author: Helen Fielding.
text:
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces."


author: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817).
text:
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters."


author: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817).
text:
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of ths surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters."


author: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817).
text:
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."


author: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817).
text:
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a large fortune must be in want of a wife."


author: Emmons.
text:
"It is a very serious duty, perhaps of all duties the most serious, to look into one's own character and conduct, and accurately read one's own heart. It is virtually looking into eternity, and all its vast and solemn realities, which must appear delightful or awful, according as the heart appears to be conformed or not conform to God."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go."


author: Stephen Hawking (1942 - ).
text:
"It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly. People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining."


author: Pat Robertson (1930 - ).
text:
"It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians."


author: Alan Perlis.
text:
"It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self-critical?"


author: Elizabeth Aston.
text:
"It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again."


author: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832).
text:
"It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends."


author: Jerome K. Jerome (1859 - 1927).
text:
"It is always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar."


author: Jerome K Jerome.
text:
"It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar."


author: Frank Duff.
text:
"It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength."


author: Marion Woodman.
text:
"It is amazing that our souls -- our eternal essences, with all their hopes an dreams and visions of an eternal world -- are contained within these temporal bodies."


author: Alice Duer Miller.
text:
"It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties."


author: Voltaire (1694 - 1778).
text:
"It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color."


author: Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895).
text:
"It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions; but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward."


author: Will Durant (1885 - 1981).
text:
"It is an illuminating sign of beauty's generation by desire, that when the object of desire is securely won, the sense of its beauty languishes; few men are philosopher enough to desire what they have, and fewer still can find beauty in what no longer stirs desire."


author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
text:
"It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"It is an odd thing, but everyone who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world."


author: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD).
text:
"It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so."


author: Francis Bacon.
text:
"It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant perhaps the one is as painful as the other."


author: Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850).
text:
"It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods."


author: W. R. Inge.
text:
"It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own."


author: Lord Acton.
text:
"It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young."


author: Betty Friedan (1921 - 2006).
text:
"It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all."


author: Sir Arthur Helps.
text:
"It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live, than to be loved by them. And this is not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love. "


author: Aristippus.
text:
"It is better to be a beggar than ignorant; for a beggar only wants money, but an ignorant person wants humanity."


author: Whitney Young Jr..
text:
"It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared."


author: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948).
text:
"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."


author: Mark Reuter.
text:
"It is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought stupid, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."


author: H. M. Tomlinson.
text:
"It is better to obey the mysterious direction, without any fuss, when it points to a new road, however strange that road may be. There is probably as much reason for it, if the truth were known, as for anything else."


author: Prophet Mohammed.
text:
"It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad; and it is, better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent; but silence is better than idle words."


author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784).
text:
"It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust."


author: Pythagoras (582 BC - 507 BC).
text:
"It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few."


author: R. A. Salvatore.
text:
"It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them... At least he who reaches will get a good stretch, a good view, and perhaps even a low-hanging apple for his efforts."


author: Jane Hamilton.
text:
"It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can."


author: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797).
text:
"It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more efficiently, but more pleasantly. This forms our manners, our opinions, our lives."


author: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849).
text:
"It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream."


author: Thomas Elliot.
text:
"It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state."


author: Richard Bach.
text:
"It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you can make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost...."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either."


author: Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867).
text:
"It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree."


author: Rule of Life.
text:
"It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught, as men take diseases, one from another; therefore, let all take heed as to the society in which they mingle, for in a little while they will be like it."


author: Freeman Dyson (1923 - ).
text:
"It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"It is characteristic of the military mentality that nonhuman factors (atom bombs, strategic bases, weapons of all sorts, the possession of raw materials, etc) are held essential, while the human being, his desires, and thoughts - in short, the psychological factors - are considered as unimportant and secondary...The individual is degraded...to "human materiel"."


author: William E. Channing.
text:
"It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain options makes it impossible to earn a living."


author: Jacob Bigelow.
text:
"It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect."


author: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945).
text:
"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."


author: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ).
text:
"It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn - which is what life is all about."


author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882).
text:
"It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought. Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves."


author: Upton Sinclair (1878 - 1968).
text:
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it."


author: Jim Bishop.
text:
"It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago."


author: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
text:
"It is difficult to live with people because it is so difficult to be silent. And not against him who is repugnant to us are we most unfair, but against him who is no concern of ours."


author: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865).
text:
"It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him."


author: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865).
text:
"It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him."


author: Rod Serling (1924 - 1975).
text:
"It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper."


author: Robert H. Goddard (1882 - 1945).
text:
"It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow."


author: Bible.
text:
"It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God."


author: Author Unknown.
text:
"It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that no one has heard before."


author: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD).
text:
"It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion. It is easy in solitude to live after our own. But the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."


author: Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC).
text:
"It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task."


author: Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997).
text:
"It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start."


author: Susanna Kaysen.
text:
"It is easy to slip into a parallel universe. There are so many of them: worlds of the insane, the criminal, the crippled, the dying, perhaps of the dead as well. These worlds exist alongside this world and resemble it, but are not in it."


author: Walter Wangerin, Jr..
text:
"It is entirely possible to win against the enemy, it is possible, even, to kill the enemy... and still be defeated by the battle."


author: Homer (800 BC - 700 BC).
text:
"It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. But when dogs shame the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that happens among wretched mortals."


author: Homer (800 BC - 700 BC).
text:
"It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave."


author: Homer (800 BC - 700 BC).
text:
"It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go."


author: Dalai Lama.
text:
"It is essential to know that to be a happy person, a happy family, a happy society, it is very crucial to have a good heart, that is very crucial. World peach must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just the absence of violence but the manifestation of human compassion."


author: William E. Channing.
text:
"It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great."


author: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719).
text:
"It is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected by it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph."


author: Anne Bronte (1820 - 1849).
text:
"It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior."


author: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865).
text:
"It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced."


author: Asoka (200 BC - 232 BC).
text:
"It is forbidden to decry other sects; the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour."


author: Voltaire (1694 - 1778).
text:
"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."


author: Jean de la Bruyere (1645 - 1696).
text:
"It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not."


author: Cornelius Tacitus (55 AD - 117 AD).
text:
"It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others."


author: Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968).
text:
"It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."


author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
text:
"It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it."


author: Dolph Sharp.
text:
"It is generally agreed that "Hello" is an appropriate greeting because if you entered a room and said "Goodbye," it could confuse a lot of people."


author: Monica Fairview.
text:
"It is generally true that, the more preparations one has for an event, the more inconveniently fast the event will occur."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."


author: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963).
text:
"It is hard to have patience with people who say "There is no death" or "Death doesn't matter." There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter."


author: Kenich Ohmae.
text:
"It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits that depend on them. Like a man who has worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them on, we forget that the world looks to us the way it does because we have become used to seeing it that way through a particular set of lenses. Today, however, we need new lenses. And we need to throw the old ones away."


author: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
text:
"It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable."


author: Margaret Thatcher (1925 - ).
text:
"It is important not to allow ever wider coalition-building to become an end in itself. As we saw in the Gulf War of 1990, international pressures, particularly those exerted from within an alliance, can result in the failure to follow actions through and so leave future problems unresolved."


author: W. Edwards Deming (1900 - 1993).
text:
"It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone. . . . The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him."


author: Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745).
text:
"It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind."


author: Graham Greene.
text:
"It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself."


author: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986).
text:
"It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future."


author: J. K. Rowling.
text:
"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default."


author: Jeremy Taylor (1613 - 1667).
text:
"It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance; for it requires knowledge to perceive it and therefore he that can perceive it hath it not."


author: Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944).
text:
"It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset."


author: Woody Allen (1935 - ).
text:
"It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty."


author: Agnes Repplier (1855 - 1950).
text:
"It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self."


author: Simone de Beauvoir.
text:
"It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living."


author: Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855).
text:
"It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office."


author: Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906).
text:
"It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians."


author: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881).
text:
"It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal."


author: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001).
text:
"It is known that there is an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the product of a deranged imagination."


author: Bruce Lee (1940 - 1973).
text:
"It is like a finger pointing toward the moon. Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"It is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain."


author: Ulysses S. Grant (1822 - 1885).
text:
"It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service."


author: Monica Fairview.
text:
"It is much easier to break the rules when one s surrounded by strangers. One does not know any of them, so one cannot really care for their opinion."


author: Josh Billings (1818 - 1885).
text:
"It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those we intend to commit."


author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930).
text:
"It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside."


author: Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867).
text:
"It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself."


author: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963).
text:
"It is no good asking for a simple religion. Real things are not simple. They look simple, but they are not. The table I'm sitting at looks simple: but ask a scientist to tell you what it is really made of - all about the atoms and how the light waves rebound from them and hit my eye and what they do to my optic nerve and what it does to my brain - and, of course, you'll find that what we call 'seeing a table' lands you in mysteries and complications which you can hardly get to the end of. A child saying a child's prayer looks simple. And if you are content to stop there, well and good. But if you are not - and the modern world usually is not - if you want to go on and ask what is really happening - then you must be prepared for something difficult. If we ask for something more than simplicity, it is silly then to complain that the something is not more simple."


author: Enrico Fermi (1901 - 1954).
text:
"It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge."


author: Saint Bernard (1090 - 1153).
text:
"It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment."


author: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
text:
"It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right."


author: Isabel Colegate.
text:
"It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them."


author: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881).
text:
"It is not a lucky word, this name "impossible"; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths."


author: Lloyd Dobyns and Clare Crawford-Mason.
text:
"It is not a question of how well each process works, the question is how well they all work together."


author: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982).
text:
"It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener."


author: J. K. Rowling.
text:
"It is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships."


author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918 - ).
text:
"It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotionsâ especially selfish ones."


author: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD).
text:
"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult."


author: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD).
text:
"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."


author: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936).
text:
"It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong."


author: Clarence Jordan.
text:
"It is not enough to limit your love to your own nation, to your own group. You must respond with love even to those outside of it. . . . This concept enables people to live together not as nations, but as the human race."


author: Robert Southey (1774 - 1843).
text:
"It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion."


author: Adam Smith (1723 - 1790).
text:
"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages."


author: Benjamin Johnson.
text:
"It is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere, A lily of a day is fairer in May Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant of flower and light, In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be."


author: Simone de Beauvoir.
text:
"It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills."


author: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894).
text:
"It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit."


author: Horace Bushnell.
text:
"It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is simple patience."


author: Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989).
text:
"It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself."


author: J. William Fulbright (1905 - ).
text:
"It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the values upon which our system is built. These values imply our adherence not only to liberty and individual freedom, but also to international peace, law and order, and constructive social purpose. When we depart from these value, we do so at our peril."


author: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948).
text:
"It is not possible to conceive gods inhabiting a land which is made hideous by the smoke and din of mill chimneys and factories and whose roadways are traversed by rushing engines dragging numerous cars crowded with men mostly who know not what they are after."


author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930).
text:
"It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though perhaps a meretricious, effect."


author: Hannah More.
text:
"It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn, and to arrange what we know."


author: Karl Marx (1818 - 1883).
text:
"It is not the consciousness of men that determines their beeing, but on the contrary, it is their social being that determines their consciousness."


author: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919).
text:
"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy course; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat."


author: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919).
text:
"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again. Because there is no effort without error and shortcomings, he who knows the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the high achievement of triumph and who at worst, if he fails while daring greatly, knows his place shall never be with those timid and cold souls who know neither victory nor defeat"."


author: Teddy Roosevelt.
text:
"It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."


author: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919).
text:
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."


author: William Cobbett (1763 - 1835).
text:
"It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants."


author: Roger L'Estrange.
text:
"It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable."


author: Horace (65 BC - 8 BC).
text:
"It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland."


author: Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882).
text:
"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."


author: Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882).
text:
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."


author: Marquis de Vauvenargues.
text:
"It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its sovereign law is subordination and dependence."


author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
text:
"It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent."


author: G. H. Hardy (1877 - 1947).
text:
"It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry."


author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935).
text:
"It is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it, to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"It is obvious that 'obscenity' is not a term capable of exact legal definition; in the practice of the Courts, it means 'anything that shocks the magistrate.'"


author: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996).
text:
"It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese."


author: Joseph de Maistre.
text:
"It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them."


author: Bailey.
text:
"It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to be kind to another, without helping himself."


author: Charles Dudley.
text:
"It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."


author: C. W. Leadbeater .
text:
"It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive."


author: Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898).
text:
"It is one of the great secrets of life that those things which are most worth doing, we do for others."


author: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887).
text:
"It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship."


author: Voltaire (1694 - 1778).
text:
"It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue."


author: William Nevins.
text:
"It is one of the worst of errors to suppose that there is any path for safety except that of duty."


author: George Eliot (1819 - 1880).
text:
"It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give really unbiased opinions, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always valueless. "


author: Katharine Butler Hathaway.
text:
"It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes."


author: Francois de Fenelon (1651 - 1715).
text:
"It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of others."


author: Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi.
text:
"It is only in your mind that you have to excel, at anything or everything. Of course, it would be very nice to excel at most things. Indeed, we recommend that you try and do your best. But realistically, you are entitled to do the bare minimum to get by. All your accomplishments are just a bonus, something to enjoy, not requirements. You don't have to do anything to prove that you are worthy of existing."


author: Pythagoras (582 BC - 507 BC).
text:
"It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families."


author: Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650).
text:
"It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived."


author: Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870).
text:
"It is only rarely that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman."


author: Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939).
text:
"It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great."


author: H. P. Lovecraft (1890 - 1937).
text:
"It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism."


author: John Dewey (1859 - 1952).
text:
"It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need."


author: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
text:
"It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours."


author: Charles Horton Cooley.
text:
"It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those who consume much less are a reproach."


author: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894).
text:
"It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire."


author: Samuel Smiles.
text:
"It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest; better to lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune."


author: E. W. Dijkstra.
text:
"It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."


author: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983).
text:
"It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. but business also corrupts and undermines monolithic totalitarianism. Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment."


author: Malcolm Gladwell.
text:
"It is quite possible for people who have never met us and who have spent only twenty minutes thinking about us to come to a better understanding of who we are than people who have known us for years."


author: Lillian Bell.
text:
"It is really asking too much of a woman to expect her to bring up her husband and her children too."


author: Michael Shermer.
text:
"It is sad that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine-tuning our knowledge of how life originated and evolved, creationists remain mired in medieval debates about angels on the head of a pin and animals in the belly of an Ark."


author: Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 - 1892).
text:
"It is said that if Noah's ark had had to be built by a company; they would not have laid the keel yet; and it may be so. What is many men's business is nobody's business. The greatest things are accomplished by individual men."


author: David Brin (1950 - ).
text:
"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power."


author: David Brin (1950 - ).
text:
"It is said that power corrupts, but actually itâs more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power."


author: James Baldwin (1924 - 1987).
text:
"It is said that the camera cannot lie, but rarely do we allow it to do anything else, since the camera sees what you point it at: the camera sees what you want it to see."


author: Terry Pratchett.
text:
"It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life."


author: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC).
text:
"It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences."


author: Ronald Knox.
text:
"It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts."


author: Author Unknown.
text:
"It is strange that we do not temper our resentment of criticism with a thought for our many faults which have escaped us."


author: Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD).
text:
"It is the action of an uninstructed person to reproach others for his own misfortune; of one entering instruction, to reproach himself; and one perfectly instructed, to reproach neither others nor himself."


author: Claudia Jewett Jarrett.
text:
"It is the caring and sharing that countâlove is not prevented by the things and the time that you havenât shared."


author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784).
text:
"It is the doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease, and drowsy without tranquility."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs."


author: Lyndon B. Johnson (1908 - 1973).
text:
"It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining..."


author: William Plomer.
text:
"It is the function of creative men to perceive the relations between thoughts, or things, or forms of expression that may seem utterly different, and to be able to combine them into some new forms-the power to connect the seemingly unconnected."


author: Johnson.
text:
"It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art."


author: H.P. Lovecraft.
text:
"It is the greatest mercy that humankind cannot connect up all its diverse bits of information, but a day is coming when we will and the question is whether we will embrace that light, or run from it into the sheltering shadows of a new dark age."


author: C. G. Jung.
text:
"It is the individual's task to differentiate himself from all the others and stand on his own feet. All collective identities... interfere with the fulfillment of this task. Such collective identities are crutches for the lame, shields for the timid, beds for the lazy, nurseries for the irresponsible...."


author: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC).
text:
"It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit."


author: George Gissing (1857 - 1903).
text:
"It is the mind which creates the world about us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched."


author: Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC).
text:
"It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will."


author: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC).
text:
"It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it."


author: Katharn Hepburn.
text:
"It is the ordinary woman who knows something about love; the gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous."


author: M. Thompson.
text:
"It is the person who is blind to what goes on around him that is most surprised when the same things happen to him."


author: Shaftesbury.
text:
"It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor."


author: Laura Ingalls Wilder.
text:
"It is the simple things in life that make living worthwhile - sweet fundamental things such as love."


author: Zell Miller.
text:
"It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag who gives that protester the freedom to abuse and burn that flag."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"It is the very error of the moon: She comes more nearer earth than she was wont, and makes men mad."


author: Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924).
text:
"It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world."


author: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996).
text:
"It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality."


author: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983).
text:
"It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are.  We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true."


author: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948).
text:
"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err."


author: Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855).
text:
"It is vain to say human beings might be satisfied with tranquillity; they must have action, and they will make it if they can not find it."


author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
text:
"It is very difficult to know people and I don't think one can ever really know any but one's own countrymen. For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or the farm in which they learnt to walk, the games they played as children, the old wives' tales they overheard, the food they ate, the schools they attended, the sports they followed, the poets they read, and the God they believed in. It is all these things that have made them what they are, and these are the things that you can't come to know by hearsay, you can only know them if you have lived them."


author: Elizabeth Taylor (1932 - ).
text:
"It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting."


author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784).
text:
"It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them."


author: Henry Ford (1863 - 1947).
text:
"It is well enough that the people of this nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."


author: John Andrew Holmes.
text:
"It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."


author: Henri De Regnier.
text:
"It is well to write love letters. There are certain things for which it is not easy to ask your mistress face to face, like money for instance."


author: Arnold Bennett.
text:
"It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior imapartiality."


author: William Arthur Ward.
text:
"It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses."


author: C. C. Colton.
text:
"It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do."


author: Arthur Schlesinger Jr..
text:
"It is [the] belief in absolutes, I would hazard, that is the great enemy today of the life of the mind. This may seem a rash proposition. The fashion of the time is to denounce relativism as the root of all evil. But history suggests that the damage done to humanity by the relativist is far less than the damage done by the absolutist - by the fellow who, as Mr. Dooley once put it, "does what he thinks th' Lord wud do if He only knew th' facts in th' case.""


author: Henry James (1843 - 1916).
text:
"It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self- conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under-value them."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry."


author: Charles Sorenson.
text:
"It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up."


author: Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984).
text:
"It it not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute."


author: Moby.
text:
"It just seem like musicians want to sell a few records and put out a perfume line, and I think it's so sad that there are so many musicians who don't want to change the world... Music has been so much more."


author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784).
text:
"It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time."


author: William Ernest Henley.
text:
"It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul."


author: Edgar Guest.
text:
"It matters not what goal you seek Its secret here reposes: You've got to dig from week to week To get Results or Roses."


author: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ).
text:
"It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars."


author: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968).
text:
"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important."


author: Barack Obama (1961 - ).
text:
"It may make your blood boil and your mind may not be changed, but the practice of listening to opposing views is essential for effective citizenship. It is essential for our democracy."


author: Damon Runyon.
text:
"It may not be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - but that is the way to bet."


author: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849).
text:
"It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve."


author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965).
text:
"It might be said that Lord Rosebery outlived his future by ten years and his past by more than twenty."


author: Machiavelli.
text:
"It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all those who would profit by the old order, only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new."


author: Machiavelli.
text:
"It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new ones."


author: Marcus Aurelius.
text:
"It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own."


author: Sue Grafton (1940 - ).
text:
"It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn."


author: Gordon Atkinson.
text:
"It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on."


author: Rollo May.
text:
"It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle."


author: John Green.
text:
"It seemed like forever ago, like weâd had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities."


author: Woody Allen (1935 - ).
text:
"It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more."


author: Scott Berkun.
text:
"It seems that bad advice that's fun will always be better known than than good advice that's dull-no matter how useless that fun advice is."


author: Kirby Larson.
text:
"It seems the misfortune of one can plow a deeper furrow in the heart than the misfortune of millions."


author: Robert Hugh Benson.
text:
"It seems to me probable that anyone who has a series of intolerable positions to put up with must have been responsible for them in some extent; not that it was simply "their fault" - I don't mean that- but that they have contributed to it by impatience, or intolerance, or brusqueness- or some provocation."


author: John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968).
text:
"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thoughts or action we should remember our dying and try so to live, that our death brings no pleasure on the world."


author: John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968).
text:
"It seems to me that man has engaged in a blind and fearful struggle out of a past he can't remember, into a future he can't forsee nor understand. And man has met and defeated every obstacle, every enemy except one. He cannot win over himself."


author: Philip Adams.
text:
"It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever."


author: Janov Pelorat in Asimov's Foundation's Edge.
text:
"It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy."


author: Denise Caruso.
text:
"It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it. After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics."


author: William Hamilton.
text:
"It strkes me as singularly inappropriate for a school to use its students for fund-raising. It reminded me of the first time I saw a gypsy mother send her baby out to beg."


author: Henry James (1843 - 1916).
text:
"It struck him really that he had never so lived with her as during this period of her silence; the silence was a sacred hush, a finer clearer medium, in which her idiosyncrasies showed."


author: Pat Robertson (1930 - ).
text:
"It sure does, Ben, it definitely does...this is definite...it specifically clearly, unequivocally says that Russia and other countries will enter into war and God will destroy Russia through earthquakes, volcanoes..."


author: Jack Handey (1949 - ).
text:
"It takes a big man to cry. It takes an even bigger man to laugh at that man and an ever bigger man to ask why he is laughing."


author: J. K. Rowling.
text:
"It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends."


author: David Bailey.
text:
"It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary."


author: Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946).
text:
"It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing."


author: Helen Rowland (1876 - 1950).
text:
"It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him."


author: Judith Rossner.
text:
"It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out."


author: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995).
text:
"It takes hundreds of nuts to hold a car together, but it takes only one of them to scatter it all over the highway."


author: William Ralph Inge (1860 - 1954).
text:
"It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."


author: George Burns (1896 - 1996).
text:
"It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth."


author: Clint Eastwood (1930 - ).
text:
"It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives."


author: L. Ron Hubbard (1911 - 1986).
text:
"It takes truth to live with a swiftly changing world. Nothing less than truth can survive. You cannot survive with anything less than truth."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the other to bring the news to you."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you."


author: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945).
text:
"It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public."


author: Douglas Hostadter.
text:
"It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order -- and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order."


author: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887).
text:
"It usually takes 100 years to make a law, and then, after it's done its work, it usually takes 100 years to be rid of it. "


author: Pope Pius XI (1857 - 1939).
text:
"It violates right order whenever capital so employees the working or wage-earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary will and advantage without, the social character of economic life, social justice, and the common good."


author: Barack Obama (1961 - ).
text:
"It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation. Yes we can. It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail towards freedom through the darkest of nights. Yes we can. It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and pioneers who pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness. Yes we can."


author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873).
text:
"It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness."


author: Advance.
text:
"It was a grand trait of the old Roman that with him one and the same word meant both honor and honesty."


author: Dan Quayle (1947 - ).
text:
"It was just a job. It wasn't any special interest in consumer affairs. I needed a paycheck and the Attorney General said that I would be best to go down there, because he knew I was anti-consumer."


author: Martin Cruz Smith on being asked how he liked the movie version of his novel Gorky Park..
text:
"It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured."


author: John Blasik.
text:
"It was mentioned on CNN that the new prime number discovered recently is four times bigger then the previous record."


author: Rosa Parks (1913 - 2005).
text:
"It was not pre-arranged. It just happened that the driver made and demand and I just didn't feel like obeying his demand . . . I was quite tired after spending a full day working."


author: Trevanian from the novel "Shibumi".
text:
"It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse standard of living with quality of life, equal opportunity with institutionalized mediocrity, bravery with courage, machismo with manhood, liberty with freedom, wordiness with articulation, fun with pleasure - in short, all of the misconceptions common to those who assume that justice implies equality for all, rather than equality for equals."


author: Sam Levenson (1911 - 1980).
text:
"It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'"


author: Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978).
text:
"It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped."


author: P. D. James.
text:
"It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life."


author: Linda Berdoll.
text:
"It was reassuring to know exactly where one stood. That one stood at the end of the line was not pertinent. At least there was a line in which to subsist."


author: Alice Hoffman.
text:
"It was said that boys should go on their first sea voyage at the age of ten, but surely this notion was never put forth by anyone's mother. If the bay were to be raised one degree in temperature for every woman who had lost the man or child she loved at sea, the water would have boiled, throwing off steam even in the dead of winter, poaching the bluefish and herings as they swam."


author: Terry Pratchett.
text:
"It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things."


author: Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870).
text:
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."


author: Henry Brougham (1778 - 1868).
text:
"It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say that he found law... a sealed book and left it a living letter; found it the patrimony of the rich and left it the inheritance of the poor; found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression and left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence."


author: Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005).
text:
"It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top."


author: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817).
text:
"It was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly."


author: Ernest Rutheford.
text:
"It was the most incredible thing that has ever happened to me in my life. It was as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you."


author: Susan B. Anthony (1820 - 1906).
text:
"It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."


author: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC).
text:
"It will be hard to discover a better [method of education] than that which the experience of so many ages has already discovered, and this may be summed up as consisting in gymnastics for the body, and _music_ for the soul... For this reason is a musical education so essential; since it causes Rhythm and Harmony to penetrate most intimately into the soul, taking the strongest hold upon it, filling it with _beauty_ and making the man _beautiful-minded_."


author: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817).
text:
"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."


author: John Von Neumann (ca. 1949).
text:
"It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years."


author: Malcolm Gladwell.
text:
"It would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and comes to all sorts of conclusions."


author: Mikhail Gorbachev.
text:
"It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past. . ."


author: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902).
text:
"It would be ridiculous to talk of male and female atmospheres, male and female springs or rains, male and female sunshine....How much more ridiculous is it in relation to mind, to soul, to thought, where there is as undeniably no such thing as sex..."


author: Dean Tollefson.
text:
"It would only take one generation of forgetfulness to put us back intellectually several hundred years."


author: Author Unknown.
text:
"It would take battalions of angels to protect us from our dreaded dangers, though in a long lifetime few of the dangers come to anything."


author: David Shore.
text:
"It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for."


author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
text:
"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"It's a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old."


author: Clifford Stoll.
text:
"It's a great medium for trivia and hobbies, but not the place for reasoned, reflective judgment. Suprisingly often, discussions degenerate into acrimony, insults and flames."


author: Randy K. Milholland.
text:
"It's a lot like nature. You only have as many animals as the ecosystem can support and you only have as many friends as you can tolerate the bitching of."


author: Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984).
text:
"It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you."


author: William Faulkner (1897 - 1962).
text:
"It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work."


author: Tom Galloway.
text:
"It's a well known fact that computing devices such as the abacus were invented thousands of years ago. But it's not well known that the first use of a common computer protocol occured in the Old Testament. This, of course, was when Moses aborted the Egyptians' process with a control-sea...""


author: Elizabeth Moon.
text:
"It's all knowing what to start with. If you start in the right place and follow all the steps, you will get to the right end."


author: Pema Chodron.
text:
"It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's sitting right here right now... with its aches and it pleasures... is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive."


author: Tish Grier.
text:
"It's always been about the experience of life and of not being passive. If something so excites my curiosty, I want to go there, be a part of whatever it is that's either pushing me or pulling me toward it. That desire for experience has made me very rich in life experience."


author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
text:
"It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him."


author: Rabbit.
text:
"It's always useful to know where a friend-and-relation is, whether you want him or whether you don't."


author: Adam Scott.
text:
"It's amazing how pervasive food is. Every second commercial is for food. Every second TV episode takes place around a meal. In the city, you can't go ten feet without seeing or smelling a restaurant. There are 20 foot high hamburgers up on billboards. I am acutely aware of food, and its omnipresence is astounding."


author: Scott Westerfeld.
text:
"It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing."


author: Jerry Seinfeld (1954 - ).
text:
"It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper."


author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
text:
"It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic."


author: Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988).
text:
"It's because somebody knows something about it that we can't talk about physics. It's the things that nobody knows anything about we can discuss."


author: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942).
text:
"It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will."


author: Waylon Jennings on his Telecaster.
text:
"It's been through three wives. To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don't know why you like 'em but you do."


author: George Harrison (1943 - 2001).
text:
"It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one."


author: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942).
text:
"It's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to themâthat's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting."


author: Mahalia Jackson.
text:
"It's easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing - that's the Lord's test."


author: M. Grundler.
text:
"It's easy to identify people who can't count to ten. They're in front of you in the supermarket express lane."


author: Diane Ackerman.
text:
"It's essential to tailor rehab to what impassions someone. The brain gradually learns by riveting its attention-through endless repetitions."


author: Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924).
text:
"It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it's just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome."


author: Donald Trump (1946 - ).
text:
"It's got to gestate. The word gestate. It's like when you're cooking a chicken. Turkey for Thanksgiving. My mother made the best turkey."


author: Martin Mull (1943 - ).
text:
"It's hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with."


author: Clay Aiken.
text:
"It's important that I make a difference in some way. If it's performing and touching someone that way, that's great; if it's being a teacher and helping a kid understand something, that's even better. It's not necessarily how I make a difference, but I want to make sure that I do."


author: Lois McMaster Bujold.
text:
"It's important that someone celebrate our existence... People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture."


author: Josh Lieb.
text:
"It's interesting, on your second day of existence, to realize that your father is going to blame all the future failures of his life on you."


author: Bill Hicks.
text:
"It's just a ride and we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money, a choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one."


author: J. R. Platt.
text:
"It's just as sure a recipe for failure to have the right idea fifty years too soon as five years too late."


author: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider.
text:
"It's just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and needs and desires, strange as they may seem. If you stop to think about it, we're all pretty creative, cooking up all these fantasies. it's like a kind of poetry."


author: Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
text:
"It's less important to have unanimity than it is to be making the right decisions and doing the right thing, even though at the outset it may seem lonesome."


author: Garth Brooks.
text:
"It's like: never relax, never take that breath, never stop to get that drink of water. You know you can always smell roses when you're running with them in your hand."


author: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider.
text:
"It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living."


author: Carol Green.
text:
"It's noble to want to confess, but if the results are just damage and pain, that's not noble. It's selfish."


author: Jeffrey Kalmikoff.
text:
"It's not a 9-5 job. It's an every moment you're awake job because you actually enjoy the work that you're doing."


author: Isabel Colegate.
text:
"It's not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone with them."


author: Randy K. Milholland.
text:
"It's not a matter of whether or not someone's watching over you. It's just a question of their intentions."


author: Eric A. Burns.
text:
"It's not enough to create magic. You have to create a price for magic, too. You have to create rules."


author: Gordon Atkinson.
text:
"It's not foresight or hindsight we need. We need sight, plain and simple. We need to see what is right in front of us."


author: Murphy Brown.
text:
"It's not that I don't enjoy it, but it's kind of like a trip to Disneyland. You get so excited about a ride on the Matterhorn, and then when it's over, you realize you wasted all that time in line for a minute and a half upside down and the chance to throw up."


author: Peggy Orenstein.
text:
"It's not that pink is intrinsically bad, but it is such a tiny slice of the rainbow, and, though it may celebrate girlhood in one way, it also repeatedly and firmly fuses girl's identity to appearance."


author: James Gordon.
text:
"It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not."


author: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919).
text:
"It's not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the doer of deeds might have done them better. Instead, the credit belongs to the man in the arena whose face is marred by sweat and blood and tears."


author: Paul "Bear" Bryant.
text:
"It's not the will to win that matters...everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters."


author: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942).
text:
"It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't; It's only vanity when you get puffed up about them."


author: Tina Fey.
text:
"It's not vanity, because if you look weird, it will distract from what your trying to do. If you look as good as you can, people will be able to pay attention to what your actually saying."


author: Francis Bacon.
text:
"It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity."


author: Millard Fuller.
text:
"It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts."


author: Lady Bird Johnson (1912 - 2007).
text:
"It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you."


author: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross.
text:
"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth -- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up -- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had."


author: Christopher Hampton.
text:
"It's possible to disagree with someone about the ethics of non-violence without wanting to kick his face in."


author: Jerry Garcia.
text:
"It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness."


author: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011).
text:
"It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them."


author: David Brin _The Postman_.
text:
"It's said that 'power corrupts', but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. When they do act, they think of it as service, which has limits. The tyrant, though, seeks mastery, for which he is insa- tiable, implacable."


author: Thurgood Marshall (1908 - 1993).
text:
"It's said that if you can't say something good about a dead person, don't say it. Well, I consider him dead."


author: Stephen Wolfe quoted on page 11 of the August 1992 CAD report refering to AutoCAD rev. 12.
text:
"It's scary to think that the infrastructure of the industrialized world is increasingly based on software like this."


author: Henry Miller (1891 - 1980).
text:
"It's silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are all brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars, hypocrites, poltroons."


author: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata.
text:
"It's takin' whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that give life flavor. It's all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin'."


author: Franklin P. Jones.
text:
"It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to."


author: Fred Rogers.
text:
"It's the people we love the most who can make us feel the gladdestâ¦ and the maddest! Love and anger are such a puzzle! It's hard for us, as adults, to understand and manage our angry feelings toward parents, spouses, and children, or to keep their anger toward us in perspective. It's a different kind of anger from the kind we may feel toward strangers because it is so deeply intertwined with caring and attachment."


author: Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987).
text:
"It's the place where my prediction from the sixties finally came true: "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is, "In fifteen minutes everybody will be famous.""


author: Tony Benn.
text:
"It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you."


author: Rebecca West (1892 - 1983).
text:
"It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion."


author: 2Pac.
text:
"It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes. Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live and let's change the way we treat each other. You see the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do what we gotta do, to survive."


author: Paris Hilton (1981 - ).
text:
"It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's true of me, but it actually was."


author: Phyllis Schafly.
text:
"It's very healthy for a young girl to be deterred from promiscuity by fear of contracting a painful, incurable disease, or cervical cancer, or sterility, or the likelihood of giving birth to a dead, blind, or brain damaged baby (even ten years later when she may be happily married)."


author: Joss Whedon.
text:
"It's very important that we start creating new content again. We can only build on nostalgia so much before we have nothing left to build on."


author: J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973).
text:
"It's wisdom to recognize necessity, when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope."


author: H.S.Thompson.
text:
"Its okay to get jacked up and head out onto the highway, but I've been there and I can tell you that the fast lane is littered with countless smoldering wrecks."


author: Anne Frank (1929 - 1945).
text:
"Itâs a wonder I havenât abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart."


author: John Green.
text:
"Itâs almost as if the way you imagine my dead self says more about you than it says about either the person I was or the whatever I am now."


author: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran.
text:
"Itâs helpful to imagine your relationship with him or her as a business relationship rather than a personal one. Just as you wouldnât share that youâre feeling fat, ugly, and depressed with a client or tell her that youâve just met the love of your life and youâve never been happier, these thoughts and feelings should be kept to yourself and not shared with your ex. Finally, as in any good business relationship, be honest and prepared to deliver what you promise."


author: Lisa Williams.
text:
"Itâs really easy to complain. If youâre not careful, then you end up complaining about your whole life. Concentrating on the good things is really good. Catch people doing good."


author: Anne Frank (1929 - 1945).
text:
"Itâs utterly impossible for me to build my life on a foundation of chaos, suffering and death. I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness, I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too, I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more."


author: Christopher Paolini.
text:
"Iâll fight when needed, revel when thereâs an occasion, mourn when there is grief, and die if my time comesâ¦ but I wonât let anyone use me against my will."


author: P. J. OâRourke.
text:
"Iâm a registered Republican and consider socialism a violation of the American principle that you shouldnât stick your nose in other peopleâs business except to make a buck."


author: John Green.
text:
"Iâm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that weâre all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth weâll ever have, and I am in love with you."


author: Gordon Atkinson.
text:
"Iâm telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe Iâm discovering that things were never in my hands."


author: Horace Mann (1796 - 1859).
text:
"Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former."


author: Tony Wilson.
text:
"Jazz is the refuge of the untalented. When you go to a jazz club, you may notice that no one is enjoying themselves half as much as the people on stage. Jazz is like the theatre, it's what you do when you can't get a real gig."


author: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680).
text:
"Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty."


author: Paul Eldridge.
text:
"Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits."


author: Alan Alda (1936 - ).
text:
"Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth."


author: Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754).
text:
"Jenny replied to this with a bitterness which might have surprized a judicious person, who had observed the tranquillity with which she bore all the affronts to her chastity; but her patience was perhaps tired out, for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise."


author: James Joyce (1882 - 1941).
text:
"Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it."


author: James L. Hayes.
text:
"Jingshen is the Mandarin word for spirit and vivacity. It is an important word for those who would lead, because above all things, spirit and vivacity set effective organizations apart from those that will decline and die."


author: Warren Ellis.
text:
"Journalism is just a gun. It's only got one bullet in it, but if you aim right, that's all you need. Aim it right and you can blow a kneecap off the world."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist."


author: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936).
text:
"Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive."


author: Laura Moncur (1969 - ).
text:
"Joy is not a commodity to be hoarded and protected. It is like a muscle. It must be used daily to keep strong and vigorous. For all my hardships, I have been able to remain quite joyful, for my muscles are strong."


author: Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997).
text:
"Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls."


author: Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661).
text:
"Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections."


author: John Mitchell Mason.
text:
"Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou will judge others with the judgment of charity."


author: William S. Burroughs (1914 - 1997).
text:
"Junk is the ultimate merchandise. The junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to the product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise, he degrades and simplifies the client."


author: Scott Westerfeld.
text:
"Junkies might be easy to knock down, but they're never fragile. They have souls like old leather shoes studded with steel, and they're about as much good as friends."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"Jury: a group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him."


author: John Green.
text:
"Just a word of advice. Whenever you're furious with your parents or you think they're terrible, just remember, you vomited on them and they kept you."


author: Gary Taubes.
text:
"Just as animal research tells us that gluttony and sloth are side effects of a drive to accumulate body fat, it also says that eating in moderation and being physically active (literally, having the energy to exercise) are not evidence of moral rectitude. Rather, they're the metabolic benefits of a body that's programmed to remain lean."


author: Diane Ackerman.
text:
"Just as big cities can deplete you with their noise and crowds and sheer sensory overload, a hospital can exhaust you, as its changing faces and personalities blur and strangers wake you repeatedly."


author: Elie Weisel.
text:
"Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings."


author: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC).
text:
"Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large."


author: Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC).
text:
"Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue."


author: Pooh's Little Instruction Book.
text:
"Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo."


author: Phyllis Diller.
text:
"Just because I have rice on my clothes doesn't mean I've been to a wedding. A chinese man threw up on me."


author: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007).
text:
"Just because some of us can read and write and do a  little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer  the Universe."


author: Nahnatchka Khan .
text:
"Just because this isn't in your life plan doesn't mean this isn't exactly where you're supposed to be."


author: Stephenie Meyer.
text:
"Just because we've been dealt a certain hand, it doesn't mean that we can't choose to rise above - to conquer the boundaries of a destiny that none of us wanted. To try to retain whatever essential humanity we can."


author: Hugh Elliott.
text:
"Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds."


author: Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965).
text:
"Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar."


author: The Kids in the Hall.
text:
"Just goes to show you. You can kill a guy, fold him up, stuff him in your trunk, and still you don't *really* know him."


author: Bill Gates (1955 - ).
text:
"Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning."


author: Hans Christian Anderson.
text:
"Just living is not enough, said the Butterfly. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."


author: Kathleen Norris.
text:
"Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it."


author: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924).
text:
"Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people."


author: Hugh Prather.
text:
"Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me."


author: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919).
text:
"Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong."


author: Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804).
text:
"Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature, where the weaker individual is not secured against the violence of the stronger; and as, in the latter state, even the individuals are prompted, by the uncertainty of their condition, to submit to a government which may protect the weak as well as themselves; so, in the former state, will the more powerful factions or parties be gradually induced, by a like motive to wish for a government which will protect all parties, the weaker as well as the more powerful."


author: Pope Pius XI (1857 - 1939).
text:
"Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws."


author: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC).
text:
"Justice will only exist where those not affected by injustice are filled with the same amount of indignation as those offended."


author: Brian K. Blackden.
text:
"Justice: To seek it, one must be willing to give up the right to privacy, as nothing more private will become more public."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."


author: John Muir (1838 - 1914).
text:
"Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild."


author: Indian Proverb.
text:
"Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured."


author: Charles F. Kettering (1876 - 1958).
text:
"Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down."


author: Wil Wheaton.
text:
"Keep playing games. Make time to play games with your friends and family, because it's surprisingly heartbreaking to wipe a thin layer of dust off a game you love, before you put it back on the shelf because the real world is calling you."


author: Heather Armstrong.
text:
"Keep writing. Keep doing it and doing it. Even in the moments when it's so hurtful to think about writing."


author: Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990).
text:
"Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are."


author: Thich Nhat Hanh.
text:
"Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos - the trees, the clouds, everything."


author: Jean Rostand (1894 - 1977).
text:
"Kill one man and you are a murderer. Kill millions and you are a conqueror. Kill all and you are a God."


author: Jean Rostand (1894 - 1977).
text:
"Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god."


author: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662).
text:
"Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is."


author: Cesar Chavez.
text:
"Kindness and compassion toward all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any one culture or community of people. Racism, economic deprival, dog fighting and cock fighting, bull fighting and rodeos are cut from the same fabric: violence. Only when we have become nonviolent toward all life will we have learned to live well ourselves."


author: Lao-Tzu (604 BC - 531 BC).
text:
"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."


author: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942).
text:
"Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world."


author: Rene' Yasenek.
text:
"Kissing is a means of getting two people so close together that they can't see anything wrong with each other."


author: William F. Buckley Jr..
text:
"Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman."


author: Eric Voorhis.
text:
"Kneeling over a trickling mountain stream and pumping every ounce of water you use though a filter can really change your perception of turning on a faucet."


author: James Baldwin (1924 - 1987).
text:
"Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go."


author: Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773).
text:
"Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today."


author: Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773).
text:
"Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today."


author: Andre Gide (1869 - 1951).
text:
"Know thyself? A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly."


author: Baha'u'llah.
text:
"Know ye not why We created you all from the same dust? That no one should exalt himself over the other."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom."


author: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817).
text:
"Knowing their feelings as she did, it was a most attractive picture of happiness to her. She always watched them as long as she could, delighted to fancy she understood what they might be talking of, as they walked along in happy independence, or equally delighted to see the Admiral's hearty shake of the hand when he encountered an old friend, and observe their eagerness of conversation when occasionally forming into a little knot of the navy, Mrs Croft looking as intelligent and keen as any of the officers around her."


author: Lucille Ball (1911 - 1989).
text:
"Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste."


author: Johnson.
text:
"Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterward propagate it."


author: T. T. Munger.
text:
"Knowledge and personality make doubt possible, but knowledge is also the cure of doubt; and when we get a full and adequate sense of personality we are lifted into a region where doubt is almost impossible, for no man can know himself as he is, and all fullness of his nature, without also knowing God."


author: Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962).
text:
"Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it."


author: Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773).
text:
"Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age, and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old."


author: King Crimson.
text:
"Knowledge is a deadly friend when no-one sets the rules. The fate of all mankind, I see, is in the hands of fools."


author: Anne Besant (1847 - 1933).
text:
"Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment."


author: Paul Feyerabend.
text:
"Knowledge is not a series of self-consistent theories that converges toward an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean of mutually incompatible (and perhaps even incommensurable) alternatives, each single theory, each fairy tale, each myth that is part of the collection forcing the others into greater articulation and all of them contributing, via this process of competition, to the development of our consciousness."


author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784).
text:
"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it."


author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784).
text:
"Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it."


author: Myron Tribus.
text:
"Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word "academic" in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation."


author: Snoop Dogg.
text:
"Labels try to make you say what they want or write the songs they think you should write. [Johnny] Cash did his own thing."


author: Rich Hall.
text:
"Lactomangulation, n.: Manhandling the "open here" spout on a milk carton so badly that one has to resort to using the "illegal" side."


author: Winston Churchill.
text:
"Lady Astor: Mr. Churchill, You're drunk! Winston Churchill: Yes, and you Madam, are ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Lady you bereft me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins, And there is such confusion in my powers."


author: Muhammed Ali.
text:
"Lakes, rivers, streams...all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion."


author: Franz Xavier Kroetz.
text:
"Language exists only on the surface of our consciousness. The great human struggles are played out in silence and in the ability to express oneself."


author: Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880).
text:
"Language is like a crack'd kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity."


author: Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880).
text:
"Language is like a crack'd kettle on which we beat out tunes to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity."


author: Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972).
text:
"Language is made out of concrete things. General expressions in non- concrete terms are a laziness, they are talk, not art, not creation. They are the reaction of things on the writer, not a creative act by the writer."


author: Noah Webster.
text:
"Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground."


author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834).
text:
"Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests."


author: Steven Wright (1955 - ).
text:
"Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died."


author: Steven Wright (1955 - ).
text:
"Last night somebody broke into my apartment and replaced everything with exact duplicates... When I pointed it out to my roommate, he said, 'Do I know you?'"


author: Steven Wright (1955 - ).
text:
"Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish."


author: Jane Goodall (1934 - ).
text:
"Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change."


author: Ella Wheeler.
text:
"Laugh and the world laughs with you; Weep and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, but has trouble enough of its own."


author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
text:
"Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own."


author: Richard Bach.
text:
"Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less advanced life-forms, and they'll call you crazy."


author: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007).
text:
"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward."


author: Bob Newhart (1929 - ).
text:
"Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship; and it is by far the best ending for one."


author: Barbara Johnson.
text:
"Laughter is to life what shock absorbers are to automobiles. It won't take the portholes out of the road, but it sure makes the ride smoother."


author: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719).
text:
"Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent reliefs we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life."


author: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719).
text:
"Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population."


author: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC).
text:
"Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment."


author: Sacha Guitry (1885 - 1957).
text:
"Le peu que je sais, c'est Ã  mon ignorance que je le dois. (The little I know I owe to my ignorance.)"


author: Charles M. Schwab.
text:
"Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead."


author: Stephen Covey.
text:
"Leadership is communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it in themselves."


author: Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005).
text:
"Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard."


author: Marian Anderson.
text:
"Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it."


author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797 - 1851).
text:
"Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow."


author: Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845).
text:
"Learn from the earliest days to insure your principles against the perils of ridicule; you can no more exercise your reason if you live in the constant dread of laughter, than you can enjoy your life if you are in the constant terror of death."


author: Brian Adams.
text:
"Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success."


author: Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD).
text:
"Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied."


author: Elisabeth Kuebler-Ross.
text:
"Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from."


author: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross.
text:
"Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose."


author: Henri-FrÃ©dÃ©ric Amiel.
text:
"Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work; dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality."


author: Tao te Ching.
text:
"Learning builds daily accumulation, but the practice of Tao builds daily simplification. Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from relative, contridictory thinking is eliminated. Then one does nothing, yet nothing is left undone. One who wins the world does so by not meddling with it. One who meddles with the world loses it."


author: Lao-Tzu (604 BC - 531 BC).
text:
"Learning builds daily accumulation, but the prictice of Tao builds daily simplification. Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from relative, contridictory thinking is eliminated. Then one does nothing, yet nothing is left undone. One who wins the world does so by not meddling with it. One who meddles with the world loses it."


author: Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773).
text:
"Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them."


author: Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818).
text:
"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. "


author: Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818).
text:
"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence."


author: Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818).
text:
"Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence."


author: Robert Byrne.
text:
"Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life."


author: Kimon Nicolaides.
text:
"Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see -- to see correctly -- and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye."


author: John Lancaster Spalding.
text:
"Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols, or bombs without incurring any penalties."


author: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC).
text:
"Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator."


author: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
text:
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."


author: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
text:
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty."


author: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
text:
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty."


author: John Dryden (1631 - 1700).
text:
"Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue."


author: Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661).
text:
"Let him who expects one class of society to prosper into highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of his face can smile while the other is pinched."


author: Hannah Whitall Smith.
text:
"Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Let me have men about me that are fat,  Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights:  Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;  He thinks too much: such men are dangerous."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights: Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous."


author: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865).
text:
"Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds."


author: Barry Goldwater (1909 - 1998).
text:
"Let me remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me also remind you that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."


author: Henry George (1839 - 1897).
text:
"Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power."


author: Euripedes.
text:
"Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs."


author: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD).
text:
"Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony."


author: W. B. Yeats.
text:
"Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning."


author: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
text:
"Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans."


author: Bible.
text:
"Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly, as you teach and admonish one another in all wisdom, and as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God."


author: Che Guevara (1928 - 1967).
text:
"Let the world change you and you can change the world. (Deje el mundo cambiarle y usted puede cambiar el mundo.)"


author: Josiah Gilbert Holland.
text:
"Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate channels of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which you seek but it is essential to that preparation of your mind, requisite for the enjoyment of your successes, and for retaining them when gained. So, day by day, and week by week; so month after month, and year after year, work on, and in that progress gain in strength and symmetry, and nerve and knowledge, that when success, patiently and bravely worked for, shall come, it may find you prepared to receive it and keep it."


author: Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922).
text:
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."


author: Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922).
text:
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."


author: Daniel Webster (1782 - 1852).
text:
"Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth our powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered."


author: Mary Lyon.
text:
"Let us forever forget that every station in life is necessarily that each deserves our respect; that not the station itself; but the worthy fulfillment of its duties does honor the man."


author: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947).
text:
"Let us grant that the pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit, a refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings."


author: John Comenius .
text:
"Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationalism, or religion."


author: Judith Martin.
text:
"Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation."


author: Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997).
text:
"Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"Let us not forget that knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. ... I claim credit for nothing. Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insects as well as for the stars, Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper."


author: Pierre Trudeau (1919 - 2000).
text:
"Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent."


author: John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801 - 1890).
text:
"Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them."


author: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965).
text:
"Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains."


author: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
text:
"Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation."


author: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001).
text:
"Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all."


author: Richard Dawkins (1941 - ).
text:
"Let us understand Darwinism so we can walk in the opposite direction when it comes to setting up society."


author: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662).
text:
"Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is."


author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882).
text:
"Let us, then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait."


author: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ).
text:
"Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine."


author: John Fischer.
text:
"Let's assume that each person has an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different. To realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses."


author: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider.
text:
"Let's not kid ourselves. Whatever we diagnose, most patients, if they don't die, get well by themselves. Our job is mainly to try to make them feel better; do no harm."


author: Dave Barry (1947 - ).
text:
"Let's talk about how to fill out your 1984 tax return. Here's an often overlooked accounting technique that can save you thousands of dollars: For several days before you put it in the mail, carry your tax return around under your armpit. No IRS agent is going to want to spend hours poring over a sweat-stained document. So even if you owe money, you can put in for an enormous refund and the agent will probably give it to you, just to avoid an audit. What does he care? It's not his money."


author: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001).
text:
"Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable, let's prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all."


author: Seth Godin.
text:
"Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it."


author: William Gladstone (1809 - 1898).
text:
"Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear."


author: Anonymous.
text:
"Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side."


author: William F. Buckley, Jr..
text:
"Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views."


author: William F. Buckley, Jr..
text:
"Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security."


author: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924).
text:
"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it."


author: Ignazio Silone.
text:
"Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority--literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political."


author: John Winthrop.
text:
"Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest."


author: James Madison (1751 - 1836).
text:
"Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency."


author: Learned Hand.
text:
"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.... While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it."


author: Henri-FrÃ©dÃ©ric Amiel.
text:
"Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness."


author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784).
text:
"Life affords no higher pleasure than that of summoning difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified."


author: Laura Moncur (1969 - ).
text:
"Life ain't like books. Books got somebody writin' 'em and tryin' to entertain ya. Life is more like a set of Legos. Unless you take care of 'em, you lose a few pieces and you end up steppin' on 'em with bare feet. You gotta take care of your life."


author: William F. Buckley .
text:
"Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years."


author: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986).
text:
"Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it."


author: Charles Lindbergh (1902 - 1974).
text:
"Life changed after that jump...I'd suddenly stepped to the highest level of daring, a level above even that which airplane pilots could attain."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that are forever blowing through one's mind."


author: Augusta Jane Evans.
text:
"Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun."


author: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007).
text:
"Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information."


author: Henry Miller (1891 - 1980).
text:
"Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such."


author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944).
text:
"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"Life is a disease; and the only diference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives."


author: Theodore Dreiser.
text:
"Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards."


author: Anais Nin (1903 - 1977).
text:
"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death."


author: Henry Ford (1863 - 1947).
text:
"Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward."


author: Diane Ackerman.
text:
"Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet."


author: Smiley Blanton.
text:
"Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight-lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Life is but a walking Shadow, a poor Player That struts and frets his Hour upon the Stage, And then is heard no more; It is a tall Tale, Told by an Idiot, full of Sound and Fury, Signifying nothing.""


author: Henry Miller (1891 - 1980).
text:
"Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets."


author: J. K. Rowling.
text:
"Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes."


author: Woody Allen (1935 - ).
text:
"Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable. The horrible would be terminal cases, blind people, criples. The miserable is everyone else. When you go through life you should be thankful that you're miserable."


author: Kathleen Norris.
text:
"Life is easier than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable."


author: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968).
text:
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure."


author: Condoleeza Rice.
text:
"Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next."


author: E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970).
text:
"Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty."


author: Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi.
text:
"Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor."


author: Kirk Douglas.
text:
"Life is like a B-picture script. It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down."


author: Marion Howard.
text:
"Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night."


author: Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964).
text:
"Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will."


author: John Updike (1932 - ).
text:
"Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews."


author: April Foiles.
text:
"Life is like getting dropped off in the middle of the woods, and then year by year, gradually walking home."


author: Ellen DeGeneres.
text:
"Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with."


author: Learned Hand.
text:
"Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers."


author: Marie Curie (1867 - 1934).
text:
"Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted in something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained."


author: Marie Curie (1867 - 1934).
text:
"Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves."


author: Anonymous.
text:
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."


author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
text:
"Life is not what one lived, but rather what one remembers, and how it is remembered to tell the tale."


author: Michael Johnson.
text:
"Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best."


author: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937).
text:
"Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue."


author: Friedrich Nietzche.
text:
"Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree."


author: Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845).
text:
"Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence."


author: Katherine Hepburn.
text:
"Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around wondering about yourself."


author: Matthew Broderick.
text:
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around every once in awhile, you could miss it."


author: Dag Hammarskjold (1905 - 1961).
text:
"Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away."


author: Viktor Frankl.
text:
"Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual."


author: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962).
text:
"Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."


author: Sara Zarr.
text:
"Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you."


author: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001).
text:
"Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast."


author: Stephen Vizinczey.
text:
"Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with."


author: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968).
text:
"Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true."


author: Cheryl Tiegs (1947 - ).
text:
"Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success."


author: Bill Moyers.
text:
"Like democracy, civilization has to be willed and practice. Otherwise, society is a war of all against all, powered by individual cunning in the pursuit of wealth and power."


author: Robert Burton (1577 - 1640).
text:
"Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie."


author: Donald Rumsfeld.
text:
"Like President Reagan, President Bush has not shied from calling evil by its name or declaring his intention to defeat its latest incarnation, terrorism, just as free men and women of all political persuasions, here and abroad, defeated fascism and communism before."


author: Nelson Mandela (1918 - ).
text:
"Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings."


author: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007).
text:
"Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops."


author: Alan Mackay.
text:
"Like the ski resort full of girls hunting for husbands and husbands hunting for girls, the situation is not as symmetrical as it might seem."


author: Harlan Ellison (1934 - ).
text:
"Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we are, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment."


author: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider.
text:
"Listen, can you hear it? Spring's sweet cantata. The strains of grass pushing through the snow. The song of buds swelling on the vine. The tender timpani of a baby robin's heart. Spring."


author: Dwight David Eisenhower.
text:
"Listen, there is no courage or any extra courage that I know of to find out the right thing to do. Now, it is not only necessary to do the right thing, but to do it in the right way and the only problem you have is what is the right thing to do and what is the right way to do it. That is the problem. But this economy of ours is not so simple that it obeys to the opinion of bias or the pronouncements of any particular individual, even to the President. This is an economy that is made up of 173 million people and it reflects their desires, they're ready to buy, they're to spend, it is a thing that is too complex and too big to be affected adversely or advantageously just by a few words or any particular - say a little this and that, or even a panacea so alleged."


author: Hugh Elliott.
text:
"Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn't hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor."


author: Karl Menninger.
text:
"Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand."


author: Brenda Ueland.
text:
"Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created."


author: Frank Tyger.
text:
"Listening to both sides of a story will convince you that there is more to a story than both sides. "


author: Jules Renard (1864 - 1910).
text:
"Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none."


author: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968).
text:
"Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness."


author: Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941).
text:
"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."


author: Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941).
text:
"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others."


author: Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974).
text:
"Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once."


author: Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773).
text:
"Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies."


author: Henry James (1843 - 1916).
text:
"Live all you can - it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?"


author: Henry James (1843 - 1916).
text:
"Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?"


author: Hazrat Ali Ibn-e-Abi Talib.
text:
"Live amongst people in such a manner that if you die they weep over you and if you are alive they crave for your company."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each."


author: Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919).
text:
"Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition."


author: Mark Leeper.
text:
"Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country know about it."


author: Meladee McCarty.
text:
"Live your life as though there is great joy to be experienced... an abundance of goodness in each person you come in contact with, and the knowledge that you have enough inner wisdom to answer the mysteries that challenge you."


author: Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926).
text:
"Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers."


author: Henry Miller (1891 - 1980).
text:
"Living apart and at peace with myself, I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain, even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with another's way of life - so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit. Hands off!"


author: Harry Ruby.
text:
"Living in California adds ten years to a man's life. And those extra ten years I'd like to spent in New York."


author: Jessica Alba.
text:
"Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be."


author: Agnes de Mille (1909 - 1993).
text:
"Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or howâ¦We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark."


author: Janet Fitch.
text:
"Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it to know yourself... know what you want."


author: US Supreme Court.
text:
"Long ago we stated the reason for labour organizations. We said that union was essential to give labourers opportunity to deal on an equality with their employers."


author: Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642).
text:
"Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new."


author: Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005).
text:
"Long-range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions."


author: Lord Acton.
text:
"Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it."


author: Margaret Thatcher (1925 - ).
text:
"Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; its when you had everything to do, and you've done it."


author: Jacob A. Riis.
text:
"Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before."


author: George Lucas (1944 - ).
text:
"Look at this. It's worthless - ten dollars from a vendor in the street. But I take it, I bury it in the sand for a thousand years, it becomes priceless."


author: Chris Messina.
text:
"Look at what your idea of success would be. The more that you take in external motivators, the more it reduces your ultimate satisfaction because it doesn't come from inside."


author: J. Wilbur Chapman.
text:
"Look for strengths in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for."


author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882).
text:
"Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart."


author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882).
text:
"Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear."


author: Homer (800 BC - 700 BC).
text:
"Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies."


author: Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683).
text:
"Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that money cannot buy; therefore value it, and be thankful for it."


author: Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683).
text:
"Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy."


author: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD).
text:
"Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there."


author: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942).
text:
"Looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them. You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them."


author: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata.
text:
"Looks are part of business. A businessman should never stand out more than his customers. His mannerisms, his clothes, everything about him... Moderation is the key."


author: Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944).
text:
"Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions."


author: Saint Francis of Assisi (1181 - 1226).
text:
"Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace! Where there is hatred let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy."


author: Graham Clarke.
text:
"Los Angeles seems endlessly held between these extremes: of light and dark - of surface and depth. Of the promise, in brief, of a meaning always hovering on the edge of significance."


author: Morrow Mayo.
text:
"Los Angeles, it should be understood, is not a mere city. On the contrary, it is, and has been since 1888, a commodity; something to be advertised and sold to the people of the United States like automobiles, cigarettes and mouth wash."


author: R. A. Salvatore.
text:
"Loss of empathy might well be the most enduring and deep-cutting scar of all, the silent blade of an unseen enemy, tearing at our hearts and stealing more than our strength."


author: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817).
text:
"Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex."


author: Samuel Smiles.
text:
"Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever."


author: Jason Hurst.
text:
"Lots of people are willing to die for the person they love, which is a pity, for it is a much grander thing to live for that person. "


author: Marti Noxon.
text:
"Lots of people lose themselves in love, it's no shame, they write songs about it. The hitch is you can't stay lost, sooner or later you have to get back to yourself. If you can't then love becomes your master and you're just it's dog."


author: Myrtle Reed.
text:
"Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want."


author: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ).
text:
"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."


author: John Lennon (1940 - 1980).
text:
"Lots of people who complained about us recieving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war--for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more. Wouldn't you?"


author: Pierre Teilhard DeChardin.
text:
"Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes and completes them by what is deepest in themselves."


author: Nora Roberts.
text:
"Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice."


author: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963).
text:
"Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable."


author: Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba.
text:
"Love as Thought is Truth. Love as Action is Right Conduct. Love as Understanding is Peace. Love as Feeling is Non-violence."


author: Mary O'Hara.
text:
"Love cannot survive if you just give it scraps of yourself, scraps of your time, scraps of your thoughts."


author: James Baldwin (1924 - 1987).
text:
"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is growing up."


author: Ursula K. LeGuin.
text:
"Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new."


author: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996).
text:
"Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new."


author: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931).
text:
"Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books; but love from look, toward school with heavy looks."


author: Katherine Hepburn.
text:
"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything."


author: Katharine Hepburn (1907 - 2003).
text:
"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get--only with what you are expecting to give--which is everything."


author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944).
text:
"Love has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction."


author: Alphonse Karr.
text:
"Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end."


author: Johnny Hart.
text:
"Love is a common bond that occurs between two people when each thinks they have something to gain through the other's stupidity."


author: Matt Groening (1954 - ).
text:
"Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig, and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun."


author: Matt Groening (1954 - ).
text:
"Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig, then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers&#8217; eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers&#8217; tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet."


author: Matt Groening (1954 - ).
text:
"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."


author: C. C. Colton.
text:
"Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual."


author: Claude Roy.
text:
"Love is an attachment to another self. Humor is a form of self-detachment -- a way of looking at one's existence, one's misfortune, or one's discomfort. If you really love, if you really know how to laugh, the result is the same: you forget yourself."


author: Octavio Paz (1914 - ).
text:
"Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual."


author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832).
text:
"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it."


author: Erica Jong.
text:
"Love is everything it's cracked up to beâ¦It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for."


author: Duke Ellington (1899 - 1974).
text:
"Love is indescribable and unconditional. I could tell you things that it is not, but not one that it is. Either you have it or you haven't; there's not proof of it."


author: Alexander Senturia.
text:
"Love is not a crime, denying it is. Having dreams is not a crime, not chasing them is. Making mistakes is not a crime, not learning from them is. Life is not a crime, not living it is."


author: Bette Davis (1908 - 1989).
text:
"Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding."


author: Arthur Henry King.
text:
"Love is not just an ecstasy, not just an intense feeling. It is a driving force. It is something that carries us through our life of joyful duty."


author: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982).
text:
"Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self-enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of anotherâs values."


author: Bible.
text:
"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres."


author: Bible.
text:
"Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."


author: Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883 - 1955).
text:
"Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else."


author: Wayne Dyer.
text:
"Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you."


author: Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988).
text:
"Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love the greater the jealousy."


author: John Barrymore (1882 - 1942).
text:
"Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock."


author: Viktor Frankl.
text:
"Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him."


author: Tom Robbins (1936 - ).
text:
"Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet."


author: David B. Haight.
text:
"Love is this divine ingredient. It alone describes what can be our perfect relationship to our Heavenly Father and our family and neighbors, and the means by which we accomplish His work."


author: Author Unknown.
text:
"Love is to man an embarrassment, even a word; it is to a woman an excuse for existence, especially the word."


author: Johnny Rotten.
text:
"Love is two minutes fifty-two seconds of squishing noises. It shows your mind isn't clicking right."


author: Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980).
text:
"Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self."


author: Marc Maihueird.
text:
"Love is what we call the situation which occurs when two people who are sexually comptatible discover that they can also tolerate one another in various other circumstances."


author: Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
text:
"Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical."


author: Laurell K. Hamilton.
text:
"Love isn't the most expensive emotion. Hate is. Because hate will eat you up inside and destroy you, long before it kills you."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified."


author: Paulo Cuelho.
text:
"Love never keeps a man from pursuing his Personal Legend. If he abandons that pursuit, itâs because it wasnât true love."


author: William Blake (1757 - 1827).
text:
"Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair."


author: Lucille Ball (1911 - 1989).
text:
"Love yourself and eveything else falls into line. You really do have to love yourself to get anything done in this world."


author: Lucille Ball (1911 - 1989).
text:
"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom."


author: Zora Neale Hurston (1901 - 1960).
text:
"Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do it enough to impress themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much."


author: Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754).
text:
"LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites."


author: Thomas Hardy.
text:
"Loving is misery for women always. I shall never forgive God for making me a woman and dearly am I beginning to pay for the honour of owning a pretty face."


author: Frank Sinatra (1915 - 1998).
text:
"Luck is only important insofar as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it."


author: John Dewey (1859 - 1952).
text:
"Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid."


author: Jan Ehrenwald..
text:
"Ludwig von Beethoven had never mastered the elements of arithmetic beyond addition and subtraction. A thirteen-year-old boy whom he had befriended tried unsuccessfully to teach him simple multiplication and division."


author: Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983).
text:
"Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is."


author: Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987).
text:
"Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts."


author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965).
text:
"MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts."


author: Jef Mallett.
text:
"Mach-S, the speed at which stress can't keep up, is simply forward motion. But it has to be self- propelled. Note that people in cars are still stressed."


author: M*A*S*H.
text:
"Maj. Burns: "What kind of idiot do you think I am?" Cpl. O'Reily: "You'd know that better than me, sir."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"Majesty: when a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares it as his duty."


author: Sean Covey.
text:
"Make as many friends as you can, but don't build your life on them alone. It's an unstable foundation."


author: Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923).
text:
"Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing in."


author: Daniel Burnham.
text:
"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably will themselves not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die."


author: Daniel H. Burnham (1846 - 1912).
text:
"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.... Make big plans... aim high in hope and work."


author: Daniel H. Burnham (1846 - 1912).
text:
"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood...Make big plans, aim high in hope and work."


author: Dan Quayle (1947 - ).
text:
"Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war."


author: Cabel Sasser.
text:
"Make software that you want to use and that you would want to use often. As long as you are making something that you want to use, then your heart will be in it."


author: Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895).
text:
"Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation."


author: Bias.
text:
"Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions."


author: Rainer Maria Rilke.
text:
"Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything."


author: Robert Fulghum (1937 - ).
text:
"Making a living and having a life are not the same thing. Making a living and making a life thatÂ´s worthwhile are not the same thing. Living the good life and living a good life are not the same thing. A job title doesn't even come close to answering the question "What do you do?""


author: Randy Frost and Gail Steketee.
text:
"Making decisions about whether to keep and how to organize objects requires categorization skills, confidence in one's ability to remember, and sustained attention. To maintain order, one also needs the ability to efficiently assess the value or utility of an object."


author: Andy Rooney (1919 - ).
text:
"Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose."


author: Charles Mingus.
text:
"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity."


author: Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850).
text:
"Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman."


author: Zora Neale Hurston (1901 - 1960).
text:
"Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground."


author: Elie Wiesel (1928 - ).
text:
"Man can live far from God -- not outside God. God is wherever we are. Even in suffering? Even in suffering."


author: Tommy C. Douglas.
text:
"Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise."


author: Chief Seattle.
text:
"Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."


author: Alvin Toffler.
text:
"Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock."


author: Thomas J. Watson.
text:
"Man has made some machines that can answer questions provided the facts are profusely stored in them, but we will never be able to make a machine that will ask questions. The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer."


author: Leone Levi.
text:
"Man has six organs to serve him and he is master only of three. He cannot control his eye, ear or nose, but he can his mouth, hand and foot."


author: The Talmud.
text:
"Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives; they go only as far as the grave, leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond the grave."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones."


author: Unknown.
text:
"Man is a gregarious creature, more so in mind than in body. He may like to go alone for a walk but he hates to stand alone in his opinion."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails."


author: Orson Welles (1915 - 1985).
text:
"Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason."


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


author: Hazrat Ali Ibn-e-Abi Talib.
text:
"Man is a wonderful creature; he sees through the layers of fat (eyes), hears through a bone (ears) and speaks through a lump of flesh (tongue)."


author: Alexander Graham Bell (1847 - 1922).
text:
"Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal desires."


author: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894).
text:
"Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal."


author: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662).
text:
"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapour, a drop of water, suffices to kill him. But if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this."


author: Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980).
text:
"Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does."


author: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662).
text:
"Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed."


author: Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881).
text:
"Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it."


author: John Fletcher (1579 - 1625).
text:
"Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting, no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beauty, for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their own."


author: Joseph Weizenbaum.
text:
"Man is not a machine... Although man most certainly processes information, he does not necessarily process it in the way computers do. Computers and men are not species of the same genus... However much intelligence computers may attain, now or in the furture, theirs must always be an intelligence alien to genuine human problems and concerns."


author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832).
text:
"Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension."


author: Erving Goffman.
text:
"Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes."


author: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881).
text:
"Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter."


author: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948).
text:
"Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power."


author: Wernher von Braun (1912 - 1977).
text:
"Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor."


author: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902).
text:
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."


author: William Ernest Hocking (1873 - 1966).
text:
"Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality."


author: William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830).
text:
"Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be."


author: Jean Kerr.
text:
"Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he _becomes_ polite."


author: Henry George (1839 - 1897).
text:
"Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied."


author: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662).
text:
"Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being."


author: Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881).
text:
"Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born."


author: Jack Kerouac (1922 - 1969).
text:
"Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child."


author: Hippilyte Taine.
text:
"Man may be considered as a superior species of animal who produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives."


author: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968).
text:
"Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love."


author: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC).
text:
"Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice."


author: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936).
text:
"Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players. Cultivated labor drives out brute labor."


author: Winston Churchill.
text:
"Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on."


author: Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882).
text:
"Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system- with all these exalted powers- Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin."


author: Reinhold Niebuhr (1892 - 1971).
text:
"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary."


author: Matthew Tobriner.
text:
"Man's drive for self expression, which over centuries built his monuments, does not stay within set bounds; the creations, which yesterday were the detested and obscene, become the classics of today."


author: Genghis Khan.
text:
"Man's greatest joy is to slay his enemy, plunder his riches, ride his steeds, see the tears of his loved ones and embrace his women."


author: Alfred A. Montapert.
text:
"Man's ultimate destiny is to become one with the Divine Power which governs and sustains the creation and its creatures."


author: Elvis Presley (1935 - 1977).
text:
"Man, I was tame compared to what they do now, are you kidding ? All that I ever did was just jiggle."


author: John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968).
text:
"Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments."


author: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC).
text:
"Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures."


author: Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005).
text:
"Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven't."


author: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC).
text:
"Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it."


author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784).
text:
"Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it."


author: Ludwig Mises.
text:
"Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire."


author: Maurice Chevalier (1888 - 1972).
text:
"Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it."


author: Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924).
text:
"Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory."


author: Robertson Davies.
text:
"Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness."


author: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832).
text:
"Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them."


author: Horace (65 BC - 8 BC).
text:
"Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet."


author: Titus Livius (59 BC - 17 AD).
text:
"Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence."


author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965).
text:
"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."


author: Johann Georg Zimmermann.
text:
"Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great."


author: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931).
text:
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."


author: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931).
text:
"Many of life's failures are those who didn't know how close they were to success when they gave up."


author: Author Unknown.
text:
"Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm - it was gone."


author: Bartholomew.
text:
"Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond the pain."


author: Earl Warren (1891 - 1974).
text:
"Many people consider the things which government does for them as social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism."


author: Chief Justice Earl Warren.
text:
"Many people consider the things which government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism."


author: Janeane Garofalo.
text:
"Many people feel that mass acceptance and smooth socialization are desirable life paths for a young adult... Many people are often wrong... Don't bother being nice. Being popular and well liked is not in your best interest. Let me be more clear; if you behave in a manner pleasing to most, then you are probably doing something wrong. The masses have never been arbiters of the sublime, and they often fail to recognize the truly great individual. Taking into account the public's regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in."


author: Christopher Paolini.
text:
"Many people have died for their beliefsâ¦ The real courage is living and suffering for what you believe."


author: Dale Carnegie.
text:
"Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date."


author: Peter McWilliams.
text:
"Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take."


author: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968).
text:
"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."


author: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968).
text:
"Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."


author: Jonathan Haidt.
text:
"Many species reciprocate, but only humans gossip, and much of what we gossip about is the vale of other people as partners for reciprocal relationships."


author: J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973).
text:
"Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends."


author: Halford E. Luccock.
text:
"Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one striking thing which deserves to be remembered. Warning the students against an over-concern for money, or position, or glory, he said: "Some day you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.""


author: Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005).
text:
"Marketing is a fashionable term. The sales manager becomes a marketing vice president. But a gravedigger is still a gravedigger even when it is called a mortician - only the price of the burial goes up."


author: George Jean Nathan (1882 - 1958).
text:
"Marriage is based on the theory that when man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste he should at once throw up his job and go work in the brewery."


author: Calvin Trillin (1935 - ).
text:
"Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place."


author: Calvin Trillin (1935 - ).
text:
"Marriage is part of a sort of 50's revival package that's back in vogue along with neckties and naked ambition."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity."


author: Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971).
text:
"Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them."


author: Jeanette Winterson.
text:
"Marriage isn't for life any more -- life is too long. Marriage is for love. Love gladly accepts responsibility. Love wants commitment. Marriage should be celebrated as the optimistic and glorious thing that it is. We can't call it a failure if it doesn't last forever."


author: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914).
text:
"Marriage, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two."


author: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider.
text:
"Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future."


author: Beverly Nichols.
text:
"Marriage: a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose."


author: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914).
text:
"Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two."


author: Dan Quayle (1947 - ).
text:
"Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe."


author: Mark Heprin.
text:
"Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no one will even publish their letter to the editor."


author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832).
text:
"Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different."


author: Dirk Struik.
text:
"Mathematics is a vast adventure in ideas; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture."


author: George Santayana (1863 - 1952).
text:
"Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion."


author: John MacNaughton.
text:
"Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself."


author: Edwin Louis Cole.
text:
"Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!"


author: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007).
text:
"Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything."


author: Ann Landers (1918 - 2002).
text:
"Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even."


author: Maude (Ruth Gordon) and Harold (Bud Cort).
text:
"Maude - "The earth is my body, my head is in the stars...Who said that?" Harold- "I don't know." Maude - "Well, I suppose I did.""


author: Irish Blessing.
text:
"May all who love the Lord, love you and those who don't love you, may the Lord give them a limp so you can see them coming."


author: Mary Caroline Davies.
text:
"May I forget what ought to be forgotten; and recall, unfailing, all that ought to be recalled, each kindly thing, forgetting what might sting."


author: Homer (800 BC - 700 BC).
text:
"May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this -when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown."


author: Irish Blessing.
text:
"May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of his hand."


author: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969).
text:
"May we, in our dealings with all the peoples of the earth, ever speak the truth and serve justice."


author: Hadewijch of Antwerp.
text:
"May your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is."


author: Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989).
text:
"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds."


author: Ken Rockwell.
text:
"Maybe because it's entirely an artist's eye, patience and skill that makes an image and not his tools."


author: Cindy Chupack.
text:
"Maybe coming clean is the ultimate selfish act. A way to absolve yourself by hurting someone who doesn't deserve to be hurt."


author: Mr. Shellhammer.
text:
"Maybe he's only a little bit crazy, like painters, or composers, or some of those men in Washington."


author: Daniel Akst.
text:
"Maybe it would be better to acknowledge, like the Greeks, that a lot of behavior we call addiction is really a love of pleasure that carries the force of habit. We become addicted mostly because of the central issue in all self-control problems, which is the disproportionate value we place on short-term rewards."


author: Tish Grier.
text:
"Maybe it's easier to like someone else's life, and live vicariously through it, than take some responsiblity to change our lives into lives we might like."


author: Michael Patrick King.
text:
"Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate. Without them, what would shape our lives? Perhaps, if we never veered off course, we wouldn't fall in love or have babies or be who we are."


author: David Nicholls.
text:
"Maybe that's just what happens; you start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few jokes."


author: Jane O'Reilly.
text:
"Maybe the greatest challenge now is to find a way to keep independence while also committing ourselves to the ties that bind people, families, and ultimately societies together."


author: Michael Jackson.
text:
"Maybe you and I can't do great things. We may not change the world in one day, but we still can change some things today, in our small way."


author: Stephen S. Ilardi PhD.
text:
"Medication isnât the only way to correct brain abnormalities in depression. Physical exercise also brings about profound changes in the brainâchanges that rival those seen with the most potent antidepressant medications."


author: Alain van der Heide.
text:
"Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate."


author: Trevanian from the novel "Shibumi".
text:
"Melpomene was a substantial girl, thick of bosom, ankle, and forearm, rosy of cheek, and clear of eye. She seemed somehow incomplete without her hockey stick."


author: Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661).
text:
"Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing."


author: Gordon Atkinson.
text:
"Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past."


author: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC).
text:
"Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions."


author: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936).
text:
"Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache."


author: Thomas Szasz.
text:
"Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life's currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives."


author: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832).
text:
"Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say."


author: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider.
text:
"Men are confused. They're conflicted. They want a woman who's their intellectual equal, but they're afraid of women like that. They want a woman they can dominate, but then they hate her for being weak. It's an ambivalence that goes back to a man's relationship with his mother. Source of his life, center of his universe, object of both his fear and his love."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner."


author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784).
text:
"Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult."


author: Archibald Alexander.
text:
"Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections."


author: John Oliver Hobbes.
text:
"Men are not so weak as you think. They can always leave anybody or any place without a pang - if they find another person or another place they like better. If they feel pricks and scruples it is merely because they cannot make up their mind that the change will be absolutely to their advantage."


author: Betty Friedan (1921 - 2006).
text:
"Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves."


author: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797).
text:
"Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites."


author: Thomas S. Szasz.
text:
"Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves."


author: Machiavelli.
text:
"Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Men at some time are the masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings."


author: George Eliot (1819 - 1880).
text:
"Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning. Even Science, the strict measurer, is obliged to start with a make-believe unit, and must fix on a point in the stars' unceasing journey when his sidereal clock shall pretend that time is Nought. His less accurate grandmother Poetry has always been understood to start in the middle; but on reflection it appears that her proceeding is not very different from his; since Science, too, reckons backward as well as forward, divides his unit into billions, and with his clock-finger at Nought really sets off _in medias res_. No retrospect will take us to the true beginning; and whether our prologue be in heaven or on earth, it is but a fraction of that all-presupposing fact with which our story sets out."


author: Walter Lippmann (1889 - 1974).
text:
"Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions."


author: D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930).
text:
"Men can such the heady juice of exalted self-importance from the bitter weed of failure--failures are usually the most conceited of men."


author: V. Gordon Childe.
text:
"Men cling passionately to old traditions and display intense reluctance to modify customary modes of behavior, as innovators at all times have found to their cost. The dead-weight of conservatism, largely a lazy and cowardly distaste for the strenuous and painful activity of real thinking, has undoubtedly retarded human progress..."


author: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC).
text:
"Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute."


author: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD).
text:
"Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long."


author: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626).
text:
"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man."


author: St. Augustine.
text:
"Men go abroad to wonder the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing they die earlier."


author: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982).
text:
"Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone."


author: John Donne (1572 - 1631).
text:
"Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next."


author: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797).
text:
"Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time."


author: Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527).
text:
"Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are."


author: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972).
text:
"Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better."


author: Eric Lustbader.
text:
"Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. It's just not true. In one important way, at least, men are the passive sex. Given a choice, they will always opt for the status quo. They hate change of any kind, and they fight against it constantly. On the other hand, what women want is stability, which when you stop to think about it is a very different animal."


author: Herman Melville (1819 - 1891).
text:
"Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes."


author: Mencius (371 BC - 289 BC).
text:
"Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do."


author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965).
text:
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."


author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965).
text:
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."


author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882).
text:
"Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone."


author: William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830).
text:
"Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel."


author: Aristophanes (450 BC - 388 BC).
text:
"Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war . . ."


author: C. C. Colton.
text:
"Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas have been anticipated by former writers; they will neither anathematize others nor despair themselves. They will rather go on discovering things before discovered, until they are rewarded with a land hitherto unknown, an empire indisputably their own, both right of conquest and of discovery."


author: Barry Duncan.
text:
"Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them."


author: Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804).
text:
"Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike."


author: Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long.
text:
"Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child."


author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965).
text:
"Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened."


author: Scott Adams (1957 - ).
text:
"Men want sex. If men ruled the world, they could get sex anywhere, anytime. Restaurants would give you sex instead of breath mints on the way out. Gas stations would give sex with every fill-up. Banks would give sex to anyone who opened a checking account."


author: Jerry Seinfeld (1954 - ).
text:
"Men want the same thing from women that they want from their underwear... a little support, comfort, and freedom."


author: Charles Fillmore.
text:
"Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible."


author: Charles Mackay.
text:
"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one."


author: M. R. Vincent.
text:
"Mere sorrow, which weeps and sits still, is not repentance. Repentance is sorrow converted into action; into a movement toward a new and better life."


author: W. S. Gilbert (1836 - 1911).
text:
"Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative."


author: John Barrymore (1882 - 1942).
text:
"Method acting? There are quite a few methods. Mine involves a lot of talent, a glass and some cracked ice."


author: Dean Krakel.
text:
"Metric is definitely communist. One monetary system, one language, one weight and measurement system, one world - all communist! We know the West was won by the inch, foot, yard, and mile."


author: Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971).
text:
"Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else."


author: Susan Ertz.
text:
"Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon."


author: Susan Ertz.
text:
"Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon."


author: Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984).
text:
"Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit."


author: Dan Parker.
text:
"Millions of words are written annually purporting to tell how to beat the races, whereas the best possible advice on the subject is found in the three monosyllables: 'Do not try.'"


author: Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870).
text:
"Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort."


author: Jean Genet.
text:
"Mine is the poverty of angels. I just don't give a damn about possessions and the like... What need have I for objects and luxury? I write, and that's enough."


author: Lemony Snicket.
text:
"Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree what they are made of, where they come from, or how often the should appear."


author: Hugh Elliott.
text:
"Miracles: You do not have to look for them. They are there, 24-7, beaming like radio waves all around you. Put up the antenna, turn up the volume - snap... crackle... this just in, every person you talk to is a chance to change the world..."


author: Woody Allen (1935 - ).
text:
"Miscellaneous methods of Civil Disobedience: Standing in front of City Hall and chanting the word 'pudding' until one's demands are met. Phoning members of the 'establishment' and singing 'Bess, You Is My Woman Now' into the phone. Dressing as a policeman and then skipping. Pretending to be an artichoke but punching people as they pass."


author: Homer (800 BC - 700 BC).
text:
"Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish."


author: James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891).
text:
"Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle."


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


author: Jeremy Taylor (1613 - 1667).
text:
"Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life."


author: Al Franken.
text:
"Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from."


author: Peter McWilliams.
text:
"Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?"


author: Johann K. Lavater.
text:
"Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"Misunderstood! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood."


author: Dan Millman.
text:
"Moderation? It's mediocrity, fear, and confusion in disguise. It's the devil's dilemma. It's neither doing nor not doing. It's the wobbling compromise that makes no one happy. Moderation is for the bland, the apologetic, for the fence-sitters of the world afraid to take a stand. It's for those afraid to laugh or cry, for those afraid to live or die. Moderation...is lukewarm tea, the devil's own brew."


author: Lewis Mumford (1895 - 1990).
text:
"Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self-understanding and self-discipline."


author: Brendan Francis.
text:
"Modern man's loss of a sense of being sinful doesn't spring from a feeling that he is inherently good. Rather, it springs from his feeling of being inherently ineffectual."


author: Paul Tabori.
text:
"Modern war has decimated many a country; but it has always spawned millions of bureaucrats. They fatten on shortages and thrive on trouble. Peace can never offer such opportunities for exercising petty tyrannies, using red tape to regiment the individual and making life generally unpleasant."


author: Stephen Vizinczey.
text:
"Modesty is an excuse for sloppiness, laziness, self- indulgence; small ambitions evoke small efforts."


author: Alice Munro.
text:
"Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later."


author: Richard M. DeVos.
text:
"Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none."


author: Hobart Brown.
text:
"Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars."


author: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977).
text:
"Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy."


author: Warren Buffet.
text:
"Money is both everything and nothing. It is everything when you don't have it, but nothing when you do."


author: Rebecca Johnson.
text:
"Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it."


author: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790).
text:
"Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; "Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith.""


author: Donald Trump (1946 - ).
text:
"Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game."


author: Scott Westerfeld.
text:
"Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents."


author: Robert Anthony.
text:
"Money, power, victory and success fade in the shadows as we take our last breath for the only thing we take with us is the same thing we leave behind -- how we love and we were loved."


author: Pink Floyd.
text:
"Money, so they say, is the root of all evil today. But if you ask for a raise it's no surprise that they're giving none away."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses."


author: Voltaire (1694 - 1778).
text:
"Monsieur l'abbÃ©, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write."


author: The British Board Of Film Censors.
text:
"Monty Python's usual schoolboy humour is here let loose on a period of history appropriately familiar to every schoolboy in the West, and a faith which could be shaken by such good-humoured ribaldry would be a very precarious faith indeed."


author: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982).
text:
"Morality is judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, and integrity to stand by it at any price."


author: Kevin Smith.
text:
"More often than not, a heroâs most epic battle is the one you never see; itâs the battle that goes on within him or herself."


author: Woody Allen (1935 - ).
text:
"More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly."


author: Robert A. Baker.
text:
"More than ever, the creation of the ridiculous is almost impossible because of the competition it receives from reality."


author: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963).
text:
"Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties."


author: Daniel E Geer Jr..
text:
"Most exciting ideas are not important. Most important ideas are not exciting. Not every problem has a solution. Every solution has side effects."


author: Robert K. Merton.
text:
"Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"Most men cry better than they speak. You get more nurture out of them by pinching than addressing them."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event."


author: Tyron Edwards.
text:
"Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the insidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood."


author: Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924).
text:
"Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them."


author: James Harvey Robinson.
text:
"Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do."


author: Dale Carnegie.
text:
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."


author: Robert S. Lynd .
text:
"Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve."


author: James Gordon Gilkey.
text:
"Most of us think ourselves as standing wearily and helplessly at the center of a circle bristling with tasks, burdens, problems, annoyance, and responsibilities which are rushing in upon us. At every moment we have a dozen different things to do, a dozen problems to solve, a dozen strains to endure. We see ourselves as overdriven, overburdened, overtired. This is a common mental picture and it is totally false. No one of us, however crowded his life, has such an existence. What is the true picture of your life? Imagine that there is an hour glass on your desk. Connecting the bowl at the top with the bowl at the bottom is a tube so thin that only one grain of sand can pass through it at a time. That is the true picture of your life, even on a super busy day, The crowded hours come to you always one moment at a time. That is the only way they can come. The day may bring many tasks, many problems, strains, but invariably they come in single file. You want to gain emotional poise? Remember the hourglass, the grains of sand dropping one by one."


author: Mickey Manfield.
text:
"Most of us would like to be smarter than we are, stronger than we are, richer than we are, but we don't feel all that comfortable with people who are."


author: Jerome P. Fleishman.
text:
"Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal."


author: Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman.
text:
"Most of you have been where I am tonight. The crash site of unrequited love. You ask yourself, How did I get here? What was it about? Was it her smile? Was it the way she crossed her legs, the turn of her ankle, the poignant vulnerability of her slender wrists? What are these elusive and ephemeral things that ignite passion in the human heart? That's an age-old question. It's perfect food for thought on a bright midsummer's night."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."


author: Jimmy Wales.
text:
"Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks."


author: Glen Raphael.
text:
"Most people believe that if you go in and try to micromanage a forest, it is possible to destroy the very thing that makes it a unique and special place. That's just as true of the Net."


author: Warren Buffett (1930 - ).
text:
"Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You can't buy what is popular and do well."


author: John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968).
text:
"Most people live ninety percent in the past, seven percent in the present, and that only leaves three percent for the future."


author: William James (1842 - 1910).
text:
"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out theyâve got a second. Give your dreams all youâve got and youâll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you!!"


author: Jennifer Hudson.
text:
"Most people see themselves a certain way their entire lives. When they go through a massive change, such as losing weight, they have to learn to see themselves in a new way. It is one of the biggest struggles her members deal with on their journey."


author: Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965).
text:
"Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit."


author: Germaine Greer.
text:
"Mother is the dead heart of the family, spending father's earnings on consumer goods to enhance the environment in which he eats, sleeps, and watches television."


author: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC).
text:
"Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own."


author: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
text:
"Mothers may still want their sons to grow up to be President, but according to a famous Gallup poll of some years ago, some 73 percent do not want them to become politicians in the process."


author: Elizabeth Aston.
text:
"Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span upon this earth. They touch the heavens, and sail serenely at an altitude beyond even the imaginings of a mere mortal."


author: Ruth Davis Konigsberg.
text:
"Mourning never really ends, only as time goes on, as we do our work, it may erupt less frequently."


author: Madame Guizot.
text:
"Much misconstruction and bitterness are spared to him who thinks naturally upon what he owes to others rather than what he ought to expect from them."


author: Thomas Sowell (1930 - ).
text:
"Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them."


author: Thomas Sowell (1930 - ).
text:
"Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good."


author: Saskya Pandita.
text:
"Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about."


author: W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973).
text:
"Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest."


author: Edward A. Murphy Jr.
text:
"Murphy's Law: "If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.""


author: Marilyn Manson (1969 - ).
text:
"Music and image has continued to get more extreme as the world gets more extreme. We are the consequence of the modern decaying civilization."


author: Marcel Marceau.
text:
"Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music."


author: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC).
text:
"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form."


author: Martin Luther (1483 - 1546).
text:
"Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable."


author: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC).
text:
"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything. "


author: George Santayana (1863 - 1952).
text:
"Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions."


author: Ben Harper.
text:
"Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people."


author: Charlie Parker.
text:
"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art."


author: Jean Baptiste Montegut.
text:
"Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy."


author: Warren Benson.
text:
"Music lives in three tenses at once. Developing what comes before it in the past, it engages us in the present, and inspires our hopes for its future."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays."


author: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827).
text:
"Music, verily, is the mediator between intellectual and sensuous life... the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend."


author: Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822).
text:
"Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken."


author: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827).
text:
"Music--the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge, which comprehends mankind, but which mankind cannot comprehend."


author: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC).
text:
"Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life"


author: Michael Drayton (1563 - 1631).
text:
"Must, bid the Morn awake! Sad Winter now declines, Each bird doth choose a mate; This day's Saint Valentine's. For that good bishop's sake Get up and let us see What beauty it shall be That Fortune us assigns."


author: Edward Ugel.
text:
"My ability to tolerate shame, to compartmentalize it, to swallow it, increased right along with my belt size. it came with the territory of being heavy. Obese people have a lifetime of experience with shame."


author: Thornton Wilder (1897 - 1975).
text:
"My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate."


author: Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993).
text:
"My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can."


author: Kirby Larson.
text:
"My bounce-around life had taught me that dreams were dangerous things - they look solid in your mind, but you just try to reach for them. It's like gathering clouds."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite."


author: Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950).
text:
"My candle burns at both endsIt will not last the night;But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -It gives a lovely light."


author: Michael H. Hart.
text:
"My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world's most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the religious and secular level."


author: Herbert Hoover (1874 - 1964).
text:
"My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope."


author: P. J. Plauger.
text:
"My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared."


author: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001).
text:
"My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre, and that I am therefor excused from saving Universes."


author: Joe Weinstein.
text:
"My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can. That's almost $7.00 in dog money."


author: Mary Shelly.
text:
"My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free."


author: Mary Shelley.
text:
"My dreams were all my own; I accounted them to nobody; They were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free."


author: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
text:
"My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. -- (Comment made 10 April 1962 in reaction to news that U.S. Steel was raising prices by $6 per ton, right after the unions negotiated a modest new contract under pressure from JFK to keep inflation down.)"


author: Jorge Luis Borges (1899 - 1986).
text:
"My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether."


author: Kevin Smith.
text:
"My Father taught me how to be a man - and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo or an agenda of dominance. He taught me that a real man doesnât take, he gives; he doesnât use force, he uses logic; doesnât play the role of trouble-maker, but rather, trouble-shooter; and most importantly, a real man is defined by whatâs in his heart, not his pants."


author: Kevin Smith.
text:
"My Father taught me to weigh my words carefully, and speak up only when I had something insightful to add to the proceedings, or something really funny to say. He also taught me that if I couldnât be that kind of guy in real life, that I could earn a healthy living pretending to be that guy in the movies - particularly when paired up with a long haired stoner."


author: Penn Jillette (1955 - ).
text:
"My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them."


author: Olive Schreiner (1855 - 1920).
text:
"My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad."


author: Roger Zelazny.
text:
"My feelings would never change, but... now she was gone, and this thought meant more to me than the impending destruction of the world."


author: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004).
text:
"My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes."


author: Jennifer Hudson.
text:
"My focus has always been on talent over looks. This theme of people putting an emphasis on looks first has been a constant reminder throughout my life that most people donât see things in the same way that I do."


author: Cary Grant (1904 - 1986).
text:
"My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can."


author: Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971).
text:
"My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit."


author: Jack Layton.
text:
"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And weâll change the world."


author: Spotted Tail (Sioux Indian).
text:
"My friends, your people have both intellect and heart; you use these to consider in what way you can do the best to live."


author: Miles Davis (1926 - 1991).
text:
"My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life."


author: Stephen Hawking (1942 - ).
text:
"My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all."


author: Indira Gandhi (1917 - 1984).
text:
"My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there."


author: Indira Gandhi (1917 - 1984).
text:
"My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition."


author: Ellen DeGeneres.
text:
"My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes without having a single original thought."


author: Martin Luther (1483 - 1546).
text:
"My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary."


author: Rita Rudner.
text:
"My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives."


author: Rita Rudner.
text:
"My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head."


author: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817).
text:
"My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company."


author: Pamela Anderson (1967 - ).
text:
"My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy."


author: W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946).
text:
"My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies."


author: W.C. Fields.
text:
"My illness is dut to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies."


author: Scott Berkun.
text:
"My intent is simply to know my material so well that I'm very comfortable with it. Confidence, not perfection, is the goal."


author: Steven Bernstein.
text:
"My kids can do whatever they want as long as they are not Republicans or junkies. That is where I draw the line."


author: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967).
text:
"My land is bare of chattering folk; the clouds are low along the ridges, and sweet's the air with curly smoke from all my burning bridges."


author: Rita Mae Brown.
text:
"My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share."


author: Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886).
text:
"My life closed twice before its' close- It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me. So huge, so hopeless to concieve As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell."


