# Quotes

author: Erica Jong.
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"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow talent to the dark place where it leads."


author: Erica Jong.
text:
"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads."


author: Erica Jong.
text:
"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads."


author: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC).
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"Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him."


author: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ).
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"Everyone in the world is constantly fighting an internal battle. A battle between what the brain knows is right and what the heart knows it wants."


author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799).
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"Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together."


author: Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965).
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"Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them."


author: Scott Adams (1957 - ).
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"Everyone is an idiot, not just the people with low SAT scores. The only differences among us is that we're idiots about different things at different times. No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot."


author: Mel Levine, MD.
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"Everyone is expected to be highly productive... but they do not all need to be turning out the same product."


author: Sidney Madwed.
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"Everyone is in business for himself, for he is selling his services, labor or ideas. Until one realizes that this is true he will not take conscious charge of his life and will always be looking outside himself for guidance."


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


author: Flavius Josephus (37 AD - 100 AD).
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"Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force."


author: Charles Foundyller of Daratech.
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"Everyone realized that Computervision stock was the golden goose. But one grabbed the leg, another grabbed a wing, another got the neck, all pulling hard, and they realize now they could kill the goose if they keep this up."


author: Hasidic Saying.
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"Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength."


author: Emad Hasan.
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"Everyone should free their mind and soul. Some are ready to free them now, and some will be ready to free them in the future. Some will never be ready and that is what makes their lives not worth living."


author: Sidney Madwed.
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"Everyone values things differently. In other words, they place their own value on everything that affects their lives. Also from moment to moment they may even change their values. Such as a person, who values diamonds above all else, might be willing to trade a gallon of diamonds for a drink of water to save his life in a desert. What this means is value is a relative thing depending on a need or a perceived need. Yet, how many people will argue and even violently fight over the perceived value of something or some idea only later have an entirely different view point or value."


author: Clement Stone.
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"Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solved each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They kept going regardless of the obstacles they met."


author: Millard Fuller.
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"Everyone who gets sleepy at night should have a simple decent place to lay their heads, on terms they can afford to pay."


author: Andre Gide (1869 - 1951).
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"Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again."


author: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968).
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"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content."


author: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968).
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"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I am in, therein to be content."


author: Muhammad Ali (1942 - ).
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"Everything I do has a purpose, all of God's beings have a purpose. Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man."


author: Robert Anthony.
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"Everything I see in this existence tells me that we were created by the hand of a teacher. One that has left behind all the materials needed to inspire and complete our education."


author: Tim Burton.
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"Everything in here is eatable. I'm eatable, but that my children is called cannibalism, and is frowned upon in most societies."


author: Sylvia Plath (1932 - 1963).
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"Everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it and the imagination to improvise."


author: Joss Whedon.
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"Everything is a drug. Family, art, causes, new shoes... We're all just tweaking our chem to avoid the void."


author: Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980).
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"Everything is gratuitous, this garden, this city, and myself. When you suddenly realize it, it makes you feel sick and everything begins to drift... that's nausea."


author: Chan Yew Kuen.
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"Everything on earth is created for a purpose, it's up to us to find out what purpose each thing serves."


author: Rabbi Harold Kushner.
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"Everything that God created is potentially holy, and our task as humans is to find that holiness in seemingly unholy situations. When we can do this, we will have learned to nurture our souls."


author: Paulo Cuelho.
text:
"Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
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"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom."


author: Joss Whedon.
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"Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that's overwhelmingly depressing to me, and sometimes it makes me feel kinship and forgiveness. We've all got the same ending to the story. The way we make that story more elaborate, I got to respect."


author: X. Doudan.
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"Everything without tells the individual that he is nothing; everything within persuades him that he is everything."


author: Mark Steven Johnson.
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"Everything you do in life, every choice you make, has a consequence. When you do things without thinkin', then you ain't makin' the choice. The choice is makin' you."


author: R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983).
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"Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines."


author: James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937).
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"Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead."


author: Flannery O'Connor (1925 - 1964).
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"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."


author: Anne Rice (1941 - ).
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"Evil is a point of view. God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are, none so like him as ourselves."


author: Glen Cook.
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"Evil is relativeâ¦You canât hang a sign on it. You canât touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger."


author: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832).
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"Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer."


author: Aldo Leopold.
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"Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise."


author: Robert Cecil.
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"Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh."


author: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC).
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"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."


author: Author Unknown.
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"Excellence is best described as doing the right things right - selecting the most important things to be done and then accomplishing them 100% correctly."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
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"Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul,But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."


author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
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"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."


author: James Rippe.
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"Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise, you can get a whole host of psychological benefits fairly quickly."


author: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719).
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"Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness."


author: Stephen S. Ilardi PhD.
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"Exercise is medicine. Literally. Just like a pill, it reliably changes brain function by altering the activity of key brain chemicals and hormones."


author: Lois McMaster Bujold.
text:
"Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it."


author: Alan Moore (1953 - ).
text:
"Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose."


author: Ann Landers (1918 - 2002).
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"Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass."


author: Ann Landers (1918 - 2002).
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"Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.'"


author: Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519).
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"Experience does not ever err. It is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments."


author: Jimmy Connors.
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"Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it."


author: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914).
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"Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age."


author: F. P. Jones.
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"Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."


author: Justice Louis D. Brandeis.
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"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."


author: Louis D. Brandeis (1856 - 1941).
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"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficial. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding."


author: Charles Buxton.
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"Experience shows that success is due less to ability that to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul."


author: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
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"Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience."


author: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914).
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"Experience, n. The wisdom that enables us to recognize as an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced."


author: Roseanne Barr.
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"Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?"


author: Henry Tuckerman.
text:
"Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the front rank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem excite his devotion more certainly than a logical discourse."


author: Jim Morrison (1943 - 1971).
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"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free."


author: Edgar Watson Howe (1853 - 1937).
text:
"Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth."


author: Paul Theroux (1941 - ).
text:
"Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind."


author: Gordon Atkinson.
text:
"External signs of wealth and success are often cheap storefronts that hide internal mediocrity or even incompetence."


author: Jennifer Hudson.
text:
"Extreme exercise doesnât save you from poor food choices. It can be difficult to exercise and erase away that chocolate cake or pizza pie. It doesnât work that way."


author: Barry Goldwater (1909 - 1998).
text:
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."


author: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968).
text:
"Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight."


author: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006).
text:
"Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof."


author: David Remmick.
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"Facetiously is the only English word that has all six vowels in order, James Thurber declared. "Oh," replied copy editor Miss Gould, "What about abstemiously?""


author: Daniel Raeburn.
text:
"Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you."


author: Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993).
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"Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There's a world, you see, which has people in it who believe in a variety of different things. Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence."


author: John Adams (1735 - 1826).
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"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."


author: John Adams (1735 - 1826).
text:
"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."


author: William C. Redfield.
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"Facts have a cruel way of substituting themselves for fancies. There is nothing more remorseless, just as there is nothing more helpful, than truth."


author: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817).
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"Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left."


author: Josh Lieb.
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"Fahrenheit 451 is one of those books that is about how amazing books are and how amazing the people who write books are. Writers love writing books like this, and for some reason, we let them get away with it."


author: J. K. Rowling.
text:
"Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me."


author: Bill Watterson (1958 - ).
text:
"Failures are very public, and successes are short lived. It's the pleasure of drawing funny pictures that makes up for it."


author: George Goethals (1858 - 1928).
text:
"Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice."


author: Dan Barker.
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"Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it canât be taken on its own merits."


author: Rabbi David Wolpe.
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"Faith is not the knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is, but the conviction that there is a mystery, and that it is greater than us."


author: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931).
text:
"Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope."


author: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914).
text:
"Faith, noun. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel"


author: David Letterman (1947 - ).
text:
"Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees."


author: Richard Burton.
text:
"False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports."


author: C. C. Colton.
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"Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are not wholly wrong; as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right."


author: Arnold Bennett.
text:
"Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others."


author: Clay Aiken.
text:
"Fame and glory are fleeting, especially in the music business. That's why completing my degree and graduating from college were priorities."


author: Marlo Thomas.
text:
"Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door."


author: J. William Galbraith.
text:
"Familiarity may breed contempt in some areas of human behavior, but in the field of social ideas it is the touchstone of acceptability."


author: Su Tung-p'o.
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"Families, when a child is born Want it to be intelligent. I, through intelligence, Having wrecked my whole life, Only hope the baby will prove Ignorant and stupid. Then he will crown a tranquil life By becoming a Cabinet Minister"


author: M. F. K. Fisher.
text:
"Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters."


author: Terry Pratchett.
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"Famous I don't know about. It's hard to be famous and alive. I just want to play music every day and hear someone say, 'Thanks, that was great, here's some money, same time tomorrow, okay?'"


author: Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888).
text:
"Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."


author: Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888).
text:
"Far away there in the sunshine are my brightest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead."


author: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919).
text:
"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure , than to take rank with those poor spires who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat."


author: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919).
text:
"Far better is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. "


author: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919).
text:
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."


author: A. Bartlett Giamatti (1938 - 1989).
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"Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well."


author: Russ Marion.
text:
"Far from being a meaningless void, chaos is the source of creativity and construction in nature and in social dynamics."


author: Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005).
text:
"Far too many peopleâespecially people with great expertise in one areaâare contemptuous of knowledge in other areas or believe that being bright is a substitute for knowledge."


author: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969).
text:
"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field."


author: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592).
text:
"Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be."


author: Joel Fuhrman, M.D..
text:
"Fasting and natural diet, though essentially unknown [in today's U.S.] as a therapy, should be the first treatment when someone discovers that she or he has a medical problem. It should not be applied only to the most advanced cases, as is present practice. Whether the patient has a cardiac condition, hypertension, autoimmune disease, fibroids, or asthma, he or she must be informed that fasting and natural, plant-based diets are a viable alternative to conventional therapy, and an effective one. The time may come when not offering this substantially more effective nutritional approach will be considered malpractice."


author: Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi.
text:
"Fat is a barrier, a bellicose statement to others that, to some, justifies hostility in kind. The world says to the fat person, "Your fatness is an affront to me, so we have the right to treat you as offensively as you appear." Fat is not merely viewed as another type of tissue, but as a diagnostic sign, a personal statement, and a measure of personality. Too little fat and we see you as being antisocial, fearful and sexless. Too much fat and we see you as slothful, stupid, and sexually hung up."


author: Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi.
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"Fat people, it is commonly held, should be punished because they offend our aesthetic sensibilities. They take up too much space on subways, buses, airplanes, and elevators. They consume more than they contribute to society. They become ill and need to be taken care of, or they die early and their families are left unsupported. The only way fat people can gain some acceptance and forgiveness for their crime of overeating is to at least try, or look like they are trying, to lose weight. They must never eat an ice cream cone in public, never be seen eating a normal sized portion of non-diet food!"


author: Lemony Snicket.
text:
"Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant, filled with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like."


author: Marilyn Ferguson.
text:
"Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
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"Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."


author: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD).
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"Fear keeps pace with hope. Nor does their so moving together surprise me; both belong to a mind in suspense, to a mind in a state of anxiety through looking into the future. Both are mainly due to projecting our thoughts far ahead of us instead of adapting ourselves to the present. Thus it is that foresight, the greatest blessing humanity has been given, is transformed into a curse."


author: "Swedish Proverb".
text:
"Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours."


author: John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801 - 1890).
text:
"Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning."


author: The Bhagavad Gita.
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"Fear Not. What is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed. "


author: Greg Daniels, Carrie Kemper, Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant.
text:
"Fear plays an interesting role in our lives. How dare we let it motivate us? How dare we let it into our decision making; into our livelihoods; into our relationships? It's funny isn't it? We take a day a year to dress up, in costume and celebrate fear."


author: Helen Mirren.
text:
"Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life."


author: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - ).
text:
"Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there."


author: Christiane Northrup, M.D..
text:
"Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life."


author: Unknown.
text:
"Feelings are real and legitimate; children behave and misbehave for a reason, even if adults cannot figure it out."


author: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ).
text:
"Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know."


author: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680).
text:
"Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks more of what he intends to say than of what others are saying, and listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak."


author: J. Todd.
text:
"Few ever live to old age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising."


author: Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968).
text:
"Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change."


author: Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961).
text:
"Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality of those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change"


author: Richard E. Byrd.
text:
"Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling in them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used."


author: Richard Byrd.
text:
"Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"Few of our modern novelists dare to invent a single thing. It is an open secret that they don't know how to do it."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most People are even incapable of forming such opinions."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week."


author: Paulo Coelho.
text:
"Few take up the burden of their own victory: most give up their dreams when they become impossible."


author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784).
text:
"Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."


author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680).
text:
"Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed."


author: W.C. Fields.
text:
"Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee."


author: Richard M. DeVos.
text:
"Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough."


author: Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968).
text:
"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation."


author: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata.
text:
"Fiery colors begin their yearly conquest of the hills, propelled by the autumn winds. Fall is the artist."


author: Marianne Williamson.
text:
"Fill your mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart."


author: Author Unknown.
text:
"Find expression for a sorrow and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy."


author: Marcia Medkeff Hall.
text:
"Find me a vast carpet of forget-me-nots spilling down a hillside, and take me there. Let me rest among the brightest, clearest blue under heaven."


author: Frederick Douglass (1817 - 1895).
text:
"Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it well and serenely..."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance."


author: Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773).
text:
"Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies."


author: Napoleon Hill.
text:
"First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination."


author: Kristin Hunter.
text:
"First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms."


author: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945).
text:
"First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."


author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799).
text:
"First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe."


author: Martin Niemoeller.
text:
"First they came for the Communists but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists but I was not one of them, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews but I was not Jewish so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me."


author: George Burns (1896 - 1996).
text:
"First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down."


author: Robert Cecil Day Lewis.
text:
"First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand."


author: Unknown.
text:
"Fishing gives you a sense of where you fit in the sceme of things - Your place in the universe...I, mean, here I am, one small guy with a fishing pole on this vast beach and out there in the blue expanse of ocean are these hundreds of millions of fish...laughing at me."


author: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963).
text:
"Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than minority of them - never become conscious of them all. How much of total reality can such an apparatus let through?"


author: Johan Blank.
text:
"Five to six million strong, Muslims in America already outnumber Presbyterians, Episcopalians, and Mormons, and they are more numerous than Quakers, Unitarians, Seventh-day Adventists, Mennonites, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Christian Scientists, combined. Many demographers say Islam has overtaken Judaism as the country's second-most commonly practiced religion; others say it is in the passing lane."


author: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826).
text:
"Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must approve the homage of reason rather than of blind-folded fear. Do not be frightened from this inquiry by any fear of its consequences."


author: William A. Ward.
text:
"Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Critisize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you."


author: Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825).
text:
"Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower."


author: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942).
text:
"Folks that has brought up children know that there's no hard and fast method in the world that'll suit every child. But them as never have think it's all as plain and easy as Rule of Threeâjust set your three terms down so fashion, and the sum'll work out correct."


author: Thomas J. Watson.
text:
"Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost."


author: Georgie Anne Geyer.
text:
"Follow what you love!...Don't deign to ask what "they" are looking for out there. Ask what you have inside. Follow not your interests, which change, but what you are and what you love, which will and should not change."


author: Ellen DeGeneres.
text:
"Follow your passion. Stay true to yourself. Never follow someone else's path unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path. By all means, you should follow that."


author: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881).
text:
"Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death."


author: George F. Will (1941 - ).
text:
"Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings."


author: William Cowper (1731 - 1800).
text:
"For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost, We seek it, ere it comes to light, In every cranny but the right."


author: Millard Fuller.
text:
"For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people's love and concern for each other."


author: Alice Kahn.
text:
"For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three."


author: Fr. Alfred D'Souza.
text:
"For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin -- real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life."


author: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
text:
"For a significant manwoman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers; for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron."


author: Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988).
text:
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."


author: Dean Koontz.
text:
"For a thinking creature of high intellect there can be no pleasure separate from emotion. If you deny men emotion you deny them pleasure."


author: Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961).
text:
"For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed."


author: Woody Allen (1935 - ).
text:
"For a while we pondered whether to take a vacation or get a divorce. We decided that a trip to Bermuda is over in two weeks, but a divorce is something you always have."


author: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662).
text:
"For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed."


author: Kobsak Chutikul.
text:
"For all its flaws, I would feel safer to have my children grow up in a world dominated by the United States than by any other country."


author: Hans Konig.
text:
"For all the gold and silver stolen and shipped to Spain did not make the Spanish people richer. It gave their kings an edge in the balance of power for a time, a chance to hire more mercenary soldiers for their wars. They ended up losing those wars anyway, and all that was left was a deadly inflation, a starving population, the rich richer, the poor poorer, and a ruined peasant class."


author: Ethel Barrymore.
text:
"For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros."


author: Terry Pratchett.
text:
"For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"For aught that I could ever read,Could ever hear by tale or history,The course of true love never did run smooth."


author: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
text:
"For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously."


author: Richard Cardinal Cushing.
text:
"For centuries now we've tried everything else; the power of wealth, of mighty armies and navies, machinations of diplomats. All have failed. Before it's too late, and time is running out, let us turn from trust in the chain reactions of exploding atoms to faith of the chain reaction of God's love. Love - love of God and fellow men. That is God's formula for peace. Peace on earth to men of good will."


author: Bhagavad Gita (250 BC - 250 AD).
text:
"For certain is death for the bornAnd certain is birth for the dead;Therefore over the inevitableThou shouldst not grieve."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"For each thorn, there's a rosebud...  for each twilight â a dawn...  for each trial â the strength to carry on,  For each stormcloud â a rainbow...  for each shadow â the sun...  for each parting â sweet memories  when sorrow is done."


author: J.W.N. Sullivan.
text:
"For every living creature that succeeds in getting a footing in life there are thousands or millions that perish. There is an enormous random scattering for every seed that comes to life. This does not remind us of intelligent human design. "If a man in order to shoot a hare, were to discharge thousands of guns on a great moor in all possible directions; if in order to get into a locked room, he were to buy ten thousand casual keys, and try them all; if, in order to have a house, he were to build a town, and leave all the other houses to wind and weather - assuredly no one would call such proceedings purposeful and still less would anyone conjecture behind these proceedings a higher wisdom, unrevealed reasons, and superior prudence.""


author: W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman.
text:
"For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty people who don't want to learn--much."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and Iear 4 might fiks the "gj" anomali wonse and for all.  Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli.  Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld."


author: Bruce Burton.
text:
"For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, busineswise?"


author: Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892).
text:
"For I dipped into the future, as far as human eye could see, saw a vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be."


author: Lord Alfred Tennyson.
text:
"For I dipt into the future, as far as human eye can see, saw the vision of the world, and the wonder that would be."


author: Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898).
text:
"For I do not believe God means us thus to divide life into two halves - to wear a grave face on Sunday, and to think it out-of-place to even so much as mention Him on a week-day. Do you think He cares to see only kneeling figures and to hear only tones of prayer - and that He does not also love to see the lambs leaping in the sunlight, and to hear the merry voices of the children, as they roll amoung the hay? Surely their innocent laughter is as sweet in His ears as the grandest anthem that ever rolled up from the "dim religious light" of some solemn cathedral?"


author: Bible.
text:
"For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was."


author: Sir Thomas More (1478 - 1535).
text:
"For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them."


author: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
text:
"For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end."


author: ad for 'Radical Hermeneutics'.
text:
"For John Caputo, hermeneutics means radical thinking without transcendental justification: attending to the ruptures and irregularities in existence before the metaphysics of presence has a chance to smooth them over. Radical Hermeneutics forges a closer collaboration between the hermeneutics and deconstruction than has previously been attempted."


author: Bram Stoker.
text:
"For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin'; and death be all that we can rightly depend on."


author: David H. Lawrence.
text:
"For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive."


author: Edwin Teale.
text:
"For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad."


author: Herbert Schiller.
text:
"For manipulation to be most effective, evidence of its presence should be nonexistent... It is essential, therefore, that people who are manipulated believe in the neutrality of their key social institutions."


author: Mike B. Slone.
text:
"For me [video blogging] is like a scrapbook. You have all these video tapes sitting around and have no way to watch them. It's like an archive. It's so much easier than going through the video tapes."


author: Ellen DeGeneres.
text:
"For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life."


author: John Lithgow.
text:
"For me, working onstage is much more exhausting than all the other mediums, but it's also much more thrilling...There's nothing like spending an evening with an audience every night."


author: Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC).
text:
"For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief."


author: Stephen Hawking (1942 - ).
text:
"For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imaginations, we learned to talk."


author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965).
text:
"For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself."


author: Marcus Tullius Cicero.
text:
"For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life."


author: Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880).
text:
"For none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."


author: Thomas Mann (1875 - 1955).
text:
"For one human being instinctively feels respect and love for another human being so long as he does not know him well enough to judge him; and that he does not, the craving he feels is evidence."


author: Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926).
text:
"For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation."


author: Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926).
text:
"For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation."


author: A. A. Milne (1882 - 1956).
text:
"For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fifty thousand pounds."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"For Orpheus' lute was strung with poets' sinews, Whose golden touch could soften steel and stones, Make tigers tame, and huge leviathans Forsake unsounded deeps to dance on sands."


author: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
text:
"For others do I wait... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come."


author: Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess.
text:
"For people to judge a man's worth and his very manhood according to the way he feels about sport, and not to recognize it for the piddly, inconsequential goings on that it really is..."


author: Henri-FrÃ©dÃ©ric Amiel.
text:
"For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will."


author: Homer (800 BC - 700 BC).
text:
"For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers."


author: James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937).
text:
"For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded."


author: Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980).
text:
"For several years more I maintained public relations with the Almighty. But privately, I ceased to associate with him."


author: Spike Milligan.
text:
"For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string."


author: Bhagavad Gita (250 BC - 250 AD).
text:
"For that which is born death is certain, and for the dead birth is certain. Therefore grieve not over that which is unavoidable."


author: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935).
text:
"For the American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity."


author: Bill Moyers.
text:
"For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington. Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a world view despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality. When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind. And there is the danger: voters and politicians alike, oblivious to the facts."


author: Woody Allen (1935 - ).
text:
"For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal"


author: Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924).
text:
"For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort."


author: Bible.
text:
"For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows."


author: Marilyn C. Barrick.
text:
"For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear."


author: Eudora Welty (1909 - ).
text:
"For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others."


author: St. Jerome.
text:
"For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable."


author: Rachel Carson (1907 - 1964).
text:
"For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little."


author: Eric Ambler.
text:
"For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency."


author: Lord Byron (1788 - 1824).
text:
"For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause for breath, And love itself have rest."


author: Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944).
text:
"For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal. It does not follow that every item which we confidently accept as physical knowledge has actually been certified by the Court; our confidence is that it would be certified by the Court if it were submitted. But it does follow that every item of physical knowledge is of a form which might be submitted to the Court. It must be such that we can specify (although it may be impracticable to carry out) an observational procedure which would decide whether it is true or not. Clearly a statement cannot be tested by observation unless it is an assertion about the results of observation. Every item of physical knowledge must therefore be an assertion of what has been or would be the result of carrying out a specified observational procedure."


author: Unknown.
text:
"For the uncontrolled there is no wisdom. For the uncontrolled there is no concentration, and for him without concentration, there is no peace. And for the unpeaceful how can there ever be happiness?"


author: Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956).
text:
"For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him."


author: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790).
text:
"For the want of a nail, the shoe was lose; for the want of a shoe the horse was lose; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail."


author: John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968).
text:
"For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost--good manners, ease and beauty? Ladies were not ladies anymore, and you couldn't trust a gentleman's word... Oh, strawberries don't taste as they used to and the thighs of women have lost their clutch!"


author: Henry James (1843 - 1916).
text:
"For the worst sign of all--as I must have it for you-- is that you can't help me. That's when a woman pities."


author: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626).
text:
"For there is no question but a just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war."


author: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC).
text:
"For this invention of yours will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn it, by causing them to neglect their memory, inasmuch as, from their confidence in writing, they will recollect by the external aid of foreign symbols, and not by the internal use of their own faculties. Your discovery, therefore, is a medicine not for memory, but for recollection-for recalling to, not for keeping in mind."


author: Charles Bukowski (1920 - 1994).
text:
"For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us."


author: Nelson Mandela (1918 - ).
text:
"For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."


author: George W. Bush (1946 - ).
text:
"For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression became common, but stability never arrived. We must take a different approach. We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations."


author: Smiles.
text:
"For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross-grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self-control."


author: Thucydides (471 BC - 400 BC).
text:
"For we both alike know that into the discussion of human affairs the question of justice enters only where the pressure of necessity is equal, and that the powerful exact when they can, and the weak grant what they must."


author: Storm Jameson.
text:
"For what I have received, may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received."


author: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931).
text:
"For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily, when good is hungry is seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters."


author: Grantland Rice.
text:
"For when the One Great Scorer comes To write against your name, He marks-not that you won or lost- But how you played the game."


author: D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930).
text:
"For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to star, or you will just stay where you are."


author: Bible.
text:
"For whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God."


author: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
text:
"For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived."


author: Bible.
text:
"For ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones."


author: Rita Mae Brown.
text:
"For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself."


author: Paul Graham.
text:
"For [a product] to surprise me, it must be satisfying expectations I didn't know I had. No focus group is going to discover those. Only a great designer can."


author: Doug Casey.
text:
"Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries."


author: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ).
text:
"Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you."


author: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931).
text:
"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."


author: Gordon Atkinson.
text:
"Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed relationship. Some people are not capable of love, and it might be wise to let them go along with your anger. Wish them well, and let them go their way."


author: Gordon Atkinson.
text:
"Forgiveness is the healing of wounds caused by another. You choose to let go of a past wrong and no longer be hurt by it. Forgiveness is a strong move to make, like turning your shoulders sideways to walk quickly on a crowded sidewalk. It's your move."


author: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959).
text:
"Form follows function-that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union."


author: Thomas Szasz.
text:
"Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic."


author: Elihu Burritt.
text:
"Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence."


author: Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993).
text:
"Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination."


author: Bible.
text:
"Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure."


author: Peter Mere Latham.
text:
"Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use."


author: Coventry Patmore.
text:
"Fortunately for themselves and the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come of a few fools having the courage of their convictions."


author: Karen Horney.
text:
"Fortunately [psychoanalysis] is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist."


author: Karen Horney.
text:
"Fortunately, psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself remains a very effective therapist."


author: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran.
text:
"Fostering a spirit of cooperation with your ex means laying down your weapons in the war of divorce in order to protect your children."


author: Arabian Proverb.
text:
"Four things come not back -- the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity."


author: Felix Frankfurter (1882 - 1965).
text:
"Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings."


author: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - ).
text:
"France is like a great compass, which ever way they point to, go the complete opposite direction and you'll be fine."


author: Reinhold Niebuhr (1892 - 1971).
text:
"Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure."


author: A. S. Neill.
text:
"Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, not working with the eye without the ear, and but in purged judgement trusting neither? Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem."


author: John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968).
text:
"Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars."


author: Rousseau.
text:
"Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost."


author: General Colin Powell.
text:
"Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection."


author: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004).
text:
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."


author: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948).
text:
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right."


author: Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Prime Minister of Denmark.
text:
"Freedom of expression and freedom of the press are the very cornerstones of any democratic society. I firmly believe that it is the very right to question the status quo that allows a society to develop and prosper."


author: Benjamin Cardozo (1870 - 1938).
text:
"Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom."


author: Bergen Evans.
text:
"Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt."


author: Sri Madhava.
text:
"Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our lives."


author: John Muir (1838 - 1914).
text:
"Fresh beauty opens one's eyes wherever it is really seen, but the very abundance and completeness of the common beauty that besets our steps prevents its being absorbed and appreciated. It is a good thing, therefore, to make short excursions now and then to the bottom of the sea among dulse and coral, or up among the clouds on mountain-tops, or in balloons, or even to creep like worms into dark holes and caverns underground, not only to learn something of what is going on in those out-of-the-way places, but to see better what the sun sees on our return to common everyday beauty."


author: George Santayana (1863 - 1952).
text:
"Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is."


author: David Nicholls.
text:
"Friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them."


author: Stephanie Barron.
text:
"Friends, in my experience, are like ladies' fashions. They come and go with the seasons, and are rarely of such stout stuff as bears repeated wearing."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones."


author: Author Unknown.
text:
"Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding."


author: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963).
text:
"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Friendship is constant in all other things  Save in the office and affairs of love:  Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues;  Let every eye negotiate for itself,  And trust no agent."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent."


author: Charles Spurgeon.
text:
"Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend."


author: Mohammad Ali.
text:
"Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. Itâs not something you learn in school. But if you havenât learned the meaning of friendship, you havenât really learned anything."


author: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963).
text:
"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... it has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival."


author: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963).
text:
"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art...It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."


author: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962).
text:
"Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."


author: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962).
text:
"Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."


author: Sophie Tucker (1884 - 1966).
text:
"From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on, she needs good cash."


author: Tomas Gray.
text:
"From hence, ye beauties, undeceived Know one false step is ne'er retrieved And be with caution bold. Not all that tempts your wandering eyes And heedless hearts is lawful prize, Not all that glisters gold."


author: Louis Adamic.
text:
"From Mount Hollywood, Los Angeles looks rather nice, enveloped in a haze of changing colors. Actually, and in spite of all the healthful sunshine and ocean breezes, it is a bad place - full of old, dying people, who were born old of tired pioneer parents, victims of America - full of curious wild and poisonous growths, decadent religious cults and fake science, and wildcat enterprises, which, with their aim for quick profit, are doomed to collapse and drag down multitudes of people."


author: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719).
text:
"From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor."


author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965).
text:
"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."


author: Bette Davis (1908 - 1989).
text:
"From the age of six, I have known that I was sexy. And let me tell you it has been hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it."


author: Charles Sumner (1811 - 1874).
text:
"From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. I insist that this shall cease. The country needs repose after all its trials; it deserves repose. And repose can only be found in everlasting principles."


author: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977).
text:
"From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it."


author: R. D. Laing.
text:
"From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities. This enterprise is on the whole successful."


author: Visions of Gregorian Chants.
text:
"From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage. From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought. From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence."


author: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963).
text:
"From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"From this day forward until the end of the world...we in it shall be remembered...we band of brothers."


author: Herman Melville (1819 - 1891).
text:
"From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Full fathom five thy father lies;  Of his bones are coral made;  Those are pearls that were his eyes:  Nothing of him that doth fade,  But doth suffer a sea-change  Into something rich and strange."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange."


author: Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909 - 1993).
text:
"Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted."


author: Katharine Fullerton Gerould.
text:
"Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude."


author: Jennifer Hudson.
text:
"Gaining control over your health and well-being is one of those times in your life that you get to be completely selfish and not feel bad about it. If you want to meet your goals, you have to make it about you. You have to make it work for you and you alone. Anything less is a setup for failure."


author: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ).
text:
"Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education."


author: John Haggai.
text:
"Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor."


author: Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674).
text:
"Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,  Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying."


author: Edgar Lee Masters.
text:
"Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back."


author: Lord Essex.
text:
"Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind."


author: Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867).
text:
"Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed."


author: Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784).
text:
"Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth."


author: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902).
text:
"Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds."


author: L. B. Walton.
text:
"Genius might well be defined as the ability to makes a platitude sound as though it were an original remark."


author: Hannah More.
text:
"Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam on those that are without while the inhabitant sits in darkness."


author: John Alexander Smith.
text:
"Gentlemen, you are now about to embark on a course of studies which will occupy you for two years. Together, they form a noble adventure. But I would like to remind you of an important point. Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you in after life, save only this, that if you work hard and intelligently you should be able to detect when a man is talking rot, and that, in my view, is the main, if not the sole, purpose of education."


author: William Bridges.
text:
"Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities."


author: Al Gore - during 1992 Vice Presidential debate.
text:
"George Bush taking credit for the Berlin Wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sunrise."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"George Washington as a boy was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth - he could not even lie."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie."


author: Johan Huizinga.
text:
"Geschichte ist die geistige Form, in der sich eine Kultur ueber ihre Vergangenheit Rechenschaft gibt. [transl.:] History is the mentalintellectual form, in which a culture renders account of its past to itself."


author: Edward Hallet Carr.
text:
"Geschichte ist [...] ein Dialog zwischen Gegenwart und Vergangenheit. [re-transl.:] History is [...] a dialogue between the present and the past."


author: Mickey Rooney (1920 - ).
text:
"Get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day."


author: Raymond Joseph Teller.
text:
"Get on stage. A lot. Try stuff. Make your best stab and keep stabbing. If it's there in your heart, it will eventually find its way out. Or you will give up and have a prudent, contented life doing something else."


author: Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734).
text:
"Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.)"


author: Sophia Loren (1934 - ).
text:
"Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent."


author: Phyllis McGinley.
text:
"Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with one man."


author: Zsa Zsa Gabor (1919 - ).
text:
"Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do."


author: Melvin Belli on the occasion of his getting kicked out of the American Bar Association.
text:
"Getting kicked out of the American Bar Association is like getting kicked out of the Book-of-the-Month-Club."


author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784).
text:
"Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life."


author: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ).
text:
"Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way."


author: Pam Davis.
text:
"Gifts allow us to demonstrate exactly how little we know about a person. And nothing pisses a person off more than being shoved into the wrong pigeonhole."


author: Lord Robert Baden-Powell.
text:
"Girls should be brought up to be comrades and helpers, not to be dolls. They should take a real and not a visionary share in the welfare of the nation."


author: Terry Pratchett.
text:
"Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life."


author: Zenna Schaffer.
text:
"Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him of the entire weekend."


author: Jay Leno (1950 - ).
text:
"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak."


author: Chinese Proverb.
text:
"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."


author: Scott Adams (1957 - ).
text:
"Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant."


author: Max Lucado.
text:
"Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three- piece suit. Max Lucado"


author: John Milton (1608 - 1674).
text:
"Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties."


author: Ecclesiastes.
text:
"Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days."


author: Lao Tse.
text:
"Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows."


author: Peter Marshall.
text:
"Give us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for, because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything."


author: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931).
text:
"Give your hearts, but not into each otherâs keeping,  For only the hand of God can contain your hearts."


author: Arthur Miller (1915 - 2005).
text:
"Glamour, that trans-human aura or power to attract imitation, is a kind of vessel into which dreams are poured, and some vessels are simply worthier than others... A beautiful woman can turn heads but real glamour has a deeper pull... Glamour [is] the power to rearrange people's emotions, which, in effect, is the power to control one's environment."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught."


author: Roy M. Cohn (1927 - 1986).
text:
"Go after a man's weakness, and never, ever, threaten unless you're going to follow through, because if you don't, the next time you won't be taken seriously."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler."


author: George Herbert (1593 - 1633).
text:
"Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot."


author: Jay Leno (1950 - ).
text:
"Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances."


author: Edmund Waller.
text:
"Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be."


author: Ramakrishna (1836 - 1886).
text:
"God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole."


author: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948).
text:
"God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith."


author: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963).
text:
"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing."


author: Paul Valery (1871 - 1945).
text:
"God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly."


author: Terry Pratchett.
text:
"God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time."


author: Ted Nugent.
text:
"God gave us the gift of life. It is the most precious gift ever. To be unarmed is to be helpless to protect that gift; that is outright irresponsible."


author: Farrah Fawcett (1947 - ).
text:
"God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met."


author: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790).
text:
"God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: "This is my country.""


author: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626).
text:
"God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave."


author: Wilberforce.
text:
"God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry."


author: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968).
text:
"God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men.He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race."


author: George W. Bush (1946 - ).
text:
"God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments [as a nation] have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands."


author: Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973).
text:
"God is really only another artist, he made the elephant, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but keeps trying new ideas."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, thehelpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos; He will set them above their betters."


author: Unknown.
text:
"God put me on Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I'm so far behind I will never die!"


author: Bill Watterson (1958 - ).
text:
"God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die."


author: Sir William Bragg (1862 - 1942).
text:
"God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday."


author: Mary Howitt.
text:
"God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race - to enlarge our hearts; and to make us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affection; to give our shoulds higher aims; to call out all our faculties to extended enterprise and exertion and to bring round our firesides bright faces, happy smiles, and loving, tender hearts. My soul blesses the great Father, every day, that he has gladdened the earth with little children"


author: Reinhold Niebuhr (1892 - 1971).
text:
"God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other."


author: Reinhold Niebuhr (1892 - 1971).
text:
"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."


author: Gordon Atkinson.
text:
"God, I donât have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it."


author: Terry Pratchett.
text:
"Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think."


author: Billy Sunday.
text:
"Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile."


author: Hannah Moore.
text:
"Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it, and that a very severe one."


author: Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005).
text:
"Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect."


author: Jed Babbin.
text:
"Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. You just leave a lot of useless, noisy baggage behind."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Gold is worse poison to a man's soul, doing more murders in this loathsome world, than any mortal drug."


author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965).
text:
"Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill- designed for the purpose."


author: Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944).
text:
"Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort."


author: John Locke (1632 - 1704).
text:
"Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person."


author: Brooks Clark.
text:
"Good coaches teach respect for the opposition, love of competition, the value of trying your best, and how to win and lose graciously."


author: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817).
text:
"Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well."


author: Ralph W. Sockman.
text:
"Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life."


author: Hugh Macleod.
text:
"Good ideas alter the power balance in relationships, that is why good ideas are always initially resisted. Good ideas come with a heavy burden. Which is why so few people have them. So few people can handle it."


author: Hyman Rickover (1900 - 1986).
text:
"Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience."


author: Daniel Webster (1782 - 1852).
text:
"Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters."


author: Paul Hawken.
text:
"Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,  Is the immediate jewel of their souls:  Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing;  'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;  But he that filches from me my good name  Robs me of that which not enriches him  And makes me poor indeed."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow."


author: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC).
text:
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech."


author: unknown.
text:
"Good seamanship is recovering from an incident at sea. Great seamanship is avoiding an incident at sea."


author: Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650).
text:
"Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed: for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess."


author: Lois McMaster Bujold.
text:
"Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance."


author: Doctor Who.
text:
"Gosh that takes me back... or is it forward? That's the trouble with time travel, you never can tell."


author: Jonathan Haidt.
text:
"Gossip and reputation make sure that what comes around-a person who is cruel will find that the others are cruel hack to him, and a person who is kind will find others are kind in return. Gossip paired with reciprocity allow karma to work here on earth, not in the next life."


author: Jack Holland.
text:
"Gossip is always a personal confession of malice or imbecility; it is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are neighborhoods where it rages like a pest; churches are split in pieces by it, and neighbor made enemies for life. Let the young avoid or cure it while they may."


author: Ray Simard.
text:
"Goto, n.: A programming tool that exists to allow structured programmers to complain about unstructured programmers."


author: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826).
text:
"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases."


author: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004).
text:
"Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."


author: Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679).
text:
"Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social."


author: George Washington (1732 - 1799).
text:
"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action."


author: George Washington (1732 - 1799).
text:
"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! It is a dangerous servant and a terrible master."


author: George Washington (1732 - 1799).
text:
"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant, and a fearful master."


author: George Washington (1732 - 1799).
text:
"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."


author: Frederick Bastiat.
text:
"Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."


author: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935).
text:
"Government spending? I don't know what it's all about. I don't know any more about this thing than an economist does, and, God knows, he doesn't know much."


author: MacKenzie King.
text:
"Government, is the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government."


author: Monica Whitlockv.
text:
"Governments, after all, do not last forever. Even those so frightened of the truth that they get rid of anyone who speaks it."


author: Rosenstock-Huessy.
text:
"Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say having double meaning."


author: Terry Lynn Taylor.
text:
"Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find something to be thankful for. "


author: Melody Beattie.
text:
"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity."


author: Josh Brand and John Falsey.
text:
"Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?"


author: Nancy Lopez.
text:
"Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are."


author: Henri-Frederic Amiel.
text:
"Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be."


author: Washington Irving (1783 - 1859).
text:
"Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them."


author: Percy Cerutty.
text:
"Great people and great athletes realize early in their lives their destiny, and accept it. Even if they do not consciously realize the how, the where, the what."


author: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - ).
text:
"Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities.  The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thought in clear form."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."


author: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961).
text:
"Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off."


author: Charles Churchill.
text:
"Great use they have, when in the hands Of one like me, who understands, Who understands the time and place, The person, manner, and the grace, Which fools neglect; so that we find, If all the requisites are join'd, From whence a perfect joke must spring, A joke's a very serious thing."


author: Chuang-tzu (369 BC - 286 BC).
text:
"Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous."


author: William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830).
text:
"Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid."


author: Eric A. Burns.
text:
"Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive."


author: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894).
text:
"Greatness is not in were we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind, and somtimes agaisnt it - but sail we must. And not drift, nor lie at anchor. "


author: Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960).
text:
"Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those whose sole concern is not the truth."


author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930).
text:
"Gregory: "Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?" Holmes: "To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time." Gregory: "The dog did nothing in the night-time." Holmes: "That was the curious incident.""


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have someone to divide it with."


author: Eli Attie.
text:
"Grief is Newark. It's there. Can't avoid it. The idea is to hold your nose, hope the traffic's not too bad and get on to Manhattan as quickly as possible."


author: Black Elk.
text:
"Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss."


author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944).
text:
"Grown ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them."


author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944).
text:
"Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them."


author: George Sand (1804 - 1876).
text:
"Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life."


author: Patrick Henry (1736 - 1799).
text:
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined."


author: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran.
text:
"Guilt is helpful only when it keeps us acting in line with our beliefs and morals. Otherwise, it creates needless suffering."


author: R. A. Salvatore.
text:
"Guilt resembles a sword with two edges. On the one hand, it cuts for Justice, imposing practical morality upon those who fear it. But there is another side to that weighted emotion. Conscience does not always adhere to rational judgment. Guilt is always a self-imposed burden, but it is not always rightly imposed."


author: South.
text:
"Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal."


author: John Hinckley.
text:
"Guns are neat little things, aren't they? They can kill extraordinary people with very little effort."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"Habit is habit, and not to be flung out the window by man, but coaxed downstairs, a step at a time."


author: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937).
text:
"Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive."


author: Juliene Berk.
text:
"Habits - the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Had it pleas'd heaven to try me with affliction... I should have found in some place of my soul a drop of patience."


author: The Book of the Dead.
text:
"Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, without guilt, without evil, without a witness against me, without one whom I have wronged. I am one pure of mouth, pure of hands."


author: Gore Vidal (1925 - ).
text:
"Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."


author: Gore Vidal (1925 - ).
text:
"Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."


author: T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965).
text:
"Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm but the harm does not interest them."


author: Dr. Martin Henry Fischer.
text:
"Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them."


author: Henry Van Dyke.
text:
"Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life."


author: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935).
text:
"Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save."


author: Cardinal John Newman.
text:
"Half the controversies in the world are verbal ones; and could they be brought to a plain issue they would be brought to a prompt termination. Parties engaged in them would then perceive either that in substance they agreed together, or that their difference was one of first principles. We need not dispute, we need not prove, we need but define. At all events, let us, if we can, do this first of all and then see who are left for us to dispute; what is left for us to prove."


author: Walter Kerr.
text:
"Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them."


author: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963).
text:
"Half the world is composed of those who have something to say but can't; the other half is of those who have nothing to say and keep on saying it."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Hamlet: Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel?Polonius: By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed.Hamlet: Methinks it is like a weasel. Polonius: It is backed like a weasel. Hamlet: Or like a whale? Polonius: Very like a whale."


author: Trevanian from the novel "Shibumi".
text:
"Hana: What on Earth is a 'barbeque'? Hel: A primitive tribal ritual featuring paper plates, elbows, flying insects, encrusted meat, hush puppies, and beer. Hana: I daren't ask what a 'hush puppy' is. Hel: Don't."


author: Mary Higgins Clark.
text:
"Happines is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of all are those who have the courage to reach for it again."


author: Denis Waitley.
text:
"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude."


author: J. E. Buchrose.
text:
"Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again - this is the brave and happy life."


author: Storm Jameson.
text:
"Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed."


author: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817).
text:
"Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life."


author: Robertson Davies.
text:
"Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness."


author: Thomas Szasz.
text:
"Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults."


author: Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864).
text:
"Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."


author: George Sheehan.
text:
"Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing."


author: William H. Sheldon.
text:
"Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation."


author: Tyron Edwards.
text:
"Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door."


author: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963).
text:
"Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities."


author: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982).
text:
"Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing buy rational actions."


author: Joseph Smith.
text:
"Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, and keeping all the commandments of God."


author: George Santayana (1863 - 1952).
text:
"Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment."


author: Robin Green.
text:
"Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was."


author: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945).
text:
"Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money. It lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort."


author: Rufus Choate.
text:
"Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading."


author: Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD).
text:
"Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all."


author: Alfred A. Montapert.
text:
"Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels God's eye is on the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy."


author: John Dryden (1631 - 1700).
text:
"Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own: He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today."


author: Sam Ewing.
text:
"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all."


author: Frederick W. Taylor.
text:
"Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace."


author: P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975).
text:
"Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good."


author: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892).
text:
"Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her that it is just as lucky to die, and I know it."


author: Homer (800 BC - 700 BC).
text:
"Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another."


author: Lord Bertrand Russell.
text:
"Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected."


author: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968).
text:
"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it."


author: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885).
text:
"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake."


author: Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804).
text:
"Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee."


author: Saint Francis de Sales (1567 - 1622).
text:
"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew."


author: Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845).
text:
"Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything."


author: Rosa Parks (1913 - 2005).
text:
"Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again."


author: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892).
text:
"Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won."


author: Erica Eisdorfer.
text:
"Having a baby's sweet face so close to your own, for so long a time as it takes to nurse 'em, is a great tonic for a sad soul."


author: Pamela Ribon.
text:
"Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm."


author: Lemony Snicket.
text:
"Having a personal philosophy is like having a pet marmoset, because it may be very attractive when you acquire it, but there may be situations when it will not come in handy at all."


author: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001).
text:
"Having been an English literary graduate, I've been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since. I think the idea of art kills creativity. I think media are at their most interesting before anybody's thought of calling them art, when people still think they're just a load of junk."


author: Kate Winslet.
text:
"Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better."


author: Robin Williams (1951 - ).
text:
"Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!"


author: Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924).
text:
"Having had to encounter single-handed during his period of eclipse many physical dangers, he was well aware of the most dangerous element common to them all: of the crushing, paralysing sense of human littleness, which is what really defeats a human struggling with natural forces, alone, far from the eyes of his fellows."


author: Arnold Bennett.
text:
"Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense."


author: Latin.
text:
"He alone is wise who can accommodate himself to all contingencies of life; but the fool contends, and struggling, like a swimmer, against the stream."


author: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001).
text:
"He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which."


author: Hindoo Maxim.
text:
"He does not live in vain, who employs his wealth, his thought, his speech to advance the good of others."


author: J. Danforth Quayle's Father.
text:
"He doesn't have the greatest smarts in the world. His main interests in school were broads and booze."


author: Edwin Markham.
text:
"He drew a circle that shut me out -- Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But Love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in."


author: Paolo Giordano.
text:
"He felt a furious sense of powerlessness, because he played no part in Alice's life, but by god she did in his, like a daughter whose name he hadn't been able to choose."


author: Dame Rose Macaulay (1881 - 1958).
text:
"He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays - cynical, but hopeful."


author: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001).
text:
"He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it."


author: Cornelius Tacitus (55 AD - 117 AD).
text:
"He had a certain frankness and generosity, qualities indeed which turn to a man's ruin, unless tempered with discretion."


author: Gaston Leroux.
text:
"He had a heart that could have held the empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain."


author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
text:
"He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it."


author: Lawana Blackwell.
text:
"He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally."


author: Henry James (1843 - 1916).
text:
"He had the entertainment of thinking that if he had for that moment stopped the clock it was to promote the next minute this still livelier motion."


author: Richard M. Nixon (1913 - 1994).
text:
"He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monumental littleness."


author: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902).
text:
"He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most; God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us."


author: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001).
text:
"He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife."


author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784).
text:
"He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind."


author: Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC).
text:
"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."


author: Tieck.
text:
"He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy."


author: Prophet Mohammed.
text:
"He is not of us who is not affectionate to the little ones, and does not respect the old; and he is not of us, who does not order which is lawful, and prohibits that which is unlawful."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invated by worry, fret and anxiety."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"He is the half part of a blessed man,  Left to be finished by such as she;  And she a fair divided excellence,  Whose fulness of perfection lies in him."


author: John Green.
text:
"He liked all books, because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head."


author: John Green.
text:
"He liked the idea of coffee quite a lotâa warm drink that gave you energy and had been for centuries associated with sophisticates and intellectuals. But coffee itself tasted to him like caffeinated stomach bile."


author: Homer (800 BC - 700 BC).
text:
"He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray."


author: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936).
text:
"He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical."


author: Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965).
text:
"He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended."


author: Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962).
text:
"He reflected deeply, until this feeling completely overwhelmed him and he reached a point where he recognized causes; for to recognize causes, it seemed to him, is to think, and through thought along feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and being to mature."


author: Julian of Norwich (1342 - 1416).
text:
"He said not 'Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be dis-eased'; but he said, 'Thou shalt not be overcome.'"


author: Stephen Crane.
text:
"He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid. But he said, in substance, to himself that if the earth and the moon were about to clash, many people would doubtless plan to get upon the roofs to witness the collision."


author: Tony Shepps.
text:
"He should be most proud that the PMRC wants to put their obscene lyrics sticker on his `Jazz From Hell' -- which is an instrumental album."


author: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790).
text:
"He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face."


author: Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754).
text:
"He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter."


author: J. Hawes.
text:
"He that cannot decidedly say, "No," when tempted to evil, is on the highway to ruin. He loses the respect even of those who would tempt him, and becomes but the pliant tool and victim of their evil designs."


author: Lord Herbert.
text:
"He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven."


author: Johnson.
text:
"He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many foulder in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale."


author: Saadi (1184 - 1291).
text:
"He that has acquired learning and nor practised what he has learnt, is like a man who ploughs but sows no seed."


author: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790).
text:
"He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged."


author: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790).
text:
"He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money."


author: Bible.
text:
"He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city."


author: Dr. Isaac Barrow (1630 - 1677).
text:
"He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter."


author: Jeremy Taylor (1613 - 1667).
text:
"He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason."


author: C. C. Colton.
text:
"He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed."


author: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809).
text:
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."


author: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809).
text:
"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."


author: F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940).
text:
"He waited for the mask to drop off, but at the same time he did not question her right to wear it."


author: David Nicholls.
text:
"He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary."


author: Robertson Davies.
text:
"He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities."


author: Douglas Jerrold .
text:
"He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain."


author: William Blake (1757 - 1827).
text:
"He who binds himself to joy Doth the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in Eternity's sunrise."


author: William Blake (1757 - 1827).
text:
"He who binds to himself a joy, does the winged life destroy: But he who kisses the joy as it flies, lives in eternity's sun rise."


author: Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527).
text:
"He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss."


author: H. E. Martz.
text:
"He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes.""


author: The Talmud.
text:
"He who carries out one good deed acquires one advocate in his own behalf, and he who commits one transgression acquires one accuser against himself. Repentance and good works are like a shield against calamity."


author: Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878 - 1969).
text:
"He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end."


author: Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC).
text:
"He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach."


author: Joseph John Dewey.
text:
"He who denies the existence of a truth because it sounds negative creates a vacuum that draws the darkness unto him."


author: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960).
text:
"He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool."


author: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931).
text:
"He who does not seek advice is a fool. His folly blinds him to Truth and makes him evil, stubborn, and a danger to his fellow men."


author: Albert Pike.
text:
"He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current... Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on toward ultimate success."


author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873).
text:
"He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher."


author: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885).
text:
"He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign."


author: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC).
text:
"He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it."


author: Friedrich Neitzsche.
text:
"He who fights monsters should look into it that he himself does not become a monster. When you gaze long into the Abyss, the Abyss also gazes into you."


author: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
text:
"He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you."


author: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
text:
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."


author: Henry Taylor.
text:
"He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice."


author: Ali ibn-Abi-Talib (602 AD - 661 AD).
text:
"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself."


author: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
text:
"He who has much to proclaim one day, stays silently much immersed within himself: he who has to kindle the lightning one day, must for a long time--be a cloud."


author: Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527).
text:
"He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building."


author: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983).
text:
"He who has nothing and wants something is less frustrated than he who has something and wants more."


author: Hazrat Ali Ibn-e- Abi Talib.
text:
"He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses."


author: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC).
text:
"He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden."


author: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC).
text:
"He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."


author: John Milton (1608 - 1674).
text:
"He who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself."


author: Menander (342 BC - 292 BC).
text:
"He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor."


author: Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC).
text:
"He who learns must suffer, and, even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God."


author: Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC).
text:
"He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God."


author: John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873).
text:
"He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties. He must use observation to see, reasoning and judgment to foresee, activity to gather materials for decision, discrimination to decide, and when he has decided, firmness and self-control to hold to his deliberate decision. "


author: Henry H. Haskins.
text:
"He who loses money losses much. He who loses a friend loses more. But he who loses faith loses all."


author: Ling Po.
text:
"He who neglects to drink from the spring of experience is likely to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance."


author: Horace (65 BC - 8 BC).
text:
"He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses."


author: George Shelley.
text:
"He who promises more than he is able to perform, is false to himself; and he who does not perform what he has promised, is a traitor to his friend."


author: Harold Wilson (1916 - 1995).
text:
"He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery."


author: Leo Pennworks.
text:
"He who says, "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me," has not been hit by a dictionary."


author: Johann Kaspar Lavater.
text:
"He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero."


author: Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744).
text:
"He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one."


author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832).
text:
"He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure."


author: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719).
text:
"He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young."


author: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797).
text:
"He who wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper."


author: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC).
text:
"He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed."


author: James Thurber (1894 - 1961).
text:
"He wondered if he would kiss her and when he would kiss her and if she wanted to be kissed and if she were thinking of it, but she asked him what he would have to eat tonight at his hotel. He said clam chowder. Thursday, he said, they always have clam chowder. Is that the way you know it's Thursday, she said, or is that the way you know it's clam chowder?"


author: Liz Trotta on Dan Rather.
text:
"He's a complete and total psychopath. I don't mean that in the criminal sense, of course, but in a professional sense. People like that will do anything to hold on to their jobs."


author: Yes, Prime Minister.
text:
"He's suffering from Politicians' Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it."


author: David Frost.
text:
"He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed."


author: Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754).
text:
"He, in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him."


author: Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832).
text:
"Heap on more wood - the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still."


author: Chief Joseph (1840 - 1904).
text:
"Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever."


author: Walter Savage Landor.
text:
"Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history."


author: Henry Albert Ben.
text:
"Hell must be isothermal; for otherwise the resident engineers and physical chemists (of which there must be some) could set up a heat engine to run a refrigerator to cool off a portion of their surroundings to any desired temperature."


author: Firesign Theatre.
text:
"Hello seeker! Now don't feel alone here in the New Age, because there's a seeker born every minute."


author: Robert Burton (1577 - 1640).
text:
"Hence it is clear how much more cruel the pen is than the sword. (Hinc Gham Sit Calmus Saevior Ense Patet)"


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard."


author: Oriana Fallaci.
text:
"Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't....out of respect for DeGaulle and Disraeli. I described him as a cowboy because that is how he describes himself. If I were a cowboy I would be offended."


author: Jennifer Granholm.
text:
"Her greatness lay in doing what everybody could do but doesn't. She was unexpected. She was untitled. (She was) an improbable warrior that was leading an unlikely army of waitresses and street sweepers and shopkeepers and auto mechanics."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Her madness hath the oddest frame of sense, such a dependency of thing on thing, as e'er I heard in madness."


author: James Thurber (1894 - 1961).
text:
"Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house."


author: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004).
text:
"Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much."


author: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817).
text:
"Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial; but generally speaking, it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber: it is selfishness and impatience rather than generosity and fortitude, that one hears of. There is so little real friendship in the world! and unfortunately, there are so many who forget to think seriously till it is almost too late."


author: Clifford Stoll.
text:
"Here are my strong reservations about the wave of computer networks. They isolate us from one another and cheapen the meaning of actual experience. They work against literacy and creativity. They undercut our schools and libraries."


author: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924).
text:
"Here is a great body of our Jewish citizens from whom have sprung men of genius in every walk of our varied life; men who have conceived of its ideals with singular clearness; and led enterprises with sprit & sagacity... They are not Jews in America, they are American citizens."


author: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007).
text:
"Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college."


author: Morrow Mayo.
text:
"Here is an artificial city which has been pumped up under forced draught, inflated like a balloon, stuffed with rural humanity like a goose with corn...endeavoring to eat up this too rapid avalanche of anthropoids, the sunshine metropolis heaves and strains, sweats and becomes pop-eyed, like a young boa constrictor trying to swallow a goat. It has never imparted an urban character to its incoming population for the simple reason that it has never had any character to impart. On the other hand, the place has the manners, culture and general outlook of a huge country village."


author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965).
text:
"Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt... We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches."


author: Tupac Shakur.
text:
"Here's a message to the new borns, waiting to breathe: if you believe then you can achieve. Just look at me, against all odds 'though life is hard, we carry on, livin' in the projects, broke with no lights on. To all the seeds that follow me- protect your essence, born with less, but you still precious."


author: Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine.
text:
"Here's a tip to avoid death by celebrity: First off, get a life. They can't touch you if you're out doing something interesting."


author: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011).
text:
"Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do."


author: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007).
text:
"Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey."


author: Scott Westerfeld.
text:
"Here's what I've learned about dogs: They're a lot like pretty girls. Having one or two around makes everything more fun, but when you get a whole bunch together, it turns into one big power struggle."


author: D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930).
text:
"Here, you can't live as you like - in any way or circumstance. You're like a bit out of those coloured mosaics in the hall, you have to fit in your own set, fit into your own pattern, because you're put there from the first. But you don't want to be like a fixed bit of a mosaic - you want to fuse into life, and melt and mix with the rest of folk, to have some things burned out of you."


author: Douglas Coupland.
text:
"Hereâs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canât fake are erections, competence and creativity. Thatâs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say, 'Mmmmmm. Interesting.' If pressed, theyâll add, 'Iâll have to get back to you on that.' Then they donât say anything else."


author: Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989).
text:
"Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers-- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls."


author: Scott Westerfeld.
text:
"High school wasn't a trial by fire or some ordeal that had to be survived. It was all a big joke. You just had to provide the laugh track."


author: Deanna Troi.
text:
"Higher emotions are what separate us from the lower orders of life...  Higher emotions, and table manners."


author: Cabel Sasser.
text:
"Hiring has been a gradual process. We only hire someone when we really need them. It takes a while to get people up to speed. Our rule of thumb is to only hire when absolutely necessary."


author: J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973).
text:
"His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all."


author: Herman Hesse.
text:
"His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands, between innumerable poles."


author: James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937).
text:
"His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall."


author: Lois McMaster Bujold.
text:
"His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it."


author: J. K. Rowling.
text:
"His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"His reasons are as two grains of wheat his in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search."


author: Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961).
text:
"His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred."


author: Michael Crichton (1942 - 2008).
text:
"Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled."


author: Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long.
text:
"History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it."


author: James A. Forude.
text:
"History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity."


author: Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794).
text:
"History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind."


author: Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794).
text:
"History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind."


author: Henry Ford (1863 - 1947).
text:
"History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we made today."


author: James A. Garfield (1831 - 1881).
text:
"History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology."


author: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC).
text:
"History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity."


author: Abba Eban (1915 - 2002).
text:
"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives."


author: Abba Eban (1915 - 2002).
text:
"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other alternatives."


author: Mark Yost.
text:
"History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small."


author: Maya Angelou (1928 - ).
text:
"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again."


author: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914).
text:
"History, n. An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools."


author: Hank Green.
text:
"Hoaxes are nothing new. News media isn't hard to fool. It's fun to fool and people like to mess with people. It all goes to show you that we're not all that hard to fool. I think we should just accept that and trust people anyway."


author: Douglas R. Hofstadter.
text:
"Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law."


author: Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878 - 1969).
text:
"Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it."


author: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887).
text:
"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else."


author: Mitch Albom.
text:
"Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from the inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves."


author: Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC).
text:
"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned."


author: Joan Lunden.
text:
"Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life."


author: Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC).
text:
"Holding onto anger is like grasping onto a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else. You are the one who gets burned."


author: Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962).
text:
"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul."


author: Doug Larson.
text:
"Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog."


author: John Cheever.
text:
"Homesickness is. . . absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. . . You don't really long for another country. You long for something in yourself that you don't have, or haven't been able to find."


author: Franklin P. Jones.
text:
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger."


author: Don Marquis (1878 - 1937).
text:
"Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control."


author: Lois McMaster Bujold.
text:
"Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins."


author: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982).
text:
"Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, that neither love nor fame nor cash is a value if obtained by fraud."


author: George Carlin (1937 - 2008).
text:
"Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy."


author: Bernard Rosenberg.
text:
"Honesty: the most important thing in life. Unless you really know how to fake it, you'll never make it."


author: Major General Sir William Napier.
text:
"Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor."


author: Anne Lamott.
text:
"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up."


author: Anna Lappe.
text:
"Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action."


author: Vaclav Havel (1936 - ).
text:
"Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for .success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good."


author: Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886).
text:
"Hope is a thing with feathers  That perches in the soul,  And sings the tune without words  And never stops at all."


author: Erik H. Erikson.
text:
"Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired."


author: VÃ¡clav Havel (1936 - ).
text:
"Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."


author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784).
text:
"Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords."


author: Robert Jordan.
text:
"Hope is like a piece of string when you're drowning; it just isn't enough to get you out by itself."


author: Vaclev Havel.
text:
"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."


author: Samuel Smiles.
text:
"Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles."


author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680).
text:
"Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end."


author: Emily Dickenson.
text:
"Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all.  And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm.  I've heard it in the chilest land And on the strangest sea, Yet never in extremity It asked a crumb of me."


author: Emily Dickenson.
text:
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all."


author: Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886).
text:
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the words without the tune, and never stops at all."


author: Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886).
text:
"Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul. And sings the tune Without the words, and never stops at all."


author: Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744).
text:
"Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest: The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come."


author: Oliver Goldsmith (1730 - 1774).
text:
"Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray."


author: Alice Sebold.
text:
"Horror on earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained."


author: The Koran.
text:
"Horse, you are truly a creature without equal, for you fly without wings and conquer without sword."


author: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626).
text:
"Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had."


author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832).
text:
"How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to."


author: Elizabeth Aston.
text:
"How close the sexes sometimes come to one another. It is as much a matter of behaviour and the spere in which they move that separates the masculine part of humanity from the feminine."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"How come we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved."


author: Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679).
text:
"How could a state be governed, or protected in its foreign relations if every individual remained free to obey or not to obey the law according to his private opinion."


author: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817).
text:
"How could it be? She watched, observed, reflected, and finally determined that this was not a case of fortitude or of resignation only. A submissive spirit might be patient, a strong understanding would supply resolution, but here was something more; here was that elasticity of mind, that disposition to be comforted, that power of turning readily from evil to good, and of finding employment which carried her out of herself, which was from nature alone. It was the choicest gift of Heaven."


author: Matt Groening (1954 - ).
text:
"How could you?! Haven't you learned anything from that guy who gives those sermons at church? Captain Whatshisname? We live in a society of laws! Why do you think I took you to all those Police Academy movies? For fun? Well, I didn't hear anybody laughing, did you? Except at that guy who made sound effects. Makes sound effects and laughs. Where was I? Oh yeah! Stay out of my booze."


author: Clifford Truesdell.
text:
"How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation and left him to sink or swim for a few years in trying to derive it. That would have been merely an instance of the way great mathematicians since the very beginnings of mathematical research have effortlessly maintained their superiority over ordinary mortals."


author: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ).
text:
"How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life."


author: Robert J. Sawyer (1960 - ).
text:
"How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension."


author: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004).
text:
"How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin."


author: James Fenimore Cooper.
text:
"How easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy, and chivalrous courage to lose their influence beneath the chilling blight of selfishness, and to exhibit to the world a man who was great in all the minor attributes of character, but who was found wanting when it became necessary to prove how much principle is superior to policy."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"How ever do we praise ourselves, our fancies are more giddy and uniform, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn, than women's are."


author: George Washington Carver (1864 - 1943).
text:
"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong -- because someday you will have been all of these."


author: Sterne.
text:
"How frequently are the honesty and integrity of a man disposed of by a smile or a shrug. How many good and generous actions have been sunk into oblivion by a distrustful look, or stamped with the imputation of bad motives, by a mysterious and seasonable whisper!"


author: Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744).
text:
"How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd;"


author: Norman Douglas.
text:
"How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality."


author: Michael Hainey.
text:
"How his death hung over that house. Itâs part of what I know to be trueâyour absence is greater than your presence."


author: Matt Groening (1954 - ).
text:
"How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?"


author: Barry Lopez.
text:
"How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light."


author: Karl Kraus (1874 - 1936).
text:
"How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read."


author: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817).
text:
"How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue."


author: Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD).
text:
"How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand."


author: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC).
text:
"How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms."


author: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865).
text:
"How many legs does a dog have if you count his tail as a leg? Four. You can call a tail a leg if you want to, but that doesn't make it a leg."


author: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790).
text:
"How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep Holidays than Commandments. "


author: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD).
text:
"How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy."


author: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
text:
"How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life."


author: Alice Walker (1944 - ).
text:
"How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names."


author: C. C. Colton.
text:
"How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age we are looking backward to things that are gone past; in manhood, although we appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day when we have time."


author: Linda Berdoll.
text:
"How soon was it that the dead are brought to deity in the eyes of those who in life found them little regard."


author: Lord Byron (1788 - 1824).
text:
"How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm! I thank thee, night! for thou has chased away these horrid bodements which, amidst the throng, I could not dissipate; and with the blessing of thy benign and quiet influence now will I to my couch, although to rest is almost wronging such a night as this."


author: Unknown.
text:
"How to win a case in court: If the law is on your side, pound on the law; if the facts are on your side, pound on the facts; if neither is on your side, pound on the table."


author: John Green.
text:
"How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV."


author: Christina Baldwin.
text:
"How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality."


author: John Green.
text:
"How you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do."


author: Ted Morgan.
text:
"Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it."


author: Laura Moncur (1969 - ).
text:
"However difficult it is to be the homely friend of a reputed beauty, there are certain benefits. Most days, the humiliation of being the second choice is outweighed by the overflow of disappointed gentlemen."


author: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
text:
"However far man may extend himself with his knowledge, however objective he may appear to himself- -ultimately he reaps nothing but his own biography."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest."


author: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983).
text:
"However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we remain at the bottom convinced that in human affairs everything in more or less fortuitous. We do not even believe in the inevitability of our own death. Hence the difficulty of deciphering the present, of detecting the seeds of things to come as they germinate before our eyes. We are not attuned to seeing the inevitable."


author: Pliny the Younger (62 AD - 114 AD).
text:
"However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal."


author: Tom K. Ryan.
text:
"However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my traditional manner ... sulking and nausea."


author: William James (1842 - 1910).
text:
"Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of inertia."


author: Reinhold Niebuhr (1892 - 1971).
text:
"Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary."


author: Laurens Van der Post.
text:
"Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right."


author: William James (1842 - 1910).
text:
"Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives."


author: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001).
text:
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."


author: Stephen Jay Gould (1941 - 2002).
text:
"Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day."


author: James Thurber (1894 - 1961).
text:
"Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority."


author: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817).
text:
"Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of."


author: Robert Veninga.
text:
"Human pain does not let go of its grip at one point in time. Rather, it works its way out of our consciousness over time. There is a season of sadness. A season of anger. A season of tranquility. A season of hope."


author: Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804).
text:
"Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer."


author: Luther.
text:
"Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other."


author: Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880).
text:
"Human speech is a cracked cauldron on which we knock out tunes for dancing bears, when we wish to conjure pity from the stars."


author: Tom Robbins (1936 - ).
text:
"Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"Humanity takes itself too seriously. It's the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, history would have been different."


author: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - ).
text:
"Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs."


author: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986).
text:
"Humans live best when each has a place to stand, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things and what he may achieve. Destroy the place and you destroy the person."


author: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986).
text:
"Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person."


author: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969).
text:
"Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends."


author: E. B. White (1899 - 1985).
text:
"Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place."


author: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC).
text:
"Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit."


author: Kirk Douglas.
text:
"Humor, you can't exist without it. You have to be able to laugh at yourself. Otherwise you suffer."


author: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797).
text:
"Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; it costs nothing."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces."


author: Allan Heinberg.
text:
"I admit it's tempting to wish for the perfect boss, or the perfect parent, or the perfect outfit, but maybe the best any of us can do is not quit. Play the hand we've been given and accessorize the outfit we've got."


author: Stephanie Klein.
text:
"I already knew to eat clean and listen to my body, to only eat when I was in a calm mental state. Everyone knew. But when you're fat in the head, it's never about knowing the answers. It's about living them."


author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965).
text:
"I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is much better policy to prophesy after the event has taken place."


author: John Adams (1735 - 1826).
text:
"I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth."


author: Henry J. Kaiser (1882 - 1967).
text:
"I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don't dream I will make it, I won't even get close."


author: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972).
text:
"I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have - When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do."


author: Chief Justice Earl Warren.
text:
"I always turn to the sports pages first, which record people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures."


author: Chief Justice Earl Warren.
text:
"I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures."


author: Gilda Radner (1946 - 1989).
text:
"I always wanted a happy ending... Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity."


author: Althea Gibson (1927 - 2003).
text:
"I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me."


author: Alison Headley.
text:
"I always wrote with the idea that what I put out there is going to stay there. Once I publish something, it has been published. I've never deleted more than one or two posts from my site. I don't think that there are takebacks. I don't feel right about it."


author: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881).
text:
"I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few."


author: Ted Nelson.
text:
"I am a design chauvinist. I believe that good design is magical and not to be lightly tinkered with. The difference between a great design and a lousy one is in the meshing of the thousand details that either fit or don't, and the spirit of the passionate intellect that has tied them together, or tried. That's why programming-- or buying software-- on the basis of "lists of features" is a doomed and misguided effort. The features can be thrown together, as in a garbage can, or carefully laid together and interwoven in elegant unification, as in APL, or the Forth language, or the game of chess."


author: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865).
text:
"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts."


author: Evelyn Rodriguez.
text:
"I am a first generation immigrant and a woman, but I don't really write about that because I feel like I'm a human being. There are universal human experiences. When you don't put your picture online, they can see your soul before they have preconceived notions."


author: James Joyce (1882 - 1941).
text:
"I am also sure that there is no such thing as free- thinking in as much as all thinking must be must be bound by its own laws."


author: Marie Curie (1867 - 1934).
text:
"I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale."


author: Josh Lieb.
text:
"I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm."


author: Alice Walker (1944 - ).
text:
"I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to be this way...I can't apologize for that, nor can I change it, nor do I want to... We will never have to be other than who we are in order to be successful...We realize that we are as ourselves unlimited and our experiences valid. It is for the rest of the world to recognize this, if they choose."


author: Ralph Ellison.
text:
"I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."


author: Pablo Casals (1876 - 1973).
text:
"I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life."


author: Rachel Hunter (1968 - ).
text:
"I am as vulnerable and fragile as it is possible to be. I am shredded to the core. I am at the point where I am stripped bare."


author: Laura Ingalls Wilder.
text:
"I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all."


author: Michael J. Fox (1961 - ).
text:
"I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business."


author: John Keats (1795 - 1821).
text:
"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth - whether it existed before or not."


author: Jennifer Hudson.
text:
"I am completely in charge of the choices I make about what I am doing to lose weight and get healthy. And you know what? We all have this power. Donât be angry with me for something good Iâve done for myself. Be angry with yourself for not having the courage to do the same in your own life."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"I am constant as the northern star, of whose true fix'd and resting quality there is no fellow in the firmament."


author: Rabbi Harold Kushner.
text:
"I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived."


author: Charles Austin Beard (1874 - 1948).
text:
"I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves in the mire and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amid the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail."


author: Charles Lamb (1775 - 1834).
text:
"I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is."


author: Bette Davis (1908 - 1989).
text:
"I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."


author: John W. Gardner (1912 - 2002).
text:
"I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive."


author: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007).
text:
"I am eternally grateful.. for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on."


author: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817).
text:
"I am excessively fond of music, but without the smallest skill or right of judging of anybody's performance."


author: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826).
text:
"I am for freedom of religion, & against all maneuvres to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another."


author: William Duncan Vandiver.
text:
"I am from a state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs and Democrats, and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me."


author: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider.
text:
"I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember."


author: Julius Caesar (100 BC - 44 BC).
text:
"I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army."


author: J. C. Penny.
text:
"I am grateful for all my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties."


author: Otto von Bismark.
text:
"I am grateful for even the sharpest criticism, as long as it sticks to the point. (Ich bin dankbar fur die schÃ¤rfste Kritik, wenn sie nur sachlich bleibt.)"


author: Lindsay Lohan (1986 - ).
text:
"I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back."


author: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996).
text:
"I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy."


author: Jennifer Hudson.
text:
"I am in control of all decisions that have to do with my image, which means that no one will decide whatâs right for me except me. Iâm not special. We should all feel this way about ourselves."


author: William Lloyd Garrison (1805 - 1879).
text:
"I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard."


author: Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon.
text:
"I am interested in the homeless, but they're a symptom. You're treating a symptom and the disease rages on and consumes the human race. I'm talking about an overhaul of the system: putting power in different hands."


author: Tallyrand.
text:
"I am more afriad of an army of 100 sheep lead by a lion than an army of 100 lions lead by a sheep."


author: Alexander Humboldt (1769 - 1859).
text:
"I am more and more convinced that our happiness depends more on how we meet the events in our lives, than on those events themselves."


author: Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767 - 1835).
text:
"I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves."


author: Alexander Humboldt (1769 - 1859).
text:
"I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves."


author: Michael Palin.
text:
"I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller."


author: Cicely Tyson.
text:
"I am not a quitter. I will fight until I drop. It is just a matter of having some faith in the fact that as long as you are able to draw breath in the universe, you have a chance."


author: Mother Jones.
text:
"I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please."


author: Hugh Elliott.
text:
"I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race."


author: Frank Liszt.
text:
"I am not fond of speaking about politics because I don't have in my possession an army of 200,000 soldiers."


author: Fritz Perls.
text:
"I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine."


author: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC).
text:
"I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there."


author: Sara Teasdale (1884 - 1933).
text:
"I am not yours, not lost in you, Not lost, although I long to be Lost as a candle lit at noon, Lost as a snowflake in the sea. You love me, and I find you still A spirit beautiful and bright, Yet I am I, who long to be Lost as a light is lost in light."


author: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931).
text:
"I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves."


author: Edward E. Hale.
text:
"I am only one, but I am one. I can not do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I can not do interfere with what I can do."


author: Edward Everett Hale (1822 - 1909).
text:
"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something I can do."


author: Edmund Everett Hale.
text:
"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do."


author: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968).
text:
"I am only one, still I am one. I can not do everything, still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do"


author: Hellen Keller.
text:
"I am only one; but still I am one. I may not be able to do everything, but still I can do something."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"I am prepared to meet anyone, but whether anyone is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."


author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965).
text:
"I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."


author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965).
text:
"I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.'"


author: An English Professor.
text:
"I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top."


author: Margaret Cho.
text:
"I am so beautiful, sometimes people weep when they see me. And it has nothing to do with what I look like really, it is just that I gave myself the power to say that I am beautiful, and if I could do that, maybe there is hope for them too. And the great divide between the beautiful and the ugly will cease to be. Because we are all what we choose."


author: Tupac Shakur.
text:
"I am society's child, this is how they made me, and now I'm saying what's on my mind and they dont want that. This is what you made me America."


author: Steven Jay Gould.
text:
"I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."


author: Martha Washington (1732 - 1802).
text:
"I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances."


author: Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923).
text:
"I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses."


author: Dale Carnegie.
text:
"I am very fond of strawberries and cream, but I have found that for some strange reason, fish prefer worms. So when I went fishing, I didnât think about what I wanted. I thought about what the fish wanted. I didnât bait the hook with strawberries and cream. Rather, I dangled a worm or grasshopper in front of the fish."


author: Stephen Jay Gould (1941 - 2002).
text:
"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einsteinâs brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."


author: Karl Kraus (1874 - 1936).
text:
"I and my public understand each other very well; it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear."


author: Richard Greenberg.
text:
"I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind."


author: Titus Livius (59 BC - 17 AD).
text:
"I approach these questions unwillingly, as they are sore subjects, but no cure can be effected without touching upon and handling them."


author: Sarah Moore GrimkÃ© (1792 - 1873).
text:
"I ask no favors for my sex.... All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks."


author: Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944).
text:
"I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"I asked tom if countries always apologize when they had done wrong, and he says, 'Yes, the little one does.'"


author: Randy K. Milholland.
text:
"I barely trust established sources of information. I have a hard time finding [Wikipedia], an encyclopedia that anyone can alter, to be a safe way to learn about anything except how many idiots think their opinions are a suitable substitute for facts."


author: Joanna Field.
text:
"I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know."


author: Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818).
text:
"I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life....Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe."


author: John Kerry (1943 - ).
text:
"I believe America's best days are ahead of us because I believe that the future belongs to freedom, not to fear."


author: Henry Ford (1863 - 1947).
text:
"I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me."


author: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790).
text:
"I believe I shall,in some shape or other,always exist; and, with all the inconveniences human life is liable to, I shall not object to a new edition of mine, hoping, however, that the errata of the last may be corrected."


author: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915).
text:
"I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I'm ready, RIGHT NOW."


author: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963).
text:
"I believe in God like I believe in the sun, not because I can see it, but because of it all things are seen."


author: Ann Richards.
text:
"I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it."


author: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592).
text:
"I believe it to be true that dreams are the true interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them."


author: Gordon Atkinson.
text:
"I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient."


author: Hillary Rodham Clinton (1948 - ).
text:
"I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation."


author: Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915).
text:
"I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high water mark of pure and useful living."


author: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826).
text:
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."


author: Buzz Aldrin (1930 - ).
text:
"I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises."


author: John D. Rockefeller Jr..
text:
"I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession a duty."


author: John D. Rockefeller (1839 - 1937).
text:
"I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty."


author: Tupac Shakur.
text:
"I believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer from it. But in my mind, I believe what I'm doing is right. So I feel like I'm going to heaven."


author: George W. Bush (1946 - ).
text:
"I believe that God has planted in every human heart the desire to live in freedom. And even when that desire is crushed by tyranny for decades, it will rise again."


author: Bill Hicks.
text:
"I believe that God left certain drugs growing naturally upon our planet to help speed up and facilitate our evolution."


author: Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968).
text:
"I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter the conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner of the world."


author: The Dalai Lama (1935 - ).
text:
"I believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change such as the present one come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world."


author: Andrew Soloman.
text:
"I believe that its most important function is in the formation of attachment. If we did not suffer enough loss to fear it, we could not love intensely."


author: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826).
text:
"I believe that justice is instinct and innate, the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as the threat of feeling, seeing and hearing."


author: Maude (Ruth Gordon).
text:
"I believe that much of the world's sorrow is caused by people who are this, but allow themselves to be treated like that."


author: M.C. Escher.
text:
"I believe that producing pictures, as I do, is almost solely a question of wanting so very much to do it well."


author: Purchasing agent for Baylor Baptist University.
text:
"I believe that religion can make a well-rounded person, or it can make an idiot. What we've go going on here is an idiot."


author: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900).
text:
"I believe that the first test of a truly great man is his humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt of his power. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not of them, but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are endlessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful."


author: Stephen Colbert.
text:
"I believe that the government that governs best is a government that governs least, and by these standards we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq."


author: George Washington Carver (1864 - 1943).
text:
"I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this earth to give us a breathing spell. As we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which is Godâs true storehouse and can never be exhausted. We can learn to synthesize material for every human need from things that grow."


author: Carl Rogers.
text:
"I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning."


author: Voltaire (1694 - 1778).
text:
"I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas."


author: His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
text:
"I believe that to meet the challenge of the next century, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for his or her own self, family or nation, but for the benefit of all mankind."


author: Gerald R. Ford (1913 - 2006).
text:
"I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together , not only our government but civilization itself. That bond, though strained, is unbroken at home and abroad."


author: Gerald R. Ford (1913 - 2006).
text:
"I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government but civilization itself."


author: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968).
text:
"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."


author: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ).
text:
"I believe that uncertainty is really my spirit's way of whispering, "I'm in flux. I can't decide for you. Something is off-balance here.""


author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
text:
"I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias."


author: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ).
text:
"I believe that [everyone] is the keeper of a dream - and by tuning into one another's secret hopes, we can become better friends, better partners, better parents, and better lovers."


author: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ).
text:
"I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself."


author: Basil W. Maturin.
text:
"I believe there are few whose view of life has not been affected by the stern or kindly influences of their early childhood, which threw them in upon themselves in timidity and reserve, or drew them out in genial confidence and sympathy with their fellow creatures."


author: James Madison (1751 - 1836).
text:
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."


author: William James (1842 - 1910).
text:
"I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are impossible."


author: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
text:
"I believe this nation should commit itself, to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth."


author: Dan Quayle (1947 - ).
text:
"I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change."


author: George Bush (1924 - ).
text:
"I believe with all my heart that one cannot be America's president without a belief in God, without the strength that your faith gives you."


author: William Henry Harrison (1773 - 1841).
text:
"I believe, and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer."


author: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935).
text:
"I bet you if I had met him [Trotsky] and had a chat with him, I would have found him a very interesting and human fellow, for I never yet met a man that I didn't like."


author: Terence (185 BC - 159 BC).
text:
"I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself."


author: Demetri Martin.
text:
"I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert."


author: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004).
text:
"I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad."


author: Ben Stein.
text:
"I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty...This is my highest and best use as a human."


author: Anna Quindlen (1953 - ).
text:
"I came to the realization that there were certain public issues that were most usefully dealt with within some sort of framework of at least my private beliefs, if not my private life."


author: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982).
text:
"I can accept anthing, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize."


author: Frank Sinatra (1915 - 1998).
text:
"I can honestly say to you, slaves of the press, that if I had as many love affairs as you have given me credit for, I would now be speaking to you from a jar at the Harvard Medical School."


author: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924).
text:
"I can imagine no greater disservice to the county than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free republic like our own their indisputable right to criticize their own public officials. While exercising the great powers of office I hold, I would regret in a crisis like the one through which we are now passing to lose the benefit of patriotic and intelligent criticism."


author: Mark Hoppus.
text:
"I can name the newscaster on The Simpsons, but I can't name my own congressman. And that's what makes America great."


author: Jack Handey (1949 - ).
text:
"I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it."


author: Steven Wright (1955 - ).
text:
"I can remember the first time I had to go to sleep. Mom said, "Steven, time to go to sleep." I said, "But I don't know how." She said, "It's real easy. Just go down to the end of tired and hang a left." So I went down to the end of tired, and just out of curiosity I hung a right. My mother was there, and she said "I thought I told you to go to sleep.""


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want."


author: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969).
text:
"I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens."


author: Gore Vidal (1925 - ).
text:
"I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon. I cannot understand the love affair."


author: Dave Barry (1947 - ).
text:
"I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me."


author: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945).
text:
"I can't bring myself to say, 'Well, I guess I'll be toddling along.' It isn't that I can't toddle. It's just that I can't guess I'll toddle."


author: Charles Rosin.
text:
"I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts."


author: Herbert Bayard Swope (1882 - 1958).
text:
"I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves."


author: Baldrick - Sense and Senility.
text:
"I can't see the point in the theatre. All that sex and violence. I get enough of that at home. Apart from the sex, of course."


author: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945).
text:
"I can't seem to bring myself to say, "Well, I guess I'll be toddling along." It isn't that I can't toddle. It's that I can't guess I'll toddle."


author: Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924).
text:
"I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make despair pause. For in truth we who are creatures of impulse are creatures of despair."


author: Anna Quindlen (1953 - ).
text:
"I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society."


author: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956).
text:
"I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars."


author: Martin Luther (1483 - 1546).
text:
"I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other. God help me. Amen."


author: Leo Rosten (1908 - ).
text:
"I cannot believe that the purpose of life is (merely) to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate. I think it is above all to matter, to count, to stand for something. To have it make some difference that you lived at all."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people."


author: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790).
text:
"I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it."


author: Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864).
text:
"I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air."


author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965).
text:
"I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest."


author: Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946).
text:
"I cannot forgive my friends for dying; I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing."


author: Herbert B. Swope.
text:
"I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure - which is try to please everybody."


author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965).
text:
"I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns."


author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799).
text:
"I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better."


author: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948).
text:
"I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life."


author: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817).
text:
"I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of."


author: John Green.
text:
"I canât talk about our love story, so I will talk about math. I am not a mathematician, but I know this: There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. Thereâs .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. A writer we used to like taught us that. There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than Iâm likely to get. But, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldnât trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and Iâm grateful."


author: Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC).
text:
"I care for riches, to make giftsTo friends, or lead a sick man back to healthWith ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealthFor daily gladness; once a man be doneWith hunger, rich and poor are all as one."


author: Joan Rivers (1935 - ).
text:
"I caused my husband's heart attack. In the middle of lovemaking I took the paper bag off my head. He dropped the Polaroid and keeled over and so did the hooker. It would have taken me half an hour to untie myself and call the paramedics, but fortunately the Great Dane could dial."


author: Ursula K. LeGuin.
text:
"I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy."


author: Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, President, ELDR 1995-2000, Foreign Minister 1982-1993.
text:
"I cherish the Franco-German cooperation as one of the most important developments in post-war Europe. But I will not accept is as being so sacrosanct that the rest of us shall simply adapt to what is decided between Paris and Berlin."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."


author: Themistocles (527 BC - 460 BC).
text:
"I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man."


author: Stephen Sondheim.
text:
"I chose and my word was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken â the choosing was not. Just keep moving on..."


author: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948).
text:
"I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps."


author: Robert Millikan (1868 - 1953).
text:
"I conceive the essential task of religion to be "to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind". "


author: Truman Capote (1924 - 1984).
text:
"I conceived the whole adventure as a short comic -nonfiction novel- the first. That book was an important event for me. While writing it, I realized I just might have found a solution to what had always been my greatest creative quandary. I wanted to produce a journalistic novel, something on a large scale that would have the credibility of fact, the immediacy of film, the depth and freedom of prose, and the precision of poetry."


author: Gene Roddenberry.
text:
"I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people of their free will -- and a hell of a lot of money in the bargain. Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all. For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain."


author: Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867).
text:
"I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial."


author: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826).
text:
"I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state."


author: Sir Stephen Henry Roberts.
text:
"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all other possible gods, you'll understand why I dismiss yours."


author: Stephen Roberts.
text:
"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."


author: J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973).
text:
"I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence."


author: Shirley MacLaine (1934 - ).
text:
"I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music, that song, that vibration of God that was inside of ME."


author: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977).
text:
"I could dance with you until the cows come home. On second   thought I'd rather dance with the cows until you come home."


author: Nathaniel Emmons.
text:
"I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments."


author: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962).
text:
"I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on."


author: Joss Whedon.
text:
"I could not conceive that [fans] actually wanted me to sign something. It took a long time for me to figure out (a) just say 'Thank you' and sign the thing, and (b) smile in the picture, because if you try to just half-smile you're going to look constipated."


author: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961).
text:
"I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God."


author: Maya Angelou (1928 - ).
text:
"I couldn't tell fact from fiction, Or if the dream was true My only sure prediction In this world was you. I'd touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost."


author: Suzanne Young.
text:
"I couldnât kill myself, couldnât let go like so many others had. I wonder if in their last moments theyâd changed their minds, but there was no boulder to grab on to."


author: Christopher Marlowe (1564 - 1593).
text:
"I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no sin but ignorance. Birds of the air will tell of murders past. I am asham'd to hear such fooleries!"


author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
text:
"I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice."


author: Hank Green.
text:
"I deal with stress in two ways because there are two kinds of stress. There's stress that you can take care of and there's stress that you can't. The first one, I take care of it as fast as possible, because putting it off always makes it worse. Things that I can't fix? I think about the fact that I can't fix them. I think about why I can't fix them and I come to terms with the fact that this is a problem that I'm not going to overcome and that the world is not a wish granting factory."


author: Whitney Houston.
text:
"I decided long ago never to walk in anyoneâs shadow. If I fail, if I succeed, at least Iâll live as I believe."


author: Dr. Ana M Guzman.
text:
"I decided not to let my past rule my future so I decided to change my present in order to open up my future."


author: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC).
text:
"I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean."


author: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817).
text:
"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library."


author: Jennifer Louden.
text:
"I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others."


author: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ).
text:
"I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters."


author: Chris Martin.
text:
"I definitely believe in God. How can you look at anything and not be overwhelmed by the miraculousness of it?"


author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935).
text:
"I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'."


author: Ellen DeGeneres.
text:
"I didn't go to college at all, any college, and I'm not saying you wasted your time or money, but look at me, I'm a huge celebrity."


author: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011).
text:
"I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life."


author: Steve Wadlow.
text:
"I didn't think it could be done, though given Sun's track record, I suppose that I shouldn't be surprised that they've managed to produce an even worse keyboard than any that they previously had on the market."


author: Etty Hillesum.
text:
"I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's inner life. And that too is a deed."


author: Ben Lindsey.
text:
"I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth. "


author: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936).
text:
"I do not believe in a fate that falls on all men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."


author: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936).
text:
"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."


author: Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966).
text:
"I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author."


author: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865).
text:
"I do not believe the Union will disolve, I believe it will become all one thing, or all the other."


author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
text:
"I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world."


author: Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938).
text:
"I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment, to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all agnosticism means."


author: Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642).
text:
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."


author: James Thurber (1894 - 1961).
text:
"I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed."


author: Sir Isaac Newton.
text:
"I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean lay all undiscovered before me."


author: Ashley Montagu.
text:
"I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore and diverting himself and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."


author: Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727).
text:
"I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore and diverting himself and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell that ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."


author: Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727).
text:
"I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."


author: John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946).
text:
"I do not know which makes a man more conservativeâto know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake his neighbours up."


author: Bette Davis (1908 - 1989).
text:
"I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business."


author: Miguel Cervantes.
text:
"I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"I do not speak to thee in drink but in tears, not in pleasure but in passion, not in words only, but in woes also."


author: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826).
text:
"I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it."


author: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948).
text:
"I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any."


author: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968).
text:
"I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace."


author: Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864).
text:
"I do not want to be a doctor and live by menâs diseases, nor a minister to live by their sins, nor a lawyer and live by their quarrels. So, I donât see that there is anything left for me but to be an author."


author: Kathe Kollwitz.
text:
"I do not want to die. . . until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown."


author: Kathe Kollwitz.
text:
"I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown."


author: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC).
text:
"I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"I do oppose my patience to his fury, and am arm'd to suffer with a quietness of spirit, the very tyranny and rage of his."


author: Meg Ryan (1963 - ).
text:
"I do press junkets and people will tell me what I've supposedly said in articles and I always disagree with myself. 'Why in the world would I say that?'"


author: Rosa Parks (1913 - 2005).
text:
"I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day, but I don't think there is anything such as complete happiness. It pains me that there is still a lot of Klan activity and racism. I think when you say you're happy, you have everything that you need and everything that you want, and nothing more to wish for. I haven't reached that stage yet."


author: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865).
text:
"I do the very best I know how-the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference."


author: Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888).
text:
"I don't believe fine young ladies enjoy themselves a bit more than we do, in spite of our burned hair, old gowns, one glove apiece, and tight slippers that sprain our ankles when we are silly enough to wear them."


author: Angelina Jolie (1975 - ).
text:
"I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free."


author: Katherine Anne Porter (1894 - 1980).
text:
"I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always."


author: Federico Fellini (1920 - 1993).
text:
"I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it."


author: Katherine Hepburn.
text:
"I don't believe men and women were meant to live together. I think perhaps they should just live next door."


author: Gloria Naylor.
text:
"I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel."


author: Charlie Chaplin (1889 - 1977).
text:
"I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career."


author: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935).
text:
"I don't care how poor and inefficient a little country is; they like to run their own business. I know men that would make my wife a better husband than I am; but, darn it, I'm not going to give her to 'em."


author: Howard Dean.
text:
"I don't care what your liberal agenda is, you'll never accomplish anything if the people don't trust us with their money, and they don't trust us Democrats."


author: Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987).
text:
"I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me."


author: Paul "Bear" Bryant.
text:
"I don't hire anybody who's not brighter than I am. If they're not brighter than I am, I don't need them."


author: Bruce Baum.
text:
"I don't kill flies but I like to mess with their minds. I hold them above globes. They freak out and yell, 'Whoa, I'm way too high!'"


author: J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973).
text:
"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."


author: Sara B. Cooper.
text:
"I don't know how to have casual conversation. You think you're talking about one thing, and either you are and it's incredibly boring, or you're not because it's subtext and you need a decoder ring."


author: Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965).
text:
"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve."


author: Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965).
text:
"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve."


author: Bruce Baum.
text:
"I don't know what's wrong with my television set. I was getting C-Span and the Home Shopping Network on the same station. I actually bought a congressman."


author: Elvis Presley (1935 - 1977).
text:
"I don't like being called Elvis The Pelvis. That's gotta be one of the most childish expressions I've ever heard coming from an adult."


author: Bob Newhart (1929 - ).
text:
"I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'."


author: Dodie Smith.
text:
"I don't like the sound of all those lists he's making - it's like taking too many notes at school; you feel you've achieved something when you haven't."


author: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885).
text:
"I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses."


author: Ellen DeGeneres.
text:
"I don't need a baby growing inside me for nine months. For one thing, there's morning sickness. If I'm going to feel nauseous and achy when I wake up, I want to achieve that state the old fashioned way: getting good and drunk the night before."


author: Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005).
text:
"I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"I don't play accurately-any one can play accurately- but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life."


author: Pamela Anderson (1967 - ).
text:
"I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday. If I think too much, it kind of freaks me out."


author: Bob Marley (1945 - 1981).
text:
"I don't stand for the black man's side, I don't stand for the white man's side, I stand for God's side."


author: Randall Terry.
text:
"I don't think Christians should use birth control. You consummate your marriage as often as you like and if you have babies, you have babies."


author: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011).
text:
"I don't think it's good that we're perceived as different I think it's important we're perceived as MUCH BETTER. If being different is essential to doing that, then we have to do that, but if we could be much better without being different, that'd be fine with me. I want to be much better! I don't care about being different, but we'll have to be different in some ways to be much better."


author: Marlon Brando (1924 - 2004).
text:
"I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute thair seed."


author: Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976).
text:
"I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble."


author: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ).
text:
"I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good."


author: Jeanne Moreau.
text:
"I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent."


author: Robert Bork.
text:
"I don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools, what they study is what the court said about the Constitution. They study the opinions. They don't study the Constitution itself."


author: Angelina Jolie (1975 - ).
text:
"I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts."


author: Pharrell Williams.
text:
"I don't think there's a rap artist that has more songs about killing somebody than Johnny Cash does."


author: Jason Kottke (1973 - ).
text:
"I don't think you're a very good friend if you're always being supportive. You also have to add criticism."


author: Penn Jillette (1955 - ).
text:
"I don't travel in circles where people say, 'I have faith, I believe this in my heart and nothing you can say or do can shake my faith.' That's just a long-winded religious way to say, 'Shut up.'"


author: Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904).
text:
"I don't understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses."


author: Ellen DeGeneres.
text:
"I don't understand the sizes anymore. There's a size zero, which I didn't even know that they had. It must stand for: 'Ohhh my God, you're thin.'"


author: Devin J. Monroe (1983 - ).
text:
"I don't understand why people think everything has to have meaning. While painting the Mona Lisa did Leonardo Da Vinci intend for it to have greater meaning than a work of art that he made?"


author: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974).
text:
"I don't want any "yes-men" around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs."


author: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974).
text:
"I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs."


author: Julian Fellowes.
text:
"I don't want my own son to die, but this is a war and we must be in it together. High and low. Rich and poor. There can be no special cases because every man at the front is a special case to someone."


author: Gore Vidal (1925 - ).
text:
"I don't want prizes. I turned down the National Institute of Arts and Letters when I was elected to it in 1976 on the grounds that I already belonged to the Diner's Club."


author: Stephen Colbert.
text:
"I don't want someone shoving his views down my throat, unless they're covered in a crunchy candy shell."


author: John Cusack.
text:
"I don't want to buy anything, sell anything or process anything. I don't want to process anything bought or sold, or buy anything processed or sold, or sell anything bought, sold or processed."


author: Madeleine Albright (1937 - ).
text:
"I don't want to sound Pollyannaish, but I hope that out of a tragedy like this something good will come. I hope we understand we're one family."


author: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942).
text:
"I don't want to talk as much. It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over."


author: George Burns (1896 - 1996).
text:
"I don't worry about getting old. I'm old already. Only young people worry about getting old. When I was 65 I had cupid's eczema. I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked."


author: Wil Wheaton.
text:
"I donât know what the future of my career holds, but I know that whatever is over the horizon, the road Iâve traveled to get here is like those Interstates in Texas: everything can look the same, and it can feel like youâre not going anywhere, until you suddenly get where youâre going and realize that youâve been traveling for a long time."


author: Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989).
text:
"I donât like animals. Itâs a strange thing, I donât like men and I donât like animals. As for God, he is beginning to disgust me."


author: Clay Aiken.
text:
"I donât really do New Yearâs resolutions because I donât think you should have to wait until December to start working on how to change yourself. I think if youâve got a problem, you need to fix it now."


author: Gordon Atkinson.
text:
"I donât think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given."


author: John Green.
text:
"I donât think God gives a shit if we have a dog or if a woman wears shorts. I think He gives a shit about whether youâre a good person."


author: Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954).
text:
"I drank to drown my pain, but the damned pain learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good behavior."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind."


author: William Claire.
text:
"I dream of wayward gulls and all landless lovers, rare moments of winter sun, peace, privacy, for everyone."


author: Walt Disney (1901 - 1966).
text:
"I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true."


author: Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971).
text:
"I drink because she nags, he said  I nag because he drinks. But if the truth be known to you, He's a lush and she's a shrew."


author: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC).
text:
"I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly combat."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show for any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."


author: Ettiene De Grellet.
text:
"I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."


author: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809).
text:
"I fear not, I see not reason for fear. In the end we will be the victors. For though at times the flame of liberty may cease to shine, the ember will never expire."


author: Jean Kerr.
text:
"I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on."


author: Frank Sinatra (1915 - 1998).
text:
"I feel bad for people who don't drink because when they wake up in the morning and get out of bed...Thats the best they are gonna feel."


author: April Foiles.
text:
"I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back."


author: Jimi Hendrix (1942 - 1970).
text:
"I feel guilty when people say I'm the greatest on the scene. What's good or bad doesn't matter to me; what does matter is feeling and not feeling. If only people would take more of a true view and think in terms of feelings. Your name doesn't mean a damn, it's your talents and feelings that matter. You've got to know much more than just the technicalities of notes; you've got to know what goes between the notes."


author: Henry James (1843 - 1916).
text:
"I feel how little she can like being told of her owing me anything. No woman ever enjoys such an obligation to another woman."


author: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011).
text:
"I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I'm only 30 years old and I want to have a chance to continue creating things. I know I've got at least one more great computer in me. And Apple is not going to give me a chance to do that."


author: Frank Sinatra (1915 - 1998).
text:
"I feel sorry for people who do not drink. When they wake up in the morning it is as good as they are going to feel all day."


author: Frank Sinatra (1915 - 1998).
text:
"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day."


author: Frank Sinatra (1915 - 1998).
text:
"I feel sorry for those who do not drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day."


author: Richard Price.
text:
"I feel that we read to learn new things, sure, absolutely, but more often than not, what we really get out of the good books we read is self- recognition. We read and discover stuff about life that we already knew, except that we didn't know we knew it until we read it in a particular book. And this self-recognition, this discovering ourselves in the writings of others can be very exciting, can make us feel a little less isolated inside our own thing and a little more connected to the larger world."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your very being, and seems to make the day's work like a happy child at play."


author: Erica Eisdorfer.
text:
"I felt despair. Though it seems to me now there's two kinds of it: the sort that causes a person to surrender and then the sort I had which made me take risks and make plans."


author: Roger Zelazny.
text:
"I felt that I had done my duty. Nothing drove me now. I had run out of causes and was as close as I might ever be to peace. With all this behind me, I felt that if I had to die now, it was all right. I would not protest quite so loudly as I would have at any other time."


author: Laura Bennett.
text:
"I figured out how to know when you're really loved. it's when you see yourself reflected, really reflected in the other person's eyes, and you know it's the same for them."


author: Lucy Lawless.
text:
"I finally realized that being a role model doesn't mean people are encouraged to be like me -- they're encouraged to go out and be more of themselves."


author: John Cleese (1939 - ).
text:
"I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me."


author: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977).
text:
"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."


author: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977).
text:
"I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book."


author: Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960).
text:
"I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way."


author: Louis C. K..
text:
"I find that when people laugh really hard, it's usually because they're connecting and identifying in a way that they hadn't considered. That's my payoff."


author: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894).
text:
"I find the great in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it,-but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor."


author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935).
text:
"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving -- we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor."


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


author: Leonard Nimoy.
text:
"I find the question "Why are we here?" typically human. I'd suggest "Are we here?" would be the more logical choice."


author: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001).
text:
"I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously."


author: Dana Hatch.
text:
"I find women with well developed flesh very attractive. The scrawny little things doing commercials on my television set are slightly repulsive -- like famine victims."


author: Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773).
text:
"I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes."


author: Vince Lombardi (1913 - 1970).
text:
"I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious."


author: Vince Lombardi (1913 - 1970).
text:
"I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle-- victorious."


author: Peggy Noonan (1950 - ).
text:
"I first saw President Reagan as a foot, highly polished brown cordovan wagging merrily on a hassock. I spied it through the door. It was a beautiful foot, sleek. Such casual elegance and clean lines! But not a big foot, not formidable, maybe a little ...frail. I imagined cradling it in my arms, protecting it from unsmooth roads."


author: Sylvia Plath (1932 - 1963).
text:
"I fixed my eyes on the larget cloud, as if, when it passed out of my sight, I might have the good luck to pass with it."


author: Henry Ford (1863 - 1947).
text:
"I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages in the making, but shall draw its materials largely from the annual produce of the fields."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill- treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: âThe bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; thatâs fair.â In these words he epitomized the history of the human race."


author: Yakov Smirnoff.
text:
"I found out that when you get married the man becomes the head of the house. And the woman becomes the neck, and she turns the head any way she wants to."


author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965).
text:
"I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic."


author: E. B. White (1899 - 1985).
text:
"I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult."


author: Emo Philips.
text:
"I go from stool to stool in singles bars hoping to get lucky, but there's never any gum under any of them."


author: Anne Frank (1929 - 1945).
text:
"I go into ecstasies every time I see the naked figure of a woman, such as Venus, for example. It strikes me as so wonderful and exquisite that I have difficulty in stopping the tears rolling down my cheeks."


author: Joss Whedon.
text:
"I go to movies expecting to have a whole experience. If I want a movie that doesn't end, I'll go to a French movie. A movie has to be complete within itself; it can't just build off the first one or play variations."


author: Ellen DeGeneres.
text:
"I gotta work out. I keep saying it all the time. I keep saying I gotta start working out. It's been about two months since I've worked out. And I just don't have the time. Which uh..is odd. Because I have the time to go out to dinner. And uh..and watch tv. And get a bone density test. And uh.. try to figure out what my phone number spells in words."


author: Viktor Frankl.
text:
"I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love."


author: Jules Feiffer (1929 - ).
text:
"I grew up to have my father's looks - my fathers speech patterns - my father's posture - my father's walk - my father's opinions and my mother's contempt for my father."


author: Greg Proops.
text:
"I guarantee you it's not the stoned kids that are shooting everyone. They don't have time to like buy ammo. A little bit busy looking up the Domino's number in the phone book for, like, the fiftieth time."


author: Glen Cook.
text:
"I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled toward absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world."


author: Janeane Garofalo.
text:
"I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth."


author: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider.
text:
"I guess what I'm trying to say is, I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you're not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead."


author: Moby.
text:
"I had an epiphany a few years ago where I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I had yet to meet a celebrity who is as smart and interesting as any of my friends."


author: Lisa Alther.
text:
"I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood."


author: Steven Wright (1955 - ).
text:
"I hate it when my foot falls asleep during the day because that means it's going to be up all night."


author: Roseanne Barr.
text:
"I hate the word housewife; I don't like the word home-maker either. I want to be called Domestic Goddess."


author: Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005).
text:
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."


author: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817).
text:
"I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures."


author: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969).
text:
"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity."


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


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't."


author: Steven Wright (1955 - ).
text:
"I have a large seashell collection, which I keep scattered on the beaches all over the world. Maybe you've seen it."


author: Elizabeth Janeway.
text:
"I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one."


author: Maxine Waters.
text:
"I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry."


author: Tina Fey.
text:
"I have a suspicion that the definition of "crazy" in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to f*** [sleep with her] anymore."


author: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961).
text:
"I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and an equal number who do use their minds, but in an amazingly stupid way."


author: Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962).
text:
"I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value."


author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965).
text:
"I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents."


author: Monica Baldwin.
text:
"I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours."


author: Giovanni Jacopo Casanova.
text:
"I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms."


author: Peter Cooper.
text:
"I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good."


author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
text:
"I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not. They are strangers at their birthplace, and the leafy lanes they have known from childhood or the populous streets in which they have played, remain but a place of passage. They may spend their whole lives aliens among their kindred and remain aloof among the only scenes they have ever knows. Perhaps it is this sense of strangeness that sends men far and wide in the search for something permanent, to which they may attach themselves. Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs. Here is the home he sought, and he will settle amid scenes that he has never seen before, among men he has never known, as though they were familiar to him from his birth. Here at last he finds rest."


author: Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745).
text:
"I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout."


author: Madeleine K. Albright.
text:
"I have been called the most powerful woman in the world, but I have on occasion lacked even the power of speech, because although we have crossed the threshold into a new century, there are still too many questions for which we have no answers."


author: Robert Anthony.
text:
"I have been like a child walking along the shore line. Quickly discarding one sea shell for another of more outward beauty-- never to know the pearl within!"


author: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965).
text:
"I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them."


author: Gordon Atkinson.
text:
"I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks."


author: Bible.
text:
"I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread."


author: Unknown.
text:
"I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging the future but by the past."


author: Patrick Henry (1736 - 1799).
text:
"I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know way of judging the future but by the past."


author: Joyce Grenfell.
text:
"I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving - not giving and taking."


author: Umberto Eco (1932 - ).
text:
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."


author: Angela L. Wozniak.
text:
"I have come to realize that all my trouble with living has come from fear and smallness within me."


author: J. B. S. Haldane (1892 - 1964).
text:
"I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don't know why I do things."


author: Charles De Gaulle (1890 - 1970).
text:
"I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."


author: Anonymous.
text:
"I have decided that suicide is completely out of the question. I refuse to end the suffering of others... No, I must contemplate homicide and end the suffering of one... ME!!!"


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"I have done some indiscreet things in my day, but this thing of playing myself for a prophet was the worst. Still, it had its ameliorations. A prophet doesn't have to have any brains. They are good to have, of course, for the ordinary exigencies of life, but they are no use in professional work. It is the restfulest vocation there is. When the spirit of prophecy comes upon you, you merely take your intellect and lay it off somewhere in a cool place for a rest, and unship your jaw and leave it alone; it will work itself. The result is prophecy."


author: Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976).
text:
"I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you."


author: Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976).
text:
"I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you."


author: Terence (185 BC - 159 BC).
text:
"I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want."


author: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963).
text:
"I have found a desire within myself that no experience in this world can satisfy; the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."


author: Jacqueline Cochran (1910 - 1980).
text:
"I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - and spirit."


author: Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933).
text:
"I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort."


author: Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939).
text:
"I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them, on the whole, are trash."


author: Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC).
text:
"I have found power in the mysteries of thought,exaltation in the changing of the Muses;I have been versed in the reasonings of men;but Fate is stronger than anything I have known."


author: Devin J. Monroe (1983 - ).
text:
"I have found that everything wants to kill you. For some things, like fast food, or riding a bike, it just takes longer."


author: Erica Eisdorfer.
text:
"I have found that it don't really matter if you're brought up fine or rough, but that it helps to have someone to spill your sorrows to."


author: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972).
text:
"I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it."


author: Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997).
text:
"I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love."


author: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC).
text:
"I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law."


author: Salma Hayek.
text:
"I have gotten a lot more attention than...other women that I find incredibly beautiful. And this has happened to me ever since I was a girl, when I was flat, had no teeth, was skinny and small as I could be. I always got more attention than anyone else. If I hadn't, I would have made sure I did."


author: John Alan Appleman.
text:
"I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success - the earliest spark in the dreaming youth - is this: dream a great dream."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another."


author: Rosa Parks (1913 - 2005).
text:
"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear."


author: Kahlil Gibron.
text:
"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; Yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers."


author: Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915).
text:
"I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed."


author: Lauren Edwards.
text:
"I have learned that you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved, the rest is up to them."


author: Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971).
text:
"I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge."


author: Margaret Cho.
text:
"I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who are less strong. I can take the bullets for those who aren't able to."


author: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931).
text:
"I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers."


author: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004).
text:
"I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"I have lived some thirty years on this planet and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors."


author: Bruce Grocott (1940 - ).
text:
"I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves."


author: Dorothy Day (1897 - 1980).
text:
"I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions."


author: Robert Anthony.
text:
"I have loved like a child collecting shells along the shore line, discarding one shell for another of seemingly more outward beauty with no knowledge of the pearls that were hidden within."


author: Kathryn L. Nelson.
text:
"I have made plenty of enemies in my lifetime, but none has ever done me as much injury as I do myself."


author: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960).
text:
"I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back."


author: Ellen Goodman (1941 - ).
text:
"I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a piece of paper. I find it defined as a production of the brain, as the power of the brain to produce something humorous, and the capacity of percieving humor."


author: Harold Macmillan (1894 - 1986).
text:
"I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance."


author: Harold Macmillan (1894 - 1986).
text:
"I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance."


author: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937).
text:
"I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views."


author: Voltaire (1694 - 1778).
text:
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it."


author: Voltaire (1694 - 1778).
text:
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it."


author: D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930).
text:
"I have never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A little bird will fall dead, frozen from a bough, without ever having felt sorry for itself."


author: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931).
text:
"I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious idea of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God."


author: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827).
text:
"I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose."


author: Elie Wiesel (1928 - ).
text:
"I have no doubt that faith is only pure when it does not negate the faith of another. I have no doubt that evil can be fought and that indifference is no option. I have no doubt that fanaticism is dangerous. And of all the books in the world on life, I have no doubt that the life of one person weighs more than them all."


author: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849).
text:
"I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago."


author: Malcom X.
text:
"I have no mercy or compassion for a society that crushes people, and then penalizes them for not being able to stand up under the weight."


author: Malcolm X (1925 - 1965).
text:
"I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight."


author: Alexander Woollcott (1887 - 1943).
text:
"I have no need of your God-damned sympathy.  I only wish to be entertained by some of your grosser reminiscences."


author: Anatole France (1844 - 1924).
text:
"I have no objection on principle to make to the guillotine. Nature, my only mistress and my only instructress, certainly offers me no suggestion to the effect that a man's life is of any value; on the contrary, she teaches in all kinds of ways that it is of none. The sole end and object of living beings seems to be to serve as food for other beings destined to the same end. Murder is of natural right; therefore, the penalty of death is lawful, on condition it is exercised from no motives either of virtue or of justice, but by necessity or to gain some profit thereby. However, I must have perverse intincts, for I sicken to see blood flow, and this defect of character all my philosophy has failed so far to correct."


author: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817).
text:
"I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, and falls on the other."


author: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC).
text:
"I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it."


author: Kathryn L. Nelson.
text:
"I have not yet met with a sorrow that could not be borne, nor with one who's passing did not leave me stronger."


author: Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC).
text:
"I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either."


author: E. V. Lucas.
text:
"I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them."


author: Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984).
text:
"I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term -- meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster."


author: Proverbs 7:17-18.
text:
"I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning."


author: Alan Watts.
text:
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is."


author: Erica Eisdorfer.
text:
"I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be."


author: John Masefield (1878 - 1967).
text:
"I have seen flowers come in stony places And kind things done by men with ugly faces And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races, So I trust too."


author: Kevin Costner.
text:
"I have seen soldiers panic at the first sight of battle, and a wounded squire pulling arrows out from his wound to fight and save his dying horse. Nobility is not a birth right but is defined by one's action."


author: Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800 - 1859).
text:
"I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God."


author: Charles Lindbergh (1902 - 1974).
text:
"I have seen the science I worshipped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve."


author: Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941).
text:
"I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument, while the song I came to sing remains unsung."


author: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947).
text:
"I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether."


author: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826).
text:
"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."


author: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826).
text:
"I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty."


author: Dennis Miller.
text:
"I have the distinction of speaking to you from one of the few countries that still has a communist party."


author: Steven Wright (1955 - ).
text:
"I have the worlds largest seashell collection. You may have seen it, I keep it spread out on beaches all over the world."


author: Lao-tzu (604 BC - 531 BC).
text:
"I have three treasures. Guard and keep them:The first is deep love,The second is frugality,And the third is not to dare to be ahead of the world.Because of deep love, one is courageous.Because of frugality, one is generous.Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world."


author: Stephen King (1947 - ).
text:
"I have to remind myself that some birds weren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knew it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice. But your world is just that much colder and emptier when they're gone. I don't know... maybe I just miss my friend."


author: Sandra Cisneros.
text:
"I have to say that the traditional role is kind of a myth. I think the traditional Mexican woman is a fierce woman."


author: Ann Richards.
text:
"I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back."


author: Poul Anderson (1926 - 2001).
text:
"I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated."


author: Hugh Elliott.
text:
"I have you and even if we never meet or ever see each other, we have left our thumbprints in the thick, moist clay of each other's lives."


author: Unknown.
text:
"I haven't a clue as to how my story will end. But that's all right. When you set out on a journey and night covers the road, you don't conclude that the road has vanished. And how else could we discover the stars?"


author: David Sedaris.
text:
"I haven't the slightest idea how to change people, but I still keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out."


author: Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855).
text:
"I hold a creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldon mention, but in which I delight, and to which I cling, for it extends hope to all; it makes eternity a rest - a mighty home - not a terror and an abyss. With this creed, I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime, I can so sincerly forgive the first while I abhor the last; with this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degredation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice bever crushes me too low; I live in calm, looking to the end."


author: George Washington Carver (1864 - 1943).
text:
"I hold before you my hand with each finger standing erect and alone, and as long as they are held thus, not one of the tasks that the hand may preform can be accomplished. I cannot lift. I cannot grasp. I cannot hold. I cannot even make an intelligible sign until my fingers organize and work together. In this we should also learn a lesson."


author: Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892).
text:
"I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all."


author: Ralph Reed.
text:
"I honestly believe that in my lifetime we will see a country once again governed by Christians...and Christian values. What Christians have got to do is take back this country, one precinct at a time, one neighborhood at a time, and one state at a time."


author: Hank Green.
text:
"I honestly don't know how you live without having a cat inside your house. It's like having a little living piece of art that is also very warm and soft."


author: George Washington (1732 - 1799).
text:
"I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man."


author: Herbert Rappaport.
text:
"I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some."


author: Robert Ingersoll (1833 - 1899).
text:
"I hope there is another life, for I would like to see how things come out in this world when I am dead."


author: Neil Armstrong (1930 - ).
text:
"I hope you become comfortable with the use of logic without being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion."


author: Alice Walker (1944 - ).
text:
"I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as the handing down of answers. So much of what passes for teaching is merely a pointing out of what items to want."


author: Steven Wright (1955 - ).
text:
"I just bought a microwave fireplace. You can spend an evening in front of it in only eight minutes."


author: Ruben Studdard.
text:
"I just never let anything bother me, man. I know myself really well. Nobody's opinion of me can shake my opinion of myself."


author: Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
text:
"I just realized that there's going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with it the right way."


author: Tony Blair (1953 - ).
text:
"I just want to say this. I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly: There is a tendency for the world to say to America, "the big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out," and then to worry when America wants to sort them out."


author: Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936).
text:
"I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who."


author: Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727).
text:
"I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light."


author: E. Donnall Thomas, Jr..
text:
"I kill when I hunt and do not apologize for that, although I reserve the right to think about its implications. I also hunt without killing- whether by accident or design-and I do not apologize for that either. There is room in longbow country for a spectrum of tastes and attitudes, and that is as it should be."


author: Arturo Toscanini.
text:
"I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since."


author: Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005).
text:
"I knew a man who gave up smoking, drinking, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself."


author: Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962).
text:
"I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else."


author: Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005).
text:
"I know a lot about cars. I can look at a car's headlights and tell you exactly which way it's coming."


author: Ernest Coquelin.
text:
"I know a mother-in-law who sleeps with her glasses on, the better to see her son-in-law suffer in her dreams."


author: Roger Ebert (1942 - 2013).
text:
"I know death is coming, and I do not fear it. I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. I am grateful for the gifts of intelligence, love, wonder and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting."


author: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004).
text:
"I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph.  And there's purpose and worth to each and every life."


author: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004).
text:
"I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And thereâs purpose and worth to each and every life."


author: Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC).
text:
"I know indeed what evil I intend to do,but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury,fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils."


author: Ward Jenkins.
text:
"I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"I know myself know; and I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience."


author: Ulysses S. Grant (1822 - 1885).
text:
"I know no method to secure the repeal of bad, obnoxious, or unjust laws so effective as their strict execution."


author: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826).
text:
"I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education."


author: Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650).
text:
"I know not if I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or if I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."


author: James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937).
text:
"I know not, sir whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life."


author: James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937).
text:
"I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life."


author: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892).
text:
"I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor."


author: Barack Obama (1961 - ).
text:
"I know starting careers in troubled times is a challenge, but it is also a privilege. Because it's moments like these that force us to try harder, dig deeper and to discover gifts we never knew we had. To find the greatness that lies within each of us. So don't ever shy away from that endeavor. Don't stop adding to your body of work. I can promise that you will be the better for that continued effort as will be this nation that we all love."


author: Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910).
text:
"I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives."


author: Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910).
text:
"I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conlusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleages, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives."


author: John Muir (1838 - 1914).
text:
"I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found. There is not a "fragment" in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself."


author: Michael Palin.
text:
"I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I'd far rather see for myself what's going on in the world outside, than rely on newspapers, television, politicians and religious leaders to tell me what I should be thinking."


author: Robert McCloskey.
text:
"I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant."


author: Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000).
text:
"I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building."


author: Ian Shoales.
text:
"I know what love is: Tracy and Hepburn, Bogart and Bacall, Romeo and Juliet, Jackie and John and Marilyn...."


author: Richard Gere.
text:
"I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe, and someone said I was a snake, I'd think, no, actually I'm a giraffe."


author: George Washington (1732 - 1799).
text:
"I know [patriotism] exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward."


author: William Dean Howells.
text:
"I know, indeed, of nothing more subtly satisfying and cheering than a knowledge of the real good will and appreciation of others. Such happiness does not come with money, nor does it flow from fine physical state. It cannot be brought. But it is the keenest joy, after all; and the toiler's truest and best reward."


author: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata.
text:
"I learned an important lesson in the art of debate. Present your argument clearly, arm yourself with cutting wit and of course, bob and weave!"


author: Moby.
text:
"I learned in the last few years that it's really unhappy and really unsustainable to try and base your well being on something as arbitrary as record sale and critical acclaim and the interests of the public. All of those things are so fickle. So my approach now to music is I want to make records that I love, and I hope that other people love them, then that's OK."


author: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972).
text:
"I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it."


author: Leo Rosten (1908 - ).
text:
"I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that 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. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. 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: Tom Waits.
text:
"I like a beautiful song that tells you terrible things. We all like bad news out of a pretty mouth."


author: Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005).
text:
"I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporarily out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience."


author: Jim Morrison (1943 - 1971).
text:
"I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something."


author: Chuck Sigars.
text:
"I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a word of what I'm saying."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."


author: Charles Handy - The Age of Unreason.
text:
"I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and gradually and will in the end let itself be boiled alive, too comfortable with continuity to realize that continuous change at some point may become intolerable and demand a change in behavior."


author: Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976).
text:
"I like life. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."


author: Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976).
text:
"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."


author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
text:
"I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating."


author: Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991).
text:
"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world."


author: Demetri Martin.
text:
"I like sports bars. Sports bars are great because they collect all of the people I don't want to hang out with, and put them in one room."


author: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969).
text:
"I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it."


author: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865).
text:
"I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him."


author: Lou Reed on his band.
text:
"I like to think of us as Clearasil on the face of the nation. Jim Morrison would have said that if he was smart, but he's dead."


author: T. Campbell and Gisele Lagace.
text:
"I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty."


author: Jasper Johns (lithographer).
text:
"I liked New York when it was an up-and-down city for me, low streets and high buildings. But then, for me, it grew horizontal---monotonous."


author: Jerry Falwell (1933 - ).
text:
"I listen to feminists and all these radical gals - most of them are failures. They've blown it. Some of them have been married, but they married some Casper Milquetoast who asked permission to go to the bathroom. These women just need a man in the house. That's all they need. Most of the feminists need a man to tell them what time of day it is and to lead them home. And they blew it and they're mad at all men. Feminists hate men. They're sexist. They hate men - that's their problem."


author: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963).
text:
"I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern."


author: Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976).
text:
"I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't luckily have to bother about that."


author: Antonia Brenner.
text:
"I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people."


author: August Strindberg (1849 - 1912).
text:
"I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves."


author: James Thurber (1894 - 1961).
text:
"I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm."


author: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968).
text:
"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker."


author: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968).
text:
"I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty and joy to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble."


author: Willie Pastrano.
text:
"I look at ordinary people in their suits, them with no scars, and I'm different. I don't fit with them. I'm where everybody's got scar tissue on their eyes and got noses like saddles. I go to conventions of old fighters like me and I see the scar tissue and all them flat noses and it's beautiful. Galento, may he r3est in peace. Giardello, LaMotta, Carmen Basilio. What a sweetheart Basilio is. They talk like me, like they got rocks in their throats. Beautiful!"


author: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
text:
"I look forward to an america in which commands respect throughout the world, not only for its strength, but for its civilization as well. And I look forward to a world in which we will be safe not only for democracy and diversity but also for personal distinction."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply."


author: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968).
text:
"I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family fued."


author: Belle Livingstone.
text:
"I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see what was there."


author: Anais Nin (1903 - 1977).
text:
"I looked with chameleon eyes upon the changing face of the world, looked with anonymous vision upon my uncompleted self."


author: Gaius Valerius Catullus.
text:
"I love and I hate. How can this be, you ask in vain. I know not, but I feel it to be so and am wracked with pain."


author: Rita Rudner.
text:
"I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life."


author: Jim Mora.
text:
"I love coaching. I love competition. I love preparation. I love gameday. I love coaching. I've been doing it a long time, and I love it, win or lose, I love it. It's a lot more fun when you win, but I love it."


author: Margaret Cho.
text:
"I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time."


author: Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
text:
"I love life...Yeah, I'm sad, but at the same time, I'm really happy that something could make me feel that sad. It's like...It makes me feel alive, you know. It makes me feel human. The only way I could feel this sad now is if I felt something really good before. So I have to take the bad with the good. So I guess what I'm feeling is like a beautiful sadness."


author: Colette (1873 - 1954).
text:
"I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer."


author: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942).
text:
"I love pretty things; and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. It makes me feel so sorrowfulâjust as I feel when I look at any ugly thing. I pity it because it isn't beautiful."


author: Marlene Dietrich (1901 - 1992).
text:
"I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself."


author: Anatole France (1844 - 1924).
text:
"I love reason, but I am no fanatic in my love. Reason is our guide and beacon-light; but when you have made a divinity of it, it will blind you and instigate you to crime."


author: Colleen Wainwright.
text:
"I love stuff as much as the next guy, but Iâve come to understand that, regardless of the cost of acquiring it, the price of having it is freedom."


author: Jason Mraz.
text:
"I love surprises and coincidences. I love them even more when I don't pass them off as luck, but rather recognize them as a sign that my life's course is right on track."


author: Derek Sivers.
text:
"I love that sometimes we need to go to the opposite side of the world to realize assumptions that we didn't even know we had and realize that the opposite may also be true."


author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832).
text:
"I love the deep quiet in which I live and grow against the world and harvest what they cannot take from me by fire or sword."


author: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809).
text:
"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. âTis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."


author: Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870).
text:
"I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us."


author: J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973).
text:
"I love you. I used to pity your sorrow. But now, were you sorrowless, without fear or any lack, still i would love you."


author: Richard M. Nixon (1913 - 1994).
text:
"I made my mistakes, but in all my years of public life, I have never profited from public service. I've earned every cent. And in all of my years in public life I have never obstructed justice. And I think, too, that I can say that in my years of public life that I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got."


author: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996).
text:
"I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going."


author: Charles Lamb (1775 - 1834).
text:
"I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes."


author: Warren Zevon.
text:
"I might have made a tactical error not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that didn't pay off."


author: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967).
text:
"I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things."


author: Anita Weiss.
text:
"I moved to New York City for my health. I'm paranoid and New York was the only place where my fears were justified."


author: John Keats (1795 - 1821).
text:
"I muse with the greatest affection on every flower I have known from my infancy - their shapes and colours are as new to me as if I had just created them with a superhuman fancy - It is because they are connected with the most thoughtless and happiest moments of our lives."


author: Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855).
text:
"I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly."


author: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986).
text:
"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."


author: Sovereign.
text:
"I must stand up in search of the truth, if I don't I only roll with the flow of the lie and make it stronger."


author: John Adams (1735 - 1826).
text:
"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain."


author: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - ).
text:
"I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult."


author: Rebecca West (1892 - 1983).
text:
"I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat."


author: Rebecca West (1892 - 1983).
text:
"I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat."


author: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982).
text:
"I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction."


author: Dick Gregory (1932 - ).
text:
"I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark."


author: Stephanie Barron.
text:
"I never feel that I have comprehended an emotion, or fully lived even the smallest events, until I have reflected upon it in my journal; my pen is my truest confidant, holding in check the passions and disappointments that I dare not share even with my beloved."


author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930).
text:
"I never guess. 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: Caldwell O'Keefe.
text:
"I never have found the perfect quote. At best I have been able to find a string of quotations which merely circle the ineffable idea I seek to express."


author: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887).
text:
"I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them."


author: D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930).
text:
"I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A bird will fall frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself."


author: John Constable (1776 - 1837).
text:
"I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful."


author: Arthur S. Golden.
text:
"I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - true equals - only when they both have equal confidence."


author: Betty Friedan (1921 - 2006).
text:
"I never set out to write a book to change women's lives, to change history. It's like, 'Who, me?' Yes, me. I did it. And I'm not that different from other women. ... Maybe my power and glory was that I could speak my truth as a woman and it was the truth of every woman."


author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
text:
"I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists."


author: Audrey Hepburn.
text:
"I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing."


author: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826).
text:
"I never told my religion nor scrutinize that of another. I never attempted to make a convert nor wished to change another's creed. I have judged of others' religion by their lives, for it is from our lives and not from our words that our religion must be read. By the same test must the world judge me."


author: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - ).
text:
"I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop."


author: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004).
text:
"I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead."


author: Robertson Davies.
text:
"I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves."


author: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948).
text:
"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."


author: Margo Kaufman.
text:
"I once complained to my father that I didn't seem to be able to do things the same way other people did. Dad's advice? 'Margo, don't be a sheep. People hate sheep. They eat sheep.'"


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn."


author: Waiter Rant.
text:
"I once read cooking is something you do for your family. But when youâre alone you sometimes have to treat yourself like family. And now that my apartmentâs redolent with the smell of food it feels more like a home than a box where I hang my hat."


author: Nikita Khrushchev (1894 - 1971).
text:
"I once said, "We will bury you," and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you."


author: Paul S. Winalski.
text:
"I only drink fortified wines during bad weather. Snowstorm, hurricane, tornado--I'm not particular, as long as it's bad. After all, any storm for a Port."


author: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936).
text:
"I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from."


author: Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954).
text:
"I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration."


author: Julian Schnabel.
text:
"I paint paintings because I can't get the experience in any other way but there are many more experiences that are equally satisfying to me and equally inept at answering all my questions, but hover in exactitude in describing themselves and defying me to define their logic."


author: Orson Welles (1915 - 1985).
text:
"I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time."


author: Orson Welles (1915 - 1985).
text:
"I passionately hate the idea of being with it. I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time."


author: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817).
text:
"I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person."


author: Frank Sinatra (1915 - 1998).
text:
"I pitty people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's the best they're going to feel all day."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires."


author: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826).
text:
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."


author: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592).
text:
"I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly."


author: Frederick Douglas.
text:
"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence."


author: Nikos Kazantzakis.
text:
"I prepared excitedly for my departure, as if this journey had a mysterious significance. I had decided to change my mode of life. "'til now," I told myself, "you have only seen the shadow and been well content with it; now, I am going to lead you into the substance.""


author: Idi Amin.
text:
"I propose getting rid of conventional armaments and replacing them with reasonably priced hydrogen bombs that would be distributed equally throughout the world."


author: Mary Stewart.
text:
"I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark."


author: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826).
text:
"I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper."


author: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967).
text:
"I really can't come to your party Mrs. Parker, I can't bear fools." That's strange; your mother could."


author: Beverly Sills (1929 - ).
text:
"I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin, I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn't matter."


author: Raymond Joseph Teller.
text:
"I really feel as if the things we create together are not things we devised, but things we discovered, as if, in some sense, they were always there in us, waiting to be revealed, like the figure of Mercury waiting in a rough lump of marble."


author: Barbara Grizzuti Harrison.
text:
"I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tunafish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock."


author: Brigid Brophy.
text:
"I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals."


author: J. Edgar Hoover.
text:
"I regret to say that we of the F.B.I. are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce."


author: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
text:
"I repeat that sin, man's self-violation par excellence, was invented purely inorder to make science, culture, and every elevation and ennobling of man impossible; the priest rules by the invention of sin."


author: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881).
text:
"I repeat...that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist."


author: George W. Bush (1946 - ).
text:
"I respect every soldier, from every country, who serves beside us in the hard work of history. America is grateful, and America will not forget."


author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832).
text:
"I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut."


author: Mikhail Bakunin (1814 - 1876).
text:
"I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him."


author: Gary Shandling.
text:
"I said to my girl, 'Was it good for you too?' And she said, 'I don't think this was good for anybody.'"


author: Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 - 1986).
text:
"I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught."


author: Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677).
text:
"I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them."


author: Patty Davis.
text:
"I saw the same dynamic in our family - a dysfunctional family - mirrored in the country in the 1980's. If you take this family, and you put them up there as the First Family - if you look at what the dynamic is in the family - you might have a pretty good sense of how it's going to trickle down."


author: Bette Midler (1945 - ).
text:
"I say 'girl' because I love to annoy people. I love the word 'girl'. 'Gal' is pretty great, too. I don't just want to be called a woman. It sounds like someone with a mustache."


author: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007).
text:
"I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles did'."


author: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936).
text:
"I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it."


author: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892).
text:
"I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least."


author: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935).
text:
"I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes. I hope they do get 'em lowered enough so people can afford to pay 'em."


author: Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967).
text:
"I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well, remembering that she has seen dark times before, indeed with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day."


author: Unknown.
text:
"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed."


author: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960).
text:
"I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically gettin killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions."


author: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592).
text:
"I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so."


author: Tori Amos.
text:
"I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can't have the dream without the nightmare."


author: California Govenor Jerry Brown.
text:
"I see the world in very fluid, contradictory, emerging, interconnected terms, and with that kind of circuitry I just don't feel the need to say what is going to happen or will not happen."


author: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935).
text:
"I see where we are starting to pay some attention to our neigbors to the south. We could never understand why Mexico wasn't just crazy about us; for we have always had their good will, and oil and minerals, at heart."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, cattle, barns, and farming tools, for these are more easily acquired than gotten rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labour in."


author: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996).
text:
"I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted."


author: Clifford Stoll.
text:
"I sense an insatiable demand for connectivity. Maybe all these people have discovered important uses for the Internet. Perhaps some of them feel hungry for a community that our real neighborhoods don't deliver. At least a few must wonder what the big deal is."


author: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977).
text:
"I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"I shall despair. There is no creature loves me; And if I die no soul will pity me: And wherefore should they, since that I myself Find in myself no pity to myself?"


author: Kathryn L. Nelson.
text:
"I shall not pretend that I do not prefer to have people adore me rather than revile me, but I have always found that it was far easier for me to suffer the disapprobation of others than to amend my behaviour in order to find favour with them."


author: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960).
text:
"I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day. "


author: Homer (800 BC - 700 BC).
text:
"I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them though life against the shafts of impartial evidence."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could."


author: Patricia Moyes.
text:
"I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards."


author: Aleister Crowley (1875 - 1947).
text:
"I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning."


author: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945).
text:
"I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion."


author: Ralph Nader (1934 - ).
text:
"I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."


author: John Green.
text:
"I started thinking about little kids putting a cylindrical peg through a circular hole, and how they do it over and over again for months when they figure it out, and how basketball was basically just a slightly more aerobic version of that same exercise."


author: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936).
text:
"I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals..."


author: John Burrough.
text:
"I still find each day to short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see."


author: John Burrough.
text:
"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see."


author: Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961).
text:
"I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently."


author: Shirley Temple Black.
text:
"I stopped believing in Santa Claus at age six when my mother took me to see him in a store and he asked for my autograph."


author: Shirley Temple (1928 - ).
text:
"I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph."


author: Shirley Temple (1928 - ).
text:
"I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph."


author: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968).
text:
"I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law."


author: E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970).
text:
"I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our own particular path than we have yet got ourselves."


author: G. B. Burgin.
text:
"I suppose it is much more comfortable to be mad and not know than to be sane and have one's doubts."


author: Brooke McEldowney.
text:
"I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned."


author: Kurt Vonnegut Jr..
text:
"I suppose that it goes to show that you have to be very careful what you pretend to be . . . because, one day, you may wake up to find that's what you are."


author: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982).
text:
"I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."


author: T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965).
text:
"I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling."


author: Erica Eisdorfer.
text:
"I take care of my things. After all, those of us as has few things to begin with must take care, lest we have fewer."


author: Lord Brabazon (1884 - 1964).
text:
"I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it."


author: Clay Aiken.
text:
"I talk to friends of mine who are now teaching; they've graduated and they have classrooms. And I get really jealous, and I get really excited talking to them about their classrooms, and I want one. I think I'd be happy."


author: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823).
text:
"I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"I thank God I am not a woman, to be touched in so many giddy offences as He hath generally taxed their whole their whole sex withal."


author: Christopher Reeve.
text:
"I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles."


author: Sara Zarr.
text:
"I think about how there are certain people who come into your life and leave a mark. The ones who are as much a part of you as your own soul. Their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business. Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those hundred ways, describe them even to yourself, words are useless. If you had a lifetime to talk, there would still be things left unsaid."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right."


author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930).
text:
"I think as a result of my own personal experiences, that the accusations of fraud against mediums have been much exaggerated."


author: Stephen Hawking (1942 - ).
text:
"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image."


author: Jim Carey.
text:
"I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see it's not the answer."


author: Jadelr and Cristina Cordova.
text:
"I think everyone should have a Beatles phase in their life. I think it's part of growing up in the Western world."


author: Gene Roddenberry.
text:
"I think God is as much a basic ingredient in the universe as neutrons and positrons. This is the prime force, when we look around the universe. "


author: Jay Leno (1950 - ).
text:
"I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite goodâ¦Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder."


author: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719).
text:
"I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike."


author: George Eliot (1819 - 1880).
text:
"I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music."


author: William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939).
text:
"I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right."


author: Larry Page.
text:
"I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name."


author: Claire Sargent.
text:
"I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough."


author: Lady Gaga (1986 - ).
text:
"I think it's absolutely a blessing when you just know what your purpose is and your destiny. I don't think it's a curse at all."


author: George Carlin (1937 - 2008).
text:
"I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately."


author: Bill Watterson (1958 - ).
text:
"I think most of us would be horrified to meet ourselves and discover what everyone else already knows about us."


author: Bob Dylan (1941 - ).
text:
"I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom."


author: Jim Morrison (1943 - 1971).
text:
"I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments."


author: Jim Morrison (1943 - 1971).
text:
"I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human with the soul of a clown, which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments."


author: Shelley Winters (1922 - 2006).
text:
"I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience."


author: Jean Shinoda Bolen.
text:
"I think people don't place a high enough value on how much they are nurtured by doing whatever it is that totally absorbs them."


author: Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
text:
"I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there's always somebody there, somebody that's family."


author: Gordon Atkinson.
text:
"I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer."


author: Dave Barry (1947 - ).
text:
"I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to."


author: Anna Quindlen (1953 - ).
text:
"I think that anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at some time in history when torture was considered a reasonable alternative to diplomacy."


author: Jessica Simpson (1980 - ).
text:
"I think that freshness and that innocence is something that is missing from a lot of female singers. I'm certainly not denying that I'm young, but I'm not fluff."


author: Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971).
text:
"I think that I shall never see  a billboard lovely as a tree.  Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,  I'll never see a tree at all."


author: Clay Aiken.
text:
"I think that is what love is - when it's unimaginable to be away from the person, and you care about what makes them happy more than what makes you happy."


author: Stephen Hawking (1942 - ).
text:
"I think that it's important for scientists to explain their work, particularly in cosmology. This now answers many questions once asked of religion."


author: Joseph Heller (1923 - 1999).
text:
"I think that maybe in every company today there is always at least one person who is going crazy slowly."


author: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007).
text:
"I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex."


author: Randall Jarrell (1914 - 1965).
text:
"I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry."


author: Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
text:
"I think that parents only get so offended by television because they rely on it as a babysitter and the sole educator of their kids."


author: Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968).
text:
"I think that the Communist Party as a political organization is of no danger to the United States. It has no following and has been disregarded by the American people for many, many years."


author: Robert M. Pirsig.
text:
"I think that their flight from and hatred of technology is self-defeating. The Buddha rests quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer of the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha--which is to demean oneself."


author: Stephen King (1947 - ).
text:
"I think that we're all mentally ill; those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better--and maybe not all that much better, after all."


author: Susan M. Watkins.
text:
"I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience -- and laughter."


author: Jane Goodall (1934 - ).
text:
"I think the best evenings are when we have messages, things that make us think, but we can also laugh and enjoy each other's company."


author: Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC).
text:
"I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right."


author: Jim Morrison (1943 - 1971).
text:
"I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between. I want the freedom to try everything."


author: Pete Ashdown.
text:
"I think the Internet is uniquely suited to this free market idea: that everyone on the Internet that exchanges the traffic back and forth, big or small, we all need each other."


author: Rosie O'Donnell.
text:
"I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed."


author: Terence McKenna.
text:
"I think the real test of psychedelics is what you do with them when you're not on them, what kind of culture you build, what kind of art, what kind of technologies... What's lacking in the Western mind is the sense of connectivity and relatedness to the rest of life, the atmosphere, the ecosystem, the past, our children's future. If we were feeling those things we would not be practicing culture as we are."


author: William S. Buroughs.
text:
"I think there are innumerable gods. What we here on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating trough human conciousness control events."


author: Muriel Rukeyser.
text:
"I think there is a choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice."


author: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
text:
"I think there is a law of equity in these disputes. When one party is clearly wrong, it will eventually give way... They had no business putting those missiles in and lying to me about it. They were in the wrong and knew it. So, when we stood firm, they had to back down. But this doesn't mean at all that they would back down when they felt they were in the right and had vital interests involved."


author: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945).
text:
"I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and not enough the bad luck of the early worm."


author: Donald Trump (1946 - ).
text:
"I think we have six people who are really sort of OK. They are all good people. We don't have bad people. I know the bad people. Believe me, do I know bad people."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine."


author: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011).
text:
"I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better."


author: Margaret Thatcher (1925 - ).
text:
"I think we've been through a period where too many people have been given to understand that if they have a problem, it's the government's job to cope with it. 'I have a problem, I'll get a grant.' 'I'm homeless, the government must house me.' They're casting their problem on society. And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first. It's our duty to look after ourselves and then, also to look after our neighbour. People have got the entitlements too much in mind, without the obligations. There's no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation"


author: Margery Cuyler.
text:
"I think wholeness comes from living your life consciously during the day and then exploring your inner life or unconscious at night."


author: David Nicholls.
text:
"I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."


author: John Green.
text:
"I thought about how wonderfully strange it would be to live in a place where almost everything had been built by the dead."


author: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797).
text:
"I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone."


author: Joan Rivers (1935 - ).
text:
"I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, ``Get the hell off my property.''"


author: Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004).
text:
"I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet."


author: The Beatles "Glass Onion".
text:
"I told you 'bout the fool on the hill I tell you man he livin' there still Now here's another place you can be Listen to me Fixin' a hole in the ocean Tryin' to make a dovetail joint Look into a glass onion."


author: Margaret Thatcher (1925 - ).
text:
"I too have a certain idea of America. Moreover, I would not feel entitled to say that of any other country, except my own. This is not just sentiment, though I always feel ten years younger - despite the jet-lag - when I set foot on American soil: there is something so positive, generous, and open about the people - and everything actually works."


author: Simone de Beauvoir.
text:
"I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me."


author: S.J. Perelman.
text:
"I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartettes, chamber music, and cantatas."


author: Mary S. Calderone.
text:
"I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people."


author: Michael Caine (1933 - ).
text:
"I try to make the here and now as heavenly as possible, in case there isn't one to ascend into when we're done. It's a kind of insurance."


author: Greg Proops.
text:
"I understand that smoking is vaguely inappropriate in certain situations. You know, like an orphanage, cancer ward, whatever."


author: Candice Bergen (1946 - ).
text:
"I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more."


author: Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964).
text:
"I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them."


author: Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962).
text:
"I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.'"


author: Jules Feiffer (1929 - ).
text:
"I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy. I was deprived. (Oh not deprived but rather underprivileged) Then they told me that underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime. But I have a great vocabulary."


author: Marcus.
text:
"I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe."


author: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider.
text:
"I used to think of all the billions of people in the world, and of all those people, how was I going to meet the right ones? The right ones to be my friends, the right one to be my husband. Now I just believe you meet the people you're supposed to meet."


author: Emo Phillips.
text:
"I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this."


author: James Thurber (1894 - 1961).
text:
"I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness."


author: Johnny Cash.
text:
"I used to [have regrets]. But I forgave myself. When God forgave me, I figured I'd better do it, too."


author: Brendan Behan (1923 - 1964).
text:
"I value kindness to human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper, and old men and women warmer in the winter, and happier in the summer."


author: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719).
text:
"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs."


author: Sam Doan.
text:
"I value the friend, who for me finds time on their calendar but I cherish the friend who for me, does not consult their calendar."


author: Marilyn Manson (1969 - ).
text:
"I view my job as being someone who is supposed to piss people off. I don't want to be just one-of-the-guys. I don't want to be just a smiling face you see on television presenting some vapid kind of easily- digestible garbage. This is rock and roll. I want to be a rock and roll star! Rock and roll is about shaking things up, making people act and react. That's what I do."


author: Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005).
text:
"I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. Then I'm gonna put pins into all the locations that I've traveled to. But first, I'm gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won't fall down."


author: James Lileks.
text:
"I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe."


author: Lady Gaga (1986 - ).
text:
"I want to change the pop world one sequin at a time. Artists tend to take themselves way too seriously and don't enjoy the fun of making an impact on culture. I just have a good time and sequins represent a good time."


author: Ann Frank.
text:
"I want to go on living even after my death, And therefore I am grateful to God For giving this giftâ¦ Of expressing all that is in me."


author: Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962).
text:
"I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made."


author: Tupac Shakur.
text:
"I want to grow. I want to be better. You grow. We all grow. We're made to grow. You either evolve or you disappear."


author: Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005).
text:
"I want to hang a map of the world in my house, and then I'm gonna put pins into all the locations that I've travelled to. But first I'm gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won't fall down."


author: Matt Groening (1954 - ).
text:
"I want to share something with you: The three little sentences that will get you through life. Number 1: Cover for me. Number 2: Oh, good idea, Boss! Number 3: It was like that when I got here."


author: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007).
text:
"I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center."


author: Woody Allen (1935 - ).
text:
"I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'no'."


author: Sylvia Plath (1932 - 1963).
text:
"I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket."


author: Pat Conroy (1945 - ).
text:
"I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better going at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment."


author: Judy Garland (1922 - 1969).
text:
"I wanted to believe and I tried my damndest to believe in the rainbow that I tried to get over and couldn't. So what? Lots of people can't..."


author: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963).
text:
"I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself."


author: Henny Youngman (1906 - 1998).
text:
"I wanted to do something nice so I bought my mother-in- law a chair. Now they won't let me plug it in."


author: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948).
text:
"I wanted to know the best of the life of one who holds today an undisputed sway over the hearts of millions of mankind.... I became more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days in the scheme of life. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of the Prophet the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers, his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle. When I closed the second volume (of the Prophet's biography), I was sorry there was not more for me to read of that great life."


author: George Lucas (1944 - ).
text:
"I wanted Yoda to be the traditional kind of character you find in fairy tales and mythology. And that character is usually a frog or a wizened old man on the side of the road. The hero is going down the road and meets this poor and insignificant person. The goal or lesson is for the hero to learn to respect everybody and to pay attention to the poorest person because that's where the key to his success will be."


author: Harper Lee (1926 - ).
text:
"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what."


author: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC).
text:
"I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether."


author: Anna Freud (1895 - 1982).
text:
"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within.  It is there all the time. "


author: Anna Freud (1895 - 1982).
text:
"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time."


author: Sidney Madwed.
text:
"I was always puzzled by the fact that people have a great deal of trouble and pain when and if they are forced or feel forced to change a belief or circumstance which they hold dear. I found what I believe is the answer when I read that a Canadian neurosurgeon discovered some truths about the human mind which revealed the intensity of this problem. He conducted some experiments which proved that when a person is forced to change a basic belief or viewpoint, the brain undergoes a series of nervous sensations equivalent to the most agonizing torture."


author: George Burns (1896 - 1996).
text:
"I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect."


author: Charles A. Lindbergh.
text:
"I was astonished at the effect my successful landing in France had on the nations of the world. To me, it was like a match lighting a bonfire."


author: Geronimo.
text:
"I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures..."


author: Emma Thompson.
text:
"I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things - disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"I was brought up in that other service; but I knew from the first that the Devil was my natural master and captain and friend. I saw that he was in the right, and that the world cringed to his conqueror only from fear."


author: Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978).
text:
"I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world."


author: Ellen DeGeneres.
text:
"I was coming home from kindergarten--well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves."


author: Rita Rudner.
text:
"I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"I was gradually coming to have a mysterious and shuddery reverence for this girl; nowadays whenever she pulled out from the station and got her train fairly started on one of those horizonless transcontinental sentences of hers, it was borne in upon me that I was standing in the awful presence of the Mother of the German Language... She had exactly the German way; whatever was in her mind to be delivered, whether a mere remark, or a sermon, or a cyclopedia, or the history of a war, she would get it into a single sentence or die. Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth."


author: Ellen DeGeneres.
text:
"I was in yoga the other day. I was in full lotus position. My chakras were all aligned. My mind is cleared of all clatter and I'm looking out of my third eye and everything that I'm supposed to be doing. It's amazing what comes up, when you sit in that silence. 'Mama keeps whites bright like the sunlight, Mama's got the magic of Clorox 2.'"


author: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004).
text:
"I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world."


author: Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727).
text:
"I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."


author: Edward Lear.
text:
"I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle - so all is peace."


author: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935).
text:
"I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up."


author: Susan Sontag (1933 - 2004).
text:
"I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams."


author: Ray Bradbury (1920 - ).
text:
"I was one of Them: the Strange Ones. The Funny People. The Odd Tribes of autograph collectors and photographers. The Ones who waited through long days and nights, who used other people's dreams for their lives."


author: Marlene Dietrich (1901 - 1992).
text:
"I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the potatoes."


author: Leona Helmsley.
text:
"I was simply furnishing a home. I love music ... and I don't think a $130,000 indoor-outdoor stereo system is extravagant."


author: Stirling Moss.
text:
"I was taught that everything is attainable if you are prepared to give up, to sacrifice, to get it. Whatever you want to do, you can do it, if you want it badly enough, and I do believe that. I believe that if I wanted to run a mile is four minutes I could do it. I would have to give up everything else in my life, but I could run a mile in four minutes. I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water and was prepared to give up everything else in life, he could do that"


author: Andre Bernard Buruch.
text:
"I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort."


author: Stephenie Meyer.
text:
"I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind."


author: John Green.
text:
"I was thinking about the universe wanting to be noticed, and how I had to notice it as best I could. I felt that I owed a debt to the universe that only my attention could repay, and also that I owed a debt to everybody who didnât get to be a person anymore and everyone who hadnât gotten to be a person yet."


author: Bette Davis (1908 - 1989).
text:
"I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure."


author: Woody Allen (1935 - ).
text:
"I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy next to me."


author: Woody Allen (1935 - ).
text:
"I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me."


author: Petronius Arbiter.
text:
"I was to learn later that in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization."


author: John Fowles.
text:
"I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope -- an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all."


author: Tim Burton.
text:
"I was very strange back then. I could see I had problems. I would sit in a closet a lot of the time and not come out, or I would sit up on top of my desk, or under my desk, or do weird things like get my wisdom teeth out and bleed all over the hallways."


author: John Flansburgh.
text:
"I was working in a parking lot, which is a great place to learn the guitar. I sat in the booth and practiced all day long. And only two cars were stolen while I worked there."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again."


author: Jay Leno (1950 - ).
text:
"I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, 'I'd like some fries.' The girl at the counter said, 'Would you like some fries with that?'"


author: Frank Wilczek (1951 - ).
text:
"I went off to college planning to major in math or philosophy-- of course, both those ideas are really the same idea."


author: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967).
text:
"I went to a convent in New York and was fired finally for my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion."


author: Steven Wright (1955 - ).
text:
"I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time". So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."


author: Elvis Presley (1935 - 1977).
text:
"I wiggle my shoulders, I shake my legs, I walk up and down the stage, I hop around on one foot. But I never bump and grind. Why, that's vulgar. I'd never do anything vulgar before an audience. My mother would never allow it."


author: Mennonite Proverb.
text:
"I will charge thee nothing but the promise that thee will help the next man thee finds in trouble. "


author: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC).
text:
"I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature."


author: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996).
text:
"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars."


author: Barack Obama (1961 - ).
text:
"I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to. It belongs to you. It belongs to you. I was never the likeliest candidate for this office. We didn't start with much money or many endorsements. Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington. It began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston. It was built by working men and women who dug into what little savings they had to give $5 and $10 and $20 to the cause."


author: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996).
text:
"I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure."


author: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947).
text:
"I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive epochs is like omitting Hamlet from the play which is named after him. . . But it is certainly analogous to cutting out the part of Ophelia. This simile is singularly exact. For Ophelia is quite essential to the play, she is very charming-- and a little mad."


author: Frank Hughes.
text:
"I will say this about being an optimist-- even when things don't turn out well, you are certain they will get better."


author: Daphne DuMaurier.
text:
"I wish there could have been an invention that bottled up a memory, like perfume, and it never faded, never got stale. Then whenever I wanted to, I could uncork that bottle and live the memory all over again."


author: John Paul Jones.
text:
"I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast for I intend to go in harmâs way."


author: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827).
text:
"I wish you all the good and charm that life can offer. Think of me kindly, and rest assured that no one would more rejoice to hear of your happiness."


author: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827).
text:
"I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others."


author: Robert A. Ward.
text:
"I wish you sunshine on your path and storms to season your journey. I wish you peace in the world in which you live... More I cannot wish you except perhaps love to make all the rest worthwhile."


author: Bruce Cockburn.
text:
"I woke up one morning thinking about Turkish drummers, but it didn't last long, because I didn't know much about Turkish drummers."


author: Avril Lavigne.
text:
"I won't change anything because I think the most important thing is being yourself and that's what I'm going to continue to do."


author: Warren Buffett (1930 - ).
text:
"I won't close down a business of subnormal profitability merely to add a fraction of a point to our corporate returns. I also feel it inappropriate for even an exceptionally profitable company to fund an operation once it appears to have unending losses in prospect. Adam Smith would disagree with my first proposition and Karl Marx would disagree with my second; the middle ground is the only position that leaves me comfortable."


author: George Wither.
text:
"I wonder how so insupportable a thing as a bookseller was ever permitted to grow up in the Commonwealth. Many of our modern booksellers are but needless excrements, or rather vermin."


author: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937).
text:
"I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie."


author: Anna Quindlen (1953 - ).
text:
"I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think interior decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves."


author: Anna Quindlen (1953 - ).
text:
"I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves."


author: E. B. White (1899 - 1985).
text:
"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"I would forget it fain; But, O, it presses to my memory, like damned guilty deeds to a sinners mind."


author: Britney Spears (1981 - ).
text:
"I would like to be called an inspiration to people, not a role model--because I make mistakes like everybody else. When I'm offstage, I'm just like everybody else."


author: Rosa Parks (1913 - 2005).
text:
"I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people."


author: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896).
text:
"I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place."


author: Jack London (1876 - 1916).
text:
"I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."


author: Jack London (1876 - 1916).
text:
"I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by a dryrot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in a magnificient glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."


author: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826).
text:
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it."


author: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826).
text:
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have got so much more of it."


author: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817).
text:
"I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement."


author: J. Paul Gettty.
text:
"I would rather make one percent of a hundred men's efforts than one hundred percent of my own. This way if ten get sick and ten get run over by a truck, I still have eighty percent of my income."


author: Enrique Tessieri.
text:
"I would rather not know how to write and have something to say than know how to write and have nothing to say."


author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784).
text:
"I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world."


author: Rabbi Harold Kushner.
text:
"I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come together and make sense."


author: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969).
text:
"I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone."


author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965).
text:
"I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government: 'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.""


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest, for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting."


author: Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941).
text:
"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."


author: Jim Carrey.
text:
"I would visualize things coming to me. It would just make me feel better. Visualization works if you work hard. That's the thing. You can't just visualize and go eat a sandwich."


author: Lindsay Lohan (1986 - ).
text:
"I write a lot of lyrics and I'm involved in the producing process, because it's like, if I'm singing it, I want it to be something that I can relate to."


author: Beryl Pfizer.
text:
"I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on."


author: Joan Didion (1934 - ).
text:
"I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear."


author: Tom Stoppard (1937 - ).
text:
"I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation."


author: Jim Carrey.
text:
"I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together."


author: Stephanie Klein.
text:
"I'd heard it all the time, 'Live in the moment.' But if I did that, I'd weigh more than a dump truck. Losing weight wasn't about the moment at all; it was about having faith in the future. It was about knowing there would be another meal in a few hours."


author: Bette Davis (1908 - 1989).
text:
"I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year."


author: William F. Buckley Jr..
text:
"I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University."


author: Sam Donaldson (1934 - ).
text:
"I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny."


author: Joe Orton (1933 - 1967).
text:
"I'd the upbringing a nun would envy and that's the truth. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body."


author: Scott Westerfeld.
text:
"I'd watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal - against normal, not beside it. Locks didn't cure; they strangled."


author: Terry Pratchett.
text:
"I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it."


author: Tina Fey.
text:
"I'll be ready for it to happen and that way it won't happen. It's a burden, being able to control situations with my hyper-vigilance, but it's my lot in life."


author: Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993).
text:
"I'll give you a simple formula for straightening out the problems of the United States. First, you tax the churches. You take the tax off of capital gains and the tax off of savings. You decriminalize all drugs and tax them same way as you do alcohol. You decriminalize prostitution. You make gambling legal. That will put the budget back on the road to recovery, and you'll have plenty of tax revenue coming in for all of your social programs, and to run the army."


author: Matt Groening (1954 - ).
text:
"I'll keep it short and sweet -- Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business."


author: Bill Hicks.
text:
"I'll tell you, too, that's starting to depress me about UFO's, about the fact that they cross galaxies, or wherever they come from to visit us, and always end up in places like Fife, Alabama. Maybe these are not super-intelligent beings, man."


author: Salma Hayek.
text:
"I'm a bit of an abstract figure that people can project their fantasies on; it's pretty much what we all are, otherwise we wouldn't be stars, and people wouldn't be interested. But people project things on you that have nothing to do with what you really are, or they see a little something and then exaggerate it. And you can't really control that."


author: Ellen DeGeneres.
text:
"I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that."


author: Clay Aiken.
text:
"I'm a realist, I'm not an optimist. I don't want false hope. I don't know where this is going for me."


author: Jim Morrison (1943 - 1971).
text:
"I'm a word man. See, there's this theory about the nature of tragedy, that Aristotle didn't mean catharsis for the audience but a purgation of emotions for the actors themselves. The audience is just a witness to the event taking place on stage."


author: Dennis Miller.
text:
"I'm actually equal parts cynicism and apathy. I'm always willing to believe the worst as long as it doesn't take too much effort."


author: Seth Rogen.
text:
"I'm actually way more funny now, because I'm hungry... If comedy comes from pain, I should be funnier now than I ever was."


author: Solomon Short.
text:
"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters."


author: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942).
text:
"I'm always sorry when pleasant things end. Something still pleasanter may come after, but you can never be sure."


author: Mary Tyler Moore (1936 - ).
text:
"I'm an experienced woman; I've been around... well, alright, I might not've been around, but I've been... nearby."


author: Woody Allen (1935 - ).
text:
"I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown."


author: Matt Groening (1954 - ).
text:
"I'm better than dirt. Well, most kinds of dirt, not that fancy store-bought dirt... I can't compete with that stuff."


author: George Carlin (1937 - 2008).
text:
"I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death."


author: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011).
text:
"I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance."


author: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004).
text:
"I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer."


author: Anita Loos.
text:
"I'm furious about the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept quiet or it ruins the whole racket."


author: Tom Hanks (1956 - ).
text:
"I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood."


author: Mignon McLaughlin.
text:
"I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth."


author: Matthew Perry.
text:
"I'm glad that life isn't like a Christmas song, because if my friends and I were building a snowman and it suddenly came alive when we put a hat on it, I'd probably freak and stab it to death with an icicle."


author: John Kerry (1943 - ).
text:
"I'm glad the President finally found an economic development program. I'm just sad that it's only in Baghdad."


author: Payne Stewart.
text:
"I'm going to a special place when I die, but I want to make sure my life is special while I'm here."


author: Steve Prefontaine.
text:
"I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it."


author: Maggie Kuhn.
text:
"I'm having a glorious old age. One of my greatest delights is that I have outlived most of my opposition."


author: Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993).
text:
"I'm interested in the capitalistic way of life, and the reason I like it better than anything else I've seen so far is because competition produces results. Every socialistic type of government where the State theoretically owns everything, and everybody does their little part to help the State, inevitably produces bad art, it produces social inertia, it produces really unhappy people, and it is more repressive than any other kind of government."


author: Wil Wheaton.
text:
"I'm keenly aware of the Pride coming before the Fall . . . but I really do like what I've been able to do here."


author: Lech Walesa (1943 - ).
text:
"I'm lazy.  But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things. "


author: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967).
text:
"I'm never going to be famous. I don't do anything, not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more."


author: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967).
text:
"I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more."


author: Matt Groening (1954 - ).
text:
"I'm not a bad guy! I work hard, and I love my kids. So why should I spend half my Sunday hearing about how I'm going to Hell?"


author: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935).
text:
"I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago."


author: Cynthia Ozick.
text:
"I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called "scientific" mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips."


author: Hugh Hefner.
text:
"I'm not apt to be getting married in the near future and my lifestyle isn't apt to dramatically change as a result of any new relationship."


author: George Carlin (1937 - 2008).
text:
"I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect."


author: Jeff Melvoin.
text:
"I'm not judging people, I'm judging their actions. It's the same type of distinction that I try to apply to myself, to judge, but not be judgmental."


author: R. Stevens.
text:
"I'm NOT short. I prefer to think there is simply more space above my head for word balloons full of devastatingly pithy witticisms."


author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930).
text:
"I'm not sure about whether I shall go. I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather -- that is, when the fit is on me, for I can be spry enough at times."


author: Bethania McKenstry.
text:
"I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts."


author: Unknown.
text:
"I'm not worried about the bullet with my name on it... just the thousands out there marked 'Occupant.'"


author: Tish Grier.
text:
"I'm of the mind that even people who have limitations, if they have a curiosity, they will find a way to explore it."


author: George Eliot (1819 - 1880).
text:
"I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best."


author: Arthur Godfrey.
text:
"I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is I could be just as proud for half the money."


author: Ann Richards.
text:
"I'm really glad that our young people missed the Depression, and missed the great big war. But I do regret that they missed the leaders that I knew. Leaders who told us when things were tough, and that we would have to sacrifice, and these difficulties might last awhile. They didn't tell us things were hard for us because we were different, or isolated, or special interests. They brought us together and they gave us a sense of national purpose."


author: Ray Bradbury (1920 - ).
text:
"I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane."


author: Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005).
text:
"I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later."


author: Brian Eno.
text:
"I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse."


author: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011).
text:
"I'm sure a lot of you had this experience when you're changing. You're growing as a person and people tend to treat you like you were 18 months ago, and it's really frustrating sometimes when you're growing up and you're more capable. It's the same thing with a company and the press. The press is going to have a lag time. The best thing we can do about the press is embrace them and do the best thing we can to educate them about our strategy. But to keep our eye on the prize, that is turning out some great products. the press and the stock prize will take care of themselves."


author: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ).
text:
"I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write about this and made people think about it. I'm rather proud of the fact that I know several astronauts who became astronauts through reading my books."


author: Joss Whedon.
text:
"I'm the least confident person in so many ways. But I believed that if somebody gave me the chance to tell a story, I would tell a story [well enough] that the person who gave me the chance would get their money back."


author: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011).
text:
"I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year.... It's very character-building."


author: Lisa Williams.
text:
"I'm the world's least happy atheist. I miss having religious faith, but trying to have it seems like trying to be in love with someone that you're not in love with."


author: Jean Kerr.
text:
"I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?"


author: Marilyn Manson (1969 - ).
text:
"I'm tired of people calling me a devil worshipper. It's kind of pointless you know. Because if the Devil did exist, he'd be worshipping me, because I'm more successful than he is."


author: Earl Warren (1891 - 1974).
text:
"I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.'"


author: Gilbert & Sullivan.
text:
"I'm very well acquainted too with matters mathematical,  I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical, About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot of news--  With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse."


author: Joss Whedon.
text:
"I'm well aware when they fired the starting gun I was halfway down the track, but I still ran as fast as I could for 25 years."


author: Randy K. Milholland.
text:
"I've accepted that I'm not going to die of natural causes, [but] getting killed 'cuz you're naturally a dick seems like natural causes to me."


author: Michael Moore.
text:
"I've always been amazed that the very people forced to live in the worst parts of town, go to the worst schools, and who have it the hardest are always the first to step up, to defend us. They serve so that we don't have to. They offer to give up their lives so that we can be free. It is remarkably their gift to us."


author: Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976).
text:
"I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worries and only half the royalties."


author: John Wayne (1907 - 1979).
text:
"I've always followed my father's advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"I've always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel."


author: Quincy Jones.
text:
"I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, "Ain't that the truth.""


author: Alice Koller.
text:
"I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore, I must stop doing what I've been doing."


author: Neil Gaiman.
text:
"I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing."


author: Major Kong (Slim Pickins) in Dr. Strangelove.
text:
"I've been to one world's fair, a picnic and a rodeo and that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard come over a set of headphones."


author: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ).
text:
"I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you."


author: Barack Obama (1961 - ).
text:
"I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve."


author: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001).
text:
"I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things."


author: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - ).
text:
"I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not."


author: Emily Bronte.
text:
"I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind."


author: Dale Carnegie.
text:
"I've found that worry and irritation vanish into thin air the moment I open my mind to the many blessings I possess."


author: Elie Wiesel (1928 - ).
text:
"I've gone everywhere, trying to stop many atrocities: Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia. The least I can do is show the victims that they are not alone. When I went to Cambodia, journalists asked me, What are you doing here? This is not a Jewish tragedy. I answered, When I needed people to come, they didn't. That's why I am here."


author: New York City detective.
text:
"I've gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller's parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her."


author: BjÃ¶rk Gudmundsdottir.
text:
"I've got a lot of courage, but I've also got a lot of fear. You should allow yourself to be scared. It's one of the prime emotions. You might almost enjoy it, funny as it sounds, and find that you can get over it and deal with it. If you ignore these things, you miss so much."


author: Lawana Blackwell.
text:
"I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure."


author: Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
text:
"I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world."


author: Michael Jordan (1963 - ).
text:
"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times ive been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."


author: Elayne Boosler.
text:
"I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something's wrong with me."


author: Elvis Presley (1935 - 1977).
text:
"I've never gotten over what they call stagefright. I go through it every show. I'm pretty concerned, I'm pretty much thinking about the show. I never get completely comfortable with it, and I don't let the people around me get comfortable with it, in that I remind them that it's a new crowd out there, it's a new audience, and they haven't seen us before. So it's got to be like the first time we go on."


author: Billy Graham.
text:
"I've never met a man who combined spiritual depth, musical ability, and international fame with such grace, charm, and humility as Johnny."


author: George Bush Sr..
text:
"I've often thought that the process of aging could be slowed down if it had to go through Congress."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated."


author: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968).
text:
"I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself, and every time I see it, I say to myself, hate is too great a burden to bear. Somehow we must be able to stand up against our most bitter opponents and say: We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will and we will still love you.... But be assured that we'll wear you down by our capacity to suffer, and one day we will win our freedom. We will not only win freedom for ourselves; we will appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory."


author: President George Bush.
text:
"I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're not doing too bad in those polls."


author: Mary Chase (1887 - 1973).
text:
"I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it."


author: Gloria Steinem (1934 - ).
text:
"I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing."


author: John Brown.
text:
"I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that, without very much bloodshed, it might be done."


author: AnaÃ¯s Nin (1903 - 1977).
text:
"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naÃ¯ve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."


author: Rebecca West (1892 - 1983).
text:
"I...have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only know that people call me a feminist when I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute."


author: Unknown.
text:
"Ideals are like stars. You will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But, like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides and following them you will reach your destiny."


author: Carl Schurz (1829 - 1906).
text:
"Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny."


author: Carl Schurz (1829 - 1906).
text:
"Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny."


author: Joseph Stalin (1879 - 1953).
text:
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?"


author: John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968).
text:
"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen."


author: Bishop Vincent.
text:
"Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs."


author: Anne Baxter.
text:
"Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profiteth others and ourselves."


author: Jeremy Collier.
text:
"Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company."


author: Gilbert Chesterton.
text:
"Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice."


author: Don Marquis (1878 - 1937).
text:
"If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity marry, and perpetuate his kind."


author: William Penn (1644 - 1718).
text:
"If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains."


author: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947).
text:
"If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer."


author: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924).
text:
"If a dog will not come to you after he has looked you in face, you should go home and examine your consicence."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."


author: Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922).
text:
"If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, how ever measured or far away."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."


author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784).
text:
"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair."


author: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790).
text:
"If a man empties his purse into his head no one can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."


author: Abdul Baha.
text:
"If a man has ten good qualities and one bad one, to look at the ten and forget the one, and if a man has ten bad qualities and one good one, to look at the one and forget the ten."


author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935).
text:
"If a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has the worse for his patient."


author: Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC).
text:
"If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it."


author: Vic Oliver.
text:
"If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a ne'er-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life."


author: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968).
text:
"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the imprisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint a landscape, and convey into souls and ochres all the enchantments of Spring or Autumn; or can liberate and intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses; it is certain that the secret cannot be kept; the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his doors."


author: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC).
text:
"If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man."


author: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626).
text:
"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties."


author: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC).
text:
"If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous; if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength; if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life; if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has."


author: Robert Ingersoll (1833 - 1899).
text:
"If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane."


author: Abdul Baha.
text:
"If a person commit a crime against you, have not the right to forgive him; but the law must punish him in order to prevent a repetition of that same crime by others, as the pain of the individual is unimportant beside the general welfare of the people."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"If a person offend you and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures. Simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick."


author: Shimon Peres (1923 - ).
text:
"If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time."


author: Shimon Peres (1923 - ).
text:
"If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact- not to be solved, but to be coped with over time."


author: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936).
text:
"If a rhinoceros were to enter this resteraunt now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I would be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever."


author: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC).
text:
"If a rich man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it."


author: Gurdjieff.
text:
"If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way."


author: Dave Barry (1947 - ).
text:
"If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base."


author: Dave Barry (1947 - ).
text:
"If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there is a man on base."


author: John D. Barrow (1952 - ).
text:
"If a `religion' is defined to be a system of ideas that contains unprovable statements, then Godel taught us that mathematics is not only a religion, it is the only religion that can prove itself to be one."


author: Doug Larson.
text:
"If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend."


author: Christina Stead (1903 - 1983).
text:
"If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around."


author: Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855).
text:
"If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends."


author: George W. Bush (1946 - ).
text:
"If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy.  That will not happen on my watch. "


author: Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527).
text:
"If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared."


author: Nicolas Martin.
text:
"If antidepressant drugs are effective, why don't they  work for psychiatrists? Year after year,  psychiatrists commit suicide at a higher rate than  the general population. Are we to believe that they  don't take their own drugs, or that the drugs don't  have the benefits attributed to them?"


author: Philip Henry Gosse.
text:
"If any choose to maintain, as many do, that species were gradually brought to their maturity from humbler forms ... he is welcome to his hypothesis, but I have nothing to do with it."


author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832).
text:
"If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul."


author: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817).
text:
"If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out."


author: Philip Crosby.
text:
"If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow."


author: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
text:
"If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him."


author: Devin J. Monroe (1983 - ).
text:
"If at first you don't succeed try, try again. If you fail even after these attempts, perhaps your just stupid."


