# Quotes

author: Hazrat Ali Ibn-e-Abi Talib.
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"Unfortunate is he who cannot gain a few sincere friends during his life and more unfortunate is the one who has gained them and then lost them (through his deeds)."


author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
text:
"Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy."


author: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004).
text:
"Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares."


author: Graham Greene.
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"Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years."


author: John Ashcroft (1942 - ).
text:
"Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus."


author: Townsend Whelen.
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"Unless a man has considerable skill with and reliance in his weapon, he will not remain cool in the presence of dangerous game close by."


author: Helen Luke.
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"Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited."


author: Martin Luther (1483 - 1546).
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"Unless I am convinced by proofs from Scriptures or by plain and clear reasons and arguments, I can and will not retract, for it is neither safe nor wise to do anything against conscience. Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. Amen."


author: Elizabeth Janeway.
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"Unless I am what I am and feel what I feel -- as hard as I can and as honestly and truly as I can -- then I am nothing."


author: Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (1908 - 1972).
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"Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality."


author: UNICEF.
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"Unless the investment in children is made, all of humanity's most fundamental long-term problems will remain fundamental long-term problems."


author: Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924).
text:
"Unless you are prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it."


author: Carl Polloi.
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"Unlike those who pretend to be immaculate, fallen angels are usually more intriguing because their earthliness is heavenly."


author: Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794).
text:
"Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages."


author: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982).
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"Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns--or dollars. Take your choice--there is no other."


author: Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870).
text:
"Until divinity decides to reveal the future to human kind, the sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope."


author: Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965).
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"Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace."


author: Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870).
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"Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,--'Wait and hope'."


author: Lord Kelvin.
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"Until you can measure something and express it in numbers, you have only the begining of understanding."


author: Bible.
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"Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath."


author: Henry C. Rogers.
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"Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought."


author: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865).
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"Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance."


author: Dave Letterman.
text:
"USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population."


author: Unknown.
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"Use the talents you possess -- for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except for the best."


author: Reverend Oliver G. Wilson.
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"Use what talents you have; the woods would have little music if no birds sang their song except those who sang best."


author: Unknown.
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"Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best."


author: Unknown.
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"Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang the best."


author: David Fiedler.
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"Usenet is distributed network anarchy at its best---or worst, depending on what is posted on any particular day."


author: Gene Spafford.
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"Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind- boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it."


author: Malcolm X (1925 - 1965).
text:
"Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change."


author: Russell Baker (1925 - ).
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"Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things."


author: Doug Larson.
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"Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none."


author: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817).
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"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously.... Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us."


author: Sir Robert Hutchison.
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"Vegetarianism is harmless enough, although it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness."


author: Sir Robert Hutchinson.
text:
"Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness."


author: Philip Crosby.
text:
"Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically."


author: Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC).
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"Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects."


author: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - ).
text:
"Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen."


author: Maude (Ruth Gordon).
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"Vice...Virtue...It's not good to be too moral. You cheat yourself out of too much life. Aim above morality."


author: Sun-tzu (~400 BC).
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"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win."


author: Sun Tzu.
text:
"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first then seek to win."


author: Muhhammad Ali.
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"VICTORY - Champions have it deep inside of them - a dream, a desire, a vision. They have the last minute stamina. They have to be a little faster. They have to have the will and the skill. But the will must be greater than the skill."


author: Dan Quayle (1947 - ).
text:
"Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. [There is no need to worry about a protracted war because] from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time."


author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832).
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"Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse."


author: William Strunk Jr..
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"Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"Vile deeds like poison weeds bloom well in prison air, it is only what is good in man, that wastes and withers there. "


author: Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988).
text:
"Violence has settled more issues in history than any other factor; and contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms."


author: Robert A. Heinlein.
text:
"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishfull thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms."


author: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823).
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"Virtue and taste are nearly the same, for virtue is little more than active taste, and the most delicate affections of each combine in real love."


author: Cardinal John Newman.
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"Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue."


author: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC).
text:
"Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue."


author: Nagarjuna.
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"Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts."


author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965).
text:
"Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness. A sincere love of peace is no excuse for muddling hundreds of millions of humble folk into total war. The cheers of the weak, well-meaning assemblies soon cease to count. Doom marches on."


author: Dr. S. U. Sunrei.
text:
"Visible goodwill is the strongest negotiation strategy. Don't let somebody else determine your behavior."


author: Robert Collier.
text:
"Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own."


author: Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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"Vision is purpose, and when your purpose is clear so are your life choices. Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith there is no anxiety, no doubt-just absolute confidence."


author: Lucretius (96 BC - 55 BC),.
text:
"Vitaque mancipio nulli datur, omnibus usu. ( Life isn't given to anyone, but just given on loan to everyone"


author: Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989).
text:
"Vladimir: That passed the time.Estragon: It would have passed in any case.Vladimir: Yes, but not so rapidly."


author: Anna Quindlen (1953 - ).
text:
"Voices that loud are always meant to bully. Do not be bullied. Acts of bravery don't always take place on battlefields. They can take place in your heart, when you have the courage to honor your character, your intellect, your inclinations, and, yes your soul by listening to its clean, clear voice of direction instead of following the muddied messages of a timid world."


author: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ).
text:
"Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings."


author: The Residents "Duck Stab":Bach is Dead.
text:
"Walking women want to see the southern cross at night And so they set aside a sock, and tie their laces tight Yes mournful is the melody that echoes in their heads Without a beat they march along, believing Bach is dead."


author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965).
text:
"Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong-these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history."


author: Mao Tse-Tung (1893 - 1976).
text:
"War can only be abolished by war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun."


author: M. F. K. Fisher.
text:
"War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist."


author: Sun Tzu.
text:
"War is a matter of vital importance to the State; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied."


author: Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527).
text:
"War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel."


author: George Orwell (1903 - 1950).
text:
"War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent."


author: John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873).
text:
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."


author: Lois McMaster Bujold.
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"War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with."


author: Colton.
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"War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies."


author: General Smedley Butler.
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"War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit."


author: Jimmy Carter (1924 - ).
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"War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebums and smaller adrenal glands."


author: Matt Groening (1954 - ).
text:
"Warning signs that lover is bored: 1. Passionless kisses 2. Frequent sighing 3. Moved, left no forwarding address."


author: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919).
text:
"Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace."


author: U Thant.
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"Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace."


author: Howard Zinn.
text:
"Was all this bloodshed and deceit - from Columbus to Cortes, Pizarro the Puritans - a necessity for the human race to progress from savagery to civilization? Was Morison right in burying the story of genocide inside a more important story of human progress? Perhaps a persuasive argument can be made - as it was made by Stalin when he killed pesants for industrial progress in the Soviet Union, as it was made by Churchill explaining the bombings of Dresden and Hamburg, and Truman explaining Hiroshima. But how can the judgement be made if the benefits and losses cannot be balanced because the losses are either unmentioned or mentioned quickly?"


author: Paulo Freire.
text:
"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral."


author: Cokie Roberts.
text:
"Washington DC is the only place in America where people put bumper stickers on their cars the day *after* the election."


author: Dean Acheson (1893 - 1971).
text:
"Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up."


author: Bible.
text:
"Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."


author: Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784).
text:
"Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control."


author: Unknown.
text:
"Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become your character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny."


author: Lao-Tzu (604 BC - 531 BC).
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"Water is fluid, soft and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong."


author: Charles Kingsley (1819 - 1875).
text:
"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about."


author: Charles Kingsley (1819 - 1875).
text:
"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about."


author: Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924).
text:
"We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out."


author: Henry Bromel.
text:
"We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. It's a messy business, life. It's hard to figure--full of surprises. Some good. Some bad."


author: John Muir (1838 - 1914).
text:
"We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love. God does not appear, and flow out, only from narrow chinks and round bored wells here and there in favored races and places, but He flows in grand undivided currents, shoreless and boundless over creeds and forms and all kinds of civilizations and peoples and beasts, saturating all and fountainizing all."


author: Jennifer Hudson.
text:
"We all have the power to choose how we are going to handle every situation we are faced with throughout our lives. We are in control of the decision we make whether itâs about work, relationships, parenting, or our health."


author: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817).
text:
"We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of a man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him."


author: Annie Sullivan.
text:
"We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about."


author: Tim McGraw.
text:
"We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we all take a little of each other everywhere."


author: Marilyn King.
text:
"We all use our imagination every day. However, most of us are unaware that what we envision affects every cell of our bodies and every aspect of our performance."


author: Maya Angelou (1928 - ).
text:
"We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders."


author: Sidney Madwed.
text:
"We always do what we MOST WANT to do, whether or not we like what we are doing at each instant of our lives. Wanting and liking many times are not the same thing. Many people have done what they say they didn't want to do at a particular moment. And that may be true until one looks deeper into the motivation behind the doing. What they are really saying is the price they will have to pay or the consequences they will have to endure, for not doing that something may be too high or onerous for them not to do it. Such as going to work. Many people say they don't want to go to work and yet they go. Which means they don't want to risk losing their jobs and the negative hurting emotions associated with not having a job. It has been estimated about 90% to 95% of all people work at jobs which are unfulfilling and which they dislike and would leave in a minute if they only knew what they really wanted to do."


author: Raymond Joseph Teller.
text:
"We always felt as if every show was the most important thing in the world, but knew if we bombed, we'd live."


author: Dave Barry (1947 - ).
text:
"We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it."


author: Rev. Francis J. Spellman.
text:
"We Americans want peace, and it is now evident that we must be prepared to demand it. For other peoples have wanted peace, and the peace they received was the peace of death."


author: John Locke (1632 - 1704).
text:
"We are a kind of Chameleons, taking our hue - the hue of our moral character, from those who are about us."


author: Lewis Thomas (1913 - 1993).
text:
"We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a "common goal" of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music."


author: Richard Dawkins (1941 - ).
text:
"We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."


author: Judith Martin.
text:
"We are all born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society."


author: Lynn Johnston (1947 - ).
text:
"We are all born with wonderful gifts. We use these gifts to express ourselves, to amuse, to strengthen, and to communicate. We begin as children to explore and develop our talents, often unaware that we are unique, that not everyone can do what we're doing!"


author: Cesare Pavese (1908 - 1950).
text:
"We are all capable of evil thoughts, but only very rarely of evil deeds: we can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts."


author: Kathy Sierra.
text:
"We are all human, and caring about the way something looks and feels does not mean we're superficial--it means we're human. We don't need to exploit sex to recognize that a certain amount of sexiness is both pleasurable and natural."


author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935).
text:
"We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them."


author: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894).
text:
"We are all travelers in the wilderness of the World, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend."


author: Maurice Maeterlinck (1862 - 1949).
text:
"We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character."


author: Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988).
text:
"We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on."


author: Michael Jackson.
text:
"We are behaving like people without compassion and love for the most vulnerable section of society. The children of the universe are without a spokesperson, they are voicelessâ¦We are all touched by the atrocities committed against children: sexual, physical abuse, child slave labor, educational neglect. We feel ashamed. Angry. Appalled. But there is no actionâ¦No action."


author: Judith Martin.
text:
"We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society."


author: Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939).
text:
"We are certainly getting ahead; if I am Moses, then you are Joshua and will take possession of the promised land of psychiatry, which I shall only be able to glimpse from afar."


author: John W. Gardner (1912 - 2002).
text:
"We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."


author: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919).
text:
"We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with high and resolute courage. For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out."


author: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662).
text:
"We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others."


author: Barack Obama (1961 - ).
text:
"We are here because we love this country too much to let the next four years look like the last eight."


author: Josephine Hart.
text:
"We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists. And however futile each individual act of courage or generosity, self-sacrifice or grace-it still proves the thing exists. Each act adds to the fund. It needs replenishment. Not only because evil flourishes, and is, most indefensibly, defended. But because goodness is no longer a respectable aim in life. The hound of hell, envy, has driven it from the house."


author: Rabbi Harold Kushner.
text:
"We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough."


author: Adelle Davis (1904 - 1974).
text:
"We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are."


author: Stephen Hawking (1942 - ).
text:
"We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special."


author: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ).
text:
"We are just tenants on this world. We have just been given a new lease, and a warning from the landlord."


author: John Green.
text:
"We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE in a ridiculous attempt to survive our deaths."


author: Bernard of Chartres.
text:
"We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a great distance, not by virtue of any sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size."


author: Anais Nin (1903 - 1977).
text:
"We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them."


author: Lawrence K. Frank.
text:
"We are living the events which for centuries to come will be minutely studied by scholars who will undoubtedly describe these days as probably the most exciting and creative in the history of mankind. But preoccupied with our daily chores, our worries and personal hopes and ambitions, few of us are actually living in the present."


author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680).
text:
"We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves."


author: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983).
text:
"We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential.  Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys."


author: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
text:
"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."


author: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865).
text:
"We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory shall swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of nature."


author: Thomas Mann (1875 - 1955).
text:
"We are not free, separate, and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way."


author: Abraham Maslow (1908 - 1970).
text:
"We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings."


author: C.S. Lewis.
text:
"We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be."


author: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC).
text:
"We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race."


author: Pierre Teilhard De Chardin.
text:
"We are one, after all, you and I. Together we suffer, together exist, and forever will recreate each other."


author: Jerome Seymour Bruner.
text:
"We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of the educatability of man -- the perfectibility of man. We have never addressed ourselves to this problem before."


author: William O. Douglas (1898 - 1980).
text:
"We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government."


author: Joseph Chilton Pearce.
text:
"We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers."


author: Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC).
text:
"We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves."


author: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680).
text:
"We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves."


author: Francois de la Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680).
text:
"We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves."


author: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD).
text:
"We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest place. What can be more coarse and rude in the mind than the precious metals, or more slavish and dirty than the people that dig and work them? And yet they defile our minds more than our bodies, and make the possessor fouler than the artificer of them. Rich men, in fine, are only the greater slaves."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing."


author: Alanis Morissette (1974 - ).
text:
"We are taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they are of equal value as happiness excitement and inspiration."


author: Alan Chadwick.
text:
"We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars."


author: Arthur William Edgar O' Shaugnessy.
text:
"We are the music makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-beakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world forever, it seems."


author: Ellen Goodman (1941 - ).
text:
"We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck... But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness."


author: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983).
text:
"We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents."


author: Judie Brown.
text:
"We are totally opposed to abortion under any circumstances. We are also opposed to abortifacient drugs and chemicals like the Pill and the IUD, and we are also opposed to all forms of birth control with the exception of natural family planning."


author: Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867).
text:
"We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose."


author: Rabbi Mark David Finkel.
text:
"We are wise when we learn from one another. We are strong when we contain our impulses. We are honored when we honor others."


author: R. W. Dale.
text:
"We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness."


author: Olive Schreiner (1855 - 1920).
text:
"We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration."


author: Anne Wilson Schaef.
text:
"We begin to see that the completion of an important project has every right to be dignified by a natural grieving process. Something that required the best of you has ended. You will miss it."


author: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
text:
"We believe that if men have the talent to invent need machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work."


author: Josephine Hart - "Sin".
text:
"We bury with many different emotions. Rarely with intimations of mortality. 'Buried' is the ultimate separation of them and us. As other's lives are often only dreams to us, so also others' deaths."


author: Kanye West.
text:
"We buy our way out of jail but we can't buy freedom, We buy a lot of clothes when we don't really need them, Things we buy to cover up what's inside."


author: Anna Sewell (1820 - 1878).
text:
"We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words."


author: Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882).
text:
"We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act."


author: Eli Attie.
text:
"We can aspire to anything, but we don't get it just 'cause we want it. I would rather spend my life close to the birds than waste it wishing I had wings."


author: Francis J. Braceland.
text:
"We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves."


author: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC).
text:
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"We can forgive a man for making a useful thing, as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless."


author: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945).
text:
"We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction."


author: Thomas Troward.
text:
"We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions."


author: Teddy Roosevelt.
text:
"We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all."


author: Alison Lurie.
text:
"We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent."


author: John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873).
text:
"We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still."


author: Barack Obama (1961 - ).
text:
"We can't expect to solve problems if all we do is tear each other down. You can disagree with a certain policy without demonizing the person who espouses it."


author: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919).
text:
"We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and relatively. We must set ourselves vigorously about the task of improving them; and this task is now well begun."


author: Florence Scovel Shinn.
text:
"We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation."


author: Author Unknown.
text:
"We cannot be too earnest, too persistent, too determined, about living superior to the herd-instinct."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected."


author: Herman Melville (1819 - 1891).
text:
"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects."


author: John Dewey (1859 - 1952).
text:
"We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique."


author: Jeffrey Edwin Ross.
text:
"We cannot view the world through another being's eyes. Love is knowing, without a doubt, another's perception of the world and being content with having no evidence."


author: Jennifer Hudson.
text:
"We canât let our insecurities own or destroy us. We have to face them head-on. That was part of the challenge that motivated me to take this journey. I wanted to see what I could do and, more important, I wanted to understand everything that was holding me back."


author: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817).
text:
"We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You are forced on exertion. You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions. All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one; you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone."


author: Meryl Streep (1949 - ).
text:
"We change who we are to fit the exogenous of our time, and not just strategically or to our own advantage, sometimes sympathetically without our even knowing it for the betterment of the whole group."


author: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
text:
"We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too."


author: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826).
text:
"We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it."


author: Stephen Hawking (1942 - ).
text:
"We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the laws of physics."


author: John Grogan.
text:
"We could have bought a small yacht with what we spent on our dog an dall the things he destroyed. Then again, how many yachts wait by the door all day for your return?"


author: Tom Stoppard (1937 - ).
text:
"We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered."


author: Maya Angelou (1928 - ).
text:
"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty."


author: George Iles.
text:
"We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions of men."


author: Joshua Schachter.
text:
"We did a variant of the intern thing. We hired people as consultants for a specific thing and then if they were good, offered them a job."


author: Raymond Joseph Teller.
text:
"We did not start as friends, but as people who respected and admired each other. Crucial, absolutely crucial for a partnership. As soon as we could afford it, we ceased sharing lodgings. Equally crucial."


author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
text:
"We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights."


author: Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883 - 1955).
text:
"We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands upon himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself."


author: Fidel Castro (1927 - ).
text:
"We do not deny the possibility of peaceful [political] transition, but we are still awaiting the first case."


author: Antonin Artaud (1896 - 1948).
text:
"We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary."


author: John Claypool.
text:
"We do not first get all the answers and then live in the light of our understanding. We must rather plunge into life meeting what we have to meet and experiencing what we have to experience and in the light of living try to understand. if insight comes at all, it will not before, but only through and after experience."


author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832).
text:
"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe."


author: J. B. S. Haldane (1892 - 1964).
text:
"We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy."


author: J. K. Rowling.
text:
"We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better."


author: Tom Stoppard (1937 - ).
text:
"We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else."


author: Eucharista Ward.
text:
"We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love."


author: Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 - ).
text:
"We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves."


author: Randy Pausch.
text:
"We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners."


author: Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922).
text:
"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."


author: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
text:
"We donât see the end of the tunnel but I must say I donât think it is darker than it was a year ago, and in some ways lighter."


author: David Weatherford.
text:
"We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is the silent poor indeed."


author: Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922).
text:
"We feel in one world, we think and name in another. Between the two we can set up a system of references, but we cannot fill in the gap."


author: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809).
text:
"We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in."


author: R. J. Baughan.
text:
"We find greatest joy, not in getting, but expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not in the taking and holding, but in the doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things, but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself."


author: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983).
text:
"We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white."


author: Justice Byron R. White.
text:
"We find no evidence that Congress intended to modify the nostrum to read, 'crime does not pay, except for attorney's fees.'"


author: Maxwell Maltz.
text:
"We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve."


author: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962).
text:
"We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot."


author: Richard Bach.
text:
"We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent the life weve created for ourselves? Whos to blame, whos to credit, but us? Who can change it anytime we wish, but us?"


author: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924).
text:
"We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true."


author: Hazrat Inayat Khan.
text:
"We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself. In the cradle it in moving its little arms and legs in a certain rhythm. And when our music falls on the ears of an infant it is of the lowest character compared with the music it is accustomed to."


author: Karl Popper.
text:
"We hate the very idea that our own ideas may be mistaken, so we cling dogmatically to our conjectures."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read."


author: Dan Quayle (1947 - ).
text:
"We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a *part* of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a *part* of Europe."


author: Maria Mitchell.
text:
"We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us; and the more we gain, the more is our desire. The more we see, the more we are capable of seeing."


author: William Strachan.
text:
"We have always been sort of monosyllabic in terms of languages, and that extends into ignorance or wariness of other cultures."


author: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945).
text:
"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics."


author: Richard T. Ely.
text:
"We have among us a class of mammon worshippers, whose one test of conservatism or radicalism is the attitude one takes with respect to accumulated wealth. Whatever tends to preserve the wealth of the wealthy is called conservatism, and whatever favors anything else, no matter what is called socialism."


author: Eric Schmidt.
text:
"We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power."


author: Stephen Jay Gould (1941 - 2002).
text:
"We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the steward of life's continutity on earth. We did not ask for this role, but we cannot abjure it. We may not be suited to to it, but here we are."


author: Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975).
text:
"We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves."


author: Barack Obama (1961 - ).
text:
"We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics. They will only grow louder and more dissonant in the weeks to come. We've been asked to pause for a reality check; we've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope."


author: Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961).
text:
"We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage, and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man's duty to understand his world rather than to simply fight for it."


author: Gerald Weinberg.
text:
"We have come through a strange cycle in programming, starting with the creation of programming itself as a human activity. Executives with the tiniest smattering of knowledge assume that anyone can write a program, and only now are programmers beginning to win their battle for recognition as true professionals. Not just anyone, with any background, or any training, can do a fine job of programming. Programmers know this, but then why is it that they think that anyone picked off the street can do documentation? One has only to spend an hour looking at papers written by graduate students to realize the extent to which the ability to communicate is not universally held. And so, when we speak about computer program documentation, we are not speaking about the psychology of computer programming at all - except insofar as programmers have the illusion that anyone can do a good job of documentation, provided he is not smart enough to be a programmer."


author: William Ralph Inge (1860 - 1954).
text:
"We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form."


author: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968).
text:
"We have flown the air like birds and swum the seas like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers."


author: Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944).
text:
"We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own."


author: George W. Bush (1946 - ).
text:
"We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited by the perception of weakness. And the surest way to avoid attacks on our own people is to engage the enemy where he lives and plans. We are fighting that enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan today so that we do not meet him again on our own streets, in our own cities."


author: Book of Common Prayer.
text:
"We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done."


author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
text:
"We have long passed the Victorian era, when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby."


author: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
text:
"We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way - not at all or in an interesting manner."


author: Henry John Temple Palmerston.
text:
"We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow."


author: John Adams (1735 - 1826).
text:
"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other."


author: John Adams (1735 - 1826).
text:
"We have no government armed with the power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion.â¦ Our Constitution was made only for a moral and a religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it."


author: Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527).
text:
"We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter."


author: Marie Beyon Ray.
text:
"We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand... and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late."


author: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983).
text:
"We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends."


author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918 - ).
text:
"We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life."


author: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983).
text:
"We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind."


author: James Madison (1751 - 1836).
text:
"We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God."


author: Bill Clinton (1946 - ).
text:
"We have to ask the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share again. Their incomes went up in the 1980s and their taxes went down. We can't ask the middle class to pay more; their incomes went down and their taxes went up."


author: Etty Hillesum.
text:
"We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies."


author: Elizabeth Aston.
text:
"We have to have the money to do the work we want to do, as well as to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table. Fat commissions are good, but not always easy to come by, and each new painting takes its time. So we need to find every way possible to earn extra income from our work."


author: Herman Hesse.
text:
"We have to play what is actually in demand, and we have to play it as well and as beautifully and as expressively as ever we can."


author: Werner Heisenberg.
text:
"We have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning."


author: Charles Reynolds Brown.
text:
"We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many people who work without living."


author: Dennis Kucinich.
text:
"We have weapons of mass destruction we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Unemployment is a weapon of mass destruction."


author: Malcolm Gladwell.
text:
"We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach."


author: Ian Malcolm.
text:
"We haven't got the power to destroy the planet -- or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves."


author: Robert Cecil.
text:
"We hear much of a decent pride, a becoming proud, a noble pride, a laudable pride. Can that be decent, of which we ought to be ashamed? Can that be becoming, of which God has set forth the deformity? Can that be noble which God resists and is determined to abase? Can that be laudable, which God call abominable."


author: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider.
text:
"We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!"


author: US Declaration of Independence.
text:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."


author: Bill Vaughan.
text:
"We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics."


author: Stephen Covey.
text:
"We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us."


author: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826).
text:
"We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate."


author: Edward Sellner.
text:
"We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise."


author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882).
text:
"We judge ourselves by what we are capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done."


author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882).
text:
"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done."


author: Gregory Kerber.
text:
"We judge the future by the past. Achieving success is one's ability to look at yesterday, cease today and capture tomorrowâs opportunity."


author: George F. Will (1941 - ).
text:
"We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge."


author: Joshua L. Chamberlain.
text:
"We know not of the future, and cannot plan for it much. But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be whenever and wherever the hour stricks that calls to noble action..., No man becomes suddenly different from his habit and cherished thought."


author: George W. Bush (1946 - ).
text:
"We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies."


author: Stephen Colbert.
text:
"We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in 'reality.' And reality has a well known liberal bias."


author: Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946).
text:
"We know that we can do what men can do, but we still don't know that men can do what women can do. That's absolutely crucial. We can't go on doing two jobs."


author: Eddie Izzard.
text:
"We know the people with techno-fear. They're there, on the computer, going; What... oh... oh... I... I've wiped the file? Oh damn. What... I've wiped all the files?? I've wiped the internet?!? Oh no... I don't even have a modem!"


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power."


author: Malcolm Gladwell.
text:
"We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction."


author: Ricther.
text:
"We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection."


author: Bill Vaughan.
text:
"We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong."


author: Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924).
text:
"We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - your ideal of what you long to attain - the ideal of health, efficiency, success."


author: R. D. Laing.
text:
"We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing."


author: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996).
text:
"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."


author: Marilyn Manson (1969 - ).
text:
"We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves."


author: Jimmy Carter (1924 - ).
text:
"We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities - not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself."


author: Christopher Reeve.
text:
"We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them."


author: Euell Gibbons.
text:
"We live in a vastly complex society which has been able to provide us with a multitude of material things, and this is good, but people are beginning to suspect we have paid a high spiritual price for our plenty."


author: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924).
text:
"We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction. There are many voices of counsel, but few voices of vision; there is much excitement and feverish activity, but little concert of thoughtful purpose. We are distressed by our own ungoverned, undirected energies and do many things, but nothing long. It is our duty to find ourselves."


author: Jamie Lee Curtis.
text:
"We look at adoption as a very sacred exchange. It was not done lightly on either side. I would dedicate my life to this child."


author: Raymond Joseph Teller.
text:
"We made a solemn vow not to take any job outside of show business. We borrowed money from parents and friends, rather than take that lethal job waiting tables. This forced us to take any job offered to us. Anything. We once did a show in the middle of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia as part of a fashion show on a hot July night while all around our stage, a race-riot was fully underway. That's how serious we were about our vow."


author: Laura Moncur (1969 - ).
text:
"We make our gadgets our own by the way that we use them, with or without the permission of the manufacturer."


author: Charles de Gaulle (1890 - 1970).
text:
"We may go to the moon, but that's not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us."


author: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832).
text:
"We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age."


author: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948).
text:
"We may stumble and fall, but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle."


author: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969).
text:
"We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war."


author: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827).
text:
"We mortals with immortal minds are only born for sufferings and joys, and one could almost say that the most excellent receive joy through sufferings."


author: Charles Peguy.
text:
"We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see."


author: R. Abel.
text:
"We must avoid here two complementary errors: on the one hand that the world has a unique, intrinsic, pre-existing structure awaiting our grasp; and on the other hand that the world is in utter chaos. The first error is that of the student who marvelled at how the astronomers could find out the true names of distant constellations. The second error is that of the Lewis Carroll's Walrus who grouped shoes with ships and sealing wax, and cabbages with kings..."


author: Joseph Campbell (1904 - 1987).
text:
"We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."


author: E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970).
text:
"We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."


author: Rosalind Sussman Yalow.
text:
"We must believe in ourselves or no one else will believe in us; we must match our aspirations with the competence, courage, and determination to succeed."


author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965).
text:
"We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges."


author: Martin Luther King, Jr..
text:
"We must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means."


author: J. William Fulbright (1905 - ).
text:
"We must dare to think "unthinkable" thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about "unthinkable things" because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless."


author: J. William Fulbright (1905 - ).
text:
"We must dare to think about "unthinkable things" because when things become "unthinkable" thinking stops and action becomes mindless."


author: John Hope Franklin.
text:
"We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not."


author: Kabbalah.
text:
"We must learn not to disassociate the airy flower from the earthy root, for the flower that is cut off from its root fades, and its seeds are barren, whereas the root, secure in mother earth, can produce flower after flower and bring their fruit to maturity."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy."


author: Milan Kundera (1929 - ).
text:
"We must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory. For children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles."


author: H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946).
text:
"We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery."


author: Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965).
text:
"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it."


author: Marie Curie (1867 - 1934).
text:
"We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity."


author: Henry Miller (1891 - 1980).
text:
"We must not just be in the world and above the world, but also of the world. To love it for what it is... is the only task. Avoid it and you are lost. Loose yourself in it, and you are free."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"We must not make a scarecrow of the law, setting it up to fear the birds of prey, and let it keep one shape, till custom make it their perch and not their terror."


author: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945).
text:
"We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart."


author: John Kerry (1943 - ).
text:
"We must uphold the promise of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never allow the President and his Republican friends to threaten Social Security by putting it on the Wall Street trading block."


author: Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882).
text:
"We must, however, acknowledge as it seems to me, that a man with all his noble qualities...still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin."


author: Dennis Miller.
text:
"We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head."


author: Emma Thompson.
text:
"We need new writers to create roles where women are morall central to the story. I grew up indentifying with Marlon Brando. It's time we created new myths."


author: Ray Bradbury (1920 - ).
text:
"We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?"


author: Susan Taylor.
text:
"We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly. . . spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order."


author: William James (1842 - 1910).
text:
"We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be."


author: Victoria Damon.
text:
"We never learn to pray, really pray- until we are in a situatioin where there is nothing left to do but pray."


author: Desmond Morris.
text:
"We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species."


author: Rich Mullins.
text:
"We never understand what we're praying; and God, in His mercy, does not answer our prayers according to our understanding, but according to His wisdom."


author: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001).
text:
"We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't notice books."


author: Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005).
text:
"We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn."


author: Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944).
text:
"We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because 'two' is 'one and one.' We forget that we have still to make of a study of 'and.'"


author: C. C. Colton.
text:
"We ought not be over anxious to encourage innovation, in case of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established and it is understood."


author: George Washington (1732 - 1799).
text:
"We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear-brought experience."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world."


author: Lewis Thomas (1913 - 1993).
text:
"We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other."


author: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942).
text:
"We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement."


author: Oswald Chambers.
text:
"We presume that we would be ready for battle if confronted with a great crisis, but it is not the crisis that builds something within usâit simply reveals what we are made of already."


author: Horace (65 BC - 8 BC).
text:
"We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest."


author: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900).
text:
"We require from buildings, as from men, two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it; which last is itself another form of duty."


author: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942).
text:
"We resent the thought that anything can please us when someone we love is no longer here to share the pleasure with us, and we almost feel as if we were unfaithful to our sorrow when we find our interest in life returning to us."


author: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980).
text:
"We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like."


author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965).
text:
"We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."


author: Colley Cibber (1671 - 1757).
text:
"We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman,âscorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang."


author: Winston Churchill.
text:
"We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."


author: T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965).
text:
"We shall never cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time."


author: Paul Brooks.
text:
"We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich or poor, lovingly nurtured or bled white. Our present attitudes and laws governing the ownership and use of land represent an abuse of the concept of private property.... Today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see and nobody calls the cops."


author: T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965).
text:
"We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."


author: T. S Eliot.
text:
"We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started-- and know the place for the first time."


author: T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965).
text:
"We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."


author: T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965).
text:
"We shall not cease from our exploration, and at the end of all our exploring, we shall arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."


author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965).
text:
"We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire...Give us the tools and we will finish the job."


author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965).
text:
"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence...on pain of liquidation."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it--and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again--and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore."


author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935).
text:
"We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe."


author: Frank Tibolt.
text:
"We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action."


author: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD).
text:
"We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it."


author: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD).
text:
"We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift."


author: Donald Trump (1946 - ).
text:
"We should have a new force called the Space Force. Itâs like the Army and the Navy, but for space, because weâre spending a lot of money on space."


author: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680).
text:
"We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."


author: Stephen Hawking (1942 - ).
text:
"We shouldn't be surprised that conditions in the universe are suitable for life, but this is not evidence that the universe was designed to allow for life."


author: George Orwell (1903 - 1950).
text:
"We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. "


author: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887).
text:
"We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning."


author: Chazal.
text:
"We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes."


author: James Carroll.
text:
"We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things [but] there are times when we stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper."


author: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
text:
"We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others."


author: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969).
text:
"We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective."


author: The Metro Para pledge.
text:
"We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing."


author: Gordon Atkinson.
text:
"We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of Godâs existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith."


author: Henry Sedgwick.
text:
"We think so because other people all think so; or because after all, we do think so; or because we were told so, and think we must think so; or because we once thought so, and think we still think so; or because, having thought so, we think we will think so."


author: Jon Armstrong.
text:
"We think the cross to bear is not for those who are gay, but those who believe in crosses in the first place."


author: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662).
text:
"We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own."


author: Barack Obama (1961 - ).
text:
"We too often let the material things serve as indicators that we're doing well, even though something inside us tells us that were not doing our best. That we are avoiding that which is hard, but also necessary. That we are shrinking from rather than vising to the challenges of the age."


author: Charlton Ogburn.
text:
"We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. Presumably the plans for our employment were being changed. I was to learn later in life that, perhaps because we are so good at organizing, we tend as a nation to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization."


author: Gene McSweeney.
text:
"We try to grab pieces of our lives as they speed past us. Photographs freeze those pieces and help us remember how we were. We don't know these lost people but if you look around, you'll find someone just like them."


author: Ellen DeGeneres.
text:
"We use 10 percent of our brains. Imagine how much we could accomplish if we used the other 60 percent."


author: Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944).
text:
"We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'."


author: Waiter Rant.
text:
"We want God to come and save us. But he wonât. God doesnât stop levees from failing, he doesnât stay the force of tsunamis, and he doesnât stop planes from smashing into buildings. Deus Ex Machina is overrated."


author: Jassamyn West.
text:
"We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions."


author: Nick Faldo.
text:
"We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years."


author: Lionel Trilling.
text:
"We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us."


author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
text:
"We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us."


author: Shakti Gawain.
text:
"We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other peoples' models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open."


author: Bill Clinton and Al Gore.
text:
"We will lower the tax burden on middle-class Americans by asking the very wealthy to pay their fair share. Middle-class taxpayers will have a choice between a children's tax credit or a significant reduction in the income tax rate."


author: Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965).
text:
"We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven into an age of unreason if we dig deep into our history and remember we are not descended from fearful men."


author: Henry James (1843 - 1916).
text:
"We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art."


author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680).
text:
"We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them."


author: Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918 - 1970).
text:
"We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way."


author: Dan Quayle (1947 - ).
text:
"We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made."


author: Eric Clapton.
text:
"We're all playing melody against each other. our aim is to get so far away from the original line that your playing something that's never been heard before."


author: Whoopi Goldberg.
text:
"We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark."


author: Jim Morrison (1943 - 1971).
text:
"We're like actors, turned loose in this world to wander in search of a phantom, endlessly searching for a half formed shadow of our lost reality. When others demand that we become the people they want us to be, they force us to destroy the person we really are. It's a subtle kind of murder. The most loving parents and relatives commit this murder with smiles on their faces."


author: John Lennon (1940 - 1980).
text:
"We're more popular than Jesus now; I dont know which will go first; rock 'n' roll or Christianity."


author: David Assael.
text:
"We're not talking about historical accuracy, we're talking about art. I've set in motion a geometric inevitability. If I start chiseling there, chipping here, the whole form is compromised."


author: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ).
text:
"We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives."


author: Jeffrey Rowland.
text:
"We've always been here and we'll always be here. We are a specific arrangement of particles and this instant is infinite. Did we luck out, or didn't we? The odds against this sentence having ever being typed, much less the odds against you reading it were inconceivable. Smile, because the fact that you're able to is almost impossible to comprehend."


author: Robert Wilensky.
text:
"We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true."


author: Omar Nelson Bradley.
text:
"We've learned how to destroy, but not to create; how to waste, but not to build; how to kill men, but not how to save them; how to die, but seldom how to live."


author: Andy Rooney (1919 - ).
text:
"We've sent a man to the moon, and that's 290,000 miles away. The center of the Earth is only 4,000 miles away. You could drive that in a week, but for some reason nobody's ever done it."


author: R. D. Hitchcock.
text:
"Wealth is not of necessity a curse, nor poverty a blessing. Wholesome and easy abundance is better than either extreme; better for our manhood that we have enough for daily comfort; enough for culture, for hospitality, for charity. More than this may or may not be a blessing. Certainly it can be a blessing only by being accepted as a trust."


author: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC).
text:
"Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent."


author: Hosea Ballou (1796 - 1861).
text:
"Weary the path that does not challenge. Doubt is an incentive to truth and patient inquiry leadeth the way."


author: Matt Groening (1954 - ).
text:
"Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals ... except the weasel."


author: Homer Simpson.
text:
"Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what seperates us from the animals. Except the weasels."


author: George Carlin (1937 - 2008).
text:
"Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning."


author: E. B. White (1899 - 1985).
text:
"Weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society -- things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed."


author: Marcelene Cox.
text:
"Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans."


author: Emo Phillips.
text:
"Weh I was a kid I prayed every night for a bike until I figured out that that's not the way that God works, so I stole a bike and then asked him for forgiveness."


author: Grace Speare.
text:
"Welcome every problem as an opportunity. Each moment is the great challenge, the best thing that ever happened to you . The more difficult the problem, the greater the challenge in working it out."


author: Orson Scott Card (1951 - ).
text:
"Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to be controlled by good people, by people who love you."


author: Laurie Anderson.
text:
"Well I was out in my four door With the top down. And I looked up and there they were: Millions of tiny teardrops Just sort of hanging there And I didn't know whether to laugh or cry And I said to myself: What next big sky?"


author: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977).
text:
"Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... Now you tell me what you know."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them."


author: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004).
text:
"Well, I would - if they realized that we - again if - if we led them back to that stalemate only because that our retaliatory power, our seconds, or strike at them after our first strike, would be so destructive that they couldn't afford it, that would hold them off."


author: David Assael.
text:
"Well, spring sprang. We've had our state of grace and our little gift of sanctioned madness, courtesy of Mother Nature. Thanks, Gaia. Much obliged. I guess it's time to get back to that daily routine of living we like to call normal."


author: Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890).
text:
"Well, the fact is that one cannot retrace one's steps, and the steps one has taken greatly influence the future."


author: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007).
text:
"Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful."


author: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider.
text:
"Well, you're either lovers or you're wanting to be lovers or you're trying not to be lovers so you can be friends, but any way you look at it, sex is always looming in the picture like a shadow, like an undertow."


author: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790).
text:
"Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first."


author: South.
text:
"Were there but one virtuous man in the world, he would hold up his head with confidence and honor; he would shame the world, and not the world him."


author: Herman Melville (1819 - 1891).
text:
"Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage."


author: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata.
text:
"What a beautiful, sunny morning. It makes you happy to be alive, doesn't it? We can't let the sun outshine us! We have to beam, too!"


author: Simone Weil (1909 - 1943).
text:
"What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is much more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict."


author: Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939).
text:
"What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult."


author: G.K. Chesterton.
text:
"What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read."


author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873).
text:
"What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life."


author: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
text:
"What a time experiences as evil, is usually an untimely echo of what was formerly experienced as good--the atavism of a more ancient ideal."


author: Dan Quayle (1947 - ).
text:
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is."


author: Prophet Mohammad.
text:
"What actions are most excellent? To gladden the heart of human beings, to feed the hungry, to help the afflicted, to lighten the sorrow of the sorrowful, and to remove the sufferings of the injured."


author: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719).
text:
"What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities."


author: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
text:
"What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motions of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason."


author: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider.
text:
"What are man and woman if not members of two very different and warring tribes? Yet decade after decade, century after century, they attempt in marriage to reconcile and forge a union. Why? I don't know. Biological imperative? Divine law? Or just a desire to connect to that mysterious other? In any case, it's always struck me as a hopeful thing."


author: Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long.
text:
"What are the facts? Again and again and again - what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what "the stars fortell", avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable "verdict of history" - what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!"


author: Keniche Ohnae.
text:
"What business strategy is all about; what distinguishes it from all other kinds of business planning - is, in a word, competitive advantage. Without competitors there would be no need for strategy, for the sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as effectively as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors"


author: Ivan Pavlov (1849 - 1936).
text:
"What can I wish to the youth of my country who devote themselves to science? ...Thirdly, passion. Remember that science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find."


author: Sonia Taitz.
text:
"What children take from us, they giveâ¦We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply."


author: Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910).
text:
"What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility."


author: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969).
text:
"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog."


author: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965).
text:
"What counts now is not just what we are against, but what we are for. Who leads us is less important than what leads us-what convictions, what courage, what faith-win or lose. A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principal can."


author: Murphy's Computer Laws (Finagle's Rules).
text:
"What Every Computer Consultant Needs to Know: 1) In case of doubt, make it sound convincing. 2) Do not believe in miracles. Rely on them."


author: Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642).
text:
"What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold 'precious,' and earth and soil 'base'? People who do this ought to remember that if there were as great a scarcity of soil as of jewels or precious metals, there would not be a prince who would not spend a bushel of diamonds and rubies and a cartload of gold just to have enough earth to plant a jasmine in a little pot, or to sow an orange seed and watch it sprout, grow, and produce its handsome leaves, its fragrant flowers, and fine fruit. It is scarcity and plenty that make the vulgar take things to be precious or worthless; they call a diamond very beautiful because it is like pure water, and then would not exchange one for ten barrels of water."


author: George Eliot (1819 - 1880).
text:
"What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined... to strengthen each other... to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories."


author: Dave Barry (1947 - ).
text:
"What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth ? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad."


author: Charles Victor Cherbuliez.
text:
"What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient, but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully."


author: Shakti Gawain.
text:
"What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly."


author: Christopher Reeve.
text:
"What I do is based on powers we all have inside us; the ability to endure; the ability to love, to carry on, to make the best of what we have - and you donât have to be a âSupermanâ to do it."


author: Joseph Priestley.
text:
"What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others."


author: Jennifer Hudson.
text:
"What I learned from Weight Watchers is that food was meant to be used as fuel for our bodies. If we are using it for any other reasons, it is time to take a step back and ask ourselves whatâs up."


author: Clay Aiken.
text:
"What I wanted to do was work with kids with behavioral and emotional handicaps. It's a puzzle, learning each child, because each child is different."


author: Woody Allen (1935 - ).
text:
"What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet."


author: Chateaubriand.
text:
"What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to grief, or the one who likes becomes powerful. Love? it is deceived, fleeting, or guilty. Fame? You share it with mediocrity or crime. Fortune? Could that frivolity be counted a blessing? All that remains are those so-called happy days that flow past unnoticed in the obscurity of domestic cares, leaving man with the desire neither to lose his life nor to begin it over."


author: Herbert Simon.
text:
"What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more."


author: Achilles.
text:
"What is a seer? A man who with luck tells the truth sometimes, with frequent falsehoods, but when his luck deserts him, collapses then and there."


author: Norman Douglas.
text:
"What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes. Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings-- they are so trite, so threadbare. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race, and the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot be far wrong. Has any man ever attained to inner harmony by pondering the experience of others? Not since the world began! He must pass through fire."


author: Norman Douglas.
text:
"What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong."


author: Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864).
text:
"What is called poetic insight is the gift of discerning, in this sphere of strangely mingled elements, the beauty and the majesty which are compelled to assume a garb so sordid."


author: Leszezynski Stanislaus.
text:
"What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little."


author: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
text:
"What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome."


author: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885).
text:
"What is grace? It is the inspiration from on high: it is love; it is liberty. Grace is the spirit of law. This discovery of the spirit of law belongs to Saint Paul; and what he calls "grace" from a heavenly point of view, we, from an earthly point, call "rigtheousness.""


author: John Irving (1942 - ).
text:
"What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us are wrapped up in parentheses."


author: Lord Byron (1788 - 1824).
text:
"What is hope? nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of."


author: Martina Horner.
text:
"What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers."


author: Jeff Melvoin.
text:
"What is it about possessing things? Why do we feel the need to own what we love, and why do we become jerks when we do? We've all been there-- you want something, to possess it. By possessing something you lose it. You finally win the girl of your dreams, the first thing you do is change her. The little things she does with her hair, the way she wears her clothes or the way she chews her gum. Pretty soon what you like, what you changed, what you don't like, blends together like a watercolor in the rain."


author: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892).
text:
"What is it that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life."


author: Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960).
text:
"What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day."


author: Jerry Garcia.
text:
"What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you're not getting the whole thing that's there to be had."


author: Pedro Calderon de la Barca.
text:
"What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story, And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams."


author: Crowfoot.
text:
"What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset."


author: Crowfoot's last words (1890) (Blackfoot warrior and orator).
text:
"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset."


author: William Wharton.
text:
"What is love? As far as I can tell, is is passion, admiration, and respect. If you have two, you have enough. If you have all three, you dont have to die to go to heaven."


author: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947).
text:
"What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike."


author: Susan Sontag (1933 - 2004).
text:
"What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine."


author: Krishnamurti.
text:
"What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it."


author: Robert Kennedy.
text:
"What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents."


author: Elizabeth Aston.
text:
"What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage."


author: Vilhjalmur Stefanss.
text:
"What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public."


author: Maximilien Robespierre (1758 - 1794).
text:
"What is the end of our revolution? The tranquil enjoyment of liberty and equality; the reign of that eternal justice, the laws of which are graven, not on marble or stone, but in the hearts of men, even in the heart of the slave who has forgotten them, and in that of the tyrant who disowns them."


author: Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD).
text:
"What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows."


author: Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924).
text:
"What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it."


author: Eugene Delacroix (1798 - 1863).
text:
"What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - possessing them - that what has been said has still not been said enough."


author: Andre Agassi (1970 - ).
text:
"What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose."


author: Daniel Akst.
text:
"What mattered was not what happens to you, but how you handle it. Self-command is required to overcome the dangerous misinformation of our emotions, and because for the most part the self is the only thing that we can command. We have no control, ultimately, over what people do or think. What we can influence is our understanding of these circumstances and how we respond to them."


author: Sherri Reynolds.
text:
"What matters is this: you can look at a scar and see hurt, or you can look at a scar and see healing. Try to understand."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm."


author: Norbert Wiener.
text:
"What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead."


author: Unknown.
text:
"What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things."


author: Nora Ephron.
text:
"What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed."


author: George Santayana (1863 - 1952).
text:
"What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves."


author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944).
text:
"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it."


author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680).
text:
"What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one."


author: Daniel Akst.
text:
"What self-control doesn't mean is mindless self-sacrifice or knee-jerk self-denial. On the contrary, it represents an affirmation of self, for it requires not the negation of instinct but its integration into a more complete form of character-one that takes account of more than just immediate pleasures and pains. The self-control I'm talking about means acting in keeping with your highest level of reflection."


author: Dominique de Menil.
text:
"What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable."


author: George Dennison Prentice.
text:
"What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease."


author: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719).
text:
"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable."


author: W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973).
text:
"What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer."


author: President Herbert Hoover.
text:
"What the world needs today is a definite, spiritual mobilization of the nations who belive in God against this tide of Red agnosticism. ...And in rejecting an atheistic other world, I am confident that the Almighty God will be with us."


author: Vicomte de Valmont.
text:
"What then have I done? What, except yield to a natural feeling, inspired by beauty, sanctioned by virtue and kept at all times within the bounds of respect. It's innocent expression prompted not by hope but by trust."


author: Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur.
text:
"What then is the American, this new man? He is either an European, or the descendant of an European, hence that strange misture of blood, which you will find in no other country. I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a french woman, and whose present four sons have now four wives of different nations. He is an American."


author: William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850).
text:
"What though the radiance which was once so bright Be not forever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;Grief not, rather find, Strength in what remains behind, In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be, In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of Human suffering, In the faith that looks through death In years that bring philophic mind."


author: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001).
text:
"What to do if you find yourself stuck with no hope of rescue: Consider yourself lucky that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your present circumstances seems more likely, consider yourself lucky that it won't be troubling you much longer."


author: Karl Kraus (1874 - 1936).
text:
"What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket."


author: Melanie Benjamin.
text:
"What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them."


author: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881).
text:
"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real."


author: Albert Pine.
text:
"What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal."


author: Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997).
text:
"What we do is less than a drop in the ocean. But if it were missing, the ocean would lack something."


author: Albert Pike.
text:
"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal."


author: W. Edwards Deming (1900 - 1993).
text:
"What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis."


author: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809).
text:
"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. It is dearness only that gives everything its value."


author: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809).
text:
"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly... it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated."


author: Gloria Anzaldua.
text:
"What we say and what we do ultimately comes back to us so let us own our responsibility, place it in our hands, and carry it with dignity and strength."


author: Barack Obama (1961 - ).
text:
"What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government."


author: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900).
text:
"What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do."


author: Anna Jameson.
text:
"What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself."


author: Eldridge Cleaver (1935 - ).
text:
"What weâre saying today is that you're either part of the solution or youâre part of the problem."


author: Zig Ziglar.
text:
"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."


author: Judith Martin.
text:
"What you have when everyone wears the same playclothes for all occasions, is addressad by nickname, expected to participate in Show And Tell, and bullied out of any desire form privacy, is not democracy; it is kindergarten."


author: Ellen DeGeneres.
text:
"What you look like on the outside is not what makes you cool at all. I mean, I had a mullet and wore parachute pants for a long, long time, and I'm doin' okay."


author: William Least Heat Moon.
text:
"What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do -- especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road."


author: Bob Dylan (1941 - ).
text:
"What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."


author: Victor Kiam.
text:
"What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working. That being the case, I believe one of the most important priorities is to do whatever we do as well as we can. We should take pride in that."


author: Henry Ford II (1917 - 1987).
text:
"What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them."


author: Roger Ebert (1942 - 2013).
text:
"What's sad about not eating is the experience, whether at a family reunion or at midnight by yourself in a greasy spoon under the L tracks. The loss of dining, not the loss of food."


author: The UCC Crowd.
text:
"What's the difference between the window manager and the computer club window manager? Well, one's supported software and the other isn't. Your guess is as good as mine."


author: Tom Stoppard (1937 - ).
text:
"Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one, a moment, in childhood when it first occurred to you that you don't go on for ever. It must have been shattering- stamped into one's memory. And yet I can't remember it. It never occurred to me at all. What does one make of that? We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the words for it, before we know that there are words, out we come, bloodied and squalling with the knowledge that for all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure."


author: Tom Stoppard.
text:
"Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one. A moment. In childhood. When it first occured to you that you don't go on forever. It must have been shattering, stamped into one's memory. And yet, I can't remember it."


author: E.B. White.
text:
"Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor."


author: Leonid Brezhnev.
text:
"Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today."


author: Stella Terrill Mann.
text:
"Whatever God's dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come true unless man cooperates."


author: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD).
text:
"Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised."


author: Rosa Parks (1913 - 2005).
text:
"Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way."


author: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC).
text:
"Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts. it is something celestial and divine."


author: Tina Fey.
text:
"Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don't just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles. We've all worked with that person. That person is a drag."


author: Guindon cartoon caption.
text:
"Whatever their other contributions to our society, lawyers could be an important source of protein."


author: Edwin Hubbel Chapin.
text:
"Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening."


author: Charlotte Whitton.
text:
"Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult."


author: Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845).
text:
"Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed."


author: Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845).
text:
"Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse than nothing."


author: Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773).
text:
"Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads."


author: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963).
text:
"Whatever you do, He [God] will make good of it. But not the good He had prepared for you if you had obeyed Him."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them."


author: T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965).
text:
"Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel."


author: John Wyndham.
text:
"When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"When a disciple from the wildcat religious asylum comes marching forth, get under the bed. It doesn't matter whether he's a Christian, Hindu, Jew or Muslim."


author: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ).
text:
"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong."


author: Nicolas Martin.
text:
"When a dog acts viciously we assume the reason  is poor treatment and training by its owner. When a  person acts criminally we look for the explanation  in his brain, blood, and urine. When will  psychiatrists begin testifying to the incompetence  of schizophrenic pit bulls?"


author: John B. Bogart (1848 - 1921).
text:
"When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news."


author: Edgar Watson Howe (1853 - 1937).
text:
"When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is any thing you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it."


author: Edgar Watson Howe (1853 - 1937).
text:
"When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it."


author: Avadhuta Gita.
text:
"When a jar is broken, the space that was inside Merges into the space outside. In the same way, my mind has merged in God; To me, there appears no duality. Avadhuta Gita"


author: Georges Clemenceau (1841 - 1929).
text:
"When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he is not a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking."


author: John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968).
text:
"When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world."


author: Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924).
text:
"When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say "amen" to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - this is happiness, this is success."


author: Mohammed.
text:
"When a man marries, he has fulfilled half of (his) faith. So let him remain conscious of God regarding the remaining half"


author: Tina Fey.
text:
"When a man plays a woman in a dress, you're halfway there. It's inherently funny. When a woman plays a man, for whatever reason, it's not that instant kind of funny."


author: R. C. Sherriff .
text:
"When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch."


author: Otto von Bismarck (1815 - 1898).
text:
"When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice."


author: The Work of the Chariot.
text:
"When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him it's called ferocity."


author: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC).
text:
"When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again."


author: Hugh Elliott.
text:
"When a miracle happens, even if not to you, its nature is to naturally expand. You can almost feel the warmth on your face."


author: Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967).
text:
"When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people."


author: Monica Fairview.
text:
"When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them."


author: Paulo Cuelho.
text:
"When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream."


author: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran.
text:
"When a problem canât be solved, an attitude of acceptance makes room in your mind and heart for solutions to the problems that do need to be solved."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers."


author: Punjabi proverb.
text:
"When a rich man's dog died, everyone commiserated.  When a poor man lost his mother, no one noticed."


author: Francis Bacon.
text:
"When a traveller returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath travelled altogether behind him."


author: Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745).
text:
"When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him."


author: Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745).
text:
"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."


author: Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745).
text:
"When a true genius appears in this world you may know him by this sign, that the dines are all in confederacy against him."


author: Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745).
text:
"When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs."


author: George D. Prentice.
text:
"When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it is a pretty certain sign that she has his."


author: John W. Gardner (1912 - 2002).
text:
"When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light."


author: Alice Hoffman.
text:
"When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure."


author: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592).
text:
"When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never."


author: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980).
text:
"When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'"


author: Anna Quindlen (1953 - ).
text:
"When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women? In some ways we're as committed to the old madonna-whore dichotomy as ever. And the madonna stays home, feeding the baby behind the blinds, a vestige of those days when for a lady to venture out was a flagrant act of public exposure."


author: George Moore.
text:
"When any man is more stupidly vain and outrageously egotistic than his fellows, he will hide his hideousness in humanitarianism."


author: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817).
text:
"When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort."


author: E. J. Smith.
text:
"When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experience in nearly forty years at sea, I merely say, uneventful. Of course there have been winter gales, and storms and fog and the like. But in all my experience, I have never been in any accident... or any sort worth speaking about. I have seen but one vessel in distress in all my years at sea. I never saw a wreck and never have been wrecked nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort."


author: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797).
text:
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes."


author: Herman Melville (1819 - 1891).
text:
"When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang."


author: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - ).
text:
"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators."


author: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran.
text:
"When children feel they have to earn our love by what they accomplish, they never feel good about themselves, no matter how much they do, no matter what their age. Indeed, some adults work outrageous hours, make huge salaries, and always strive to accomplish more and yet are never satisfied, no matter what they have achieved. This is because they were never given the free, unconditional love of their parents, the love that is every childâs birthright."


author: Dale Carnegie.
text:
"When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity."


author: Napoleon Hill.
text:
"When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal."


author: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC).
text:
"When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . ."


author: Peter O'Toole.
text:
"When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself."


author: Henry Ford (1863 - 1947).
text:
"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."


author: Tina Fey.
text:
"When faced with sexism or ageism or lookism or even really aggressive Buddhism, ask yourself the following question:"Is this person in between me and what do I want to do?" If the answer is no, ignore it and move on. Your energy is better used doing your work and outpacing people that way. Then, when you're in charge, don't hire the people who were jerky to you."


author: Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC).
text:
"When good men die their goodness does not perish,But lives though they are gone. As for the bad,All that was theirs dies and is buried with them."


author: Eugene V. Debs.
text:
"When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress."


author: Pooh's Little Instruction Book.
text:
"When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don't eat so much that you get stuck in the doorway trying to get out."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"When he followed the instincts which God had transmitted to him from his ancestry of beasts of prey, he called it sin and asked God to forgive him."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is a little better than a beast."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"When he shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine, that all the world will be in love with night, and pay no worship to the garish sun."


author: Neil Gaiman.
text:
"When he stood up, it was a very complicated motion. If the deck chairs on the Ship to the Sea of Night had opened up, they would have done so like that. It was like he was unfolding himself forever."


author: Dale Earnhardt.
text:
"When he was young, I told Dale Jr. that hunting and racing are a lot alike. Holding that steering wheel and holding that rifle both mean you better be responsible."


author: Pastor Martin Niemoller.
text:
"When Hitler came for the Jews... I was not a Jew, therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the Catholics, I was not a Catholic, and therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the unions and the industrialists, I was not a member of the unions and I was not concerned. Then, Hitler attacked me and the Protestant church â and there was nobody left to be concerned."


author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965).
text:
"When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home."


author: Arthur Schnabel (1882 - 1951).
text:
"When I am asked, "What do you think of our audience?" I answer, "I know two kinds of audiences only--one coughing, and one not coughing.""


author: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592).
text:
"When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind."


author: Lily Tomlin (1939 - ).
text:
"When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don't feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy; then you get two feelings for the price of one."


author: Princess Anne.
text:
"When I appear in public, people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth paw the ground and swish my tail --- none of which is easy."


author: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963).
text:
"When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."


author: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
text:
"When I became President, what surprised me most was that things were just as bad as I'd been saying they were."


author: Brendan Behan (1923 - 1964).
text:
"When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence."


author: Peter De Vries.
text:
"When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones."


author: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662).
text:
"When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there... now instead of then."


author: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948).
text:
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it--always."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking."


author: Dom Helder Camara.
text:
"When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a communist."


author: W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973).
text:
"When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes."


author: Steven Wright (1955 - ).
text:
"When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall looking frantic."


author: Dan Quayle (1947 - ).
text:
"When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame."


author: Aaron McGruder.
text:
"When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure."


author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
text:
"When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me."


author: Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986).
text:
"When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul."


author: Brock Tully.
text:
"When I say beautiful things, I'm not necessarily living them; when I live them, the beautiful thing is that words aren't necessary."


author: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919).
text:
"When I say I believe in a square deal i do not mean ... to give every man the best hand. If the cards do not come to any man, or if they do come, and he has not got the power to play them, that is his affair. All I mean is that there shall be no crookedness in the dealing."


author: Hugh Macleod.
text:
"When I see somebody 'suffering for their art', it%uFFFDs usually a case of them not knowing where that red line is, not knowing where the sovereignty lies."


author: Julia Ward Howe (1819 - 1910).
text:
"When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the most herculean undertakings."


author: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894).
text:
"When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?"


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"When I think of the number of disagreeable people that I know who have gone to a better world, I am sure hell won't be so bad at all."


author: Bill Clinton (1946 - ).
text:
"When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page."


author: Molly Wizenberg.
text:
"When I walk into my kitchen today, I am not alone. Whether we know it or not, none of us is. We bring fathers and mothers and kitchen tables, and every meal we have ever eaten. Food is never just food. It's also a way of getting at something else: who we are, who we have been, and who we want to be."


author: Picasso.
text:
"When I was a child, my mom told me: 'If you want to be a soldier, you'll become a general. If you want to be a monk, you'll become pope' I wanted to be a painter, and I became Picasso."


author: Sidney Madwed.
text:
"When I was a small boy I was always being told by others, especially grown ups, to behave, to be good. It never occurred to me that I was always behaving in some manner. But I didn't have the awareness or skill to ask those grown ups what they meant when they told me to behave and to be good. Now I realize that all they wanted was for me to conform to their idea of what was good and not to do what they called bad behavior, which they sometimes changed at will. Even today people are still telling me how I should behave, but now I ask what they mean and sometimes it drives them up a wall."


author: Malcom X.
text:
"When I was born, I was black. When I grow up, I'm black. When I'm ill, When I die, I'm black. But you - When you're born, you're pink. When you grow up, you're white. When you're ill, you're green. When you go out in the sun, you go red. When you're cold, you go blue. When you die, you're purple. And you have the nerve to call me Colored?"


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years."


author: John Green.
text:
"When I was in college, I remember fearing that the dreary grind of adulthood would feature infinitely more existential dread than frat parties had, but the opposite has been true for me. I'm much less likely to feel that gnawing fear of aimlessness and nihilism than I used to be and that's partly because education gave me job opportunities, but it's mostly because education gave me perspective and context."


author: Bill Clinton (1946 - ).
text:
"When I was in England I experimented with marijuana a time or two, I didn't like it, I didn't inhale it, and never tried it again."


author: Gov. Bill Clinton.
text:
"When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it and didn't inhale and never tried it again."


author: Spalding Gray.
text:
"When I was in therapy about two years ago, one day I noticed that I hadn't had any children. And I like children at a distance. I wondered if I'd like them up close. I wondered why I didn't have any. I wondered if it was a mistake, or if I'd done it on purpose, or what. And I noticed my therapist didn't have any children either. He had pictures of his cats on the wall. Framed."


author: Rosie O'Donnell.
text:
"When I was on "StarSearch", one of the producers told the other contestants, "She'll never be famous; she's too tough, she's too New York, and she's too heavy." And I remember thinking, "Gosh, he's gonna feel like a jerk when I'm famous. Through the negativity I learned to hear myself quite loudly."


author: A.E. Houseman.
text:
"When I was one-and-twenty, I heard a wise man say, Give pounds and crowns and guineas, But not your heart away."  Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free." But I was one-and-twenty, No use to talk to me."


author: Ali Vincent.
text:
"When I was overweight and unhappy, I thought about being smaller, I thought about fitting into different clothes and feeling comfortable in any environment or social situation. But I didn't do anything about it. I was letting myself fall victim to not planning, not clarifying steps to reach my goals. Don't go on just wanting something. Start consciously planning where you want to be."


author: Marv Levy.
text:
"When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning."


author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
text:
"When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. He was a religious man and he read prayers to the assembled household every morning. But he had crossed out in pencil all the passages that praised God. He said that there was nothing so vulgar as to praise people to their faces and, himself a gentleman, he could not believe that God was so ungentlemanly as to like it."


author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
text:
"When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."


author: J.B. Priestley.
text:
"When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"When I was young, I thought money was the most important thing in life. Now, when I'm old, I know it is."


author: Jim Henson.
text:
"When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope still is to leave the world a little bit better for my having been here. It's a wonderful life and I love it."


author: Ellen DeGeneres.
text:
"When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way."


author: Steven Wright (1955 - ).
text:
"When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'"


author: Maria Irene Fornes.
text:
"When I'm not doing something that comes deeply from me, I get bored. When I get bored I get distracted and when I get distracted, I become depressed. It's a natural resistance, and it insures your integrity."


author: Shakti Gawain.
text:
"When I'm trusting and being myself... everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously."


author: R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983).
text:
"When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."


author: George S. Patton (1885 - 1945).
text:
"When in doubt, observe and ask questions. When certain, observe at length and ask many more questions."


author: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - ).
text:
"When it comes to taking chances, some people like to play poker or shoot dice; other people prefer to parachute jump, go rhino hunting, or climb ice floes, while still others engage in crime or marriage. But I like to get drunk and drive like a fool."


author: Johnny Depp.
text:
"When kids hit the age of one, they're like miniature drunks. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh, then two minutes later they're crying. They drool."


author: Daniel Defoe.
text:
"When kings the sword of justice first lay down;  They art no kings, though they posess the crown; Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things, The good of subjects is the end of kings."


author: Pooh's Little Instruction Book.
text:
"When late morning rolls around and you're feeling a bit out of sorts, don't worry; you're probably just a little eleven o'clockish."


author: Miguel De Cervantes (1547 - 1616).
text:
"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness. To seek treasures where there is only trash...Too much sanity may be madness, and maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be."


author: Gordon Atkinson.
text:
"When life seems chaotic, you don't need people giving you easy answers or cheap promises. There might not be any answers to your problems. What you need is a safe place where you can bounce with people who have taken some bad hops of their own."


author: Frank Sinatra (1915 - 1998).
text:
"When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out."


author: Laurie Anderson.
text:
"When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!"


author: The Talmud.
text:
"When love is strong, a man and a woman can make their bed on a sword's blade. When love grows weak, a bed of 60 cubits is not large enough."


author: Walter Lippmann (1889 - 1974).
text:
"When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions."


author: Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804).
text:
"When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same."


author: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809).
text:
"When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir."


author: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ).
text:
"When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if she'd ever just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge."


author: Jacob Riis.
text:
"When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before."


author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784).
text:
"When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality."


author: Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519).
text:
"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. It is much more nearly certain that we are assembled here tonight than it is that this or that political party is in the right. Certainly there are degrees of certainty, and one should be very careful to emphasize that fact, because otherwise one is landed in an utter skepticism, and complete skepticism would, of course, be totally barren and completely useless."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others."


author: Alexander Graham Bell (1847 - 1922).
text:
"When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."


author: Alexander Graham Bell (1847 - 1922).
text:
"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."


author: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968).
text:
"When one door of happiness closes another opens; but we often look so long at the closed one that we do not see the one which has opened for us."


author: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968).
text:
"When one door of happiness closes, another one opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened to us."


author: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968).
text:
"When one door of happiness closes, another one opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."


author: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968).
text:
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."


author: Don Juan Matus.
text:
"When one has nothing left to lose one becomes courageous. We are timid only when we have something left to cling to."


author: George Eliot (1819 - 1880).
text:
"When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech-one does not, at least, hear how inadequate the words are."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring."


author: Henry Miller (1891 - 1980).
text:
"When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat."


author: Krishnamurti.
text:
"When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important."


author: Jennifer Hudson.
text:
"When other people reject positive changes you make for yourself, there is always some nerve to get to the root of in those other people."


author: Jim Morrison (1943 - 1971).
text:
"When others demand that we become the people they want us to be, they force us to destroy the person we really are. It's a subtle kind of murder. The most loving parents and relatives commit this murder with smiles on their faces."


author: Michael Bridge.
text:
"When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open, and love steps forth to heal everything in sight."


author: Barack Obama (1961 - ).
text:
"When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself."


author: Hannibal Buress.
text:
"When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works."


author: Tina Fey.
text:
"When people say, "You really, really must" do something, it means you don't really have to. no one ever says, "You really, really must deliver the baby during labor." When it's true, it doesn't need to be said."


author: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
text:
"When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses."


author: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
text:
"When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existance. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses."


author: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC).
text:
"When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life."


author: Betty Friedan (1921 - 2006).
text:
"When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman."


author: Tom Robbins (1936 - ).
text:
"When she was a small girl, Amanda hid a ticking clock in an old, rotten tree trunk. It drove woodpeckers crazy. Ignoring tasty bugs all around them, they just about beat their brains out trying to get at the clock. Years later, Amanda used the woodpecker experiment as a model for understanding capitalism, Communism, Christianity, and all other systems that traffic in future rewards rather than in present realities."


author: Bob Edwards.
text:
"When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile."


author: Peter van der Linden.
text:
"When solving a "panic" you must first ask yourself what you were doing that could possibly frighten an operating system."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"When some of my friends have asked me anxiously about their boys, whether they should let them hunt, I have answered yes-- remembering that it was one of the best parts of my education-- make them hunters."


author: Gordon Atkinson.
text:
"When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked."


author: Clyde B. Aster.
text:
"When someone tells you something defies description, you can be pretty sure he's going to have a go at it anyway."


author: Jennifer Hudson.
text:
"When someone wants to lose weight, they will do whatever it takes. They canât do it for anyone else but themselves. It has to be for them alone. Without that understanding, they will fail."


author: Carol Burnett (1936 - ).
text:
"When someone who is known for being comedic does something straight, it' s always 'a big breakthrough' or a 'radical departure.' Why is it no one ever says that if a straight actor does comedy? Are they presuming comedy is easier?"


author: Julian Fellowes and Tina Pepler.
text:
"When something bad happens there's no point in wishing it had not happened. The only option is to minimize the damage"


author: Walter Slovotsky.
text:
"When the Black Camel comes for me, I'm not going to go kicking and screaming. I am, however, going to try to talk my way out of it. "No, no, you want the other Walter Slovotsky.""


author: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865).
text:
"When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason, and which, once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing him of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause is really a good one."


author: Katha Upanishad.
text:
"When the five senses and the mind are still, and the reasoning intellect rests in silence, then begins the highest path. This calm steadiness of the senses is called yoga. Then one should become watchful, because yoga comes and goes."


author: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826).
text:
"When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."


author: Joan Kerr.
text:
"When the grandmothers of today hear the word ``Chippendales,'' they don't necessary think of chairs."


author: Margery Allingham.
text:
"When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us."


author: Lao-tzu (604 BC - 531 BC).
text:
"When the highest type of men hear Tao,They diligently practice it.When the average type of men hear Tao,They half believe in it.When the lowest type of men hear Tao,They laugh heartily at it.Without the laugh, there is no Tao."


author: Terry Pratchett.
text:
"When the least they could do to you was everything, then the most they could do to you suddenly held no terror."


author: Howard Tayler.
text:
"When the messenger arrives and says 'Don't shoot the messenger,' it's a good idea to be prepared to shoot the messenger, just in case."


author: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823).
text:
"When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction."


author: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790).
text:
"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. Sell not liberty to purchase power."


author: Lao-tzu (604 BC - 531 BC).
text:
"When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty,There arises the recognition of ugliness.When they all know the good as good,There arises the recognition of evil."


author: Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960).
text:
"When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them."


author: Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965).
text:
"When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained."


author: Jawahar Lal Neheru.
text:
"When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration."


author: Stephen Colbert.
text:
"When the president decides something on Monday, he still believes it on Wednesday -- no matter what happened Tuesday."


author: Lois McMaster Bujold.
text:
"When the souls rise up in glory, yours shall not be shunned nor sunderered, but shall be the prize of the gods' gardens. Even your darkness shall be treasured then, and all your pain made holy."


author: H. Allen Smith.
text:
"When there are two conflicting versions of a story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst."


author: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC).
text:
"When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income."


author: John Marsden.
text:
"When there's a lot of light, you don't notice the dark. When there's a lot of dark you always notice the light."


author: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919).
text:
"When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer "Present" or "Not Guilty.""


author: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919).
text:
"When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'"


author: Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946).
text:
"When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter."


author: Bernard Bailey.
text:
"When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it."


author: Tim Freeman.
text:
"When they took the fourth amendment, I was silent because I don't deal drugs. When they took the sixth amendment, I kept quiet because I know I'm innocent. When they took the second amendment, I said nothing because I don't own a gun. Now they've come for the first amendment, and I can't say anything at all."


author: Author Unknown.
text:
"When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words."


author: John Irving (1942 - ).
text:
"When time passes, it's the people who knew you whom you want to see; they're the ones you can talk to. When enough time passes, what's it matter what they did to you?"


author: Bible.
text:
"When times are good, be happy, but when time are bad consider; God has made the one as well as the other."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"When to the sessions of sweet silent thought  I summon up remembrance of things past,  I sigh the lack of many things I sought,  And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste."


author: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963).
text:
"When truth is nothing but the truth, its unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world. In nature there are always so many other irrelevant things mixed up with the essential truth."


author: Diogenes.
text:
"When two friends part they should lock up each other's secrets and exchange keys. The truly noble mind has no resentments."


author: Prophet Mohammad.
text:
"When two persons are together, two of them must no whisper to each other, without letting the third hear; because it would hurt him."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"When wasteful war shall statues overturn,  And broils root out the work of masonry,  Nor Mars his sword nor wars quick fire shall burn  The living record of your memory."


author: Simone de Beauvoir.
text:
"When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form."


author: Julia Cameron.
text:
"When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued."


author: Joan Borysenko.
text:
"When we are capable of living in the moment free from the tyranny of "shoulds," free from the nagging sensation that this moment isn't right, we will have peaceful hearts."


author: Mara Mitchell.
text:
"When we are chafed and fretted by small cares, a look at the stars will show us the littleness of our own intersts."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality."


author: Charles A. Stoddard.
text:
"When we can say "no" not only to things that are wrong and sinful, but also to things pleasant, profitable, and good which would hinder and clog our grand duties and our chief work, we shall understand more fully what life is worth, and how to make the most of it."


author: John Muir (1838 - 1914).
text:
"When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty."


author: Richard Carlson.
text:
"When we criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical."


author: Stephanie Klein.
text:
"When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones."


author: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968).
text:
"When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another."


author: Daniel Akst.
text:
"When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness."


author: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
text:
"When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were."


author: Dale Carnegie.
text:
"When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness. Our enemies would dance with joy if only they knew how they were worrying us, lacerating us, and getting even with us! Our hate is not hurting them at all, but our hate is turning our own days and nights into a hellish turmoil."


author: Henri Nouwen.
text:
"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares."


author: Maurice Maeterlinck (1862 - 1949).
text:
"When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough."


author: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran.
text:
"When we make assumptions, we contribute to the complexity rather than the simplicity of a problem, making it more difficult to solve."


author: John Lennon.
text:
"When we say 'War is over if you want it,' we mean that if everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, we'd have peace."


author: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC).
text:
"When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves."


author: Margaret Wheatley.
text:
"When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other."


author: Krishnamurti.
text:
"When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely-- the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it."


author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832).
text:
"When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be."


author: John Muir (1838 - 1914).
text:
"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe."


author: Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - ).
text:
"When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable."


author: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881).
text:
"When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize."


author: Ali Vincent.
text:
"When weight loss becomes a goal in your life, eating right and exercising are just two pieces of the puzzle. Figuring out why you've put on the extra weight is the hardest part."


author: Elayne Boolser.
text:
"When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Man invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking."


author: Neil Gaiman.
text:
"When writing a novel that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: "House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.""


author: Neil Gaiman.
text:
"When writing a novel that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.'"


author: Pooh's Little Instruction Book.
text:
"When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity."


author: Robert Anthony.
text:
"When you are done chasing the rainbow... given all of lifes disappointments and tribulations --all that may really be of any value is how we love and how we are loved!"


author: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969).
text:
"When you are in any contest you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it."


author: Whoopi Goldberg.
text:
"When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire."


author: Paulo Cuelho.
text:
"When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, thereâs no need at all to understand whatâs happening, because everything happens within you."


author: Cherrie Moraga.
text:
"When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation."


author: Ed Macauley.
text:
"When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win."


author: Paul De Gondi.
text:
"When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity; this is the only way to make it palatable."


author: Author Unknown.
text:
"When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment."


author: James G. Cozzens.
text:
"When you can, always advise people to do what you see they really want to do, so long as what they want isn't dangerously unlawful, stupidly unsociable or obviously impossible. Doing what they want to do, they may succeed; doing what they don't want to do, they won't."


author: Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD).
text:
"When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?"


author: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930).
text:
"When you consider what a chance women have to poison their husbands, it's a wonder there isn't more of it done."


author: Douglas Lurtan.
text:
"When you determined what you want, you have made the most important decision of your life. You have to know what you want in order to attain it."


author: Senator Paul Douglas.
text:
"When you differ with a man, show him, by your looks, by your bearing and by everything that you do or say, that you love him."


author: Joanna Angel.
text:
"When you do a good job, you'll feel like people are bothering you. If you have a product that's interesting enough, then people will come to you."


author: George Washington Carver (1864 - 1943).
text:
"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."


author: J. P. Donleavy.
text:
"When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health. If everything is simply jake, then you're frightened of death."


author: Saint Francis de Sales (1567 - 1622).
text:
"When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time."


author: Al Franken.
text:
"When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both."


author: Bob Dylan (1941 - ).
text:
"When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks."


author: Joseph Campbell (1904 - 1987).
text:
"When you follow your bliss... doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else."


author: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran.
text:
"When you get angry at your ex, only about 10 percent of your anger can be attributed to the current situation. The other 90 percent comes from your past experiences with your ex, as well as those with your parents, caregivers, and other significant people in your past. The current situation has simply triggered your past anger and allowed it to resurface. Itâs been said that if youâre hysterical, the cause is probably historical."


author: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896).
text:
"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, until it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the time and place that the tide will turn."


author: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896).
text:
"When you get into a tight place and it seems that you can't go on, hold on--for that's just the place and the time that the tide will turn."


author: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata.
text:
"When you get right down to it, what we all need is a place to go... A place where we can escape the noise of our lives and just relax."


author: Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972).
text:
"When you give up drinking, you have to deal with that wonderful personality that started you drinking in the first place."


author: Norm Crosby.
text:
"When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty."


author: Norm Crosby.
text:
"When you go into court, you're putting your fate in the hands of 12 people not smart enough to get out of jury duty."


author: Douglas Coupland.
text:
"When you grow older a dreadful, horrible sensation will come over you. It's called loneliness, and you think you know what it is now, but you don't. Here is a list of the symptoms, and don't worry - loneliness is the most universal sensation on the planet. Just remember one fact - loneliness will pass. You will survive and you will be a better human for it."


author: Medgar Evers.
text:
"When you hate, the only person who suffers is you. Because those you hate probably don't know, and those who do, don't care."


author: Joe Namath.
text:
"When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things."


author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930).
text:
"When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth."


author: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865).
text:
"When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run."


author: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960).
text:
"When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."


author: Chinese Proverb.
text:
"When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other."


author: Mehmet Karagoz.
text:
"When you have reached a point at which you cannot see more, You must remember that there may be a point beyond this at which you can see everything."


author: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924).
text:
"When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness, and your own duty."


author: J. K. Rowling.
text:
"When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love."


author: Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961).
text:
"When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first."


author: Ali Vincent.
text:
"When you have the courage to tell the truth about what you're really afraid of, fear doesn't have control over your life."


author: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902).
text:
"When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once."


author: Sidney Madwed.
text:
"When you have too much month for you paycheck, then what you need to do is realize that there is abundance all around you and focus on the abundance and not your lack and as night follows day abundance will come to you."


author: Martha Brooks.
text:
"When you helped somebody, right away you were responsible for that person. And things always followed for which you were never prepared."


author: Anwarshah Anwary.
text:
"When you kill one enemy, you then must plan for the one hundred enemies you have now created. No enemy ever stands alone. He comes with a mother and father, brothers and sisters. He has a wife and children, friends and neighbors. When you kill this enemy, you must be ready to face the angry revenge that comes from the grief of this loss for all the people who knew and loved this man. The only way to stop this endless chain of enemy killing enemy is to forgive it. And in doing so, teach each one that life is the most important, precious and valuable thing."


author: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC).
text:
"When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge."


author: Anna Quindlen (1953 - ).
text:
"When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life."


author: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - ).
text:
"When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about."


author: Hugh White (1773 - 1840).
text:
"When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power."


author: Paul "Bear" Bryant.
text:
"When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: admit it, learn from it, and don't repeat it."


author: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996).
text:
"When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it."


author: Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 - 1816).
text:
"When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword."


author: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran.
text:
"When you own or take responsibility for your feelings, you place yourself in a position of power and control."


author: Matt Groening (1954 - ).
text:
"When you participate in sporting events, it's not whether you win or lose; it's how drunk you get."


author: Bruce Lee (1940 - 1973).
text:
"When you point to the moon, what do you see in front of your finger; Your task is to feel, not to think, when you can understand that the lesson will be learned."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; but when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do, that is law, order and morals."


author: Leo Burnett.
text:
"When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either."


author: Leo Burnett.
text:
"When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either."


author: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963).
text:
"When you reach the thing you were desiring, if it doesn't satisfy you, it was not what you were desiring."


author: Francis Cardinal Spellman (1889 - 1967).
text:
"When you say Yes, say it quickly. But always take a half hour to say No, so you can understand the other fellow's side."


author: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC).
text:
"When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults."


author: Prophet Mohammed.
text:
"When you see a person who has been given more than you in money and beauty, look to those, who have been given less."


author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832).
text:
"When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better."


author: Geoffrey F. Abert.
text:
"When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life."


author: C. P. Snow (1905 - 1980).
text:
"When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion."


author: Clifton Fadiman (1904 - 1999).
text:
"When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable."


author: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ).
text:
"When you understand that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble it up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be."


author: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran.
text:
"When you understand that your feelings are triggered by what you think about an event and not by the event itself, you gain a measure of control. Although you cannot control the things (events) that happen to you, or change your feelings (after all, you feel the way you feel), you can change your thoughts. A change in thoughts often radically alters your feelings."


author: Caspian Tredwell-Owen.
text:
"When you want something really bad and you close your eyes and wish for it-- God's the guy who ignores you."


author: Ugo Betti.
text:
"When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it."


author: Traditional Indian Saying.
text:
"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice."


author: Old Indian saying.
text:
"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice."


author: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC).
text:
"When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind."


author: Clay Aiken.
text:
"When you work with kids who have autism, they don't reciprocate any affection. You learn to find your self- worth within what you do, not what people tell you about yourself."


author: Jean Chretien.
text:
"When you're a mayor and you have a problem you blame the provincial government. If you are provincial government and you have a problem you blame the federal government. We don't blame the Queen any more, so once in a while we might blame the Americans."


author: John Scalzi.
text:
"When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with."


author: George Carlin (1937 - 2008).
text:
"When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show.  When you're born in America, you get a front row seat."


author: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ).
text:
"When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid."


author: Yogi Berra (1925 - ).
text:
"When you're part of a team, you stand up for your teammates. Your loyalty is to them. You protect them through good and bad, because they'd do the same for you."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings."


author: Thomas Jefferson (The Declaration of Independence).
text:
"Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government..."


author: Che Guevara (1928 - 1967).
text:
"Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms."


author: Leigh Hunt (1784 - 1859).
text:
"Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers."


author: Margaret Halsey.
text:
"Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters."


author: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865).
text:
"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."


author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832).
text:
"Whenever I hear people talking about "liberal ideas," I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions."


author: John Alejandro King.
text:
"Whenever I read Jean-Paul Sartre's famous quote, 'Hell is other people,' it's like he's right there in the room with me."


author: Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989).
text:
"Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one."


author: William Lyon Phelps.
text:
"Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money."


author: Jennifer Hudson.
text:
"Whenever Iâd try to talk myself out of going for a walk, and there were a few days like that, Iâd take myself through a series of simple tasks so I would get up and go. 1. Get up. 2. Find your house keys. 3. Put on some shoes. 4. Grab your iPod. 5. Walk out the front door."


author: Brigid Brophy.
text:
"Whenever people say "we mustn't be sentimental", you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, "we must be realistic", they mean they are going to make money out of it."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth."


author: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972).
text:
"Whenever the press quits abusing me I know I'm in the wrong pew. I don't mind it because when they throw bricks at me-I'm a pretty good shot myself and I usually throw 'em back at 'em."


author: William James (1842 - 1910).
text:
"Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is."


author: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809).
text:
"Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the bible is filled, it would seem more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind."


author: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809).
text:
"Whenever we read the obscene stories, voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortous executions, the unrelenting vindictivenes, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistant that we called it the word of a Demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind, and, for my part, I sincerly detest it as I detest everything that is cruel."


author: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919).
text:
"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly I can!" - and get busy and find out how to do it."


author: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919).
text:
"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it."


author: Kyle McPherson.
text:
"Whenever you come to a 'Y' in the road always remember that you have a third choice of path: And that is right down the middle, where no one has gone before."


author: Sir Richard Steele.
text:
"Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools."


author: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963).
text:
"Whenever you find a man who says he doesn't believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it."


author: Michael Crichton (1942 - 2008).
text:
"Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had."


author: Charles Franklin Kettering.
text:
"Whenever you look at a piece of work and you think the fellow was crazy, then you want to pay some attention to that. One of you is likely to be, and you had better find out which one it is. It makes an awful lot of difference."


author: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942).
text:
"Whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either . . . they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think."


author: Indira Gandhi (1917 - 1984).
text:
"Whenever you take a step forward you are bound to disturb something. You disturb the air as you go forward, you disturb the dust, the ground."


author: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC).
text:
"Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth."


author: unknown.
text:
"Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons."


author: Popular Mechanics.
text:
"Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equpped with 18,000 vaccuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1 12 tons."


author: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817).
text:
"Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else."


author: Herman Melville (1819 - 1891).
text:
"Where does the violet tint end and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blending enter into the other. So with sanity and insanity."


author: Tryon Edwards (1809 - 1894).
text:
"Where duty is plain, delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may provide both wisdom and safety."


author: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006).
text:
"Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will."


author: Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989).
text:
"Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on."


author: Gene Stratton-Porter.
text:
"Where is your mate? For any sake, don't tell me you don't know. One case of that kind at Medicine Woods is enough. Say you came ahead to see if it is too cold or to select a home and get ready for her. Say anything on earth except that you love her, and want her until your body is one quivering ache, and you don't know where she is."


author: John Morley.
text:
"Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat."


author: Frederick Douglass (1817 - 1895).
text:
"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe."


author: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD).
text:
"Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible."


author: Jerry Seinfeld (1954 - ).
text:
"Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there."


author: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961).
text:
"Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other."


author: Mrs. Stowe.
text:
"Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Where the bee sucks, there suck I: In a cowslip's bell I lie;  There I couch when owls do cry.  On the bat's back I do fly  After summer merrily.  Merrily, merrily shall I live now  Under the blossom that hangs on the bough."


author: William Feather (1908 - 1976).
text:
"Where the people fear the government you have tyranny; where the government fears the people, you have liberty."


author: Saint Francis of Assisi (1181 - 1226).
text:
"Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith."


author: John Milton (1608 - 1674).
text:
"Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making."


author: Henry M. Robert.
text:
"Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty."


author: Adam Smith (1723 - 1790).
text:
"Where there is no property, or at least none that exceeds the value of two or three days' labour, civil government is not so necessary."


author: Anne Frank (1929 - 1945).
text:
"Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again. We'll need to be brave to endure the many fears and hardships and the suffering yet to come."


author: Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856).
text:
"Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings. (Dort, wo man BÃ¼cher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen)"


author: Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950).
text:
"Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell."


author: Eleanor Anna Roosevelt.
text:
"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home- so close and so smallthat they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they arethe world of the individual person: the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, and equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them so close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world."


author: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962).
text:
"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to homeâso close and so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person: The neighbourhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"Whereas in art nothing worth doing can be done without genius, in science even a very moderate capacity can contribute to a supreme achievement."


author: Adam Smith (1723 - 1790).
text:
"Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality... for one very rich man, there must be at least five hundred poor."


author: Theodore H. White.
text:
"Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them -- this is of the essence of leadership."


author: Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997).
text:
"Whether one is Hindu or a Muslim or a Christian, how you live your life is proof that you are or not fully His. We cannot condemn or judge or pass words that will hurt people. We don't know in what way God is appearing to that soul and what God is drawing that soul to; therefor, who are we to condemn anybody?"


author: Laura Moncur (1969 - ).
text:
"Whether you are healthy or ill, your thoughts can drive you. If you are feeling ill, it may be your mind that has made you so."


author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784).
text:
"While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it."


author: Bernard Weisberger.
text:
"While history is much more than a record of magnified  personal encounters, it also remains rooted in  individual personalities."


author: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977).
text:
"While hunting in Africa, I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How an elephant got into my pajamas I'll never know."


author: Elaine Richards.
text:
"While I am not a fan of corporal punishment, I am not a fan of his friends Major Nuisance or General Disturbance."


author: Meryl Streep (1949 - ).
text:
"While I am overwhelmingly proud of work that I, believe me, did not do on my own, I can assure you that awards have very little bearing on my own personal happiness, my own sense of well-being and purpose in the world."


author: Ian Hornak.
text:
"While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual, and the sublime are today suspect, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art."


author: Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC).
text:
"While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again."


author: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919).
text:
"While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life."


author: Henry C. Link.
text:
"While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at."


author: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD).
text:
"While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned."


author: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC).
text:
"While the gentleman cherishes benign rule, the small man cherishes his native land. While the gentleman cherishes a respect for the law, the small man cherishes generous treatment."


author: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865).
text:
"While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years."


author: Daniel Akst.
text:
"While we don't have much say over the desires that we have, we certainly can decide which we prefer-and then search for ways to act on that basis."


author: Gilda Radner (1946 - 1989).
text:
"While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness."


author: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC).
text:
"While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits [of the dead]?...While you do not know life, how can you know about death?"


author: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996).
text:
"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."


author: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
text:
"Who can tell who will be the President a year from now? -- John F. Kennedy, speaking to the president of Harvard about why he did not want to delay signing documents relating to a future JFK Presidential Library, 2 October 1963."


author: Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC).
text:
"Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied."


author: Christopher Marlowe (1564 - 1593).
text:
"Who hateth me but for my happiness? Or who is honour'd now but for his wealth? Rather had I, a Jew, be hated thus, Than pitied in a Christian poverty; For I can see no fruits in all their faith, But malice, falsehood, and excessive pride, Which methinks fits not their profession."


author: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790).
text:
"Who is wise? He that learns from every One. Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody."


author: A. E. Housman (1859 - 1936).
text:
"Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed."


author: Geoffrey Neighor.
text:
"Who would've thought such a slight tilt in our earthly axis could make such a big difference in our lives? The big wheel keeps on turning and here we are again, looking in the sweet face of darkness."


author: Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527).
text:
"Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it."


author: The Talmud.
text:
"Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world; and whoever rescues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire world."


author: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790).
text:
"Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves."


author: Jelaluddin Rumi.
text:
"Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises."


author: Tyron Edwards.
text:
"Whoever in prayer can say, "Our Father," acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind."


author: Sun Tzu.
text:
"Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman."


author: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626).
text:
"Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul. Men must not turn into bees, and kill themselves in stinging others."


author: George Santayana (1863 - 1952).
text:
"Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope."


author: Martha Beck.
text:
"Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracyâ¦"


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods."


author: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963).
text:
"Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow."


author: Max.
text:
"Why are we surprised when politicians play politics? It's not like they are supposed to be real adults... they are, after all, politicians and don't have real jobs and aren't playing around with their money."


author: Psalm 42, Book II.
text:
"Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance."


author: Rita Mae Brown.
text:
"Why can't peace be a single overriding common purpose: why do we wait for a crisis to pull us together? Let's pull together for peace."


author: Marcus Valerius Martialis (40 AD - 103 AD).
text:
"Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men."


author: Tom Hopkins.
text:
"Why don't you want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is that you are in conflict with yourself."


author: Sir Thomas More (1478 - 1535).
text:
"Why dost thou gaze upon the sky? O that I were yon spangled sphere! Then every star should be an eye, To wander o'er thy beauties here."


author: Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804).
text:
"Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint."


author: Thomas Kempis.
text:
"Why have many saints been so perfectly contemplative? Because they always studied to mortify themselves from worldly desires, that they might freely, with all the power of their heart, tend to our Lord."


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


author: John Mayer.
text:
"Why not be happy after a while? You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to get happy."


author: John A. King.
text:
"Why not have the rodeo clowns ride the bulls? After all, they know the bulls better, plus the bulls think they're funny."


author: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817).
text:
"Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? 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: William James (1842 - 1910).
text:
"Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings."


author: George Santayana (1863 - 1952).
text:
"Why shouldn't things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together."


author: Christopher Marlowe (1564 - 1593).
text:
"Why this is hell, nor am I out of it. Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of God and tasted the eternal joy of heaven, am not tormented with ten thousand hells in being deprived of everlasting bliss?"


author: Winston Churchill.
text:
"Why you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, and th most audacious soldier, put them at a table together-and what do you get? The sum of their fears."


author: Hermann Goering (1893 - 1946).
text:
"Why, of course, the people don't want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship... voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."


author: Shakespeare.
text:
"Why, then 'tis none to you; for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to me it [Denmark] is a prison."


author: Winston Churchill.
text:
"Why, you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together- what do you get? The sum of all fears."


author: Jimmy Wales.
text:
"Wikipedia is a non-profit. It was either the dumbest thing I ever did or the smartest thing I ever did. Communities can build amazing things, but you have to be part of that community and you can't abuse them. You have to be very respectful of what their needs are."


author: James A. Froude (1818 - 1894).
text:
"Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself."


author: Joseph Priestley.
text:
"Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing."


author: Marquis de Sade.
text:
"Will it not be felt that Virtue, however beautiful, becomes the worst of all attitudes when it is found too feeble to contend with Vice..."


author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784).
text:
"Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others."


author: Wilma Rudolph.
text:
"Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."


author: Phil Jackson.
text:
"Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing."


author: Vince Lombardi (1913 - 1970).
text:
"Winning is not a sometime thing; its an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit."


author: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947).
text:
"Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim Wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, Obtained with labor, for mankind employed, And then, when most you share it, best enjoyed."


author: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968).
text:
"Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war."


author: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD).
text:
"Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color."


author: Abigail Van Buren (1918 - ).
text:
"Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place."


author: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892).
text:
"Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof."


author: Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 - 1892).
text:
"Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom."


author: Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC).
text:
"Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise."


author: Overlung.
text:
"Wit is brushwood; judgment timber; the one gives the greatest flame, and the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire."


author: Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773).
text:
"Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit."


author: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ).
text:
"With a gun stuck in your mouth and the barrel of the gun between your teeth, you can only talk in vowels."


author: Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005).
text:
"With a stop light, green means 'go' and yellow means 'slow down'. With a banana, however, it is quite the opposite. Yellow means 'go', green means 'whoa, slow down', and red means 'where the heck did you get that banana?'"


author: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902).
text:
"With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?"


author: Johnny Depp.
text:
"With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying."


author: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC).
text:
"With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud."


author: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - ).
text:
"With Epcot Center the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn't think possible in today's world. They have created a land of make-believe that's worse than regular life."


author: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ).
text:
"With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice."


author: J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973).
text:
"With hope or without hope we will follow the trail of our enemies. And woe to them, if we prove the swifter!"


author: Britney Spears (1981 - ).
text:
"With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt... because love is an amazing feeling."


author: Gilbert Highet.
text:
"With luck and resolution and good guidance.. the human mind can survive not only poverty, nut even wealth."


author: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865).
text:
"With malice toward none, with charity for all, ...let us strive on to finish the work we are in, ...to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."


author: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865).
text:
"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds."


author: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865).
text:
"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds. . . to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations."


author: Steven Weinberg (1933 - ).
text:
"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."


author: William Lloyd Garrison (1805 - 1879).
text:
"With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost."


author: William Lloyd Garrison (1805 - 1879).
text:
"With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost."


author: Lord Samuel.
text:
"Without a doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth. For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built."


author: Shunryu Suzuki.
text:
"Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer."


author: Emerson.
text:
"Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble."


author: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC).
text:
"Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established."


author: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD).
text:
"Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of."


author: John Curtin (1885-1945).
text:
"Without any inhibitions of any kind I make it quite clear that Australia looks to America, free of any pangs as to our traditional links or kinship with the United Kingdom."


author: John Schumaker.
text:
"Without cultural sanction, most or all our religious beliefs and rituals would fall into the domain of mental disturbance."


author: Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650).
text:
"Without doubt one always looks more carefully at what one believes must be seen by many than at what one does only for oneself, and often the things that have seemed to me to be true when I began to concieve them have appeared false to me when I wanted to put them on paper."


author: Krishnamurti.
text:
"Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent."


author: George Gurdjieff.
text:
"Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave."


author: Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895).
text:
"Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of inventions."


author: John Harold.
text:
"Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself."


author: Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962).
text:
"Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity."


author: Henri-Frederic Amiel.
text:
"Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle."


author: Muriel Fox.
text:
"Women and men have to fight together to change society - and both will benefit... Partnership, not dependence, is the real romance in marriage."


author: Hillary Rodham Clinton (1948 - ).
text:
"Women are always being tested...but ultimately, each of us has to define who we are individually and then do the very best job we can to grow into it."


author: Nora Ephron.
text:
"Women are being considered as candidates for Vice President of the United States because it is the worst job in America. It's amazing that men will take it. A job with real power is First Lady. I'd be willing to run for that. As far as the men who are running for President are concerned, they aren't even people I would date."


author: Meryl Streep (1949 - ).
text:
"Women are better at acting then men. Why? Because we have to be. If successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of something he doesn't want to know is a survival skill, this is how women have survived through the millennia."


author: Tim Allen.
text:
"Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a stationwagon."


author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
text:
"Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are."


author: Evelyn Cunningham.
text:
"Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors."


author: Roseanne Barr.
text:
"Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself."


author: United Nations report.
text:
"Women constitute half the world's population, perform nearly two-thirds of its work hours, receive one-tenth of the world's income and own less than one-hundredth of the world's property."


author: Phyllis Schlafly.
text:
"Women have babies and men provide the support. If you don't like the way we're made you've got to take it up with God."


author: Barbara Hall.
text:
"Women have more to offer this world than just a fallopian tube. Nothing is going to change until you quit looking at us as just sperm receptacles."


author: Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941).
text:
"Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of a man at twice its natural size."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects."


author: Anthony Burgess (1917 - 1993).
text:
"Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another."


author: Adair Lara.
text:
"Women who buy perfume and flowers for themselves because their men won't do it are called ``self basting.''"


author: Earl Wilson.
text:
"Women's liberation will not be achieved until a woman can become paunchy and bald and still think that she's attractive to the opposite sex."


author: Herbert W. Boyer.
text:
"Wonder is what sets us apart from other life forms. No other species wonders about the meaning of existence or the complexity of the universe or themselves."


author: Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864).
text:
"Words -- so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them."


author: Diane Ackerman.
text:
"Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings."


author: Field Marshall John French.
text:
"Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place."


author: Terry Pratchett.
text:
"Words are the litmus paper of the minds. If you find yourself in the power of someone who will use the word "commence" in cold blood, go somewhere else very quickly. But if they say "Enter", don't stop to pack."


author: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963).
text:
"Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly- they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced."


author: William Cowper (1731 - 1800).
text:
"Words learned by rote a parrot may rehearse; but talking is not always to converse, not more distinct from harmony divine, the constant creaking of a country sign."


author: Eddie Myers.
text:
"Words were never invented to fully explain the peaceful aura that surrounds us when we are in communion with minds of the same thoughts."


author: George McDonald.
text:
"Work is not always required... there is such a thing as sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected."


author: Diane Ackerman.
text:
"Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos."


author: Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968).
text:
"Working on television is like being shot out of a cannon. They cram you all up with rehearsals, then someone lights a fuse and - BANG - there you are in someone's living room."


author: Clay Aiken.
text:
"Working with children with autism has provided me with an opportunity to see the world in a different way. I see them strive to overcome obstacles and persevere, and learn to persevere myself. They are my inspiration."


author: E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970).
text:
"Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake."


author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834).
text:
"Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain."


author: Mary Hemingway.
text:
"Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything."


author: Edward Ugel.
text:
"Worrying about gray hair when your weight's soaring out of control is like mowing your lawn while your house is on fire."


author: Lewis Thomas (1913 - 1993).
text:
"Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions. It is time to acknowledge this, perhaps even to learn to do it better."


author: Artur Andrade (1927-1991).
text:
"Worse than a bad musician is a mercenary (musician). We need money to live but we donât live to receive money. Besides, a pig with a gold chain on his neck always will be a pig"


author: Egyptian Inscription Recorded at the Time of the Invention of Writing.
text:
"Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance which has grown stale, which men of old have spoken."


author: John Lennon (1940 - 1980).
text:
"Would those of you in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry."


author: Thomas J. Watson.
text:
"Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't as all. You can be discouraged by failure - or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember, that's where you will find success."


author: Robert Southey (1774 - 1843).
text:
"Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule; whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish of spiritual things; in short; whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you; however innocent it may be in itself."


author: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC).
text:
"Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon."


author: Chris Pirillo.
text:
"Write 100 things that you love about your partner. Itâs another way of keeping yourself in check. Itâs hard to do."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he know that every day is Doomsday."


author: Jesse Stuart.
text:
"Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it."


author: Garrison Keillor (1942 - ).
text:
"Writers are vaccuum cleaners who suck up other people's lives and weave them into stories like a sparrow builds a nest from scraps."


author: Cecilia Bartholomew.
text:
"Writers have two main problems. One is writer's block, when the words won't come at all and the other is logorrhea, when the words come so fast that they can hardly get to the wastebasket in time."


author: David Sedaris.
text:
"Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it."


author: James Joyce (1882 - 1941).
text:
"Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins commited in previous lives."


author: Gene Fowler.
text:
"Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead."


author: Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988).
text:
"Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards."


author: Buddy Hackett.
text:
"Ya know, if you treated every comic the way you treated me tonight. You would never see a bad show."


author: Bible.
text:
"Yea, though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death, i will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me... Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me throughout the rest of my life and i will dwell in the house of the Lord forever."


author: Mary Chase (1887 - 1973).
text:
"Years ago my mother said to me, 'In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant.' For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant."


author: John Wayne (1907 - 1979).
text:
"Yer beautiful in yer wrath! I shall keep you, and in responding to my passions, yer hatred will kindle into love."


author: Eric Schmidt.
text:
"Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job, and your spouse, and even your kids. Even if it's a bit edgy, a bit out of your comfort zone, saying yes means that you will do something new, meet someone new and make a difference."


author: Ely Culbertson.
text:
"Yes, God and the politicians willing, the United States can declare peace upon the world, and win it."


author: Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989).
text:
"Yes, I donât know why, but I have never been disappointed, and I often was in the early days, without feeling at the same time, or a moment later, an undeniable relief."


author: "Malcom X" ( 1964).
text:
"Yes, I have cherished my "demagogue" role. I know that societies often have killed the people who have helped to change those societies. And if I can die having bought any light, having exposed any meaningful truth that will help to destroy the racist cancer that is maligant in the body of America - then, all of the credit is due to Allah. Only the mistakes have been mine."


author: Roger Ebert (1942 - 2013).
text:
"Yes, I was fat, but I dealt with it by simply never thinking about it. It is useful, when you are fat, to have a lot of other things to think about."


author: Jeffrey Kalmikoff.
text:
"Yes, our company is at risk because we cede control to the users, but that's how we do our business. If the community decides to kill the business, maybe it deserves to die."


author: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931).
text:
"Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever."


author: Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000).
text:
"Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement."


author: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945).
text:
"Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live on in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan."


author: Thomas Gray.
text:
"Yet ah! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise."


author: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849).
text:
"Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heartone of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man."


author: Pearl S. Buck.
text:
"Yet somehow our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members."


author: J. R. R Tolkien.
text:
"Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them becuase they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere."


author: James A Michener.
text:
"Yo soy un anima infeliz,Perdida en este mundo atormendo. I am a miserable spirit lost in this tormented world."


author: Saint Augustine (354 AD - 430 AD).
text:
"You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love."


author: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata.
text:
"You always second guess yourself. Just think of all the time you'd save if you just trusted yourself."


author: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004).
text:
"You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done."


author: Clement Stone.
text:
"You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back"


author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944).
text:
"You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live."


author: Richard Bach.
text:
"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however."


author: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924).
text:
"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand."


author: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924).
text:
"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand."


author: Emanuel Swedenborg (1688 - 1772).
text:
"You are not made happy by the true things you believe from your faith, but by the goodness which comes from your faith."


author: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC).
text:
"You are providing for your disciples a show of wisdom without the reality. For, acquiring by your means much information unaided by instruction, they will appear to possess much knowledge, while, in fact, they will, for the most part, know nothing at all; and, moreover, be disagreeable people to deal with, as having become wise in their own conceit, instead of truly wise."


author: Dag Hammarskjold (1905 - 1961).
text:
"You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means."


author: Matthew Gerrard, Bridget Benenate and Nate Sallie.
text:
"You are the only thing that's holdin' yourself back If you keep waiting you might miss another chance."


author: Author Unknown.
text:
"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. You cannot escape the results of your thoughts."


author: James Lane Allen.
text:
"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you."


author: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC).
text:
"You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters."


author: Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910).
text:
"You ask me why I do not write something....I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results."


author: Charles Bukowski (1920 - 1994).
text:
"You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics."


author: Harriet Martineau (1802 - 1876).
text:
"You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow."


author: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider.
text:
"You bluffed me! I don't like it when people bluff me. It makes me question my perception of reality."


author: Tara Nott.
text:
"You can absolutely do anything if you have the belief and the desire. You're going to have setbacks, but it's important to get back up and keep going. It's a journey."


author: Wendell Phillips (1811 - 1884).
text:
"You can always get truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy or given up hope of the Presidency."


author: Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005).
text:
"You can always turn your back on a person, but you can never turn your back on a drug... especially when it's waving a hunting knife in your eyes."


author: Stephen King (1947 - ).
text:
"You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despairÃ¢â¬"the sense that you can never completely put on the page whatÃ¢â¬â¢s in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page."


author: Tina Fey.
text:
"You can be a little bit darker and rougher on the stage, partly because when you're in the theater, people have come to see you, and so they kind of know what they're in for. In television, you are sort of sneaking into people's homes. So, I think you can be a little bit darker on stage."


author: Ruben Studdard.
text:
"You can be confident and secure and know that you do a good job at what you do. But you don't know to be arrogant about it."


author: Hugh Elliott.
text:
"You can call it the 'Perfect Moment' when the universe aligns and the music in your head actually matches the music outside and all is well."


author: RUSH.
text:
"You can choose a ready guide In some celestial voice If you choose not to decide You still have made a choice You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill I will choose a path that's clear I will choose free will."


author: Sidney Madwed.
text:
"You can choose to be happy or sad and whichever you choose that is what you get. No one is really responsible to make someone else happy, no matter what most people have been taught and accept as true."


author: Norman Douglas.
text:
"You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do."


author: Coolio.
text:
"You can do anything that you wanna do. All you gotta do is to put your brain into it. Take your time and educate your mind."


author: Robert Collier.
text:
"You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door."


author: Dr. Maxwell Maltz.
text:
"You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment."


author: Jeph Jacques.
text:
"You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are."


author: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865).
text:
"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."


author: Zig Ziglar.
text:
"You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want."


author: Sheila Graham.
text:
"You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world."


author: Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990).
text:
"You can judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing to them or for them."


author: Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988).
text:
"You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something."


author: Malcolm Gladwell.
text:
"You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face."


author: Woody Allen (1935 - ).
text:
"You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred."


author: Dale Carnegie.
text:
"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."


author: Dale Carnegie.
text:
"You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you."


author: Marion Wink.
text:
"You can make those promises with just as much passion the second time around. Such is the regenerative power of the human heart."


author: Alan Perlis.
text:
"You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing viability of Fortran."


author: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936).
text:
"You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution"


author: Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938).
text:
"You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free."


author: Dan Surface.
text:
"You can overcome any obstacles by asking the right questions of the right people at the right time, then act on that advice with passion."


author: Michael Wilding.
text:
"You can pick out actors by the glazed look that comes into their eyes when the conversation wanders away from themselves."


author: Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938).
text:
"You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am free."


author: Barack Obama (1961 - ).
text:
"You can question somebody's views and their judgment without questioning their motives or patriotism."


author: Anne Lamott.
text:
"You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."


author: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956).
text:
"You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart."


author: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ).
text:
"You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another."


author: Ellen Goodman (1941 - ).
text:
"You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you canât teach someone who writes columns to care."


author: Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005).
text:
"You can turn your back on a person, but, never turn your back on a drug. Especially when it's waving a razor-sharp hunting knife in your eye."


author: Alvin Toffler.
text:
"You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment."


author: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011).
text:
"You can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well worn path."


author: Stephen King (1947 - ).
text:
"You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants."


author: Stephen King (1947 - ).
text:
"You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants."


author: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995).
text:
"You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth."


text: "You can't fight in here....this is the War Room!!"
author:
President Muckley (Peter Sellers) to Gen. Buck Turgeson (Geroge C. Scott) while wrestling with Russian ambassador in Dr. Strangelove.


author: Carrie Fisher (1956 - ).
text:
"You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well."


author: Elizabeth Aston.
text:
"You can't jump down the stairs in one leap, however much you might wish to, and you even more surely can't jump up it, but one step and then the next and there you are, at the top or the bottom and not a bit out of breath or discomposed."


author: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011).
text:
"You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new."


author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
text:
"You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency."


author: Bob Maowad.
text:
"You can't leave footprints in the sands of time by sitting on your butt. And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time?"


author: Art Buchwald (1925 - 2007).
text:
"You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it."


author: Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005).
text:
"You can't please all of the people all of the time, and last night all of those people came to my show."


author: Rachel Hunter (1968 - ).
text:
"You can't really expect a 22-year-old girl to react the same way as a man 24 years older than her."


author: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935).
text:
"You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way."


author: Pooh's Little Instruction Book.
text:
"You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes."


author: John Rogers.
text:
"You can't think yourself out of a writing block, you have to write yourself out of a thinking block."


author: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960).
text:
"You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it."


author: Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978).
text:
"You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that's happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate."


author: Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC).
text:
"You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit."


author: Robert Collier.
text:
"You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving - and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it - and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return."


author: Marie Curie (1867 - 1934).
text:
"You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful."


author: Jennifer Hudson.
text:
"You cannot just work out and then eat poorly and expect to lose weight. It doesnât work that way."


author: John Wooden (1910 - ).
text:
"You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you."


author: Max Beerbohm (1872 - 1956).
text:
"You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men."


author: Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924).
text:
"You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them."


author: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894).
text:
"You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?"


author: Christopher Paolini.
text:
"You canât argue with all of the fools in the world. Itâs easier to let them have their way, then trick them when theyâre not paying attention."


author: Hugh Macleod.
text:
"You canât love a crowd the same way you can love a person. And a crowd canât love you the way a single person can love you. Intimacy doesnât scale. Not really. Intimacy is a one-on-one phenomenon."


author: Robert Darwin.
text:
"You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat- catching, and you will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family."


author: John Green.
text:
"You clench your teeth. You look up. You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them, and you will be nothing but A Sadness in their lives, and you must not become a mere sadness, so you will not cry, and you say all of this to yourself while looking up at the ceiling, and then you swallow even though your throat does not want to close and you look at the person who loves you and smile."


author: Michelangelo.
text:
"You conquer every hardness with your eyes, as you do likewise every light; so if it can happen that one can die of joy, now would be the time."


author: Lois McMaster Bujold.
text:
"You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility."


author: William F. Buckley, Jr..
text:
"You cultivate the essential virtues: high purpose, intelligence, decency, humility, fear of the Lord, and the passion for freedom."


author: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983).
text:
"You dehumanize a man as much by returning him to nature - by making him one with rocks, vegetation, and animals - as by turning him into a machine. Both the natural and the mechanical are the opposite of that which is uniquely human. Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines. It is also obvious that when man domesticated animals and plants he acquired self-made machines for the production of food, power, and beauty."


author: Henri-FrÃ©dÃ©ric Amiel.
text:
"You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering."


author: Voltaire (1694 - 1778).
text:
"You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books."


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


author: Jerry Garcia.
text:
"You do not merely want to be considered the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones that do what you do."


author: Jo Coudert.
text:
"You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose."


author: Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924).
text:
"You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet."


author: Chuck Yeager.
text:
"You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don't give up."


author: John Scalzi.
text:
"You do what you have to do to give people closure; it makes them feel better and it doesn't cost you much to do it. I'd rather apologize for something I didn't really care about and leave someone on Earth wishing me well."


author: Randall Munroe, xkcd.
text:
"You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process."


author: Joan Baez (1941 - ).
text:
"You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live now."


author: Joan Baez (1941 - ).
text:
"You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now."


author: Laura Moncur (1969 - ).
text:
"You don't get to pick your own nickname. They've gotta give you one. It's like we're all tryin' to make pets out of each other and we're not comfortable unless we get to name 'em."


author: Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco.
text:
"You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa just as well as without, and a mild interest in the length of hemlines doesn't necessarily disqualify you from reading Das Kapital and agreeing with every word."


author: Barbara Bush (1925 - ).
text:
"You don't just luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities."


author: Jim Mora.
text:
"You don't know. You just don't know. You may think you know, but you don't know. And you never will."


author: Matt Groening (1954 - ).
text:
"You don't like your job, you don't strike. You go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way."


author: Jodi Picoult.
text:
"You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not."


author: Adam Cooper and Bill Collage.
text:
"You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves."


author: Jason Fried.
text:
"You don't need to outdo the competition. It's expensive and defensive. Underdo your competition. We need more simplicity and clarity."


author: Lois McMaster Bujold.
text:
"You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one."


author: Sugar.
text:
"You donât have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You donât have to explain what you plan to do with your life. You donât have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You donât have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history or economics or science or the arts. You have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth. But thatâs all."


author: Cherie Ve Ard.
text:
"You donât have to live your life so that your life is suitable for small talk. Life can be lived in ways that circumnavigate a myriad of colors and landscapes."


author: Francis Ford Coppola (1939 - ).
text:
"You donât have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form."


author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
text:
"You Europeans know nothing about America. Because we amass large fortunes you think we care for nothing but money. We are nothing for it; the moment we have it we spend it, sometimes well, sometimes ill, but we spend it. Money is nothing to us; it's merely the symbol of success. We are the greatest idealists in the world; I happen to think that we've set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection."


author: Chuck Colson.
text:
"You find the meaning in life by giving yourself away not by satisfying yourself. The most gratifying thing, at 73 years old, is to be able to think that your life was used to help others."


author: Lydia M. Child.
text:
"You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy."


author: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962).
text:
"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do."


author: Eleanor Rosevelt.
text:
"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing which you think you cannot do."


author: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962).
text:
"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along."


author: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931).
text:
"You give but little when you give of your posessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give."


author: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931).
text:
"You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give."


author: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931).
text:
"You give little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give."


author: Audrey Hepburn.
text:
"You go back. You search for what made you happy when you were smaller. We are all grown up children, really... So one should go back and search for what was loved and found to be real."


author: Joss Whedon.
text:
"You go to movies to see people you love suffer - that's why you go to the movies. You don't go to see a movie about a guy who already knows he has a wonderful life."


author: Donald Rumsfeld.
text:
"You go to war with the Army you have. Theyâre not the Army you might want or wish to have at a later time."


author: Col. Harland Sanders.
text:
"You got to like your work. You have got to like what you are doing, you have got to be doing something worthwhile so you can like it - because it is worthwhile, that it makes a difference, don't you see?"


author: Steven Conrad.
text:
"You gotta dream? You gotta protect it. People can't do somethin' themselves, they wanna tell you you can't do it. If you want somethin', go get it, period."


author: Aristophanes (450 BC - 388 BC).
text:
"You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner."


author: Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991).
text:
"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself  any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go.... "


author: H.P. Lovecraft.
text:
"You have dreamed too well, O wise archdreamer, for you have drawn dream's gods away from the world of all men's vision to that which is wholly yours,..."


author: Dale Carnegie.
text:
"You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or is discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime."


author: Jennifer Hudson.
text:
"You have to accept the plan and realize that if you slip, and you might, you canât use that as a reason to give up or stop."


author: Mortimer Adler.
text:
"You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think."


author: George Carlin (1937 - 2008).
text:
"You have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montana, are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time."


author: Hugh Macleod.
text:
"You have to find a way of working that makes it dead easy to take full advantage of your inspired moments. They never hit at a convenient time, nor do they last long."


author: Jimi Hendrix (1942 - 1970).
text:
"You have to forget about what other people say; when you're supposed to die, when you're supposed to be lovin'. You have to forget about all these things. You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven."


author: Ellen DeGeneres.
text:
"You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful."


author: John Gruber.
text:
"You have to keep plugging away. We are all growing. There is no shortcut. You have to put time into it to build an audience"


author: Tina Fey.
text:
"You have to let people see what you wrote. It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring."


author: Ellen Metcalf.
text:
"You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait."


author: Lisa Kudrow.
text:
"You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working."


author: Ali Vincent.
text:
"You have to track every single thing you eat if you want to keep posting big numbers on the scale each week."


author: Jennifer Hudson.
text:
"You have to want weight-loss success so badly that no mountain, river, or ocean could keep you from reaching your goals. If you have that drive, passion, and commitment, there is no way you wonât get there."


author: Walter Slezak.
text:
"You have to work years in hit shows to make people sick and tired of you, but you can accomplish this in a few weeks on television."


author: Ali Vincent.
text:
"You just have to start putting one foot in front of the other, making an effort to get healthy every day."


author: Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson.
text:
"You keep changinâ the rules and I canât play the game. I canât take it much longer. I think I might go insane."


author: Bizarro (comic strip).
text:
"You kids today have it easy. When I was a kid everything was HUGE. My dad was nearly four times bigger than me. You couldn't even see the tops of counters.... Then gradually everything became smaller until it was the manageable size it is today."


author: Carmen Electra (1972 - ).
text:
"You know criticism when you get into this business. You accept the bad with the good, the tabloids and the positive side of it."


author: Steven Wright (1955 - ).
text:
"You know how it is when you go to be the subject of a psychology experiment, and nobody else shows up, and you think maybe that's part of the experiment? I'm like that all the time."


author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882).
text:
"You know I say just what I think, and nothing more and less. I cannot say one thing and mean another."


author: Kevin Kline.
text:
"You know the great thing though? It's that change can be so constant that you don't even feel a difference until there is one. It can be so slow that you don't know that you life is better or worse until it is. Or it can blow you away--make you better in an instant."


author: Larry Page.
text:
"You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it."


author: Donald Trump (1946 - ).
text:
"You know what uranium is, right? It's this thing called nuclear weapons. And other things. Like lots of things are done with uranium. Including some bad things."


author: George W. Bush (1946 - ).
text:
"You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature."


author: Clay Aiken.
text:
"You know who I idolized? Mr. Rogers. Is there a market for the next Mr. Rogers? Because I'd love to do that. I'd much rather be quiet and important like him than live large and be some useless celebrity."


author: George Burns (1896 - 1996).
text:
"You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there."


author: Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991).
text:
"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."


author: Laurie Anderson.
text:
"You know, I can see two tiny pictures of myself And there's one in each of your eyes. And they're doin' everything I do. Every time I light a cigarette, they light up theirs. I take a drink and I look in and they're drinkin' too. It's drivin' me crazy. It's drivin' me nuts."


author: Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
text:
"You know, I think that if parents would spend less time worrying about what their kids watch on TV and more time worrying about what's going on in their kids' lives, this world would be a much better place."


author: from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Translation by Edward Fitzgerald).
text:
"You know, my Friends, with what a brave CarouseI made a Second Marriage in my house; Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed,And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse.For "Is" and "Is-not" though with Rule and LineAnd "Up-and-down" by Logic I define, Of all that one should care to fathom, IWas never deep in anything but - Wine."


author: Matt Groening (1954 - ).
text:
"You know, the courts may not be working any more, but as long as everyone is videotaping everyone else, justice will be done."


author: Matt Groening (1954 - ).
text:
"You know, the one with all the well meaning rules that don't work out in real life, uh, Christianity."


author: Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005).
text:
"You know, you can't please all the people all the time... and last night, all those people were at my show."


author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
text:
"You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you."


author: Randy K. Milholland.
text:
"You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy."


author: Dr. Frank Crane.
text:
"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough."


author: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865).
text:
"You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time."


author: John Lennon (1940 - 1980).
text:
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us and the world will live as one."


author: Ursula Le Guin.
text:
"You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice."


author: Vernon Howard.
text:
"You must dare to disassociate yourself from those who would delay your journey... Leave, depart, if not physically, then mentally. Go your own way, quietly, undramatically, and venture toward trueness at last."


author: Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965).
text:
"You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it."


author: Joseph Campbell (1904 - 1987).
text:
"You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning... a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be."


author: James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937).
text:
"You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by."


author: Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992).
text:
"You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist."


author: Sam Levenson (1911 - 1980).
text:
"You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself."


author: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817).
text:
"You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure."


author: Holly Lisle.
text:
"You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others."


author: Daisaku Ikeda.
text:
"You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening the door to your own life is, in the end, more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe."


author: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892).
text:
"You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things."


author: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948).
text:
"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."


author: Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845).
text:
"You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits."


author: Giovanni Boccaccio.
text:
"You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark."


author: Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924).
text:
"You need not leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You need not even listen, simply wait, just learn to become quiet, still, and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice; it will roll in ecstasy at your feet."


author: Florida Scott-Maxwell.
text:
"You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality."


author: Charles Austin Beard (1874 - 1948).
text:
"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence."


author: Ken Rockwell.
text:
"You need to learn to see and compose. The more time you waste worrying about your equipment the less time you'll have to put into creating great images. Worry about your images, not your equipment."


author: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887).
text:
"You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door."


author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918 - ).
text:
"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again."


author: Meredith Willson.
text:
"You pile up enough tomorrows and you'll be left with nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering."


author: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931).
text:
"You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance."


author: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ).
text:
"You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves."


author: Harper Lee (1926 - ).
text:
"You really never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view...until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."


author: Marquis de Sade.
text:
"You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool. My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being, the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to. For my system, which you disapprove of, is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness --- it means more to me than my life itself."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."


author: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931).
text:
"You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief, But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound."


author: Lina Wertmuller.
text:
"You should always carry a gun. Not to shoot yourself, but to know that you're always making a choice."


author: Bill Clinton (1946 - ).
text:
"You should have disagreements with your leaders and your colleagues, but if it becomes immediately a question of questioning people's motives, and if immediately you decide that somebody who sees a whole new situation differently than you must be a bad person and somehow twisted inside, we are not going to get very far in forming a more perfect union."


author: James Whistler.
text:
"You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe."


author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784).
text:
"You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company."


author: Jeff Melvoin.
text:
"You think Nature is some Disney movie? Nature is a killer. Nature is a bitch. It's feeding time out there 24 hours a day, every step that you take is a gamble with death. If it isn't getting hit with lightning today, it's an earthquake tomorrow or some deer tick carrying Lime disease. Either way, you're ending up on the wrong end of the food chain."


author: J. K. Rowling.
text:
"You think the dead we love ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them most plainly when we need? Your father is alive in you Harry and shows himself most plainly when you have need of him."


author: James Baldwin (1924 - 1987).
text:
"You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive."


author: Howard Gordon and Evan Katz.
text:
"You threaten to punch someone in the face, what do they do? They duck. You try to punch 'em in the wallet and they always open up."


author: Johnny Depp.
text:
"You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal."


author: Jason Fried.
text:
"You want more constraints on you. You want to embrace constraints. Don't try to use resources to get them out of the way."


author: L. Ron Hubbard (1911 - 1986).
text:
"You want to raise your child in such a way that you don%uFFFDt have to control him, so that he will be in full possession of himself at all times. Upon that depends his good behavior, his health, his sanity."


author: Australian Aboriginal Elder.
text:
"You white people are so strange. We think it is very primitive for a child to have only two parents."


author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 - 1832).
text:
"You will always find [hatred] strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture."


author: Homer (800 BC - 700 BC).
text:
"You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind."


author: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD).
text:
"You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last."


author: Saint Bernard (1090 - 1153).
text:
"You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters."


author: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900).
text:
"You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself."


author: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006).
text:
"You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too."


author: Joe Schwartz.
text:
"You will have more fun on your vacation if you maintain a mental age of 18 or less. Act just old enough to make your travel connections and stay out of trouble."


author: Winston Churchill.
text:
"You will make all kinds of mistakes but as long as you are generous and true and fierce you cannot hurt the world, or even seriously distress her."


author: Randy Pausch.
text:
"You will need to find your passion. Don't give up on finding it because then all you're doing is waiting for the Reaper."


author: J. K. Rowling.
text:
"You will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity."


author: Randy Pausch.
text:
"You will not find your passion in things and you will not find your passion in money. The more things and the more money you have, the more you will look around and use that as the metric and there will be someone with more."


author: Pournelle..
text:
"You won't learn much about capitalism at a university. How could you? Capitalism is a matter of risks and rewards, and a tenured professor doesn't have much to do with either."


author: Elizabeth Aston.
text:
"You would not think that birds who have no brain at all could become so friendly. I swear some of them are more intelligent than many humans, but that says more about our fellow beings than it does about the birds."


author: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977).
text:
"You'd better beat it. You can leave in a taxi. If you can't get a taxi, you can leave in a huff. If that's too soon, you can leave in a minute and a huff."


author: Barbara Hall.
text:
"You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act."


author: Jeff Melvoin.
text:
"You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands."


author: Barbara Hall.
text:
"You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good."


author: Lou Holtz.
text:
"You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose."


author: Billy Joel (1949 - ).
text:
"You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own."


author: Malcolm X (1925 - 1965).
text:
"You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it."


author: David Shore.
text:
"You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust."


author: Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.
text:
"You're thinking of Europe as Germany and France, I don't. I think that's old Europe. You look at vast numbers of other countries in Europe. They're not with France and Germany on this. They're with the United States."


author: Warren Beatty (1937 - ).
text:
"You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play."


author: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011).
text:
"You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it."


author: Sarah Ban Breathnach.
text:
"You've got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever 'the old' means for you."


author: Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess.
text:
"You've got your phenomenon on one hand. Concrete and knowable. On the other hand you've got the incomprehensible. You call it God, but to me, God or no, it remains just that, the unknowable."


author: Jack Kerouac (1922 - 1969).
text:
"You, man must write exactly as everything rushes into your head and AT ONCE. The pain of writing is just that..."


author: Clement Stone.
text:
"You, too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims and destination."


author: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887).
text:
"Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable."


author: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887).
text:
"Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable."


author: Homer (800 BC - 700 BC).
text:
"Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after."


author: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC).
text:
"Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing."


author: Gore Vidal (1925 - ).
text:
"Young people are more hopeful at a certain age than adults, but I suspect that's glandular. As for children, I keep as far from them as possible. I don't like the sight of them. The scale is all wrong. The heads tend to be too big for the bodies, and the hands and feet are a disaster. They keep falling into things. The nakedness of their bad character! We adults have learned how to disguise our terrible character, but children, well, they are like grotesque drawings of us. They should be neither seen nor heard, and no one must make another one."


author: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948).
text:
"Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny."


author: William Raspberry.
text:
"Your best shot at happiness, self-worth and personal satisfaction - the things that constitute real success - is not in earning as much as you can but in performing as well as you can something that you consider worthwhile."


author: Michael Korda.
text:
"Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out."


author: Ken Rockwell.
text:
"Your equipment DOES NOT affect the quality of your image. The less time and effort you spend worrying about your equipment the more time and effort you can spend creating great images. The right equipment just makes it easier, faster or more convenient for you to get the results you need."


author: Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778).
text:
"Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less."


author: Greenville County (S.C.) Department of Social Services.
text:
"Your food stamps will be stopped effective March, 1992, because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances."


author: Hugh Macleod.
text:
"Your idea doesn't have to be big. It just has to be yours alone. The more the idea is yours alone, the more freedom you have to do something really amazing. The more amazing, the more people will click with your idea. The more people click with your idea, the more it will change the world."


author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784).
text:
"Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good."


author: John McDonald.
text:
"Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success."


author: Robert Reich.
text:
"Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together."


author: Richard Bach.
text:
"Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but that mark of a fake messiah."


author: Donella Meadows.
text:
"Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm."


author: Randy Pausch.
text:
"Your pasion must come from the things that fuel you from the inside. Honors and awards are nice things, but only to the extent that they regard the real respect from your peers."


author: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran.
text:
"Your primary goal should be to have a great life. You can still have a good day, enjoy your child, and ultimately find happiness, whether your ex is acting like a jerk or a responsible person. Your happiness is not dependent upon someone else."


author: Lewis Ward.
text:
"Your problems and mine, they are nothing new. They are all just another small part of the generic nightmare."


author: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797).
text:
"Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion."


author: Osama Bin Laden.
text:
"Your security does not lie in the hands of Kerry, Bush or al-Qaeda. Your security is in your own hands."


author: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931).
text:
"Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite."


author: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011).
text:
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."


author: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011).
text:
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."


author: Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976).
text:
"Your travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is peopled with characters you have never seen before and in all probability will never see again. It brings occasional homesickness, and loneliness, and pangs of longing... But you are like the Vikings who have gone into a world of adventure, and home is not home until you return."


author: Jeph Jacques.
text:
"Your whole life people tell you to do what you love. But if you gotta do something else to pay the bills, you don't automatically have to be miserable."


author: Gordon Atkinson.
text:
"Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'"


author: J. K. Rowling.
text:
"Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young."


author: Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924).
text:
"Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing:  age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing."


author: Al Capp (1909 - 1979).
text:
"[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered."


author: Robert Downey Jr..
text:
"[Addiction's] not about placating the bad dog - it's about feeding the good dog. You still have to feed the bad dog, but only enough so that the ASPCA doesn't bring you up on charges."


author: Lao Tzu.
text:
"[Advise] the ruler to govern the state as one cooks a small fish -- that is, don't turn it so often in the pan that it disintegrates."


author: Lisa Kudrow.
text:
"[Detractors] are just wrong, and that's okay. They just don't see it yet. That's what I would tell myself to keep those moments of doubt, only moments."


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


author: Battaille.
text:
"[F]or academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal: it is a matter of giving a frock coat to what is, a mathematical frock coat. On the other hand, affirming that the universe resembles nothing and is only formless amounts to saying that the universe is something like a spider or spit."


author: Bill Clinton (1946 - ).
text:
"[George Bush] has raised taxes on the people driving pickup trucks and lowered taxes on the people riding in limousines. We can do better."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"[He was] a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"[Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weaponâlaughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecutionâthese can lift at a colossal humbugâpush it a littleâweaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand."


author: Francesco Sizi.
text:
"[Jupiter's] satellites are invisible to the naked eye and therefore can have no influence on the Earth and therefore would be useless and therefore do not exist."


author: Marge Piercy.
text:
"[Long hair] is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"[Mankind] is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it."


author: Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821).
text:
"[Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind."


author: John Green.
text:
"[Not smoking the cigarette is] a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you donât give it the power to do its killing."


author: Reverend W. Awdry (1911 - 1997).
text:
"[Of the parralels between the railways and the church] both had their heyday in the mid-nineteenth century; both own a great deal of Gothic-style architecture which is expensive to maintain; both are regularly assailed by critics; and both are firmly convinced that they are the best means of getting man to his ultimate destination."


author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965).
text:
"[On recognizing China] But if you recognize anyone it does not mean you like them. For instance, we all recognize the right honourable gentleman the member for Ebbw Vale."


author: Theodor Herzl (1860 - 1904).
text:
"[The body is] a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels!"


author: David Frost.
text:
"[The television is] an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home."


author: Texas democrat Sam Rayburn (Mr. Sam), Speaker of the House, circa 1950.
text:
"[To a first-term congressman who wanted wanted excused from voting with the party to satisfy his biggest contributors:] Son, if you can't take their money, drink their whiskey, screw their women, and then vote against 'em, you don't deserve to be here."


author: Chuck Sigars.
text:
"[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple."


author: Diogenes the Cynic (412 BC - 323 BC).
text:
"[When asked what was the proper time for supper] If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can."


author: Lynn White.
text:
"[W]e shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man."


author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882).
text:
"âTell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.â"


author: Tony Blair (1953 - ).
text:
"â¦instead of wasting hundreds of millions of pounds on compulsory ID cards as the Tory Right demand, let that money provide thousands of extra police officers on the beat in our local communities."


