Famous Quotes



"Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions."

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

Alber
t Einstein

"The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely."

"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with objects it loves."

Carl G. Jung

"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."

George Bernard Shaw

"If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all."

Michelangelo

"A musician must make his music, an artist must paint,
a poet must write if he is "
to ultimately be at peace with himself.


Abraham Maslow

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


Margaret Young

"If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know".

Louis Armstrong

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."

Theodore Roosevelt

"Destiny is not a matter of chance. It is a matter of choice: it is not to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved".

William Jennings Bryan

"The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play".

Arnold Toynbee


"hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall."

Confucius

"Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well as now."

P.T. Barnum

"From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend on reading it."

"Now there's a man with an open mind - you can feel the breeze from here!"

Groucho Marx

"I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact."

Diane Sawyer

A dog thinks: Hey, these people I live with feed me, love me, provide me with a nice warm, dry house, pet me, and take good care of me... They must be Gods! A cat thinks: Hey, these people I live with feed me, love me, provide me with a nice warm, dry house, pet me, and take good care of me... I must be a God!

Unknown

"The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were."

"When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity." (quoting Saul David Alinsky in 1959)

John F. Kennedy

"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything."

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."

Oscar Wilde

"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts."

Charles Dickens

"Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal."

Unknown

"We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities."

Jacques Maritain

"A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of."

Burt Bacharach

"The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work."

Richard Bach

"It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else."

J. M. Barrie

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."

Henry Ward Beecher

"If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something."

"A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory."

Steven Wright

"If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up. After a few months' consideration and observation he abandonded this theory in favor of a new one. If they don't keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working." Douglas Adams in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

"The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't." --Douglas Adams

"For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen."

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened."

Douglas Adams

"Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way."

Daniele Vare

"You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you can't have it."

Robert Anthony

"Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves."

Homer Simpson

"The heart has reasons that reason does not understand."

Jacques Benigne Bossuel

"A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears."

Woodrow Wyatt

"To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best."

William Makepeace Thackeray

"Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring men on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny."

Carl Schurz

"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."

W. Somerset Maugham

"It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up."

Muhammad Ali

"It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit."

Noël Coward

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

Alvin Toffler

"No amount of advance planning will ever replace dumb luck."

Anonymous

"The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them."

William Bragg

"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."

George Bernard Shaw

"The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'."

unknown

"Anyone can become angry--that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way; this is not easy.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit."

Aristotle

"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend."

Albert Camus

"We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere"

Tim McGraw

"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence."

H. L. Mencken

"Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a trip around the sun."

Clay Center Wisdom

"When I dare to be powerful -- to use my strength in the service of my vision -- it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid."

Audre Lord

"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced... Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice."

Cherokee Proverb

"All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."

Pablo Picasso

"Women like silent men. They think they're listening."

Marcel Archard

"A man has not lived until he has almost died. For those who have fought, life has a flavor the protected will never know."

A Vietnam Veteran

"Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity."

Henry Van Dyke

"Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it."

Gordon R. Dickson

 

 

 

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