Welcome to the Quote Book of Spork
Within this dominion we have had a fair deal of writers, leaders, and
inspirational citizens. In the Quote Book of Spork I, Spork, have
gathered many quotations of these people and here I present them to
you.
"...in that moment I possessed and lost the whole world and everything in it and was left with the feeling and knowledge, which is love, that no matter how we give ourselves we always end up losing. That to love is to lose, the moment we agree to the bargain. And that, being human, we keep standing there wanting to lose more." - Ann Rinaldi
"If this time ever comes - and you'll know it when it does - do what you think is right. Even if it hurts those around you. Those you love. That is the most difficult thing we must ever learn to do." - Ann Rinaldi
"Becasue I had already resolved that if you're afraid to love, your heart will break anyway, only in not half so nice a fashion as it does when you let someone love you." - Ann Rinaldi
"When in doubt, tell the truth." - Mark Twain
"History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small." - Mark Twain
"Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain." - Mark Twain
"It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech." - Mark Twain
"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." - Mark Twain
"Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody." - Mark Twain
"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." - Mark Twain
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." - Mark Twain
"It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them." - Mark Twain
"No one can make you inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"You always admire what you really don't understand." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"I do not know what weapons WWIII will be fought, but WWIV will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein
"If A equals success then the formula is A=x+y+z. x is work, y is play and z is keeping your mouth shut." - Albert Einstein.
"Few are those that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts" - Albert Einstein
"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it feels like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it feels like a minute. That's relativity" - Albert Einstein
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." - Albert Einstein
"The time is always right, to do what is right." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"One who condones evil, is just as guilty as the one who perpatrates it." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are in themselves." - Carl Jung
"Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible." - Mao Tse-Tung
"Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
"One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself." - Leonardo da Vinci
"It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to
you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny." - Anthony Robbins
"We can do no great things, only small things with great love." - Mother Theresa
"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread." - Mother Teresa
"To be popular one must be a mediocrity." - Oscar Wilde
"A real friend stabs you in the front." - Oscar Wilde
"Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess." - Oscar Wilde
"I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
"Never let yesterday use up today." - Richard H. Nelson
"It is foolish to tear one's hair out in grief as though sorrow would be made less by baldness." - Cicero
"If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it." - Cicero
"Some men see things the way they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream things that never were, and ask, 'Why not?'" - George Bernard Shaw
"If you have an apple, and I have an apple, and we exchange these apples, then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea, and I have an idea, and we
exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." - George Bernard Shaw
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." - George Bernard Shaw
"You may be one person to the world, but you may be the world to one person." - Michael Dannemiller
"Sometimes, you just want to disappear. Other times you ... just do." - Alan Sue
"When you aren't looking for love, it finds you. [When it comes] and you don't want it, it keeps banging on the door until you let it in." - Anonymous
"I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge." - Igor
Stravinsky
"What force is more potent than love?" - Igor Stravinsky
"Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes." - P.J. O'Rourke
"All lies are told with a straight face. It is truth that's said with a dismissive giggle." - P.J. O'Rourke
"Consider the past and you shall know the future." - Chinese Proverb
"Where there is no vision, the people perish." - Proverbs
"True love is friendship set on fire." - French Proverb
"Try to reason about love and you will lose your reason." - French Proverb
"Experience is the comb which nature gives us when we are bald." - A Proverb
"Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand." - Chinese Proverb
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." - James Joyce
"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." - Clarence Darrow
"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke
"Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value, and its face of eternal youth." - Albert Camus
A thought to ponder ... What happens when an unstoppable force collides with an immovable object?
"No sin is small." - Jeremy Taylor
"The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity." - G.B. Shaw
"You've got to jump off the cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down." - Ray Bradbury
"The first duty of love is to listen." - Paul Tillich
"Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge." - Bussy-Rabutin
"Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life." - Joseph Conrad
You are the
person to view these words of wisdom.
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