" Blind belief is dangerous. "
Kenyan Proverb
" The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. "
Lucille Ball US television actress (1911 – 1989)
" Decency…must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep. "
Quentin Crisp
" Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it. "
Rabindranath Tagore, Whisperings. The Inspirational Writings of Rabindranath Tagore on Nature, Love and Life.
" Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. "
Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)
" The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress. "
Confucius, The Confucian Analects Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC – 479 BC)
" If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. "
Carl Sagan US astronomer & popularizer of astronomy (1934 – 1996)
" The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters. "
Confucius, The Confucian Analects Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC – 479 BC)
" The tragic mistake of so many in the environmentalist movement is the belief that the rest of the world can afford to hold itself to our expensive green standards. "
Jonathan Berry
" You know when people are stupid, it frustrates me. "
Julia Roberts, on Oprah, 11/18/03
" Integrity combined with faithfulness is a powerful force and worthy of great respect. "
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 27, 2003 Anonymous author of RealLivePreacher.com
" To be great is to be misunderstood. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)
" The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God. "
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. US jurist (1841 – 1935)
" Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance "
Bruce Barton
" Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. "
John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 US administrator (1942 – )
" In a true zero-defects approach, there are no unimportant items. "
Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
" I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike. "
Joseph Addison English essayist, poet, & politician (1672 – 1719)
" Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings. "
Jimmy Carter US diplomat & Democratic politician (1924 – )
" Never explain–your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. "
Elbert Hubbard US author (1856 – 1915)
" The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can be economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music. "
Donald E. Knuth
" Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use. "
Peter Mere Latham
" I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God. "
Carl Jung Swiss psychologist (1875 – 1961)
" Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd. "
Edith Sitwell English biographer, critic, novelist, & poet (1887 – 1964)
" It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. "
Unknown Quotations by unknown authors
" Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. "
Booker T. Washington US educator (1856 – 1915)
" I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion. "
Themistocles, from Plutarch, Lives Greek general & politician in Athens (527 BC – 460 BC)
" 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. "
Margery Allingham, Death of a Ghost, 1934
" Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself. "
Chinese Proverb
" The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. "
Niels Bohr Danish physicist (1885 – 1962)
" Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear. "
Mark Twain US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 – 1910)
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