Quotes and Sayings

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self - Control. Against such things, there is no law.
The Apostle Paul (Saul of Tarsus), The Bible - Galations 5: 22 - 23 NIV
An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
William James
Percy bysshe shelley - our sweetest songs are those that tell the...
Genius is 1 inspiration and 99 perspiration.
Thomas Alva Edison
Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
Epicurus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
There are two sides of the Velvet Rope. Those who want to be on the other side and those who are on the other side.
Janet Jackson
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
Hans Hofmann
Plautus - he means well is useless unless he does well....
100 invested at 7 interest for 100 years will become 100, 000, at which time it will be worth absolutely nothing.
Lazarus Long
Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.
Sir Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, 1605
All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad, or peculiar.
Grace Paley
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Thomas Jefferson
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle - Aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
I. F. Stone
Do not speak ill of the dead.
The Seven Sages, (Bias, Chilon, Cleobulus, Periander, Pittacus, Solon, Thales) c. 650 - C. 550 BC, From Diogenes Laertius, Lives
A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
History is the discovering of the constant and universal principles of human nature.
David Hume
I am not sure I am willing to do what it takes to become President of the United States.
Jack Kemp, Seattle, Washington, Winter 1996/97 lecture series, when asked if he would run for president in 2000
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson
I ching - when clouds form in the skies we know that rain...
I have no trouble with my enemies. But my goddam friends,... they are the ones that keep me walking the floor nights.
Oscar Levant
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
Brian Tracy
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire
Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of inventions.
Louis Pasteu
Temper gets you into trouble. Pride keeps you there.
Anonymous
Guess again.
The Running Man, movie
Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.
Beranrd Levin
Courageous risks are life - Giving, they help you grow, make you brave, and better than you think you are.
Joan L. Curcio
We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
Margaret Atwood
It was always said of him Scrooge that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us.
Charles Dickens
If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts but if we begin with doubts, and we are patient in them, we shall end in certainties.
Francis Bacon
The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
What the great ones do, the less will prattle of.
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act I scene ii
I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any.
Emma Albani
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DOE Unbearably lovely music is heard as the curtain rises, and we see the woods on a summer afternoon. A fawn dances on and nibbles slowly at some leaves. He drifts lazily through the soft foliage. Soon he starts coughing and drops dead.
Woody Allen, Without Feathers
Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.
Margaret Cho, weblog, 03 - 11 - 04
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore and diverting himself and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell that ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton
The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.
Garth Brooks, Country Music
What is play to the cat is death to the mouse.
Danish prove
By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analysing the observations that I have made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics, Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists.
M. C. Escher, Quoted in To Infinity and Beyond, E Maor (Princeton 1991)