Quotes and Sayings

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Confucious
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
Coco Chanel
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell
Those who do not understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it - - Badly.
Henry Spence
The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.
Edwin Whipple
Live..... Laugh..... GOLF.
Kathryn Schaefer Plaum
No one ever told me grief felt so much like fear.
C. S. Lewis
Tradition is laziness.
Gustav Mahle
The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - - Because they were too obvious.
Andr Gide
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.
John Kerry, Speech at Democratic Convention, May 31, 2002
God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
Anatole France
Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again.
Unknown
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost, 1882
Beware the man of one book.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.
Athenus
To repeat what others have said, requires education to challenge it, requires brains.
Mary Pettibone Poole
Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
G. C. Lichtenberg
Any man would be forsworn to gain a kingdom.
Roger Zelazny
Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.
Thomas Jefferson
Yesterday is a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore to this day.
Sanskrit Prove
Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.
George Lucas
Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth.
M. Scott Peck
Civility costs nothing and buys everything.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1929
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.
Henry Kissinge
Most joyful the Poet be; It is through him that all men see.
William E. Channing
Whoever cares to learn will always find a teacher.
German prove
Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.
Spanish Prove
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
But did thee feel the earth move?
Ernest Hemingway
Most of our students are here to get the credentials they believe are central to admission to the Dream. Everyone does the rhetoric bit - Fascist pig this and that - But push them and they ask you to write recommendations for jobs with banks and insurance companies.
John Gargin
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Commonwealth and the Empire last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour.
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
May you live every day of your life.
Jonathan Swift
From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.
Victor Hugo
Do not speak harshly to any one; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful: blows for blows will touch thee.
Buddha, The Dharmapada
This is the truth As from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.
Maitri Upanishads