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November 17, 2009 at 4:45 pm

The minute you start talking about what you’re going to do if you lose, you have lost.
~Author : George Shultz Famous Quotes

Everything in your world is created by what you think.
~Author : Oprah Winfrey Inspirational Sayings

Remind me to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers.
~Author : Robert A Heinlein Nice Quotes

I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty…This is my highest and best use as a human.
~Author : Ben Stein E Online 122003 Great Sayings

For me it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth, a book and a friend, and a nap undisturbed by creditors or grief.
~Author : Fernandez de Andrada Meaningful Sayings

Getting caught is the mother of invention.
~Author : Robert Byrne Popular Sayings

To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
~Author : William Wordsworth Ode Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood 1803 Wise Quotes

It is your attitude at the beginning of a task that determines success or failure.
~Author : Corrine Dewlow Witty Sayings

If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflection. It’s a time of year when the leaves are down and the harvest is in and the perennials are gone. Mother Earth just closed up the drapes on another year and it’s time to reflect on what’s come before.
~Author : Mitchell Burgess Motivational Sayings

Go, lovely rose!
Tell her that wastes her time and me
That now she knows,
When I resemble her to thee,
How sweet and fair she seems to be.
~Author : Edmund Waller Go Lovely Rose stanza 1 Famous Quotes

Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.
~Author : Niccolo Machiavelli Discourse upon the First Ten Books of Livy Inspirational Sayings

For what were all these country patriots born To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn
~Author : George Gordon Byron Nice Quotes

James Earl Jimmy Carter Jr Nice Quotes

October 19, 2009 at 5:25 pm

For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.
~Author : James Earl Jimmy Carter Jr Famous Quotes

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
~Author : Ursula K LeGuin Inspirational Sayings

I thought using the Ayatollah’s money to support the Nicaraguan resistance … was a neat idea.
~Author : Oliver L North Nice Quotes

Jean Grey Girls flirt with the dangerous guy, they don’t bring him home… they marry the good guy.
~Author : X2 XMen United Great Sayings

The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.
~Author : James R Angell Meaningful Sayings

It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.
~Author : Aristotle Popular Sayings

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
~Author : Lucius Annaeus Seneca Wise Quotes

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.
~Author : Tom Stoppard Witty Sayings

ARCHITECTURE, n The art of how to waste space.
~Author : Philip Johnson Motivational Sayings

More important than winning the election, is governing the nation. That is the test of a political party — the acid, final test.
~Author : Adlai Ewing Stevenson Famous Quotes

Some things arrive on their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.
~Author : Gail Inspirational Sayings

Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief.
~Author : William Shakespeare Nice Quotes

Memorable Phrases And Wise Quotation

October 12, 2009 at 6:57 pm

Roses are red Violets are blue Most poems rhyme This one doesn’t Memorable Phrases
Shared suffering brings people together faster than anything else does Wisdom Quotation
Stupidity is NOT a handicap! PARK ELSEWHERE! Success comes in cans, not can’t s Favorite Quotes
The greatest actions of love often got unnoticed
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one
To accomplish something, the first person you have to defeat is yourself
Two wrongs don’t make a right, but two Wrights made an airplane
When you hear a kind word spoken about a friend, tell her so
A kid’s idea of a balanced diet is a hamburger in each hand
All the treasure in the world is worthless, unless you have someone to share it with
A rumor is as hard to unspread as butter
A statesman shears the sheep. A politician skins them
Death is not totally extinguishing the light but turning off the lamp because the dawn has come
Don’t be afraid of tomorrow, for God has already been there
God loves everyone, but probably prefers fruit of the Spirit over religious nuts!
Hating someone is like burning down your house to get rid of a rat
Help Wanted: Telepath. You know where to apply
I don’t necessarily agree with everything I say
I know UNIX, PASCAL, C, FORTRAN, COBOL, and nineteen other high-tech words Favorite Sayings

Attitude Quotes, Sayings about Positive Attitudes

August 20, 2009 at 9:55 am

No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.
~Author : Woodrow Wilson Famous Quotes

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing
~Author : Phocion Inspirational Sayings

Nobody ever died of laughter.
~Author : Max Beerbohm Nice Quotes

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
~Author : Voltaire Great Sayings

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.
~Author : Adele Brookman Meaningful Sayings

The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.
~Author : George Bernard Shaw Wise Quotes

The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary.
~Author : Vidal Sassoon Motivational Sayings

All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
~Author : Eric Hoffer Famous Quotes

We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge.
~Author : George Will Inspirational Sayings

Quentin Crisp Famous Quotes

August 17, 2009 at 10:41 am

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
~Author : Quentin Crisp Famous Quotes

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise begin
~Author : Horace Inspirational Sayings

Talent does what it can genius does what it must.
~Author : Unknown Nice Quotes

True genius is always inborn and never cultivated, let alone learned.
~Author : Adolf Hitler Mien Kampf Great Sayings

The best hope is that one of these days the ground will get disgusted enough just to walk away – leaving people with nothing more to stand on than what they have so bloody well stood for up to now.
~Author : Kenneth Patchen Meaningful Sayings

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain — and most fools do.
~Author : Dale Carnegie Wise Quotes

The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.
~Author : Theodore Roosevelt Motivational Sayings

Take away the miseries and you take away some folks’ reason for living.
~Author : Toni Cade Bambara Famous Quotes

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
~Author : Walter Bagehot Inspirational Sayings

Naughty or Nice Quotes, Sayings and Quotations

August 17, 2009 at 10:39 am

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
~Author : William Shakespeare Famous Quotes

That best portion of a good man’s life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
~Author : William Wordsworth Inspirational Sayings

A schedule defends from chaos and whim.
~Author : Annie Dillard Nice Quotes

An nescis mi fili, quantilla prudentia regitur orbis?
Dost thou not know, my son, with what little wisdom the world is governed?
~Author : Count Oxenstierna letter to his son 1648 Great Sayings

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.
~Author : Nick Faldo Meaningful Sayings

An artist does not fake reality–he *stylizes* it.
~Author : Ayn Rand From the article Art and Sense of Life in The Romantic Manifesto Wise Quotes

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
~Author : Dwight D Eisenhower Motivational Sayings

Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit we cannot flower and grow without it.
~Author : Jesse Lair Famous Quotes

There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes one’s own.
~Author : Elizabeth Elton Smith Inspirational Sayings

Random Great Quotes

August 11, 2009 at 10:21 am

Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.
~Author : Mother Theresa Famous Quotes

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
~Author : H L Mencken Inspirational Sayings

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
~Author : John Dewey Nice Quotes

Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.
~Author : F J Raymond Great Sayings

There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.
~Author : Adlai E Stevenson Jr Meaningful Sayings

Do one thing every day that scares you.
~Author : Eleanor Roosevelt Wise Quotes

The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars, but in ourselves if we are underlings.
~Author : Shakespeare Motivational Sayings

Once in a while you have to take a break and visit yourself.
~Author : Audrey Giorgi Famous Quotes

Men are apt to offend (’tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.
~Author : William Congreve Inspirational Sayings

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