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Time for the weather report. It's cold out folks. Bonecrushing cold. The kind of cold which will wrench the spirit out of a young man, or forge it into steel.
~Author : Andrew Schneider Famous Quotes

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Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
~Author : Benjamin Franklin Inspirational Sayings

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
~Author : W Somerset Maugham Nice Quotes

I will have no man work for me who has not the capacity to become a partner.
~Author : James Cash Penney Great Sayings

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
~Author : Charles Dickens Meaningful Sayings

Everything that God created is potentially holy, and our task as humans is to find that holiness in seemingly unholy situations. When we can do this, we will have learned to nurture our souls.
~Author : Rabbi Harold Kushner Wise Quotes

I wish you all the joy you can wish.
~Author : William Shakespeare Motivational Sayings

The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.
~Author : Abraham Lincoln Famous Quotes

Steve McCroskey Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines
~Author : Airplane Inspirational Sayings

I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures...
~Author : Geronimo Nice Quotes

You only live once -- but if you work it right, once is enough.
~Author : Joe E Lewis Great Sayings

How come, just as the rocket is launching, the astronauts don't also shoot some fireworks out the window It would make the whole takeoff look more impressive.
~Author : Jack Handey Deep Thoughts Meaningful Sayings

Imagination is a quality given to man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humaor is provided to console him from what he is.
~Author : Oscar Wilde Wise Quotes

Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self-righteous isolation.
~Author : John Dewey Motivational Sayings

Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism.
~Author : Denis Diderot Famous Quotes

When writing a novel a writer should create living people people not characters. A character is a caricature.
~Author : Ernest Hemingway Inspirational Sayings

Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.
~Author : Voltaire Nice Quotes

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
~Author : Carl Sandburg Great Sayings

It is occasionally possible to charge hell with a bucket of water, but against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
~Author : Doris Fleeson Meaningful Sayings

Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.
~Author : Homer Wise Quotes

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.
~Author : Piet Mondrian Motivational Sayings

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.
~Author : William Shakespeare Famous Quotes

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
~Author : Hermann Hesse Inspirational Sayings

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
~Author : Charles De Gaulle Nice Quotes

Life imitates art more than art imitates life.
~Author : Oscar Wilde Great Sayings

Time eases all things.
~Author : Sophocles Meaningful Sayings

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
~Author : Dame Rose Macaulay Wise Quotes

Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.
~Author : William Blackstone Motivational Sayings

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts Famous Quotes

When you die, if you get a choice between going to regular heaven or pie heaven, choose pie heaven. It might be a trick, but if it's not, ummmm, boy.
~Author : Jack Handey Deep Thoughts Famous Quotes

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
~Author : Dr Laura Schlessinger Inspirational Sayings

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.
~Author : Bertrand Russell Nice Quotes

Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled to concentrate to accept conflict and tension to be born everyday to feel a sense of self.
~Author : Erich Fromm Great Sayings

Did is a word of achievement Won't is a word of defeat Might is a word of bereavement Can't is a word of defeat Ought is a word of duty Try is a word each hour Will is a word of beauty Can is a word of power.
~Author : Gerard Hargraves Meaningful Sayings

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
~Author : Tacitus Wise Quotes

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'
~Author : Helen Hayes Motivational Sayings

Time as he grows old teaches all things.
~Author : Aeschylus Prometheus Bound Famous Quotes

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
~Author : Henry Ford Inspirational Sayings

I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.
~Author : Anwar elSadat Nice Quotes

She had learned the self-deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel.
~Author : Faith Sullivan Great Sayings

The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.
~Author : Huey Long Meaningful Sayings

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
~Author : Blaise Pascal Wise Quotes

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
~Author : Chuangtzu Motivational Sayings

It seems to me the book has not just aesthetic values-- the charming little clothy box of the thing, the smell of the glue, even the print, which has its own beauty. But there's something about the sensation of ink on paper that is in some sense a thing, a phenomenon rather than an epiphenomenon. I can't break the association of electric trash with the computer screen. Words on the screen give the sense of being just another passing electronic wriggle.
~Author : John Updike Famous Quotes

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
~Author : Elvis Presley Inspirational Sayings

The first duty to children is to make them happy, If you have not made them so, you have wronged them, No other good they may get can make up for that.
~Author : Charles Buxton Nice Quotes

What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise.
~Author : Barbara Charline Jordan Great Sayings

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
~Author : Henry David Thoreau Meaningful Sayings

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
~Author : Ellen DeGeneres Wise Quotes

The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
~Author : Oscar Wilde Motivational Sayings

High expectations are the key to everything.
~Author : Sam Walton Famous Quotes

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with a brother knave than with a fool, but he would rather avoid a quarrel with one honest man than with both. He can combat a fool by management and address, and he can conquer a knave by temptations. But the honest man is neither to be bamboozled nor bribed.
~Author : C C Colton Inspirational Sayings

Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from the inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.
~Author : Mitch Albom The Five People You Meet in Heaven Nice Quotes

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
~Author : George Bernard Shaw Great Sayings

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.
~Author : Mother Theresa Meaningful Sayings

The more he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Wise Quotes

I love all beauteous things, I seek and adore them God hath no better praise, And man in his hasty days Is honored for them.
~Author : Robert Bridges Motivational Sayings

Joe Moore Famous Quotes

A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some.
~Author : Joe Moore Famous Quotes

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
~Author : Mae West Inspirational Sayings

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.
~Author : W C Fields Nice Quotes

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
~Author : George Bernard Shaw Great Sayings

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
~Author : Colin Powell Meaningful Sayings

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
~Author : Mignon McLaughlin Wise Quotes

The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.
~Author : Hilaire Belloc Motivational Sayings

On marriage Look for a sweet person. Forget rich.
~Author : Estee Lauder Famous Quotes

A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.
~Author : Chinese proverb Inspirational Sayings

Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
~Author : H L Mencken Nice Quotes

When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.
~Author : Dolly Parton Great Sayings

That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.
~Author : Pliny the Younger Meaningful Sayings

Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles - Calvin
~Author : Bill Watterson Wise Quotes

I'm as pure as the driven slush.
~Author : Tallulah Bankhead Motivational Sayings

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
~Author : Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde Famous Quotes

We are certain that there is forgiveness, because there is a Gospel, and the very essence of the Gospel lies in the proclamation of the pardon of sin.
~Author : Charles Haddon Spurgeon Inspirational Sayings

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.
~Author : Isaac Bashevis Singer Nice Quotes

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away.
~Author : Sir Arthur Helps Great Sayings

Be not surprised if thou findest thyself in possession of unexpected wealth. Allah will provide an unexpected use for it.
~Author : James J Roche Meaningful Sayings

In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
~Author : Al Rogers Wise Quotes

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
~Author : H L Mencken Motivational Sayings

Formula for success Underpromise and overdeliver.
~Author : Thomas Peters Famous Quotes

Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.
~Author : Emil Nolde Inspirational Sayings

Burnt Sienna. Thats the best thing that ever happened to Crayolas.
~Author : Ken Weaver Nice Quotes

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
~Author : Paul Valery Great Sayings

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
~Author : Groucho Marx Meaningful Sayings

Women are the glue that hold our day-to-day world together.
~Author : Anna Quindlen Wise Quotes

Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave.
~Author : Euripides Motivational Sayings

Dorothea Lange Famous Quotes

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
~Author : Dorothea Lange Famous Quotes

A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when there is no meeting of minds.
~Author : Chinese proverb Inspirational Sayings

Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight.
~Author : Barbara Schapiro Nice Quotes

Life without a friend is death without a witness.
~Author : Danish proverb Great Sayings

There are no clear paths. Only pitfalls and tripwires and darkness.
~Author : Robert Jordan The Wheel of Time Meaningful Sayings

It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
~Author : John Wooden Wise Quotes

George Washington as a boy was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth - he could not even lie.
~Author : Mark Twain Motivational Sayings

Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.
~Author : Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Famous Quotes

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
~Author : Samuel Johnson Inspirational Sayings

Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have it depends solely upon what you think.
~Author : Dale Carnegie Nice Quotes

What a beautiful fix we are in now; peace has been declared.
~Author : Napoleon Bonaparte 1802 Great Sayings

The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul.
~Author : Rona Barrett Meaningful Sayings

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
~Author : Benjamin Franklin Wise Quotes

The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence cynicism.
~Author : Albert Camus Motivational Sayings

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
~Author : Kahlil Gibran Famous Quotes

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
~Author : Charles Caleb Colton Inspirational Sayings

I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
~Author : Groucho Marx Nice Quotes

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
~Author : Plato The Republic Great Sayings

He who does not venture has no luck.
~Author : Mexican Proverb Meaningful Sayings

For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root.
~Author : Henry Thoreau Wise Quotes

Fill your mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.
~Author : Marianne Williamson Motivational Sayings

Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation know the nature of joy.
~Author : Maitri Upanishads Famous Quotes

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
~Author : Albert Einstein Inspirational Sayings

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.
~Author : Confucius Nice Quotes

Everything you've learned in school as obvious becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.
~Author : Richard Buckminster Fuller Great Sayings

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
~Author : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes The Sign of Four 1890 Meaningful Sayings

Andrew is the operating system of the future and always will be.
~Author : Mary R Thompson Wise Quotes

Peter Not everyone is meant to make a difference. But for me, the choice to lead an ordinary life is no longer an option.
~Author : SpiderMan Motivational Sayings

Katherine Paterson The Spying Heart 1989 Famous Quotes

Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.
~Author : Katherine Paterson The Spying Heart 1989 Famous Quotes

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
~Author : Frank Lloyd Wright Inspirational Sayings

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
~Author : Abraham Lincoln Nice Quotes

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.
~Author : Martin Luther King Jr Great Sayings

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
~Author : Harry S Truman Meaningful Sayings

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
~Author : Tacitus Wise Quotes

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
~Author : Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts 1931 Life and Human Nature Motivational Sayings

You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge yourself one.
~Author : James A Froude Famous Quotes

No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books.
~Author : Elizabeth Barrett Browning Inspirational Sayings

A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.
~Author : Author Unknown Nice Quotes

If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost 100, get one million miles to the gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
~Author : Robert X Cringely Great Sayings

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
~Author : Frederick Douglas Meaningful Sayings

Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature, where the weaker individual is not secured against the violence of the stronger; and as, in the latter state, even the individuals are prompted, by the uncertainty of their condition, to submit to a government which may protect the weak as well as themselves; so, in the former state, will the more powerful factions or parties be gradually induced, by a like motive to wish for a government which will protect all parties, the weaker as well as the more powerful.
~Author : Alexander Hamilton Wise Quotes

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
~Author : Franklin D Roosevelt Motivational Sayings

It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another.
~Author : Odell Shepard Famous Quotes

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.
~Author : Sigmund Freud Inspirational Sayings

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
~Author : Andre Gide Nice Quotes

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
~Author : Aristotle Great Sayings

Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
~Author : Chilo Meaningful Sayings

Happiness is in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
~Author : Franklin Roosevelt Wise Quotes

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
~Author : Sydney Harris Motivational Sayings

We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God.
~Author : Harry S Truman Famous Quotes

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.
~Author : Maxine Waters Inspirational Sayings

Better keep yourself clean and bright you are the window through which you must see the world.
~Author : George Bernard Shaw Nice Quotes

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words.
~Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Great Sayings

That all men should be brothers is the dream of people who have no brothers.
~Author : Charles Chincholles Meaningful Sayings

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
~Author : James Russell Lowell Wise Quotes

The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.
~Author : Alvin Barkley Motivational Sayings