Quotes and Sayings

Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.

Kahlil Gibran

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Robert F Kennedy

Love without esteem cannot go far or reach high. It is an angel with only one wing.

Alexandre Dumas

If you can laugh together, you can work together.

Robert Orben

The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

Marilyn Ferguson

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.

Tallulah Bankhead

Greatness is not in were we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind, and somtimes agaisnt it - But sail we must. And not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Blessed be childhood which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.

Henri F. Amiel

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

Theodore Harold White

We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being poor at what you do is seldom corrected nor penalized.

Elliot Wayne Eisne

We must learn not to disassociate the airy flower from the earthy root, for the flower that is cut off from its root fades, and its seeds are barren, whereas the root, secure in mother earth, can produce flower after flower and bring their fruit to maturity.

Kabbalah

If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.

Publilius Syrus

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Hortense Calishe

Men, in general, are but great children.

Napoleon

Not going home is already like death.

E. Catherine Tobler, Vanishing Act

I have no idea what White House statement was was issued, but I stand by it 100 percent.

Richard Darman

I shall be breakfasted before you are afield. In short, I shall astonish you all.

Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.

Author Unknown

Lord grant that I might always desire more than I can accomplish.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Charity sees the need not the cause.

German Prove

If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated.

Erich Fromm

It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism.

H. P. Lovecraft

The question is not what you look at but what you see.

Thoreau

The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.

Thucyclides

When you are down and out something always turns up - And it is usually the noses of your friends.

Orson Welles

Truth crushed to the earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.

Jefferson Davis

People are like stained glass windows they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.

Elizabeth Kubler - Ross

The effect of one upright individual is incalculable.

Oscar Arias

There are so many different ways lives work out, so many stories, and every one of them is precious: full of joy and heartbreak, and a fair amount of situation comedy.

Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004

Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.

Voltaire

It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.

Author Unknown

The first rule to tinkering is to save all the parts.

Paul Erlich

This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.

Captain J. A. Hadfield

It is impossible to mentally or socially enslave a Bible reading People.

Horace Greeley

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.

Walter Scott

Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.

Alistair Cooke

In all things that involve social pressures, if we want to see change we have to force the envelope outwards.

Gary Lee Phillips