Quotes and Sayings

If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
Thomas Szasz
It is not giving children more that spoils them it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.
John Gray
Saint jerome - to saints their very slumber is a prayer....
Feminism is the radical concept that women are people.
Cheris Kramarae & Paula Treichle
Education has for its object the formation of character.
Herbert Spence
One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
Rita Mae Brown
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
Frank Herbert
The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth.
Mary McLeod Bethune
One only needs two tools in life: WD - 40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop.
G. Weilache
Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly, as you teach and admonish one another in all wisdom, and as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
Bible, Colossians 3: 16
When you differ with a man, show him, by your looks, by your bearing and by everything that you do or say, that you love him.
Senator Paul Douglas
Chinua achebe - a man who makes trouble for others is also making...
Ernest benn - politics is the art of looking for trouble,...
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Oscar Wilde
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. You are the center of your universe, and you can make anything happen.
Ashley Smith
I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.
William H. Mauldin
What you will do matters. All you need is to do it.
Judy Grahn, Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds, 1984
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
Lisa Grossman
We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.
Don Delillo
The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Benjamin Franklin
Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.
Christopher Reeve
Shame is that intrinsic meter of our own heart to tell us that we have failed to follow our own moral compass.
LaDawnna Burnett, (1975 -), Letters on Ethics
I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of toleration.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.
Hunter S. Thompson
The only thing dumber than a pitcher is two pitchers.
Ted Williams
All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. 1954.
Enlai Zhou
No pressure, no diamonds.
Mary Case
Life is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain.
Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt, Book 2 of The Wheel of Time
If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.
Antonio Gramsci
Over - Seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.
Michael J. Gel
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
Dorothy Parke
Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
George Orwell
There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.
Sir Francis Bacon
Truth or tact You have to choose. Most times they are not compatible.
Eddie Canto
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a nonworld.
Peter Drucke
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Levenstein