Quotes and Sayings

In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.

John Henry Cardinal Newman

Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with.

Bob Wells

If you have a true friend, you have more than your share.

Thomas Fulle

If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Abraham Lincoln

The Courage that we all prize and seek is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Thomas Carlyle, Proflies in Courage by: John F. Kennedy

When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

Confucius

I have great faith in fools; self - Confidence, my friends call it.

Edgar Allan Poe

The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.

Grayson Kirk

To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

Buddha

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Georges Clemenceau

The way to fight a woman is with your hat. Grab it and run.

John Barrymore

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.

Eugene Debs

There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.

Joseph Heller, Catch 22

Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Francis Bacon

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

John Locke

Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.

Margaret Thatche

God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman.

Adela Rogers St. Johns

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.

Jodie Foste

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

Granville Hicks

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.

Socrates

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.

Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999

A leader must be constantly aware of the power of his words.... and his silences.

Simon MacDonald

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

Lily Tomlin

I have discovered, in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.

Bill Veeck

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

G. K. Chesterton

Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason.

English Prove

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

Helen Keller, "The World at Her Fingertips" by Joan Dash

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Prove

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

Bertrand Russell

Describing her first day back in grade school after a long absence, a teacher said, It was like trying to hold 35 corks under water at the same time.

Mark Twain

DISCLAIMER: A society where such disclaimers are needed is saddening.

Unknown

A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

Homer, The Odyssey

In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, High - Tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit - If totally different in form - From all the romantic architecture of the past.

Dan Cruickshank

So long as there are men there will be wars.

Albert Einstein