Quotes and Sayings

George eliot - half of the harm that is done in this world is...
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
Stephen A. Brennan
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela
Benjamin franklin - when the people find that they can vote...
Go ahead, kill without mercy. After all, who remembers today the Armenian Genocide.
Adolf Hitle
God heals, and the doctor takes the fee.
Benjamin Franklin
He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.
William Shakespeare
Knowledge is true opinion.
Plato
One hopes to achieve the zero option, but in the absence of that we must achieve balanced numbers. On Soviet and Allied missiles in Europe.
Margaret Hilda Thatche
No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself.
Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992
There are too many people, and too few human beings.
Robert Zend
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Praise will come to those whose kindness leaves you without debt.
Neil Finn, track #12 on his album "Try Whistling This".
The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.
George Frost Kennan
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
Charles Robert Darwin
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
George Bernard Shaw
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan
The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - - Because they were too obvious.
Andr Gide
There is so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us, That it hardly behooves any of us To talk about the rest of us.
Edward Wallis Hoch, Marion (Kansas) Record
Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.
Bruce Barton
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Gore Vidal
To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.
Alexis Carrel
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
Johann von Goethe
The word happiness would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl Jung
Leaders who win the respect of others are the ones who deliver more than they promise, not the ones who promise more than they can deliver.
Mark A. Clement
Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
The Dhammapada
We become wiser by adversity prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The future you shall know when it has come before then forget it.
Aeschylus
On the Plains of Hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions, who, at the Dawn of Victory, sat down to wait, and waiting - - Died.
George W. Cecil
Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
Miguel de Cervantes
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
Jonathan Swift
If it is not seemly, do it not if it is not true, speak it not.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
George Walker Bush
Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
John Donne
Cannot find REALITY. SYS... Universe Halted.
Anon.
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory
Never give advice in a crowd.
Arab Prove
So far as modern science is concerned, we have to abandon completely the idea that by going into the realm of the small we shall reach the ultimate foundations of the universe. I believe we can abandon this idea without any regret. The universe is infinite in all directions, not only above us in the large but also below us in the small.
Emil Wiechert