Quotes and Sayings

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.

Susan Sontag

For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side, but neither quite able to desert the loyalties of his contemporaries. The relationship is always changing and hence always fragile nothing endures except the sense of difference.

Alan Valentine

Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for every opportunity to give and receive love, to appreciate nature, to heal our wounds and the wounds of others, to forgive, and to serve.

Joan Borysenko

One who sits between two chairs may easily fall down.

Romanian Prove

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

Arthur Schopenhaue

Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Norman MacEwan

If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.

Seneca, Epistles

Well, I thought my razor was dull until I heard his speech.

Julius Henry Marx

We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.

Blaise Pascal

This report, by its very length, defends itself against being read.

Winston Churchill

I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.

Michel de Montaigne

Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow.

Kahlil Gibran

Choice has always been a privilege of those who could afford to pay for it.

Ellen Frankfort

Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.

Brenda Ueland

Life is a continual upgrade.

J. Mark Wallace

You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.

Plato, Dialogues, Theatetus

Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.

Anne Besant

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.

Eric Hoffe

Dancing The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.

Isadora Duncan

Under the influence of art the walls expand, the roof rises, and it becomes a temple.

Robert Ingersoll, On Isadora Duncan

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

William Shakespeare

All the resources we need are in the mind.

Theodore Roosevelt

We judge ourselves by what we are capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I still have a lot to learn - About the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.

Britney Spears

Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.

Samuel Johnson

The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart of any creative use of the mind, no matter in what field or discipline.

George J. Seidel

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

Thomas H. Huxley

Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.

Charles De Gaulle

All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.

William Penn

He only profits from praise who values criticism.

Heinrich Heine

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - Men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Epictetus

If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.

Norman Augustine

To live without loving is not really to live.

Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molire

Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.

J. G. C. Brainard

Put out the light.

Theodore Roosevelt, last words, 6 January 1919

Set your expectations high find men and women whose integrity and values you respect get their agreement on a course of action and give them your ultimate trust.

John Fellows Akers

When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?

Kathleen Norris