Friday, June 28, 2013

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. - Anonymous

 

 

When you change the way you listen, the things you hear change. - Unknown

 

 

The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror. With a cop in it. - Dudley Moore

 

 

 

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now. - Napoleon Hill

 

 

 

People spend their health for wealth ... then spend their wealth for health - Unknown

 

 

 

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm. - Calvin Coolidge

 

 

What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane? - Jackie Kennedy

 

 

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it. - Epicurus

 

 

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it. - Lyndon B. Johnson

 

 

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

 

Failure is impossible. - Susan B. Anthony

 

 

We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world. - Tony Blair

 

 

Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically. - Mao Zedong

 

 

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided. - Konrad Adenauer

 

 

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself. - Gertrude Stein

 

 

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants. - Benjamin Franklin

 

 

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong. - Sophocles

 

 

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money. - Thomas Jefferson

 

 

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill

 

 

Ideas are like children - your own are wonderful. - Unkown

 

 

That which does not kill us makes us stronger. - Friedrich Nietzsche

 

 

You are remembered for the rules you break. - Douglas MacArthur

 

 

Ten percent of something is better than 100% of nothing. - Unknown

 

 

When you have to start compromising yourself or your morals for the people around you, its time to change the people around you. - Annonymous

 

 

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. - Euripides

 

 

I exercise strong self-control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast. - WC Fields

 

 

When It’s Darkest, Men See the Stars. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. - Henry David Thoreau

 

 

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. - Arthur C. Clarke

 

 

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. - Euripides

 

 

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. - Benjamin Franklin

 

 

 

Monday, June 17, 2013

Whenever I’m caught between two evils, I take the one I’ve never tried. - Mae West

 

 

If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place. - Unknown

 

 

The most damaging phrase in the language is: It's always been done that way. - Grace Hopper

 

 

Life doesn't make any sense and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway. - Eric Idle

 

 

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. - Oscar Wilde

 

 

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward. - William J. Bennett

 

 

Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable. - Cher

 

 

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it. - Anonymous

 

 

It’s true that ignorance of the law is no excuse, but it may be better than no alibi at all. - Unkown

 

 

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it. - Bill Cosby

 

 

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. - Henry David Thoreau

 

 

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. - Arthur C. Clarke

 

 

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward. - Amelia Earhart

 

 

We receive this food in gratitude to all beings Who have helped to bring it to our table, And vow to respond in turn to those in need With wisdom and compassion. - Buddhist Blessing

 

 

For food that stays our hunger, For rest that brings us ease, For homes where memories linger, We give our thanks for these. - Anonymous

 

 

You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. - A. A. Milne

 

 

No one is free who is not master of himself. - Epictetus

 

 

There is no distinctly Native American criminal class, save Congress. - Mark Twain

 

 

He who can give thanks for little will always find he has enough. - Anonymous

 

 

Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it. - Aldous Huxley

 

 

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. - Unknown

 

 

There is no sorrow I have thought about more than that - to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail. - George Eliot

 

 

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. - John Quincy Adams

 

 

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. - Aristotle

 

 

Thursday, June 13, 2013

Sarcasm helps keep you from telling people what you really think of them. - Unknown

 

 

Kids are like farts. You don’t mind your own, but other peoples are unbearable.

 

 

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace. - Elbert Hubbard

 

 

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them

 

 

I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it. - Jean Kerr

 

 

Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or is there one system for the average citizen and another for the high and mighty? - Ted Kennedy

 

 

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. - Napoleon Bonaparte

 

 

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. - Nelson Mandela

 

 

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it. - Abraham Lincoln

 

 

Sunday, June 2, 2013

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother. - Epictetus

 

 

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of the roar which lies on the other side of silence. - George Eliot

 

 

I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you are afraid. - John Gotti

 

 

Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before. - Steven Wright

 

 

No one is free who is not master of himself. - Epictetus

 

 

I think different religions are different doors to the same house. Sometimes I think the house exists, and sometimes I don't. It's the great mystery. - Steve Jobs

 

 

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. - Bertolt Brecht

 

 

The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary. - Vidal Sassoon

 

 

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. - Eleanor Roosevelt

 

 

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today. - Malcolm X

 

 

The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. - Ronald Reagan

 

 

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. - Winston Churchill

 

 

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. - Mark Twain

 

 

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it. - Eleanor Roosevelt

 

 

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little. - Epicurus

 

 

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough. - Helen Keller

 

 

Life isn't about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain.

 

 

If I won an award for laziness, I would probably just send someone out to pick it up for me.

 

 

You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak. - George Clooney