"Disagreements are not problems. They are opportunities for everyone to learn something." - https://youtu.be/yCsgoLc_fzI

"He who has a why to live can bare almost any how." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does." ~ Napoleon Hill

"The older I get, the more I realize that age doesn't bring wisdom. It only brings weary. I'm not any smarter than I was 30 years ago. I've just grown too tired to juggle the lies and hide the fears. Self-awareness doesn't reveal my indiscretions, exhaustion does." - John Teller (SOA S01E06)

To be your best, you must surround yourself with the best.

Q: What's the cornerstone of science?
A: Repeatable results.
- 2036 Origin Unknown (2018)

“When you’re living abroad, you develop a heightened sense of the intricacies in simple daily interactions. The cultural differences in your foreign country sharpen your perceptive ability. When you come back that antenna is still there. You pick up frequencies and signals that the people around you either can’t hear or choose to ignore. The people and the place haven’t changed, but you have.”
Bart Schaneman

"You don't need everyone to love you, just a few good people."

"The noblest art is that of making others happy."

Those who never change their mind, never change anything.

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts" - Winston Churchill

They say we're only remembered for three generations.. What would one have to do not to be forgotten?

"Loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change." - James J. Frey, The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

If people are trying to bring you down, it only means that you are above them.

You will face your greatest opposition when you are closest to your biggest miracle. — Shannon L. Alder

“People will always have their opinion on you despite who you are and what your capable of.” – Ana Chable

Great minds

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. - Eleanor Roosevelt

"Surround yourself with the people whom you can see yourself with in the future instead of with the ones whom you could just have fun with."

"You are the average of the five people you hang out the most."

“You’re the average of the five people you spend the most time with." - Jim Rohn

Be yourself!

Always be yourself! Unless you can be Batman. Then be Batman. - Unknown

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

"The hummingbird
is not just another bird.
Its heart rate's 1,200 beats per minute.
Its wings beat 80 times a second.
If you was to stop their wings
from beating, it would be dead
in less than 10 seconds.
This is no ordinary bird.
This is a frickin' miracle.
They slowed down their wings
with moving pictures,
and you know what they saw?
Their wingtips are doing that.
You know what the figure eight
is the mathematical symbol for?
Infinity. Infinity!"

"You can be as mad as a mad dog
at the way things went. You can swear and curse the Fates. But when it comes to the end, you have to let go."

"This is the picture of Old Man Kangaroo at 5:00 in the afternoon."

"Sometimes we're on a collision course
and we just don't know it. Whether it's by accident or by design, there's not a thing we can do about it.."

"Non of us is perfect forever."

"Anything's possible."

"Some people are born to sit by a river. Some get struck by lightning. Some have an ear for music. Some are artists. Some swim. Some know buttons. Some know Shakespeare. Some are mothers. And some people dance."

Cloud Atlas (2012)

And all becomes clear. Wish I could make you see this brightness. Don't worry, all is well. All is so perfectly, damnably well. I understand now, that boundaries between noise and sound are conventions. All boundaries are conventions, waiting to be transcended. One may transcend any convention, if only one can first conceive of doing so. Moments like this, I can feel your heart beating as clearly as I feel my own, and I know that separation is an illusion. My life extends far beyond the limitations of me.

Be contempt

"Grass! Exactly, grass. It’s always greener on the other side, and then you get there, and it’s brown and prickly. You see what I’m trying to say?" - Mel Gibson as Rocky in Chicken Run

Talking nothing

“I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about.” - Oscar Wilde

True friend

“A true friend stabs you in the front.” - Oscar Wilde

Be yourself

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. ” - Oscar Wilde

Life

If life is ever a canvas, the body is the brush and the mind is the tip that paints off tint.
The artirt? Some say their own will, while others say God-a child's play.

Anonymity

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” - Oscar Wilde

Proverb quote

“Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.”

Henry Ford quotes

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."

Henry Ford (American industrialist and pioneer of the assembly-line production method, founder of Ford Motor Company 1863-1947)

Memory

"Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not it's twin." - Barbara Kingsolver (Criminal Minds S07E18)

Parenting

"Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you." - H. Jackson Brown Jr. (Criminal Minds S07E16)

The Big Bang Theory - S05E07 - The Good Guy Fluctuation (Morality)

Leonard: Well, they say at the end of your life, you regret the stuff you didn’t do more than the stuff that you did, and I’m pretty sure Alice is the stuff I want to do.

Sheldon: You know, the German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, believed that morality is just a fiction used by the herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior men.

Leonard: That actually does help.

Sheldon: It’s worth noting that he died of syphilis.

Leonard: Screw it, I’m going.

Sheldon: On your way home, will you pick up some orange juice?

Leonard: Do you mind? I’m questioning a lot of things in my life right now.

Sheldon: Is one of those things your fondness for orange juice?

Leonard: No.

Sheldon: Great. Tropicana, no pulp.

Change

"There are 31,530,000
seconds in a year.
1,000 milliseconds in a second.
A million microseconds.
A billion nanoseconds.
And the one constant, connecting
nanoseconds to years,
is change.
The universe.
From atom to galaxy,
is in a perpetual
state of flux.
But we humans
don't like change.
We fight it. It scares us.
So we create
the illusion of stasis.
We want to believe
in a world at rest,
the world of right now.
Yet our great paradox
remains the same...
The moment
we grasp the "now"...
that "now" is gone.
We cling to snapshots.
But life is moving pictures.
Each nanosecond different from the last.
Time forces us to grow.
To adapt.
Because every time
we blink our eyes...
the world shifts
beneath our feet.

Every day,
every moment, every nanosecond
the world changes.
Electrons bump into each other
and react.
People collide
and alter each other's paths.
Change isn't easy.
More often,
it's wrenching and difficult.
But maybe that's a good thing.
Because it's change
that makes us strong.
Keeps us resilient.
It teaches us to evolve." - Jake (Touch S01E12)

Sacred Scripture

"I believe the whole thing to be outdated thinking. Mankind evolves. Sacred writings should evolve along with it. The world today is not what it was 4,000 years ago." - Abraham (Touch S01E11)

Free Will

"Well, of course you have a choice. Although we live in a deterministic universe, each individual has free will. Now, sit down." - Sheldon Cooper (The Big Bang Theory - S03E16)

William - Fringe s04e22

God made us in his image.
If that is so, if we are capable of being Gods,
then it is our destiny to do so...

...My dear friend,
even if you deny it now, you have always
been playing God. I am.

Ideal

"An ideal should only remain as one if it continues to make a person better, not the same."

"An ideal should only remain as one if it continues to aspire people."

The best teacher

The best teachers don't give you the answers, they just point the way and let you make your own choices. Your own mistakes. That way you get all the glory and you deserve it. - Will Schuester; Glee s01e12

Mavis - Fairy Tail 112

Mistakes are not shackles that halt one from stepping forward. Rather, they are that which sustain and grow one's heart.

Makarov - Fairly Tail 102

There are people in this world who would prefer solitude. But there is no one who can withstand it.

You reap what you sow.

You reap what you sow.

This means that if you do bad things to people, bad things will happen to you, or good things if you do good things. It is normally used when someone has done something bad.

WHY?

Gladiator (2000)

“What We Do In Life Echoes In Eternity” Maximus Decimus Meridius

Gildarts - Fairy Tail 99

Very few have the courage to sheathe their sword once it's out.

Fear is not evil...
It tells you what your weakness is. And once you know your weakness, you can become stronger as well as kinder.

House S08E22

"Motives don't matter. Only actions. Trying is an action.." - House S08E22

_________________________________________

HOUSE:
And you're doing this
because you're dying?

PATIENT:
I'm doing this because
I have nothing left to lose..

HOUSE:
So when you were living,
you did nothing for anyone
and you didn't care.
Now that you're dying,
you're willing to help
a virtual stranger.
Which means you're
a better person dying
than you ever were living,
and the world
is a better place
because I didn't
save you..
_________________________________________

Enjoy Yourself
by Louis Prima

♪ Enjoy yourself ♪
♪ it's later than you think ♪
♪ enjoy yourself ♪
♪ while you're still in the pink ♪
♪ the years go by as quickly as a wink ♪
♪ enjoy yourself, enjoy yourself ♪
♪ it's later than you think, hey ♪

♪ you're gonna take
♪ that two-week trip ♪
♪ no matter come what may ♪
♪ but every year you put it off ♪
♪ you just can't get away ♪

♪ next year for sure you'll hit the road ♪
♪ you'll really get around ♪
♪ but how far can you travel ♪
♪ when you're six feet underground? ♪

♪ enjoy yourself ♪
♪ it's later than you think ♪
♪ enjoy yourself ♪
♪ while you're still in the pink ♪
♪ the years go by as quickly as a wink ♪
♪ enjoy yourself, enjoy yourself ♪
♪ it's later than you think ♪
♪ enjoy yourself ♪
♪ don't be a fool ♪

END.

The Golden Rule

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." - The Golden Rule

Stupidity

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein

Dying

"To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable." - Erich Fromm (Rossi - Criminal Minds s07e06)

Llyod - Breakout Kings

"I was the recipient of
some just awful advice.
It was well-intentioned but, uh...
completely ill-fitting for me.
Julianne.
I feel like...
...every relationship or... or pairing
is unique, you know.
I mean, look at Rodney and Lorraine
and what they went through to be together,
and I realize that the only advice
that I should have heeded
is Alfred Lord Tennyson's
because I think it is better
to have loved and lost
than to never have loved at all.
And I just want to tell you...
...that I love you.
You don't have to say anything...
but if you did, if you
did feel the same way
or if, um, if you felt like someday
in the future you might
feel the same way...
...just walk by my desk where
I'm sitting and, um...
...put this number two
pencil down in front of me.
Then I'll know.
Or don't-- I mean,
what-whatever makes you
feel more comfortable.
But I need to say what I just said...
and... I'm glad that I did." - Lloyd Lowery (Breakout Kings s02e07)

Walter - Fringe

"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it." - Marcus Aurelius (Walter - Fringe s04e20)

Mind prison

"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds." - Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Reid - Criminal Minds s07e03)

Alone

"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone." - Orson Welles (Rossi - Criminal Minds s07e03)

Thoughts of Solitude

"Learn to *see* what you have drawn, not what you want your drawing to be." - onewingedtenchi

"Nothing is true; everything is permitted." - The Assassins

"Twenty-two years ago, I stood where I stand now and watched my loved ones die, betrayed by those I had called friends.

Vengeance clouded my mind. It would have consumed me, were it not for the wisdom of a few strangers, who taught me to look past my instincts. They never preached answers, but guided me to learn from myself.

We don’t need anyone to tell us what to do; not Savonarola, not the Medici. We are free to follow our own path. There are those who will take that freedom from us, and too many of you gladly give it. But it is our ability to choose, whatever you think is true that makes us human...

There is no book or teacher to give you the answers, to show you the path. Choose your own way! Do not follow me, or anyone else." - Ezio Auditore (AC2).

"If someone says 'I love you' and you don't feel the same way, just say 'I love YouTube' really fast."

"Enjoy this holiday season like the last.. with love, the Mayans" - uberhumor.com

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind not with it." - IdolBin Thoughts

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." - IdolBin Thoughts

"The only paradox of this world is, you know the world with your 5 basic sense organs, and also you know those organs through themselves!" - IdolBin Thoughts

"Simplicity is the most beautiful thing to have, but the most complex thing on earth to achieve." - IdolBin Thoughts

"Humans are just like coals. Burn them at 500 degrees for hours, you get ashes. Burn them at 2500 degrees for million years you get diamonds." - IdolBin Thoughts

"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one." - IdolBin Thoughts

"You have to love what you do. If you don't, it's a waste of time. If you love it, it never feels like work." Rihanna (Reagan)

"Accepting a job and what they pay per hour means you are allowing someone else to determine how much you are worth." - Z-min

"Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must use it, as it is given only once. Once wasted you cannot get it back." - Unknown

"I'm thankful for my years spent with this family; for everything we shared, every chance we had to grow. I'll take the best of them and lead by their example; where ever I go. A friend told me to be honest with you, so here it goes. This isn't what I want, but I'll take the high road. Maybe it's because I look at everything as a lesson, or I don't want to walk around angry. Or maybe it's because I finally understand. There are things we don't want to happen, but have to accept; things we don't want to know, but have to learn, and people we can't live without, but have to let go." - AJ Cook (JJ - Criminal Minds S06E02)

"Anyone can achieve their fullest potential, who we are might be predetermined, the path we follow is always of our own choosing, we should never allow our fears, or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny. Your destiny cannot be changed but it can be challenged. Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one." - Timothy McGee (NCIS S07E07)

"Scars remind us where we've been, they don't have to dictate where we're going."

Dale Turner mused "Some of the best lessons are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom of the future."

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams" - Eleanor Roosevelt

“Continual cheerfulness is a sign of wisdom.” - Irish quote

“Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” - Henry David Thoreau

“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.” - Henry David Thoreau

“What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?” - Henry David Thoreau

“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” - Henry David Thoreau

“It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.” - Henry David Thoreau

“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise” - Oscar Wilde

“When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.” - Malcolm S. Forbes

“Failure is success if we learn from it.” - Malcolm S. Forbes

“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.” - Malcolm S. Forbes

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." - Malcolm S. Forbes

“Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.” - Malcolm S. Forbes

“True friends are like diamonds, precious and rare. False friends are like leaves, found everywhere.”

"When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you"

“We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” - Albert Einstein

"The players may have changed, but the game is still the same."

“Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than remember me and cry.”

“Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding on to.”

“Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.”

If she/thou loves me only in my dreams then let me sleep forever.

"Light and Dark are two different things but we need both. For too much light burns us, while in darkness we cannot see. But together we have shade."

"The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who do nothing about them." - Albert Einstein

"Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue." - Francis Bacon

"In the end we will not remember the insults of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King Jr.

"No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it. We must learn to see the world anew." - Albert Einstein

"Life without complications is nothing more than a fake smile..."

"Don't waste your time on someone who isn't willing to waste their time on you."

"A single quote of wisdom, is the summary of a lifetime of experiences."

"The easiest way to get into trouble is to be right at the wrong time."

"It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right." - Winston Churchill

"Always keep your ideals high enough that you have to keep stretching to reach them."

"The love you can't have lasts the longest, feels the strongest & hurts the most." - Yulia

"The more you study, the more you know. The more you know, the more you forget. The more you forget, the less you know. So why study?" - Student under stress

"There is no reason to fear the dark, you should only fear what it hides." - Silent Hill

"If you want your dreams to come true, don't sleep." - Yiddish proverb

"When everything you've been told is a lie nothing hurts more than the truth." - Working designs

Life is to short to drink bad wine.

In Unity Comes Peace.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Only in Darkness one can Learn to Appreciate the Light, Just like the Stars in the Heavens of a very Dark Night.

"An unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)

"Just because things are the way they are, doesn't mean they should be."

"To succeed in Life, one must have a clear picture of himself in the future."

"Love is not finding someone to live with, It's finding someone you can't live without." - Rafael Ortiz

"Nothing beats a good ol' well oiled machine."

"Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day." - Zen proverb

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams." - Henry David Thoreau

"Understanding is the three-edged sword; your side, their side and the truth." - Babylon 5, Ambassador Kosh

"Dreaming of the person you want to be is a waste of the person you are."

"It takes a lot of courage to show your dream to someone else." - Erma Bombeck

"Every exit is an entry somewhere else." - Tom Stoppard

"To know the road ahead, ask those coming back." - Confucius

"You all laugh at me because I am different, I laugh at you because you are all the same."

"Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet, than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years." - Illusions By Richard Bach

"There are only two ways to solve a problem. Either you alter the problem to fit you, or you alter yourself to fit the problem."

"No worldly success can compensate for failure in the home." - David O. McKay (Educator)

"If you can put into words why you love a person, then you do not love that person enough."

"Sometimes a winner is just a dreamer who never gave up."

"You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." - Harvey Dent (Dark Knight)

"Love is when you don't want to go to sleep because reality is better than a dream."

"Friendship is a single soul living in two bodies." - Aristotle

"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never." - Charles Caleb Colton

What was the statue "The Thinker" by Auguste Rodin thinking?

"I wonder if somebody will ever ask what I am thinking?"
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Quotes: Value

A Select Collection of Quotes: Value

By Simran Khurana, About.com

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Adam Smith: Quotes: Value
The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.

Malcolm S. Forbes: Quotes: Value
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

Charles Caleb Colton: Quotes: Value
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

Albert Einstein: Quotes: Value
Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.

M. Scott Peck: Quotes: Value
Until you value yourself you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Thomas Paine: Quotes: Value
What we obtain too cheap we esteem too little; it is dearness only that gives everything value.

Jeanette Winterson: Quotes: Value
What you risk reveals what you value.

Jim Rohn: Quotes: Value
You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

January 9, 2009

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” - Andre Gide

January 8, 2009

“It is better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you are not.” - Andre Gide

January 7, 2009

"An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory." ~ Millard Fillmore

January 6, 2009

"When eating an elephant take one bite at a time." – Creighton Abrams.

Edmund Burke Quotes

• "A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman."
• "A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors."
• "A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. "
• "All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."
• "All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice. "
• "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
• "All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing."
• "Ambition can creep as well as soar. "
• "Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist."
• "Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones."
• "Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny."
• "Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty."
• "Beauty is the promise of happiness."
• "But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever."
• "But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint."
• "By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
• "Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind."
• "Custom reconciles us to everything."
• "Education is the cheap defense of nations."
• "Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other."
• "Facts are to the mind what food is to the body."
• "Falsehood is a perennial spring."
• "Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver."
• "Free trade is not based on utility but on justice. "
• "Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits."
• "Good order is the foundation of all things."
• "He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls."
• "He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper."
• "He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. "
• "Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing."
• "I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business."
• "I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people."
• "If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived."
• "If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed."
• "If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue."
• "In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority."
• "In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature."
• "It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare."
• "It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do."
• I"t is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere."
• "It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact."
• "It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs."
• "Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all."
• "Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle."
• "Laws, like houses, lean on one another."
• "Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed."
• "Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together."
• "Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy."
• "Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair."
• "No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. "
• "Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society."
• "Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."
• "Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because he could only do a little."
• "Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference which is, at least, half infidelity. "
• "Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference."
• "Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government."
• "One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good. "
• "Our patience will achieve more than our force. "
• "Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls."
• "Patience will achieve more than force."
• "People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous."
• "People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors."
• "Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing."
• "Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement."
• "Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting."
• "Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation."
• "Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety."
• "Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."
• "Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil. "
• "Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel."
• "Superstition is the religion of feeble minds."
• "The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth."
• "The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations."
• "The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity."
• "The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. "
• "The march of the human mind is slow."
• "The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions. "
• "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
• "The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion."
• "The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time."
• "The traveller has reached the end of the journey!"
• "The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts."
• "The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny."
• "There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination."
• "There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations."
• "Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it."
• "Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief."
• "To innovate is not to reform."
• "To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely."
• "To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting."
• "To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men."
• "Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none."
• "Tyrants seldom want pretexts."
• "Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco."
• "We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature."
• "Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar."
• "What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man."
• "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."
• "When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.""
• Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe."
• "Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own."
• "Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants."
• "You can never plan the future by the past."
• "Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion."

My Quote Collection

"The time is always right to do what is right." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Just vengeance does not call for punishment." ~ Corneille, Pierre.

"To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition." ~ Jawaharlal Nehru

"A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence." ~ Antonio Porchia

"He who holds me by a thread is not strong; the thread is strong." ~ Antonio Porchia

"I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes." ~ Antonio Porchia

"I'm sleeping like a baby, too. Every two hours, I wake up, screaming." ~ Colin Powell

"If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it!" ~ Jonathan Winters

"Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others." ~ Jonathan Winters

"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived." ~ George S. Patton

"Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those they have slain." ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

"I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness." ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also." ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

"A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved." ~ Kurt Vonnegut

"Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow and of the man who leads that gains that victory." ~ George S. Patton

"There's no such thing as chance;And what to us seems merest accidentSprings from the deepest source of destiny." ~ Friedrich Schiller

"Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays." ~ Friedrich Schiller

"Too fair to worship, too divine to love." ~ Henry Hart Milman

"For he who fights and runs awayMay live to fight another day;But he who is in battle slainCan never rise and fight again." ~ Oliver Goldsmith

"All that is good is simple and all that is simple is good." ~ Mikhail Kalashnikov

"When war is declared, truth is the first casualty." ~ Arthur Ponsonby

"The general at the radar screenRubbed his hands with glee,And grinning pressed the buttonAnd started world war three." ~ Roger McGough

"There's the moon trying to look romanticMoon's too old that's her troubleAren't we all?" ~ Roger McGough

"I'm suspicious of any mode of transportation that requires a running start." ~ Alan Kotok

"Every one of us is precious in the cosmic perspective. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another." ~ Carl Sagan

"Genius does what it must, talent does what it can." ~ Robert Bulwer-Lytton

"The things which must be must be for the best." ~ Robert Bulwer-Lytton

"Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind." ~ John F. Kennedy

"It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy few hundred thousand?" ~ Spider Robinson

"You stand in front of a million doors,Each one holds a million more." ~ Kate Bush

"The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand." ~ Cesare Lombroso

"Genius is one of the many forms of insanity." ~ Cesare Lombroso

"The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities." ~ Cesare Lombroso

"Remember that life is hard, but when you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you." ~ Zig Ziglar

"An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind." ~ Mohandas Gandhi

"The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made." ~ Jean Giraudoux

"History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up." ~ Will Durant

"Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos." ~ Will Durant

"Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty." ~ Will Durant

"Seems to me the only difference between your friends and your enemies is how long they stand around chatting before they shoot you." ~ Lois McMaster Bujold

"A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind." ~ Lois McMaster Bujold

"Those who do not know their history are doomed to keep stepping in it." ~ Lois McMaster Bujold

"The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them." ~ Lois McMaster Bujold

"Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?" ~ Marie Antoinette

"We’d all like t’vote fer th’best man, but he’s never a candidate." ~ Kin Hubbard

"Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those they have slain." ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." - Alexander Graham Bell

“Don't count the days- make the days count.”

"It is hard to tell if a man is telling the truth when you know you would lie if you were in his place." H. L. Mencken

“If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, but the one most responsive to change." - Clarence Darrow

"Evil triumphs when good men do nothing." - Edmund Burke

“A true friend laughs at your stories even when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your troubles even when they're not so bad” - Proverb.

“It's always darkest before the dawn.” - Proverb

“Ability is of little account without opportunity.” - Napoleon Bonaparte

“He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.” - Napoleon Bonaparte

“Imagination rules the world.” - Napoleon Bonaparte

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” - Napoleon Bonaparte

“The surest way to remain poor is to be honest” - Napoleon Bonaparte

“Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them” - Napoleon Bonaparte

“Religion is what keeps the poor man from murdering the rich” - Napoleon Bonaparte

“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.” - Marcus Aurelius

“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.” - Marcus Aurelius

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.” - Marcus Aurelius

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking” - Marcus Aurelius

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” - Marcus Aurelius

“A person's life is dyed with the color of his imagination.” - Marcus Aurelius

“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” - Marcus Aurelius

“The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.” - Marcus Aurelius

“To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution” - Marcus Aurelius

“Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it” - Marcus Aurelius

“Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.” - Marcus Aurelius

“Anger cannot be dishonest.” - Marcus Aurelius

“Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.” - Marcus Aurelius

“Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.” - Marcus Aurelius

"Those who would see wonderful things must often be ready to travel alone” - Henry van Dyke

“It is better to follow even the shadow of the best than to remain content with the worst, and those who would see wonderful things must often be ready to travel alone” - Henry van Dyke

"A friend in need is not really a friend indeed but merely a borrower."

"Some words may hide others." - William S.

“Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” - Mark Twain

“Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter.” - Satchel Paige quote in Are We There Yet (2005)

“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.” - Mark Twain

“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.” - Mark Twain

"Love is a cease-fire that is destined to fail." - War, Inc. (2008)

"Hope. It is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength, and your greatest weakness." - The Architect (The Matrix - Reloaded)

"nEver mAke s0meoNe y0ur pRi0rity- whEn tHey 0nly makE y0u an opti0n."

Quotes from Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) - The Godfather III - 1990

• Just when I thought that I was out they pull me back in.

• Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.

• Never let anyone know what you are thinking.

• When they come, they'll come at what you love.

• Your enemies always get strong on what you leave behind.

• The higher I go, the crookeder it becomes.

• [about Cardinal Lamberto] He should be careful. It's dangerous to be an honest man.

• Kay, I had a very different destiny planned for us.

• [to Mary] I would burn in hell to keep you safe.

• Nephew, from this moment on, call yourself Vincent Corleone.

• Father, I have sinned... I killed my brother... I killed my brother... I killed my mother's son... I killed my father's son...

• [to Kay] I spent my life protecting my son; I spent my life PROTECTING MY FAMILY!!

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"A man who allies himself with a God, is a strong and powerful being." - unknown

"The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Friend" - Arabian Proverb

"Who's the more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows him?" - Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi

“Madness, as you know, is like gravity. All it takes is a little push.” - The Joker(in memory of Heath Ledger)

Q: Is the glass half empty or half full?
A: "Never really thought it mattered unless you happen to be dying of thirst."

« On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux. »
(One sees well only with the heart. What really matters is invisible to the eyes.)
by Antoine de Saint Exupéry

"With Great Power comes Great Responsibility" - Uncle Ben

"A true friend is someone you can trust, who reaches for your hand and touches your heart"

"It's not who I am underneath...but what I do that defines me." - The Dark Knight

"Don't leave someone who loves u for someone u love, for someday that someone will leave u for someone they love"

"Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer." - Sun-tzu (Chinese General & Military Strategist)

"HAPPINESS is only real when shared."

Never, ever approach a computer saying or even thinking "I will just do this quickly." - NooNoo

"Even the most beautiful rose has thorns."

"Patience is a Virtue."

"Intelligence + Character - that is the goal of true education." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"One's best success comes after their greatest disappointments."

"Kites rise highest against the wind-not with it."

"Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently." - Henry Ford

"To be kissed by a fool is stupid, To be fooled by a kiss is worse " - Ambrose Redmoon

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind." - William Shakespeare (English Dramatist, Playwright and Poet, 1564-1616)

Love Knows NO Boundaries

"No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it." - Mignon McLaughlin

"We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another." - Luciano de Crescenzo

"The heart has reasons that reason does not understand." - Jacques Benigne Bossuel

"One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time."

"Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties." - Jules Renard

"One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until maybe you fall in again." - Judith Viorst

"At the touch of Love every one becomes a poet." - Plato

"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." - Aristotle

"Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less." - Julins Gordon

"True love is when you put someone on a pedestal, and they fall - but you are there to catch them." - Anonymous

"Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it." - Jerome K. Jerome

"Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile." - Sean Connery

"Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently." -Hendry Ford

"Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value." - Albert Einstein

"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt." - Shakespeare

" Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."

"Dont hate the player, hate the game."

“i'd trade off my Ace's for a Queen of Hearts”

“He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future”

"Never ever take someone for granted. Hold every person close to your heart bec. you might wake up 1 day & realize that u've lost a diamond while u were too busy collecting stones."

"False friends are like your shadow. They stick close to you whenever you are in the light and are nowhere to be found when you are in darkness."

"Sometimes, if a person is broken hearted, he/she never see "true love" passing by.. just a fact." - First Added: Sep 6, 2007 12:47 AM