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Over the past few years I have tried to collect a number of quotations that help to inspire me, make me laugh, or just make me think.
He who doesn't take risks, doesn't drink champagne.
Reality is an illusion created by an alcoholic deficiency.
Valentine: You get nothing if you give nothing.
Hannah: It's wanting to know that makes us matter. Otherwise, we're going out the way we came in.
Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.
I think that Night-and this is an endearing quality-is not that savvy about how
to promote himself. He definitely wears what he's thinking and feeling on his
sleeve.
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing
it.
A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child.
Democracy means government by discussion but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal.
The most effective leader is the one who satisfies the psychological needs of
his followers.
It's one thing to speculate. But in here, speculation very quickly becomes assumption, and then assumption becomes fact, and reveals itself as disappointment when what everyone forgets began as speculation turns out to be false.
Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
We're given a code to live our lives by: we don't always follow it but it's still there.
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness.
I don't think I've mastered anything. I'm still wrestling with the same frustrations, the same issues, the same problems as I always did. That's what life is like.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
What makes equality such a difficult business is that we only want it with our superiors.
Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.
Hope and imagination are the only consolations for the disappointments and
sorrows of experience.
The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Loaf said that it felt like a saturday....he asked me what I was doing and I
replied..."Working."
"My mom said God made some of us different, knowing that it'd be hard. But
he picked the people who would be different really carefully." Then the
sensitive kid leans forward to the chubby kid: "God thinks we're strong."
You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
He who is eternally without desire Perceives the spiritual side of it; He who is permanently with desire Perceives the limit of it.
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
My life consists in my being content to accept many things.
There is nothing like desire for preventing the thing one says from bearing any resemblance to what one has in mind.
If you think you have someone eating out of your hand, it's a good idea to count your fingers.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he would die for, he isn't fit to live.
One on one fights are for kids that have no friends.
Men of power have not time to read; yet men who do not read are unfit for power.
A closed mouth catches no flies.
It is no simple matter to pause in the midst of one's maturity, when life is
full of function, to examine what are the principles which control that
functioning.
Truth comes out in wine.
We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we may always be free.
A liar should have a good memory.
The man who says what he thinks is finished, and the man who thinks what he says is an idiot.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
Fortune favours the brave.
I'm Like A Chocoholic, But For Booze
Most success comes from ignoring the obvious.
You never look good when you're thinking aloud.
If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.
Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom. |