Famous Quotes By Thomas Paine

 

1. A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue but moderation in principle is always a vice.
2. All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
3. Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.
4. Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
5. But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.
6. Every religion is good that teaches man to be good and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.
7. Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles he can only discover them.
8. Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one.
9. He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.
10. He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.
11. Human nature is not of itself vicious.
12. I believe in the equality of man and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
13. I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
14. If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
15. Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.
16. It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
17. It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
18. It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.
19. My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
20. Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.
21. One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
22. Persecution is not an original feature in any religion but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.
23. Reputation is what men and women think of us character is what God and angels know of us.
24. Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one.
25. Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.
26. That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.
27. The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
28. The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
29. The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
30. The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
31. The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
32. The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
33. There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.
34. These are the times that try men's souls.
35. Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
36. Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.
37. Time makes more converts than reason.
38. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
39. To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.
40. To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.
41. War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.
42. We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
43. When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Famous Quotes By Eleanor Roosevelt

 

1. A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
2. Actors are one family over the entire world.
3. Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
4. Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
5. Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.
6. Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.
7. Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
8. Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
9. Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people.
10. Happiness is not a goal it is a by-product.
11. Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.
12. I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.
13. I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
14. I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
15. I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
16. I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
17. If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
18. I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
19. 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.
20. Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
21. Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
22. My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
23. Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
24. Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
25. One's philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
26. People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
27. Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
28. Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
29. Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
30. The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
31. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
32. The giving of love is an education in itself.
33. The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
34. Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
35. We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
36. We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
37. When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
38. With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
39. Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!
40. You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.
41. You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.
42. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
43. 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.

Famous Quotes By Marcus Aurelius

 

1. A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
2. 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.
3. Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
4. Anger cannot be dishonest.
5. Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.
6. Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
7. Be content with what you are, and wish not change nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
8. Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
9. Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
10. Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
11. Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
12. Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
13. Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
14. Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
15. Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
16. Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.
17. Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'
18. How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
19. How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
20. I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.
21. It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
22. Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.
23. Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
24. Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
25. Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
26. Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
27. Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
28. Men exist for the sake of one another.
29. Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
30. Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
31. Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
32. Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
33. Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
34. Our life is what our thoughts make it.
35. That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
36. The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
37. The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
38. The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
39. The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
40. The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
41. The universe is change our life is what our thoughts make it.
42. There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
43. 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.
44. To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
45. To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
46. Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late the good lived yesterday.
47. Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
48. Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
49. We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
50. Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
51. When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
52. When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
53. You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
54. You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Famous Quotes By Charles Stanley

 

1. An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.
2. Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God.
3. Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have,
4. Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.
5. Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.
6. God has ways of shaking the world when He is at work. He literally caused the ground to quake when Jesus died on the cross.
7. God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.
8. God will never tell us to do something that gratifies the flesh.
9. God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour.
10. He wants you all to Himself to put His loving, divine arms around you.
11. Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.
12. Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting.
13. I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.
14. If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit.
15. On Sunday morning, I'm not nervous... I can't wait to tell what God wants me to say.
16. Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, He isn't ever going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment.
17. The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.
18. The difficulties we face originate from one of three sources. Some are sent to us by the Lord to test our faith, others are the result of Satan's attacks, and still others are due to our own sinful choices.
19. The moment someone chooses to trust in Jesus Christ, his sins are wiped away, and he is adopted into God's family. That individual is set apart as a child of God, with a sacred purpose.
20. The time you spend alone with God will transform your character and increase your devotion. Then your integrity and godly behavior in an unbelieving world will make others long to know the Lord.
21. There is only one secure foundation: a genuine, deep relationship with Jesus Christ, which will carry you through any and all turmoil. No matter what storms are raging all around, you'll stand firm if you stand on His love.
22. To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses.
23. We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.
24. We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.
25. When God speaks, oftentimes His voice will call for an act of courage on our part.
26. When trouble comes, focus on God's ability to care for you.
27. When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.
28. When we take our eyes off the whirl of day-to-day activity and concentrate on honoring Him and following in His way, we find a consistent peace that carries us through both plenty and poverty.
29. You can't tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God... So I think the distinction is that there's a difference between the authority of a pastor and a Bible teacher.
30. You have to have courage to be obedient to God.

Famous Quotes By Jimmy Carter

 

1. A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.
2. Because I know about the Holy Land, I've taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and - but you can't bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.
3. Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton.
4. For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.
5. Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.
6. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.
7. I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future.
8. I don't think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn't at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.
9. I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.
10. I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per year in my four years than any other president since the Second World War.
11. I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God's eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews
12. If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
13. It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.
14. It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.
15. It's very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.
16. I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.
17. Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
18. My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel's neighbours.
19. My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.
20. Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.
21. Testing oneself is best when done alone.
22. The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.
23. The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.
24. The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.
25. The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy's deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or '79.
26. There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.
27. Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.
28. War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
29. We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
30. We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.
31. We can't equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.
32. We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.
33. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
34. When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.
35. When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.
36. You just have to have a simple faith.

Famous Quotes By Billy Graham

 

1. A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
2. A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.
3. A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.
4. Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.
5. Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.
6. Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
7. Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.
8. God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.
9. God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.
10. God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'
11. God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.
12. God's angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.
13. God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our world.
14. I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.
15. I can't prove it scientifically, that there's a God, but I believe.
16. I don't have many sad days.
17. I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.
18. I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.
19. I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.
20. I just want to lobby for God.
21. I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.
22. I used to read five psalms every day - that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.
23. If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.
24. I'm thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I almost certainly wouldn't still be here if it weren't for them.
25. It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray.
26. I've spent too much time giving speeches, traveling the world.
27. Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.
28. My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.
29. No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.
30. Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.
31. Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.
32. Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.
33. Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.
34. Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.
35. Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain.
36. Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.
37. The Bible is clear - God's definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.
38. The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'
39. The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
40. The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.
41. The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.
42. The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.
43. The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.
44. There are two great forces, God's force of good and the devil's force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don't understand.
45. There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.
46. We're a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we're all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that's a marvelous thing.
47. When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.
48. When wealth is lost, nothing is lost when health is lost, something is lost when character is lost, all is lost.

Famous Quotes By Robert Frost

 

1. A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
2. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
3. A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
4. A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
5. A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
6. A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
7. A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
8. Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
9. Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
10. By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
11. Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
12. Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
13. Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
14. Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
15. Freedom lies in being bold.
16. Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
17. Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
18. Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
19. I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
20. I always entertain great hopes.
21. I go to school the youth to learn the future.
22. I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
23. I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
24. I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
25. If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
26. If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does Russia.
27. In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
28. It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
29. Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
30. Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
31. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
32. Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
33. Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
34. Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
35. Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
36. Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
37. The artist in me cries out for design.
38. The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
39. The best way out is always through.
40. The brain is a wonderful organ it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
41. The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
42. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
43. The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
44. The only certain freedom's in departure.
45. The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
46. The world is full of willing people some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
47. The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism it's egotism.
48. There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
49. There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
50. To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
51. To be social is to be forgiving.
52. Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.
53. You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
54. You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

Famous Quotes By William James

 

1. A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
2. A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
3. Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
4. Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
5. Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
6. Belief creates the actual fact.
7. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
8. Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
9. Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
10. Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
11. How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
12. If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
13. If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.
14. If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
15. If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
16. If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
17. In business for yourself, not by yourself.
18. It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.
19. It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
20. It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
21. Knowledge about life is one thing effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
22. Man lives for science as well as bread.
23. Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
24. No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.
25. Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
26. Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
27. 'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
28. The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
29. The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
30. The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
31. The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
32. The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
33. The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.
34. The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
35. The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
36. The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
37. The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
38. The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
39. There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
40. There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker if sad, it must not scream or curse.
41. This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
42. Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.
43. Time itself comes in drops.
44. To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
45. To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
46. Truth is what works.
47. Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.
48. We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
49. We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
50. Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
51. Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

Famous Quotes By Alanis Morissette

 

1. A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.
2. America's a very traumatized society.
3. And if I had a preference, it would be to be able to not be in the studio until 4 in the morning.
4. Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it.
5. As a teen, I was both anorexic and bulimic.
6. At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.
7. Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.
8. Courage and willingness to just go for it, whether it is a conversation or a spontaneous trip or trying new things that are scary - it is a really attractive quality.
9. Down the road, I'll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor.
10. For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.
11. Getting married and starting a family has been a lifelong goal and one that I have persevered through different paths up to it!
12. I could get away with not taking care of myself as a bachelorette but as a mom I can't.
13. I didn't want to be one of those women who wake up at 63 years old and realize they've missed the window of opportunity for marriage and children.
14. I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.
15. I live with some of my best friends from high school, very commune-like, in my house. It's my hippie way of life.
16. I saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their daily lives and put smiles on their faces, as opposed to what I see it being now, which is a way for me to actually communicate, and a way for me to tap into my subconscious.
17. I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.
18. I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.
19. I still indulge in a glass of wine or chocolate - treats are mandatory. Without deviating from the day-to-day healthy diet once in a while, it wouldn't be sustainable for me, and that's what I wanted: an approach to eating to last my entire life.
20. I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.
21. I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.
22. I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then, all of a sudden, I was the one being watched.
23. I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.
24. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.
25. I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is.
26. If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.
27. I'm clearly most well known for my music. Eventually, ultimately, I'll be writing books. I'm still writing articles now. I just consider myself a writer.
28. I'm doing it because I choose it. And if it's not working, I can make a change.
29. I'm excited about there being more of a sisterhood these days. Back in the '90s there was a lot of hate - the women I looked up to as artists were dissing me! It's not so patriarchal these days - there's more love and a lot less hate!
30. In LA, where I live, it's all about perfectionism. Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.
31. In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.
32. It's a joke to think that anyone is one thing. We're all such complex creatures. But if I'm going to be a poster child for anything, anger's a gorgeous emotion. It gets a bad rap, but it can make great changes happen.
33. It's not just the 'Grammys' that I've pulled out of. I also pulled out of the English awards as well. The reason that I wanted to pull out was because I believe very much that the music industry as a whole is mainly concerned with material success.I've been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies.
34. Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.
35. Music will always be a part of my life. I love music and I don't care how many units I sell.
36. My greatest environments in which I can grow, or grow up, is in personal romantic relationships with a man.
37. My message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the passion.' The passion can write a lot of things.
38. My three addictions of choice are food, love and work.
39. Peace of mind for five minutes, that's what I crave.
40. Trauma happens in relationships, so it can only be healed in relationships. Art can't provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic but a relationship is a three-part journey.
41. We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect.
42. We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.
43. What influenced me was Tori Amos, who was unapologetic about expressing anger through music, and Sinead O'Connor. Those two in particular were really moving for me, and very inspiring, before I wrote 'Jagged Little Pill.'
44. When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.
45. When I'm off the road, my husband and I recharge our batteries. It's a day of deep rest and connection with the spiritual, and that can be anything - going for a walk in nature, being in silence, burning incense.
46. When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman.

Famous Quotes By Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

1. A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
2. An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
3. Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
4. Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
5. 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.
6. History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
7. I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
8. I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
9. I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
10. I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
11. I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
12. If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
13. If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.
14. If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
15. In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
16. In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
17. Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
18. Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
19. Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
20. Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.
21. Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
22. Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
23. Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.
24. Our real problem, then, is not our strength today it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.
25. Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
26. Politics is a profession a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
27. Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
28. The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.
29. The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!
30. The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
31. The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
32. The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them.
33. The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.
34. The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
35. There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.
36. There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
37. There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
38. Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
39. This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
40. Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
41. War settles nothing.
42. We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
43. We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
44. What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
45. When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.
46. When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
47. You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

Famous Quotes By George W. Bush

 

1. After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.
2. America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.
3. America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.
4. Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.
5. Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.
6. Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.
7. Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.
8. Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.
9. For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein's regime is a better and safer place.
10. Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.
11. Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.
12. Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.
13. Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.
14. I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.
15. I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation's interest.
16. I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.
17. I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.
18. I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.
19. I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.
20. I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.
21. I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.
22. I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.
23. If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.
24. I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.
25. Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.
26. Look, when you're the president, there's all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it's just the nature of the job.
27. Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.
28. Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.
29. Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.
30. Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage.
31. People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened.
32. People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example I don't read what's handed to me. People say, 'Here, here's your speech, or here's an idea for a speech.' They're changed. Trust me.
33. Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror.
34. The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.
35. The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.
36. The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.
37. The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.
38. The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and America is honored to be their friend.
39. The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got.
40. The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.
41. The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.
42. The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.
43. The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.
44. This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.
45. Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.
46. Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.
47. We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.
48. We will not waver we will not tire we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.
49. We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.We've climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it's a valley of peace.
50. With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.
51. You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box.

Famous Quotes By Mason Cooley

 

1. A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.
2. A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings.
3. After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.
4. Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.
5. Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.
6. Art seduces, but does not exploit.
7. As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.
8. At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.
9. Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.
10. Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.
11. Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.
12. Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.
13. Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.
14. Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.
15. Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.
16. Even cats grow lonely and anxious.
17. Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.
18. Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.
19. Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.
20. Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
21. Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.
22. Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.
23. Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.
24. Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.
25. Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.
26. I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.
27. If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.
28. If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.
29. If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
30. I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.
31. Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.
32. In every death, a busy world comes to an end.
33. Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.
34. Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.
35. Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.
36. Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.
37. Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.
38. Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.
39. Money: power at its most liquid.
40. Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.
41. Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.
42. Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.
43. People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.
44. Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
45. Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.
46. Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.
47. Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.
48. Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.
49. The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.
50. The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.
51. The only peace is being out of earshot.
52. The passion for money is never fickle.
53. The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.
54. The time I kill is killing me.
55. The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.
56. To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.
57. Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.
58. Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.
59. When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion.
60. While there's life, there's fear.
61. Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?
62. Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.
63. Young poets bewail the passing of love old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.

Famous Quotes By Joel Osteen

 

1. A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.
2. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.
3. Do all you can to make your dreams come true.
4. Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.
5. God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.
6. God wants to bless us where we are.
7. God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.
8. God's desire is that we excel.
9. I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do.
10. I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.
11. I don't believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.
12. I don't know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.
13. I don't mind saying, you know, that I don't take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.
14. I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.
15. I have always believed in God.
16. I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.
17. I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well.
18. I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.
19. I say, don't try to fight your own battles because God will do it.
20. I think God's justice is making wrongs right.
21. I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.
22. I'm going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.
23. I'm not for gay marriage, but I'm not for discriminating against people.
24. I'm not the judge. You know, God didn't tell me to go around judging everybody.
25. I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society.
26. It's amazing how people will give when you don't ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.
27. It's God's will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It's God's will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.
28. I've always been - you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I'm just being who God made me to be.
29. I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.
30. Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it's hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.
31. Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith.
32. Most people already know what they're doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.
33. My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids.
34. My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.
35. My message is that God is a good God.
36. My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that's where a lot of preachers' kids get off base sometimes. Because they don't see the same things at both places.
37. On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.
38. Only God can look at somebody's heart.
39. People in tough times - it doesn't mean they don't have a great attitude.
40. People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.
41. Prospering just doesn't have to do with money.
42. Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn't work today.
43. The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.
44. To me, we're marketing hope.
45. We were old sinners - but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.
46. When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.
47. Why don't you start believing that no matter what you have or haven't done, that your best days are still out in front of you.
48. You can be happy where you are.
49. You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.
50. You may make some mistakes - but that doesn't make you a sinner. You've got the very nature of God on the inside of you.
51. You may never get to that perfect world that you're waiting for where everything's going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.

Famous Quotes By Simon Mainwaring

 

1. A world in which government is burdened by historic debt, philanthropy has limited resources, and the private sector is only interested in its own personal gain is simply unsustainable.
2. As a speaker, business leader or marketer of any type, the onus is now on each of us to become equally capable of communicating very personally with a seemingly endless number of people connected by social technologies.
3. As more people use social media to tell the story of the future, the wants and needs of more people will be reflected.
4. Business practices and how we treat the planet are also in desperate need of re-humanization.
5. Companies, to date, have often used the excuse that they are only beholden to their shareholders, but we need shareholders to think of themselves as stakeholders in the well being of society as well.
6. Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye to how difficult the experience of life is for so many of their customers.
7. Corporate executives need to re-frame their responsibilities to include the interests of all the stakeholders in society at large not just shareholders, but also employees, the citizens of our communities, and those who care about the environment.
8. Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation and consensus.
9. Find the human in the technology. The currency marketers trade in has not changed even if the methods have. Emotion is what we exchange.
10. If capitalism is to remain a healthy, vibrant economic system, corporations must participate in taking care of the society and the environment in which they live.
11. In the social business marketplace, brands that hope to build loyal and growing communities do so most effectively when they demonstrate their core values and allow a community to build and engage around it.
12. Integrate purpose into your for-profit business model through a long term commitment to a cause that is aligned with your core values and those of your community.
13. It is time for corporate America to become 'the third pillar' of social change in our society, complementing the first two pillars of government and philanthropy. We need the entire private sector to begin committing itself not just to making profits,
14. Let's hope brands recognize that the true power of this technology is not its reach but its ability to communicate substance that adds meaning to our lives. Otherwise, brands will be investing in technology that consumers simply won't buy.
15. Like all technology, social media is neutral but is best put to work in the service of building a better world.
16. More than ever before, consumers have the ability to unify their voices and coalesce their buying power to influence corporate behaviors.
17. Non-profits must become deeply engaged in the ways that their donor communities are using social technology.
18. Refuse to accept the belief that your professional relevance, career success or financial security turns on the next update on the latest technology. Sometimes it's good to put the paddle down and just let the canoe glide.
19. Social media is not about the exploitation of technology but service to community.
20. Social technology gives leaders a vital new platform with which to connect their companies to the myriad stakeholders who have an interest in their well being.
21. Technology is teaching us to be human again.
22. The companies that make meaningful contributions while also listening to the voices of others are the ones that will genuinely engage their community, who will then go to work for them.
23. The creative destruction that social media is currently unleashing will change more than technology or the leader board of the Fortune 100. It is driving a qualitative shift in the nature of relationships between brands and their customers.
24. The keys to brand success are self-definition, transparency, authenticity and accountability.
25. The leverage and influence social media gives citizens are rapidly spreading into the business world.
26. The most impactful way consumers can assert their power is to become mindful shoppers, giving their dollars only to socially responsible companies. In today's world of social media and smart phones, this is easy to do.
27. The new dynamics between brands and consumers, driven by social media, are proving to be a powerful impetus for change.
28. The private sector must play a role in ensuring the prosperity and health of the people who comprise its market. It is time for the private sector to become a proactive partner contributing to the efforts of governments and philanthropies.
29. The question remains: which brands will commit to creating a private sector pillar of social change, and which will become casualties of their own outdated thinking?
30. The simple act of saying 'thank you' is a demonstration of gratitude in response to an experience that was meaningful to a customer or citizen.
31. The social business marketplace is effectively forcing brands to engage with consumers on the basis of something that is meaningful to them. More often than not, this takes the form of some core value that finds expression in a non-profit cause.
32. The United States is at a critical juncture in time. Our government is riddled with historic debt, and the limited resources of philanthropic and non-profit efforts cannot meet the scale of social challenges we face with necessary force.
33. There is a fundamental shift that social media necessitates in business today - the need to transition from 'Me First' to 'We First' thinking.
34. Ultimately, it's possible that social media platforms will be designed as templates that the users themselves customize in terms of the best way to express their community and experience of life, and brands will have to simply follow suit.
35. We now see numerous examples of brands working together to address issues such as environmental degradations, climate control, pollution, poverty and disease.
36. What is sure is that technological change is accelerating in all directions and, like children playing in a fountain, consumers are reveling in the experience.
37. What today's business reality makes clear is that brands cannot survive in a society that is failing economically, socially, ethically, and morally.
38. When a positive exchange between a brand and customers becomes quantifiable metrics, it encourages brand to provide better service, customer service to do a better job, and consumers to actively show their gratitude.
39. When people align around shared political, social, economic or environmental values, and take collective action, thinking and behavior that compromises the lives of millions of people around the world can truly change.
40. Work with your competitors when the interest of the community and planet are at stake.
41. Your computer needn't be the first thing your see in the morning and the last thing you see at night.

Famous Quotes By P. J. O'Rourke