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strawhattluffy — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 07:09:34 +0000

You’re only as good as the people you hire.
~Author : Ray Kroc Famous Quotes

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
~Author : Voltaire Inspirational Sayings

I love children – especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
~Author : Nancy Mitford Nice Quotes

Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate channels of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which you seek but it is essential to that preparation of your mind, requisite for the enjoyment of your successes, and for retaining them when gained. So, day by day, and week by week; so month after month, and year after year, work on, and in that progress gain in strength and symmetry, and nerve and knowledge, that when success, patiently and bravely worked for, shall come, it may find you prepared to receive it and keep it.
~Author : Josiah Gilbert Holland Great Sayings

Young cat, if you keep your eyes open enough, oh, the stuff you would learn! The most wonderful stuff!
~Author : Dr Seuss Seussisms Meaningful Sayings

It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.
~Author : Margaret Fuller Wise Quotes

Once when I was in Hawaii, on the island of Kauai, I met a mysterious old stranger. He said he was about to die and wanted to tell someone about the treasure. I said, ‘Okay, as long as it’s not a long story. Some of us have a plane to catch, you know.’ He stared telling his story, about the treasure and his life and all, and I thought ‘This story isn’t too long.’ But then, he kept going, and I started thinking, ‘Uh-oh, this story is getting long.’ But then the story was over, and I said to myself ‘You know, that story wasn’t too long after all.’ I forget what the story was about, but there was a good movie on the plane. It was a little long, though.
~Author : Jack Handey Deep Thoughts Motivational Sayings

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
~Author : Franklin Delano Roosevelt Famous Quotes

I am a trial lawyer. … Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit.
~Author : Mario M Cuomo Inspirational Sayings

When honor and truth are at odds, let truth prevail.
~Author : Jose Raul Bernardo Silent Wing Simon Schuster 1998 Nice Quotes

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.
~Author : Carl Zwanzig Great Sayings

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
~Author : Kim Hubbard Meaningful Sayings

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everyone else.
~Author : William Shakespeare Venus Adonis Wise Quotes

When I meet a man I ask myself, ‘Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with’
~Author : Rita Rudner Motivational Sayings

We become wiser by adversity prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
~Author : Lucius Annaeus Seneca Famous Quotes

When two persons are together, two of them must no whisper to each other, without letting the third hear; because it would hurt him.
~Author : Prophet Mohammad Bukhari Muslim Inspirational Sayings

Writing only leads to more writing.
~Author : Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Nice Quotes

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
~Author : Ali ibnAbiTalib Great Sayings

I bet the human brain is a kludge.
~Author : Marvin Minsky Meaningful Sayings

I would rather fight with my hands than my tongue.
~Author : Dolly Payne Todd Madison Wise Quotes

Dancing The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.
~Author : Isadora Duncan Motivational Sayings

I know what love is: Tracy and Hepburn, Bogart and Bacall, Romeo and Juliet, Jackie and John and Marilyn….
~Author : Ian Shoales Famous Quotes

A sailor without a destination cannot hope for a favorable wind.
~Author : Leon Tec Inspirational Sayings

Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
~Author : Washington Irving Nice Quotes

I don’t like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves.
~Author : Joe E Louis Great Sayings

Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure.
~Author : Bible Old Testament Meaningful Sayings

If you make the world a little better, then you have accomplished a great deal.
~Author : Unknown Wise Quotes

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
~Author : Leo Tolstoy Motivational Sayings

Amazing Life Quotes

strawhattluffy — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 07:08:58 +0000

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I’m innocent. You’ve got to believe I’m innocent. If you don’t, take my job.
~Author : Richard Milhous Nixon Famous Quotes

If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
~Author : Lisa Moriyama Inspirational Sayings

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
~Author : Henry Kissinger Nice Quotes

It has been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that you miss 100% of the shots you do not take.
~Author : Wayne Gretski Great Sayings

No really great man ever thought himself so.
~Author : William Hazlitt Meaningful Sayings

Righteous people have no sense of humor.
~Author : Bertolt Brecht Wise Quotes

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
~Author : John Ernst Steinbeck Motivational Sayings

No plain not followed by a slope. No going not followed by a return. He who remains persevering in danger is without blame. Do not complain about this truth Enjoy the good fortune you still possess.
~Author : I Ching Famous Quotes

Love conquers all things let us too surrender to Love.
~Author : Virgil Inspirational Sayings

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
~Author : Robert M Pirsig Nice Quotes

What an artist the world is losing in me
~Author : Nero Claudius Caesar Great Sayings

Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
~Author : Socrates Meaningful Sayings

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
~Author : Theodore Roosevelt Wise Quotes

During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
~Author : Bernard Mannes Baruch Motivational Sayings

So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.
~Author : John Haldane Famous Quotes

Kennedy cooked the soup that Johnson had to eat.
~Author : Konrad Adenauer Inspirational Sayings

Holiness is doing God?s will with a smile.
~Author : Mother Theresa Nice Quotes

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; “Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith.”
~Author : Benjamin Franklin Great Sayings

There are four things that hold back human progress. Ignorance, stupidity, committees and accountants.
~Author : Charles J C Lyall Meaningful Sayings

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
~Author : Oscar Wilde Wise Quotes

Gossip needs no carriage.
~Author : Russian Proverb Motivational Sayings

If we could only share our hopes, our dreams, our disappointments, our fears, our achievements, and our discoveries…. the world would be a little kinder and a lot more forgiving.
~Author : Robert Anthony Great American Poets 2002 Famous Quotes

If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water.
~Author : Yiddish Proverb Inspirational Sayings

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
~Author : Oliver Wendell Holmes Nice Quotes

Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.
~Author : Plato Great Sayings

My friend I consider you my brother. I know we are not blood, and blood is thicker than water, but your body already has all the blood it needs. You will always need water.
~Author : Eric Pio Meaningful Sayings

What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.
~Author : Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Wise Quotes

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
~Author : Conan Doyle Motivational Sayings

Nice Famous Quotes

strawhattluffy — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 07:08:17 +0000

Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build, too.
~Author : Henrik Ibsen Famous Quotes

Let us, then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait.
~Author : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Inspirational Sayings

No man has a good enough memory to be a sucessful liar.
~Author : Abrahm Lincoln Nice Quotes

Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.
~Author : Johann von Goethe Great Sayings

But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.
~Author : Alan B Watts Meaningful Sayings

The great question which I have not been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is What does a woman want
~Author : Sigmund Freud Wise Quotes

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
~Author : Tallulah Bankhead Motivational Sayings

When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
~Author : Alice Hoffman Famous Quotes

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
~Author : HL Mencken Inspirational Sayings

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true
~Author : Logan Pearsall Smith Nice Quotes

I married beneath me. All women do.
~Author : Lady Nancy Astor Great Sayings

A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.
~Author : Barry Goldwater Meaningful Sayings

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
~Author : Chinese Proverb Wise Quotes

We are drowning in information and starved for knowledge.
~Author : Unknown Motivational Sayings

Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
~Author : Dr Famous Quotes

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
~Author : Socrates Inspirational Sayings

The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. … With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.
~Author : Edward R Murrow Nice Quotes

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
~Author : Anatole France The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard Great Sayings

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
~Author : David Starr Jordan The Philosophy of Despair Meaningful Sayings

You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.
~Author : Abraham Lincoln Wise Quotes

It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world.
~Author : John B Gough Motivational Sayings

If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery.
~Author : Charles Krauthammer Famous Quotes

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.
~Author : William Osler Inspirational Sayings

Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.
~Author : Charles Gates Dawes Nice Quotes

The saying “Getting there is half the fun” became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.
~Author : Henry J Tillman Great Sayings

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
~Author : Seneca Meaningful Sayings

…. You ask, What is our policy? I will say; “It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy.” You ask, What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory – victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.
~Author : Sir Winston Churchill 1940 in his first address as the newly appointed Prime Minister Wise Quotes

Hence it is clear how much more cruel the pen is than the sword.
~Author : Robert Burton Motivational Sayings

Amazing Famous Quotes

strawhattluffy — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 07:07:35 +0000

I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself.
~Author : Terence Adelphoe Famous Quotes

My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what’s really going to be scared.
~Author : P J Plauger Inspirational Sayings

All true wealth is biological.
~Author : Lois McMasters Bujold Mirror Dance Nice Quotes

…happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
~Author : HenriFr d ric Amiel Great Sayings

What is ten thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.
~Author : Alain Meaningful Sayings

Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice take each man’s censure but reserve thy judgement.
~Author : William Shakespeare Wise Quotes

We must give lengthy deliberation to what has to be decided once and for all.
~Author : Publilius Syrus Motivational Sayings

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
~Author : Carole Burnett Famous Quotes

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
~Author : Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire Inspirational Sayings

Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
~Author : Robert Frost Nice Quotes

A theory must be tempered with reality.
~Author : Jawaharlal Nehru Great Sayings

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
~Author : Frederick Douglas Meaningful Sayings

For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.
~Author : Rachel Carson Wise Quotes

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.
~Author : Kin Hubbard Motivational Sayings

There are moments when everything goes well don’t be frightened, it won’t last.
~Author : Jules Renard Famous Quotes

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon
~Author : George Walker Bush Inspirational Sayings

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
~Author : Bertrand Russell Nice Quotes

People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don’t understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled.
~Author : Norman Mailer Great Sayings

Want to make your computer go really fast Throw it out a window.
~Author : Anon Meaningful Sayings

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
~Author : Clarence Darrow Wise Quotes

The lover says How beautiful you are, now that you love me.
~Author : Marlene Dietrich Motivational Sayings

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.
~Author : Christopher Morley Famous Quotes

We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
~Author : Jacques Maritain Inspirational Sayings

A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts.
~Author : Herbert V Prochnow Nice Quotes

All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.
~Author : James Grover Thurber Great Sayings

I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.
~Author : Oprah Winfrey Meaningful Sayings

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
~Author : Nadine Gordimer Wise Quotes

This is quite a three-pipe problem.
~Author : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes Motivational Sayings

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine

strawhattluffy — Sat, 02 May 2009 15:47:39 +0000

People only see what they are prepared to see.
~saying on Living by Emerson

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
~motivational quote for teen by Mark Twain

If you want to truly understand something, try to change it.
~teen by Kurt Lewin

A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last.
~sayings about teen by Helen Rowland

A life is too precious to waste to spend on anything but the best.
~quotes about Self Improvement by

Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.
~motivational quote for teen by John Clapham, A Concise Economic History of Britain, 1957

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
~saying on Life by Hans Christian Anderson

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
~motivational quote for teen by Kahlil Gibran

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

strawhattluffy — Sat, 02 May 2009 15:46:41 +0000

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
~free by H.L. Mencken, Minority Report, 1956

They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.
~sayings about free by James G. Watt, quoted in Newsweek, 8 March 1982

The best time to make friends is before you need them.
~quotes about Friendship by Ethel Barrymore

Elder sisters never can do younger ones justice!
~free funny sayings by Charlotte M. Yonge

Old houses mended,Cost little less than new before they’re ended.
~saying on Housewarming by Colley Cibber

The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.
~free funny sayings by Jane Austen

I no longer have the fear of being alone. It’s cool to find out that you don’t need a boyfriend to be happy.
~free by Drew Barrymore

The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all
~sayings about free by Aung San Suu Kyi

When the bee comes to your house

strawhattluffy — Sat, 02 May 2009 15:45:50 +0000

Spend the afternoonYou can’t take it with you
~cute sleeping quotes by Annie Dillard

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
~saying on Genius by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, On Tranquillity of the Mind, Moral Essays

When the bee comes to your house, let her have beer; you may want to visit the bee’s house some day.
~cute sleeping quotes by Congo Proverb

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and for deeds left undone.
~sleeping by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Little Foxes, 1865

When you’re in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.
~sayings about sleeping by Natalie Clifford Barney

A leader is a dealer in hope.
~quotes about Leadership by Napoleon Bonaparte, attributed

If there is one spot of sun spilling onto the floor, a cat will find it and soak it up.
~cute sleeping quotes by Jean Asper McIntosh

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
~saying on Humor by Thomas W. Higginson

Friends are God’s way of taking care of us

strawhattluffy — Sat, 02 May 2009 15:44:19 +0000

We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.
~good msn name and quote by Japanese Proverb

To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine, but to kill a man.
~saying on War by Michael Servetus

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia
~good msn name and quote by Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975

Friends are God’s way of taking care of us. If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend
~msn name by Stone Temple Pilots

the silence that guards the tomb does not reveal God’s secret in the obscurity of the coffin, and the rustling of the branches whose roots suck the body’s elements do not tell the mysteries of the grave, by the agonized sighs of my heart announce to the living the drama which love, beauty, and death have performed
~sayings about msn name by Kahlil Gibran

You are educatedYour certification is in your degreeYou may think of it as the ticket to the good lifeLet me ask you to think of an alternativeThink of it as your ticket to change the world
~quotes about Graduation by Tom Brokaw

A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
~good msn name and quote by Peter De Vries

Life Sayings

strawhattluffy — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:06:28 +0000

Every man is guilty of all the good he didn’t do.
~Author : Voltaire Motivational Sayings

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
~Author : Carl Sandburg Famous Quotes

It is occasionally possible to charge hell with a bucket of water, but against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
~Author : Doris Fleeson Inspirational Sayings

Young men’s minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.
~Author : Homer Nice Quotes

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.
~Author : Piet Mondrian Great Sayings

In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.
~Author : William Shakespeare Meaningful Sayings

Famous Sayings

strawhattluffy — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:05:42 +0000

I will have no man work for me who has not the capacity to become a partner.
~Author : James Cash Penney Famous Quotes

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature.
~Author : Charles Dickens Inspirational Sayings

Everything that God created is potentially holy, and our task as humans is to find that holiness in seemingly unholy situations. When we can do this, we will have learned to nurture our souls.
~Author : Rabbi Harold Kushner Nice Quotes

I wish you all the joy you can wish.
~Author : William Shakespeare Great Sayings

The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.
~Author : Abraham Lincoln Meaningful Sayings