Quotes For You

This is much worse than apartheid. The Israeli measures, the brutality, make apartheid look like a picnic. We never had jets attacking our townships. We never had sieges that lasted month after month. We never had tanks destroying houses. We had armoured vehicles and police using small arms to shoot people but not on this scale. -Ronnie Kasrils, Jewish South African anti-Apartheid Activist

If, finally, violence meets with violence, we have confirmation of the age old adage that war though it kills many men, makes many more men evil. -Fritz Medicus

We say that we care about the war, but we don't even really know what we're fighting for. --Scott Ritter

Be not afraid of going slowly. Be afraid of standing still. -Japanese Proverb

If I could wish for my life to be perfect, it would be tempting, but I would have to decline, for life would no longer teach me anything. -Allyson Jones

Youth is a gift of nature, Age is a work of art. -Helen M. Carrall

I am only one, but still I am one; I cannot do everything; but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. -Edward Everett Hale

Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains. -Khalil Gibran

Our strength grows out of our weakness. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

The richness of the human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. -Helen Keller

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. -Willa Cather

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. -Joseph Addison

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible. -Norman Vincent Peale

While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil. -John Taylor

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. -Robert Ingersoll

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. -Khalil Gibran

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision. -Helen Keller

When faced with a challenge, look for a way, not a way out. -David L. Weatherford

War is fear cloaked in courage. -General William Westmoreland

I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations. -Dame Edith Evans

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. -Voltaire

Has anyone ever said, "It is important to spend less time on how we look and more time on how we see"? If not, someone should. -Carmen Richardson Rutlen

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. -Marie Curie

My company mascot is the bumblebee. Because of its tiny wings and heavy body, aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly. But the bumblebee doesn't know that, so it flies anyways. -Mary Kay Ash

I am cognizant of the fact that there are powerful forces at work in this country that would dominate us, substituting a kind of regimentation for the competitive system which has made America great among nations. They would attempt to destroy individual thinking and initiative, cherished ever since our Pilgrim Fathers established this country in defiance of Old World tyranny. I believe that we must continue to retain the wealth of spirit of our forefathers, for if we don't we shall find ourselves dominated in everything we do by a mighty few and shall become serfs in fact if not in name. -The Magic of Believing by Claude M. Bristol

We should consider every day lost in which we have not danced at least once. -Friedrich Nietsche

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One is roots. The other is wings. -Hodding Carter, Jr.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream. - Malcolm Muggeridge.

We are often so caught up in our destination that we forget to appreciate the journey, Especially the goodness of the people we meet along the way. Appreciation is a wonderful feeling, don't overlook it. -Author Unknown

The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it. -John Ruskin

Opportunity...often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat. -Napoleon Hill

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down. -Mary Pickford

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

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what? Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful. -Mark Victor Hansen

As long as we can talk with people, as long as one can keep the guns quiet, one has a chance. --Lydia Sicher

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism. -George Washington

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. - Carl Jung

There are some things that are so serious you have to laugh at them. -Niels Bohr

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour, springs and germinates no more. - Henri Frederic Amiel

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before. - Mae West.

[War] might be avoidable were more emphasis placed on the training to social interest, less on the attainment of egotistical grandeur. -Lydia Sicher

Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself. - Doris Lessing

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. - W B Yeates

It is always more valuable to report the truth. -Jean-Paul Sartre

The statesman who yields to war fever...is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events. -Winston Churchill

Farewell my Dear Friends - May you and I so live that we may reasonably expect to meet againn to our unspeakable comfort where the wicked cease from troubling and our happy Souls for ever be at rest. -Nathaniel Smith

While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind. -Mary Wortley Montagu

Every day I shall put my papers in order and every day I shall say farewell. And the real farewell, when it comes, will only be a small outward confirmation of what has been accomplished within me from day to day. -Etty Hillesum

Come to the edge. We might fall. Come to the edge. It's too high! Come to the edge! And they came, and he pushed...... and they flew. - Christopher Logue

It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. -Alfred Adler

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so... -Robert A. Heinlein

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to that person's commitment to excellence, regardless of the chosen field of endeavor. -Vince Lombardi

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. -Oscar Wilde

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. - Henry David Thoreau

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one. - Thomas Carlyle

What one knows is, in youth, of little moment: they know enough who know how to learn. -Henry Adams

I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them. -Mary Decker Stanley

Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability. -Flower A. Newhouse

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. -Douglas MacArthur

Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions ... are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends. -Walter Lippman, journalist (1889-1974)

History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure. -Thurgood Marshall, US Supreme Court Justice (1908-1993)

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves. - Brian Tracy

All of us are smarter than one of us. -Japanese proverb

It is a greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the word, than to rule a state. -William Ellery Channing

I challenge the American people to get informed and speak out. Remember that the Congress represents and works for the people. Congressional oversight committees have been strangely silent for too long, and our elected officials must step up to their responsibilities or be replaced. This is not about partisan politics, but rather what is good for our country. -US Major General John Batiste

The soul gives us resilience - an essential quality since we constantly have to rebound from hardship. -Wynton Marsalis

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process. -Vincent Van Gogh

There is a great spectacle, and that is the sea. There is a greater spectacle than the sea, and that is the sky. There is yet a greater spectacle than the sky, and that is the interior of the soul. -Victor Hugo

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard. -Anne Sexton

The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set at night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The soul never thinks without a picture. -Aristotle

The soul is not a physical entity, but instead refers to everything about us that is not physical - our values, memories, identity, sense of humor. Since the soul represents the parts of the human being that are not physical, it cannot get sick, it cannot die, it cannot disappear. In short, the soul is immortal. -Harold Kushner

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. -Oscar Wilde

What can you ever really know of other people's souls - of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands. -C.S. Lewis

There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge. -Friedrich Nietzsche

Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures. - Henry David Thoreau

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though awakens your own expectations. -Patricia Neal

Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies. -W. L. George

It is far easier to make war than peace. -Georges Clemenceau

Your attitude is an expression of your values, beliefs and expectations. -Brian Tracy

We tend to live up to our expectations. -Earl Nightingale

The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated. -William James

Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make good use of it! - John Adams (1735-1826) Second U.S. President letter to Abigail Adams, April 26, 1777

If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right. -Henry Ford

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome. -Michael Jordan

It is easy to change your expectations. You can do it in an instant. And that can be a problem. Too often, we lower our expectations because that is easier than overcoming the obstacles which stand in the way of fulfilling those expectations. -Ralph Marston

Treat a man as he is, he will remain so. Treat a man the way he can be and ought to be, and he will become as he can be and should be. -Goethe

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. -Aristotle

There's a whole social rediscovery for someone who has been on the top and who is now starting his way back up. -Paul Kessler

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting. -Samuel Johnson

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start. -Charles Baudelaire

But in the mud and scum of things There always, always something sings. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious. -Marcus Tullius Cicero

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. - Benjamin Franklin

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. - B. F. Skinner

The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature. - James Madison

...Violence as a way of gaining power...is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security... - Alfred Adler

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each. - Plato

What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen. - Leo Tolstoy

In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca

It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time -- for we are bound by that -- but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time. -T.S. Eliot

Peace is constructed, not fought for. - Brent Davis

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. - Wiliam Butler Yeats

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it. - Rene Descartes

Herein lies the tragedy: not that men are poor--all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked--who is good? Not that men are ignorant --what is truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men. -W.E.B. Du Bois

To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget. -Arundhati Roy

It is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else. - Theodore Roosevelt

One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the saddening realization that such people rarely read. - John Kenneth Galbraith, economist (1908-2006)

There seems to be so much sorrow on the planet. Can you work within the framework of the test before you? Can you put on your armor and shields of sacredness and walk through the sorrow, fear and disappointment of what other Humans have done, without judgment of them or without being discouraged? The more light you carry, the more you will see that which is sorrowful on Earth. Only the masters can "see" these things as reasonable within the scheme of why you're here. It is important that the Lighthouses are not distracted by the storms as they shine their lights. Otherwise, they become useless. -Kryon Channelling: Where is Aunt Martha

For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit. - Ernie Pyle, wartime correspondent

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying. - Robert Herrick

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart. - Helen Keller

We all have inconveniences of one kind or another. How you deal with them determines how successful you are. - Craig McFarlane

There are two ways of spreading light. To be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it. - Edith Wharton

Security is not born of inexhaustible wealth, but of unconquerable faith. - Spencer W. Kimball

Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him. - Aldous Huxley

Nothing is too late 'till the tired heart shall cease to palpate. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

To become an expert in any human activity, it takes practice, practice, practice. - Napoleon Hill

Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away. -Persian Proverb

Ability is what you are capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. - Lou Holtz

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. - Vince Lambardi

The long span of the bridge of your life is supported by countless cables called habits, attitudes, and desires. What you do in life depends upon what you are and what you want. What you get from life depends upon how much you want it, how much you are willing to work and plan and co-operate and use your resources. The long span of the bridge of your life is supported by countless cables that you are spinning now, and that is why today is such an important day. Make the cables strong! - George Elliott

A singer cannot delight you with his singing unless he himself delights to sing. -Khalil Gabran

There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, hinder, or control the firm resolve of a determined soul. - From The Dead Poets Society

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen Today. - Mark Twain

Our deepest fear is NOT that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?" Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God: your playing small doesn't serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. - Nelson Mandela

Each human mind is a galaxy of intelligences, wherein shines the light of a billion stars. - Timothy Ferris

Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils. - Thucydides