[I]t must be emphasized that nonviolent resistance is not a method for cowards; it does resistIf one uses this method because he is afraid or merely because he lacks the instruments of violence, he is not truly nonviolentThis is why Gandhi often said that
~quote about Martin Luther King, Jr. Day by Martin Luther King, Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, 1958
He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends.
~quotes on Money by William Shakespeare
Democracy is necessitated by the fact that all men are sinners; it is made possible by the fact that we know it.
~sayings on Living by D. Elton Trueblood
The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.
~quotations on Stress by Elbert Hubbard
My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It's the letter I use to spell yuzz-a-ma-tuzz. You'll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond 'Z' and start poking around!
~famous business quote by Dr. Seuss
Americans like fat books and thin women.
~saying about business by Russell Baker
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
~quote about Curmudgeons by Jonathan Swift, The Battle of the Books, 1704
Coexistence... what the farmer does with the turkey - until Thanksgiving.
~quotes on Vegetarianism by Mike Connolly
It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home
~sayings on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day by Carl T. Rowan
The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change.
~quotations on Habits by Eng's Principle
The chicken came first - God would look silly sitting on an egg.
~famous business quote by Author Unknown
The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has become an adult.
~saying about business by Eugene Ionesco
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
~quote about Love by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Men wake up aroused in the morning. We can't help it. We just wake up and we want you. And the women are thinking, How can he want me the way I look in the morning? It's because we can't see you. We have no blood anywhere near our optic nerve.
~quotes on Men by Andy Rooney
The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.
~sayings on Fishing by A.K. Best
I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
~quotations on Television by Jack Paar
Baseball players quit playing and they take up golf. Basketball players quit, take up golf. Football players quit, take up golf. What are we supposed to take up when we quit?
~famous business quote by George Archer
One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.
~saying about business by Oscar Wilde, L'Envoi to Rose-leaf and Apple-leaf, 1882
Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together.
~quote about Heartache by Author Unknown
All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming - a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness.
~quotes on Happiness by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière
I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.
~sayings on Purpose by Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra, 1892
I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind.
~quotations on Sports by Andrew Dickson White
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
~famous business quote by John Burroughs
It's hard to be responsible, adult and sensible all the time. How good it is to have a sister whose heart is as young as your own.
~saying about business by Pam Brown
Death is patiently making my mask as I sleep. Each morning I awake to discover in the corners of my eyes the small tears of his wax.
~quote about Death by Philip Dow
We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love
~quotes on Commitment Ceremonies by Author Unknown
I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show.
~sayings on Winter by Andrew Wyeth
Sometimes we make love with our eyesSometimes we make love with our handsSometimes we make love with our bodiesAlways we make love with our hearts
~quotations on I Love You by Author Unknown
Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.
~famous business quote by H.F. Hedge
Ultimately, aren't we all just talking monkeys with an attitude problem?
~saying about business by Uncle Ben, as seen on Quotes 'R' Us
The future is always beginning now.
~quote about Future by Mark Strand, Reasons for Moving
Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years.
~quotes on Life by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Prayer is exhaling the spirit of man and inhaling the spirit of God.
~sayings on Prayer by Edwin Keith
These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it.
~quotations on Sports by From a Charles Barkley commercial for basketball shoes, 1993
People are broad-minded. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater and even a newspaperman, but if a man doesn't drive, there's something wrong with him.
~famous business quote by Art Buchwald
Pharmaceutical companies will soon rule the world if we keep letting them believe we are a happy, functional society so long as all the women are on Prozac, all children on Ritalin, and all men on Viagra.
~saying about business by Terri Guillemets
The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.
~quote about Action by Ernest Newman
Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods.
~quotes on Humility by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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