What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war. Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.
~quote about War by Simone Weil, Ecrits historiques et politiques, 1960Motivational Quotes
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If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.
~quotes on Dogs by Karel C(apek Never eat more than you can lift.
~sayings on Dieting by Miss Piggy When Steve and I die, we are going to be buried in the same cemetery, 60-feet 6-inches apart.
~quotations on Baseball by Tim McCarver, who caught all of Steve Carlton's games, 1977 If your dreams turn to dust....vacuum
~friendship poem and quotes by Unknown It's terrifying to see someone inside of whom a vital spring seems to have been broken. It's particularly terrifying to see him in your mirror.
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Hope is grief's best music.
~quote about Hope by Author Unknown The Grand Canyon is carven deep by the master hand; it is the gulf of silence, widened in the desert; it is all time inscribing the naked rock; it is the book of earth.
~quotes on Arizona by Donald Culross Peattie, The Road of a Naturalist, 1941 Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
~sayings on Clothing by Henry David Thoreau, Walden Why do people give each other flowers? To celebrate various important occasions, they're killing living creatures? Why restrict it to plants? Sweetheart, let's make up. Have this deceased squirrel.
~quotations on Flowers by The Washington Post Our government has become too responsive to trivial or ephemeral concerns, often at the expense of more important concerns or an erosion of our liberty, and it has made policy priorities more dependent on where TV journalists happen to point their cameras.... As a nation we have lost our sense of tragedy, a recognition that bad things happen to good people. A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every job, and to find some villain for every dramatic accident, risks an even larger loss of life and liberty.
~friendship poem and quotes by William A. Niskanen, For a Less Responsive Government, Cato Policy Report, 1996 If four or five guys tell you that you're drunk, even though you know you haven't had a thing to drink, the least you can do is to lie down a little while
~saying about friendship poem by Joseph Schenck The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.
~quote about Bicycling by Iris Murdoch, The Red and the Green Jealousy is the great exaggerator.
~quotes on Jealousy by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, The Conspiracy of Fiesco, 1783 Health - what my friends are always drinking to before they fall down
~sayings on Party Invitations by Phyllis Diller America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.
~quotations on America by Peter Kroptkin, speech, 1891 The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
~friendship poem and quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
~saying about friendship poem by Ayn Rand A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.
~quote about Friendship by Douglas Pagels We're all born brave, trusting, and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.
~quotes on Trust by Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spreadThe sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.... Shall we think of the day as a chance to come near
~sayings on Thanksgiving Day by Rebecca Harding Davis I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.
~quotations on Writing by Norman Mailer I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it
~friendship poem and quotes by Mark Twain All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.
~saying about friendship poem by Sidney Lumet Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.
~quote about Flowers by Henry Beecher, Life Thoughts, 1858 Without the rain, sunshine wouldnt be so appreciated
~quotes on Unknown by Not Sure We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
~sayings on Peace by William Ewart Gladstone We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.
~quotations on Books Reading by Ralph Waldo Emerson If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
~friendship poem and quotes by Erma Bombeck To teach is to learn twice.
~saying about friendship poem by Joseph Joubert, Pensées, 1842 Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
~quote about Self Confidence by Abraham Lincoln Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
~quotes on Books Reading by Charles W. Eliot Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
~sayings on Food by Cervantes Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning
~quotations on Freedom by Frederick Douglass Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you.
~friendship poem and quotes by John De Paola Every mile is two in winter
~saying about friendship poem by George Herbert A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
~quote about Famous Saying by Lao-Tzu He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation... For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent.... We, therefore... solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States.
~quotes on Taxes by The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies, 1776
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