If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
~quote about Determination by Dale Carnegie
A part of this strangeness of dress is that it links the biological body to the social being, and public to private.
~quotes on Clothing by Elizabeth Wilson
Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
~sayings on Politics by Winston Churchill
Go put your creed into your deed.
~quotations on Hypocrisy by Ralph Waldo Emerson
How can something bother you if you won't let it?
~funny friendship saying by Terri Guillemets
Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.
~saying about friendship by Gil Stern
Gardens always mean something else, man absolutely uses one thing to say another.
~quote about Gardens by Robert Harbison, Eccentric Spaces, 1977
There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit that they enjoy life.
~quotes on Life by William Lyon Phelps
The idea of history in any age, like the idea of property, or of progress, is an unstable compound; it is put together as needed, by historians or by philosophers, out of the irreconcilable opinions of men.
~sayings on History by F. Smith Fussner, The Historical Revolution
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
~quotations on Censorship by Noam Chomsky
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened
~funny friendship saying by Jennifer Yane
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
~saying about friendship by Edmund Burke, Second Speech on Conciliation, 1775
I don't intentionally spoil my grandkids. It's just that correcting them often takes more energy than I have left.
~quote about Grandparents by Gene Perret
I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.
~quotes on Health by Author Unknown
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
~sayings on Computers by One of Murphy's Laws of Technology
Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird a typical American child ever sees is a canary in a pet shop window? When the only wild animal he knows is a rat - glimpsed on a night drive through some city slum? When the only tree he touches is the cleverly fabricated plastic evergreen that shades his gifts on Christmas morning?
~quotations on Environment by Frank N. Ikard, North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference, Houston, March 1968
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
~funny friendship saying by Gandhi
The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rightsIt has been created by the experience of a great people, and nothing is written upon it that has not been written by their lif
~saying about friendship by Woodrow Wilson
Seagulls... slim yachts of the element.
~quote about Birds by Robinson Jeffers
Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
~quotes on Beauty by Ralph Ellison, Battle Royal
Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.
~sayings on Attitude by Edwin Teale
We’re never as ridiculous by what we are as by what we pretend to be.
~quotations on Attitude by
John certainly gives it a good hit, doesn't he? My Sunday best is a Wednesday afternoon compared to him.
~funny friendship saying by Nick Faldo, on John Daly
Love is like those second-rate hotels where all the luxury is in the lobby.
~saying about friendship by Paul-Jean Toulet
Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
~quote about Relationship by Dale Carnegie
The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.
~quotes on Government by Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism
History is a pageant and not a philosophy.
~sayings on History by Augustine Birrell, Obiter Dicta: The Muse of History
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
~quotations on Telephones by Ambrose Bierce
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
~funny friendship saying by Winston Churchill
The People, though we think of a great entity when we use the word, means nothing more than so many millions of individual men.
~saying about friendship by James Bryce
There is no finish line.
~quote about Life by Nike advertisement
A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it.
~quotes on Marriage by Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.
~sayings on Action by William R. Inge
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solutionIf you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds
~quotations on Adversity by Norman Vincent Peale
The most difficult thing that you can do is to watch the person you love love someone else
~funny friendship saying by Unknown
The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract.
~saying about friendship by Benjamin Disraeli
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters
~quote about Friends by Thomas Jefferson
If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people
~quotes on Education by Chinese proverb
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