Act as if what you do makes a differenceIt does
~quote about Sweetest Day by William James
There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values.
~quotes on Reality by David G. Myers, Social Psychology
If you can look into the mirror without laughter, you have no sense of humor
~sayings on Comedy by Unknown
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
~quotations on Decisions by Roy Disney
The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.
~funny sarcastic saying by George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant, 1950
Before you talk about what you want - Really appreciate what you have before it's gone.
~saying about sarcastic by Ethan Daniel
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
~quote about Happiness by Ernest Dimnet
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
~quotes on Conformity by Bernard Berenson, Notebook, 1892
I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery.
~sayings on Freedom by Author Unknown
The publishers and others should quit worrying about losing customers to TV. The guy who can sit through a trio of deodorant commercials to look at Flashgun Casey or swallow a flock of beer and loan-shark spiels in order to watch a couple of fourth-rate club fighters rub noses on the ropes is not losing any time from book reading.
~quotations on Television by Raymond Chandler, 1946
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
~funny sarcastic saying by Buddha
The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. If beef is your idea of real food for real people you'd better live real close to a real good hospital.
~saying about sarcastic by Neal Barnard, M.D.
Suicide is man's way of telling God, You can't fire me - I quit.
~quote about Death by Bill Maher, on Politically Incorrect, 1995
To live in hearts we leave behind,Is not to die.
~quotes on Sympathy by Thomas Campbell, "Hallowed Ground"
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
~sayings on Thinking by Edmund Burke
I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.
~quotations on Hawww by Dag Hammarskjold, Markings, 1964
People are made of flesh and blood and a miracle fibre called courage.
~funny sarcastic saying by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
The faintest waft is sometimes enough to induce feelings of hunger or anticipation, or to transport you back through time and space to a long-forgotten moment in your childhood. It can overwhelm you in an instant or simply tease you, creeping into your consciousness slowly and evaporating almost the moment it is detected.
~saying about sarcastic by Stephen Lacey, Scent in Your Garden, 1991
Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise.
~quote about Wise Words by Author Unknown
If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.
~quotes on Being Yourself by David Carradine
As we grow old…the beauty steals inward.
~sayings on Maturing Altruistically by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
~quotations on Friendship by Samuel Pepys
Warrior pose battles inner weakness and wins focus. You see that there is no war within you. You're on your own side, and you are your own strength.
~funny sarcastic saying by Terri Guillemets
This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.
~saying about sarcastic by Neil Gaiman, Books of Magic III
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
~quote about Society by Paul Valery
We are born to inquire after truth; it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge
~quotes on Birth by Michel de Montaigne
The message of Christmas is that the visible material world is bound to the invisible spiritual world
~sayings on Christmas by Author Unknown
You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.
~quotations on Goals by Charles C. Noble
Retirement: That's when you return from work one day and say, "Hi, Honey, I"m home - forever."
~funny sarcastic saying by Gene Perret
Persons with weight of character carry, like planets, their atmospheres along with them in their orbits.
~saying about sarcastic by Thomas Hardy
Man was created a little lower than the angels, and has been getting lower ever since.
~quote about Humankind by Josh Billings
You gotta learn to laugh, it's the way to true love
~quotes on Love Quotes by Michael
Better bread with water than cake with trouble
~sayings on Adversity by Russian Proverb
Men look at themselves in mirrors. Women look for themselves.
~quotations on Women by Elissa Melamed
When I look for my existence I do not look for it in myself.
~funny sarcastic saying by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.
~saying about sarcastic by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Work cure is the best of all psychotherapy, in my opinion.... As well might we expect a patient to recover without food as to recover without work.... The sound man needs work to keep him sound, but the nervous invalid has an even greater need of work to draw him out of his isolation, and to stop the miseries of doubt and self-scrutiny, to win back self-respect and the support of fellowship.
~quote about Psychology by Richard C. Cabot
I just hope I don't have to explain all the times I've used His name in vain when I get up there.
~quotes on Golf by Bob Hope, about his golfing
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