A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.
~quote about Politics by Carl Sandburg
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I canI want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live
~quotes on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day by George Bernard Shaw
My grandson was visiting one day when he asked, Gramma, do you know how you and God are alike? I mentally polished my halo while I asked, No, how are we alike? You're both old, he replied.
~sayings on Grandparents by Author Unknown
She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.
~quotations on Smiles by Raymond Chandler
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
~funny saying and sign by Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
~saying about sign by Leo Buscaglia
Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it.
~quote about Conformity by Paul Vixie
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be...This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking
~quotes on Business by Isaac Asimov
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom
~sayings on Independence Day by Simone de Beauvoir
To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.
~quotations on Death by Friedrich Nietzsche, Expeditions of an Untimely Man
The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief
~funny saying and sign by William Shakespeare, Othello
Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.
~saying about sign by George Scialabra
I'm not 40, I'm eighteen with 22 years experience.
~quote about Age by Author Unknown
Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.
~quotes on Grammar by William Safire
It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
~sayings on Kindness by Author Unknown
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
~quotations on Effort by Sam Ewing
Dancers are the athletes of God.
~funny saying and sign by Albert Einstein
What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.
~saying about sign by John Fischer
People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them.
~quote about History by James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
~quotes on Effort by Thomas Edison
In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.
~sayings on Nature by Aldo Leopold
Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
~quotations on Writing by Samuel Johnson, Recalling the Advice of a College Tutor, Boswell, Life of Johnson, 1791
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.... People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.
~funny saying and sign by Alice Walker, The Color Purple, 1982
If you have lived, take thankfully the past.
~saying about sign by John Dryden
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
~quote about Happiness by Margaret Young
I hope that my achievements in life shall be these - that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better place for what I've done and who I've been.
~quotes on Integrity by C. Hoppe
When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.
~sayings on Civilization by Lois McMaster Bujold
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said.
~quotations on Speaking by Author Unknown
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
~funny saying and sign by Susan Sontag
By embracing your mother wound as your yoga, you transform what has been a hindrance in your life into a teacher of the heart.
~saying about sign by Phillip Moffitt
Art said he wanted to get more distance. I told him to hit it and run backward.
~quote about Golf by Ken Venturi, on Art Rosenbaum
There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we count ourselves among them.
~quotes on Money by Mignon McLaughlin
If profanity had an influence on the flight of the ball, the game of golf would be played far better than it is.
~sayings on Golf by Horace G. Hutchinson
When you have insomnia, you're never really asleep, and you're never really awake.
~quotations on Sleep by From the movie Fight Club, based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk
Behavioral psychology is the science of pulling habits out of rats.
~funny saying and sign by Dr. Douglas Busch
Only think of two things - the gun and the tape. When you hear the one, just run like hell until you break the other.
~saying about sign by Sam Mussabini
Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.
~quote about Habits by William James, The Principles of Psychology
Chance takers are accident makers.
~quotes on Safety by Author Unknown
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