This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery.
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Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control.
~quotes on Confidence by Richard Kline If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place.
~sayings on Justice by Lord Halifax Brandy, n. A cordial composed of one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and four parts clarified Satan.
~quotations on Alcohol by Ambrose Bierce We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about and.
~inspirational phone messages by Arthur Stanley Eddington Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men.
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The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
~quote about Weather by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain
~quotes on Adversity by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin So you are lean and mean and resourceful and you continue to walk on the edge of the precipice because over the years you have become fascinated by how close you can walk without losing your balance.
~sayings on Self by Attributed to Richard M. Nixon My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
~quotations on Patriotic by Thomas Jefferson Here in America we are descended in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine.
~inspirational phone messages by Dwight D. Eisenhower, address, Columbia University, 31 May 1954 Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway.
~saying about phone messages by Mary C. Crowley Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
~quote about Happiness by Ralph Waldo Emerson Adam blamed Eve, Eve blamed the serpent and the serpent didn't have a leg to stand on.
~quotes on Religion by Unknown Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
~sayings on Sleep by Arthur Schopenhauer There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them.
~quotations on Leadership by Alexandre Ledru-Rollin Governments should not possess instruments of coercion and violence denied to their citizens.
~inspirational phone messages by Edgar A. Suter A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul.
~saying about phone messages by Plato Always be a poet, even in prose.
~quote about Poetry by Charles Baudelaire, My Heart Laid Bare, Intimate Journals, 1864 I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
~quotes on Sex by Gore Vidal We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.
~sayings on Truth by Alexander Solzhenitsyn True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
~quotations on Attitude by Charles Caleb Colton He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.
~inspirational phone messages by Buddha Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.
~saying about phone messages by Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997 I'm in favor of it as long as it's multiple choice.
~quote about Drugs by Kurt Rambis, on drug testing A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools
~quotes on April Fool's Day by Douglas Adams Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
~sayings on Happiness by Iris Murdoch How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man's self to himself!
~quotations on Health by Charles Lamb, Last Essays of Elia The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
~inspirational phone messages by Sigmund Freud Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush to the net.
~saying about phone messages by Franklin Adams I do not believe in God, for that implies an effort of the will - I see God everywhere!
~quote about God by Jean Favre The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
~quotes on Habits by Somerset Maugham The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.
~sayings on Nature by Dogen Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking atavists mounted on foot-powered pairs of Hula-Hoops would have us pumping our legs, gritting our teeth, and searing our lungs as though we were being chased across the Pleistocene savanna by saber-toothed tigers. Think of the hopes, the dreams, the effort, the brilliance, the pure force of will that, over the eons, has gone into the creation of the Cadillac Coupe de Ville. Bicycle riders would have us throw all this on the ash heap of history.
~quotations on Bicycling by P.J. O'Rourke Uno sciocco e il suo denaro son presto separati; English Equivalent: A fool and his money are soon parted
~inspirational phone messages by Italian Proverb Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith.
~saying about phone messages by Author Unknown You grow up the day you have your first real laugh, at yourself.
~quote about Self by Ethel Barrymore Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.
~quotes on Baseball by Warren Spahn
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