A critic once characterized baseball as six minutes of action crammed into two-and-one-half hours.
~quote about Baseball by Ray Fitzgerald, in Boston Glove, 1970
Never part with your dreams. When they’re gone, you might still exist, but you cease to live.
~quotes on Goals by
A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor.
~sayings on Trees by George William Curtis
He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed.
~quotations on Humorous by Harry Kalas, on Garry Maddox, 1981
Nothing is so often irretrievably missed as a daily opportunity.
~motivational work quote by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincereBefore him I may think aloudI am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put o
~saying about work by Ralph Waldo Emerson
My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.
~quote about Books Reading by Thomas Helm
God always answers our prayers, but sometimes the answer is no.
~quotes on Prayer by Author Unknown
The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.
~sayings on Books Reading by James Bryce
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
~quotations on Freedom by Louis D. Brandeis
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
~motivational work quote by Dwight D. Eisenhower
Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.
~saying about work by J.J. Furnas
I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.
~quote about Exercise by Mark Twain
To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
~quotes on Racism by William Faulkner, Essays, Speeches and Public Letters
Young lovers and young nations face the same problem: after orgasm, what?
~sayings on Government by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.
~quotations on Religion by Isaac Asimov, I. Asimov: A Memoir
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
~motivational work quote by Charles de Gaulle
Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins, comrades and friends - but only one mother in the whole world.
~saying about work by Kate Douglas Wiggin
One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.
~quote about Emotions by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Southern Mail, 1929, translated from French by Curtis Cate
The best thing about having a sister was that I always had a friend.
~quotes on Sisters by Cali Rae Turner
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence
~sayings on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day by Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.
~quotations on Statistics by Gregg Easterbrook
It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses.
~motivational work quote by Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Neurosis is no worse than a bad cold; you ache all over, and it's made you a mess, but you won't die from it.
~saying about work by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
~quote about Speaking by Quentin Crisp
When we accept tough jobs as a challenge and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen.
~quotes on Growth by Arland Gilbert
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
~sayings on Mothers by Oprah Winfrey
If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.
~quotations on Attitude by Oscar Wilde
If you want others to be happy, practice compassionIf you want to be happy, practice compassion
~motivational work quote by Dalai Lama
The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
~saying about work by Guy de Maupassant
I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me.
~quote about Feminism by Jane Rule
Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished.
~quotes on Justice by William Ernest Hocking
If you step on people in this life, you're going to come back as a cockroach.
~sayings on Kindness by Willie Davis
Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that's been our unifying cry, More light. Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlelight. Neon, incandescent lights that banish the darkness from our caves to illuminate our roads, the insides of our refrigerators. Big floods for the night games at Soldier's Field. Little tiny flashlights for those books we read under the covers when we're supposed to be asleep. Light is more than watts and footcandles. Light is metaphor. Light is knowledge, light is life, light is light.
~quotations on Light by Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
The slogan of the National Association of Landlords is the commaless We Shelter You America. The truth of the matter is, however, that landlords shelter no one, while in fact the law shelters them... from the immediate expropriation that would occur if there were not force of gun and jail to back up this phoney, abusive, so-called property right.
~motivational work quote by Fred Woodworth, Rent: An Injustice
Be well, do good work, and keep in touch
~saying about work by Garrison Keillor
When you retire, you switch bosses - from the one who hired you to the one who married you
~quote about Retirement by Gene Perret
Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense
~quotes on Fathers Day by Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
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