We have always had reluctance to see a tract of land which is empty of men as anything but a void. The waste howling wilderness of Deuteronomy is typical. The Oxford Dictionary defines wilderness as wild or uncultivated land which is occupied only by wild animals. Places not used by us are wastes. Areas not occupied by us are desolate. Could the desolation be in the soul of man?
~quote about Environment by John A. Livingston, in Borden Spears, ed., Wilderness Canada, 1970
If I am not for myself, who will be?
~quotes on Confidence by Pirke Avoth
When you're green you're growing, and when you're ripe you start to rot.
~sayings on Inner Child by Ray Kroc
Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.
~quotations on Parenting by Robert A. Heinlein
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
~quote about saying good bye to friends by Benjamin Disraeli
He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form.
~saying about bye to friends by Marcus Aurelius
What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.
~quote about Religion by George Santayana, Reason in Religion
Let no one who loves be unhappy... even love unreturned has its rainbow.
~quotes on Heartache by James Matthew Barrie
Knock on the sky and listen to the sound.
~sayings on Philosophical by Zen Saying
People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.
~quotations on Religion by Dave Barry, Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn
Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak. Sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.
~quote about saying good bye to friends by Author Unknown
He was the only man I ever saw who ran his own interference.
~saying about bye to friends by Steve Owen, about Bronko Nagurski
We are always getting ready to live but never living.
~quote about Carpe Diem by Ralph Waldo Emerson
I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.
~quotes on Sex by J. Edgar Hoover, attributed
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.
~sayings on Leadership by Charles Simic
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
~quotations on Courage by Ambrose Bierce
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
~quote about saying good bye to friends by Somerset Maugham
I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.
~saying about bye to friends by H.A. Overstreet
If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.
~quote about Stress by Doug Larson
I can airmail the golf ball, but sometimes I don't put the right address on it.
~quotes on Golf by Jim Dent
The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.
~sayings on Justice by Charles Evans Hughes
If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?
~quotations on I'm Sorry by Stephen Levine
Consciousness: that annoying time between naps.
~quote about saying good bye to friends by Author Unknown
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
~saying about bye to friends by Albert Einstein
If you judge people, you have no time to love them
~quote about Love by Mother Teresa
Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.
~quotes on Self by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
[I]t is clear the future holds great opportunitiesIt also holds pitfallsThe trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o'clock
~sayings on Graduation by Woody Allen, "My Speech to the Graduates," Side Effects, 1980
I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so longIf we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night
~quotations on Missing You by Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes
Everyone should learn to do one thing supremely well because he likes it, and one thing supremely well because he detests it.
~quote about saying good bye to friends by Brigham Young
Fans are the only ones who really care. There are no free-agent fans.
~saying about bye to friends by Dick Young
A first class carpenter gets more out of life than a third class lawyer or preacher.
~quote about Career by
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom
~quotes on Patriotic by Simone de Beauvoir
It was as true... as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them.
~sayings on Taxes by Charles Dickens
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
~quotations on Marriage by Alexander Pope, The Wife of Bath, 1713
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.
~quote about saying good bye to friends by Gil Stern
There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.
~saying about bye to friends by Sydney Harris
El tiempo da buen consejo.
~quote about Time by Proverb
I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.
~quotes on Attitude by Pearl Bailey
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