They can because they think they can.
~quote about Success by Virgil
Every uniform corrupts one's character.
~quotes on Clothing by Max Frisch
Far more seemly were it for thee to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.
~sayings on Books Reading by John Lyly
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
~quotations on Peace by Dwight Eisenhower
Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim of life. The hair-raising revelations of skullduggery and grand-scale thievery merely incite others to surpass by yet bolder outrages and more corrupt combinations.
~quote on life and love by Charles Francis Adams
Practise doesn't make perfect, not is it supposed to. Practise is about increasing your repertoire of ways to recover from your mistakes.
~saying about life by
A living civilization creates; a dying, builds museums.
~quote about Civilization by Martin H. Fischer
Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.
~quotes on Insults by Mark Twain
What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
~sayings on Parenting by P.D. James, Time to Be in Earnest
I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.
~quotations on Perspective by Henry Moore
If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.
~quote on life and love by Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something I can do.
~saying about life by Edward Everett Hale
On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars.
~quote about Men by Bruce Willis, on the difference between men and women
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
~quotes on Patriotism by George Bernard Shaw
Lose an hour in the morning, and you will be all day hunting for it.
~sayings on Mornings by Richard Whately
Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending.
~quotations on Carpe Diem by Author Unknown
I suppose that leadership at one time meant muscle; but today it means getting along with people.
~quote on life and love by Indira Gandhi
Thousands have gone to heaven who never read one page of the Bible.
~saying about life by Francis A. Baker
To fulfill your dream, you need to make a commitment to work at until it becomes another feather in your cap. Without total commitment, nothing in the world can change you. Without unwavering commitment to improve, no learning system in the world can advance your life. Without sacrificial commitment, you cannot master life’s forces and attain heights of achievements.
~quote about Success by Anthony Robbins
There is in every true woman’s heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
~quotes on Attitude by Elisabeth Guizot
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
~sayings on God by Leo Buscaglia
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
~quotations on Heartache by Edna St. Vincent Millay
I don't know. I never smoked AstroTurf.
~quote on life and love by Tug McGraw, when asked if he preferred grass or artificial turf, 1974
God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.
~saying about life by Richard J. Needham
Nothing is not only nothing. It is also our prison.
~quote about Hawww by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting, it may not be logical but it is often true
~quotes on Adversity by Mr. Spock, Star Trek
Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargained for.
~sayings on Adversity by Stanislaus I, Maxims
Behind every successful woman... is a substantial amount of coffee.
~quotations on Caffeine by Stephanie Piro
Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves.
~quote on life and love by E.M. Cioran
With money in your pocket, you are wise and you are handsome and you sing well too
~saying about life by Yiddish Proverb
A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.
~quote about Time by John B. Priestly
There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.
~quotes on Water by James Russell Lowell
History begins in novel and ends in essay.
~sayings on History by Thomas Babington Macaulay
All of us learn to write by the second grade, then most of us go on to other things.
~quotations on Media Journalism by Bobby Knight, on reporters
Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light
~quote on life and love by Norman B. Rice
There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
~saying about life by Mohandas K. Gandhi
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
~quote about Happiness by John Barrymore
Does college pay? They do if you are a good open-field runner.
~quotes on College by Will Rogers
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