All know the way; few actually walk it.
~quote about Action by Bodhidharma
Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
~quotes on Success by David Frost
That theory is worthless. It isn't even wrong!
~sayings on Science by Wolfgang Pauli
Sometimes I think it should be a rule of war that you have to see somebody up close and get to know him before you can shoot him.
~quotations on War by M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the tree of creation and contemplating its vast ramifications full of stars. We have a duty to perform, to cultivate the human soul, to defend mystery against miracle, to adore the incomprehensible and to reject the absurd; to admit nothing that is inexplicable excepting what is necessary, to purify faith and obliterate superstition from the face of religion, to remove the vermin from the garden of God.
~quotes famous quotes by Victor Hugo
Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.
~saying about famous by Wynetka Ann Reynolds
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
~quote about Death by Norman Cousins
Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them
~quotes on Death by Edward W. Howe
I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.
~sayings on Food by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the night-light. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.
~quotations on Sleep by Dorothy Parker
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
~quotes famous quotes by Samuel Johnson
Remember when atmospheric contaminants were romantically called stardust?
~saying about famous by Lane Olinghouse
Scientists are complaining that the new Dinosaur movie shows dinosaurs with lemurs, who didn't evolve for another million years. They're afraid the movie will give kids a mistaken impression. What about the fact that the dinosaurs are singing and dancing?
~quote about Cute by Jay Leno
For years it has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.
~quotes on Jewelry by Erma Bombeck, about her wedding ring
The perfect temperature for tea is two degrees hotter than just right.
~sayings on Tea by Terri Guillemets
If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.
~quotations on Trees by Jack Handey
When we ask advice we are usually looking for an accomplice.
~quotes famous quotes by Charles Varlet de La Grange, Pensées, 1872
The only equipment lack in the modern hospital? Somebody to meet you at the entrance with a handshake!
~saying about famous by Martin H. Fischer
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
~quote about Attitude by Alphonse Karr
I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
~quotes on Age by Voltaire
Why, can you imagine what would happen if we named all the twos Henry or George or Robert or John or lots of other things? You'd have to say Robert plus John equals four, and if the four's name were Albert, things would be hopeless.
~sayings on Names by Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
Scientists, therefore, are responsible for their research, not only intellectually but also morally. This responsibility has become an important issue in many of today's sciences, but especially so in physics, in which the results of quantum mechanics and relativity theory have opened up two very different paths for physicists to pursue. They may lead us - to put it in extreme terms - to the Buddha or to the Bomb, and it is up to each of us to decide which path to take.
~quotations on Science by Fritjof Capra, The Turning Point, 1982
They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.
~quotes famous quotes by James G. Watt, quoted in Newsweek, 8 March 1982
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
~saying about famous by H.L. Mencken
As the gardener prunes the tree to draw the sap into one or two branches, so must we concentrate on one or two to avoid scattering our talents.
~quote about Self Improvement by
I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
~quotes on Alcohol by Frank Sinatra
I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have - if only for self-defense.
~sayings on Grandparents by Gene Perret
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
~quotations on Attitude by Muhammad Ali
To ask timidly is to invite refusal. Ask as though you expected to receive.
~quotes famous quotes by
A gambler is nothing but a man who makes his living out of hope.
~saying about famous by William Bolitho
What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes
~quote about Martin Luther King, Jr. Day by Timothy Virkkala
The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.
~quotes on Integrity by Henry David Thoreau
We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails.
~sayings on Attitude by Author Unknown
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
~quotations on Love by W. Somerset Maugham
There is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others.
~quotes famous quotes by Michel de Montaigne
The chief excitement in a woman's life is spotting women who are fatter than she is
~saying about famous by Helen Rowland
College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage.
~quote about College by George Gobel
The moral flabbiness born of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That - with the squalid interpretation put on the word success - is our national disease.
~quotes on Success by William James, 11 September 1906
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