You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the goddamn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.
~quote about Baseball by Earl Weaver
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
~quotes on Mistakes by James Joyce, Ulysses
always be what nature made t be for nature cares for you
~sayings on Creativity by chris aleke
The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread.
~quotations on Dogs by Portuguese Proverb
Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.
~short inspirational quote by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Night Flight, 1931, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert
What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
~saying about short by Eleanor Powell
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures
~quote about Thank You. by Thornton Wilder
The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
~quotes on Libraries by Carl Sagan, Cosmos
When written in Chinese the word "crisis" is composed of two characters - one represents danger and the other represents opportunity
~sayings on Adversity by John F. Kennedy, address, 12 April 1959
Golf is essentially an exercise in masochism conducted out-of-doors.
~quotations on Golf by Paul O'Neil
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
~short inspirational quote by T.S. Eliot
There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.
~saying about short by Author Unknown
I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join the unqualified men in running our government.
~quote about Feminism by Cissy Farenthold
The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
~quotes on God by Edna St. Vincent Millay
God made the country, and man made the town.
~sayings on Country by William Cowper, The Task
It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
~quotations on Humility by Niccolo Machiavelli
I am thankful for all the complaining I hear about our government because it means we have freedom of speech.
~short inspirational quote by Nancie J. Carmody
You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.
~saying about short by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
~quote about America by Alexis de Tocqueville
The only big ideas I've ever had came from daydreaming, but modern life keeps people from daydreaming. Every moment of the day your mind is being occupied, controlled by someone else – at school, at work, watching television. Getting away from all that is really important. You need to just kick back in a chair and let your mind daydream.
~quotes on Dreams by Paul MacCready
My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.
~sayings on Sports by Duffy Daugherty
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
~quotations on Happiness by Douglas Jerrold
You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.
~short inspirational quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes, 175
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
~saying about short by Irving Berlin
It is great to get praise from the lips of taciturnity.
~quote about Compliments by John Addington Symonds
As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves.
~quotes on Happiness by Andrew Delbanco
Skiing: the art of catching cold and going broke while rapidly heading nowhere at great personal risk.
~sayings on Skiing by Author Unknown
The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues. You can't separate them. They're wedded.
~quotations on Perfection by Henry Miller
Good, honest, hardheaded character is a function of the home. If the proper seed is sown there and properly nourished for a few years, it will not be easy for that plant to be uprooted.
~short inspirational quote by George A. Dorsey
I've often thought, if I got really hungry for a good milk shake, how much would I pay for one? People will pay a hundred dollars for a bottle of wine; to me that's not worth it. But I'm not going to say it is foolish or wrong to spend that kind of money, if that's what you want. So if a guy wants to bet twenty or thirty thousand dollars in a poker game, that is his privilege.
~saying about short by Jack Binion
Many people have sighed for the 'good old days' and regretted the 'passing of the horse,' but today, when only those who like horses own them, it is a far better time for horses.
~quote about Horses by C.W. Anderson
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
~quotes on Life by Arthur Miller
Habit rules the unreflecting herd.
~sayings on Conformity by William Wordsworth, Ecclesiastical Sonnets, 1822
They need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be at peace unless they can latch on to an established and proven worry and having once found it they assume facial expressions to fit and go with it, which is, you see, unhappiness, and all the time it all flies by them and they know it and that too worries them no end.
~quotations on Worry by Jack Kerouac
Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia? Our time is forever now!
~short inspirational quote by Alice Childress
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
~saying about short by James Bryant Conant
What was good enough yesterday isn't good enough today
What's good enough today won't be good enough tomorrow
Good enaogh.....isn't!
~quote about Unknown by
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
~quotes on Grammar by A.A. Milne
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