You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four.
~quote about American football by Dan Birdwell
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
~quotes on Future by Paul Valery
I go up and down the scale so often that if they ever perform an autopsy on me they'll find me like a strip of bacon - a streak of lean and a streak of fat.
~sayings on Dieting by Texas Guinan
The longest journey begins with a single step, not with a turn of the ignition key.
~quotations on Driving by Edward Abbey
To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.
~short romantic love quotes by Mark Twain, attributed
All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
~saying about short romantic by Richard Avedon
Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.
~quote about Censorship by Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935
Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name
~quotes on Patriotic by Woodrow Wilson
Use of advanced messaging technology does not imply an endorsement of western industrial civilization.
~sayings on Technology by Anonymous email sig line
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
~quotations on Happiness by Margaret Thatcher
The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.
~short romantic love quotes by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
~saying about short romantic by E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951
The forceps of our minds are clumsy things and crush the truth a little in the course of taking hold of it.
~quote about Thinking by H.G. Wells
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved
~quotes on Independence Day by Franklin D. Roosevelt
To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart.
~sayings on Emotions by Francesco Guicciardini
A wee child toddling in a wonder world.... I prefer to their dogma my excursions into the natural gardens where the voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers. If this is Paganism, then at present, at least, I am a Pagan.
~quotations on Nature by Zitkala-Sa
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
~short romantic love quotes by Barbara De Angelis
A student undergoing a word-association test was asked why a snowstorm put him in mind of sex. He replied frankly: Because everything does.
~saying about short romantic by Honor Tracy
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations
~quote about Love Quotes by Rob Cella
When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.
~quotes on Personality by Buddha
Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.
~sayings on Risk by Tim McMahon
Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.
~quotations on Water by Loren Eiseley
As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit - and parking as close to the stadium as possible.
~short romantic love quotes by Bill Vaughan
He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
~saying about short romantic by Richard Darman, director of the Office of Management and Budget, explaining why President Bush wasn'
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
~quote about Adversity by Ralph Waldo Emerson
In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.
~quotes on Science by Frank Wilczek
My advice if you insist on slimming: Eat as much as you like - just don't swallow it.
~sayings on Dieting by Harry Secombe
I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full.
~quotations on Travel by Lord Dunsany
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
~short romantic love quotes by Erica Jong, How to Save Your Own Life, 1977
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
~saying about short romantic by Henry Fielding
Perishability in a photograph is important in a picture. If a photograph looks perishable we say, Gee, I'm glad I have that moment.
~quote about Photography by John Loengard, Pictures Under Discussion
Psychology’s most useful lesson: We can change ourselves by changing our thoughts.
~quotes on Self Improvement by
Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert as the past two world-wide wars would indicate?
~sayings on War by Gregory Clark
There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.
~quotations on Self-Discovery by Henry Ward Beecher
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief
~short romantic love quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero
What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man?
~saying about short romantic by Rita Mae Brown
One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets go, one soon loses control of the head too.
~quote about Emotions by Nietzsche
You have to have the kind of body that doesn't need a girdle in order to get to pose in one
~quotes on Women's Greetings by Carolyn Kenmore
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