Thursday, February 26, 2009

Quotes of the Day for February 26, 2009

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
-- Horace Walpole

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.
-- Michel de Montaigne

Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.
-- Nikola Tesla, Modern Mechanics and Inventions, July, 1934

Motivational Quotes of the Day for February 26, 2009

Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out.
-- Christina Baldwin

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.
-- Comte de Buffon

He who would travel happily must travel light.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The things you own end up owning you.
-- Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, 1996

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Motivational Quotes of the Day for February 25, 2009

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

Hope is only the love of life.
-- Henri-Frédéric Amiel

In Ethiopia during the famine, I saw stuff there that reorganized how I saw the world. I didn't quite know what to do about it. At a certain point, I felt God is not looking for alms. God is looking for action.
-- Bono, Oprah Winfrey Show, 2002

Work is not always required... there is such a thing as sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.
-- George McDonald

Quotes of the Day for February 25, 2009

Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
-- Pat Paulsen

It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.
-- Darrin Weinberg

Conceit is God's gift to little men.
-- Bruce Barton

There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else.
-- Cullen Hightower

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Quotes of the Day for February 24, 2009

I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years.
-- Samuel Goldwyn

In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
-- Fran Lebowitz

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.
-- Scott Adams, Dogbert; Dilbert cartoons

With a stop light, green means 'go' and yellow means 'slow down'. With a banana, however, it is quite the opposite. Yellow means 'go', green means 'whoa, slow down', and red means 'where the heck did you get that banana?'
-- Mitch Hedberg

Motivational Quotes of the Day for February 24, 2009

The best armor is to keep out of range.
-- Italian Proverb

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.
-- Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 04, 2004

What children take from us, they give…We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
-- Sonia Taitz, O Magazine, May 2003

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
-- Mitch Albom

Monday, February 23, 2009

Motivational Quotes of the Day for February 21, 2009

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
-- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
-- Bruce Barton

Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
-- Jean de La Fontaine

To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
-- Jane Austen

Quotes of the Day for February 21, 2009

The wages of sin are unreported.
-- Unknown

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
-- Mark Twain, in Christian Science

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
-- George Santayana

Great part of being a grownup, you never have to do anything.
-- Peter Blake, House M.D., Safe, 2006

Motivational Quotes of the Day for February 22, 2009

The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.
-- W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz, Anger in the Sky

We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.
-- Matthew V. Lewis, House M.D., Last Resort, 2008

Quotes of the Day for February 22, 2009

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
-- Joseph Stalin

Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.
-- George F. Will

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.
-- National Lampoon, "Deteriorata"

I do not know which makes a man more conservative—to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
-- John Maynard Keynes, The End of Laissez-faire (1926) Ch. 1

Quotes of the Day for February 23, 2009

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
-- Woody Allen

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
-- Nikita Khrushchev

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
-- Elizabeth Taylor

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and Jill a rich widow.
-- Evan Esar

Motivational Quotes of the Day for February 23, 2009

We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
-- Henry David Thoreau

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
-- Rebecca West

If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks.
-- Steve Pavlina, How to Win an Argument, 08-31-05

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Quotes of the Day for February 19, 2009

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
-- H. L. Mencken

Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
-- Putt's Law

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.
-- Thornton Wilder

To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
-- Robert Orben

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Motivational Quotes of the Day for February 19, 2009

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
-- Samuel Johnson

Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships.
-- Harriet Lerner

We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
-- Indira Gandhi

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
-- Colin Powell

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Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Motivational Quotes of the Day for February 16, 2009

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
-- Amy Lowell

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.
-- Herbert Bayard Swope

There is no wisdom without love.
-- N. Sri Ram

Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.
-- Margaret Cho, weblog, 03-03-04

Quotes of the Day for February 16, 2009

Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
-- David Broder

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
-- Robert Benchley

I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.
-- Henny Youngman

Motivational Quotes of the Day for February 18, 2009

The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
-- William Hutton

Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.
-- Jewish Proverb

I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.'
-- Earl Warren, Chief Justice

Nobody has things just as he would like them. The thing to do is to make a success with what material I have. It is a sheer waste of time and soulpower to imagine what I would do if things were different. They are not different.
-- Dr. Frank Crane

Quotes of the Day for February 18, 2009

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
-- Herman Wouk

I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed.
-- Frank Deford

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.
-- John Gaule

Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time.
-- Norman Ford

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Quotes of the Day for February 12, 2009

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
-- Will Rogers

A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.
-- Woodrow Wilson

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
-- Doug Larson

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper

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Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Motivational Quotes of the Day for February 11, 2009

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.
-- Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962

People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.
-- Cullen Hightower

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
-- Elizabeth Goudge

When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!
-- William Blake

Quotes of the Day for February 11, 2009

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
-- George Wald

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
-- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway

Lies are like children: they're hard work, but it's worth it because the future depends on them.
-- Pam Davis, House M.D., It's A Wonderful Lie, 2008

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Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Quotes of the Day for February 10, 2009

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
-- John Lennon, "Beautiful Boy"

I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.
-- James Thurber, "Carpe Noctem, If You Can", in "Credos and Curios" (1962)

The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky

In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.
-- Ellen DeGeneres, (attributed)

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Motivational Quotes of the Day for February 10, 2009

What worries you masters you.
-- Haddon W. Robinson

Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.
-- Jane Wyman

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Monday, February 9, 2009

Motivational Quotes of the Day for February 9, 2009

Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
-- Richard M. Nixon, in his White House farewell

The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom...
-- Bell Hooks

I just realized that there's going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with it the right way.
-- Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Raisins, 2003

There is…nothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people.
-- H. R. Schaffer, O Magazine, May 2003

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Quotes of the Day for February 9, 2009

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.
-- Jackie Mason

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
-- Henry Kissinger

I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
-- George Carlin

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Sunday, February 8, 2009

Quotes of the Day for February 7, 2009

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
-- Richard Feynman

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously.
-- Thomas Sowell

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.
-- Leonard Bernstein

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
-- Raymond Chandler

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Motivational Quotes of the Day for February 7, 2009

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright, New York Times, October 4, 1953

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
-- David Lloyd George

It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
-- George Washington

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Quotes of the Day for February 8, 2009

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
-- Bertrand Russell

When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
-- Al Franken, "Oh, the Things I Know", 2002

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
-- P. J. O'Rourke

A poem is no place for an idea.
-- Edgar Watson Howe, Country Town Sayings, 1911

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Motivational Quotes of the Day for February 8, 2009

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
-- William Hazlitt

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.
-- W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

There can be no spirituality, no sanctity, no truth without the female sex.
-- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Revelations, 1993

In many cases, the more you try to compete, the less competitive you actually are.
-- Kathy Sierra, Creating Passionate Users, 07-22-06

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Friday, February 6, 2009

Motivational Quotes of the Day

Motivational Quotes of the Day for February 6, 2009

The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.
-- Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957

When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
-- Hugh White

It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
-- Stuart's Law of Retroaction

We don't always get to choose what we love.
-- Scott Westerfeld, The Last Days, 2006

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch

Only the mediocre are always at their best.
-- Jean Giraudoux

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
-- H. H. Williams

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
-- Bob Hope

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