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Quotes
Compiled
by Jessie R |
Jessie R, the masterful mind behind the Pinking Shears
name, has submitted a great compilation of quotes for our
reading pleasure: Quotables Compiled by Jessie
Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself
the means of inspiration and survival.
- Sir Winston Churchill
That friendship will not continue to the end
which is begun for an end.
- Francis Quareles
Freedom of speech and freedom of action are
meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom
of thought without doubt
- Bergen Evans The Natural History of Nonsense
I have found that being honest is the best technique
I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying
to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish
it
--Lee Iacocca
God does not make clones. Each person is different,
A tribute to God's creativity. If we are to love our neighbors
as ourselves, We must accept people as they are and not demand
that they conform to our own image.
-- Henry Fehren
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same
God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has
intended us to forgo their use.
--Galileo Galilei
Reason is God's crowning gift to man.
--Sophocles
Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any
cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost.
--M. Scott Peck
Remember the four R's: Respect for self; Respect
for others; Responsibility for all your actions, and Reality.
--Unknown
Four freedoms: The first is freedom of speech
and _expression - everywhere in the world. The second is freedom
of everyone to worship God in his own way, everywhere in the
world. The third is freedom from want . . . everywhere in
the world. The fourth is freedom from fear . . . anywhere
in the world.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt U.S. President
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom,
and being one's own person is its ultimate reward
- Patricia Sampson
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the
enemy of growth.
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy U.S. Democratic politician and president
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever
remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
--Sherlock Holmes
Truth does not change according to our ability
to stomach it.
--Flannery O'Connor
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor
the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
--Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
You cannot change the truth, but the truth can
change you.
--Unknown
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall
make you mad.
--Aldous Leonard Huxley British writer
I never give them hell. I just tell the truth
and they think it's hell.
--Harry S. Truman
When you shoot an arrow of truth, dip its point
in honey.
--Arab Proverb
Love truth, but pardon error.
--Voltaire [Francois-Marie Arouet]
You Can't Handle The Truth!
--Col. Nathan R. Jessup (Jack Nicholson) A Few Good Men
The truth that makes men free is for the most
part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
--Herbert Agar
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but
most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing
has happened.
--Sir Winston Churchill
The phrase "working mother" is redundant.
- Jane Sellman
Don't sacrifice your life to work and ideals.
The most important things in life are human relations. I found
that out too late.
- Katharinde Susannah Prichard Australian Author
Let us realize that the privilege to work is
a gift, that power to work is a blessing, that love of work
is success.
- David O. McKay
You can always find reasons to work. There will
always be one more thing to do. But when people don't take
time out, they stop being productive. They stop being happy,
and that affects the morale of everyone around them.
- Carisa Bianchi TBWA/CHIAT/DAY San Francisco, in Fast Company
My grandfather once told me that there were
two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take
the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there
was much less competition.
- Indira Gandhi
There's a time when you have to separate yourself
from what other people expect of you, and do what you love.
Because if you find yourself 50 years old and you aren't doing
what you love, then what's the point?
- Jim Carrey Actor |
