Quotes and Sayings

Virginia woolf, diary, 17 february 1922 - i meant to write about death, only life came...
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Leo Tolstoy
A precedent embalms a principle.
Benjamin Disraeli
Matthew arnold - truth sits upon the lips of dying men....
In crises the most daring course is often safest.
Robert Francis Kennedy
You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.
Wayne Gretzky
To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.
South
Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit: we cannot flower and grow without it.
Jess Lai
The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit.
Dwight Morrow
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
Stendhal
Each day provides its own gifts.
American Prove
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard
Will it not be felt that Virtue, however beautiful, becomes the worst of all attitudes when it is found too feeble to contend with Vice...
Marquis de Sade, Justine
To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act We do not know.
Alexis Carrel
We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.
Nick Faldo
It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
Lord Acton
An affirmation is a strong, positive statement that somthing is already so.
Shakti Gawain
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
Washington Irving
It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
Ulysses
A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you.
Franoise Sagan
Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.
Benjamin Disraeli
The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
Walt Whitman, Preface to Leaves of Grass, 1855
The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little.
Thomas Babington
Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperatelly? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.
Russell Bake
Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.
Meister Eckhart
There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
English is the easiest language to speak badly.
George Bernhard Shaw
The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
Seneca
People who know the least always argue the most.
Author Unknown
Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
Harper Lee, spoken by character Atticus Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird
He drew a circle that shut me out - - Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But Love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in.
Edwin Markham
There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or to doubt everything both ways save us from thinking.
Theodore Isaac Rubin
The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.
Emma Goldman, Living My Life, 1931
To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.
Frank Gelett Burgess
The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way.
George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004
It may not be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - But that is the way to bet.
Damon Runyon
Fix this sentence: He put the horse before the cart.
Stephen Price
The smaller the understanding of the situation, the more pretentious the form of expression.
John Romano