Quotables


You must be the change you wish to see in the world. - Mahatma Gandhi

Duty is ours; results are God's - John Quincy Adams

I'd rather be a failure at something I'm in love with than to be successful at something I hate. - George Burns, on the occasion of his 100th birthday

A man can suceed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm. - Charles Schwab

The difference between a rut and a grave is death. - Bishop Burrill

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life. - Robert Louis Stevenson

He was trying to explain the word "Believe" to a child. Suddenly, the child had an idea of his own. Doesn't it mean to hear with my heart? - unknown

Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds. - unknown

There are times when a man should be content with what he has, but never with what he is. - William George Jordan

Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes. - unknown

When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either. - unknown

A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams. - unknown

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. - Margaret B. Runbeck

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shore line of wonder. - Rev. Ralph Sockman

What we see depends mainly on what we look for. - John Lubbock

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Never mistake motion for action. - Ernest Hemingway (1889-1961)

You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. - Yogi Berra

Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. - Henry Ford (1863-1947)

Don't tell me I'm burning the candle at both ends -- tell me where to get more wax!! - Unknown

Kin, n.: An affliction of the blood - Unknown

Q: What did the instructor at the school for Kamikazi pilots say to his students?
A: Watch closely. I'm only going to do this once. - I>Unknown

It's hard to make a program foolproof because fools are so ingenious. - Unknown

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

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech. - Justice Anthony Kennedy

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. - George Pataki

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. - Elbert Hubbard

An organization that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only. - B. Stroustrup

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. - Goethe

All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God. - Bishop Fulton J. Sheen


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