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Day: January 8, 2011

Sharing Quotes

“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.” – Robert Louis Stevenso

“Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.” – Spider Robinson

“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” – Buddha

“The miracle is this: the more we share the more we have.” – Leonard Nimoy

“There is no delight in owning anything unshared.” – Seneca

“Giving is the highest expression of potency.” – Erich Fromm

“Shared sorrow is half sorrow.” – Danish Proverb

“Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.” – M. Scott Peck

“Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Norman MacEwan

“Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.” – William Arthur Ward

“Life has taught me that respect, caring and love must be shared, for it’s only through sharing that friendships are born.” – Donna A. Favors

Fantasy Quotes

– “About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.” – Manolo Blahnik

– “Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.” – James Earl Jones

– “All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.” – Walt Disney

– “All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.” – Max Beerbohm

– “All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I’ve gone off the top, into total fantasy.” – Eddie Campbell

– “All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.” – Carl Jung

– “Although it is a fantasy film, it’s as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth.” – Orlando Bloom

– “Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.” – Bryant H. McGill

– “And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You’ll note there’s no science in it. It’s a kind of grim fantasy.” – Octavia Butler

– “And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy.” – Peter Shaffer

– “Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey.” – Godfried Danneels

– “Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction.” – Joan D. Vinge

– “But basically what I like are the possibilities, and the fantasy element of the show. Not science fantasy so much, but fantasy, the humanistic elements and how people relate when they’re in a dire situation or comedic situation.” – Fisher Stevens

– “But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.” – Iris Murdoch

– “But I never let a fantasy get away, because I always stop to analyze it.” – Shelley Duvall

– “But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world.” – Elizabeth Moon

– “But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.” – Octavia Butler

– “CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn’t want to give up power.” – Arthur C. Clarke

– “Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can’t take the process too personally.” – Joseph Barbera

– “Daytime has been successful all these years because it caters to a very real need in the audience – to see something that’s not nighttime fantasy. People watch daytime because it’s like their lives.” – Erika Slezak

Paul Johnson Quotes

Let us share with you some great Paul Johnson (journalist, historian, speechwriter and author) Quotes:

“It does not always pay to have a golden tongue unless one has the ability to hold it”

“The word ‘meaningful’ when used today is nearly always meaningless.”

“The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family”

“There was some trucker guy and he said, ‘How’s the horses?’ … And I said, ‘The horses are OK, but I’m about to run out of fuel.’ So he let me siphon five gallons out of his truck. I don’t know his name.”

“For the same reason Ascend wanted Stratus’ technology, Lucent is also interested.”

“This quarter’s a throwaway.”

“But Cisco has not grown through acquisitions, … They’ve grown despite their acquisitions. The primary growth, as we saw in the quarter, was clearly from routers, which is Cisco’s historical product.”

“Although Cisco’s lowered stock price may be seductive to investors, we believe that there is still near term downside to the stock, … It is clearer than ever to us that the current Cisco appears to be merely a shadow of its former self.”

“We believe their leading competitors will continue to take market share from Cisco at an accelerated pace throughout the slowdown — especially in the service provider focused product arena.”

“In fact, we believe that the lengthening sell cycles may give incumbent carriers a chance to really experience next-generation equipment in the labs and, as a result, move away from Cisco products.”

Determination Quotes

– “It’s a very funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.” – William Somerset Maugham

– “It was courage, faith, endurance and a dogged determination to surmount all obstacles that built this bridge.” – John J. Watson

– “Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan “press on” has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” – John Calvin Coolidge

– “The only way to find the limits of the possible is by going beyond them to the impossible.” – Arthur C. Clarke

– “Fight one more round. When your arms are so tired that you can hardly lift your hands to come on guard, fight one more round. When your nose is bleeding and your eyes are black and you are so tired that you wish your opponent would crack you one on the jaw and put you to sleep, fight one more round – remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped.” – James Corbett

– “Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.” – Anthony (Tony) Robbins

– “A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must….be undaunted when the going gets tough.” – Ronald Reagan

– “We will either find a way or make one.” – Hannibal

– “The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.” – Vince Lombardi

– “When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it – but all that had gone before.” – Jacob Riis

– “The more you prepare, the luckier you appear.” – Terry Josephson

– “If-determination is fine but needs to be tempered with self-control.” – Unknown

– “Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified buldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.” – Dr. A. B. Meldrum

– “A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.” – Robert Hughes

Short Tattoo Quotes

Please share with us all your experiences with and about tattoos and we will share with you some great short tattoo quotes.

“Have the courage to live. Anyone can die” –Unknown

“A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.” – Unknown

“Wars begin in the minds of men” –Unknown

“I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that do not work” –Thomas Edison

“Success is the best revenge” –Unknown

“To be irreplaceable you have to be different” –Unknown

“I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.”  –William Henley

“Music is what feelings sound like” –Unknown

“Dream as if you will live forever, live as if you will die today.” –James Dean

“If you want something you’ve never had, do something you’ve never done.” –Unknown

“You weren’t put on this earth to be ordinary.” –Unknown

“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.” –Sun Tzu

“Seize the day, place no trust in tomorrow” –Unknown

“Break the rules, stand apart, ignore your head, follow your heart.” –Unknown

“Actions speak louder then words.” –Unknown

“Tell me I can’t, i’ll show you I can.” –Unknown

“Stand for something, or youll fall for anything.” –Unknown

“No man alive, knows the struggles i’ve survived” –Unknown

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” –Unknown

“I may be lying in the gutter, but I’m staring at the stars.” –Unknown

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” –Friedrich Nietzsche
“Let your joy scream across the pain.” –Unknown

“God gave burdens, also shoulders.” –Unknown

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” –Anais Nin

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Leap and the net will appear.”  –Unknown

“Kites rise highest against the wind.” –Unknown

“And in time this too shall pass” –Unknown

“Revel in the chaos” –Unknown

“Fall seven times, stand up eight” –Unknown

“To live is the rarest thing in the world” –Oscar Wilde

“The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all” –Unknown

“Pain is weakness leaving the body” –Unknown

“May I be forever grateful that at times, I did not receive that which I truly deserved.” –Unknown

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” –Unknown

“What doesn’t kill me only makes me stronger.” –Unknown

“Tattoo on the lower back? Might as well be a bullseye.” –Wedding Crashers

“A quote is just a tattoo on the tongue.” –William F. DeVault

“The perfect tattoo… the one I believe we are all struggling toward… is the one that turned the jackass into a zebra.” –Cliff Raven

“Beauty is skin deep. A tattoo goes all the way to the bone.” –Vince Hemingson

“I always look for a woman who has a tattoo. I see a woman with a tattoo, and I’m thinking, okay, here’s a gal who’s capable of making a decision she’ll regret in the future.” –Richard Jeni

“For someone who likes tattoos, the most precious thing is bare skin.” –Cher

“Women, don’t get a tattoo. That butterfly looks great on your breast when you’re twenty or thirty, but when you get to seventy, it stretches into a condor.” –Billy Elmer

“Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.” –Jack London

“The tattoo attracts and also repels precisely because it is different.” –Margo DeMello

“The world is divided into two kinds of people: those who have tattoos, and those who are afraid of people with tattoos.” –Unknown

“Once our minds are ‘tattooed’ with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish” –John Maxwell

“Quirky is sexy, like scars or chipped teeth. I also like tattoos – they’re rebellious” –Jennifer Aniston

“Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent; like tattoos and marriage.” –Drew Barrymore

“Giving birth was easier than having a tattoo.” –Nicole Appleton

“I want to get a tattoo of myself on my entire body, only 2″ taller” –Stephen Wright