Friendship Quotes – a large collection of famous and inspirational quotes
Menu“I may not be the most beautiful, or the sexiest, nor do I have the perfect body. But I don’t pretend to be someone I’m not, I’m good at being me. I might not be proud of some of the things I’ve done in my past, but I’m proud of who I am today. nobody is perfect, but that’s what makes everything interesting.” – Unknown
Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. ~Laurence J. Peter
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. ~Laurence J. Peter
Everyone rises to their level of incompetence. ~Laurence J. Peter
Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves. ~Larry McMurtry
Our all-volunteer force continues to prove itself with a great level of professionalism, personal commitment and a technical competence that is quite remarkable. ~Geoff Davis
The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it. ~Laurence J. Peter
Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence. ~Tarja Halonen
That which has been is what will be; that which is done is what will be done; and there is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything of which it may be said, “See, this is new”? It has already been in ancient times before us. – Ecclesiastes 1:9 – 11 1
Twee boeren eisten dezelfde koe op. Terwijl de ene boer aan de horens trok en de andere aan de staart werd de koe gemolken door een advocaat. – Hebreeuws Gezegde
When you philosophically oppose an entire power elite, you cannot help but sound like a conspiracy theorist. Social power is by nature a conspiracy. – Tom N.
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. – Henry David Thoreau
We know that communication is a problem, but the company is not going to discuss it with the employees. – Dilbert
Video games don’t affect kids. If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we’d all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music. – Nintendo CEO
Malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium.2 – The Palatine of Posen, father of the King of Poland and Duke of Lorraine
We should try to create the society we would want if we didn’t know in advance who we’d be. – Paul Krugman, inspired by John Rawls
Half of writing history is hiding the truth. – Serenity
There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love. – Mother Teresa
The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death! What’s that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you’re too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you’re young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months floating… and you finish off as an orgasm. – George Carlin
Truth, in its struggles for recognition, passes through four distinct stages. First, we say it is damnable, dangerous, disorderly, and will surely disrupt society. Second, we declare it is heretical, infidelic and contrary to the Bible. Third, we say it is really a matter of no importance either one way or the other. Fourth, we aver that we have always upheld it and believed it. – Elbert Hubbard
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. – Voltaire
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. – Thomas Paine
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. – Louis Hector Berlioz
Once the game is over, the King and the Pawn go back in the same box. – Italian Proverb
I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking. The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there’s little good evidence. Far better it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides. – Carl Sagan
Which is it, is man one of God’s blunders or is God one of man’s? – Nietzsche
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. – Napoleon
The ink of the scholar is holier than the blood of the martyr. – Prophet Muhammad
I like your Christ; I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. – Mohandas Gandhi
Lighthouses are more helpful then churches. – Benjamin Franklin
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. – George Bernard Shaw
Morality is doing what is right regardless of what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, regardless of what is right. – Anonymous
It is always darkest just before the day dawneth. – Thomas Fuller, 1650
Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end. – Unknown
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind. – Gandhi
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. – Jimi Hendrix
War is always the choice of the chosen who will not have to fight. – Paul D. Hewson, aka Bono
Terror is the poor man’s war, war is the rich man’s terror. Ultimately, all wars will end either in annihilation or at the negotiating table. – Unknown
A terrorist is someone who has a bomb but can’t afford an air force. – William Blum
Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist – pirate? . You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor. – St. Augustine
Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god. – Jean Rostand
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. – Oscar Wilde
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac. – George Orwell
The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts. – Ivan Illich
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. – Isaac Asimov
I agree with the dictionary; girls before guys.
Color me insane. – Eric
I’m real screwed up. – Shawn
He who hesitates is lost. – Eric
Life’s tough. Get a helmet. – Eric
I don’t sweat. I glisten. – Topanga
Do what I do, don’t think! – Shawn
I’m not fat. I’m festively plump! – Eric
A date is not a date until you kiss. – Shawn
Money doesn’t make you rich. Life does. – Jack
Lose one friend, lose all friends, lose yourself. – Eric
I believe in love like I believe in God. You can’t touch it, you can’t see it, but you can feel its wrath. – Shawn
Believe in yourselves, dream, try, do good. – Mr. Feeney
Sex is like a bike without training wheels. If you try it before you’re ready you crash and break your head. – Eric
He says one thing and does another. He’s a hypochondriac. – Shawn
Blood means you’re related. It doesn’t mean you’re family. – Jason
If you want me to change you have to give me the chance to try. – Eric
I believe that when you find love you hold onto it and cherish it
because there is nothing finer and it may never come again. – Mr. Feeney
Love is the most amazing, rare, and precious thing in the world. – Shawn
And when you love somebody enough it’s okay to be a little selfish. – Shawn
If you could live the next 24 hours and then erase it and start over just once, what would you do?
Have the courage to answer?
“A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.” – Roy Williams
1. “Change will only come about when each of us takes up the daily struggle ourselves to be more forgiving, compassionate, loving, and above all joyful in the knowledge that, by some miracle of grace, we can change as those around us can change too.” —Mairead Maguire
2. “God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it’s me.” —Unknown
3. “Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.” —Alan Alda
4. “Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.” —Pauline R. Kezer
5. “It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable—he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated.” —Leo Tolstoy
6. “A competitive world offers two possibilities. You can lose. Or, if you want to win, you can change.” —Lester Thurow
7. “If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.” —Lao Tzu
8. “No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
9. “The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” —Oprah Winfrey
10. “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” —Alan Watts
11. “He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.” —Harold Wilson
12. “The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.” —William H. Seward
13. ”A great wind is blowing and that gives you either imagination or a headache” —Catherine the Great
14. “No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.” —Barbara de Angelis
15. “The real problem for the creative person is getting over the resistance of those who don’t want to change.” —Unknown
16. “If we fall, we don’t need self-recrimination or blame or anger – we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to re-commit, to be whole-hearted once again.” —Sharon Salzberg
17. “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” —Barack Obama
18. “There are no prescriptive solutions, no grand designs for grand problems. Life’s solutions lie in the minute particulars involving more and more individual people daring to create their own life and art, daring to listen to the voice within their deepest, original nature, and deeper still, the voice within the earth.” —Stephen Nachmanovitch
19. “New insights fail to get put into practice because they conflict with deeply held internal images of how the world works … images that limit us to familiar ways of thinking and acting.” —Peter Senge
20. “I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.” —Georg C. Lichtenberg
21. “The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.” —M. Scott Peck
22. “It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.” —Epictetus
23. “We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.” —Anais Nin
24. “In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.” —Eric Hoffer
25. “The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.” —James Baldwin
Photography is probably the piece of art I love the most. Let me share with you some wonderful, inspiring, photography quotes.
“In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.” – Ansel Adams
“No place is boring, if you’ve had a good night’s sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.” ~ Robert Adams
“It’s weird that photographers spend years or even a whole lifetime, trying to capture moments that added together, don’t even amount to a couple of hours.“– James Lalropui Keivom
“A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.” ~Ansel Adams
“There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.” ~Ansel Adams
“I think a photography class should be a requirement in all educational programs because it makes you see the world rather than just look at it.” ~Anonymous
“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.” – Ansel Adams
“I shutter to think how many people are underexposed and lacking depth in this field.” – Rick Steves
“Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.” – André Bazin
“I am always surprised when I see several cameras, a gaggle on lenses, filters, meters, et cetera, rattling around in a soft bag with a complement of refuse and dust. Sometimes the professional is the worst offender!” – Ansel Adams
“Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop” – Ansel Adams
“A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.” – Roland Barthes
“If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.” –Robert Capa
“Life is like a good black and white photograph, there’s black, there’s white, and lots of shades in between.” –Karl Heiner
“When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls!” ~Ted Grant
“I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn.” –Pablo Picasso
“Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures.” – Susan Sontag
“You know what a camera is? A mirror with memory.” – Anonymous
“I didn’t want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.” ~Wynn Bullock
“One photo out of focus is a mistake, ten photo out of focus are an experimentation, one hundred photo out of focus are a style.” ~Anonymous
“I just think it’s important to be direct and honest with people about why you’re photographing them and what you’re doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul.” ~Mary Ellen Mark
After this great piece of inspiration, please choose your favorite quote and write it on the comments section. Let’s see who’s the more liked one. Also, if you want, you can add some photography quotes that are not on the list. Thank you!
