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Competence Quotes

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

competence quotesEveryone 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

Society and Class Quotes

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

Society and Class QuotesWe 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

Famous Lucille Ball Quotes

“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” – Lucille Ball Quotes

“The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.” – Lucille Ball Quotes

“It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.” – Lucille Ball Quotes

“Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.” – Lucille Ball Quotes

“I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that’s good taste.” – Lucille Ball Quotes

famous lucille ball quotes“I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.” – Lucille Ball Quotes

“A man who correctly guesses a woman’s age may be smart, but he’s not very bright.” – Lucille Ball Quotes

“Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don’t rush; otherwise you’ll look like a patchwork quilt.” – Lucille Ball Quotes

“If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.” – Lucille Ball Quotes

“In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.” – Lucille Ball Quotes

Religion and Death Quotes

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

religion and death quotesTime 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

Funny Quotes About Parents

“Parents are not interested in justice, they’re interested in peace and quiet.” – Bill Cosby

“There are two things that a child will share willingly – communicable diseases and its mother’s age.” – Benjamin Spock

“I don’t think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.” – Woody Allen

“Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.” – Bill Cosby

“Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.” – Peter Ustinov

“Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, and hold our breath, and hope we’ve set aside enough money to pay for our kids’ therapy.” – Michelle Pfeiffer

“Think of stretch marks as pregnancy service stripes.” – Joyce Armor

“Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.” – Yogi Berra

“The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.” – Jim Morrison

“I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.” – Rodney Dangerfield

funny quotes about parents“If your parents never had children, chances are you won’t, either.” – Dick Cavett

“That’s sort of a cliché about parents. We all believe that our children are the most beautiful children in the world. But the thing is, what no one really talks about is the fact that we all really believe it.” – Heather Armstrong

“My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.” – Peter De Vries

“Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people’s children and publicly admit they can do better is asking for it.” – Erma Bombeck

“My husband and I have decided to start a family while my parents are still young enough to look after them.” – Rita Rudner

“Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.” – Kurt Vonnegut

“It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.” – Leo Buscaglia

“Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.” – John Locke

“My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.” – Mark Twain

“Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.” – Ogden Nash

“My parents are my backbone. Still are. They’re the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.” – Kobe Bryant

“I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.” – Dave Barry

“Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.” – Franz Kafka

“The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you.” – Natalie Portman

Relationships Quotes

“Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.” –Miles Franklin

“Assumptions are the termites of relationships.” –Henry Winkler

“Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.” –Leo Buscaglia

“Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.” –Swedish Proverb

“The best relationship is the one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.” –Unknown

“You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.” –Wayne W. Dyer

“Eighty percent of life’s satisfaction comes from meaningful relationships.” –Brian Tracy

“Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.” – Unknown

“Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you’re really strangers.” –Mary Tyler Moore

“A man in a relationship trades intimacy to get sex. A woman in a relationship trades sex to get intimacy.” –Old Proverb

Relationships Quotes“People change and forget to tell each other.” –Lillian Hellman

“Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.” –Brian Tracy

“It is the things in common that make relationships enjoyable, bit it is the little differences that make them interesting.” – Todd Ruthman

“Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you. They are not perfect but are always perfect for you.” –Author Unknown

“There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.” –Martin Luther

“Basically, the only thing we need is a hand that rests on our own, that wishes it well, that sometimes guides us.” –Hector Bianciotti

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” –Anais Nin

“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” –Oprah Winfrey

“Once the trust goes out of a relationship, it’s really no fun lying to ’em anymore.” –Norm from Cheers

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond. –Thomas Love Peacock

War and Conflict Quotes

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

War and Conflict QuotesBecause 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

Famous Quotes on Life

1. You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. – Mae West

2. The most important things in life aren’t things. – Anthony J. D’Angelo

3. And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln

4. Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you’ve never been hurt and live like it’s heaven on Earth. – Mark Twain

5. Sometimes it’s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever. – Keri Russell

6. Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today. – James Dean

7. Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. – Maria Robinson

8. Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. – Maya Angelou

9. May you live every day of your life. – Jonathan Swift

Famous Quotes on Life10. If you wait to do everything until you’re sure it’s right, you’ll probably never do much of anything. – Win Borden

11. Where there is love there is life. – Gandhi

12. For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

13. A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. – George Bernard Shaw

14. The purpose of life is to fight maturity. – Dick Werthimer

15. I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally. – Zelda Fitzgerald

16. Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think. – Horace

17. In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. – Robert Frost

18. The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. – Walter Bagehot

19. Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be! – Miguel de Cervantes

20. Read in order to live. – Gustave Flaubert

21. If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. – Emily Dickinson

22. Life is good, without it we’d all be dead. – Unknown