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Inspirational Quotes

Posted on August 29, 2011 by

The sea was angry that day, my friends, like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli. — George Kostanza

Almost all the other fellows do not look from the facts to the theory but from the theory to the facts; they cannot get out of the network of already accepted concepts; instead, comically, they only wriggle about inside. — Albert Einstein (in a letter to Erwin Schrödinger, August 8, 1935)

Voting in a democracy makes you feel powerful, much as playing the lottery makes you feel rich. — Mencius Moldbug

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away. — Philip K. Dick

If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you’ll be fired with enthusiasm. — Vince Lombardi (US football coach, 1913-1970)

If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over? — John Wooden

If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I’d spent the first four sharpening the axe. — Abraham Lincoln

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing — that’s why we recommend it daily. — Zig Ziglar

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Geniuses remove it. — Alan Perlis

Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. — Mark Twain

I’ll go anywhere as long as it’s forward. — David Livingstone

In the depths of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. — Albert Camus

I don’t like work–no man does–but I like what is in the work,–the chance to find yourself. Your own reality–for yourself, not for others–what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means. — Joseph Conrad

The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. — Henry David Thoreau

Man is surely mad. He cannot make a worm; yet he makes Gods by the dozen. — Michel de Montaigne

Life is 10% what happens to me, and 90% how I react to it. — John Maxwell

You wouldn’t worry so much about what other people think if you knew how seldom they do. — Minutes from the Association of Iron and Steel Engineers, 1961

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. — John Steinbeck

Jack of all trades, master of none, though oftentimes better than master of one. — Geffray Mynshul (Essays and Characters of a Prison, 1612)

Where ignorance is bliss, ’tis folly to be wise. — Thomas Gray (Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College, 1742)

There’s an old saying about those who forget history. I don’t remember it, but it’s good. — Stephen Colbert

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. — George Bernard Shaw

It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering. — Victor Frankl

The wisest men follow their own direction. — Euripides

Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world. — The Buddha

If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup. — Turkish Proverb

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

March Quotes

Posted on February 26, 2010 by

– “Arizona’s forest fires are not waiting for April, and neither will we. That is why I am pushing for stepped up deployment for Hot Shot wildfire crews in March rather than April, in order to better prepare for the expected fires in northern Arizona.” – Rick Renzi

– “Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceuticals are gearing up for bigger sales of psychotropic drugs.” – Phyllis Schlafly

– “By March ’87 we’re down to seven thousand, by the end of the year we’re down to twelve hundred. The whole bottom just fell out of the market. It was bad for me because I was in Australia at the time.” – Eddie Campbell

– “Don’t ever become a pessimist… a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.” – Robert A. Heinlein

– “Dr. David Livingstone left the Island of Zanzibar in March, 1866.” – Henry Morton Stanley

– “Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back.” – Zhu Rongji

– “Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.” – Thomas Carlyle

– “Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.” – Lyman Abbott

– “Every pioneer and musician who could carry a musket went into the ranks. Even the sick and foot-sore, who could not keep up in the march, came up as soon as they could find their regiments, and took their places in line of battle, while it was battle, indeed.” – Joshua Chamberlain

– “For better or worse, I’ve always tried to march to my own drum and tell it like it is, while preserving some integrity and style. God, I’m fabulous!” – Michael Musto

– “For instance, I was a little surprised that the Shiites didn’t rise up against Saddam and the Baath party across most of the country when the Americans moved in March and April of 2003.” – Juan Cole

– “For me the march was a labor – a labor of love – but I was busy handing out flyers for the National Association of Black Social Workers, so I really wasn’t standing in the crowd listening and observing. I was busy.” – Andre Braugher

– “For myself, I believed that that 13th of March should see a fight to the finish, cost what it might! for if Bloemfontein was to be taken, it would only be over our dead bodies.” – Christiaan Rudolf de Wet

– “From the fall of October, 1980 to March, 1984 I never lost a competition.” – Scott Hamilton

– “Hand in hand with nationalist economic isolationism, militarism struggles to maintain the sovereign state against the forward march of internationalism.” – Christian Lous Lange

– “Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.” – John Hannah

– “Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm – walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.” – Billy Joel

– “I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears.” – James Herriot

– “I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers.” – George Armstrong Custer