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Two-Faced People Quotes

Posted on August 29, 2012 by

If your gonna be two-faced, at least make one of them pretty. – Unknown

Although I’m proposing these two rules to strengthen your ability to deal with backstabbing,you’re still going to have to protect yourself – you don’t want to get stabbed in the front for your troubles. – Ronny J. Coleman

While you’re stabbing my back, you can kiss my behind too. – Unknown

Liars are always most disposed to swear. – Vittorio Alfieri

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They’re only powerful when you got your back turned. – Eminem

The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. – George Bernard Shaw

Backstabbing is nothing new. In biblical times, King David experienced the pain of betrayal. – Les Parrott

You’re just like a penny… two-faced and worthless. – Unknown

True friends stab you in the front. – Oscar Wilde

The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places. – Bryant H. McGill

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? – Abraham Lincoln

45 Inspiring Quotes, Adventure Quotes and Life Quotes

Posted on July 29, 2012 by

1. “No dreamer is ever too small; no dream is ever too big.” – Author Unknown

2. “I put all my genius into my life. I put only my talent into my work.” –Oscar Wilde

3. “The only rule is don’t be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.”-Paris Hilton

4. “The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson

5. “I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There’s no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.” –Eminem

6. “I don’t want to not live because of my fear of what could happen.” –Laird Hamilton

7. “As kids we’re not taught how to deal with success; we’re taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?” –Charlie Sheen

8. “I don’t have to agree with you to like you or respect you.”-Anthony Bourdain

9. “When you are everywhere, you are nowhere / When you are somewhere, you are everywhere.” –Rumi

10. “The map is not the territory.” – Alfred Korzybski

11. “Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.” –Author Unknown

12. “If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.”-Clint Eastwood

13. “Actions speak louder than words.”-Theodore Roosevelt

14. “Adventure is worthwhile.” –Amelia Earhart

15. “Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?” – Sun Tzu

16. “Adventure is not outside man; it is within.”-David Grayson

17. “Chance is the providence of adventurers.”-Napoleon Bonaparte

18. “If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.” –Voltaire

19. “Go ahead. Be invincible!” –Author Unknown

20. “When life gives you lemons, paint that shit gold.” –Atomosphere

21. “All energy is only borrowed, and one day you have to give it back.” –Avatar

22. “Drop it like it’s hot.” –Snoop Dogg

23. “The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.”-Germaine Greer

24. “As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.” –Leonardo Di Vinci

25. “If things seem under control, you are just not going fast enough.” –Mario Andretti

26. “It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.” –Andy Warhol

27. “Hate it or love it, the underdogs come out on top.” – 50 Cent

28. “Life is full of beauty. Notice it.” –Unknown Author

29. “Don’t tell me how educated you are. Tell me how much you’ve traveled.” –Mohammed

30. “Have less. Do more. Be more.” –Author Unknown

31. “The world is an interesting place to the imaginative mind.” – Author Unknown

32. “Wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.”-Neil Armstrong

33. “Just do it.”-Nike Slogan

34. “Our truest life is when we are awake in our dreams.” –Author Unknown

35. “Be all that you can be.” –U.S. Army Slogan

36. “The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” – Henry David Thoreau

37. “God did not annihilate His son on the cross so that you could live like hell.” –Author Unknown

38. “A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.” –Muhhamed Ali

39. “If you risk nothing you gain nothing.” –Bear Grylls

40. “During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams.” –Tupac Shakur

41. “Sometimes your whole life boils down to one insane move.” –Avatar

42. “Proof is in the pudding.” –Author Unknown

43. “I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.”-Clint Eastwood

44. “I have a different brain; I have a different heart; I got tiger blood, man. Do you?” –Charlie Sheen

45. “Everything I’m not make me everything I am.” –Kanye West

20 Wisdom and Inspirational Quotes

Posted on July 15, 2012 by

1. It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer. —Albert Einstein

2. Eighty percent of success is showing up. —Woody Allen

3. I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. —Wilson Mizner

4. The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge. —Daniel J. Boorstin

5. The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. —William Arthur Ward

6. If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake. —Frank Wilczek

7. You can never get enough of what you don’t really need. —Eric Hoffer

8. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. —Albert Einstein

9. Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress. —Alfred A. Montapert

10. I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. —Bill Cosby

11. Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. —Spanish Proverb

12. Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. —Oscar Wilde

13. There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem. —Harold Stephens

14. It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them. —Alfred Adler

15. I hear: I forget / I see: I remember / I do: I understand —Chinese Proverb

16. Discipline is just choosing between what you want now and what
you want most. —Unknown Author

17. The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself. —Wallace Wattles

18. Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. —Barry LePatner

19. When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion. —Abraham Lincoln

20. Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. —Winston Churchill

Weekend Inspirational Quotes

Posted on May 19, 2012 by

“Don’t let what you can’t do stop you from what you can do” – John Wooden

“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore” – Christopher Columbus

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall” – Confucius

“A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed” – Henrik Ibsen

“It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities” – J.K. Rowling

“If you are going through hell, keep going” – Winston Churchill

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that’s all” – Oscar Wilde

“You don’t get to choose how you are going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you are going to live. Now.” – Joan Baez

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; But often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us” – Helen Keller

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world” – Albert Einstein

“If you want to be happy, be” – Leo Tolstoy

“Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest” – Mark Twain

“We must be the change we want to see” – Gandhi

“The friend in my adversity I shall always treasure most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity” – Ulysses S. Grant

“Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting” – Elizabeth Bibesco

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of conflict and controversy” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand – and melting like a snow flake” – M.B. Ray

“I shall pass through this life but once. Any good therefore that I can do, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it. For I shall never pass this way again” – Etienne de Grellet

“This above all: To your own self, be true” – William Shakespeare

“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight; and never stop fighting” – E.E. Cummings

“In three words I can sum up what I’ve learned about life: It goes on” – Robert Frost

50 Best Inspirational Quotes

Posted on January 10, 2012January 10, 2012 by

1. “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” – Albert Einstein

2. “Act now. There is never any time but now, and there never will be any time but now.” – Wallace Wattles

3. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle

4. “The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering the attitudes of his mind.” – William James

5. “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin

6. “There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” – Nelson Mandela

7. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.” – Robert Frost

8. “You’ve got to win in your mind before you win in your life.” – John Addison

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

10. “An ounce of doing things is worth a pound of theorizing.” – Wallace Wattles

11. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill

12. “Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.” – Stephen Covey

13. “The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.” – Joseph Joubert

14. ”Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” – Winston Churchill

15. “Don’t wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel Stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.” – Dara Henderson

16. “Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” – Jim Rohn

17. “Vision without action is just a dream, action without vision just passes the time, vision with action can change the world” – Nelson Mandela

18. “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T.S. Eliot

19. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde

20. “Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose yours.” – Paulo Coelho

21. “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” – John F. Kennedy

22. “I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.” – James Joyce

23. “I have learned that it’s not WHAT I have in my life but WHO I have in my life that counts.” – Unknown

24. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau

25. “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn

26. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” – Leonardo da Vinci

27. “Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.” – Goethe

28. “It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined” – Henry James

29. “And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln

30. “Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.” – Will Rogers

31. “Try not. Do or do not. There is no Try.” – Yoda (Star Wars!)

32. “Every man dies. Not every man really lives.” – William Wallace

33. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

34. “There are no limits on what you can achieve with your life, except the limits you accept in your mind” – Brian Tracy

35.“Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

36. “Either you run the day or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn

37. “When I thought I couldn’t go on, I forced myself to keep going. My success is based on persistence, not luck.” – Estee Lauder

38. “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” ~ Elbert Hubbard

39. “The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.” – Tom Bodett

40. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso

41. “The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” – Mark Twain

42. “There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.” – Christopher Morley

43. “Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” – Carl Bard

44. “Nothing important was ever achieved without someone taking a chance.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

45. “I will go anywhere as long as it is forward.” – David Livingston

46. “Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

47. “The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” – Michelangelo

48. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas A. Edison

49. “Strive for progress, not perfection.” – Unknown

50. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than the ones you did. So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

25 Night Quotes

Posted on December 27, 2011December 27, 2011 by

1. “A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” – Oscar Wilde

2. “The night is bright, with a starlit sky, I sit and think, as time passes by. Oh starry night, with a moonlit sky, take me away, and tell me why. Give me a reason, for love’s end, give me a reason, for why I lost a friend. I sit and think, all night l” – Enya

3. “Las Vegas looks the way you’d imagine heaven must look at night.” – Chuck Palahniuk

4. “After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. After every storm, there comes clear, open skies.” – Samuel Rutherford

5. “The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

6. “Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep” – Chinese Proverbs

7. “Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night’s sleep, and you can’t settle anything until morning anyway.” – Rose F. Kennedy

8. “Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.” – Seneca

9. “But we that have but span-long life, The thicker must lay on the pleasure; And since time will not stay, We’ll add night to the day, Thus, thus we’ll fill the measure.” – Unknown

10. “Night is a stealthy, evil Raven, Wrapt to the eyes in his black wings.” – Thomas Bailey Aldrich

11. “Night comes, world-jewelled, . . . The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage War with the lines of Darkness; and the moon, Pale ghost of Night, comes haunting the cold earth After the sun’s red sea-death-quietless.” – Philip James Bailey

12. “I love night more than day–she is so lovely; But I love night the most because she brings My love to me in dreams which scarcely lie.” – Philip James Bailey

13. “Wan night, the shadow goer, came stepping in.” – Philip James Bailey

14. “The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?” – Bible

15. “In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men.” – Bible

16. “I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.” – Bible

17. “When it draws near to witching time of night.” – Robert Blair

18. “The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one: Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.” – Francis William Bourdillon

19. “Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber!” – Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)

20. “For the night Shows stars and women in a better light.” – Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)

21. “The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains–Beautiful! I linger yet with Nature, for the night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man; and in her starry shade Of dim and solitary loveliness I learn’d the language of another world.” – Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)

22. “Night’s black Mantle covers all alike. – Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas,” – Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

23. “O radiant Dark! O darkly fostered ray! Thou hast a joy too deep for shallow Day.” – George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)

24. “Dark the Night, with breath all flowers, And tender broken voice that fills With ravishment the listening hours,– Whisperings, wooings, Liquid ripples, and soft ring-dove cooings In low-toned rhythm that love’s aching stills! Dark the night Yet is she bright, For in her dark she brings the mystic star, Trembling yet strong, as is the voice of love, From some unknown afar.” – George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)

25. “For there is no day however beautiful that is not followed by night. [Fr., Car il n’est si beau jour qui n’amene sa nuit.]” – Epitaph

Kissing Quotes

Posted on November 8, 2011November 8, 2011 by

Kissing is like drinking salted water: you drink and your thirst increases. – Chinese Proverb

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. – Albert Einstein

To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first. – Janeane Garofalo

Stolen kisses are always sweetest. – Leigh Hunt

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek. – French Proverb

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you. – Winston Churchill

I wasn’t kissing her, I was whispering in her mouth. – Chico Marx

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing. – Jonathan Swift

Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it. – Bernard Meltzer

A kiss may ruin a human life. – Oscar Wilde

Funny Short Quotes

Posted on September 25, 2011 by

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. – Unknown

When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep — not screaming, like the passengers in his car. – Will Rogers

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he’s finished. – Zsa Zsa Gabor

There are no stupid questions, just stupid people. – Unknown

I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you’re twenty minutes. – Oscar Wilde

A good sermon should be like a woman’s skirt: short enough to rouse the interest, but long enough to cover the essentials. – Unknown

A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it is written on. – Samual Goldwyn

The road to success is always under construction. – Lily Tomlin

A man’s only as old as the woman he feels. – Groucho Marx

If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button. – Sam Levenson

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made. – George Burns

Energizer Bunny arrested, charged with battery. – Unknown

Love is like a booger. You keep picking at it until you get it, then wonder what to do with it. – Unknown

I’m very pleased to be here. Let’s face it, at my age I’m very pleased to be anywhere. – George Burns

To Live is the rarest thing in the World

Posted on September 23, 2011 by

“To live is the rarest thing in the World. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde

Quotes on Humor

Posted on September 6, 2011 by

“Laugh as much as possible, always laugh. It’s the sweetest thing one can do for oneself & one’s fellow human beings.” – Maya Angelou

“A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.” – Barbara Walters

“He who laughs, lasts.” – Mary Pettibone Poole

“A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.” – Laura Ingalls Wilder

“There is nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.” – Eva Hoffman

“Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.” – Bill Cosby

“A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.” – Henry Ward Beecher

“It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously.” – Oscar Wilde

“When humor goes, there goes civilization.” – Erma Bombeck

“A sense of humor… is needed armor. Joy in one’s heart and some laughter on one’s lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.” – Hugh Sidey

“A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done” – Dwight D. Eisenhower

“I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.” – Frank A. Clark

“No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Comedy is acting out optimism.” – Robin Williams

“A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.” – William Arthur Ward

“Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.” – Allen Klein

“Humor is just another defense against the universe.” – Mel Brooks

“Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.” – Langston Hughes

“Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.” – Christopher Morley

“If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.” – Jennifer Jones

“Humor is something that thrives between man’s aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.” – Victor Borge

“Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.” – Leo Rosten

“Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.” – Langston Hughes

“Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.” – Eric Sevareid

“The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.” – Jacob August Riis