Sunday, August 9, 2009

Random Famous Sayings &Quotes

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward in my actions and not from them.
~Author : Hugh Prather Famous Quotes
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When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
~Author : Sacha Guitry Inspirational Sayings

Immortality -- a fate worse than death.
~Author : Edgar A Shoaff Nice Quotes

We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.
~Author : Henry Ward Beecher Great Sayings

What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say
~Author : Logan Pearsall Smith Meaningful Sayings

Those who do not do politics will be done in by politics.
~Author : French Proverb Wise Quotes

Habits - the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.
~Author : Juliene Berk Motivational Sayings

The ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
~Author : Edgar Allen Poe The Murders in the Rue Morgue Famous Quotes

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
~Author : Baltasar Gracian The Art of Worldly Wisdom 1647 Inspirational Sayings

Random Spiritual Quotes and Spiritual Sayings

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
~Author : Dwight D Eisenhower Famous Quotes

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
~Author : Francois de La Rochefoucauld Inspirational Sayings

The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from.
~Author : John Still Nice Quotes

I detest life-insurance agents they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
~Author : Stephen Leacock Great Sayings

Appearances often are deceiving.
~Author : Aesop Meaningful Sayings

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
~Author : Pope John Paul II Karol Wojtyla James Reston Galileo A Life HarperCollins NY 1994 p 461 Wise Quotes

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.
~Author : Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn Motivational Sayings

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.
~Author : Thomas Mann Famous Quotes

My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they're in August.
~Author : Ronnie Shakes Inspirational Sayings

YouTube - Random Facts And Sayings

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
~Author : Christopher Hampton Famous Quotes

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
~Author : Friedrich Nietzsche The Gay Science section 130 Inspirational Sayings

The first rule to tinkering is to save all the parts.
~Author : Paul Erlich Nice Quotes

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
~Author : Theodore Roosevelt Great Sayings

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
~Author : Augustus Hare Meaningful Sayings

Resentment is anger directed at others--at what they did or did not do.
~Author : Peter McWilliams Wise Quotes

A mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions.
~Author : Oliver Wendel Holmes Jr Motivational Sayings

What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
~Author : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Famous Quotes

Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in
~Author : HR Haldeman Inspirational Sayings

Random quotes and sayings

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
~Author : Dag Hammarskjld Famous Quotes

We all live in suspense from day to day In other words, you are the hero of your own story.
~Author : Mary McCarthy Inspirational Sayings

Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
~Author : Niels Bohr Nice Quotes

Actions lie louder than words.
~Author : Carolyn Wells Great Sayings

Love is blind. It will take over your mind. What you think is love, is truly not. You need to elevate your mind.
~Author : Eve Meaningful Sayings

For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.
~Author : Spike Milligan The Goons Wise Quotes

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
~Author : Alfred North Whitehead Motivational Sayings

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.
~Author : Leo Rosten Famous Quotes

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
~Author : Nelson Mendela Inspirational Sayings

Random Famous Sayings

"Where did you put it?"
"Put what?"
"You know?"
"Where do you think?"
"Oh."
~Author : Nicholas Negroponte Director of the MIT Media Lab stating his ideal model of humancomputer interaction Famous Quotes

It is essential to know that to be a happy person, a happy family, a happy society, it is very crucial to have a good heart, that is very crucial. World peach must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just the absence of violence but the manifestation of human compassion.
~Author : Dalai Lama in exile Associated Press 51401 Inspirational Sayings

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself
~Author : Sir Richard F Burton Nice Quotes

The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice; rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.
~Author : Thomas a Kempis Great Sayings

When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
~Author : Walter Lippmann Meaningful Sayings

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.
~Author : William Shakespeare Wise Quotes

I shot an arrow into the air, and it stuck.
~Author : Graffito Motivational Sayings

Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.
~Author : William Hazlitt on the Pleasure of Hating Famous Quotes

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
~Author : Lucille Ball Inspirational Sayings