Tuesday, January 08, 2008
Latest Famous Quotations
Phillip Lopate
The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'.
Anais Nin
There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
Max Percy
The priest persuades a humble people to endure their hard lot, a politician urges them to rebel against it, and a scientist thinks of a method that does away with the hard lot altogether.
Saint Jerome, On the Epistle to the Ephesians
Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
William H. Borah
My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.
Seneca
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
Iris Murdoch
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country.
George Whelton
The resounding echo of the mortal coil, echoes in the ears of those who are unprepared for it. To some, it sounds like a symphony - to others, a death toll.
George Fabricius
Death comes to all But great achievements raise a monument Which shall endure until the sun grows old.
Hasidic Saying
To worry is a sin. Only one sort of worry is permissible; to worry because one worries.
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Bond Quotes
Sun, 06 Jan 2008 21:50:00 +0000
The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith. - Bertrand Russell V. Delong
Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. ...]
4 Quotes about Owners
Tue, 01 Jan 2008 21:16:00 +0000
We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich or poor, lovingly nurtured or bled white. Our present attitudes and laws governing the ownership and use of land represent an abuse of the concept of private property…. Today you ...]
3 Quotes on Utilization
Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:54:00 +0000
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the ...] ¶ 11:51 PM
Famous Quotations:
Phillip Lopate
The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'.
Anais Nin
There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
Max Percy
The priest persuades a humble people to endure their hard lot, a politician urges them to rebel against it, and a scientist thinks of a method that does away with the hard lot altogether.
Saint Jerome, On the Epistle to the Ephesians
Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
William H. Borah
My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.
Seneca
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
Iris Murdoch
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country.
George Whelton
The resounding echo of the mortal coil, echoes in the ears of those who are unprepared for it. To some, it sounds like a symphony - to others, a death toll.
George Fabricius
Death comes to all But great achievements raise a monument Which shall endure until the sun grows old.
Hasidic Saying
To worry is a sin. Only one sort of worry is permissible; to worry because one worries.
More Quotations
Bond Quotes
Sun, 06 Jan 2008 21:50:00 +0000
The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith. - Bertrand Russell V. Delong
Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. ...]
4 Quotes about Owners
Tue, 01 Jan 2008 21:16:00 +0000
We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich or poor, lovingly nurtured or bled white. Our present attitudes and laws governing the ownership and use of land represent an abuse of the concept of private property…. Today you ...]
3 Quotes on Utilization
Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:54:00 +0000
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the ...] ¶ 11:51 PM
