Monday, February 18, 2008
Daily Famous Quotations
Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts"
People find life entirely too time-consuming.
Samuel Butler
I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.
Elbert Hubbard
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?
Daniel J. Boorstin
Americans expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly...to revere God and be God.
Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Mentat Fixe
Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ablility to learn. The judgemental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.
Aaron Copland
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity.
Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
George Carlin
There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Ridicule is the best test of truth.
Stephen Covey
Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.
More Quotations
In quotes: Kosovo reaction (BBC News)
Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:30:19 GMT
Kosovo's declaration of independence brings wide-ranging and conflicting reactions from global leaders.
Stock & fund quotes
Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:16:00 GMT
ninemsn - The Singapore Airshow gives planemakers a shopfront to the fast-growing Asian aviation market, but worries about a global economic slowdown and delays to Boeing's new 787 jumbo risk denting the ...
¶ 11:13 PM
Today's Famous Quotations:
Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts"
People find life entirely too time-consuming.
Samuel Butler
I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.
Elbert Hubbard
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?
Daniel J. Boorstin
Americans expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly...to revere God and be God.
Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Mentat Fixe
Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ablility to learn. The judgemental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.
Aaron Copland
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity.
Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
George Carlin
There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Ridicule is the best test of truth.
Stephen Covey
Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.
More Quotations
In quotes: Kosovo reaction (BBC News)
Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:30:19 GMT
Kosovo's declaration of independence brings wide-ranging and conflicting reactions from global leaders.
Stock & fund quotes
Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:16:00 GMT
ninemsn - The Singapore Airshow gives planemakers a shopfront to the fast-growing Asian aviation market, but worries about a global economic slowdown and delays to Boeing's new 787 jumbo risk denting the ...
¶ 11:13 PM
