Sachs, Jonathan : When religion turns men into murderers, God weeps. Too often in the history of religion, people have killed in the name of the God of life, waged war in the name of the God of peace, hated in the name of the God of love, and practiced cruelty in the name of the God of compassion.
Sachs, Jonathan : Religion is at its best when it relies on the strength of argument; it is at its worst when it seeks to impose truth by force.
Sachs, Jonathan : When religion turns men into murderers, God weeps. Too often in the history of religion, people have killed in the name of the God of life, waged war in the name of the God of peace, hated in the name of the God of love, and practical cruelty in the name of the God of compassion.
Safire, William : When you’re through changing, learning, working to stay involved - only then are you through.
Sagan, Carl : There are more than 400 billion stars in the Milky Way, our galaxy. There are 100 million such galaxies in the universe. There are many universes.
Sagan, Carl : We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
Sagan, Carl : For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck away in an obscure corner ... on an unexceptional galaxy which is one of about 100 billion galaxies. . . . That is the fundamental fact of the universe we inhabit, and it is very good for us to understand that.
Sagan, Carl : Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
Sagan, Ginetta : Silence in the face of injustice is complicity with the oppressor.
Sagan, Carl : Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
Sagan, Francoise : I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.
Sagan, Carl : Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
Sagan, Carl : There are more than 400 billion stars in the Milky Way, our galaxyThere are 100 million such galaxies in the universeThere are many universes.
Sagan, Carl : While some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.
Saint-exupery, Antoine De : It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Saint-exupery, Antoine De : Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Saint-exupery, Antoine De : Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures -- in this century, as in others, our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.
Saint-exupery, Antoine De : Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures -- in this century, as in others, our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.
Saint-exupery, Antoine De : A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
Saint-exupery, Antoine De : Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures -- in this century, as in others, our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.
Saint-exupery, Antoine De : A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.
Saint-exupery, Antoine De : Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Salinger, J. D. : I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
Salinger, J. D. : I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
Salvatore, R.A. : With the honest knowledge that one day I will die can I ever truly begin to live.
Sandburg, Carl : Time It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Sandburg, Carl : Time is the coin of your life. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Sandburg, Carl : Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Sandburg, Carl : Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. (Carl Sandburg, U.S. poet and biographer 1878-1967
Sandburg, Carl : Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess what is seen during a moment.
Sandburg, Carl : Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Sanfilippo, David : Students tend not to care about how much a professor knows until they know how much he/she cares.
Sangster, Margaret Elizabeth : Self-complacency is fatal to progress.
Sangster, Margaret Elizabeth : Self-complacency is fatal to progress.
Santayana, George : There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval.
Santayana, George : Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out, and minutely articulated.
Santayana, George : To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
Santayana, George : The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
Santayana, George : There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval.
Santayana, George : Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Santayana, George : Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.
Santayana, George : Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Santayana, George : Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
Sapir, Edward : Language is an anonymous, collective, and unconscious art - the result of the creativity of thousands of generations.
Sapir, Richard Ben : Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.
Sapir, Edward : Language is anonymous, collective, and unconscious, the result of the creativity of thousands of generations.
Sartre, Jean Paul : Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
Sartre, John-paul : Love is a battle in which two free subjects each try to get hold of the other’s freedom while at the same time trying to free themselves from the hold of the other.
Sartre, Jean Paul : The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Sartre, Jean Paul : The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Satir, Virginia : The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand, and touch another person.
Satten, Dorothy Baldwin : A friend is someone who sees right through and likes the show.
Satten, Dorothy Baldwin : Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. (Albert Camus, French Nobel prize-winning writer and philosopher, 1913-1960Generosity: Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. (Albert Camus, French Nobel prize-winning writer and philosopher, 1913-1960Friendship: A friend is someone who sees right through and likes the show.
Saussure, Ferdinand De : Time changes all things: there is no reason why language should escape this universal law.
Saying, Arapaho Tribe : When we show respect for other living things, they show respect for us.
Saying, Arapaho Tribe : When we show respect for other living things, they show respect for us.
Schaef, Anne Wilson : Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order.
Schaef, Anne Wilson : Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order.
Schaef, Anne Wilson : Good health is not something we can buy, but it can be an extremely valuable savings account.
Schaef, Anne Wilson : I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive.
Schiff, Miriam : On the human chessboard, all moves are possible.
Schiff, Miriam : On the human chessboard, all moves are possible.
Schiller, J.C.F. Von : Our safety is not in blindness, but in facing our danger.
Schiller, J.C.F. Von : Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
Schiller, J.C.F. Von : Every true genius is bound to be naive.
Schiller, J.C.F. Von : An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter.
Schiller, Friedrich Von : Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.
Schiller, J.C.F. Von : An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter.
Schiller, J.C.F. Von : Happy is he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
Schiller, J.C.F. Von : No night but hath its morn.
Schinz, Maria : Gardening is an exercise in optimism.
Schlaggenberg, Kejetan Von : Maturity consists of no longer being taken in by oneself.
Schlesinger, Arthur : Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer.
Schlesinger, Arthur : The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.
Schlessinger, Laura : There is no movement without our own resistance.
Schlessinger, Laura : Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
Schnabel, Arthur : The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides!
Schneider, Diana : Optimism is an intellectual choice.
Schoeder, Caroline : Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.
Schopenhauer, Arthur : The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped.
Schopenhauer, Arthur : Pride is the direct appreciation of oneself.
Schopenhauer, Arthur : Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Schopenhauer, Arthur : The will is the strong blind man who carries on his shoulders the lame man who can see.
Schopenhauer, Arthur : With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
Schopenhauer, Arthur : Men are the devils of the earth and the animals are its tormented souls.
Schreiner, Olive : Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.
Schurz, Carl : We have come to a point where it is loyalty to resist, and treason to submit.
Schwartz, Janet : I don't like the fact that doctors are referred to as practicing.
Schweitzer, Albert : We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Schweitzer, Albert : I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
Schweitzer, Albert : Knowing all truth is less than doing a little bit of good.
Schweitzer, Albert : Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Schweitzer, Albert : The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Schweitzer, Albert : A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.
Schweitzer, Albert : The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Scott, Sir Walter : O, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive!
Scott, Walter : I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 'twas said to me.
Scott, Sir Walter : Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
Scott-maxwell, Florida : No matter how old a mother is, she still watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
Scully, Frank : Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?
Seidman, Dov : When you hit the pause button on a computer, it stops, but when you press the pause button on a human being, it starts.
Seneca, Marcus Annaeus : Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
Seneca, Marcus Annaeus : A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.
Sequr, De : Men make laws; women make manners.
Setter, Maurice : Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.
Sevareid, Eric : No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide.
Sevareid, Eric : No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide.
Seward, William Henry : As a general truth, communities prosper and flourish, or droop and decline, in just the degree that they practice or neglect to practice the primary duties of justice and humanity.
Sewell, George : Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.
Shakespeare, William : To thine own self be true.
Shakespeare, William : I am disgrac'd, impeach'd and baffled here, - Pierc'd to the soul with slander's venom'd spear.
Shakespeare, William : Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Shakespeare, William : Ships are but boards, sailors but men.
Shakespeare, William : Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.
Shakespeare, William : What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
Shakespeare, William : Tis the time's plague when madmen lead the blind.
Shakespeare, William : Modest doubt is call'd The beacon of the wise.
Shakespeare, William : There is a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.
Shakespeare, William : Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.
Shakespeare, William : The better part of valor is discretion.
Shakespeare, William : Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value. (Arthur Miller, US. playwright and essayist, 1915-2005Progress: Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent. (Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, mathematician, author, Nobel prize recipient in literature, 1872-1970Behavior: Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
Shakespeare, William : Neither a borrower nor a lender be: For loan oft loses both itself and friend.
Shakespeare, William : Brevity is the soul of wit.
Shakespeare, William : When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when his son gives to his father, both cry.
Shakespeare, William : Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
Shakespeare, William : Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none.
Shakespeare, William : We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
Shakespeare, William : Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone.
Shakespeare, William : These blessed candles of the night.
Shakespeare, William : Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
Shakespeare, William : Sweet are the uses of adversity.
Shakespeare, William : O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse.
Shakespeare, William : The miserable have no medicine but hope.
Shakespeare, William : When sorrows come, they come not as single spies, but in battalions!
Shakespeare, William : The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
Shakespeare, William : The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.
Shakespeare, William : I am as poor as Job, my lord, but not so patient.
Shaw, George Bernard : The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity.
Shaw, George Bernard : The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion it has taken place.
Shaw, George Bernard : Most people do not pray; they only beg.
Shaw, George Bernard : Youth is wasted on the young.
Shaw, George Bernard : Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask whynot?
Shaw, George Bernard : Those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything.
Shaw, George Bernard : Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you wereborn in it.
Shaw, George Bernard : I believe in the discipline of silence and could talk for hours about it.
Shaw, George Bernard : A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.
Shaw, George Bernard : The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
Shaw, George Bernard : Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
Shaw, George Bernard : Life isn't about finding oneself. Life is about creating oneself.
Shaw, George Bernard : The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
Shaw, George Bernard : A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
Shaw, George Bernard : Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.
Shaw, George Bernard : The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.
Shaw, George Bernard : All great truths begin as blasphemies.
Shaw, George Bernard : We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
Shaw, George Bernard : Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
Shaw, George Bernard : A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
Shaw, George Bernard : When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: when the tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity.
Shaw, George Bernard : The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
Shaw, George Bernard : Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
Shaw, George Bernard : Some men see things as they are and say, 'why?' I dream things that never were, and say, 'Why not?'
Shaw, George Bernard : There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.
Shaw, George Bernard : Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
Shaw, George Bernard : Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Shawcross, Lord : The so-called new morality has too often the old immorality condoned.
Sheehy, Gail : Courage demands a temporary surrender of security.
Sheldon, Charles M. : Good resolutions are like babies crying in church. They should be carried out immediately.
Sheldon, Arthur F. : He profits most who serves best.
Sheldon, Charles M. : Put yourself in competition with yourself each day. Each morning look back upon your work of yesterday and then try to beat it.
Sheridan, Mia : Friends are the family you get to choose for yourself.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley : A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.
Sheridan, R.B. : The right honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
Sherman, William Tecumseh : There is many a boy today who looks on war as all glory, but boys, it is all hell.
Sherriff, R.C. : When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch.
Shriver, Sargent : Peace requires the simple but powerful recognition that what we have in common as human beings is more important and crucial than what divides us.
Siegel, Bernie S. : If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn.
Siegel, Bernie S. : One cannot get through life without pain.... What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.
Signoret, Simone : Pains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.
Sills, Beverly : You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Sills, Beverly : Art is the signature of civilizations.
Simon, Paul : Just when I changed all of life's answers, they changed all the questions.
Simpson, Alan : Humor is the universal solvent against the abrasive elements of life.
Simpson, Alan : Those who travel the high road of humility . . . are not bothered by heavy traffic.
Sinclair, Upton : It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Sinclair, Lister : A frightened captain makes a frightened crew.
Sinclair, Upton : It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Sinclair, Upton : It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Sinclair, Upton : It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Singer, Isaac Bashevis : If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Skelton, Red : My doctor said I look like a million dollars - green and wrinkled.
Skinner, B.F. : Education is what survives when what you have learned has been forgotten.
Slyke, Helen Van : If arrogance is the heady wine of youth, then humility must be its eternal hangover.
Smiley, Jane : In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.
Smith, Adam : People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
Smith, Stan : Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
Smith, Logan Pearsall : Many people sell their souls and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
Smith, Logan Pearsall : What I like in a good author isn't what he says, but what he whispers.
Snow, Carrie : A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.
Snyder, Paul : Laughter is the liberation of the soul.
Sockman, Ralph W. : Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength.
Solomon, Andrew : Travel is always both a window and a mirror. Partly what you do is discover another place, and part of what you do is view yourself and your own country differently.
Solomon, Andrew : Travel is always both a window and a mirror. Partly what you do is discover another place, and part of what you do is view yourself and your own country differently.
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr : Own what you can always carry with you; know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your bag.
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr : When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again.
Sontag, Susan : Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
Sontag, Susan : The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
Sontag, Susan : Life is not about significant details, illuminated in a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.
Source, Unknown : Be careful of your thoughts, for your thoughts become your words; your words become your actions; your actions become your habits; your habits become your character; your character becomes your destiny.
Source, Unknown : The finest diamonds occur under the hottest heat.
Source, Unknown : We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
Source, Unknown : It takes a lot of courage to be weak.
Source, Unknown : It takes a friend and an enemy, working in concert, to hurt you to the core the enemy to slander you and the friend to tell you about it.
Source, Unknown : Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
Source, Unknown : In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
Source, Unknown : The ring always believes that the finger lives for it.
Source, Unknown : If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.
Source, Unknown : Be careful of your thoughts, for your thoughts become your words; your words become your actions; your actions become your habits; your habits become your character; your character becomes your destiny.
Source, Unknown : Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Source, Unknown : As long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
Source, Unknown : Not all wanderers are lost.
Source, Unknown : It takes a friend and an enemy, working in concert, to hurt you to the core the enemy to slander you and the friend to tell you about it.
Source, Unknown : As long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
Source, Unknown : Education is the vaccination for prevention of poverty.
Source, Unknown : Bullying is children experimenting with social power.
Source, Unknown : The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on.
Source, Unknown : You never feel so alive as when you are close to death.
Source, Unknown : Nine out of every ten people improve on acquaintance.
Source, Unknown : The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the efficiency of transportation, but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people.
Source, Unknown : A form of governance in which resistance is “feudal.”
Source, Unknown : Go to where the silence is and say something.
Source, Unknown : If it bleeds, it leads
Source, Unknown : America-the nation of the bullet as well as the ballot, and unlikely to change.
Source, Unknown : Disbelief is a form of belief.
Source, Unknown : I will believe that corporations are real people when Texas decides not to execute them.
Source, Unknown : The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep. (Henry Maudsley, pioneering British psychiatrist
Source, Unknown : What we have done for OURSELVES alone, dies with us; what we have done for OTHERS and the WORLD remains and is immortal.
Source, Unknown : Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Source, Unknown : Until one has loved an animal, part of their soul remains unawakened.
Source, Unknown : What men usually ask of God when they pray is that two and two not make four.
Source, Unknown : Luck is what happens when it meets preparation.
Source, Unknown : If only closed minds came with closed mouths!
Source, Unknown : If your vision is for one year, plant rice; if your vision is for 10 years, plant trees; but if your vision is for 100 years, educate youth.
Source, Unknown : The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or un-indebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong.
Source, Unknown : The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable.
Source, Unknown : The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or un-indebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong.
Source, Unknown : So much in the world has been destroyed that I have cast my lot with those who, age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.
Source, Unknown : It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.
Source, Unknown : All great truths begin as blasphemies.
Source, Unknown : Each living creature [is[ a little universe, formed of a host of self-propagating organisms, inconceivably minute and as numerous as the stars of heaven.
Source, Unknown : We are in the world in relationship with others. Our capacity to realize our own objectives is inextricably wrapped up with the capacity of others to realize theirs.
Source, Unknown : Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.
Source, Unknown : Whenever we exploit the earth, we exploit people and cause untold suffering. Working for the earth is not a way to get rich; it is a way to be rich.
Source, Unknown : Prayer is an end to isolation. It is living our daily life with someone . . . who alone can deliver us from solitude.
Source, Unknown : Freedom is the ability to all agree to arrange things in a different way.
Source, Unknown : Never of the living can the living judge - too blind the affection, or too fresh the grudge.
Source, Unknown : Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet has free access to the sum of all human knowledge.
Source, Unknown : Treat your wastebaskets like babies: Keep them within reach at all times, feed them frequently, and change them often.
Source, Unknown : Wit is far more often a shield than a lance.
Source, Unknown : When men realized that women bleed every month and don't die, they became fearful of women's power.
Source, Unknown : The benchmark of greatness is finding joy in loving and serving others.
Source, Unknown : Education is the vaccination for prevention of poverty.
Source, Unknown : He who laughs, lasts.
Source, Unknown : When men realized that women bleed every month and don't die, they became fearful of women's power.
Source, Unknown : Never expect to find happiness in the same place you lost it.
Source, Unknown : For every prohibition you create you also create an underground.
Source, Unknown : It is a sad world that exists only in the present, unaware of the long procession that brought us here.
Source, Unknown : Do not pray by heart, but with the heart.
Source, Unknown : Don’t let the sun set without taking a bite out of the road toward your goal.
Source, Unknown : I always turn to the sports page first which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but people's failures.
Source, Unknown : Some heroes are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
Source, Unknown : Advertising is legalized lying.
Source, Unknown : Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
Source, Unknown : Caesar had the right idea about political control. Give the people bread and circuses [diversion] , and they will go along with it. Almost two thousand years later, the idea still seems to hold true.
Source, Unknown : Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
Source, Unknown : The proper role of the news reporter is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
Source, Unknown : In matters of conscience the law of majority has no place.
Source, Unknown : Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
Source, Unknown : A banker is a man who lends you an umbrella when the weather is fair, and takes it away from you when it rains.
Source, Unknown : The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast you.
Source, Unknown : Old age is when we begin extolling the past at the expense of the present.
Source, Unknown : The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.
Source, Unknown : We all have two choices. We can make a living OR we can design a life.
Source, Unknown : An individual human existence should be like a river. Small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being.
Source, Unknown : Experience is not what happens to people; it is what they do with what happens to them.
Source, Unknown : The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world. Only learning what one does not know can rescue one from the lost world in which everyone claims to have THE answer.
Source, Unknown : The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
Source, Unknown : No to war! War is not always inevitable - it is always a defeat for humanity.
Source, Unknown : When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
Source, Unknown : A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.
Source, Unknown : Nothing is discussed more and practiced less than prayer.
Source, Unknown : Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Source, Unknown : In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.
Source, Unknown : The rich know not who is his friend.
Source, Unknown : A prayer, in its simplest definition, is merely a wish turned heavenward.
Source, Unknown : It could've been.
Source, Unknown : If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so we weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
Source, Unknown : When at night you cannot sleep, talk to the Shepherd and stop counting sheep.
Source, Unknown : To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
Source, Unknown : A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
Source, Unknown : War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination, political nerve, and diplomatic skill.
Source, Unknown : History is often overly informed by memory rather than by assessing the facts, telling the story, and rendering a judgment.
Source, Unknown : If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it.
Source, Unknown : Faith is knowing there is an ocean when you can only see the stream.
Source, Unknown : Study the past if you divine the future.
Source, Unknown : When nothing seems to help, I think of a stone-cutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before together.
Source, Unknown : In life it is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.
Source, Unknown : Every man possesses three characters. That which he exhibits, that which he really has, and that which he believes he has.
Source, Unknown : To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation.
Source, Unknown : If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
Source, Unknown : The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Source, Unknown : There are two ways of spreading light. To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Source, Unknown : Every problem contains within itself the seeds of its own solution.
Source, Unknown : I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Source, Unknown : There is nothing noble in being superior to some other people. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
Source, Unknown : I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Source, Unknown : There are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other jobs should be open to everybody.
Source, Unknown : The world is a great book, of which they who never stir from home read only a page.
Source, Unknown : Life is not a jouirney to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to ski in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, “Wow! What a Ride!”
Source, Unknown : It is well to know something of the manners of various peoples, in order more sanely to judge our own, and that we do not think that everything against our modes is ridiculous, and against reason, as those who have seen nothing are accustomed to think.
Source, Unknown : Education and information without the guiding principles of love and justice lead to the development of guided missiles and misguided men and women.
Source, Unknown : The important thing is not somuch that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
Source, Unknown : Dissent is not only patriotic, it is the essence of what being an American is all about.
Source, Unknown : The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion, but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do.
Source, Unknown : It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Source, Unknown : The challenge is to live consciously and intentionally.
Source, Unknown : We live in a world of continuous partial attention.
Source, Unknown : The excesses of our youth are drafts of our old age, payable with interest, about thirty years after date.
Source, Unknown : Every time I hear that dirty word 'exercise' I wash my mouth out with chocolate.
Source, Unknown : It often shows a fine command of language to say nothing.
Source, Unknown : Call my bluff or take my guff.
Source, Unknown : We don’t have to agree on anything to be kind to one another.
Source, Unknown : Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work for the benefit of all.
Source, Unknown : Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds.
Source, Unknown : Stories unite people: theories divide them.
Source, Unknown : Most problems are really the absence of ideas.
Source, Unknown : When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
Source, Unknown : Capitalism desacralizes nature and makes it a commodity for exploitation and profit.
Source, Unknown : Some people have minds like cement---all mixed up and permanently set.
Source, Unknown : We must never confuse dissent with disloyalty.
Source, Unknown : There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.
Source, Unknown : Great complexity is easier to perceive at times than great simplicity.
Source, Unknown : It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence over us. The same wind that carries one vessel into port may blow another off shore.
Source, Unknown : Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.
Source, Unknown : Better to suffer in a novel situation than to be comfortable in the same old rut.
Source, Unknown : Pick a piece of the problem that you can help solve while trying to see how your piece fits into the broader social change puzzle.
Source, Unknown : Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
Source, Unknown : If the workers of the world want to win, all they have to do is recognize their own solidarity. They have nothing to do but fold their arms and the world will stop. The workers are more powerful with their hands in their pockets than all the property of the capitalists.
Source, Unknown : Gullibility and credulity are considered undesirable qualities in every department of human life -- except religion.
Source, Unknown : Dictionaries are spellbinders.
Source, Unknown : Be the change you wish to see in the world.
Source, Unknown : If a nation expects to be ignorant and free . . . it expects what never was and never will be.
Source, Unknown : A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.
Source, Unknown : The time to win a fight is before it starts.
Source, Unknown : Any nation that expects to be ignorant and free expects what never was and never will be.
Source, Unknown : Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
Source, Unknown : Discipline and creativity are like yin and yang. Both are entirely different and yet without each other, they are nothing.
Source, Unknown : It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
Source, Unknown : The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
Source, Unknown : The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion it has taken place.
Source, Unknown : Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Source, Unknown : What the devil needs is for good people to remain silent.
Source, Unknown : I fear the use of fear and security as the Damocles over the nation’s people.
Source, Unknown : Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Source, Unknown : Prayer is the world's greatest wireless connection.
Source, Unknown : The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you will see.
Source, Unknown : Be careful of your thoughts, for your thoughts become your wordsyour words become your actionsyour actions become your habitsyour habits become your characteryour character becomes your destiny.
Source, Unknown : Life is a long lesson in humility.
Source, Unknown : The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
Source, Unknown : The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Source, Unknown : While some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.
Source, Unknown : People can be divided into three groups: those who make things happen, those who watch thingshappen, and those who wonder what happened.
Source, Unknown : The wise don't expect to find life worth living; they make it that way.
Source, Unknown : Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.
Source, Unknown : People will believe a big lie sooner than they will a little lie, and if you repeat it often enough, people will, sooner or later, believe it.
Source, Unknown : The tragedy of life is not in the fact of death, but in what dies inside while you live.
Source, Unknown : The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; but the realist adjusts the sails.
Source, Unknown : Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
Source, Unknown : A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
Source, Unknown : When you change the way you view things, the things you look at change.
Source, Unknown : Nothing about human life is more precious than that we can define our own purpose and shape our own destiny.
Source, Unknown : Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
Source, Unknown : We must each ask ourselves: What is the right and creative thing for me to do in this hour---and do it!
Source, Unknown : Safety first has been the motto of the human race for half a million years; but it has never been the motto of leaders.
Source, Unknown : The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Source, Unknown : The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running.
Source, Unknown : Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
Source, Unknown : Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
Source, Unknown : The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention.
Source, Unknown : We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.
Source, Unknown : Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
Source, Unknown : The best way out of a problem is through it.
Source, Unknown : Treat your wastebaskets like babies keep them within reach at all times, feed them frequently, and change them often.
Source, Unknown : A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
Source, Unknown : A cult is a religion with no political power.
Source, Unknown : If you allow weak leadership, then you must contend with it.
Source, Unknown : Sometimes I think war is God’s way of teaching us geography.
Source, Unknown : I may not be able to change the world I see around me, but I can change the way I see the world within me.
Source, Unknown : Happiness is an inside job.
Source, Unknown : If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
Source, Unknown : Problems are opportunities in overalls.
Source, Unknown : The perfect helmsman is the one who risks with caution.
Source, Unknown : If even one percent of our defense budget were given to diplomacy, it would quadruple the amount we are currently spending on diplomacy.
Source, Unknown : It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Source, Unknown : Study without action is futile; action without study is fatal.
Source, Unknown : You know it's time for change when children act like leaders and leaders act like children.
Source, Unknown : There is no one “history.” Rather, there are just historical perspectives by individuals and/or groups that help piece together chains of events that help explain the past.
Source, Unknown : Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.
Source, Unknown : The followership has a responsibility for creating good leadership.
Source, Unknown : Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
Source, Unknown : We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
Source, Unknown : Anybody who tries to be something to everybody is nobody to anybody.
Source, Unknown : To engage in serious discussion of race in America, we must begin not with the problems of people of color, but with the flaws of American society-flaws rested in historic inequalities and stereotypes.
Source, Unknown : There are stars whose radiance is visible on Earth though they have long been extinct. Similarly, there are people whose brilliance continues to light the world though they are no longer among the living.
Source, Unknown : Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in a female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.
Source, Unknown : Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Source, Unknown : The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests, and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance.
Source, Unknown : Nothing is more beautiful than the visiting of memories, EXCEPT, of course, the making of them.
Source, Unknown : If it is to be, it is up to me.
Source, Unknown : It is inaccurate to say I hate everything related to politics. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
Source, Unknown : It is not just what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.
Source, Unknown : The arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice.
Source, Unknown : Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. (Mark Twain, author and humorist
Source, Unknown : If you have arthritis, calmly say, I was always complaining about the ruts in the road until I realized that the ruts are the road.
Source, Unknown : Experience is the one thing you have plenty of when you're too old to get the job.
Source, Unknown : The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
Source, Unknown : God created sex; priests created marriage.
Source, Unknown : To expect life to be tailored to our specifications is to invite frustration.
Source, Unknown : The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Source, Unknown : Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the world.
Source, Unknown : Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting the result to be different.
Source, Unknown : An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Source, Unknown : The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Source, Unknown : Equaity delayed is justice denied.
Source, Unknown : Religious canons all too often lead to cannons!
Source, Unknown : The man who has done nothing but wait for his ship to come in has already missed the boat.
Source, Unknown : You can only move forward until you get out of reverse, such as through the Truth and Reconciliation process.
Source, Unknown : I am not a teacher but an awakener.
Source, Unknown : If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Source, Unknown : It is not yours to necessarily finish the task, but neither are you free to take no part in it.
Source, Unknown : The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry.
Source, Unknown : Compassion opens the inner door of the heart.
Source, Unknown : War is the enemy of the poor.
Source, Unknown : We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them.
Source, Unknown : Trained to kill, Kill we will.
Source, Unknown : One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.
Source, Unknown : For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe.
Source, Unknown : Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, withouit which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
Source, Unknown : There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Source, Unknown : When two egoists meet, it becomes a situation of an I for an I.
Source, Unknown : Adversity comes with instruction in its hand.
Source, Unknown : If architects want to strengthen an old arch, they put more weight on it.
Source, Unknown : Never be afraid to try something new. Remember: Amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.
Source, Unknown : Wrinkles are the service stripes of life.
Source, Unknown : The world is a looking glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
Source, Unknown : Good company upon the road is the shortest cut.
Source, Unknown : The quality of journalism and the quality of democracy go hand-in-hand.
Source, Unknown : All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.
Source, Unknown : Stars cannot shine without darkness.
Source, Unknown : It takes a friend and an enemy, working in concert, to hurt you to the core: the enemy to slander you and the friend to tell you about it.
Source, Unknown : The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or un-indebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong.
Source, Unknown : For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.
Source, Unknown : The master is as tied to the slave as the slave is tied to the master.
Source, Unknown : Aging seems to be the only available way to live a longer life.
Source, Unknown : The U.S. passed from barbarism to decadence, without having passed through civilization.
Source, Unknown : Golf is an ineffectual attempt to put an elusive ball into an obscure hole with implements ill-adapted to the purpose.
Source, Unknown : The most expensive thing in the world is trust, which takes years to earn and only a matter of seconds to lose.
Source, Unknown : She: ‘Before we got married, you told me you were well-off.’ He: ‘I was and didn’t know it.’ Jacob Braude, U.S. writer of wit and humor books)
Source, Unknown : Not old, just bikini-impaired!
Source, Unknown : Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. And lo, no one was there.
Source, Unknown : Those who prefer security over civil rights deserve neither security nor civil rights.
Source, Unknown : The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Source, Unknown : Too early old, too late smart!
Source, Unknown : Every year it takes less time to fly across the Atlantic, and more time to drive to the office.
Source, Unknown : Fear is faith that it won't work out.
Source, Unknown : Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Source, Unknown : A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Source, Unknown : There are more people in China who speak English than there are in the U.S.
Source, Unknown : One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
Source, Unknown : Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Source, Unknown : I am an atheist, thank God!
Source, Unknown : Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
Source, Unknown : All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
Source, Unknown : The finest diamonds occur under the hottest heat.
Source, Unknown : Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end.
Source, Unknown : One of the best reasons to learn something is to give it away.
Source, Unknown : There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Source, Unknown : People are like bicycles; they can keep their balance only as long as they keep moving.
Source, Unknown : Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Source, Unknown : Absence diminishes commonplace passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire.
Source, Unknown : Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.
Source, Unknown : Sweet are the uses of adversity.
Source, Unknown : If the U.S. entered the war [WWI] to make the world safe for democracy, she needed first to make democracy safe in America.
Source, Unknown : Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.
Source, Unknown : Good friends are like quilts; they age with you, yet never lose their warmth.
Source, Unknown : Giving rarely moves in a straight line; it usually moves in circles.
Source, Unknown : There is no one history. Rather, there are just historical perspectives by individuals and/or groups that help piece together chains of events that help explain the past.
Source, Unknown : Be the master of your will and the slave of your conscience.
Source, Unknown : If your lips would keep from slips, five things to observe with care are: To whom you speak, of whom you speak, and how, and when, and where.
Source, Unknown : Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
Source, Unknown : If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.
Source, Unknown : Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Source, Unknown : Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels.
Source, Unknown : Start where you are, but don't stay there.
Source, Unknown : Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, neither persons nor property will be safe.
Source, Unknown : Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.
Source, Unknown : The president proposes and Congress disposes.
Source, Unknown : Being literate is the only way to be free.
Source, Unknown : If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
Source, Unknown : We are more alike, my friend, than we are unalike.
Source, Unknown : If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
Source, Unknown : We are the best teachers when we are active learners.
Source, Unknown : Friends are lifelines!
Source, Unknown : Some pursue happiness, others create it.
Source, Unknown : One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
Source, Unknown : Some days you tame the tiger. And some days the tiger has you for lunch.
Source, Unknown : A gulf of unshared experience gapes between generations.
Source, Unknown : The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children.
Source, Unknown : Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness.
Source, Unknown : The most useful piece of learning . . . is to unlearn what is untrue.
Source, Unknown : It is the questions in life that move us forward, not the answers.
Source, Unknown : I will believe that corporations are real people when Texas decides not to execute them.
Source, Unknown : Every problem contains within itself the seeds of its own solution.
Source, Unknown : If you want your ship to come in, you must build a dock.
Source, Unknown : Social norms are not taught; they are overheard, but the on thing even the most skilled deaf people cannot do is overhear.
Source, Unknown : First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you . . . and you win.
Source, Unknown : Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except the best.
Source, Unknown : A company is judged by the president it keeps.
Source, Unknown : The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are equally unique manifestations of the human spirit.
Source, Unknown : If you stand on the shoulders of others, you have a reciprocal responsibility to live your life so that others may stand on your shoulders.
Source, Unknown : A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Source, Unknown : The secret of patience ... to do something else in the meantime.
Source, Unknown : A form of governance in which resistance is feudal.
Source, Unknown : Government run by organized money is more fearful than government run by organized mobs.
Source, Unknown : A bad reader is like a bad translator. He interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally.
Source, Unknown : We travel not to escape life but for life not to escape us.
Source, Unknown : The soul of the grandchild lives in the heart of the grandmother.
Source, Unknown : For the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
Source, Unknown : A cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Source, Unknown : We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
Source, Unknown : The role of religion should be to inculcate a sense not of infallibility but of humility.
Source, Unknown : Language is the armory of the human mind; at once it contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Source, Unknown : Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, neither persons nor property will be safe.
Source, Unknown : I have studied [the dictionary] often, but I never could discover the plot.
Source, Unknown : Never be afraid to try something new. Remember amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.
Source, Unknown : Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Source, Unknown : I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
Source, Unknown : I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election.
Source, Unknown : Anger is only one letter short of danger.
Source, Unknown : What is history but a fable agreed upon?
Source, Unknown : It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Source, Unknown : Enhancing the freedom of some usually means depriving the freedom of others.
Source, Unknown : Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
Source, Unknown : Enhancing the freedom of some usually means depriving the freedom of others.
Source, Unknown : The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or a new thing in an old way.
Source, Unknown : Imagine that if trees gave Wi-Fi, we would all be planting trees like crazy and would end deforestation. It's a pity that they only produce the oxygen that we breathe to live.
Source, Unknown : A gentleman is man who can disagree without being disagreeable.
Source, Unknown : Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
Source, Unknown : Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened but of what people believe happened.
Source, Unknown : I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Source, Unknown : War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.
Source, Unknown : He who laughs, lasts.
Source, Unknown : The ultimate measure of a man is not where he [sic] stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Source, Unknown : Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
Source, Unknown : When you dig another out of their troubles, you find a place to bury your own.
Source, Unknown : Shown oppression, Africans oppress. A continent so long and brutally violated behaves, no surprise, like a person abused. So . . . Africa rages and inflicts pain—chiefly on itself. This perpetual culling and demeaning of people affects the spirit. Imperialism divided the continent by boundaries that reflect neither natural geography nor ethnicity. Colonialism favored some African peoples over others, inflaming and institutionalizing ethnic rivalries as a matter of policy. The Cold War armed and sustained the cruelest of despots.
Source, Unknown : The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.
Source, Unknown : Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass but learning to dance in the rain.
Source, Unknown : The measure of power is not based on how many you beat down but how many you lift up.
Source, Unknown : The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.
Source, Unknown : Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.
Source, Unknown : If you bury the truth, a thousand lies will sprout from the soil.
Source, Unknown : If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.
Source, Unknown : No one can save the one who closes his ears to the truth.
Source, Unknown : Political action is best when it accomplishes the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.
Source, Unknown : Friends are quiet angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
Source, Unknown : The most delightful advantage of being bald - one can hear snowflakes.
Source, Unknown : One must pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while still alive.
Source, Unknown : If Jesus was Jewish, how come he has a Mexican name?
Source, Unknown : Self-pity is one of the most dangerous forms of self-centeredness. It fogs our vision.
Source, Unknown : The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
Source, Unknown : If you pray for rain long enough, it eventually does fall. If you pray for floodwaters to abate, they eventually do. The same happens in the absence of prayers.
Source, Unknown : LISTEN and SILENT are spelled with the same letters. Think about it.
Source, Unknown : I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
Source, Unknown : If you want something talked about, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
Source, Unknown : How can a solution come if everyone is trying to gain more and more? Nobody yet has said, What can I give for a solution, what can I sacrifice to achieve peace?
Source, Unknown : God hath made of one blood all nations of men.
Source, Unknown : What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Source, Unknown : The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.
Source, Unknown : What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Source, Unknown : A bachelor is one who enjoys the chase but does not eat the game.
Source, Unknown : A pessimist is one who feels bad when he feels good for fear he'll feel worse when he feels better.
Source, Unknown : The wise don't expect to find life worth living; they make it that way.
Source, Unknown : The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Source, Unknown : Great progress flows from once laughable ideas - such as moon colonization.
Source, Unknown : The first 25 years of your life, you learn; the next 25 years, you accumulate; the next 25 years, you try to get rid of everything.
Source, Unknown : Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Source, Unknown : To be capable of embarrassment is the beginning of moral consciousness.
Source, Unknown : There are three kinds of people in the world: those who make things happen: and those who watch things happen; and those who wonder what happened.
Source, Unknown : Honor grows from qualms.
Source, Unknown : It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
Source, Unknown : There is no one history. Rather, there are just historical perspectives by individuals and/or groups that help piece together chains of events that help explain the past.
Source, Unknown : Life guarantees a chance---not a fair shake.
Source, Unknown : If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his brain [head]. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Source, Unknown : Equaity delayed is justice denied.
Source, Unknown : Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
Source, Unknown : There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed.
Source, Unknown : Contemporary audiences tend to go towards books and plays which deal with actual events, believing that what happens in life is real and what an artist creates is not. In doing so, they fail to recognize how much more valuable than the real thing the unreal thing can be if it tells us the truth about that thing.
Source, Unknown : Most people think that shadows follow, precede, or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
Source, Unknown : The really happy man is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.
Source, Unknown : To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
Source, Unknown : The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
Source, Unknown : Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.
Source, Unknown : Life gives everyone a second chance; it’s called tomorrow.
Source, Unknown : Don’t go down to the cellar until the windstorm hits.
Source, Unknown : Political equality is meaningless in the face of economic inequality.
Source, Unknown : Everything you want is just outside your comfort zone.
Source, Unknown : If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will do.
Source, Unknown : There [is] a myth, a pervasive myth, to the effect that if we . . . only learn to speak English well-and particularly without an accent-we would be welcomed into the American fellowship. [However,] the true test is not our speech. That accent is heard in our pigmentation, our physiognomy, our names.
Source, Unknown : [We have] socialism for the rich and rugged free-market capitalism for the poor.
Source, Unknown : One of the best ways to learn something is to teach it to someone else.
Source, Unknown : Diversity is desirable only in principle, not in practice. Long live diversity . . . as long as it conforms to my standards, my mindset, my view of life, my sense of order.
Source, Unknown : The evils of free-market capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
Source, Unknown : If it is to be, it is up to me.
Source, Unknown : Every tooth in one’s head is attached to an acupuncture meridian that goes to a different organ in one’s body.
Source, Unknown : I slept and dreamed that life was happiness. I awoke and saw that life was service. I served and found that in service, happiness is found.
Source, Unknown : There are two kinds of light -- the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
Source, Unknown : Chaos often brings life while order brings habit.
Source, Unknown : Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed; everything else is public relations.
Source, Unknown : To expect life to be tailored to our specifications is to invite frustration.
Source, Unknown : No matter how exalted we think ourselves, how high we have risen, we nevertheless bear the indelible stamp of our lowly origin . . . from so simple a beginning-endless forms, most beautiful, most wonderful, have been or are being evolved.
Source, Unknown : There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
Source, Unknown : Never be afraid to try something new. Remember; Amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.
Source, Unknown : Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has and it never will.
Source, Unknown : So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.
Source, Unknown : The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
Source, Unknown : Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
Source, Unknown : Judge each day not by its harvest, but by the seeds you plant.
Source, Unknown : History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Source, Unknown : A man without a vote is a man without protection.
Source, Unknown : We have enough youth. How about a fountain of smart?
Source, Unknown : The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a steppingstone in the pathway of the strong.
Source, Unknown : You have to have an egg to make an omelet
Source, Unknown : Those who have a why or what to live for can bear almost any how.
Source, Unknown : Never cut what you can untie.
Source, Unknown : The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter.
Source, Unknown : Wisdom is having a lot to say and not always saying it.
Source, Unknown : Just as war begins in the minds of men, so does peace.
Source, Unknown : When you feel less than, you spend more than.
Source, Unknown : Turn your stumbling blocks into stepping stones.
Source, Unknown : No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Source, Unknown : In taming our inner dragons, the energy of old and, often, unconscious habits and personal complexes may too frequently overpower our fragile intentions.
Source, Unknown : The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Source, Unknown : Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
Source, Unknown : I am so blessed to have lived long enough to have my hair turning gray, and to have my youthful laughs be forever etched into deep 
grooves on my face. So many have never laughed, and so many have died before their hair could turn silver.
Source, Unknown : An education that teaches us to understand something about the world has done only half of the assignment. The other half is for us to learn to do something about making the world a better place.
Source, Unknown : To improve your memory, lend people money.
Source, Unknown : Language is a city to which every human being brought a stone for the building of it.
Source, Unknown : A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.
Source, Unknown : What other people think about you is none of your business.
Source, Unknown : Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural - while it was recent.
Source, Unknown : When two languages bump into each other, they borrow stuff. We call it borrowing, except words don't need to be returned. Sharing is what makes the world go round.
Source, Unknown : The status of women in a country is a good indicator of the health of its economy.
Source, Unknown : A person is a person through other persons.
Source, Unknown : The forests are my lungs outside the body.
Source, Unknown : Tough times never last, but tough people do.
Source, Unknown : Men are what their mothers made them. Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)
Source, Unknown : LISTEN and SILENT are spelled with the same letters. Think about it.
Source, Unknown : Don’t ever believe that where you are now is the only possibility!
Source, Unknown : If only I may grow firmer, simpler -- quieter, warmer.
Source, Unknown : People differ: Some object to the dancer, and others to the fan.
Source, Unknown : Education is the vaccination for prevention of poverty.
Source, Unknown : How do I know what I think until I see what I write?
Source, Unknown : Cut these words and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive; they walk and run.
Source, Unknown : Growing old may be mandatory, but growing up is optional.
Source, Unknown : Do you know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist.
Source, Unknown : Read one thousand books AND walk one thousand miles.
Source, Unknown : You can get busy living, or get busy dying.
Source, Unknown : Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that, said the Queen.
Source, Unknown : The fate of a nation has often depended on the good or bad digestion of a prime minister. French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, and an advocate for separation of church and state, 1694-1778)
Source, Unknown : I tend to think that those who leave us will live even stronger in our lives as the years go by.
Source, Unknown : Religious canons all too often lead to cannons!
Source, Unknown : You can only move forward until you get out of reverse, such as through the Truth and Reconciliation process.
Source, Unknown : The greatest gift of youth is to be unaware that life is fragile.
Source, Unknown : It takes a long time to become young.
Source, Unknown : I am so blessed to have lived long enough to have my hair turning gray, and to have my youthful laughs be forever etched into deep grooves on my face. So many have never laughed, and so many have died before their hair could turn silver.
Source, Unknown : Native talent is the most evenly distributed resource in the world. It is a resource that can be tapped wherever it is.
Source, Unknown : Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
Source, Unknown : A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social upliftis is approaching spiritual doom.
Source, Unknown : Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
Source, Unknown : Hell is truth seen too late.
Source, Unknown : Luck is good planning, carefully executed.
Source, Unknown : It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Source, Unknown : The Negro knows nothing of Africa [said to have been expressed with pain and distress].
Source, Unknown : We can’t always choose the music life plays for us, but we can choose how we dance to it.
Source, Unknown : Twinkle, twinkle, little star! How I wonder what you are, Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky!
Source, Unknown : Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.
Source, Unknown : There is nothing…to prevent us from reordering our priorities, so that the pursuit of peace will take precedence over the pursuit of war.
Source, Unknown : The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance of the need to change.
Source, Unknown : On your deathbed, you regret what you didn't do rather than what you did do.
Source, Unknown : Chance favors the prepared mind.
Source, Unknown : Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite.
Source, Unknown : A mistake is not a failure, but rather it’s evidence that someone tried to do something.
Source, Unknown : Walking is also an ambulation of mind.
Source, Unknown : The most flexible mode of expression is dialogue.
Source, Unknown : Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass.
Source, Unknown : Life is a foreign language; most men mispronounce it.
Source, Unknown : Failure is not in losing, but in no longer believing that winning is worthwhile.
Source, Unknown : I dreamed of a thousand paths. I awoke to find mine and to follow it.
Source, Unknown : If only closed minds came with closed mouths!
Source, Unknown : Those who wander are not necessarily lost.
Source, Unknown : Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you.
Source, Unknown : Your past is always going to be the way it was. Stop trying to change it.
Source, Unknown : The welfare of each of us is dependent upon the welfare of all of us.
Source, Unknown : If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his brain
Source, Unknown : The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash.
Source, Unknown : We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
Source, Unknown : What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
Source, Unknown : We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
Source, Unknown : Some words in a dictionary are very much like a car in a large motor show -- full of potential, but temporarily inactive.
Source, Unknown : If it bleeds, it leads [in coverage].
Source, Unknown : We have no money, so we will have to think.
Source, Unknown : The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best -- and therefore never scrutinize or question.
Source, Unknown : Failure is not sweet, but it need not be bitter.
Source, Unknown : A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.
Source, Unknown : As Pogo said, “We have seen the enemy, and it’s us.”
Source, Unknown : We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Source, Unknown : It isn't our position, but our disposition, that makes us happy.
Source, Unknown : We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Source, Unknown : A camel is a horse designed by a committee.
Source, Unknown : Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. And LOW, no one was there!
Source, Unknown : War is only good for the countries who sell the weapons.
Source, Unknown : When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Source, Unknown : Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.
Source, Unknown : Creativity is the residue of wasted time.
Source, Unknown : What one needs in life are the pessimism of intelligence and the optimism of will.
Source, Unknown : Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Source, Unknown : What one needs in life are the pessimism of intelligence and the optimism of will.
Source, Unknown : All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
Source, Unknown : Silence is complicity.
Source, Unknown : Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant.
Source, Unknown : Words are loaded pistols.
Source, Unknown : Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
Source, Unknown : Love, friendship, respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
Source, Unknown : By words the mind is winged.
Source, Unknown : Do not regret growing older; it is a privilege denied to many.
Source, Unknown : Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.
Source, Unknown : Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
Source, Unknown : He who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, explore the glen, stem the torrent, and dare the precipice.
Source, Unknown : Those who go to college and never get out are called professors.
Source, Unknown : Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier.
Source, Unknown : Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders.
Source, Unknown : War should be to effect a humanitarian result — not just to kill people and collect real estate.
Source, Unknown : There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us.
Source, Unknown : He who would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Source, Unknown : One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.
Source, Unknown : Anger is the camouflage of sadness.
Source, Unknown : Teachers make all other professions possible.
Source, Unknown : Start where you are, but don’t stay there.
Source, Unknown : What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
Source, Unknown : Language is anonymous, collective, and unconscious, the result of the creativity of thousands of generations.
Source, Unknown : A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.
Source, Unknown : Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.
Source, Unknown : Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?
Source, Unknown : Some folks think they are thinking when they are only rearranging their prejudices.
Source, Unknown : Sport is one area where no participant is worried about another's race, religion, or wealth.
Source, Unknown : There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no causes that I am prepared to kill for.
Source, Unknown : Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
Source, Unknown : Sometimes you win: sometimes you learn.
Source, Unknown : Leaders need to know who they are-including how others see them.
Source, Unknown : Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Source, Unknown : Perfection is the enemy of good.
Source, Unknown : Until one has loved an animal, part of their soul remains unawakened.
Source, Unknown : Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy.
Source, Unknown : No man, or body of men, can dam the stream of language.
Source, Unknown : The excesses of our youth are drafts of our old age, payable with interest, about thirty years after date. (Charles Caleb Colton, English cleric, writer and collector, well known for his eccentricities, 1780-1832
Source, Unknown : B.I.B.L.E. = Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth.
Source, Unknown : You should make the most of this time and place in your life, for never again will you inhabit an environment so challenging and yet so nurturing, so rigorous and yet so forgiving.
Source, Unknown : What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
Source, Unknown : Peace of mind is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.
Source, Unknown : They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Source, Unknown : People change and forget to tell each other.
Source, Unknown : Remember the three Ds: Do it, Delegate it, or Dump it.
Source, Unknown : The turtle only moves ahead by sticking out its neck.
Source, Unknown : Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November; All the rest have thirty-one Excepting February alone: Which hath but twenty-eight, in fine, Till leap year gives it twenty-nine.
Source, Unknown : Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.
Source, Unknown : Children have become so expensive that only the poor can afford them.
Source, Unknown : The first 25 years of your life, you learn; the next 25 years, you accumulate; the next 25 years, you try to get rid of everything.
Source, Unknown : The arc of the moral universe is long but bends toward justice.
Source, Unknown : Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Source, Unknown : There are two kinds of light -- the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
Source, Unknown : Life is not so much about the breath that we take but rather about those moments that take our breath away - those precious memories.
Source, Unknown : The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.
Source, Unknown : There are no extraordinary people, only ordinary people with extraordinary challenges to take on.
Source, Unknown : Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Source, Unknown : For Christian Lent, I gave up my new year's resolutions.
Source, Unknown : It’s not the YEARS, it’s the MILEAGE!
Source, Unknown : Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
Source, Unknown : The process of a living language is like the motion of a broad river which flows with a slow, silent, irresistible current.
Source, Unknown : Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
Source, Unknown : Hope lights the candle instead of cursing the darkness.
Source, Unknown : The study of word origins points to our common humanity.
Source, Unknown : A child prodigy is one with highly imaginative parents.
Source, Unknown : Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one who inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.
Source, Unknown : Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought.
Source, Unknown : Even moderation ought not to be practiced to excess.
Source, Unknown : The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.
Source, Unknown : Keep in mind. . . to a dog you are family, to a cat you are staff.
Source, Unknown : Each and every one of us is a unique musical instrument that echoes her/his distinctive melody. Together we construct the world’s orchestra that makes the universe work.
Source, Unknown : If people empty their purse into their heads, no one can take it away from them, for an investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Source, Unknown : Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
Source, Unknown : Retirement: Twice as much spouse, half as much pay.
Source, Unknown : What we are trying to do may be just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of the missing drop.
Source, Unknown : We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, I speak as a citizen of the world without others saying, God, what a nut.
Source, Unknown : I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
Source, Unknown : On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain. Either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
Source, Unknown : We are all part of the Ocean of Consciousness - in its beauty, vibrancy, majesty, power, expansiveness, and serenity. Each of us may be seen as a wave and never alone.
Source, Unknown : Even moderation ought not to be practiced to excess.
Source, Unknown : If we are to reach real peace in this world . . . we shall have to begin with the children.
Source, Unknown : When plunder [corruption] becomes a way of life for a group of men living in society, they create for themselves . . . a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
Source, Unknown : A mother is only as happy as her least happy child.
Source, Unknown : Stability in language is synonymous with rigor mortis.
Source, Unknown : If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good.
Source, Unknown : The extinction of a language is equivalent to the extinction of a species.... If we lose a different way of linguistically organizing thought, we lose a possible way of seeing reality.
Source, Unknown : Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
Source, Unknown : Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Source, Unknown : Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise.
Source, Unknown : Personal change is inseparable from social and political change.
Source, Unknown : Never of the living can the living judge - too blind the affection, or too fresh the grudge.
Source, Unknown : Horsepower was a wonderful thing when only horses had it.
Source, Unknown : Evil is like a shadow - it has no real substance of its own; it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, by stamping on it. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it.
Source, Unknown : Principles should be guideposts, not roadblocks.
Source, Unknown : A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see-and hits it.
Source, Unknown : The children of Adam are limbs to each other, having been created of one essence.
Source, Unknown : If politics is the art of the possible, compromise is the artistry of democracy.
Source, Unknown : We always use evil to prevent greater evil. How much evil must be done to achieve good?
Source, Unknown : If politics is the art of the possible, compromise is the artistry of democracy. (Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thomason
Source, Unknown : I cried because I had no shoes. Then I saw a man who had no feet.
Source, Unknown : The manuscript of nature is the true scripture.
Source, Unknown : All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Source, Unknown : The seeds of poverty are with institutions, not individuals.
Source, Unknown : Live below your means but within your needs.
Source, Unknown : The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity.
Source, Unknown : Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
Source, Unknown : There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam.
Source, Unknown : Parenting is a lifetime sentence.
Source, Unknown : The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
Source, Unknown : The words a father speaks to his children in the privacy of the home are not overheard at the time, but, as in whispering galleries, they will be clearly heard at the end and by posterity.
Sousa, John Philip : Jazz will endure just as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.
Spielberg, Steven : The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.
Spinoza, Baruch : There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
Spock, Benjamin : Man can be the most affectionate and altruistic of creatures, yet he's potentially more vicious than any other. He is the only one who can be persuaded to hate millions of his own kind whom he has never seen and to kill as many as he can lay his hands on in the name of his tribe or his God.
Spurgeon, Charles Haddon : By perseverance the snails reached the ark.
Stael, Madame De : The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady : Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
Starhope, Phillip Dormer : Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.
Starhope, Phillip Dormer : Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
Starhope, Phillip Dormer : He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.
Stark, Freya : Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.
Steichen, Edward : Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.
Stein, Gertrude : Let me listen to me and not to them.
Steinbeck, John : A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.
Steinbeck, John : The profession of book writing makes horseracing seem like a solid, stable business.
Steinbeck, John : The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
Steinbeck, John : It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
Steinbeck, John : It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
Steinem, Gloria : The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
Steinem, Gloria : Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.
Steinem, Gloria : Women are not going to become more equal outside the home until men become more equal inside the home.
Steinem, Gloria : A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
Steinem, Gloria : Sports help girls and women to perceive their bodies as instruments, not just ornaments.
Steinem, Gloria : A pedestal is as much a prison as any small space.
Steinem, Gloria : The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off.
Stengel, Casey : Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits.
Sterling, John : Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.
Stern, Ellen Sue : My expectations-which I extended whenever I came close to accomplishing my goals-made it impossible ever to feel satisfied with my success.
Sterne, Laurence : A man cannot dress, without his ideas getting clothed at the same time.
Sterne, Laurence : The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
Stevens, Wallace : The poet is the priest of the invisible.
Stevens, Abel : Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.
Stevenson, Adlai : A hungry man is not a free man.
Stevenson, Adlai E. : A hungry man is not a free man.
Stevenson, Robert Louis : The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
Stevenson, Adlai E. : missing quote
Stevenson, Robert Louis : The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
Stevenson, Adlai : My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Stevenson, Bryan : The U.S. has a criminal justice system that treats you better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent.
Stevenson, Bryan : You're better off being rich and guilty in the U.S. than poor and innocent.
Stevenson, Adlai : No gains without pains.
Stevenson, Adlai : Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
Stevenson, Bryan : When you experience mercy . . . you begin to recognize the humanity that resides in each of us.
Stevenson, Adlai : It seems to me that government is like a pump, and what it pumps up is just what we are, a fair sample of the intellect, the ethics and the morals of the people, no better, no worse.
Stevenson, Adlai : Laws are never as effective as habits.
Stevenson, Robert Louis : Is there anything in life so disenchanting as attainment?
Stevenson, Robert Louis : Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
Stewart, Potter : Hard-core pornography is hard to define, but I know it when I see it.
Stine, Joseph : Those who wander are not necessarily lost.
Stine, Joseph : Those who wander are not necessarily lost.
Stone, W. Clement : When thinking won't cure fear, action will.
Stookey, Noel [paul] : One and Many One flame, many candles; one sky, many stars; one sea, many rivers . . .
Stookey, Noel [paul] : One and Many One flame, many candles; one sky, many stars; one sea, many rivers . . .
Stoppard, Tom : Age is a high price to pay for maturity.
Stoppard, Thomas : Contemporary audiences tend to go towards books and plays which deal with actual events, believing that what happens in life is “real” and what an artist creates is not. In doing so, they fail to recognize how much more valuable than the real thing the unreal thing can be if it tells us the truth about that thing.
Stoppard, Thomas : Contemporary audiences tend to go towards books and plays which deal with actual events, believing that what happens in life is real and what an artist creates is not. In doing so, they fail to recognize how much more valuable than the real thing the unreal thing can be if it tells us the truth about that thing.
Stout, Rex : The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher : The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Stravinsky, Igor : I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the varieties of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
Streep, Meryl : I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.
Streep, Meryl : I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.
Strode, Muriel : Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Strode, Muriel : Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Strode, Muriel : Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Strunsky, Simeon : Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach, but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.
Stuart, Janice Erskine : All sorts of spiritual gifts come through deprivations, if they are accepted.
Styron, William : A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.
Suenens, L.J. Cardinal : Hope is not a dream, but a way of making dreams become reality.
Sugar, Bert : Ask a writer what he thinks about critics and the answer you get is similar to what you get when you ask a lamppost how he feels about dogs.
Sullivan, Louis : Form follows function.
Sullivan, Louis : What the people are within, the buildings express without.
Sullivan, Louis H. : Form follows function.
Swetchine, Anne-sophie : Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.
Swetchine, Anne-sophie : The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.
Swift, Jonathan : What some invent the rest enlarge.
Swift, Jonathan : A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying ... that he is wiser today than yesterday.
Swift, Jonathan : Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders generally discover everybody's face but their own, which is the chief reason . . . that so very few are offended by it.
Swift, Jonathan : You can't reason someone out of something he didn't reason himself into.
Swift, Jonathan : Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
Syrus, Publilius : I regret often that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.
Syrus, Publilus : From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
Syrus, Publilius : Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
Syrus, Publilius : The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
Syrus, Publilius : How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
Syrus, Publilius : In quarreling the truth is always lost.
Syrus, Publilius : It is not every question that deserves an answer.
Syrus, Publilius : A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.
Syrus, Publilius : There are some remedies worse than the disease.
Szasz, Thomas : If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
Szasz, Thomas : The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic -- in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea -- known to medical science is work.
Szasz, Thomas : People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something on creates.
Szasz, Thomas : The proverb warns that You should not bite that hand that feeds you. But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.
Szasz, Thomas : The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic – in WORK, the closest thing to a genuine panacea -- known to medical science is work.
Szasz, Thomas : Masturbation is the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century, it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a cure.
Szasz, Thomas : If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
Szenes, Hannah : There are stars whose radiance is visible on Earth though they have long been extinct. Similarly, there are people whose brilliance continues to light the world though they are no longer among the living.
Szent-gyorgy, Albert Von : Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen but thinking what nobody has thought.
Szent-gyorgy, Albert Von : Discovery consists of seeing what everyone has seen, and thinking what no one has thought.
Szent-gyorgyi, Albert : Research is to see what everybody has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.