Selected Quotes
“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” - Dr. Seuss
"You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality."
- Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
I have
nothing to declare except my genius."
"If you
are going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill
(1874-1965)
"He is
one of those people who would be enormously improved by death."
"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact." - George Eliot (1819-1880)
"I've
had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx (1895-1977)
"A
friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on
friendship."
"A
people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
"Perfection
is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing
left to take away." - Antoine de Saint Exupery
"Life
is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
- Isaac Asimov
"If you
want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the
universe."
"Knowledge
speaks, but wisdom listens." - Jimi Hendrix
"If
everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough." - Mario Andretti
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. - Mark Twain
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
- Peter F. Drucker
“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” - Dr. Seuss
"His
ignorance is encyclopedic" - Abba Eban (1915-2002)
"You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality."
- Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
"Not
everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be
counted." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"A lie
gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants
on."
- Sir Winston Churchill
(1874-1965)
"I do
not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense,
reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In
theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice,
there is." - Yogi Berra
"I find
that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
"In the
End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our
friends." - Martin Luther King Jr.
(1929-1968)
"Whether
you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."
- Henry Ford (1863-1947)
"Do, or
do not. There is no 'try'." - Yoda ('The Empire Strikes
Back')
"There
are no facts, only interpretations." - Friedrich Nietzsche
(1844-1900)
"Dancing
is silent poetry." - Simonides (556-468bc)
"Whenever
I climb, I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'." - Friedrich Nietzsche
(1844-1900)
"Everybody
pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn." - Arnold Schwarzenegger
(1947-)
"Never
interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte
(1769-1821)
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) upon
arriving at U.S. customs 1882
"Talent
does what it can; genius does what it must."
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
(1803-1873)
"He who
has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
(1844-1900)
"I'm
all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's
start with typewriters." - Frank Lloyd Wright
(1868-1959)
"Some
cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"God is
a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." - Voltaire (1694-1778)
- H. H. Munro (Saki)
(1870-1916)
"I am
ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of
meeting me is another matter." - Sir Winston Churchill
(1874-1965)
"When
you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the
attention of the world." - George Washington Carver
(1864-1943)
"I have
not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
- Thomas Alva Edison
(1847-1931)
"Maybe
this world is another planet's Hell." - Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact." - George Eliot (1819-1880)
- John D. Rockefeller
(1874-1960)
"An
inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an
inconvenience rightly considered." - Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(1874-1936)
"Be
nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down."
- Jimmy Durante
"The
true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no
good." - Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
(1890-1969), Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953
"The
significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we
were at when we created them." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
- Isaac Asimov
- Carl Sagan (1934-1996)
"To
love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance" - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"The
nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's
their fault." - Henry Kissinger (1923-)
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. - Mark Twain
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
- Peter F. Drucker
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