Julie-Jeanne-Eleonore de Lespinasse
“If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.”
Year: 2008
Kurt Vonnegut
“Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.”
Albert Einstein
“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming …
Woody Allen
“I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.”
Sir William Preece
“The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.”
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal
“We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.”
Robbie Gass
“Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.”
Dr. David M. Burns
“Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can’t accept your imperfections, that’s their fault.”
Sir Winston Churchill
“When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.”
Seth MacFarlane
“The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.”
Granville Hicks
“A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.”
W. Lee Grant
“Shared laughter creates a bond of friendships. When people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, teacher and pupils, worker and boss. They …
Robert Louis Stevenson
“If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.”
Thomas Guthrie
“Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.”
Andre Gide
“Dare to be yourself.”
P. G. Wodehouse
“It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a …
Noel Coward
“Television is for appearing on – not for looking at.”
Herbert Rappaport
“I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.”
Margaret Mitchell
“Until you’ve lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.”
Langston Coleman
“Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent.”
John Fletcher
“Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate.”
Norman Douglas
“You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.”
Rebecca West
“There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at …
John F. Kennedy
“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”
Dorothy L. Sayers
“A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.”
Ruby Dee
“The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within – strength, courage, dignity.”
Jacques Delille
“Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.”
Norman Vincent Peale
“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”
Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon
“Everyone’s a hero in their own way, in their own not that heroic way.”
Thomas A. Edison
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
Thomas Szasz
“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.”
Edgar Watson Howe
“Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.”
Laura Preble
“There are worse things than looking stupid. Sleeping through life is one of them.”
Frances Moore Lappe
“Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.”
Millicent Fenwick
“Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.”
Bette Davis
“There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. …
Bill Cosby
“The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.”
Joseph Baretti
“I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.”
David Letterman
“Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.”