Year: 2009

Samuel Smiles

“The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.” Samuel Smiles quotes

Douglas Couplan

“And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can’t ever be fixed, and this is something …

Martha Brooks

“When you helped somebody, right away you were responsible for that person. And things always followed for which you were never prepared.” Martha Brooks quotes

Johann K. Lavater

“Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.” Johann K. …

Nelson Mandela

“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.” Nelson Mandela quotes

Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The trees reflected in the river — they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.” Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“I feel we are all islands – in a common sea.” Anne Morrow Lindbergh quotes

Charles M. Schulz

“I have a new philosophy. I’m only going to dread one day at a time.” Charles M. Schulz quotes

Abu Bakr

“Knowledge is the life of the mind.” Abu Bakr quotes

Irving

“The toughest thing about success is that you’ve got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You’ve …

Henri-Frederic Amiel

“Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.” Henri-Frederic Amiel quotes

Sam Brown

“Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.” Sam Brown quotes

David Reisman

“Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.” David Reisman quotes

Gilbert Parker

“Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.” Gilbert Parker quotes

Jerzy Kosinski

“The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.” Jerzy Kosinski quotes

Alexander Smith

“The sea complains upon a thousand shores.” Alexander Smith quotes

Joe E. Lewis

“I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.” Joe E. Lewis quotes

Eve

“Love is blind. It will take over your mind. What you think is love, is truly not. You need to elevate your mind.” Eve quotes

Agnes Repplier

“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.” Agnes Repplier quotes

Gamal Abdel Nasser

“We’re a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.” Gamal Abdel Nasser quotes

Helen Hunt Jackson

“When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.” Helen Hunt Jackson quotes

Isaac Bashevis Singer

“The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.” Isaac Bashevis Singer quotes

Richard Dawkins

“By all means let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.” Richard Dawkins quotes

Lou Holtz

“When all is said and done, more is said than done.” Lou Holtz quotes

Louis

“So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.” Louis quotes

Ingrid Bergman

“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.” Ingrid Bergman quotes

Igor Stravinsky

“Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.” Igor Stravinsky quotes

John James Audubon

“A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.” John James Audubon …

Frank B. Kellogg

“It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day.” Frank B. Kellogg quotes

Thomas H. Huxley

“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” Thomas H. Huxley quotes

Barack Obama

“There’s new energy to harness, new jobs to be created, new schools to build, and threats to meet, alliances to repair./ The road ahead will …

Nikki Giovanni

“We love because it’s the only true adventure.” Nikki Giovanni quotes

David Hockney

“We grow small trying to be great.” David Hockney quotes

Zsa Zsa Gabor

“He taught me housekeeping; when I divorce I keep the house.” Zsa Zsa Gabor quotes

Babe Ruth

“Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.” Babe Ruth quotes

A. J. Kitt

“You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.” A. J. Kitt quotes

Joyce Brothers

“The best proof of love is trust.” Joyce Brothers quotes

Tadao Ando

“When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together.” Tadao Ando quotes

Thomas Moore

“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.” Thomas Moore quotes

Spike Milligan

“All I ask is the chance to prove that money can’t make me happy.” Spike Milligan quotes