Abraham Kuyper
“In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, …
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Don’t complain because you don’t have. Enjoy what you’ve got. -H. Stanley Judd
Don’t complain because you don’t have. Enjoy what you’ve got. -H. Stanley Judd
There can’t be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. -Henry Kissinger
There can’t be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. -Henry Kissinger
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. -Maori Proverb
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. -Maori Proverb
To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society. -Margaret Oliphant
To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society. -Margaret Oliphant
Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home. -Alice Walker
Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home. -Alice Walker
Oh, what a void there is in things. -Persius
Oh, what a void there is in things. -Persius
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right. -Henrik Ibsen
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right. -Henrik Ibsen
We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal. -Tennessee Williams
We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal. -Tennessee Williams
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams. Georg C. Lichtenberg quotes
Civilization — a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures. -Malcolm Muggeridge
Civilization — a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures. -Malcolm Muggeridge
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune. -Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune. -Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The injuries we do and the injuries we suffer are seldom weighed on the same scales. -Aesop
The injuries we do and the injuries we suffer are seldom weighed on the same scales. -Aesop
It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it. -Seneca
It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it. -Seneca
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. -Kahlil Gibran
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. -Kahlil Gibran
I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace. -Abraham Lincoln
I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace. -Abraham Lincoln
Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught. -Kin Hubbard
Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught. -Kin Hubbard
Remembrance of things past. -William Shakespeare
Remembrance of things past. -William Shakespeare
That man is idle who can do something better. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
That man is idle who can do something better. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination. -Christian Nevell Bovee
Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination. -Christian Nevell Bovee
Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. -Paul Theroux
Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. -Paul Theroux
About the time we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends. -Herbert Clark Hoover
About the time we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends. -Herbert Clark Hoover
Concentration is my motto — first honesty, then industry, then concentration. -Andrew Carnegie
Concentration is my motto — first honesty, then industry, then concentration. -Andrew Carnegie
Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity. -Christian Nevell Bovee
Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity. -Christian Nevell Bovee
Every business is built on friendship. -J. C. (James Cash) Penney
Every business is built on friendship. -J. C. (James Cash) Penney
Robert Hewison
Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out. Robert Hewison quotes
Sir Lawrence Olivier
Don’t waste your time striving for perfection, instead, strive for excellence — doing your best. Sir Lawrence Olivier quotes
Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics. -Coco Chanel
Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics. -Coco Chanel
"A strategic partner China is not, … But neither is China our inevitable and implacable foe." – Colin Powell
“A strategic partner China is not, … But neither is China our inevitable and implacable foe.” – Colin Powell
In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress. -Heinrich Heine
In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress. -Heinrich Heine
"Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk." – William Arthur Ward
“Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.” – William Arthur Ward
Bella Abzug
“The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.” Bella Abzug quotes
"I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe… Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence, I must confess that I do apprehend some danger." – Daniel Webster
“I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe… Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the …
"If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one:<br/>I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me." – William Allingham
“If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one:I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me.” – William Allingham
Always be planning something. -John A. Schindler
Always be planning something. -John A. Schindler
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect. -Robert Louis Stevenson
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect. -Robert Louis Stevenson
The less people think the more they talk. -Proverb
The less people think the more they talk. -Proverb
"I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don’t want to hold anything in so it festers and turns into pus – a pustule of emotion that explodes into a festering cesspool of depression." – Nicolas Cage
“I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don’t want to hold anything in so it festers and turns into …
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market. -Ezra Pound
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market. -Ezra Pound
Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life. -Eugene O’Neill
Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life. -Eugene O’Neill