Category: Quotes of the day

Abert, Geoffrey F.

The most important thing about goals is having one. Abert, Geoffrey F. quotes

Broch, Hermann

Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part. Broch, Hermann quotes

Thomas Dekker

“We are ne’er like angels till our passion dies.” Thomas Dekker quotes

William Jefferson Clinton

“I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo: your time has come — and gone. It’s time for …

To be a woman condemned to a wretched and disgraceful punishment is no impediment to beauty, but it is an insurmountable obstacle to power. Like all persons of real genius, her ladyship well knew what accorded with her nature and her means. Poverty disgusted her -subjection deprived her of two-thirds of her greatness. Her ladyship was only a queen amongst queens: the enjoyment of satisfied pride was essential to her sway. To command beings of an inferior nature, was, to her, rather a humiliation than a pleasure.

Author: Alexander DumasTheme: Nature, Beauty, PowerWords: pleasure

German Proverb: When Christ was along, …

When Christ was along, the devil tempted him. German Proverb Proverb Link: When Christ was along, …See More: German Proverbs (2196 Proverbs) German Proverb: When …

Ormont, Jules

Make yourself indispensable, and you will move up. Act as though you are indispensable, and you will move out. Ormont, Jules quotes

Nature, who has played so many queer tricks upon us, making us so unequally of clay and diamonds, of rainbow and granite, and stuffed them into a case, often of the most incongruous, for the poet has a butche?s face and the butcher a poe?s; nature, who delights in muddle and mystery, so that even now (the first of November, 1927) we know not why we go upstairs, or why we come down again, our most daily movements are like the passage of a ship on an unknown sea, and the sailors at the mast-head ask, pointing their glasses to the horizon: Is there land or is there none? to which, if we are prophets, we make answer?Ye?; if we are truthful we say?N?; nature, who has so much to answer for besides the perhaps unwieldy length of this sentence, has further complicated her task and added to our confusion by providing not only a perfect ragbag of odds and ends within u?a piece of a policema?s trousers lying cheek by jowl with Queen Alexandr?s wedding vei?but has contrived that the whole assortment shall be lightly stitched together by a single thread. Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and thither. We know not what comes next, or what follows after. Thus, the most ordinary movement in the world, such as sitting down at a table and pulling the inkstand towards one, may agitate a thousand odd, disconnected fragments, now bright, now dim, hanging and bobbing and dipping and flaunting, like the underlinen of a family of fourteen on a line in a gale of wind. Instead of being a single, downright, bluff piece of work of which no man need feel ashamed, our commonest deeds are set about with a fluttering and flickering of wings, a rising and falling of lights.

Author: Virginia WoolfTheme: Nature, Work, WeddingWords: world, face, together, set, perhaps, line, poet, confusion

Desmond Morris

“We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This …

Ever since his first ecstasy or vision of Christminster and its possibilities, Jude had meditated much and curiously on the probable sort of process that was involved in turning the expressions of one language into those of another. He concluded that a grammar of the required tongue would contain, primarily, a rule, prescription, or clue of the nature of a secret cipher, which, once known, would enable him, by merely applying it, to change at will all words of his own speech into those of the foreign one. His childish idea was, in fact, a pushing to the extremity of mathematical precision what is everywhere known as Grimm’s La?an aggrandizement of rough rules to ideal completeness. Thus he assumed that the words of the required language were always to be found somewhere latent in the words of the given language by those who had the art to uncover them, such art being furnished by the books aforesaid.

Author: Thomas HardyTheme: Art, Nature, ChangeWords: fact, idea, since, sort, given, language, secret, process

burial

Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung. – Heraclitus

Allan Heinberg

“I admit it’s tempting to wish for the perfect boss, or the perfect parent, or the perfect outfit, but maybe the best any of us …