Henri Poincare
“Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.”
Category: Quotes of the day
Anais Nin
“Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, …
Malcolm Gladwell
“The face is not a secondary billboard for our internal feelings. It is an equal partner in the emotional process.”
Charles Darwin
“The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.”
Herb Caen
“Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.”
Elizabeth Janeway
“We don’t get offered crises, they arrive.”
Randy K. Milholland
“Success only hurts the first time.”
Ken Rockwell
“Your equipment DOES NOT affect the quality of your image. The less time and effort you spend worrying about your equipment the more time and …
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
“I used to think of all the billions of people in the world, and of all those people, how was I going to meet the …
Sharon Gold
“Throw out an alarming alarm clock. If the ring is loud and strident, you’re waking up to instant stress. You shouldn’t be bullied out of …
Paul Harvey
“In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.”
William Faulkner
“The artist doesn’t have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to …
Tom Stoppard
“We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being …
E. B. White
“People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.”
Gail Pool
“Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.”
Theodore Parker
“Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.”
Peter De Vries
“I love being a writer. What I can’t stand is the paperwork.”
Mason Cooley
“Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.”
Ernest Rutherford
“All science is either physics or stamp collecting.”
James Carr
“I don’t have an English accent because this is what English sounds like when spoken properly.”
Elizabeth Moon
“It’s all knowing what to start with. If you start in the right place and follow all the steps, you will get to the right …
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
“A self that is only differentiated – not integrated – may attain great individual accomplishments, but risks being mired in self-centered egotism. By the same …
Colleen Wainwright
“Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.”
Charles W. Eliot
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.”
William Ralph Inge
“A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.”
Fred Allen
“I can’t understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.”
Phillip C. McGraw
“At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you’re living your life doesn’t matter. What matters is whether …
Chuck Sigars
“Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.”
Dennis Koenig and Jordan Budde
“Dreams are postcards from our subconscious, inner self to outer self, right brain trying to cross that moat to the left. Too often they come …
Mo Udall
“If you can find something everyone agrees on, it’s wrong.”
Suzanne Gordon
“To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.”
Amber Deckers
“Never let the fear of failure be an excuse for not trying. Society tells us that to fail is the most terrible thing in the …
Socrates
“By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll be happy. If you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”
Barbara Tober
“Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.”
Susan Partnow
“It is within the families themselves where peace can begin.”
Jack London
“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
Mike Myers
“And I loved the whole idea behind the story, which is that you’re beautiful, so don’t let other people tell you that you’re not just …
Isaac Asimov
“Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.”
Rita Rudner
“Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That’s how rich I want to be.”
H. Mathews
“A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.”