Kurdish Proverb
“Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.”
Category: Quotes of the day
R. D. Hitchcock
“The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and …
Walt Whitman
“I celebrate myself, and sing myself.”
Frank Zappa
“Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.”
Robert Orben
“I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.”
H. L. Mencken
“Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.”
Mignon McLaughlin
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
Unknown
“Oh, come on. If you can’t laugh at the walking dead, who can you laugh at?”
Lois McMaster Bujold
“But pain… seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on …
Dorothea Brande
“Act as if it were impossible to fail.”
Penn Jillette
“Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.”
Cyril Connolly
“All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.”
Vince Lombardi
“If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?”
Soren Kierkegaard
“Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.”
Augusten Burroughs
“I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”
David Russell
“We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.”
William Feather
“The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.”
Lisa Williams
“The only way to last a really long time is to build something useful enough that people will want to keep it going after you …
Vernon Howard
“You must dare to disassociate yourself from those who would delay your journey… Leave, depart, if not physically, then mentally. Go your own way, quietly, …
Publilius Syrus
“It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.”
Diane Ackerman
“Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.”
Dr. Thomas Fuller
“Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.”
Doug Larson
“Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.”
Dean Martin
“If you drink, don’t drive. Don’t even putt.”
Alan Turing
“Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.”
Stephen Covey
“One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the …
Cindy Chupack
“That’s the key to having it all: stop expecting it to look like what you thought it was going to look like.”
James Howell
“Respect a man, he will do the more.”
Elmer Davis
“The first and great commandment is: Don’t let them scare you.”
Rick Cook
“Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better …
Friedrich Nietzsche
“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
Thomas Jefferson
“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.”
Ruben Studdard
“You can be confident and secure and know that you do a good job at what you do. But you don’t know to be arrogant …
John Grogan
“A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good education, then a dog.”
Shakti Gawain
“We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other peoples’ models, learn to …
Nicholas Chamfort
“An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.”
Bill Vaughan
“If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it’s another nonconformist who doesn’t conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.”
Frank Herbert
“The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.”
Robert Frost
“The best way out is always through.”
Elizabeth Stone
“The particular human chain we’re part of is central to our individual identity.”