Hugh Macleod
“Question how much freedom your path affords you. Be utterly ruthless about it./ It’s your freedom that will get you to where you want to …
Category: Quotes of the day
Elizabeth Aston
“There was no escaping by means of any journey, however adventurous, one took one’s problems and sorrows with one.”
Jean Houston
“At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.”
George Burns
“I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.”
Thorstein Veblen
“Invention is the mother of necessity.”
Andy Warhol
“I am a deeply superficial person.”
Tom Robbins
“If little else, the brain is an educational toy.”
W. Somerset Maugham
“Life isn’t long enough for love and art.”
Tina Turner
“The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself – something that’s in all of us, I think, a …
John Ruskin
“We require from buildings, as from men, two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing …
Aaron Copland
“Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness – I wouldn’t know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self- …
Samuel Johnson
“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.”
Paul Johnson
“The word ‘meaningful’ when used today is nearly always meaningless.”
Robert X. Cringely
“If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost 0, get a million miles per gallon, and …
Arthur C. Clarke
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
Meredith Willson
“Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.”
Mary Tyler Moore
“Having a dream is what keeps you alive. Overcoming the challenges make life worth living.”
Michael J. Fox
“One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.”
John Henry Cardinal Newman
“Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All …
Alexandre Dumas
“Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.”
Albert Camus
“Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.”
Ernest Benn
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
Thomas Merton
“The least of learning is done in the classrooms.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Science arose from poetry–when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.”
Victor Hugo
“To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.”
Scott Adams
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
Charles McCabe
“Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.”
Bill Hoest
“I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.”
Joe Martin
“The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there’s no law against wacking them around a little.”
Elbert Hubbard
“To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.”
Helmuth von Moltke
“First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.”
Charles Caleb Colton
“Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.”
John Heywood
“A man may well bring a horse to the water but he cannot make him drink.”
Robert J. Sawyer
“General principles should not be based on exceptional cases.”
Peter McWilliams
“Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can’t change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. …
Reverend Sean Parker Dennison
“The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy.”
Rebecca Beard
“The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was …
William Arthur Ward
“We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.”
Bertrand Russell
“In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.”