Category: Quotes

Comment Quotes

Sam Donaldson

“I’d rather work with someone who’s good at their job but doesn’t like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny.”

George Wallace

“Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we’ve been bombing over the years been complaining?”

Kevin Kelly

“The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention.”

Josiah Quincy

“When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first.”

David Friedman

“The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.”

Lord Brabazon

“I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go …

An English Professor

“I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top.”

Tove Jansson

“You can’t ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.”

Captain J. A. Hadfield

“This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy …

Daniel Considine

“To get the best out of a man go to what is best in him.”

Noelie Altito

“The shortest distance between two points is under construction.”

Robert Wilensky

“We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that …

Grabel’s Law

“2 is not equal to 3, not even for large values of 2.”

Daniel H. Burnham

“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood…Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.”

Phil Jackson

“Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I’m doing.”

Norman Podhoretz

“Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on …

John Herschel

“Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.”

Dr. Rob Gilbert

“It’s all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.”

Jeffery F. Chamberlain

“In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything.”

James Oppenheim

“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.”

Amy Tan

“You see what power is – holding someone else’s fear in your hand and showing it to them!”

Christiane Northrup, M.D.

“Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your …

Ashley Montague

“Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.”

Norah Jones

“If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won’t matter.”

John Mitchell Mason

“Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou will judge others with the judgment of charity.”

Sir George Savile

“In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness; do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown; and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, …

Trieu Thi Trinh

“My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself…”

Lichty and Wagner

“Oh, I don’t blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I’d be irresponsible, too.”

Lyle Alzado

“I don’t really trust a sane person.”

Peter York

“Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world.”

Ruth Stout

“Working in the garden…gives me a profound feeling of inner peace.”

Evelle J. Younger

“An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for months or years. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.”

John Sheffield

“‘Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.”

Joe Weinstein

“My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can. That’s almost $7.00 in dog money.”

King Whitney Jr.

“Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To …