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In life we all have an unspeakable secret, an irreversible regret, an unreachable dream and an unforgettable love.
Diego Marchi
Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain [Samuel Langhornne Clemens] (1835-1910)
All my life I've wanted to be someone; I guess I should have been more specific.
Jane Wagner/Lily Tomlin (1939- )
It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and THEN do your best.
W. Edwards Deming
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
Samuel Butler (1612-1680)
Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.
Sir James Dewar, Scientist (1877-1925)
We think in generalities, but we live in details.
Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.
Christopher Darlington Morley (1890-1957)
If all pulled in one direction, the world would keel over.
Yiddish proverb
Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.
James R. Cook
If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Anatole France [Jacques Anatole Thibault] (1844-1924)
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)
When all think alike, no one is thinking very much.
Walter Lippmann (1889-1974)
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.
Christopher Darlington Morley (1890-1957)
In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.
Kathleen Norris
The person who has no opinion will seldom be wrong.
One who sits between two chairs may easily fall down.
Proverb from Romania and Russia
My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I'm right.
© Ashleigh Brilliant
The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do.
Harold Coffin
Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
George Burns (1896-1996)
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.
Stanislaw Jerszy Lec (1909- )
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694-177 cool
To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
Olin Miller
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.
Chinese proverb
You must believe in free will; there is no choice.
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991)
This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work.
Thomas Edison (1847-1931)
Useless laws weaken necessary laws.
Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1775)
Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.
C. Northcote Parkinson
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Alvin Toffler
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Walt Disney
And nay, these all hold some bit of truth... So why don't we listen to them??
 xxSoulEmbracedDeathxx · Fri Oct 31, 2008 @ 07:41am · 1 Comments |
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