Quotes

Maybe when you die you come before a big bearded man on a big throne and you say "Is this heaven?" And he says "Heaven? You just came from there." - Kirk Douglas

A dream is not what you see in your sleep. A dream is what keeps you awake. - Abdul Kalam

Love is like Pi, natural, irrational, and very important. - Lisa Hoffman

I think that everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer. - Jim Carey

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear. - George Eliot

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. - David Grayson

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. - Mozart

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however. - Richard Bach

Gratitude begins as a point of focus and evolves to a way of life. - James Arthur Ray

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. - Carl Jung

I've never had a dream in which I'm disabled. - Christopher Reeve

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it." - W.C. Fields

Love: Two minds without a single thought. - Philip Barry

There are two ways to live your life - one is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein

Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. - Carl Jung

I love being alive and will be the best man I possibly can. I will take love wherever I find it and offer it to everyone who will take it. I will seek knowledge from those wiser and teach those who wish to learn from me. - Duane Allman

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition. - Indira Gandhi

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind. - Albert Einstein

Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth. - Mark Twain

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again. - Clint Eastwood

For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked. - Bill Cosby

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies. - Woody Allen

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. - Bertrand Russell

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. - George Bernard Shaw

Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza. - Dave Barry

I am not the type who wants to go back to nature. I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel. - Fran Lebowitz

You can't think and hit the ball at the same time. - Yogi Berra

I have a stepladder. It's a very nice stepladder but it's sad that I never knew my real ladder. - Craig Charles

Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two but can't remember what they are. - Matt Lauer on NBC's Today Show

Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps. - Emo Philips

Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff? - Steven Wright

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close knit family in another city. - George Burns

The quickest way to a man's heart is through his chest. - Roseanne Barr

Women: Can't live with them, can't bury them in the back yard without the neighbors seeing. - Sean Williamson

History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we made today. - Henry Ford

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy! - Louise Bogan

On the water the more maneuverable motor boat gives way to the less maneuverable sailboat. In diplomacy that works well too.

Never assume malice when ignorance is sufficient explanation.

I can have a whole conversation where each sentence is an apology for the previous one. - Norman Mailer

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity. - Goethe

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. - Mother Teresa

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake. - Marie Beyon Ray

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other. - Mary Caroline Richards

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else. - Franklin D Roosevelt

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. - Russell C Taylor

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. - Bill Cosby

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? - Lincoln

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. - Stephen Leacock

Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise. - Lawrence J Peter

Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. - Al Capp

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. - Max Eastman

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. - Thomas A. Edison

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it. - Colin Powell

People think that I can teach them style. What stuff it all is. Have something to say and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style. - Mathew Arnold

Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings, admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of art and science. - Einstein

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. - Marcus Aurelius

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind. - Albert Camus

A lot of people become pessimists from financing optimists. - CT Jones

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. - Gustave Flaubert

Well I firmly stand behind the fact that people don't want to learn how to fish. They just want the fish handed to them, and they want it on the plate, Cajun style grilled with a mango chutney dressing on the side and they want it all done for them. So the closer you can get to doing that for them the more successful you're going to be. - Yanik Silver

Did you know copy writing experts have proven that using the word "work" in an ad decreases response drastically? I guess most people want something for nothing. - Jeff Mulligan

People will do anything for those who encourage their dreams, justify their failures,allay their fears, confirm their suspicions and help them throw rocks at their enemies. - Blair Warren

Great opportunities come to all, but many do not know they have met them. The only preparation to take advantage of them is to watch what each day brings. - Albert E Dunning

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. - William James

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight. - Leo Rosten

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. - Albert Einstein

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. - Mother Teresa

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. - Katharine Hepburn

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. Mohandas Gandhi

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. - John Keats

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. - Charles de Gaulle

What luck for rulers, that men do not think. - Adolf Hitler

I'm certainly not as tough as people think. I'm not a fighter and so forth. I'd just as soon go home. - Jack Nicholson

Remember this -- very little is needed to make a happy life. - Marcus Aurelius

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. - Mark Twain

I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock. - Henry Youngman

A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought. - Albert Einstein

There are a lot of fairy tales on the web and they don't begin with "Once upon a time." - Carl Allen

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything. Life is made up of little things. True greatness consists in being great in little things. - Samuel Johnson

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van Gogh

I believe there is no escape from the rule that we must do many, many little things to accomplish even just one big thing. This gives me patience when I need it most. - James Dupont

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things. - Frank A. Clark

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away. - Charles Caleb Colton

Although many here talk about being able to predict what the outcome will be for a project based on analysis, I try to analyze and predict but I find I have more peace of mind if I accept there is some "mystery" involved in this game and act accordingly. - George Wright

Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself. - Leo Tolstoy

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. - Helen Keller

I'm cautious about innovation; pioneers usually come home full of arrows. - Dan Kennedy

Love gives us in a moment what we can hardly attain by years of toil. - Goethe

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems. - Gandhi