found a
nice page with some great quotes (while searching for that first one on the list)... just share a few with you:
- "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
- - Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."
- - H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
- "Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
- - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
- "Don't be so humble - you are not that great."
- - Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat
- "Political correctness is tyranny with manners."
- - Charlton Heston (1924-)
- "Give me chastity and continence, but not yet."
- - Saint Augustine (354-430)
- "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
- - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
- "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
- - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
- "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
- - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
- "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
- - Galileo Galilei
- "The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."
- - Emile Zola (1840-1902)
- "The full use of your powers along lines of excellence."
- - definition of "happiness" by John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
- "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is."
- - Yogi Berra
- "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
- - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
- "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
- - Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
- "Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."
- - Henry Ford (1863-1947)
- "Do, or do not. There is no 'try'."
- - Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back')
- "I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."
- - Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)
- "There are no facts, only interpretations."
- - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
- "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
- - Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
- "Dancing is silent poetry."
- - Simonides (556-468bc)
- "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
- - Plato (427-347 B.C.)
- "The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."
- - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
- "Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'."
- - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
- "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
- "Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."
- - H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
- "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must."
- - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)
- "The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'."
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- "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake a whole relationship."
- - Sharon Stone
- "If you are going through hell, keep going."
- - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
- "He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'."
- - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
- "Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions."
- - Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
- "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
- - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
- "God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
- - Voltaire (1694-1778)
- "I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them."
- - Ian L. Fleming (1908-1964)
- "Facts are the enemy of truth."
- - Don Quixote - "Man of La Mancha"
- "When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."
- - George Washington Carver (1864-1943)
- "How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."
- - Anais Nin (1903-1977)
- "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
- - Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
- "There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it."
- - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
- "There are only 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 (1879-1955)
whoops. that's quite a long list huh? well the whole page is way longer... go read if u have the time =) btw, i also have some of my
own quotes somewhere on this page...
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