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We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

May 19, 2009

Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.
~Author : Erich Fromm Famous Quotes

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.
~Author : H GWells The Time Machine Inspirational Sayings

Man will do many things to get himself loved he will do all things to get himself envied.
~Author : Mark Twain Nice Quotes

May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of his hand.
~Author : Irish Blessing Great Sayings

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.
~Author : Benjamin Disraeli Meaningful Sayings

Qaddafi counted on America to be passive. He counted wrong.
~Author : Ronald Reagan Wise Quotes

I cannot believe that the purpose of life is (merely) to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate. I think it is above all to matter, to count, to stand for something. To have it make some difference that you lived at all.
~Author : Leo Rosten Motivational Sayings

When humans participate in ceremony, they enter a sacred space. Everything outside of that space shrivels in importance. Time takes on a different dimension. Emotions flow more freely. The bodies of participants become filled with the energy of life, and this energy reaches out and blesses the creation around them. All is made new everything becomes sacred.
~Author : Sun Bear Famous Quotes

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
~Author : Morrie Schwartz Inspirational Sayings

No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
~Author : Harold Rosenberg Nice Quotes

Gerry Ford is a nice guy, but he played too much football with his helmet off.
~Author : Lyndon Baines Johnson Great Sayings

Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren’t things to think about any more. All that matters is value – the ultimate value of what one does.
~Author : James Hilton Meaningful Sayings

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
~Author : Harry S Truman Wise Quotes

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
~Author : Gore Vidal Motivational Sayings

If you never budge, don’t expect a push.
~Author : Malcolm Stevenson Forbes Famous Quotes

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
~Author : Mark Twain Inspirational Sayings

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.
~Author : Dean Koontz Nice Quotes

I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
~Author : Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire Great Sayings

Happy Golf requires goofy pants and a fat ass. You should talk to my neighbor the accountant. Probably a great golfer. Huge ass.
~Author : Happy Gilmore Meaningful Sayings

Comfort ye, my people speak ye peace, thus saith our God. Comfort those who sit in darkness, mourning ‘neath their sorrow’s load. For the glory of the Lord now o’er earth is shed abroad and all flesh shall see the token that His word is never broken.
~Author : Isaiah 4018 Bible Wise Quotes

Do what you fear, and the death of fear is certain.
~Author : Anthony Robbins Motivational Sayings

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
~Author : Frederick Douglas Famous Quotes

The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.
~Author : Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Inspirational Sayings

The result justifies the deed. (Exitus acta probat)
~Author : Ovid Heorides c 10 BC Nice Quotes

The power of illustrative anecdotes often lies not in how well they present reality, but in how well they reflect the core beliefs of their audience.
~Author : Barbara Mikkelson Great Sayings

The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done – men who are creative, inventive and discoverers.
~Author : Jean Piaget Meaningful Sayings

I have never seen a more lucid, better balanced, mad mind than mine.
~Author : Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov Wise Quotes

Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.
~Author : Voltaire Motivational Sayings

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.

May 16, 2009

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
~Author : Dale Carnegie Famous Quotes

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.
~Author : Bern Williams Inspirational Sayings

Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one striking thing which deserves to be remembered. Warning the students against an over-concern for money, or position, or glory, he said: “Some day you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.”
~Author : Halford E Luccock Nice Quotes

He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife.
~Author : Douglas Adams Great Sayings

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
~Author : John Kenneth Galbraith Meaningful Sayings

When the destroyer comes, his first act will be to destroy all the books.
~Author : Thomas More Wise Quotes

Just because you love someone doesnt mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.
~Author : Hugh Elliott Motivational Sayings

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
~Author : Albert Einstein Famous Quotes

The Soul is the voice of the body’s interests.
~Author : George Santayana Inspirational Sayings

The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
~Author : Edward Gibbon Nice Quotes

Chastity is the greatest form of perversion.
~Author : Oscar Wilde Great Sayings

There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
~Author : Alfred North Whitehead Meaningful Sayings

Every man who is not a monster, mathematician or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.
~Author : George Eliot Scenes of Clerical Life Amos Barton Wise Quotes

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

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.
~Author : Ice T Famous Quotes

I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, ‘Verify your quotations.’
~Author : Sir Winston Churchill Inspirational Sayings

I probably carry more scar tissue on my derrire than any other candidate-that’s political scar tissue.
~Author : Alexander Meigs Haig Nice Quotes

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
~Author : James Joyce Great Sayings

In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities. In the expert’s mind there are few.
~Author : Shunryu Suzuki Meaningful Sayings

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one’s being.
~Author : Orison Swett Marden Wise Quotes

Space is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts to space.
~Author : Douglas Noel Adams Motivational Sayings

To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.
~Author : Horace Epistles Famous Quotes

Start every day with a smile and get it over with.
~Author : William Claude Dunkenfield W C Fields Inspirational Sayings

Good habits result from resisting temptation.
~Author : Ancient Proverb Nice Quotes

Ultimately, contentment is more a shift in attitude than a change in circumstances.
~Author : Linda Dillow Calm My Anxious Heart Great Sayings

Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
~Author : Joseph Addison Meaningful Sayings

Wisdom is what’s left after we’ve run out of personal opinions.
~Author : Cullen Hightower Wise Quotes

Every time you spend money, you’re casting a vote for the kind of world you want.
~Author : Anna Lappe Motivational Sayings