Many people believe they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.
~Author : William Ralph Inge Famous Quotes
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
~Author : Comte DeBussyRabutin Inspirational Sayings
Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.
~Author : Peacemaker founder of the Iroquois Confederacy ca 1000 AD Nice Quotes
One is very crazy when in love.
~Author : Sigmund Freud Great Sayings
How glorious it is – and also how painful – to be an exception.
~Author : Alfred De Musset Meaningful Sayings
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
~Author : Maya Angelou Wise Quotes
I chose and my word was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken ? the choosing was not. Just keep moving on…
~Author : Stephen Sondheim Sunday in the Park with George 1984 Act 2 Motivational Sayings
When its a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
~Author : Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire Famous Quotes
The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette.
~Author : Henry S Hoskins Inspirational Sayings
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have right that these wants should be provided for, including the want of a sufficient restraint upon their passions.
~Author : Edmund Burke Nice Quotes
From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities. This enterprise is on the whole successful.
~Author : R D Laing Great Sayings
Leaders aren’t born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
~Author : Vince Lombardi Meaningful Sayings
It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse standard of living with quality of life, equal opportunity with institutionalized mediocrity, bravery with courage, machismo with manhood, liberty with freedom, wordiness with articulation, fun with pleasure – in short, all of the misconceptions common to those who assume that justice implies equality for all, rather than equality for equals.
~Author : Trevanian from the novel Shibumi Wise Quotes
I…have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only know that people call me a feminist when I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute.
~Author : Rebecca West Motivational Sayings
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
~Author : Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray 1891 Famous Quotes
If you ever crawl inside an old hollow log and go to sleep, and while you’re in there some guys come and seal up both ends and then put it on a truck and take it to another city, boy, I don’t know what to tell you.
~Author : Jack Handey Deep Thoughts Inspirational Sayings
Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.
~Author : Robert W Sarnoff Nice Quotes
History is full of surprises.
~Author : Arthur Schlesinger Jr Great Sayings
All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned–the biggest word of all–look.
~Author : Robert Fulghum Meaningful Sayings
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive injury.
~Author : Edwin Hubbel Chapin Wise Quotes
Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
~Author : George Santayana Motivational Sayings
Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.
~Author : Martin Luther King Jr Famous Quotes
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
~Author : Bernd Brecher Inspirational Sayings
What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.
~Author : Epictetus Discourses Nice Quotes
Los Angeles, it should be understood, is not a mere city. On the contrary, it is, and has been since 1888, a commodity; something to be advertised and sold to the people of the United States like automobiles, cigarettes and mouth wash.
~Author : Morrow Mayo Great Sayings
The best remedy for anger is delay.
~Author : Brigham Young Meaningful Sayings
I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned.
~Author : Gerald R Ford Wise Quotes
I said I didn’t want to spend most of my life in Holidays Inns, but I’ve checked and they’ve all been redecorated. They’re marvelous places to stay and I’ve thought it over and that’s where I’d like to be.
~Author : Walter Frederick Mondale Motivational Sayings
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