December 30, 2014

Greg Werner: Some men...

Some men throw their gifts away on a life of mediocrity, great men throw everything they have into their gifts and achieve a life of success.
/Greg Werner/

Otto Rank: Art is...

Art is life's dream interpretation.
/Otto Rank/

December 29, 2014

Edward Said: Until the...

Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics.
/Edward Said/

Richard O'Brien: Life's too...

Life's too short to be working with divas.
/Richard O'Brien/

December 24, 2014

Ann Landers: If I...

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would he this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.
/Ann Landers/

Mary MacLane: When I...

When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten.
/Mary MacLane/

December 23, 2014

Brendan Gill: Not a...

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
/Brendan Gill/

Charles Vest: Looking ahead,...

Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message.
/Charles Vest/

Ellen Glasgow: The older...

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.
/Ellen Glasgow/

December 21, 2014

Christopher Morley: The man...

The man who never in his life<BR>Has washed the dishes with his wife<BR>Or polished up the silver plate -<BR>He still is largely celibate.
/Christopher Morley/

December 20, 2014

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nothing is...

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
/Ralph Waldo Emerson/

December 19, 2014

Paul Auster: I've dealt...

I've dealt with numbers all my life, of course, and after a while you begin to feel that each number has a personality of its own. A twelve is very different from a thirteen, for example. Twelve is upright, conscientious, intelligent, whereas thirteen is a loner, a shady character who won't think twice about breaking the law to get what he wants. Eleven is tough, an outdoorsman who likes tramping through woods and scaling mountains; ten is rather simpleminded, a bland figure who always does what he's told; nine is deep and mystical, a Buddha of contemplation...
/Paul Auster/

Soren Kierkegaard: The commandment...

The commandment is that you shall love, but when you understand life and yourself, then it is as if you should not need to be commanded, because to love human beings is still the only thing worth living for; without this life you really do not live.
/Soren Kierkegaard/

December 18, 2014

Lou Holtz: Life is...

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
/Lou Holtz/

Epictetus: Neither should...

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
/Epictetus/

Charles Caleb Colton: There are...

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
/Charles Caleb Colton/

December 15, 2014

Abraham Lincoln: And in...

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
/Abraham Lincoln/

December 14, 2014

Sandra Day O'Connor: Despite the...

Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances.
/Sandra Day O'Connor/

December 12, 2014

Michael Ondaatje: The last...

The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat.
/Michael Ondaatje/

December 11, 2014

Lech Walesa: When I...

When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it.
/Lech Walesa/

Simone De Beauvoir: Change your...

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
/Simone De Beauvoir/

Ada Cambridge: O what...

O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?
/Ada Cambridge/

December 10, 2014

George Sand: Faith is...

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.
/George Sand/

Charles M. Crowe: Easter tells...

Easter tells us that life is to be interpreted not simply in terms of things but in terms of ideals.
/Charles M. Crowe/

December 09, 2014

Sigmund Freud: If the...

If the sole reason why you must not kill your neighbour is because God has forbidden it and will severely punish you for it in this or the next life - then, when you learn that there is no God and that you need not fear His punishment, you will certainly kill your neighbour without hesitation, and you can only be prevented from doing so by mundane force. Thus either these dangerous masses must be held down most severely and kept most carefully away from any chance of intellectual awakening, or else the relationship between civilization and religion must undergo a fundamental revision.
/Sigmund Freud/

December 08, 2014

Benjamin Disraeli: All of...

All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who can condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character, or illustrates an existence.
/Benjamin Disraeli/

Martin H. Fischer: Life goes...

Life goes faster on protein.
/Martin H. Fischer/

December 06, 2014

Sandra Day O'Connor: We don't...

We don't accomplish anything in this world alone ... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates something.
/Sandra Day O'Connor/

John Dewey: Education is...

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
/John Dewey/