Archives  November 2000 Quotes

Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why?
Our fears are a treasure house of
self-knowledge if we explore them.
Marilyn French ( authors )

After all, what is a lie?
'Tis but the truth in masquerade.
Lord Byron ( authors )

I think we're all heroes,
if you catch us at the right time.
Andy Garcia ( authors )

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get ?
only what you are expecting to give ? which is everything.
What you will receive in return varies. But it really has
no connection with what you give.
You give because you love and cannot help giving.
Katherine Hepburn ( author )

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love.
And the story of a love is not important --
what is important is that one is capable of love.
It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
Helen Hayes ( authors )

The problem with having a sense
of humor is often that people you
use it on aren't in a very good mood.
Lou Holtz ( authors )

If you're not just a little bit nervous
before a match, you probably don't
have the expectations of yourself
that you should have.
Hale Irwin ( authors )

All my experience of the world teaches me
that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred,
the safe and just side of a question  is the
generous and merciful side.
Anna Jameson ( author )

The shortest period of time lies between
the minute you put some money away for a rainy day
and the unexpected arrival of rain.
Jane Bryant Quinn ( author )

Hope is a gift we give ourselves,
and it remains when all else is gone.
Naomi Judd ( authors )

I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career.
I've lost almost 300 games.
26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life.
And that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan ( authors )

The key is not the "will to win" . . . everybody has that.
It is the will to prepare to win that is important.
Bobby Knight ( authors )

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived.
Truth is the child of time; ere long
she shall appear to vindicate thee.
Immanuel Kant ( authors )

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Rudyard Kipling ( authors )

People are like stained-glass windows.
They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty
is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross ( author )

Confidence is contagious.
So is lack of confidence.
Vince Lombardi ( authors )

The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life,
and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying
or ever murderous obsession.
Iris Murdoch ( authors )

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism
that you can't face reality.
Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
Malcolm X ( authors )

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity:
it must be produced and discharged
and used up in order to exist at all.
William Faulkner

I've never worked so hard for anything in life.
When one climbs a mountain, the focus is on each step.
Dave Matthews ( authors )

And the day came when the risk to
remain tight in a bud was more
painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin ( authors )

We are slow to believe that which
if believed would hurt our feelings.
Ovid ( authors )

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart.
It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Unknown

Music should be like making love -
sometimes you want it soft and tender,
other times you want it hard and aggressive.
Jimmy Page ( authors )