Archives   October 2000 Quotes

It is only imperfection that complains of what
is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle
and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
Joseph Addison ( authors )

Character builds slowly, but it can be
torn down with incredible swiftness.
Faith Baldwin ( authors )

What I would say, if it?s the wrong guy,
it?s just getting you one guy closer to the right guy.
That?s a nice way to look at it.
[on blind dates]
Cindy Crawford ( authors )

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist.
Drive is considered aggression today;
I knew it then as purpose.
Bette Davis ( authors )

I love quotations because it is a joy to
find thoughts one might have, beautifully
expressed with much authority by someone
recognized wiser than oneself.
Marlene Dietrich ( author )

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes
with the first moments of our first great sorrow,
when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered
and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
George Eliot ( authors )

...And I realized that sometimes the greatest triumphs
in your life come in on little cat feet and sit on silent
haunches and it's up to you to see it before it moves on.
Sally Field ( author )

Recall it as often as you wish, a
happy memory never wears out.
Libbie Fudim ( authors )

There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.
?Scott Adams ( authors )

Destiny grants us our wishes,
but in its own way, in order to give us
something beyond our wishes.
?Goethe ( wishes )

You probably wouldn't worry about what people
think of you if you could know how seldom they do.
?Olin Miller ( worry )

You must see your goals clearly and specifically before
you can set out for them. Hold them in
your mind until they become second nature.
?Les Brown ( visualization )

Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life.
Don't let them scare you unduly,
for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.
?R. I. Fitzhenry ( uncertainty )

...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains,
however improbable, must be the truth.
?Sherlock Holmes ( truth )

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a
man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
?Joseph Roux ( quotes )

The realist is the man, who having weighed
all the visible factors in a given situation
and having found that the odds are against him,
decides that fighting is useless.
?Raoul De Sales ( reality )

Blows are sarcasms turned stupid.
?George Eliot ( sarcasm )

Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer
an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.
?Stanley Horowitz ( seasons )

Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will,
but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.
?R. E. Shay ( luck )

Better to get up late and be wide awake
than to get up early and be asleep all day.
?Anonymous ( sleep )

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team
work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
?Vince Lombardi ( teamwork )

The prudence of the best heads is often
defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
?Henry Fielding ( tenderness )

You may be deceived if you trust too much,
but you will live in torment
if you do not trust enough.
?Frank Crane ( trust )

When two men quarrel, the one who
yields first displays the nobler nature.
?Talmud ( quarrels )

There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept.
?Gaelic Proverb ( promises )

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds.
The pessimist fears it is true.
?Robert Oppenheimer ( pessimism )

Perfection is achieved,
not when there is nothing more to add,
but when there is nothing left to take away.
?Antoine de Saint Exupery ( perfection )

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first;
nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
?Charles de Gaulle ( nationalism )

Animals are such agreeable friends -
they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
?George Eliot ( questions )