Dreams are true while they last,
and do we not live in dreams?
( authors: Lord Alfred Tennyson )
The only method by which people can be supported is
out of the effort of those who are earning their own way.
We must not create a deterrent to hard work.
( authors: Robert Taft )
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include
all living things, man will not himself find peace.
( authors: Albert Schweitzer )
Attitude is more important than the past,
than education, than money, than
circumstances, than what people do
or say. It is more important than
appearance, giftedness, or skill.
( authors: Charles Swindoll )
If investing is entertaining, if you?re
having fun, you?re probably not making
any money. Good investing is boring.
( authors: George Soros )
From the deepest desires often
come the deadliest hate.
( authors: Socrates )
Open suspecting of others comes
of secretly condemning ourselves.
( authors: Philip Sidney )
Silence is one of the hardest
arguments to refute.
( author: Henry Wheeler Shaw [Josh Billings] )
Skepticism, like chastity, should
not be relinquished too readily.
( authors: George Santayana )
Education is a weapon,
whose effect depends on who holds it
in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
( authors: Joseph Stalin )
Kill the snake of doubt in your soul,
crush the worms of fear in your
heart and mountains
will move out of your way.
( authors: Kate Seredy )
I mean Peter Rabbit is lethal--look what almost
happens to him. He gets away not because he's
smart, but just by dumb luck. And the book makes
it clear that it's just dumb luck that has saved
him from being eaten. But your
mother is still there to forgive you.
( authors: Maurice Sendak )
The line separating good and evil passes
not through states, nor between political
parties either -- but right
through every human heart.
( authors: Alexander Solzhenitsyn )
Who are we? We find that we live on
an insignificant planet of a humdrum star
lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten
corner of a universe in which there
are far more galaxies than people.
( author: Carl Sagan )
Ambition breaks the ties of blood,
and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
( author: Sir Walter Scott )
Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool
in destroying the soul of an individual-
-and the soul of a people.
( author: Anwar Sadat )
Failure is simply a few errors in
judgment, repeated every day.
( authors: Jim Rohn )
Love is an attempt to change a piece
of a dream world into reality.
( author: Theodor Reik )
The whole problem with the world
is that fools and fanatics
are always so certain of themselves,
but wiser people so full of doubts.
( authors: Bertrand Russell )
A liberal is a conservative who
hasn't been mugged yet.
( author: Frank Rizzo )
No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals
of the world is so formidable as the will and
moral courage of free men and women.
( author: Ronald Reagan )
The virtue of a computer in the classroom
is that it requires a user, not a watcher.
( author: Diane Ravitch )
"Home" is any four walls that enclose the right person.
( author: Helen Rowland )
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has
liberated more people than all the wars in history.
( authors: Carol Rowan )
The idea that 'the public interest' supersedes
private interests and rights can have but one
meaning: that the interests and rights of some
individuals take precedence
over the interests and rights of others.
( author: Ayn Rand )
The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect
than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and
is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked,
half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation
( authors: Anne Rice )
Let us speak out against hatred, and bigotry
and discrimination. Haters are usually cowards,
and when they are confronted, they back down.
But if left alone, they flourish.
( authors: Janet Reno )
