December 2003 Quotes

Laughter and tears are both responses
to frustration and exhaustion . . . .
I myself prefer to laugh, since there
is less cleaning up to do afterward.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

If you believe you can, you probably
can. If you believe you won't,  you most
assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition
switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Denis Waitley

I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people
who invented the wheel and the
bicycle because they didn't
like walking or carrying things.
Lech Walesa

No person is your friend who
demands your silence,
or denies your right to grow.
Alice Walker

When a man says that he approves
something in principal, it means
he hasn't the slightest intention
of putting it in practice.
Otto Von Bismarck

Imagination was given to man to
compensate him for what he isn't.
A sense of humor was provided
to console him for what he is.
Horace Walpole

A broken bone can heal, but the wound
a word opens can fester forever.
Jessamyn West

The point is that nobody likes
having salt rubbed into their wounds,
even if it is the salt of the earth.
Rebecca West

There are two ways of
spreading light: to be the candle
or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton

Genius is more often found in a
cracked pot than in a whole one.
E B White

There is that indescribable freshness and
unconsciousness about an illiterate
person that humbles and mocks the power
of the noblest expressive genius.
Walt Whitman

We grow a little every time we do not
take advantage of somebody's weakness.
Bern Williams

Joy is what happens to us when
we allow ourselves to recognize
how good things really are.
Marianne Williamson

All you need in the world is love and laughter.
That's all anybody needs. To have love in
one hand and laughter in the other.
August Wilson

Think like a queen. A queen is
not afraid to fail. Failure is another
stepping stone to greatness.
Oprah Winfrey

Discipline yourself, and others wont need to.
John Wooden

On the outskirts of every agony sits
some observant fellow who points.
Virginia Woolf

They say that we are better educated
than our parents' generation. What they
mean is that we go to school longer.
They are not the same thing.
Douglas Yates

Too long a sacrifice can
make a stone of the heart.
William Butler Yeats

When there is freedom of speech,
I've found that the majority of people
really have nothing to say.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Everyone should learn to do
one thing supremely well
because he likes it,
and one thing supremely well |
because he detests it.
Brigham Young

You can't look forward and
backward at the same time.
Andrew Young