October 2003 Quotes

Sticks and stones are hard on bones
aimed with angry art. Words can sting like
anything but silence breaks the heart.
Phyllis McGinley

Be aware that a halo has to fall 
only a few inches to be a noose.
Dan McKinnon

Power always protects the good of
some at the expense of all others.
Thomas Merton

What a pity human beings can't
exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly
how to solve the other fellows.
Olin Miller

A good deed done to an animal is as
meritorious as a good deed done to a
human being, while an act of cruelty
to an animal is as bad as an
act of cruelty to a human being.
Mohammed

No man can think clearly
when his fists are clenched.
George Jean Nathan

Strong people make as many and as
ghastly mistakes as weak people. The
difference is that strong people admit
them, laugh at them, learn from them.
That is how they become strong.
Richard J Needham

It's not so much how busy you
are, but why you are busy. The bee is
praised. The mosquito is swatted.
Mary O'Connor

Those who think it is permissible to
tell white lies soon grow color-blind.
Austin O'Malley

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

The harder the conflict, the more glorious
the triumph. What we obtain too cheaply,
we esteem too lightly; ' Tis dearness only
that gives everything its value.
Thomas Paine

In the end, I've found, people like the
direct approach. It's much more
valuable to them to have a leader who's
absolutely clear and open than to  have
one who soft-soaps or talks in circles.
Bill Parcells

Great minds discuss ideas,
average minds discuss events,
small minds discuss people.
Laurence Peter

It is with our judgments as with
our watches: no two go just alike,
yet each believes his own.
Alexander Pope

You may have the loftiest goals, the
highest ideals, the noblest dreams,
but remember this,
nothing works unless you do.
Nido Qubein

Character is made by what
you stand for;  reputation,
by what you fall for.
Robert Quillen

Fear is, I believe, a most effective
tool in destroying the soul of an
individual--and the soul of a people.
Anwar Sadat

Those who cannot remember the past
are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana

Whatever you want in life, other people
are going to want it too. Believe in
yourself enough to accept the idea
that you have an equal right to it.
Diane Sawyer