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May 2005 Quotes

You can have it all. You just
can't have it all at one time.
Oprah Winfrey

Be more concerned with your character
than with your reputation. Your character
is what you really are, while your reputation
is merely what others think you are.
John Wooden

When they knock you down, you not only
have to get up, but you have to make it clear that
you won't be knocked down a second time.
Carl Yastrzemski

In any man who dies there dies with him,
his first snow and kiss and fight.
Not people die but worlds die in them.
Yevgeny Yevvtushemko

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

I've learned over a period of years there
are setbacks when you come up against
the immovable object;
sometimes the object doesn't move.
Coleman Young

The most bewildering thing about man is his idea
of work and the amount of work he imposes
upon himself, or civilization has imposed upon him
All nature loafs, while man alone works for a living.
Lin Yutang

If you want help, help others. If you
want trust, trust others. If you want love,
give it away. If you want friends, be one.
If you want a great team, be a great
teammate. That's how it works.
Dan Zadra

Forgiveness means that you
do not hold others responsible
for your experiences.
Gary Zukav

Power is always dangerous.
Power attracts the worst
and corrupts the best.
Edward Abbey

Look at a day when you are supremely
satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you
lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've
had everything to do, and you've done it.
Lord Acton

To give real service you must add
something which cannot be bought or
measured with money, and that
is sincerity and integrity.
Douglas Adams

The amount of energy spent
laughing at a joke should
be directly proportional
to the hierarchical
status of the joke teller.
Scott Adams



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

There is luxury in self-reproach.
When we blame ourselves,
we feel no one else
has a right to blame us.
Oscar Wilde

The nice part about being a pessimist
is that you are constantly being either
proven right or pleasantly surprised.
George Will

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