Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.
By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top.
Saskya Pandita
An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.
Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.
Two men please God -- who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.
Nikita Ivanovich Panin
Ability is sexless.
Christabel Pankhurst
We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers.
Emmeline Pankhurst
There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy. Be militant each in your own way. I incite this meeting to rebellion.
You have to make more noise than anybody else, you have to make yourself more obtrusive than anybody else, you have to fill all the papers more than anybody else, in fact you have to be there all the time and see that they do not snow you under, if you are really going to get your reform realized.
The emancipation of today displays itself mainly in cigarettes and shorts. There is even a reaction from the ideal of an intellectual and emancipated womanhood, for which the pioneers toiled and suffered, to be seen in painted lips and nails, and the return of trailing skirts and other absurdities of dress which betoken the slave-woman's intelligent companionship.
Sylvia Pankhurst
Progress is mediation comes swiftly for those who try their hardest.
Pantanjali
You're biggest expense is the money you don't make.
Pante
Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.
Jamie Paolinetti
The human spirit is so great a thing that no man can express it; could we rightly comprehend the mind of man nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.
Philipus A. Paracelsus
Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven.
The more equally attractive two alternatives seem, the harder it can be to choose between them -- no matter that, to the same degree, the choice can only matter less.
Edward Fredkin's Paradox
A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.
Ara Parasheghian
Fact: Girls who are having a good sex thing stay in New York. The rest want to spend their summer vacations in Europe.
Gail Parent
Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.
Vilfredo Pareto
Only Christ could have conceived Christ.
Joseph Parker
A judge is not supposed to know anything about the facts of life until they have been presented in evidence and explained to him at least three times.
Lord Chief Justice Parker
You can handle people more successfully by enlisting their feelings than by convincing their reason.
Paul P. Parker
You can't do four movies and be good to everybody and be flying all night and shooting all day with a different wig and then be going to sing on Broadway without feeling a little tired. You endlessly feel you're letting somebody down.
Sarah Jessica Parker
Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.
Theodore Parker
Let us do our duty, in our shop in our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and knew that victory for mankind depends on our bravery, strength, and skill. When we do that, the humblest of us will be serving in that great army which achieves the welfare of the world.
Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.
Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.
Remorse is the pain of sin.
Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.
Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
If it looks like shit, smells like shit, mail it to your enemy... he'll know what to do with it.
Doug Horton
Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you.
There is no bad in good.
To hit bottom is to fall from grace.
It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.
As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.
If the destination is heaven, why do we scramble to be first in line for hell?
The key to heaven's gate cannot be duplicated.
Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket.
Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
Joseph Addison
Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey
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