Respect... is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique.
We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The obstacles you face are... mental barriers which can be broken by adopting a more positive approach.
Clarence Blasier
When in doubt, wear red.
Bill Blass
Look through your customer's eyes. Are you the solution provider or part of the problem?
Marlene Blaszczyk
I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.
Tony Campolo
If you don't care, your customer never will.
The work was like peeling an onion. The outer skin came off with difficulty... but in no time you'd be down to its innards, tears streaming from your eyes as more and more beautiful reductions became possible.
Edward Blishen
Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half an emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature.
Life is amazing: and the teacher had better prepare himself to be a medium for that amazement.
I'm not a relationship expert. I'm an expert on manhood.
Steve Harvey
Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day.
George Allen, Sr.
I think Nina Simone has had an amazing journey. She was spicy and she had attitude and she didn't care, she wanted her money in a paper bag and don't mess with me and I've been doing some research on that so.
Nia Long
Well, I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer and then I got a job as an actor.
Christopher Walken
Our passion is our strength.
Billie Joe Armstrong
A total nuclear freeze is counterproductive - especially now, when technology is rapidly changing and the Soviets have some important strategic advantages.
Herman Kahn
Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
Baltasar Gracian
People only talk about what a joyous experience it is, but there is terror: Your life, as you know it, is over. It's over the day that child is born. It's over, and something completely new starts.
Bill Murray
Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
Oprah Winfrey
As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board.
James Bovard
High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.
Doug Coupland
My mother was a professional sick person she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.
Jim Carrey
Must, bid the Morn awake!Sad Winter now declines,Each bird doth choose a mate;This day's Saint Valentine's.For that good bishop's sakeGet up and let us seeWhat beauty it shall beThat Fortune us assigns.
Michael Drayton
An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life:A fight is going on inside me, he said to the boy. It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil - he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other is good - he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. This same fight is going on inside you - and inside every other person, too.The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather,Which wolf will win?The old Cherokee simply replied, The one you feed.
American Indian Proverb
Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Joseph Addison, "The Spectator,
A lunatic may be
Edgar Allan Poe, The System of D
You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.
Source Unknown
We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.
Courtesy should be a continuous action, not something to be turned on and off like a faucet.
The measure of a truly great man is the courtesy with which he treats lesser men.
To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.
Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.
You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.
You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.
Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.
He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur.
He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.
He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.
An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.
Don Marquis
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