The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
Greville Fane's French and Italian were droll; the imitative faculty had been denied her, and she had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities. She knew it, but she didn't care; correctness was the virtue in the world that, like her heroes and heroines, she valued least.
Henry James, Greville Fane from
The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
Jacqueline KennedyOnassis
The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is in love, laughter, and work.
Elbert Hubbard
We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon an
Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.
Robert A. Heinlein, Job: A Comed
We are already one. But we imagine that we are not. And what we have to recover is our original unity. What we have to be is what we are.
Thomas Merton
If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.
Jacqueline KennedyOnassis, in Th
I think my biggest achievement is that after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane. I'm proud of that.
Jacqueline KennedyOnassis, Ameri
It is not enough to do your best you must know what to do, and then do your best.
W. Edwards Deming
The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking - and looking.
Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the
Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.
Eric Hoffer
Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earthAnd danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirthOf sun-split clouds--and done a hundred thingsYou have not dreamed of--wheeled and soared and swungHigh in the sunlit silence, Hov'ring there,I've chased the shouting wind along, and flungMy eager craft through footless halls of air.Up, up the long, delirious, burning blueI've topped the windswept heights with easy graceWhere never lark, or even eagle flewAnd, while with silent, lifting mind I've trodThe high untrespassed sanctity of space,Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
John Gillispie Magee, Jr., High
For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
LaoTzu
The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Until they come to see us from their planet, I wait patiently. I hear them saying: Don't call us, we'll call you.
Marlene Dietrich
For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.
Marshall McLuhan
Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
Richard Buckminster Fuller
Substitute 'd--n' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
Mark Twain
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
Leonardo da Vinci
I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.
Ray Bradbury
God's finger touched him, and he slept.
Alfred Tennyson
The person who wins may have been counted out several times, but didn't hear the referee.
Source Unknown
Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Henry David Thoreau
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right thing.
Peter F. Drucker
To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
Ambrose Bierce
Oh love will make a dog howl in rhyme.
John Fletcher, Queen of Corinth
There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
Blaise Pascal
The language of excitement is at best picturesque; merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.
Akhenaton
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
Benjamin Franklin
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi
It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.
Alice Walker
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
Aeschylus
No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
Plato
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith is different from proof the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
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