Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
Omar Khayyam
I am a part of everything that I have read.
John Kieran
How is the Empire?
King George V
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is not safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Helen Keller, Let Us Have Faith,
I know that faith made my life possible and that of many others like me... Reason hardly warranted Anne Sullivan's attempt to transform a little half-human, half-animal, deaf-blind child into a complete human being. Neither science nor philosophy had set such a goal, but faith, the eye of love did. I did not know I had a soul. Then the God in a wise heart drew me out of nothingness with cords of human love and the life belt of language, and lo, I found myself. In my doubly shadowed world faith gives me a reason for trying to draw harmony out of a marred instrument. Faith is not a cushion for me to fall back upon; it is my working energy.
It seemed that out of battle I escaped Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped Through granites which titanic wars had groined. Yet also there encumbered sleepers groaned, Too fast in thought or death to be bestirred.Then, as I probed them, one sprang up, and stared With piteous recognition in fixed eyes,Lifting distressful hands, as if to bless. And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall, - By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell. With a thousand pains that vision's face was grained;Yet no blood reached there from the upper ground, And no guns thumped, or down the flues made moan. 'Strange friend,' I said, 'here is no cause to mourn.''None,' said that other, 'save the undone years, The hopelessness. Whatever hope is yours, Was my life also; I went hunting wild After the wildest beauty in the world, Which lies not calm in eyes, or braided hair, But mocks the steady running of the hour, And if it grieves, grieves richlier than here.For by my glee might many men have laughed,And of my weeping something had been left, Which must die now. I mean the truth untold, The pity of war, the pity war distilled.http://www.pitt.edu/~pugachev/greatwar/owen.html
Wilfred Owen, Strange Meeting, 1
In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.
Rupert Murdoch
It is less of a problem to be poor, than to be dishonest.
American Indian Proverb, Anishin
What the people believe is true.
Most of us do not look as handsome to others as we do to ourselves.
Before eating, always take a little time to thank the food.
American Indian Proverb, Arapaho
When we show our respect for other living things, they respond with respect for us.
If we wonder often, the gift of knowledge will come.
Take only what you need and leave the land as you found it.
All plants are our brothers and sisters. They talk to us and if we listen, we can hear them.
Each bird loves to hear himself sing.
Those that lie down with dogs, get up with fleas.
American Indian Proverb, Blackfo
Life is not separate from death. It only looks that way.
The weakness of the enemy makes our strength.
American Indian Proverb, Cheroke
Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Beware of the man who does not talk, and the dog that does not bark.
American Indian Proverb, Cheyenn
Do not judge your neighbor until you walk two moons in his moccasins.
A danger foreseen is half-avoided.
A good soldier is a poor scout.
Our first teacher is our own heart.
Judge not by the eye but by the heart.
Our pleasures are shallow, our sorrows are deep.
If a man is as wise as a serpent, he can afford to be as harmless as a dove.
It is good to tell one's heart.
American Indian Proverb, Chippew
All who have died are equal.
American Indian Proverb, Comanch
Treachery darkens the chain of friendship, but truth makes it brighter than ever.
American Indian Proverb, Conesto
Never sit while your seniors stand.
American Indian Proverb, Cree
They say that the best defense is offense, and I intend to start offending right now.
Captain James
The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.
Clive James
Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.
Stop worrying -- nobody gets out of this world alive.
The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
John D. Rockefeller
The people are unreal. The flowers are unreal, they don't smell. The food is unreal, it doesn't taste of anything. The whole place is a glaring, gaudy, nightmarish set, built up in the desert.
Ethel Barrymore, on first arrivi
There is no more interesting place in the world to meet characters than a movie set. If you have lost anybody anywhere and don
Will Rogers
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