Quotes for 2010
Quote collection for 2010!
"I'll give you a hint. Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong." -- Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
The burden of self is lightened when I laugh at myself. -- Rabindranath Tagore
"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power." -- Washington Irving
"When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves." -- Chuck Palahniuk
"I can resist everything except temptation." -- Oscar Wilde
"he had more books than i've ever seen in all my life - two libraries, two rooms loaded from floor to ceiling around all four walls and such books as the apocryphal something-or-other in ten volumes. he played verdi operas and phantomimed them in his pajamas with a great rip down the back. he didn't give a damn about anything. he is a great scholar who goes reeling down the new york waterfront with original seventeenth-century musical manuscripts under his arm, shouting. he crawls like a big spider through the streets. his excitement blew out of his eyes in stabs of fiendish light. he rolled his neck in spastic ecstasy. he lisped, he writhed, he flopped, he moaned, he howled, he fell back in despair. he could hardly get a word out, he was so excited with life." -- Jack Keroauc
"Evil is unspectacular and always human, And shares our bed and eats at our own table." -- W. H. Auden
"In war, truth is the first casualty." -- Aeschylus
"I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future." -- Rainer Maria Rilke
"Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights." -- Georg Hegel
"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it." -- Gandhi
"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish." -- Herman Hesse
"dreams
hold fast to dreams
for if dreams die
life is a broken-winged bird
that cannot fly.
hold fast to dreams
for when dreams go
life is a barren field
frozen with snow."
-- Langston Hughes
"There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity." - General Douglas MacArthur
“Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.” -- Leon Joseph Cardinal Suenens
"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.” -- Albert Einstein
“If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.” -- Lewis Carroll
"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the wind longs to play with your hair." -- Kahlil Gibran
"For within living structures defined by profit, by linear power, by institutional dehumanization, our feelings were not meant to survive. Kept around as unavoidable adjuncts or pleasant pastimes, our feelings were expected to kneel to thought as women were expected to kneel to men. But women have survived. As poets." -- Audre Lorde
"in the depths of winter i finally learned there was in me an invincible summer." -- Albert Camus
"To understand Europe, you have to be a genius -- or French." -- Madeleine Albright
"Truly man is the king of beasts for his brutality exceeds theirs. We live by the death of others: we are burial places! I have from an early age abjured the use of meat and the time will come when men such as I will look on the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men." -- Leonardo da Vinci
"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other." -- Audrey Hepburn
"We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are." -- Sirius Black, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
"Humans have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them." -- Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter
"Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much." -- Oscar Wilde
"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.” -- Audrey Hepburn
"Nothing is impossible; the word itself says, 'I'm possible!'" -- Audrey Hepburn
"It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome, but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth." -- John Steinbeck
"Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." -- From A.A. Milne’s Winnie the Pooh
"It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis." -- Margaret Bonnano
"Sometimes you fall, spinning through space, grasping for the things that keep you on this earth. Sometimes you catch them. They can be the hands of the people you love. They can be your pets- pups with funny names, cats with ferocious old souls. The thing that keeps you here can be your art. It can be things you have collected and invested with a certain sense of meaning. A flowered, buckled treasure chest of secrets. Shoes that make you taller and, therefore, closer to the heavens. A suit that belonged to your fairy godmother. A dress that makes you feel a little like the Goddess herself. Sometimes you keep falling; you don't catch anything. Sometimes you fall, spinning through space, grasping for the things that keep you here. Sometimes you catch them. Sometimes you don't. Sometimes they catch you." -- Francesca Lia Block
"I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failure, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position. Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hope. When my attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me." -- Charles R. Swindoll
"You have to believe in yourself, that's the secret. Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat." -- Charlie Chaplin
"If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear as it is - infinite" -- William Blake
"Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing." -- Camille Pissarro
"After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, beautiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn't it noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked-as I am surprisingly often-why I bother to get up in the mornings." -- Richard Dawkins
“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.” - Coco Chanel
“The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.” -- Fred Astaire
"The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." -- Marianne Williamson
“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.” -- Robert Byrne
"I'll give you a hint. Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong." -- Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
The burden of self is lightened when I laugh at myself. -- Rabindranath Tagore
"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power." -- Washington Irving
"When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves." -- Chuck Palahniuk
"I can resist everything except temptation." -- Oscar Wilde
"he had more books than i've ever seen in all my life - two libraries, two rooms loaded from floor to ceiling around all four walls and such books as the apocryphal something-or-other in ten volumes. he played verdi operas and phantomimed them in his pajamas with a great rip down the back. he didn't give a damn about anything. he is a great scholar who goes reeling down the new york waterfront with original seventeenth-century musical manuscripts under his arm, shouting. he crawls like a big spider through the streets. his excitement blew out of his eyes in stabs of fiendish light. he rolled his neck in spastic ecstasy. he lisped, he writhed, he flopped, he moaned, he howled, he fell back in despair. he could hardly get a word out, he was so excited with life." -- Jack Keroauc
"Evil is unspectacular and always human, And shares our bed and eats at our own table." -- W. H. Auden
"In war, truth is the first casualty." -- Aeschylus
"I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future." -- Rainer Maria Rilke
"Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights." -- Georg Hegel
"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it." -- Gandhi
"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish." -- Herman Hesse
"dreams
hold fast to dreams
for if dreams die
life is a broken-winged bird
that cannot fly.
hold fast to dreams
for when dreams go
life is a barren field
frozen with snow."
-- Langston Hughes
"There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity." - General Douglas MacArthur
“Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.” -- Leon Joseph Cardinal Suenens
"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.” -- Albert Einstein
“If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.” -- Lewis Carroll
"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the wind longs to play with your hair." -- Kahlil Gibran
"For within living structures defined by profit, by linear power, by institutional dehumanization, our feelings were not meant to survive. Kept around as unavoidable adjuncts or pleasant pastimes, our feelings were expected to kneel to thought as women were expected to kneel to men. But women have survived. As poets." -- Audre Lorde
"in the depths of winter i finally learned there was in me an invincible summer." -- Albert Camus
"To understand Europe, you have to be a genius -- or French." -- Madeleine Albright
"Truly man is the king of beasts for his brutality exceeds theirs. We live by the death of others: we are burial places! I have from an early age abjured the use of meat and the time will come when men such as I will look on the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men." -- Leonardo da Vinci
"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other." -- Audrey Hepburn
"We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are." -- Sirius Black, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
"Humans have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them." -- Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter
"Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much." -- Oscar Wilde
"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.” -- Audrey Hepburn
"Nothing is impossible; the word itself says, 'I'm possible!'" -- Audrey Hepburn
"It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome, but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth." -- John Steinbeck
"Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." -- From A.A. Milne’s Winnie the Pooh
"It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis." -- Margaret Bonnano
"Sometimes you fall, spinning through space, grasping for the things that keep you on this earth. Sometimes you catch them. They can be the hands of the people you love. They can be your pets- pups with funny names, cats with ferocious old souls. The thing that keeps you here can be your art. It can be things you have collected and invested with a certain sense of meaning. A flowered, buckled treasure chest of secrets. Shoes that make you taller and, therefore, closer to the heavens. A suit that belonged to your fairy godmother. A dress that makes you feel a little like the Goddess herself. Sometimes you keep falling; you don't catch anything. Sometimes you fall, spinning through space, grasping for the things that keep you here. Sometimes you catch them. Sometimes you don't. Sometimes they catch you." -- Francesca Lia Block
"I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failure, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position. Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hope. When my attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me." -- Charles R. Swindoll
"You have to believe in yourself, that's the secret. Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat." -- Charlie Chaplin
"If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear as it is - infinite" -- William Blake
"Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing." -- Camille Pissarro
"After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, beautiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn't it noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked-as I am surprisingly often-why I bother to get up in the mornings." -- Richard Dawkins
“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.” - Coco Chanel
“The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.” -- Fred Astaire
"The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." -- Marianne Williamson
“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.” -- Robert Byrne