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George Bernard Shaw: Communication
“The problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” — George Bernard Shaw, playwright.
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Sydney Smith: Marriage
“Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them. ” —Sydney Smith.
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Horace Mann: Doing nothing
“Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.” —Horace Mann.
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Pierre Bayle: No less wit nor less invention
“There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.” —Pierre Bayle, philosopher and writer (1647-1706).
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Ernest Hello: The Holy Bible
“The Holy Bible is an abyss. It is impossible to explain how profound it is, impossible to explain how simple it is. ” Ernest Hello
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Betty Friedan: Men, not the enemy
“Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women’s denigration of themselves. ” Betty Friedan Related articles My hero: Betty Friedan by Lionel Shriver(oddonion.com) Feminists can be sexy and funny – but it’s anger that changes the world | Ellie Mae O’Hagan(guardian.co.uk)
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Charlotte Brontë: The vanity of inaction
It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. —Charlotte Brontë
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Swami Vivekananda: Self-belief and God
“You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself. ” —Swami Vivekananda.
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Clive James: Common sense dancing
“A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.” Clive James
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Friedrich Nietzsche: Monstrous
“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves? ” —Friedrich Nietzsche.
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Emil Zatopek: Training
If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It’s raining? That doesn’t matter. I am tired? That’s besides the point. It’s simply that I just have to. Emil Zatopek, Olympic runner. Related articles 5 Lessons in Achieving Success from Emil Zatopik, Olympic Runner…
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Anthony J. D'Angelo: Strong mind, soft heart
“Have a strong mind and a soft heart. ” Anthony J. D’Angelo
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Ernest Hemingway: Cowardice
“Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.” –—Ernest Hemingway
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Victor Hugo: Smallness
“Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest. ” —Victor Hugo Related articles 10 Powerful Quotes from Victor Hugo(writingsistersblog.wordpress.com)
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Michel de Montaigne: Virtue
“The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence. ” –—Michel de Montaigne.
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Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molire: Remedies and illnesses
“Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses.” —Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molire
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Graham Kennedy: What's so funny?
“You didn’t want to laugh, did you? It wasn’t very funny, was it? ” —Graham Kennedy.
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Stephen Ambrose: Looking out for number one
“It does you no good to see the number two or number three man in the corporation-you have to get through to number one. ” —Stephen Ambrose.
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Gustav Mahler: God
“God can only be comprehended as Love.” —Gustav Mahler.
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Jerry Doyle: Move on…
“If you’re not having fun – I don’t care what you’re doing – don’t do it. Move on. Find something else, life’s too short. ” –—Jerry Doyle.
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Scott Wolf: Work
“You can’t do your work worrying about what people will think of it – you kind of just have to do your work. ” —Scott Wolf
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Samuel Smiles: The shortest way
“The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once. ” —Samuel Smiles.
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Melina Mercouri: Of Greeks, Turks and transactions…
“And, of course, it must be asked: is it proper to transact with the Turks for the most reassured of Greek possessions when Greece is under Turkish invasion and subjugation?” —Melina Mercouri.
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Neale Donald Walsch: Religion
“One either has to believe in a God who’s terribly prejudiced, or disbelieve the teachings of such exclusionary theologies. Religions have taught us that ‘we are better than they.’ ” Neale Donald Walsch
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Thomas Jefferson: Polite society
“In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. ” Thomas Jefferson
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Alan Thicke: Fun and games
“Fitness needs to be perceived as fun and games or we subconsciously avoid it. ” Alan Thicke
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Jon Ronson: Philosophy
“Yeah, but in the end his followers take what they want from his philosophy. Maybe it doesn’t matter what’s going on in David Icke‘s mind. It’s how other people take him.”—Jon Ronson
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Henny Youngman: Happiness
“What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money. ” —Henny Youngman.
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Anne Lamott: Weight training for life
It’s good to do uncomfortable things. It’s weight training for life. —Anne Lamott Related articles Five Minutes with Anne Lamott: On Writing and Life(mlswift.me) Quote for Today: Anne Lamott(synkroniciti.com) Contributor Blog Post by Emily Shearer(minervarising.com) Writing The Truth, With Respect For Others(latebloomlisa.wordpress.com)
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Steve Buscemi: Naivety
“There’s something about being naive. Really interesting things come because you don’t know what the rules are. what you can and can’t do.”—Steve Buscemi.
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Carol Moseley Braun: And the Constitution says…
“To me, that means getting back to the point where our Constitution means that you don’t tap people’s phones and poke into their e-mail and you don’t arrest people and keep them hidden for a year and a half without charging them. ” —Carol Moseley Braun.
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W. Somerset Maugham: Beauty and humour
“It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour. ” —W. Somerset Maugham.
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Kurt Waldheim: Guilt
“There is no such thing as collective guilt. ” —Kurt Waldheim.
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Austin L. Sorensen: God as father
“A child is not likely to find a father in God unless he finds something of God in his father.” Austin L. Sorensen
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C. S. Lewis: Love
“Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your…
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George Jean Nathan: Cosmetic humour
“Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor. ” George Jean Nathan
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Bob Packwood: Judgment
“Judgment comes from experience and great judgment comes from bad experience. ” Bob Packwood
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Thomas Paine: Cruel god, cruel man
“Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man. ” —Thomas Paine.
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Evan Esar: Success
“Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration, & inspiration.“ —Evan Esar, American humorist.
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Lars von Trier: Work humor
“You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance. ” Lars von Trier
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Luke 9:23: Whoever wishes to be my follower…
“Whoever wishes to be my follower must deny his very self, take up his cross each day, and follow in my steps.”—Luke 9:23.
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Winston Churchill: Enemies
“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life. ”Winston Churchill
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George Murray: Adulthood
“I feel as though I’ve fooled the world into thinking I’m an adult and now they’re letting me procreate. ” George Murray
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Adam Sandler: Chemistry
“Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it. ” —Adam Sandler.
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Simon Wiesenthal: Humour
“Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them. ” Simon Wiesenthal
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Sam Levenson: Even-handedness
“As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.” —Sam Levenson.
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Theodore Roosevelt: Mistakes
“The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything. ” —Theodore Roosevelt.
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John Wooden: Character and reputation
“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. ” —John Wooden.
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Prince Charles: Straight in the eyes
“Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.” —Prince Charles.
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Christopher Lasch: 'Nostalgia'
“A society that has made “nostalgia” a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today. ”—Christopher Lasch.
