Welcome to my Quote's Page!

• "If you can touch it you can catch it."
  Brian Stewart
• "Never give up, don't ever give up."
  Jim Valvano
• "The first and worst of frauds is to cheat on oneself."
  Anonymous
• "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
  Neil Armstrong
• "All literature reveals the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man."
  James Joyce
• "Education is not enough, you must apply it."
  Bruce Lee
• "We teach people how to teach us by the way we teach others."
  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
• "We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. "
  Marcel Proust
• "About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age."
  Gloria Pitzer
• "Fly and you will catch the wind; dream and you will reach your goal."
  Anonymous
• "The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions."
  Dwight D. Eisenhower
• "When we see men of contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves."
  Confucius
• "The aim of education should be to teach us how to think rather than what to think." Anonymous
• "A good education prepares you for the game of life."
  Anonymous
• "It is our attitude, more than anything else, that will affect a successful outcome."
  William James
• "A page digested is better than a volume hurriedly read."
  Thomas Macaulay
• "Anything the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."
  Napoleon Hill
• "Life is a grindstone. whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us."
  L. Thomas Holdcraft
• "Where you come from is not as important as where you are going."
  Anonymous
• "Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right."
  Henry Ford
• "Since we cannot know all that is to be known of everything, we ought to know a little about everything."
  Blaise Pascal
• "Popularity is the crumbs of greatness."
  Victor Hugo
• "Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it."
  Katherine Whineham
• "In the long run [people] hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high."
  Henry David Thoreau
• "Never wait until the last minute. The last minute shall invariably cometh and goeth quicker than you thought it would."
  Daniel Meacham
• "An essay should be like a women's skirt; long enough to cover the subject, short enough to keep it interesting."
  Dinh
• "One who does not know what to say, should say nothing at all."
  Yule Brenner (The King and I)
• "The only way to be an intelligent person is to be open to new ideas and to be able to change your mind."
  Harold Dorr
• "People who shut their eyes to reality, are simply distructing themselves."
  James Baldwin
• "Procrasternization is the rationalized chaos of the nomadic mind; punctuality, the reasoned nature of the destined disciplinarian."
  Jack Mosher '93
• "You see things and ask why. I dream things and ask why not."
  Don't Know
• "The only thing necessary, for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
  Edmund Burke
• "Learning undigested thought unassisted by learning is perilous."
  Confucius
• "A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know."
  Thomas Carlyle
• "Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects."
  Will Rogers
• "Nothing is ignorant, as the ignorance of certainty."
  Aldous Huxley
• "There is nothing so powerful as truth and often nothing so strange."
  Daniel Webster
• "It's what you learn after you know it all that counts."
  John Wooden
• "Get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you like."
  Mark Twain
• "It's the wisest man who knows that there is much he doesn't know."
  Phil Hartman (News Radio)
• "Mans flight through life is sustained by the power of his knowledge."
  Air Force Academy
• "Ambition without knowledge is like a boat on dry land."
  Pat Morita (Karate Kid IV)
• "Life is short. We get old so fast. It doesn't make sense to waste time on hating."
  Muhammad Ali
• "Even if you are on the right track, if you just sit there, you'll get run over."
  Will Rogers
• "Don't try, do or don't do, there is no try."
  Yoda (Star Wars Episode VI: Empire Strikes Back)
• "I don't mind dying, I just want to live before I die."
  Don't remember
• "The force is in you, force it."
  Harrison Ford
• "Passion is unmeasureable, indescribable factor that separates movie from movie. Passion moves freely across borders, speaks every language and flourishes in every culture."
  Saul Zaentz
• "The holy grail is not in the finding but in the journey."
  Samuel Halfenstein
• "Truth like surgery might hurt, but is cures."
  Wilson (Home Improvement: Hans Seuman; not spelled right)
• "A liar will not be believed even when he speaks the truth."
  Aesop
• "The powerful play of life continues... What verse will you contribute?"
  John Keating from "Dead Poet's Society"
• "I know nothing but the fact of my ignorance."
  Socrates
• "God is an absentee landlord"
  Al Pacino (The Devil's Advocate)
• "I know who I am, and who I may chose to be, if I choose"
  Miguel De Cervantes (Don Quixote)
• "The best thing about pain is that it let's you know that you are alive."
  Master Chief (G.I. Jane)
• "Sometimes you might think it's hard to keep up, but it is harder still to catch up." ,BR> Dr. Kubelka (Pre-Calculus)
• "The instructor can guide, encourage, threaten and yell. But only you can learn. You must teach yourself."
  Mr. George Moore (Honors Humanities IA)
• "You might feel like an dummy for asking a question, but the real dummies are one's who don't ask the question."
  Dr. Kubelka (Pre-Calculus)
• "In life you must question authority. Cynicism no, skepticism yes."
  Oliver Stone (somewhat paraphrased)
• "Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest."
  Norman Douglas
• "Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards."
  Albert Camus
• "I do not read advertisements - I would spend all my time wanting things."
  Robert Runcie
• "Whenever we are doing for the child what the child can easily do for himself, we are in the way of his development."
  Maria Montessori
• "Waste not fresh tears over old grief's."
  Euripides
• "There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home."
  John Stuart Mill
• "Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing temper or yourself confidence."
  Robert Frost
• "The truly proud man is satisfied with his good opinion and does not seek to make converts."
  William Hazlitt
• "A library is like a travel agency for the mind."
  Cody (Step by Step)
• "Justice and morality came into being because people were afraid of one another."
  Plato (Republic: Spoken by Glaucon)
• "Without law there can be no freedom, and without justice there can be no law."
  Sam Waterson (Law & Order)
• "To sin by silence when we should protest, makes cowards out of men."
  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• "The people who think there crazy enough to change the world are the ones who do."
  Television Commercial for Apple Computers
• "What a tangled web we weave when we practice deceit."
  Sir Walter Scott
• "The organizing principle of any society is for war. The authority of the state over its people is its war power."
  Donald Sutherland (JFK)
• "It is often a man's words rather than his appearance which throw light on his character."
  Plutarch (The Makers of Rome)
• "No pleasure is a bad thing in itself. But the things which produce certain pleasures bring troubles many times greater than the pleasures."
  Epicurus (Principal Doctrines: VIII)
• "Of desires, some are natural and necessary, some natural and not necessary, and some neither natural nor necessary but occurring as a result of a groundless opinion."
  Epicurus (Principal Doctrines: XXIX)
• "Some things are up to us and some are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us, and our impulses, desires, aversions-in short, whatever is our own doing."
  Epictetus (Encheiridion)
• "Understanding means better able to judge, not to agree."
  Mr. George Moore (Honors Humanities IA)
• "I am wiser than anybody else, because I know what I don't know."
  Socrates
• "The central problem of politics is that evil people seek rule, and the best people don't want it. So until knowledge meets power, their will never be rule."
  Plato
• "Wise men learn from fools, but fools don't learn from wise men."
  Cato the Elder
• "Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody up."
  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• "The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well."
  Sir William Osler
• "Nothing is invented and brought to perfection at the same moment."
  Latin Proverb
• "To Err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it."
  J. Jenkins
• "An error doesn't become a mistake, until you refuse to correct it."
  O. A. Battista
• "People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for circumstances they want, and if they can't find, make them."
  George Bernard Shaw
• "Let me tell you; The meter keeps on ticking, and if you don't have a good time during your short stay, it's your own fault."
  Harry Caray (Somewhat paraphrased)
• "Law is involved in everything. It is a behind-the-stage-pass." Al Pacino (The Devil's Advocate)
• "He who does not lay his foundations beforehand may by great abilities do so afterwards, although with great trouble to the architect and danger to the building."
  Niccolo Machiavelli (The Prince)
• "Why don't I just walk out on the street in front of a speeding bus? Because it's a battle I can't win, and if I can't win I stay on the curb."
  George Segal (Just shoot Me)
• "Real friends stab you in the front."
  Oscar Wilde
• "Fate does exist, but when you get there the rest is up to you."
  Jenna Elfman( Can't Hardly Wait: Somewhat paraphrased)
• "Pressure is something you feel only when you don't know what you're doing."
  Chuck Knoll
• "When you choose to do something, you choose not to do something."
  Jeremy Schmidt
• "I like history because it is undisciplined. I have no bounds to my discipline."
  Mr. George Moore
• "The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions."
  Thomas Hobbes (Leviathan; Pt. II, ch. 27)
• "Liberty is the absence of external impediments."
  Thomas Hobbes (Leviathan: Ch. XIV, Pt. 2)
• "We are deceived by the outward appearance of right."
  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Discourse: Preface)
• "Peace, unity, equality are enemies of political sophistication."
  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (On the Social Contract: Book IV, ch. 1)
• "I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot. Why? Because when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result."
  Michael Jordan (3rd Serving of Chicken Soup for the Soul)
• "I would rather have it said, He lived usefully than he died rich."
  Benjamin Franklin
• "He who knows everything about his subject cannot write it."
  Arthur Miller
• "No fear can stand up to hunger, no patience can wear it out, disgust simply does not exist where hunger is;"
  Joseph Conrad (Heart of Darkness)
• "Some paradox of our nature leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightenment interest, to go on to make them the objects of our pity, then of our wisdom, ultimately of our coercion.
  Lionel Trilling
• "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. and when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
  Friedrich Nietzsche
• "When the music changes so does the dance."
  Hausa Proverb
• "It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied."
  John Stuart Mill
• "Both teachers and students can go to sleep when there is no army in the field."
  John Stuart Mill
• "I am the last person to undervalue the self-regarding virtues; they are only second in importance, if even second, to the social. It is equally the business of education to cultivate both."
  John Stuart Mill (probably paraphrased)
• "When you take a rock hard stance, there is no longer room for debate, only violence."
  John Stuart Mill (probably paraphrased)
• "Taking away of values is a horrible thing. It takes away self creativity."
  John Stuart Mill (probably paraphrased)
• "Only justification for infringing upon the liberties of others is for self protection."
  John Stuart Mill
• "The interference of government is, with about equal frequency, improperly invoked and improperly condemned."
  John Stuart Mill
• "Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign."
  John Stuart Mill
• "If we were never to act on our opinions, because those opinions may be wrong, we should leave all our interests uncared for, and all our duties unperformed."
  John Stuart Mill
• "It is the duty of governments, and of individuals, to form the truest opinions they can; to form them carefully, and never impose on others unless they are quite sure of being right. But when they are sure (such reasoners may say), it is not conscientiousness but cowardice to shrink from acting on their opinions and allow doctrines which they honestly think dangerous to the welfare of mankind, either in this life or in another, to be scattered abroad without restraint, because other people, in less enlightened times, have persecuted opinions now believed to be true."
  John Stuart Mill
• "However unwillingly a person who has strong opinion may admit the possibility that his opinion may be false, he ought to be moved by consideration that, however true it may be, if it is not fully, frequently, and fearlessly discussed, it will be held as a dead dogma, not a living truth." John Stuart Mill
• "What are called duties to ourselves are not socially obligatory unless circumstances render them at the same time duties to others." John Stuart Mill
• "When people appeal to their own beliefs as truth whether or not something is very bad, that is dangerous."
  John Stuart Mill
• "There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that limitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till."
  Ralph Waldo Emerson (Self-Reliance)
• "It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone."
  Ralph Waldo Emerson (Self-Reliance)
• "Our faith comes in moments, our vice is habitual."
  Ralph Waldo Emerson (The Over-soul)
• "It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able to confirm whatever he pleases; but to be able to discern that what is true is true; and what is false is false; this is the mark and character of intelligence." Emanuel Swedenborg
• "A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority."
  Henry David Thoreau
• "The best thing a man can do for his culture who is rich is to endeavour to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor." Henry David Thoreau
• "If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities."
  Voltaire
• "There is no profound relationship between excellence and acceptance."
  Edward Albee
• "The great thing about a democracy is you can get what you want, but on the other hand, you deserve what you get."
  Edward Albee (paraphrased)
• "To live a happy life, you must fully participate in your life."
  Edward Albee (paraphrased)
• "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
  Margaret Mead
• "Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men."
  Friedrich Nietzsche
• "I like all of Gods creatures, I just like some of them stuffed."
  Gena Rowlands (Hope Floats)
• "I'm a woman, we don't say what we want, but we reserve the right to be pissed if we don't get it, that's what makes us so fascinating and not a little bit scary."
  Jeanne Triplehorn (Sliding Doors)
• "The devil don't change, the devil changes you."
  Joaquin Phoenix (8 mm)
• "The difference between false memories and true ones is the same for Jewels. It is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant."
  Salvador Dali
• "Hell is other people"
  Jean-Paul Sarte
• "There is no structure so restrictive and unimaginative as a box."
  Frank Lloyd Wright
• "Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering."
  Yoda (Star Wars Epsiode I: The Phantom Menace)
• "Success is a medicine. It makes smart people into thinking they can't lose."
  Anthony Michael Hall (Pirates of Silicon Valley)
• "Maybe fun is fragments of existence with better packaging."
  Noah Wylie (Pirates of Silicon Valley)
• "Nothing is good in itself except a good will."
  Immanuel Kant
• "The Kingdom of God is inside you,he is all around you. You do not need buildings in stone. Split a piece of wood you will find him, lift a stone and I am there."
  Stigmata (Gospel of St. Thomas) Paraphrased
• "The upper crust is a bunch of crumbs held together by dough."
  Joseph Thomas
• "Always look out for Number One and be careful not to step in Number Two."
  Rodney Dangerfield
• "I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception."
  Groucho Marx"
• "Why is there so much month left after the end of money"?
  Unknown
• "Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim."
  George Santayana
• "We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like."
  Jean Cocteau
• "I've failed before, and failing, I think, is an underrated experience in America. People are of afraid of failing they don't want to even try."
  Kevin Costner (Newsweek)
• "Honesty brings no regrets, but can make life more complicated."
  Martina Navritilova
• "Regrets are a waste of time, so is gloating."
  Pierce Brosnin (The Thomas Crown Affair)
• "If you make a long enough timeline, everybody's survival rate goes to zero."
  Edward Norton (Fight Club)
• "Masturbation is self improvement."
  Brad Pitt (Fight Club)
• "If you don't have a view, you will be a victim."
  Tom Balgooyen (Bio 10)
• "The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom."
  Justice William O. Douglas
• "Life shouldn't be easy from beginning to end, if it was everyone would be an asshole. Character comes through adversity."
  Dr. James Lindahl
• "One who is spoon fed in the long run learns nothing but the shape of the spoon."
  E. M. Forester
• "God must have loved the common man, because he made so many."
  Abraham Lincoln
• "Discrimination is the division of the conscious universe into parts."
  Robert Pirsig (ZAMM)
• "The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality."
  Robert Pirsig (ZAMM)
• "The way to solve the conflict between human values and technological needs is not to run away from technology. That's impossible. The way to resolve the conflict is to break down the barriers of dualistic thought that prevent a real understanding of what technology is-not an exploitation of nature, but a fusion of nature and the human spirit into a new kind of creation that transcends both. When this transcendence occurs in such events as the first airplane flight across the ocean or the first footstep on the moon, a kind of public recognition of the transcendent nature of technology occurs. But this transcendence should also occur at the individual level, on a personal basis, in one owns life, in a less dramatic way.
  Robert Pirsig (ZAMM)
• "Character is like a tree, and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."
  Abraham Lincoln
• "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy."
  Abraham Lincoln
• "Any culture which, in the interests of efficiency or in the name of some political or religious dogma, seeks to standardize the human individual, commits an outrage against man's biological nature."
  Aldous Huxley (Brave New World Revisited Ch.2)
• "I must govern the clock, not be governed by it."
  Golda Meir
• " As one goes thorugh life, one learns that if you paddle your own canoe, you don't move."
  Katharine Hepburn
• "Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently."
  Henry Ford
• "Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt."
  Herbert Hoover
• "The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any."
  Fred Astaire
• "A great many open minds should be closed for repairs."
  Toledo Blade
• "Management is a science, leadership is an art."
  Gen. Colin Powell
• "The best partners are the ones who can live life on their own."
  Bill O'Reilly
• "In a world without women what would men become. Scarce sir. Mighty scarce."
  Mark Twain
• "I'm not denyin' that women are foolish: God Almighty made 'em to match the men."
  George Eliot
• "Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl-no superior alternative has yet been found."
  Winston Churchill
• "Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your children, you have never been a parent."
  Bette Davis, The lonely Life
• "Practice make permanent, not perfect."
  Ruth Gillespie
• "Everything must be made as simple as possible, but not one bit sampler."
  Albert Einstein
• "Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be remembered for their vices and follies than not to be noticed at all."
  Harry S. Truman
• "We didn't all come over on teh same ship, but we're all in the same boat."
  Bernard Baruch
• "I think we Negro Americans have just as many beautiful people in mind and body, as well as skin, as any other group-and that we have just as many stinkers as any other group."
  Thurgood Marshall
• "I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, theyr sure must turn atheists in the wintertime."
  Will Rogers
• "Brother you say there is but one way to worship and serve the Great Spirit. If there is but one religion, why do you white people differ so much about it? Why do not all agree, as you can all read the book?"
  Chief Red Jacket to Christian Missionaries, 1805
• "So, if everyone was religious, wouldn't the world be a much better place in which to live? Of course it would. And if there is no God at the end of it all, what does it matter? You're in the ground or scattered to the winds. If the deity is a fraud, you won't possibly care. You're gone."
  Bill O'Reilly
• "Don't let your schooling interfere with your education."
  Chin Song
• " Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objections to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first."
  Benjamin Franklin
• "The reality to which we give the name of civilization does not allow of easy definition. It is each society'frs vision of the world and also its feeling about the time; there are nations that are hurrying toward the future, and others whose eyes are fixed on the past. Civilizationis a society's style, its way of living and dying. It embraces the erotic and the culinary rituals and festivals, punishments and rewards; dealings with the dead and with the ghosts who people are dreams; attitudes toward women and children, old people and strangers, enemies and allies; eternity and the present; the here and now and the beyond. A civilization is not only a system of values but a world of forms and codes of behavior, rules and exceptions. It is society's visible side -- institutions, monuments, works, things -- but it is especially its submerged, invisible side: beliefs, desires, fears, repressions, dreams."
  Octavio Paz
• "Never mistake motion for action"
  Ernest Hemingway
• "The mind is like a TV set-when it goes blank, its a good idea to turn off the sound."
  Don't Know
• "You'll never go broke underestimating the American public."
  H.L. Mencken
• "A half truth is a whole lie."
  Yiddish Proverb
• "I don't have the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
  Bill Cosby
• "The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory."
  Paul Fix
• The trouble with work is that it is so daily."
  Don't Know
• "To be igonrant of one's ignorance is the curse of the ignorant."
  Amos Alcott
• "The difference between genius and stupidty is that genius has limits."
  Don't Know
• "No matter how often we say money doesn't buy happiness, we are always willing to give it another chance."
  Don't Know
• "I like common sense, honesty and decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office." H.L. Mencken
• "Follow success with success-follow failure with change."
  Geoffrey Lorenz
• "All our science, measured agaist reality is primitive and childlike-and yet it is the most precious thing we have."
  Albert Einstein
• "Truly, that which makes me belive there is no inhabitant on this sphere, is that it seems to me that no sensible being would be willing to live here." "Well, then!" said Micromegas, "perhaps the beings that inhabit it do not possess good sense."
  One alien to another, on approaching the Earth, in Voltaire's Micromegas: A Philospohical History (1752)
• "It is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error."
  Robert H. Jackson (U.S. Supreme Court Justice)
• "When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
  Jimi Hendrix
• "Adversity calls forth the soul's courage to bear unflinichingly whatever Heaven sends."
  Euripides