For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fifty thousand pounds. —A. A. Milne More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him. —George Santayana More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus. —Oprah Winfrey More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. —Leonardo da Vinci More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. —Friedrich Nietzsche More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company. —Jane Austen More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again. —Shana Alexander More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity. —Lois McMaster Bujold More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities. —Whoopi Goldberg More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In Ethiopia during the famine, I saw stuff there that reorganized how I saw the world. I didn't quite know what to do about it. At a certain point, I felt God is not looking for alms. God is looking for action. —Bono More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office). —Faith Popcorn More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. —Jonathan Swift More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough. —Dinah Shore More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship. —Alfred A. Montapert More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be. —Clementine Paddleford More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email