Nothing bad's going to happen to us. If we get fired, it's not failure; it's a midlife vocational reassessment. —P. J. O'Rourke More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not. —James K. Feibleman More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. —Henry David Thoreau More about this quote Tags: disappointment quiet Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I never thought I'd live this long. Clean living and dirty thoughts probably did it. I don't believe in adhering to any rules I don't support and I didn't vote for. To hell with what people think. Just be who you are and you'll be happy. —Willie Nelson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. —Charles Evans Hughes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it. —Madame de Stael More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
On May 4, 1897, Duchesse d'Alençon was presiding over a charity bazaar in Paris when the hall accidentally caught fire. Flames spread to the paper decorations and flimsy walls of the booths, and in seconds the place was an inferno. In the hideous panic that followed, many women and children were trampled as they rushed for the exits, while the workmen from a nearby site performed incredible acts of heroism, rushing into the blaze to carry out the trapped women. Some rescuers reached the duchess, who had remained calmly seated behind her booth. "Because of my title, I was the first to enter here. I shall be the last to go out," she said, rejecting their offer of help. She stayed and was burned to death, along with more than 120 others, mainly women and children. —The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. —Nicolas Chamfort More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be too cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. —Annie Dillard More about this quote Tags: love cynicism intellect nonsense affairs Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution. —Wernher von Braun More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. —Calvin Coolidge More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Talk doesn't cook rice. —Chinese proverb More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration. —Ernest Newman More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done. —Steven Wright More about this quote Tags: humor writing books irony numbers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email