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
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today. —Mignon McLaughlin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation. —Graham Greene More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I get up every morning determined both to change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning the day difficult. —E. B. White More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. —Bishop Desmond Tutu More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email