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A lot of people don’t know what they want!

nabil medawar — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:57:39 +0000

A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I’m afraid of widths. ~ Steven Wright A lot of people are obsessed with looking cool. They feel they have to look after their image. ~ Adrian Edmondson A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don’t think that everybody [...]

Guard your spare moments!

nabil medawar — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:45:14 +0000

An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account. ~ William Ellery Channing Gather the flowers, but spare the buds. ~ Andrew Marvell Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will [...]

When you are…

nabil medawar — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:35:48 +0000

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts…. A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. ~ Sophia Loren When you are as great as I am it is hard to be humble. ~ Muhammad Ali When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is [...]

Be as you wish to seem.

nabil medawar — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:43:52 +0000

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. ~Thomas à Kempis Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly. ~ Saint Francis de Sales Do you wish to be great? Then begin [...]

Notice Quotes

nabil medawar — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:38:51 +0000

A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor’s throat without having his neighbor notice it. ~ Trygve Lie A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home. ~ Oliver Goldsmith All of us, you, your children, your neighbors and their children are everyday [...]

Blushing Quotes

nabil medawar — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:12:19 +0000

A blushing lie is better than the pale truth. ~ Norwegian Proverb A girl that blushes too much knows too much. ~ Chinese Proverb A letter does not blush. ~ Marcus T. Cicero After the first blush of sin comes its indifference. ~ Henry David Thoreau Better to blush once than pale a hundred times. ~ Serbian Proverb Blushing is [...]

Shade Quotes

nabil medawar — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:36:50 +0000

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.~ Elton Trueblood A palm tree growing in the shade will not bear ripe fruit. ~ Afghan Proverb A society grows great when old men plant trees whose [...]

Flash Quotes

nabil medawar — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 08:03:42 +0000

A single idea — the sudden flash of a thought — may be worth a million dollars. ~ Robert Collier Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.~ Michael Ende Friendship that [...]

Funny Moroccan Wisdom!

nabil medawar — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:10:43 +0000

If you are a peg, endure the knocking; if you are a mallet, strike. If you don’t understand it with a wink, you certainly will with a blow. If you see him riding on a bamboo-cane, say to him, “Good health to your horse!” In every false step there is something good. Instruction in youth is like engraving in [...]

Project Quotes

nabil medawar — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:39:58 +0000

A lack of patience in trifling matters might lead to the disruption of great project. ~ Confucius After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not. ~ Bill Budge Always have some project underway… an ongoing project that goes over from day to day and thus makes each day a [...]