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X-Mas Quotes

2011-12-12T22:18:00.000-08:00

A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.

Leonard Maltin

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Benjamin Franklin

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

Garrison Keillor

According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until the end of time.

Grazia Deledda

Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely.

Frank McCourt

And of course there's so much music in and around our family. I had a piano during Christmas because it's obviously useful through the season. There are so many people, songwriters, who are around.

Ashley Judd

At Christmas our house is like a Donnie and Marie Christmas Special.

Kevin Richardson

At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.

Thomas Tusser

At Christmas, 'It's a Wonderful Life' makes me cry in exactly the same places every time, even though I know it's coming.

Nicholas Lea

Besides the two Christmas things, we've got a about a dozen new tracks we're working on.

Chris Frantz

Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.

Wendy Cope

But Tammy Faye calls me, and Ron Jeremy calls me, Erik Estrada sends me a Christmas card every year.

Trishelle Cannatella

Christmas albums are not something you do frequently.

Isaac Hanson

Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own.

Ethel Merman

Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love.

Lucinda Franks

Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.

Jimmy Cannon

What they said about Poetry??

2011-10-21T02:56:00.000-07:00

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

Robert Frost

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Robert Frost

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Paul Valery

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.

E. M. Forster

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

Oscar Wilde

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

W. H. Auden

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

Wallace Stevens

A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.

Rene Char

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

A poet's work is to name the unnamed able, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

Salman Rushdie

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.

Samuel McChord Crothers

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

Jean Cocteau

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

Oscar Wilde

Always be a poet, even in prose.

Charles Baudelaire

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

Charles Baudelaire

Edgar Allan Poe

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

Thomas Gray

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

Robert Frost

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Robert Frost

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

John Keats

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.

Eli Khamarov

Famous Quotes on Leader Ship.

2011-09-17T05:36:00.000-07:00

Leader Ship

Whoever wants to be a leader should educate himself before educating others. Before preaching to others he should first practice himself. Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals is superior to the man who tries to teach and train others.

Ali Ibn e Abi Talib (A.S)

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

Euripides

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

Mary Kay Ash

The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.

Cyril Falls

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

John F. Kennedy

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

Max Lucado

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

Stephen Covey

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Mohandas Gandhi

Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.

Bo Bennett

The exploits of your leaders in many a historic field of battle; the progress of your Revolution; the rise and career of the great Ataturk, his revitalization of your nation by his great statesmanship, courage and foresight all these stirring events are well-known to the people of Pakistan.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

Oscar Wilde

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Plato

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

Plato

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

Winston Churchill

Quotes on Identity & Art.

2011-07-05T07:08:00.000-07:00

A people must have dignity and identity.

Andrew Goodman

A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support.

Wentworth Miller

A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same.

Djuna Barnes

A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost.

Lucy Stone

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

Woodrow Wilson

After that I couldn't show my face outside. I lost my identity and balance. I was still living with my parents, and they were my only friends. For so many people, this thing with the nurse was confirmation that I must be mad or mentally ill.

Mathias Rust

Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.

Eugenio Montale

Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.

Jean Baudrillard

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

James Baldwin

An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity.

Robyn Hitchcock

As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being.

Abdolkarim Soroush

As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.

Edmund White

As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling.

Michelle Shocked

As I look over my work, I mean every time I look over my early work, I see, yes, I could do that then and then I could do that and that... That may be the hardest thing for a writer, at least for a poet, to tell what the identity of his work is.

Kenneth Koch

As part of my efforts to fight identity theft, I worked with my colleagues on the Financial Services Committee to strengthen consumer protection with a reasonable notification requirement.

Melissa Bean

Quotes On Life: Islamic n Other Quotes.

2011-06-20T05:33:00.000-07:00

Anyone who loves us Ahlul Bait must be ready to face a life of austerity.

Ali Ibn e Abi Talib (A.S)

Our life is made by the death of others.

Leonardo da Vinci

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

Oscar Wilde

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Plato

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

Oscar Wilde

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

Dalai Lama

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Elbert Hubbard

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Plato

When somebody asked Imam Ali as to how he was getting on, he replied: “What do you want to know about a person whose life is leading him towards ultimate death, whose health is the first stage towards illness and whom society has forced out of his retreat”.

Ali Ibn e Abi Talib (A.S)

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

Albert Einstein

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

Aristotle

Unfortunate is he who cannot gain a few sincere friends during his life and more unfortunate is the one who has gained them and then lost them (through his deeds).

Ali Ibn e Abi Talib (A.S)

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Aristotle

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quotes on Dreams: Successive peoples who prove there Ability Says About there Dreams.

2011-06-11T05:04:00.000-07:00

We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.

Bill Gates

Do not dwell in the past; do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Buddha

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

Elbert Hubbard

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

John Barrymore

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

T. E. Lawrence

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

William Faulkner

Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action. When you can taste, smell, and touch your dream, you can enroll the world.

Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

Bill Gates

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Walt Disney

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

Elias Canetti

Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be.

Joy Page

Dream in a pragmatic way.

Aldous Huxley

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.

Marsha Norman

Quotes About Change

2011-05-21T08:44:00.000-07:00

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

Maya Angelou

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

Mohandas Gandhi

We must become the change we want to see in the world.

Mohandas Gandhi

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Mohandas Gandhi

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

Mohandas Gandhi

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

Winston Churchill

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

Theodore H. White

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Confucius

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

Lao Tzu

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Stephen Hawking

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Barbara De Angelis

Change of any sort requires courage.

Mary Anne Radmacher

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Winston Churchill

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Quotes on Attitude

2011-05-07T12:02:00.000-07:00

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Albert Einstein

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Maya Angelou

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Winston Churchill

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
Oscar Wilde

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
Dalai Lama

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Thomas Jefferson

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
Khalil Gibran

I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.
Kurt Cobain

My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.
Michael Jordan

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.
Theodore Roosevelt

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.
Joel Osteen

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
Zig Ziglar

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
Dale Carnegie

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
Oprah Winfrey

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
Ralph Marston

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.
Norman Vincent Peale

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
Norman Vincent Peale

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Victor Hugo

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.
Billy Graham

It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray.
Billy Graham

Quotes on Love:- Love is all we have...

2011-04-26T07:09:00.000-07:00

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

William Wordsworth

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

Euripides

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

Khalil Gibran

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

Oscar Wilde

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

Plato

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

Khalil Gibran

All mankind love a lover.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.

Zig Ziglar

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Albert Einstein

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Buddha

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

Confucius

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

Dalai Lama

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Albert Einstein

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

Aristotle

Latest Qoutes By Famouse Peoples

2011-04-11T10:42:00.000-07:00

I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.

Fidel Castro

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

Fidel Castro

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Friedrich Nietzsche

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is the proper task of life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

George Bernard Shaw

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

George Bernard Shaw

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

George Bernard Shaw

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

George Bernard Shaw

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

George Bernard Shaw

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

George Bernard Shaw

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

George Bernard Shaw

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

George Bernard Shaw

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Age Quotes

2011-04-08T23:12:00.000-07:00

Grief is half of old age.

Imam Ali (A.S)

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Albert Einstein

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

William Wordsworth

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

Aristotle

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Confucius

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Albert Einstein

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.

John F. Kennedy

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.

Albert Einstein

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Mark Twain

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

Mohandas Gandhi

Attitude Quotes

2011-04-04T07:28:00.000-07:00

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

Maya Angelou

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Albert Einstein

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Winston Churchill

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Thomas Jefferson

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

Dalai Lama

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.

Joel Osteen

My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.

Michael Jordan

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

Zig Ziglar

I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.

Kurt Cobain

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

Oscar Wilde

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

Theodore Roosevelt

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Billy Graham

It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray.

Billy Graham

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions; it is governed by our mental attitude.

Dale Carnegie

Quotes Of Life

2011-04-01T08:29:00.001-07:00

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Albert Einstein

Worth of Life

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Thomas Jefferson

Life well spent is long.

Leonardo da Vinci

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

Aristotle

I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.

Allama Muhammad Iqbal

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aristotle

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Mark Twain

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

Martin Luther King

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

Winston Churchill

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.

Zig Ziglar

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

Abraham Lincoln

By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.

Adolf Hitler

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

Mohandas Gandhi

Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.

Jonathan Lockwood Huie