Quotes

Sad love quotes

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- One of the worst things that can happen to a person is losing his love without any another choice.

- Waiting for you is like waiting for something that never come.

- There are songs that make you cry when you hear them. But it aren't the songs that make you cry , it are the people behind the memories.

- It hurts so much to let you go but sometimes it hurts more to be beside me without any feelings.

- Should I smile because you will be my friend or cry because you will not be my boyfriend.

- Time is the best way to mend the broken heart.

- Every night i cry maybe my tears clean my heart from your stupid love .

- Why we always hate who adore us and adore who hate us.

- Tears are words no one can explain it.

- If you really love me so much why you let me go !

- I love you more than you deserve and you hurt me more than i deserve and your hurt learn me that no one in this world deserve my tears.

- Sometimes memories hurt more than pain.

- The last moment before you go will be the last breath i will take in this world.

- Every time we talk i know that my silent love for you will keep silent forever.

- The hardest thing is fall in love with someone who fall in love with another one.

- It is better to forget you than to lost in your wounded hurt.

- After you i discovered that "no one die without love".

- I still remember your promise "together forever" and my brain is still searching for the error in our love folder.

- I miss the hug that made me forget the whole world.

- It is so hard when we risk our hearts and it broken but it's more hard when we still try when we know that we waiting for nothing.

Love quotes

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- I wiSh liFe waS liKe a bOok, Where yOu cOuld fliP tO anY Page tO haVe a lOok Or sKip tO The laSt Page tO See iF it'S a Sad Or a haPpy endinG

- The most beautiful thing in this world is to love and be loved.

- I really miss you more than any words can say ♥.♥.♥

- Everywhere I look (`-` ) (._. ) ( ._.) ( `-`) I see your eyes look at me.

- When i first meet you i never knew i would love you , after i fall in love with you i never knew i would miss you but i do and never want to change.

- While You`re Ignoring Her, Someone Else Is Willing To Give Her Aттεηтioη.

- I love all the stars in the sky, but they are nothing compared to the ones in your eyes.

- If you were a tear in my eye I would not cry for fear of losing you. ♥

- To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.

- If you would be loved, love and be lovable.

- What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.

- A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

- Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.

Valentine's Day quotes

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- Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!

-A nice red flower for anice woman in anice day like valentine's day.

- I've fallen in love many times... always with you.

- Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart.

- Valentine hearts beat more passionately than everyday hearts.

- True love stories never have endings.

- You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well.

- The most beautiful view is the one I share with you.

- The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

- A life without love is like a year without summer.

- Everything is clearer when you're in love.

- You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.

- You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right, it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and it's good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.

- Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots.

- Love is the flower you've got to let grow.

- The more you love someone the more he wants from you and the less you have to give since you've already given him your love.

- Everytime i close my eyes i see you in my dreams.

- you are my little angel.

New Year's quotes

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- After only one moment close your eyes and wish what you want maybe god listen to you in this fantastic moment of new yeart.

- An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

- Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

- For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.

- People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas.

- The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.

- New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

- Many people look forward to the New Year for a new start on old habits.

- I'm a little bit older, a little bit wiser, a little bit rounder, but still none the wiser.

- we always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.

- The merry year is born like the bright berry from the naked thorn.

- An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

- Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

- Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

- He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool.

- Today all will Say goodbye to the last year and say hi to the new year because all will forget the past and look at the future.

Mother's Day quotes

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- A mother is a person who seeing that there are only four pieces of pie for five people promptly announces she never did care for pie.

- The sweetest sounds to mortals given Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.

- All mothers are working mothers.

- The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

- A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.

- A mother understands what a child does not say.

- The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants, but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best.

- Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother.

- An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.

- Nobody knows of the work it makes/to keep the home together. Nobody knows of the steps it takes/ nobody knows but mother.

- If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.

- A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

- The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

- No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

Father's Day quotes

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- He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence. Budington Kelland

- Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth.

- It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller.

- It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams.

- Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~Elizabeth Stone

- Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown.

- I was immensely moved by these Father's Day quotes. They reflect on the greatness of fathers, which are quite often ignored by people. Take a closer look at the father-child relationship with these quotes.

- Looking for thought-provoking quotations that commemorate Father's Day? Read some of the best quotations and discover the virtues of a father. Make Father's Day a special occasion and show him how much you care.

- You might have noticed wrinkles of worry on your father's face. It is time you replaced those wrinkles with laughter lines. Get your father to shed his worries with these knee-slapping funny Father's Day sayings.

Christmas quotes

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- I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included. Bernard Manning.

- Christmas just like a day at the office; you do all the work and the fat guy with the suit gets all the credit. Anonymous.

- Decorate your homes with lots of mistletoe... this won't really help the environment... But more kissing has got to be good for world peace. Green Peace.

- Santa Claus wears a Red Suit, He must be a communist. And a beard and long hair, Must be a pacifist. What's in that pipe that he's smoking? Arlo Guthrie.

- I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. Shirley Temple.

- Peace on earth will come to stay, When we live Christmas every day.

- Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart… filled it, too, with a melody that would last forever.

Poetry quotes

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

- A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense.
Thomas Harrison

- A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.
Anne Stevenson

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

- Always be a poet, even in prose.
Charles Baudelaire

- Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
Alfred de Musset

- Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.
Charles Simic

- You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.
Stephane Mallarme

- Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Plutarch

- Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
Carl Sandburg

- Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
Rita Dove

- Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
Paul Engle

- Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
Thomas Gray

- Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
Salvatore Quasimodo

- “I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.”
Roy Croft quotes

- “A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes

- “Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.”
Kahlil Gibran quotes

- “Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.”
Charles Simic quotes

Happiness quotes

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- I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

- Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

- 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.

- My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.

- It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis.

- I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

- Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

- Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

- What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

- “Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
Robert Heinlein quotes

- “The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.”
Oscar Wilde quotes

- “To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.”
Helen Rowland quotes

History quotes

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- To know the truth of history is to realize its ultimate myth and its inevitable ambiguity.
Roy P. Basler

- The history of states and nations has provided some income for historiographers and book dealers, but I know no other purpose it may have served.
Borne

- History is now strictly organized, powerfully disciplined, but it possesses only a modest educational value and even less conscious social purpose.
J. H. Plumb

- A country without a memory is a country of madmen.
George Santayana

- Any time gone by was better.
Jorge Manrique

- Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.
Cicero

- History is ultimately more important than its singers.
Michael Harrington

- History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.
Norman O. Brown

- Nothing capable of being memorized is history.
R. G. Collingwood

- The past does not influence me; I influence it.
Willem De Kooning

- To converse with historians is to keep good company; many of them were excellent men, and those who were not, have taken care to appear such in their writings.
Lord Bolingbroke

- “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it”
Winston Churchill quotes

- “It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.”
Robert Francis Kennedy quotes

Graduation quotes

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- “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own.
And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go.”
Marsje
Dr. Seuss quotes

- “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”
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Anatole France quotes

- “All our dreams can come true...if we have the courage to pursue them.”
Walt Disney quotes

- “The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.”
Ben Stein quotes

- “Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes

- Education ought not to cease when we leave school; but if well begun there, will continue through life.
- Sir John Lubbock

- Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course--because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.
- Alice Drue Miller

- Every successive generation becomes a living memorial of our public schools, and a living example of their excellence.
- Joseph Story

Diet quotes

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- "The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it."
— Jackie Gleason

- "My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people."
— Orson Welles

- "Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow ye diet."
— William Gilmore Beymer

- "A diet is the penalty we pay for exceeding the feed limit."
— Unknown

- "In the Middle Ages, they had guillotines, stretch racks, whips, and chains. Nowadays, we have a much more effective torture device called the bathroom scale."
— Stephen Phillips

- "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst, for they are sticking to their diets."
— Unknown

- I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
-Mae West

- I'm on a seafood diet. I see food and I eat it.
-Attributed to Daniel L. Worona

- The Cardiologist's Diet: If it tastes good, spit it out. –Sr. Anon.

Death quotes

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- “If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?”
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Chuck Palahniuk quotes

- “A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
Oscar Wilde quotes

- “Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.”
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Eskimo Proverb quotes

- “He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend - provided, of course, that he really is dead.”
Voltaire quotes

- “LIfe? LIfe? It's Death that makes life worth living for.”
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Aaron Howard quotes

- “Biography lends to death a new terror.”
Oscar Wilde quotes

- Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
A. Sachs

- We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.
Antonin Artaud (1896 - 1948)

- Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
Epicurus

- Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Isaac Asimov

- A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin

Women quotes

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- “A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.”
Woodrow Wyatt quotes

- “A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely beautiful when her lips are closed”

- “Women are necessary evils”
Proverb quotes

- Women like silent men. They think they're listening. ~Marcel Achard, Quote, 4 November 1956

- A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car. ~Carrie Snow

- A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon. ~Arnold Haultain

- Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women. ~Nicole Hollander

- Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked. ~Ovid

- Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

- Women may fall when there's no strength in men.
William Shakespeare

- I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.
John F. Kennedy

- All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Oscar Wilde

- Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Wedding quotes

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Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. ~Author Unknown

We have the greatest pre-nuptial agreement in the world. It's called love. ~Gene Perret

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. ~Michael Leunig

I dreamed of a wedding of elaborate elegance,
A church filled with family and friends.
I asked him what kind of a wedding he wished for,
He said one that would make me his wife.
~Author Unknown

After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world. ~Douglas William Jerrold

[W]hen you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. ~Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally

Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

If two stand shoulder to shoulder against the gods,
Happy together, the gods themselves are helpless
Against them while they stand so.
~Maxwell Anderson

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. ~Rita Rudner

Marriage, n: The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. ~Ambrose Bierce

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. ~Peter Devries

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. ~Mignon McLaughlin

The Oriole weds his mottled mate,
The Lily weds the bee;
Heaven's marriage ring is round the earth,
Let me bind thee?
~Author Unknown

Marriage is the mother of the world and preserves kingdoms, and fills cities, and churches, and heaven itself.
- Dr. Jeremy Taylor

There are three things that last: faith, hope and love, and the greatest of these is love.
- I Corinthians 13:13

Honor, riches, marriage-blessing
Long continuance, and increasing,
Hourly joys be still upon you!
- William Shakespeare

You were born together, and together you shall be for evermore....but let there be spaces in your togetherness. And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
- Kahlil Gibran

The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Hark! The merry chimes are pealing,
Soft and glad the music swells,
Gaily in the night wind stealing,
Sweetly sound the wedding bells.
- Eliza Cook

Sit by me, my beloved, and listen to my heart; smile, for your happiness is a symbol of our future.
- Kahlil Gibran

Ask the child why it is born; ask the flower why it blossoms; ask the sun why it shines. I love you because I must love you.
- George P. Upton

When you meet someone who can cook and do housework--don't hesitate a minute--marry him.
- Unknown

When you make a sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
- Joseph Campbell

Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
- Plautus

There is nothing half so sweet in life
As love's young dream.
- Thomas Moore

He is blessed in love alone,
Who loves for years and loves but one.
- Sir A. Hunt

Grace and remembrance be to you both.
- William Shakespeare

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
- Honore de Balzac

Two souls with but a single thought,
Two heart that beat as one.
- Franz Joseph von Munch-Bellinghausen

To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the wedding cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up.
- Ogden Nash

Trust quotes

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Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
William Shakespeare

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
Thomas Jefferson

Trust, but verify.
Ronald Reagan

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
Steve Jobs

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
Steve Jobs

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
John F. Kennedy

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
Khalil Gibran

I trust everyone. I just don't trust the devil inside them. ~Troy Kennedy-Martin, The Italian Job

You can as easily love without trusting as you can hug without embracing. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else. ~Nicolas Walter, About Anarchism

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. ~William E. Gladstone, 1866

Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians. ~Charles Krauthammer

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's. ~Billy Wilder

Trust is letting go of needing to know all the details before you open your heart. ~Author Unknown

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement. ~Alfred Adler

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. ~William Shakespeare

Work quotes

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957)

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
Edgar Bergen (1903 - 1978), (Charlie McCarthy)

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861)

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.
Hal Lancaster, in The Wall Street Journal

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954)

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

All things are difficult before they are easy.
Thomas Fuller

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Evan Esar

And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.
Donald Norman

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.
Al Capp

As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.
Irvin S. Cobb

Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you.
Leigh Steinberg

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Gustave Flaubert

Time quotes

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Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark-spattered wheels and a hoarse roar of power or terror. It's passing, yet I'm the one who's doing all the moving. ~Martin Amis, Money

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked. ~Tillie Olsen, Tell Me a Riddle

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. ~Dion Boucicault

In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us. ~Osbert Sitwell

For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work. ~Doug Larson

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day. ~Benjamin Disraeli

Time goes, you say? Ah no!
Alas, Time stays, we go.
~Henry Austin Dobson

Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!.... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his hands are mutes. ~Charles Dickens

If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time. ~Elbert Hubbard

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear? ~Jack London

Time flies on restless pinions - constant never. ~Friedrich Schiller

The Future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. ~C.S. Lewis

Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new... but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design? ~Paracelsus

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know. ~Saint Augustine

Each moment has its sickle, emulous
Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep
Strikes empires from the root.
~Edward Young

The inertia hardest to overcome is that of perfectly good seconds. ~Martin H. Fischer

Time is the wisest counsellor of all. ~Pericles

A lot like yesterday, a lot like never. ~Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

Better three hours too soon, than one minute too late.
William Shakespeare

Time is the best teacher

Time is the wisest counselor of all.
Pericles

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.
Delmore Schwartz

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Rodin

Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.
Aeschylus

Histories make men wise.
Francis Bacon

Success quotes

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"The successful always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Anyone of them could change the course of his life overnight."
-Mark Caine

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning."
- Christopher Morley

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning."
- Christopher Morley

"When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success."
Orison Swett Marden

Pity the man who inherits a million and isn't a millionaire.Here's what would be pitiful,if your income grew and you didn't.

"The great successful men of the world have used their imagination?they think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building."
Robert Collier

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Abraham Lincoln

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
Lydia M. Child

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
George Edward Woodberry

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
Benjamin Disraeli

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
David Frost

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Jim Rohn

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
J. Paul Getty

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
Logan P. Smith

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Jonathan Winters

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
George Burns

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields

Sports quotes

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Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
Ambrose Bierce

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
William Arthur Ward

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.
Gordie Howe

All sports for all people.
Pierre de Coubertin

Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.
Doug Collins

Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts.
Phil Jackson

As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day.
Michael Jordan

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
John Leonard

Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.
Joe Adcock

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.
Arnold Palmer

What's a good tournament for him? Winning it. He's good enough.
Greg Norman

What's unfortunate about buying a pitcher for $12 million is that he carries no warranty.
Bob Verdi

When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.
Hugo Black

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
Hunter S. Thompson

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Vince Lombardi

I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.
Shaquille O'Neal

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.
Sam Snead

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
Erma Bombeck

If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.
George Brett

If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.
Charles Barkley

If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
Vince Lombardi

To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other. ~Jack Handey

Prize fighters can sometimes read and write when they start - but they can't when they finish. ~Martin H. Fischer

October is not only a beautiful month but marks the precious yet fleeting overlap of hockey, baseball, basketball, and football. ~Jason Love

I would have thought that the knowledge that you are going to be leapt upon by half-a-dozen congratulatory, but sweaty team-mates would be inducement not to score a goal. ~Arthur Marshall

As a manager, you always have a gun to your head. It's a question of whether there is a bullet in the barrel. ~Kevin Keegan, 1995

The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it's the opposition. ~Nick Seitz

We are inclined that if we watch a football game or baseball game, we have taken part in it. ~John F. Kennedy, 1961

Most people are in a factory from nine till five. Their job may be to turn out 263 little circles. At the end of the week they're three short and somebody has a go at them. On Saturday afternoons they deserve something to go and shout about. ~Rodney Marsh, 1969

I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at one another. ~Al Oerter

Religion quotes

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Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time.
Dennis Miller

Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
Isaac Asimov

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?"
Annie Dillard

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
Paul Valery

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
Douglas Adams

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
Khalil Gibran

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Henry Ward Beecher

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
Frederick Douglass

I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.
Aaron Neville

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
Albert Camus

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H. L. Mencken

When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.
Frank Sinatra

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
Desmond Tutu

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
John Morley

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
George Bernard Shaw

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
Anne Lamott

Richard J. Foster
God's heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small.

The Dalai Lama
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Pet quotes

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"The purity of a person's heart can be quickly measured by how they regard animals" ~ Anonymous

"Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!" ~ Theophile Gautier

"Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole." ~ Roger Caras

"There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat." ~ Wesley Bates

"Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this." ~ Anonymous

"You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us" ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

"A dog is the only thing on earth that will love you more than you love yourself." ~ Josh Billings

"Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened." ~ Anatole France

"Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to." ~ Joe Gores

"A canter is the cure for all evil." ~ Benjamin Disraeli

"Dogs have owners, cats have staff." ~ Anonymous

"Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful." ~ Ann Landers

"In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so feeble, He gave him the cat" ~ Warren Eckstein

"A house is not a home without a pet." ~ Anonymous

"I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul." ~ Jean Cocteau

"If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans" ~ James Herriot

"I think I could turn and live with animals, they are
so placid and self-contained,
I stand and look at them long and long." ~ Walt Whitman

"The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself, too." ~ Samuel Butler

"I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it."
~ Abraham Lincoln

"If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because you lap is warmer." ~ Alfred North Whitehead

"...he will be our friend for always and always and always." ~ Rudyard Kipling

"The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much." ~ Thornton Wilder

A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.
Norman Ralph Augustine

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.
Agnes Repplier

A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.
Robert Southey

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
George Eliot

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.
Cleveland Amory

Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.
Oliver Herford

Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.
W. L. George

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
Joseph Wood Krutch

Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.
Robert Benchley

Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs.
Martha Scott

Dogs are my favorite people.
Richard Dean Anderson

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
Charles de Gaulle

The dog is the god of frolic.
Henry Ward Beecher

The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast.
Bob Hope

The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.
Ogden Nash

The world spends $40 billion a year on pet food.
Nicholas D. Kristof

There are all sorts of cute puppy dogs, but it doesn't stop people from going out and buying Dobermans.
Angus Young

Peace quotes

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We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn't it time that we should take risks to secure peace? ~J. Ramsay MacDonald

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower

Right is more precious than peace. ~Woodrow Wilson

Let us love the world to peace. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994

A warless world will come as men develop warless hearts. ~Charles Wesley Burns

We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament. ~J. Ramsay MacDonald

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
Benjamin Franklin

Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.
Sydney Madwed

For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.
Irving Babbitt

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
Benjamin Franklin

I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
Muhammad Ali

I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.
Isabel Allende

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.
Peace Pilgrim

This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future.
Mark Kennedy

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
William Hazlitt

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.
Peace Pilgrim

Parenting quotes

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“To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today”
- Anonymous

“The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.”
- O. A. Battista

“Kids spell love T-I-M-E.” – John Crudele

“What a child doesn’t receive he can seldom later give.”
- P.D. James

“If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.”
- Haim Ginott

“Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible — the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.”
- Virginia Satir

“That best portion of a good man’s life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.”
- William Wordsworth

“Parents need to fill a child’s bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can’t poke enough holes to drain it dry.”
- Alvin Price

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. ~Robert Fulghum

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it. ~Haim Ginott

The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be. ~Homer

If you have never been hated by your child you have never been a parent. ~Bette Davis

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

Nature quotes

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A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Walt Whitman

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
Hal Borland

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
H. G. Wells

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
Russell Baker

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

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
Thomas Browne

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
e. e. cummings

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
Alice Walker

I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.
Joyce Kilmer

I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.
Norman MacCaig

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
Bertrand Russell

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
Aristotle

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
Marcus Aurelius

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
Henry David Thoreau

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Rabindranath Tagore

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
John Muir

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
Jean Giraudoux