Interesting Quotes

[LAWRENCE]

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
Elmer Davis

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed; else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

[LAWRENCE]

There is never time to do it right, but there is always time to do it over.
Carl W. Buechner

I may forget what someone may say or do, but I do not forget how they made me feel.
Unknown

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.
Samuel Ullman

[midnight caller]

some really good quotes there xx

[LAWRENCE]

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

Iris Murdoch

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed. Never throw out anyone.

Audrey Hepburn

It is better to wear out than to rust out.

Bishop Richard Cumberland

[buttercups]

Great job Lawrence!

[LAWRENCE]

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

You can find on the outside only what you possess on the inside.

Adolfo Montiel Ballesteros

The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Helen Keller

[LAWRENCE]

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.

Pete Seeger

Many of our fears are tissue paper thin and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.

Brendan Francis

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Thomas A. Edison

[LAWRENCE]

Authenticity matters little, though our willingness to accept legends depends far more upon their expression of concepts we want to believe than upon their plausibility.

David P. Mikkelson

Being defeated is often only a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

Marilyn vos Savant

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

Horace

[LAWRENCE]

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after awhile, he gets to know something.

Wilson Mizner

Men can be stimulated to show off their good qualities to the leader who seems to think they have good qualities.

John Richelsen

Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

Henry Ward Beecher

[LAWRENCE]

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is the one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.

Sydney J. Harris

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.

Cicero

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 cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

Ray Bradbury