Interesting Quotes

[LAWRENCE]

Society, my dear, is like salt water. Good to swim in, but hard to swallow.
Arthur Stringer

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions and pass them on.
Richard Feynman

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.
Jim Bishop

[LAWRENCE]

Optimists make the best of it when they get the worst of it.
Unknown

You are not happy because you are well. You are well because you are happy. You are not depressed because trouble has come to you, but trouble has come to you because you are depressed. You can change your thoughts and feelings and then the outer things will come to correspond. Indeed, there is no other way of working.
Emmet Fox

Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most.
Unknown

[LAWRENCE]

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.
John Foster Dulles

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master. He can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
Epictetus

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
Dr. Benjamin Spock

[LAWRENCE]

Halloween wraps fear in innocence, as though it were a slightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat.
Nicholas Gordon

Witch and ghost make merry on this last of dear October's days.
Unknown

Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.
Mason Cooley

[LAWRENCE]

Love is not a matter of what happens in life. It's a matter of what's happening in your heart.
Ken Keyes

What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.
William Hazlitt

[LAWRENCE]

In politics, there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers. And then there are those, like John McCain, who use their careers to promote change. Sarah Palin

My fellow citizens, the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of "personal discovery." This world of threats and dangers is not just a community, and it doesn't just need an organizer. Sarah Palin

There is only one man in this election who has ever really fought for you … in places where winning means survival and defeat means death … and that man is John McCain. Sarah Palin

To the families of special-needs children all across this country, I have a message: For years, you sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters. I pledge to you that if we are elected, you will have a friend and advocate in the White House. Sarah Palin

[LAWRENCE]

In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder.
Pearl S. Buck

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
Dorothy Thompson

To thine own self be true. And it must follow, as the night the day, thou can't not then be false to any man.
William Shakespeare

[LAWRENCE]

A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him than what it has denied.
Baltasar Gracian

If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.
Robert Quillen

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.
Edmund Burke

[LAWRENCE]

Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
Arthur Ashe

For every mountain, there is a miracle.
Robert H. Schuller

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
Charles Wadsworth

[LAWRENCE]

When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen.
Arland Gilbert

Life is a series of problems. Either you are in one now, you're just coming out of one or you're getting ready to go into another one.
Unknown

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Abraham Lincoln