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Anger

Art        

  • No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
    - Oscar Wilde
            
  • I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.
    - Marc Chagall
            
  • There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
    - Salvador Dali

    Business        

  • You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
    - Tom Brokaw
            
  • Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.
    - Will Rogers
            
  • Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
    - Henry Ford

    Computers

    Dreams        

  • Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
    - Terry Pratchett
            
  • Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.
    - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
            
  • Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
    - Henry David Thoreau

    Education        

  • Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
    - Oscar Wilde
            
  • Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
    - Malcolm S. Forbes
            
  • The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
    - George Santayana

    Equality

    Experience        

  • You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.
    - Stephen King

    Faith

    Forgiveness        

  • Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.
    - William Congreve
            
  • To err is human; to forgive, divine.
    - Alexander Pope
            
  • It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.
    - Lana Turner

    Friendship        

  • The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
    - Henry David Thoreau
            
  • One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
    - George Santayana
            
  • A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.
    - Alice Duer Miller

    Government        

  • Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
    - Lily Tomlin
            
  • The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
    - Gore Vidal
            
  • It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
    - John W. Gardner

    History        

  • I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.
    - Theodore H. White
            
  • I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
    - Calvin Coolidge
            
  • An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.
    - William Manchester

    Humor        

  • I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.
    - George Burns
            
  • When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.
    - Thomas W. Higginson
            
  • Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.
    - Thomas W. Higginson

    Imagination        

  • Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
    - Stephen B. Leacock
            
  • I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
    - Ursula K. Le Guin

    Intelligence        

  • Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
    - Josh Billings

    Life        

  • Life is half spent before we know what it is.
    - George Herbert
            
  • Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
    - Fran Lebowitz
            
  • May you live every day of your life.
    - Jonathan Swift

    Love        

  • Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.
    - Smiley Blanton
            
  • Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
    - Henry Van Dyke
            
  • Love conquers all.
    - Virgil

    Marriage        

  • It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.
    - Helen Rowland
            
  • The husband who doesn't tell his wife everything probably reasons that what she doesn't know won't hurt him.
    - Leo J. Burke
            
  • The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.
    - Peter De Vries

    Mortality        

  • To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
    - Samuel Butler

    Movies        

  • A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
    - Jean Cocteau
            
  • I never enjoyed working in a film.
    - Marlene Dietrich
            
  • You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.
    - Mary Schmich

    • Music        

  • You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?
    - Bryan Ferry

    Nature        

  • Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
    - H. G. Wells
            
  • I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
    - Isaac Bashevis Singer
            
  • Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much.
    - Joan Collins

    Old Age        

  • Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
    - Doris Day
            
  • The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
    - Logan Pearsall Smith
            
  • I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
    - Henri Frederic Amiel

    On Change        

  • When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
    - Stanislaw Lec
            
  • Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
    - James A. Baldwin
            
  • When a load of bricks, dumped on a corner lot, can arrange themselves into a house; when a handful of springs and screws and wheels, emptied on a desk, can gather themselves into a watch, then and not until then will it seem sensible, to some of us at least, to believe that all these thousands or millions of worlds could have been created, balanced and set to revolving in their separate orbits - all without any directing intelligence at all.
    - Bruce Barton

    Patriotism

    Peace

    Poetry        

  • To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
    - Robert Frost
            
  • A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
    - Robert Frost
            
  • Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
    - Samuel Johnson

    Politics        

  • I deserve respect for the things I did not do.
    - Dan Quayle
            
  • Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
    - Pope John Paul II
            
  • People cut themselves off from their ties of the old life when they come to Los Angeles. They are looking for a place where they can be free, where they can do things they couldn't do anywhere else.
    - Tom Bradley

    Religion        

  • If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.
    - Robert Green Ingersoll
            
  • Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
    - Isaac Asimov
            
  • I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
    - Stephen Roberts

    Science        

  • Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
    - Oliver Wendell Holmes
            
  • The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
    - Isaac Asimov
            
  • He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.
    - George William Curtis

    Society        

  • It is not a fragrant world.
    - Raymond Chandler
            
  • Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
    - Georg C. Lichtenberg
            
  • Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
    - Thomas Szasz

    Sports        

  • I couldn't see the ball come off the club for the first 27 holes. It came off the club that fast.
    - Buddy Marucci
            
  • Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.
    - Greg LeMond
            
  • He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.
    - Jack Nicklaus

    Success        

  • 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
            
  • It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail.
    - David Merrick
            
  • There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap."
    - Carrie Fisher

    Technology        

  • Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.
    - Jaron Lanier
            
  • It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.
    - Esther Dyson
            
  • We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.
    - Lawrence Clark Powell

    Time        

  • You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
    - James M. Barrie
            
  • You can never plan the future by the past.
    - Edmund Burke

    War        

  • Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
    - John F. Kennedy
            
  • You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
    - Will Rogers
            
  • The first casualty when war comes is truth.
    - Hiram Johnson

    Words to the Wise        

  • Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
    - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
            
  • Wisdom is a sacred communion.
    - Victor Hugo
            
  • The doors of wisdom are never shut.
    - Benjamin Franklin

    Workplace        

  • It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
    - Pablo Picasso
            
  • Nobody can be successful unless he loves his work.
    - David Sarnoff
            
  • As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.
    - Irvin S. Cobb


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