Monday, June 28, 2010

Quotes

“Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.” - - John Lennon


“A line is a dot that went for a walk.” - - Paul Klee


“An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.” - - Agatha Christie


"You have been taught to live in fear. You have been told about the survival of the fittest and the victory of the strongest and the success of the cleverest. Precious little is said, about the glory of the most loving. And so you strive to be the fittest, the strongest, the cleverest - in one way or another - and if you see yourself as something less than this in any situation, you fear loss, for you have been told that to be less is to lose."


"Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow." - - Woody Guthri


"If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?" - - Margot Fonteyn


"By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation." - - Oscar Wilde

"Being single is pretty good. It's a nice sense of irresponsibility." - - Michael Douglas

"If you are single there is always one thing you should take out with you on a Saturday night... your friends." - - Sex in the City

"Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it." - - Dennis P. Kimbro

"Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him." - - James Allen

"If you don't know where you are going, how can you expect to get there?" - - Basil S. Walsh

"Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you." - - Madame de Tencin

"The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole." - - Anonymous

"The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph!" - - Marvin Phillips

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

"The present is a rope stretched over the past. The secret to walking it is, you never look down." - - Sean Stewart

"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another." - - William James

"There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me." - - John Erskine

Saturday, June 19, 2010

quotes

"Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you." -- Madame de Tencin

"Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won't think you're going gaga." -- David Ogilvy

"Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault." -- David M. Burns

"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." -- Walter Bagehot

"A youth becomes a man when the marks he wants to leave on the world have nothing to do with tires."

“Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘Holy shit…what a ride!’” -- Hunter S. Thompson

"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X+Y+Z, where X is work, Y is play, and Z is keep your mouth shut." -- Albert Einstein

"Sometimes we must get hurt in order to grow. We must fail in order to know. Sometimes our vision is clear only after our eyes are washed away with tears."

"The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us." -- Bill Watterson

"The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no
matter what happens." -- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams." -- Anonymous

"There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self-destruct. It never fails." -- Richard Rybolt

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." -- Charles Darwin

"Everything will be all right in the end; if it's not all right then it's not the end."

"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit." -- Harry S. Truman