"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues." -Rene Descartes
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness." -Desmond Tutu
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. - Isaac Newton
"My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success."
-Isaac Newton
No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me. - Truman Capote
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes. - Andrew Jackson
“We are what we repeatedly do. Greatness then, is not an act, but a habit”
~Aristotle~
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. - Mark Twain
"Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things." -Isaac Newton
I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. - Richard M. Nixon
"Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please." -Mark Twain
When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place. - P. J. O'Rourke
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. - Mohandas Gandhi
I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave. - Joseph Campbell
In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned. - Jane Haddam
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself. - Blaise Pascal
We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves. - Blaise Pascal
"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."
-Mario Andretti
No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. - Elie Wiesel
That guy asked for our help. We lit him on fire. You'll understand if I'm not in a particularly social mood. - quote from the film "Cabin Fever"
It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them. - Tiberius
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. - Isaac Asimov
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. - John Locke
Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations
I'm not sure who's quote that is but I love it
Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic. - Wallace Stevens
The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness
~Esther Hicks
It's ok to be a glow stick. Sometimes we have to break before we shine.
Just because my path is different doesn't mean I'm lost
'Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes. - David Morrissey
You don't know how lucky you are being a monkey. Because consciousness is a terrible curse. I think. I feel. I suffer. And all I ask in return is the opportunity to do my work. And they won't allow it... because I raise issues. - a quote from the movie "Being John Malkovich"
People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk. - Stephen King
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. - Buddha
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. - George Bernard Shaw
"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy"
~Ludwig Van Beethoven~
I think there is this steely strength beneath this beautiful veneer that a lot of women possess. I can't fathom or understand it. - Bryan Batt
Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back. - Blaise Pascal
Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself. - E.E. Cummings
Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone. - Redd Foxx
"You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity." -Bobby Seale
If the King doesn't move how do you expect his subjects won't follow - Lelouch Vi Britannia
We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Elie Wiesel
"It's amazing how productive doing nothing can be." - Kevin Flynn
All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree. - James Madison
"Never tell your problems to anyone…20% don’t care and the other 80% are glad you have them"
~Lou Holtz~
"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are"
~John Wooden~
"Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity"
~Author Unknown~
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts"
~Bertrand Russell~
Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I steal from every movie ever made. - Quentin Tarantino
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you - Maya Angelou
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode? - Langston Hughes
I would rather create pleasure according to my own whim than be subjected to the whims of others. - Anton Szandor LaVey
Corruption has reached an unacceptable level. It devours resources that could be devoted to the citizens. It impedes the proper carrying out of market rules and penalizes the honest and capable - Sergio Mattarella (President of Italy since 2015)
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. - Robin Williams
No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. - Voltaire
"Don't worry about what people say behind your back, they are the people who are finding fault in your life instead of fixing the faults in their own lifes"
The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt. - Max Lerner, The Unfinished Country, 1950
Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it. - Gordon R. Dickson
You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot. - Stanley Kubrick
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire
May you get to Heaven an hour before the Devil knows you're dead - quote from "Road To Perdition" (Paul Newman's character)
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.- Seneca
The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge. - Aldous Huxley
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior. - Socrates
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. - William Arthur Ward
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. ~Buddha
Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core. - Hannah Arendt
I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived. - Willa Cather
I am not afraid of my enemies, but by God, you must look out when you get among your friends. - Cornelius Vanderbilt
I think anyone who has an opinion, and voices it, will offend someone. - Peter Steele
There cannot be a crisis next week my schedule is already full. - Henry Kissinger
We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates - which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing. Today you are looking at the Taliban or ISIS; tomorrow you might be looking at another name. - Narendra Modi (RIP - victims of Manchester, England attack)
All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree. - James Madison
The way it works is, you do the thing you're scared shitless of, and you get the courage AFTER you do it, not before you do it. - quote from the film "Three Kings"
That's what the present is. It's a little unsatisfying because life is unsatisfying. - quote from the film "Midnight In Paris"
It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds. - Sophocles
It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds. - Sophocles
It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds. - Sophocles
It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful. - Anton LaVey
Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact she is essentially warlike, like the cat. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. - Andy Warhol
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. - John F. Kennedy
In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves. - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
'Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes. - David Morrissey
I would rather create pleasure according to my own whim than be subjected to the whims of others. - Anton Szandor LaVey
Sooner or later, different scares people. - quote from the film "The Accountant"
Everyone is hiding something. At least there is honor among thieves - quote from the film "The Accountant"
Where must we go, we who wander this wasteland, in search of our better selves. - -The First History of Man, a fictional book of the Mad Max universe (also it's the quote on screen at the end of Mad Max: Fury Road)
I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land. - Harriet Tubman
The natural movement of one's soul is upwards. But just as any object is dragged down when a heavy weight is tied to it, the burden of the body drags down the soul. - Vinoba Bhave
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man - George Bernard Shaw
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. - Gilbert K. Chesterton
Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth. - Sir Walter Raleigh
Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death. - Albert Camus
I’m lost. And it’s my own fault. It’s about time I figured out that I can’t ask people to keep me found.-Anne Sexton
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. - Peter Drucker
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools-Ernest Hemingway
For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion. - Mahatma Gandhi
We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others. - Will Rogers
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. - Plutarch
I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth. - Stephen Hawking
Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake. - Nelson Mandela
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. - Edmund Burke
Governments do not have the answers - indeed, quite the reversal. A lot of times, they not only do not have the answers, but they themselves are the problem. - Betty Williams
Governments do not have the answers - indeed, quite the reversal. A lot of times, they not only do not have the answers, but they themselves are the problem. - Betty Williams
Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away. - Ismail Haniyeh
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. - Peter Drucker
Without music, life would be a mistake. -Friedrich Nietzsche
Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core. - Hannah Arendt
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception. - Carl Sagan
As an artist, I want a reaction. - Chester Bennington (RIP)
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere. - Voltaire
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do. - Voltaire
I don’t want to earn my living; I want to live. - Oscar Wilde
"Never enter a business deal with anyone who has less than yourself" -Dr. Anton Zsandor Lavey-
There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers. - Ralph Ellison
The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on. - Josiah Gilbert Holland
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly. - Richard Bach
I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman. -Aleister Crowley-
Humanity evolves when we realize that animals have the same rights to the Earth as we do. - Radhanath Swami
A lie told often enough becomes the truth -Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin)-
How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense - Franz Kafka (from his book Metamorphosis)
Quote of the Day: Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos. - quote by (the brilliant) David Cronenberg
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. - R. Buckminster Fuller
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people. -Karl Marx-
Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself. - E.E. Cummings
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. - Joseph Campbell
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. - Jean de La Fontaine
Resilience is, of course, necessary for a warrior. But a lack of empathy isn't. - Phil Klay
To survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people, one nation, one flag. - Pauline Hanson
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. - Albert Einstein
We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community. - Haile Selassie
It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked. - Haile Selassie
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat. - Anais Nin
Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul. - Victor Hugo
Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything... whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out. - Tina Turner
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. - Charles Dickens
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight. - Albert Schweitzer
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it. - Akhenaton
America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success. - Sigmund Freud
One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous. - Plato
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. - Joseph Campbell
You don't know how lucky you are being a monkey. Because consciousness is a terrible curse. I think. I feel. I suffer. And all I ask in return is the opportunity to do my work. And they won't allow it... because I raise issues. - a quote from the movie "Being John Malkovich"
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. - Mother Teresa
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Madam, if i were two faced, do you honestly think i would be wearing this one? - Abraham Lincon
The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason. - Charles Darwin
Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily – William of Ockham
So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing. - T. S. Eliot
When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies. - Khalil Gibran
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. - Nelson Mandela
I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark. - Stephen Hawking
We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.' - Ban Ki-moon
There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.~~~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. - Winston Churchill
This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper. - T. S. Eliot
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. - Thomas A. Edison
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. - Lao Tzu
My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth. - Abraham Lincoln
“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.”
— Henry Ford
Humanity evolves when we realize that animals have the same rights to the Earth as we do. - Radhanath Swami
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. - John F. Kennedy
Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism. - Hubert H. Humphrey
The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea. - Vladimir Nabokov
"Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation"-Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Indeed, this life is a test. It is a test of many things - of our convictions and priorities, our faith and our faithfulness, our patience and our resilience, and in the end, our ultimate desires. - Sheri L. Dew
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes. - Andrew Jackson
Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted. - Denis Waitley
"Failure is only the opportunity to begin again. Only this time, more wisely." -- Uncle Iroh (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
Anyone who supports terrorism, anyone who sees terrorism as a legitimate means, anyone who uses terrorism to cause the death of innocent people is a terrorist in my eyes. - Milos Zeman
Without health life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering - an image of death. - Buddha
In order to understand, I destroyed myself. - Fernando Pessoa
“Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.”
― Shannon L. Alder
'Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes. - David Morrissey
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. - Ernest Hemingway
"Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible." - Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs. - Voltaire
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. - Maya Angelou
The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die. - Gore Vidal
We all need to look into the dark side of our nature..
that is where the passion is..the energy..
It is part of who we are...do not fear it ..embrace it
become whole....
we are both darkness and light.......
Exterminate all rational thought. That is the conclusion I have come to. - Naked Lunch(film)
You cannot reason with a tiger when your head is in its mouth - Winston Churchill
Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred. - Lalu Prasad Yadav
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring - Marilyn Monroe
When life gives you lemons, make orange juice and leave the world wondering how you did it.
“The moment you stop trying to become a better person, is the moment you start to become worse than what you already are.”
― Carroll Bryant
No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky. - Bob Dylan
It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity.
Lewis Carrol
She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth. - Benjamin Franklin
Hell, life itself can be absurd. But you have to embrace that. If you can't smile now, how can you possibly laugh in the face of death? ~R. Scott Gemmill
Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred. - Lalu Prasad Yadav
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
Madam, if i were two faced, do you honestly think i would be wearing this one? - Abraham Lincon
Life without experience and sufferings is not life - Socrates
If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes. - Pablo Picasso
Write something, even if it's just a suicide note. - Gore Vidal
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself. - Lao Tzu
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Will Durant
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death? - Plato
I cant change the direction of the wind, but I can always adjust my sails to always reach my destination. -Jimmy Dean
I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land. - Harriet Tubman
It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward. - Patrick Stewart
I can see every monster as they come in. - Truman Capote