Tag: Various

Quotes May 09, 2022

“In 1973, the Roe v. Wade decision concluded that women have a constitutionally protected right to safe and legal abortions. That landmark decision wasn’t the beginning of women having abortions; it was the end of women dying from abortions.”
Jan Schakowsky
 
 
 
 
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti
 
 
 
 
“Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course.”
Ban Ki-moon
 
 
 
 
“What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?”
Adam Smith
 
 
 
 
Change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.
Robin Sharma – Writer
 
 
 
 
Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change.
Richard Branson – Entrepreneur-Business Magnate
 
 
 
 
There is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it.
Amanda Gorman – Poet-Activist
 
 
 
 
Don’t give up, the beginning is always the hardest.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Failure is not the opposite of success, it is part of success.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Stop shrinking yourself to fit places you’ve outgrown.
Unknown

Quotes April 25, 2022

A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
Camille Paglia
 
 
 
 
“Sitting is to be thought of as a compromise position since man in his natural habitat functions best when he is either erect and moving or supine and resting… Many of our ailments are by-products of sitting.”
American industrial designer and ergonomics pioneer Niels Diffrient
 
 
 
 
“We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.”
Carl Sagan
 
 
 
 
“Laws are the spider’s webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.
Solon (a Greek lawgiver, c.600 BC)”
 
 
 
 
Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.
Douglas Adams
 
 
 
 
Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.
Stephen Fry
 
 
 
 
Kindle Singles is publishing on skates. It prints like lightning; our book meets readers in hours. I’ve spent so many years waiting for publishers to consider whether they wanted to print a book of mine, making contracts, taking months to fit it into the Fall list or the Spring list, fitting it into an advertising plan.
Richard Bach
 
 
 
 
Truth is more deceptive than falsehood, for it is more frequently presented by those from whom we do not expect it, and so has against it a numerical presumption.
Ambrose Bierce
 
 
 
 
I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world.
Mindy Kaling
 
 
 
 
I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them. It’s something that’s increasingly difficult to find that spark of originality that makes if different than the ones that come before.
Julia Roberts
 
 
 
 
Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read.
Marilyn Jager Adams
 
 
 
 
“Just because you’re offended doesn’t mean you are right. Some people are offended by equality…. I’m not doing it for the 200 egos in the room, I’m doing it for the 200 million people who aren’t winning awards, who aren’t millionaires….If you can laugh in the face of adversity, you are bulletproof.”
Ricky Gervais

Quotes April 23, 2022

The elaborate and rather flexible political police system established in Russia in the early 1880s was unique in at least two respects. Before the First World War no other country in the world had two kinds of police, one to protect the state and another to protect its citizens. Only a country with a deeply rooted patrimonial mentality could have devised such a dualism. Secondly, unlike other countries, where the police served as an arm of the law and was required to turn over all arrested persons to the judiciary, in imperial Russia and there alone police organs were exempt from this obligation.
Richard Pipes
 
 
 
 
Now, it is clear that the decline of a language must ultimately have political and economic causes: it is not due simply to the bad influence of this or that individual writer. But an effect can become a cause, reinforcing the original cause and producing the same effect in an intensified form, and so on indefinitely. A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.
George Orwell
 
 
 
 
Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error. The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
William Faulkner
 
 
 
 
I belong to the most ancient empire on this globe. You, by your own statement, belong to the most dependent and ill-treated nation of serfs ever deprived of its liberties. The flag of my country floats over the third greatest navy in the world. Yours is to be seen derisively displayed on the 17th of March in the public streets and triumphantly hoisted on an occasional gin-mill. The ambassadors and consuls of my nation rank at every court in Europe with those of Russia, Germany, England and France. Those of your race may be found cooling their heels in the lobbies of any common council in which the rum-selling interest in politics predominates. The race which I represent is centuries old in every art and science. That of which you are the spokesman apologizes for its present ignorance and mental obscurity with the plea that your learning and literature are lost in the mythical past.
Wong Chin Foo, On Wong’s Chinese vs. Denis Kearney’s Irish (1883)
 
 
 
 
Once a new technology rolls over you, if you’re not part of the steamroller, you’re part of the road.
Stewart Brand
 
 
 
 
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
Joseph Campbell
 
 
 
 
Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.
Stephen Sondheim
 
 
 
 
There’s no happiness in life, only a mirage of it on the horizon.
Vladimir Putin, quoting Leo Tolstoy
 
 
 
 
Life has become better, comrades. Life has become more cheerful.
Joseph Stalin, 1935

Quotes April 21, 2022

The future happens. No matter how much we scream.
Derek Walcott,
poet, playwright
 
 
 
 
The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Confucius – 551 BC-479 BC – Chinese Philosopher
 
 
 
 
“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”
Thomas Jefferson
 
 
 
 
“We share, to a large extent, one another’s fate. We help create those circumstances which favor or challenge us in meeting our objectives and realizing our dreams.”
Walt Disney
 
 
 
 
Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility.
Meryl Streep,
actor
 
 
 
 
Let us dare to read, think, speak and write.
John Adams,
lawyer, statesman, politician, diplomat, second US president
 
 
 
 
The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other’s welcome.
Derek Walcott,
poet, playwright
 
 
 
 
Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon.
Jim Rohn – Entrepreneur-Author-Motivational Speaker
 
 
 
 
Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
Arthur Ashe – 1943-1993 – Professional Tennis Player

Quotes April 19, 2022

One who is obedient to nature receives the blessings of nature.
Soetsu Yanagi
 
 
 
 
A bullhorn is a wonderful tool for a movement to use, but it can’t build a movement.
Gal Beckerman
 
 
 
 
Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.
Gary Snyder
 
 
 
 
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
Hans Hoffman
 
 
 
 
I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him…The land of tears is so mysterious.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
 
 
 
 
In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair.
Howard Thurman
 
 
 
 
We know now, for certain, that we do not live in an inert universe. How to work with clay knowing this? How do we embody information so that a living material becomes a threshold for healing our deracination from our true, our wild natures?
Paulus Berensohn
 
 
 
 
Affirm everyone and everything.
Freely extend your goodwill and virtue in every direction, regardless of circumstances.
Embrace all things as part of the Harmonious Oneness, and then you will begin to perceive it.
Lao Tzu
 
 
 
 
We live in a culture that is constantly amping us up with stress and stimulation.
Johann Hari

Quotes April 10, 2022

“I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.” Martha Washington
 
 
 
 
I love what I do, and when you love what you do, you want to be the best at it.
Jay-Z – Rapper-Songwriter-Record Executive-Entrepreneur-Media Proprietor
 
 
 
 
One finds limits by pushing them.
Herbert Simon – 1916-2001 – Political Scientist
 
 
 
 
“We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
 
 
 
 

“The way I see it, it’s a great thing to be the man who hit the most home runs, but it’s a greater thing to be the man who did the most with the home runs he hit.”
Hank Aaron
 
 
 
 
It’s important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them — they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things.
Michael Nesmith – 1942-2021 – Musician-Songwriter-Actor-Producer-Novelist

Quotes April 03, 2022

The chief cause of failure is substituting what you want most for what you want now.
Zig Ziglar – 1926-2012 – Author-Salesman
 
 
 
 
No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
Virginia Woolf,
writer
 
 
 
 
To be agreeable while disagreeing — that’s an art.
Malcolm Forbes,
businessperson, magazine publisher
 
 
 
 
If an idea’s worth having once, it’s worth having twice.
Tom Stoppard,
playwright, screenwriter
 
 
 
 
Dig in: You’ll never reach bottom.
Rita Dove,
poet, writer, Pulitzer Prize winner, US poet laureate
 
 
 
 
Write a new ending for yourself, for the people you’re meant to serve and support, and for your culture.
Brene Brown,
writer, research professor, lecturer, podcast host

Quotes March 27, 2022

Remember that there’s always another way of seeing things: that’s the beginning of wisdom.
John Barth,
writer
 
 
 
 
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
Eric Hoffer,
philosopher, writer
 
 
 
 
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
There is something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Elbert Hubbard,
writer, publisher, artist, philosopher
 
 
 
 
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Walter Winchell,
gossip columnist, radio commentator
 
 
 
 
The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
Abigail Adams,
second first lady of the United States
March is Women’s History Month
 
 
 
 
Keep up the fire, And leave the generous flames to shape themselves.
Measure not the work Until the day’s out and the labor done.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
poet
March is Women’s History Month
 
 
 
 
Every day I try to figure out whether there’s something I can do that will make a difference.
Madeleine Albright,
first woman to serve as US secretary of state, diplomat
1937-2022
March is Women’s History Month

Quotes March 24, 2022

I’m not going to continue knocking that old door that doesn’t open for me. I’m going to create my own door and walk through that.
Ava DuVernay – Filmmaker
 
 
 
 
Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.
Guy Finley – Writer-Philosopher-Spiritual Teacher
 
 
 
 
The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.
J.P. Morgan – 1837-1913 – Financer-Industrial Organizer
 
 
 
 
May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.
Chuck Palahniuk – Journalist-AuthorTo improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Winston Churchill – 1874-1965 – Former British Prime Minister
 
 
 
 
“Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.”
W.H. Auden
 
 
 
 
“Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
Desmond Tutu
 
 
 
 
“You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.”
Marie Curie
 
 
 
 
“The problem with money bail, for those who aren’t familiar with it, is that it puts a price tag on freedom. It says to someone who is wealthy that no matter how dangerous you are, you can buy your way out.”
Chesa Boudin

Quotes March 19, 2022

“The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.”
Will Rogers
 
 
 
 
“To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.”
Confucius
 
 
 
 
“The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.”
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
 
 
 
 
“For, so long as there are interesting books to read, it seems to me that neither I nor anyone else, for that matter, need be unhappy.”
Selma Lagerlöf
 
 
 
 
“Celebrate what you’ve accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.”
Mia Hamm
 
 
 
 
“The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.”
Vanessa Williams
 
 
 
 
“It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many triumphs and tragedies, and all we see are yards and driveways.”
Glenn Close
 
 
 
 
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
Dan Millman – Author
 
 
 
 
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
Eric Hoffer,
philosopher, writer
 
 
 
 
If you make your internal life a priority, then everything else you need on the outside will be given to you and it will be extremely clear what the next step is.
Gabrielle Bernstein – Author-Motivational Speaker
 
 
 
 
Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas.
Charles Kettering – 1876-1958 – Inventor-Engineer
 
 
 
 
Remember that there’s always another way of seeing things: that’s the beginning of wisdom.
John Barth,
writer
 
 
 
 
What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven’t even happened yet.
Anne Frank – 1929-1945 – German-Dutch Diarist-Jewish Holocaust Victim