Tag: Various

Quotes October 16, 2019

The world, unfortunately, rarely matches our hopes and consistently refuses to behave in a reasonable manner.
Stephen Jay Gould,
paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, writer
 
 
 
 
Ultimately, we can never change someone else’s behavior — we can only change our own.
Jennifer Lopez,
singer, performer, actress
National Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15 to Oct. 15
 
 
 
 
I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.
Carrie Fisher,
actress, writer
 
 
 
 
Life begins where fear ends.
Osho
 
 
 
 
Don’t let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality.
Les Brown
 
 
 
 
If you’ll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.
Vince Lombardi

Quotes October 13, 2019

“If you have respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.”
John W. Gardner
 
 
 
 
“Respect is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique.”
Annie Gottlieb
 
 
 
 
“We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.”
Terry Brooks
 
 
 
 
“It is more profitable to stay aware of trends generally, yet concentrate your energies on simply writing the best novel you know how to write. Don’t chase the market. Write the novel that is in you.”
Jack Bickham, Author & University Professor of Creative Writing program
 
 
 
 
When you look at people who are thriving in their jobs, you notice that they didn’t find them, they made them.
Ashley Goodall,
business executive
 
 
 
 
It is no use to grumble and complain; It’s just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain – Why, rain’s my choice.
James Whitcomb Riley, 1849-1916
 
 
 
 
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
Will Rogers
 
 
 
 
I’ve seen a look in dogs’ eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
John Steinbeck
 
 
 
 
Anybody who doesn’t know what soap tastes like never washed a dog.
Franklin P. Jones
 
 
 
 
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
Andy Rooney
 
 
 
 
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
James Thurber
 
 
 
 
You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, “Wow, you’re right! I never would’ve thought of that!’
Dave Barry
 
 
 
 
If you think dogs can’t count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then give him only two of them.
Phil Pastoret
 
 
 
 
Politicians would be wise to heed what President Harry Truman said, “If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.”
 
 
 
 
Never give up. Always find a reason to keep trying.
Unknown

Quotes October 12, 2019

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill
 
 
 
 
In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy.
David Steindl-Rast
 
 
 
 
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
 
 
 
 
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
Paul Boese
 
 
 
 
I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.
Marilyn Monroe
 
 
 
 
The thing about life is that our emotional experiences, if we don’t finish them, stay with us.
The pain we don’t process can follow us for a lifetime
Brianna Wiest
 
 
 
 
Don’t plan it all. Let life surprise you a little.
Julia Alvarez,
Dominican American poet, writer
National Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15 to Oct. 15
 
 
 
 
Sometimes it takes sadness to know happiness, noise to appreciate silence and absence to value presence.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
It takes some courage to stand up and speak; it takes even more courage to open your mind and listen.
Unknown
 
 
 
 

Learn to let go, Not everyone in your life is meant to stay.
Unknown

Quotes October 11, 2019

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
 
 
 
 
“The Japanese fought to win – it was a savage, brutal, inhumane, exhausting and dirty business. Our commanders knew that if we were to win and survive, we must be trained realistically for it whether we liked it or not. In the post-war years, the U.S. Marine Corps came in for a great deal of undeserved criticism in my opinion, from well-meaning persons who did not comprehend the magnitude of stress and horror that combat can be. The technology that developed the rifle barrel, the machine gun and high explosive shells has turned war into prolonged, subhuman slaughter. Men must be trained realistically if they are to survive it without breaking, mentally and physically.”
E.B. Sledge, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
 
 
 
 
“Question the answers, I repeated every class. Reevaluate your conclusions when the evidence changes.”
Craig M. Mullaney, The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier’s Education
 
 
 
 
“I suddenly felt like the Grinch feels when he discovers what Chrismas is all about. For the first time in a long time, I felt like I had a purpose being in the Navy. It wasn’t about money and rank or prestige. It was about raising the flag. We do what we do because no one else can or will do it. We fight so others can sleep at night. And I had forgotten that.”
Timothy Ciciora, The Right Words at the Right Time Volume 2: Your Turn!
 
 
 
 
“What do I want now? I want to be treated with the respect I deserve in the current VA system and not be retraumatized. I want the men who did this to me to be punished and if that isn’t possible, I want reassurance what happened to me will never ever happen to another woman in the Armed services. I want some restitution of the damage I have.”
Diane Chamberlain, Conduct Unbecoming: Rape, Torture, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from Military Commanders
 
 
 
 
“McChrystal’s defenders at the Pentagon were making the case Tuesday that the president and his men—(the McChrystal snipers spared Hillary)—must put aside their hurt feelings about being painted as weak sisters. Obama should not fire the serially insubordinate general, they reasoned, because that would undermine the mission in Afghanistan, and if that happens, then Obama would be further weakened.

So the commander in chief can be bad-mouthed as weak by the military but then he can’t punish the military because that would make him weak? It’s the same sort of pass-the-Advil vicious circle reasoning the military always uses.”
Maureen Dowd
 
 
 
 
“Have you ever stopped to ponder the amount of blood spilt, the volume of tears shed, the degree of pain and anguish endured, the number of noble men and women lost in battle so that we as individuals might have a say in governing our country? Honor the lives sacrificed for your freedoms. Vote.”
Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway

Quotes October 10, 2019

Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand.
Sophocles,
ancient Greek tragedian
 
 
 
 
Not until the empirical resources are exhausted, need we pass on to the dreamy realms of speculation.
Edwin Hubble,
astronomer who formulated Hubble’s Law of an expanding universe
 
 
 
 
I write to discover what I know.
Flannery O’Connor,
writer
 
 
 
 
I don’t dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I’m dreaming for living.
Steven Spielberg,
filmmaker
 
 
 
 
If it’s not scary, everyone else would do it.

Fun is the most important. If you do stuff for money, it never works out.
Ina Garten,
cookbook author, businesswoman
 
 
 
 
Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.
Hank Aaron,
professional baseball player, right fielder
 
 
 
 
Beauty is much grander than the definition we give it.

I love telling stories that allow people to be less afraid to tell theirs.
Gina Rodriguez, actress
National Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15 to Oct. 15
 
 
 
 
You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.
Isabel Allende,
Chilean American writer
National Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15 to Oct. 15
 
 
 
 
Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand.
Ada Lovelace,
mathematician, founder of scientific computing
 
 
 
 
If you’re not invited to the party, throw your own.
Diahann Carroll, actress, singer, model
1935-2019

Quotes October 05, 2019

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
Oscar Wilde
 
 
 
 
Don’t let small beliefs hold you back from big dreams.
Lewis Howes
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Don’t stress. Do your best. Forget the rest.
Unknown

Quotes October 02, 2019

Those who move forward with a happy spirit will find that things always work out.
Gordon B. Hinckley
 
 
 
 

If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.
Tom Hanks
 
 
 
 

She’s battling things her smile will never tell you about.
3am Thoughts
 
 
 
 
People who don’t know how to communicate always think you’re trying to argue.
40oz_VAN

Quotes October 01, 2019

Simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Lao Tzu
 
 
 
 
I’ve seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.
Tracy Chapman
 
 
 
 
The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.
Thich Nhat Hanh
 
 
 
 
Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation. It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.
Viktor Frankl
 
 
 
 
The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
John Burroughs
 
 
 
 
“If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?”
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
 
 
 
 
Worry does nothing but steal your joy and keep you very busy doing nothing.
Unknown

Quotes September 29, 2019

If you’re bored with life, if you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.
Lou Holtz
 
 
 
 
The only cats worth anything are the cats that take chances.
Thelonious Monk,
jazz pianist, composer
 
 
 
 
I write to discover what I know.
Flannery O’Connor,
writer
 
 
 
 
Running alone is the toughest. You get to the point where you have to keep pushing yourself.
Walter Payton,
professional American football player
 
 
 
 
You are perfectly cast in your life. I can’t imagine anyone but you in the role. Go play.
Lin-Manuel Miranda,
composer, lyricist, singer, actor, playwright, producer
National Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15 to Oct. 15
 
 
 
 
Live up to your convictions. You walk in grace or you walk in fear. You can’t have it both ways.
Carlos Santana,
Mexican American guitarist, musician
National Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15 to Oct. 15
 
 
 
 
Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness.
Pablo Neruda,
Chilean poet, diplomat, politician, Nobel Prize winner
National Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15 to Oct. 15
 
 
 
 
Experience has taught me that you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. Their real value is in stirring within us the will to aspire.
Sonia Sotomayor,
first Hispanic US Supreme Court justice
National Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15 to Oct. 15

Quotes September 21, 2019


Pay forward the grace you’ve been given, not the pain you’ve been dealt.
Unknown