FRIDAY’S QUOTATIONS // May 22nd, 2009
“On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation!”
- Thomas William Parsons
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
- George Bernard Shaw
“Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.”
- John Galsworthy
“We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.”
- Thomas Henry Huxley
“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”
- Mark Twain
“Atheism is a non-prophet organization.”
- George Carlin
“Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.”
- Antoine de Rivarol
“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.”
- Erica Jong
“Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.”
- Wayne Dyer
“A committee is an animal with four back legs.”
- John le Carre
“It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.”
- Anatole France Thibault
“Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, but not swallowed.”
- Josh Billings
“Life Lesson #6 – First, fix what’s broke.”
- Bobby Vee
“If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believeth.”
- Mark 9:23
“Deducing merit from popularity can lead to self-reinforcing snowballs of popularity, which decouples merit from the underlying reality, with a self-fulfilling potential for flawed, winner-take-all consequences.”
- Matthew Salganik
“The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.”
- Marya Mannes
“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”
- Oscar Wilde
“Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.”
- William M. Shakespeare
“When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.”
- Japanese Proverb
“It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.”
- George H. Lorimer
“It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.”
- Norman Schwarzkopf
“And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing, or situation – some fact of my life – unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment. Nothing, absolutely nothing happens in God’s world by mistake. …Unless I accept life completely on life’s terms, I cannot be happy. I need to concentrate not so much on what needs to be changed in the world as on what needs to be changed in me and in my attitudes.”
- Dr. Paul Ohliger
