Famous Quotes By Isaac Asimov

 

1. A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
2. All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.
3. And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
4. Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
5. He had read much, if one considers his long life but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
6. Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
7. I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
8. I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
9. If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
10. Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
11. It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
12. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
13. It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.
14. John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
15. Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
16. Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
17. People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
18. Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
19. Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
20. Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
21. The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
22. The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
23. There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
24. To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
25. To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
26. When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

 

 

Famous Quotes By Bette Davis

 

1. A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
2. An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.
3. Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
4. Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
5. Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
6. I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
7. I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
8. I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.
9. I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
10. I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.
11. I work to stay alive.
12. I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
13. I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.
14. In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.
15. I've always liked men better than women.
16. I've lost my faith in science.
17. Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
18. Old age is no place for sissies.
19. Sex is God's joke on human beings.
20. Strong women only marry weak men.
21. The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
22. The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.
23. There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
24. This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
25. To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
26. Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.

 

 

Famous Quotes By Jane Austen

 

1. A lady's imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
2. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
3. Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
4. Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
5. From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
6. General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
7. Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
8. Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.
9. Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
10. Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
11. I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
12. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
13. It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
14. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
15. My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation that is what I call good company.
16. One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.
17. Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.
18. Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
19. Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
20. Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
21. The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
22. There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
23. There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
24. They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
25. To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
26. To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
27. We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
28. Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.

 

 

Famous Quotes By Vince Lombardi

 

1. Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.
2. Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
3. I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
4. If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
5. Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
6. It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.
7. Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
8. Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.
9. Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
10. People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
11. Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
12. Success demands singleness of purpose.
13. The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
14. The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
15. The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
16. The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
17. The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
18. There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.
19. We didn't lose the game we just ran out of time.
20. Winners never quit and quitters never win.
21. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
22. Winning is not a sometime thing it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
23. Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
24. Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.

 

 

Famous Quotes By Alan Watts

 

1. And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
2. But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.
3. But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
4. But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.
5. Faith is a state of openness or trust.
6. How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
7. I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
8. In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.
9. In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
10. No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
11. No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
12. Religion is not a department of life it is something that enters into the whole of it.
13. So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
14. Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
15. The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
16. The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
17. The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.
18. The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
19. The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.
20. To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
21. You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
22. You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
23. Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

 

 

Famous Quotes By Muhammad Iqbal

 

1. Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.
2. Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
3. But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
4. Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
5. God is not a dead equation!
6. I lead no party I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.
7. If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
8. If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
9. Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
10. Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.
11. It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
12. It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.
13. People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.
14. The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
15. The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.
16. The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.
17. The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
18. The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
19. The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.
20. The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
21. The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.
22. Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
23. When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
24. Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
25. Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.

 

 

Famous Quotes By Dennis Prager

 

 

1. Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.
2. Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.
3. For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.
4. For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will.
5. From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.
6. Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.
7. Hamas is a terrorist organization dedicated to annihilating the Jewish state. It runs a theocratic totalitarian state in Gaza, with no individual liberty, and no freedom of speech or press.
8. Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.
9. How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence.
10. If anything, we older people yearn for a peaceful world even more than young people do. We are the ones who lost friends or relatives in some war. We are the ones who have lived a lifetime of seeing and reading about human suffering.
11. If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.
12. It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.
13. Leftism seeks to undo most of the values that are distinct to Judeo-Christian religion.
14. Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.
15. Most young people have tremendous respect for older people's views.
16. One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.
17. People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.
18. Socialism values equality more than liberty.
19. The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.
20. The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility. the vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind.
21. The Left is doing to America what it has done to almost everything it has deeply influenced - the arts, the university, religion, culture, minorities, Europe: ruining it.
22. There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.
23. To be told that one can be dependent on one's parents until age 26 should strike a young person who wants to grow up as demeaning, not as something to celebrate.
24. Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.
25. Whatever feminists may say about their only advocating choices, everyone knows the truth: Feminism regards work outside the home as more elevating, honorable, and personally productive than full-time mothering and making a home.

 

 

Famous Quotes By Christopher Lasch

 

1. A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.
2. A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.
3. Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.
4. Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.
5. Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.
6. Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.
7. Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.
8. Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.
9. In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.
10. In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.
11. It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.
12. It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.
13. Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.
14. Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family their defense of families carries no conviction.
15. Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.
16. Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.
17. Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
18. Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.
19. Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.
20. The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.
21. The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.
22. The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.
23. The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.
24. The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.
25. The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.
26. The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.
27. The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.
28. The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.
29. The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.
30. The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.
31. We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.
32. When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.

Famous Quotes By Jean de la Bruyere

 

1. All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
2. All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
3. At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
4. Avoid lawsuits beyond all things they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
5. Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
6. Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.
7. Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
8. If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
9. It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.
10. It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part what does it cost to add a smile?
11. It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.
12. Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.
13. Love and friendship exclude each other.
14. Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.
15. Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
16. The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.
17. The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.
18. The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
19. The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
20. The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
21. There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.
22. There are only three events in a man's life birth, life, and death he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.
23. There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.
24. They that have lived a single day have lived an age.
25. Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
26. Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.
27. We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
28. We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.
29. We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
30. We should keep silent about those in power to speak well of them almost implies flattery to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
31. We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.

Famous Quotes By Chanakya

 

1. A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.
2. A man is born alone and dies alone and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.
3. A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
4. As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
5. As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul when death is immanent what can you do?
6. As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.
7. Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
8. Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
9. God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.
10. He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.
11. If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?
12. Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
13. Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
14. One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.
15. The earth is supported by the power of truth it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow indeed all things rest upon truth.
16. The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.
17. The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.
18. The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
19. The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
20. There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.
21. There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
22. Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.
23. We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

Famous Quotes By Yoko Ono

 

1. A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is a reality.
2. All my concerts had no sounds in them they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!
3. Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.
4. Being alone is very difficult.
5. But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
6. Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.
7. Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed.
8. Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.
9. Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.
10. Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.
11. Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
12. I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music - that makes it exciting.
13. I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.
14. I trust myself. You need that to survive.
15. If your life changes, we can change the world, too.
16. Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.
17. John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.
18. Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.
19. People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.
20. Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.
21. Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.
22. The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.
23. The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and see it.
24. The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.
25. War is over if you want it.
26. What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.
27. When I turned 60, it didn't bother me at all.
28. When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.
29. When you go to war, both sides lose totally.

Famous Quotes By Margaret Mead

 

1. A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
2. A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
3. Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
4. Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.
5. As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
6. Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
7. Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
8. For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
9. Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
10. I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
11. I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.
12. I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
13. I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
14. Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
15. It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
16. It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
17. Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
18. Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
19. Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
20. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
21. Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.
22. One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
23. Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
24. Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
25. Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
26. We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
27. Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

Famous Quotes By Henri Frederic Amiel

 

1. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
2. An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
3. Common sense is the measure of the possible it is composed of experience and prevision it is calculation applied to life.
4. Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
5. Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
6. Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.
7. He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
8. I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
9. In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.
10. It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
11. Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
12. Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
13. Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
14. Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
15. Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
16. Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
17. Order is power.
18. Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd it must be communicated by contagion.
19. Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
20. Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
21. Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
22. The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.
23. There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
24. To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
25. Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be equally outraged by silence.
26. Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
27. Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
28. Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Famous Quotes By Demetri Martin

 

1. And my only rule being if when I wake in the morning I'm looking forward to the things that I have to do that day, then I'm on the right track.
2. And of course I didn't make any money from stand up for years, so I had temp jobs. That was the way I made money.
3. But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom.
4. But what I was going to say was, I just figured I'm going to go boldly in the direction of my dreams, say it as Thoreau would say, and just see where it takes me.
5. Employee of the month is a good example of how somebody can be both a winner and a loser at the same time.
6. For example, I was a White House intern the summer before I dropped out of law school. Everybody knew about it. I'd come home and go to church and everybody would say, 'Oh, my God. Demetri, you're working at the White House.'
7. I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.
8. I like to use 'I Can't Believe it's Not Butter' on my toast in the morning, because sometimes when I eat breakfast, I like to be incredulous. How was breakfast? Unbelievable.
9. I like women, but you can't always trust them. Some of them are big liars, like this one woman I met who had a dog. I asked her her dog's name and then I asked, 'Does he bite?' and she said, 'No.' And I said, 'So how does he eat?' Liar!
10. I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes.
11. I think a lot of stuff I find funny is from day dreaming.
12. I think it would be cool if you were writing a ransom note on your computer, if the paper clip popped up and said, 'Looks like you're writing a ransom note. Need help? You should use more forceful language, you'll get more money.'
13. I think it's interesting that 'cologne' rhymes with 'alone.'
14. I think since I was kid people told me that they thought I was funny.
15. I think that when you get dressed in the morning, sometimes you're really making a decision about your behavior for the day. Like if you put on flipflops, you're saying: 'Hope I don't get chased today.' 'Be nice to people in sneakers.'
16. I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I am good at everything.
17. I wanna make a jigsaw puzzle that's 40,000 pieces. And when you finish it, it says 'go outside.'
18. I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used said 'Happy Birthday' on it. I didn't want to waste it so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it.
19. If I have to move up in a building, I choose the elevator over the escalator. Because one time I was riding the escalator and I tripped. I fell down the stairs for an hour and a half.
20. If you can't tell a spoon from a ladle, then you're fat!
21. Stand up is really fun because if I think of a joke or a funny idea, then I can just go and tell some people and if they laugh, they laugh right away.
22. Stand-up is like a row boat: it's fun and romantic when you're choosing to do it. But if you have no other choice than to be in a row boat it's not as enjoyable that's survival.
23. The comedians I liked were Bill Cosby and Steven Wright, like just always as a comedic actor. I always liked Gary Larson, who's really funny for a cartoonist, obviously.
24. The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.

Famous Quotes By David Attenborough

 

1. All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies.
2. Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.
3. Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow.
4. Dealing with global warming doesn't mean we have all got to suddenly stop breathing. Dealing with global warming means that we have to stop waste, and if you travel for no reason whatsoever, that is a waste.
5. I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first time I put on scuba gear and dived on a coral reef. It's just the unbelievable fact that you can move in three dimensions.I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but the fact is I hate driving.
6. I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.
7. I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature.
8. I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.
9. I'm not in politics.
10. In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.
11. It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement the greatest source of visual beauty the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
12. Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.
13. Natural history is not about producing fables.
14. Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.
15. People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.
16. People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that can't sustain them.
17. Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you are not treating them with respect, the viewers are.
18. Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.
19. The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic.
20. The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing.
21. The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about.
22. There is no question that climate change is happening the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.
23. You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean.
24. You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for.