A Capsule of Timeless Quotes

I have found that great people do have in common. . .an immense belief in themselves and in their mission. They also have gerat determination as well as an ability to work hard. At the crucial moment of decision, they draw on their accumulated wisdom. Above all, they have integrity.
I have found that great people do have in common. . .an immense belief in themselves and in their mission. They also have gerat determination as well as an ability to work hard. At the crucial moment of decision, they draw on their accumulated wisdom. Above all, they have integrity.
Author: Yousuf Karsh
My thinking is, government is really there to do the things that people absolutely can't do for themselves. And that's mostly involved with the things that might kill you. And what might kill me? The environment and terrorism.
Author: Bill Maher
The brain does not manufacture thoughts unless we stimulate it with habitual verbalizing. When we train ourselves by constant practice to stop verbalizing, the brain can experience things as they are.
Author: Henepola Gunaratana
Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I've never found parents that interesting.
Author: John Green
Caught like this, it doesn't do much good Read the horoscopes and knock on wood Strange to relive when there's so much of you that dies
Author: Michael McDermott
You and your name dropping he said, I knew Michael, I knew Sammael. The angel Gabriel did my hair. Its like I'm with the band with biblical figures.
Author: Cassandra Clare
We'll choose knowledge no matter what, we'll maim ourselves in the process, we'll stick our hands into the flames for it if necessary. Curiosity is not our only motive; love or grief or despair or hatred is what drives us on. We'll spy relentlessly on the dead; we'll open their letters, we'll read their journals, we'll go through their trash, hoping for a hint, a final word, an explanation, from those who have deserted us--who've left us holding the bag, which is often a good deal emptier than we'd supposed.
Author: Margaret Atwood
I think that, on some level, everybody lives vicariously through couples who are getting married.
Author: Amy Dickinson
My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.
Author: Angela Carter
Old Crumley Old Crumley or I can do more work in a day than my wife can do in three
Author: Seeger Peggy
Earth is the material with the most potential because it is the original source material.
Author: Michael Heizer
YO, IF YOU DON'T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT 'EM I DON'T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT 'EM YOU WANT TO RIDE ON A STALLION, YOU LOOKING AT 'EM GO GET YOU CLUTCH FROM YOUR GIRL CAUSE WE OUT OF HERE YOU THE HOTTEST THING IN THE CLUB I KNOW YOU THINK HE LOVE YOU BUT YOUR MAN DON'T CARE THAT'S WHY HE LEFT YOU HANGING LIKE A CHANDELIER YOU WANT TO HIT 'EM UP, BUT YOU CAN'T GO THERE PATRON IN YOUR CUP PUT YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR LIKE, OH
Author: Destorm Power
There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation . In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use. In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
Author: Abraham Joshua Heschel
It's ironic that no matter where I go, I meet people from Brooklyn. I'm proud of that heritage. It's where I'm from, who I am.
Author: Howard Schultz
Geographically, Afghanistan is a good place for the terrorists, because it's surrounded by mountains, and there are lots of villages inside mountains, so it's easy for them to hide themselves, or to recruit the people. Whatever they want to do they will do.
Author: Najibullah Quraishi
Fear paralyses you - fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is.
Author: Annie Lennox
If army ants are wandering around and they get lost, they start to follow a simple rule:Just do what the ant in front of you does. The ants eventually end up in a circle. There's this famous example of one that was 1,200 feet long and lasted for two days; the ants just kept marching around and around in a circle until they died.
Author: James Surowiecki
I am aware that success is more than a good idea. It is timing too.
Author: Anita Roddick
Even talking, I'm super-loud. I could never have that kind of meek, little wispy whimsical lavender and lace voice. It comes from my body. There's no way I can fight it.
Author: Beth Ditto
Underlying all your choices, particularly subject matter and the way you represent it, should be your own personal scruples, the standards and rules that you voluntarily set for yourself, and which you may change or abandon whenever you choose - without explanation to anyone.
Author: Richard Schmid