Favourite Quotes and Quotations

[J.T. Adams]

The trust of the innocent is the liars most useful tool.

- Sai King

[bryras]

Love this one -

"All I ask of you is one thing: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism — it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard, and you’re kind, amazing things will happen."

— Conan O’Brien on his final NBC show.

[Becks19]

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
- J. B. Priestly

You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea.
- Benazir Bhutto


Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage - and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world. Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1,000 days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin. Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need - not as a call to battle, though embattled we are - but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation"- a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself. And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country . My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
- John F. Kennedy

[randallFlaggfan1]

Love this one -

"All I ask of you is one thing: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism — it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard, and you’re kind, amazing things will happen."

— Conan O’Brien on his final NBC show.

Hi, Bryras-


Great quote, thank you.


One of college art instructors once opined to her class:
"Cynical people end up alone."
"Really?" I replied.
She nodded. "I think so."

[MrsBook]

This whole delightfully foul mouthed site of quotes (a sort of "out of the mouths of babes" collection where the babes are inner city kids): http://ghettohikes.tumblr.com/

[randallFlaggfan1]

"Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams



"Knock on the sky and listen to the sound."

-Zen Saying

[Srbo]

" Go to hell," she said merrily, " nobody lives forever."
" But everybody tries, you ever notice that?" he said, following her into one of the swaying gondolas....

~ Stephen King " The Dead Zone"

[blunthead]

You can be sincere and still be stupid.
- Charles F. Kettering

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
- Thomas Browne

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
- J. Paul Getty

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.
- Vincent Van Gogh

The entire fruit is already present in the seed.
- Tertullian

[Haunted]

The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy.
~ Jim Rohn

[J.T. Adams]

'I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.'

- George Washington