Classic Quotes by Agnes Repplier (1858-1950) American writer
Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which
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Classic Quotes by Rene Descartes (1596-1650) French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
At the time, my grandparents told my mom, "Lordy, what is Shannen doing?" Now I've calmed down.
Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Everything is self-evident.
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
I think; therefore I am.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
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Classic Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) postimpressionist painter, born in the Netherlands.
A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.
Conscience is a man's compass.
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
Great things are not done by impulse, but a series of small things brought together.
Happiness... it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.
I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream.
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Classic Quotes by John Tyler (1790-1862) American president
Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette - the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace.
Patronage is the sword and cannon by which war may be made on the liberty of the human race.
If the tide of defamation and abuse shall turn, and my administration come to be praised, future Vice-Presidents who may succeed to the Presidency may feel some slight encouragement to pursue an independent course.
Let it, then, be henceforth proclaimed to the world, that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God.
In 1840 I was called from my farm to undertake the administration of public affairs and I foresaw that I was called to a bed of thorns. I now leave that bed which has afforded me little rest, and eagerly seek repose in the quiet enjoyments of rural life. (Explaining why he would not run for reelection.)
Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality.
There comes a time in your life when you realise who matters, who doesnt, who never did and who always will,
so dont worry about the people from your past...theres a reason they didnt make it to your future
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Classic Quotes by Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) American author
All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.
Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.
I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.
I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.
It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.
It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.
Classic Quotes by Sandra Day O'Connor (1930- )U.S. lawyer and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time.
No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.
I don't know that there are any shortcuts to doing a good job.
We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.
Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.
Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles.
Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.
Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions. I think the important thing about my appointment is not that I will decide cases as a woman, but that I am a woman who will get to decide cases.
The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.
The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work.
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GENERAL KNOWLEDGE:
Alaska
More than half of the coastline of the entire United States is in Alaska
Amazon
The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% the world's oxygen supply. The Amazon River pushes so much water into the Atlantic Ocean that, more than one hundred miles at sea off the mouth of the river, one can dip fresh water out of the ocean. The volume of water in the Amazon river is greater than the next eight largest rivers in the world combined and three times the flow of all rivers in the United States .
Antarctica
Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country. Ninety percent of the world's ice covers Antarctica . This ice also represents seventy % of all the fresh water in the world.. As strange as it sounds, however, Antarctica is essentially a desert. The average yearly total precipitation is about two inches. Although covered with ice (all but 0.4% of it, i.e.), Antarctica is the driest place on the planet, with an absolute humidity lower than the Gobi desert.
Brazil
Brazil got its name from the nut, not the other way around.
Canada
Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined. Canada is an Indian word meaning ' Big Village .'
Chicago
Next to Warsaw , Chicago has the largest Polish population in the world.
Detroit
Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan carries the designation M-1, so named because it was the first paved road any where.
Damascus , Syria
Damascus, Syria, was flourishing a couple of thousand years before Rome was founded in 753 BC, making it the oldest continuously inhabited city in existence.
Istanbul , Turkey
Istanbul (AKA Constantinople) , Turkey, is the only city in the world located on two continents.
Los Angeles
Los Angeles' full name is El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula -- and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: L.A.
New York City
The term 'The Big Apple' was coined by touring jazz musicians of the 1930's who used the slang expression 'apple' for any town or city. Therefore, to play New York City is to play the big time - The Big Apple.
There are more Irish in New York City than in Dublin, Ireland; more Italians in New York City than in Rome, Italy; and more Jews in New York City than in Tel Aviv, Israel..
Ohio
There are no natural lakes in the state of Ohio , every one is man made.
Pitcairn Island
The smallest island with country status is Pitcairn in Polynesia, at just 1.75 sq. miles.
Rome
The first city to reach a population of 1 million people was Rome, Italy in 133 B..C. There is a city called Rome on every continent.
Siberia
Siberia contains more than 25% of the world's forests.
S.M.O.M.
The actual smallest sovereign entity in the world is the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (S.MO.M.). It is located in the city of Rome, Italy, has an area of two tennis courts, and as of 2001 has a population of 80, 20 less people than the Vatican. It is a sovereign entity under international law, just as the Vatican is.
Sahara Desert
In the Sahara Desert , there is a town named Tidikelt, which did not receive a drop of rain for ten years. Technically though, the driest place on Earth is in the valleys of the Antarctic near Ross Island . There has been no rainfall there for two million years.
Spain
SPAIN literally means 'the land of rabbits.'
St. Paul, Minnesota
St. Paul, Minnesota , was originally called Pig's Eye after a man named Pierre 'Pig's Eye' Parrant who set up the first business there.
Roads
Chances that a road is unpaved in the U.S.A: 1%, in Canada : 75%.
Texas
The deepest hole ever made in the world is in Texas . It is as deep as 20 empire state buildings but only 3 inches wide.
United States
The Interstate System requires that one-mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
Waterfalls
The water of Angel Falls (the World's highest waterfall) in Venezuela drops 3,212 feet. It is 15 times higher than Niagara Falls
Classic Quotes by Wernher von Braun (1912-1977) German-American rocket expert
Don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go - and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.
For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.
I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution.
It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft... and the only one that can be mass-produced with unskilled labor.
Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living things in that enormous immensity.
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
Classic Quotes by William Morris (1834-1896) English poet, artist, craftsman, designer, social reformer, and printer
A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.
I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.
If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
Of rich men it telleth, and strange is the story how they have, and they hanker, and grip far and wide; And they live and they die, and the earth and its glory has been but a burden they scarce might abide.
So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.
With the arrogance of youth, I determined to do no less than to transform the world with Beauty. If I have succeeded in some small way, if only in one small corner of the world, amongst the men and women I love, then I shall count myself blessed, and blessed, and blessed, and the work goes on.
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Happiness is not something you find, It's something you create.
Nothing in this world is IMPOSSIBLE as the word is "I M POSSIBLE".
LIFE IS NO WHERE - can be read as - LIFE IS NOW HERE.