QOTD January 31 2019
Thursday, January 31st, 2019John Updike: “Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.”
John Updike: “Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.”
W. Somerset Maugham: “The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.”
Robert Fripp: “Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.”
Will Rogers: “Rumor travels faster, but it don’t stay put as long as truth.”
Hugh Elliott: “Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn’t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.”
Victoria Holt: “Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience.”
Woody Allen: “Eighty percent of success is showing up.”
Daniel H. Burnham: “Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood…Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.”
Kathleen Norris: “Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.”
John Henry Cardinal Newman: “Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.”
Marquis de Condorcet: “Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.”
Seneca: “Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.”
Jim Hightower: βDo something. If it doesnβt work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.β
Holly Lisle: “You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others.”
Thomas Dekker: “[Sleep is] the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.”
Cory Doctorow: “This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.”
Hugh Prather: “True humor is fun – it does not put down, kid, or mock. It makes people feel wonderful, not separate, different, and cut off. True humor has beneath it the understanding that we are all in this together.”
Barbra Streisand: “You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.”
Oprah Winfrey: “When you’re doing the work you’re meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you’re getting paid.”
Gwendolyn Brooks: “Each body has its art…”