Archive for January, 2019

QOTD January 31 2019

Thursday, January 31st, 2019

John Updike: “Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.”

 

QOTD January 30 2019

Wednesday, January 30th, 2019

W. Somerset Maugham: “The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.”

 

QOTD January 29 2019

Tuesday, January 29th, 2019

Robert Fripp: “Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.”

 

QOTD January 28 2019

Monday, January 28th, 2019

Will Rogers: “Rumor travels faster, but it don’t stay put as long as truth.”

 

QOTD January 27 2019

Sunday, January 27th, 2019

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.”

 

QOTD January 26 2019

Saturday, January 26th, 2019

Victoria Holt: “Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience.”

 

QOTD January 25 2019

Friday, January 25th, 2019

Woody Allen: “Eighty percent of success is showing up.”

 

QOTD January 24 2019

Thursday, January 24th, 2019

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.”

QOTD January 23 2019

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019

Kathleen Norris: “Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.”

QOTD January 22 2019

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2019

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.”

QOTD January 21 2019

Monday, January 21st, 2019

Marquis de Condorcet: “Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.”

 

QOTD January 20 2019

Sunday, January 20th, 2019

Seneca: “Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.”

 

QOTD January 19 2019

Saturday, January 19th, 2019

Jim Hightower: β€œDo something. If it doesn’t work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.”

QOTD January 18 2019

Friday, January 18th, 2019

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.”

 

QOTD January 17 2019

Thursday, January 17th, 2019

Thomas Dekker: “[Sleep is] the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.”

 

QOTD January 16 2019

Wednesday, January 16th, 2019

Cory Doctorow: “This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.”

 

QOTD January 15 2018

Tuesday, January 15th, 2019

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.”

 

QOTD January 14 2019

Monday, January 14th, 2019

Barbra Streisand: “You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.”

 

QOTD January 13 2019

Sunday, January 13th, 2019

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.”

 

QOTD January 12 2019

Saturday, January 12th, 2019

Gwendolyn Brooks: “Each body has its art…”