QOTD March 7 2014
Friday, March 7th, 2014Martin Fraquhar Tupper: “Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.”
Martin Fraquhar Tupper: “Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.”
David Shore: “You’re supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.”
Philip K. Dick: “Don’t try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.”
Claude Bernard: “We can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.”
Henry George: “Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.”
Sharon Salzberg: “Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope – a slight change, and all patterns alter.”
Jennifer Hudson: “We can’t let our insecurities own or destroy us. We have to face them head-on. That was part of the challenge that motivated me to take this journey. I wanted to see what I could do and, more important, I wanted to understand everything that was holding me back.”
William Butler Yeats: “Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.”
Ann Richards: “The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it’s all we’ll need.”
Socrates: “Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.”
Aristotle: “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
Jeffrey Rowland: “We’ve always been here and we’ll always be here. We are a specific arrangement of particles and this instant is infinite. Did we luck out, or didn’t we? The odds against this sentence having ever being typed, much less the odds against you reading it were inconceivable. Smile, because the fact that you’re able to is almost impossible to comprehend.”
Jane Austen: “One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.”
Lawana Blackwell: “He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.”
Real Live Preacher: “Dignity comes not from control, but from understanding who you are and taking your rightful place in the world.”
Brittany Murphy: “Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld: “When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.”
Larry Page: “The moments that we have with friends and family, the chances that we have to make a big difference in the world or even to make a small difference to the ones we love, all those wonderful chances that life gives us, life also takes away. It can happen fast and a whole lot sooner than you think.”
Ice T: “Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.”
George Washington: “Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.”