Archive for the ‘QOTD’ Category

QOTD March 7 2014

Friday, March 7th, 2014

Martin Fraquhar Tupper: “Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.”

QOTD March 6 2014

Thursday, March 6th, 2014

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.”

QOTD March 5 2014

Wednesday, March 5th, 2014

Philip K. Dick: “Don’t try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.”

QOTD March 4 2014

Tuesday, March 4th, 2014

Claude Bernard: “We can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.”

QOTD March 3 2014

Monday, March 3rd, 2014

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.”

QOTD March 2 2014

Sunday, March 2nd, 2014

Sharon Salzberg: “Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope – a slight change, and all patterns alter.”

QOTD March 1 2014

Saturday, March 1st, 2014

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.”

QOTD February 28 2014

Friday, February 28th, 2014

William Butler Yeats: “Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.”

QOTD February 27 2014

Thursday, February 27th, 2014

Ann Richards: “The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it’s all we’ll need.”

QOTD February 26 2014

Wednesday, February 26th, 2014

Socrates: “Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.”

QOTD February 25 2014

Tuesday, February 25th, 2014

Aristotle: “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”

QOTD February 24 2014

Monday, February 24th, 2014

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.”

QOTD February 23 2014

Sunday, February 23rd, 2014

Jane Austen: “One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.”

QOTD February 22 2014

Saturday, February 22nd, 2014

Lawana Blackwell: “He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.”

QOTD February 21 2014

Friday, February 21st, 2014

Real Live Preacher: “Dignity comes not from control, but from understanding who you are and taking your rightful place in the world.”

QOTD February 20 2014

Thursday, February 20th, 2014

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.”

QOTD February 19 2014

Wednesday, February 19th, 2014

Francois de La Rochefoucauld: “When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.”

QOTD February 18 2014

Tuesday, February 18th, 2014

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.”

QOTD February 17 2014

Monday, February 17th, 2014

Ice T: “Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.”

QOTD February 16 2014

Sunday, February 16th, 2014

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.”