Archive for the ‘QOTD’ Category

QOTD February 7 2007

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

Charlotte-Catherine: “The more passions and desires one has, the more ways one has of being happy.”

QOTD February 1 2007

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Rainer Maria Rilke: “Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty… Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.”

QOTD January 19 2008

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

Mark Twain: "You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."

QOTD January 13 2008

Sunday, January 13th, 2008

Sholem Asch: "Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence."

QOTD January 4 2008

Friday, January 4th, 2008

Marilyn vos Savant: "To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe."

QOTD December 30 2007

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

Kurt Cobain: "Wanting to be someone you’re not is a waste of the person you are."

QOTD December 19 2007

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

Arthur Schopenhauer: "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see."

QOTD December 15 2007

Saturday, December 15th, 2007

Woodrow Wilson: "You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand."

QOTD December 9

Sunday, December 9th, 2007

Vaclav Havel: “The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why and how it is said.”

QOTD December 2 2007

Sunday, December 2nd, 2007

Mitch Albom: "The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in."

QOTD November 24 2007

Saturday, November 24th, 2007

A. J. Kitt: "You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do."

QOTD November 18 2007

Sunday, November 18th, 2007

Ben Stein: "The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want."

QOTD November 10 2007

Saturday, November 10th, 2007

Tallulah Bankhead: "Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it."

QOTD November 4 2007

Sunday, November 4th, 2007

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 October 27 2007

Saturday, October 27th, 2007

Jean-Paul Sartre: "In love, one and one are one."

QOTD October 18 2007

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

Benjamin Disraeli: "Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth."

QOTD October 12 2007

Friday, October 12th, 2007

Chuck Palahniuk: "The things you own end up owning you."

QOTD October 5 2007

Friday, October 5th, 2007

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 September 24 2007

Monday, September 24th, 2007

Robert J. Shiller: "The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence."

QOTD September 17 2007

Monday, September 17th, 2007

William Congreve: "Defer not till tomorrow to be wise, tomorrow’s sun to thee may never rise."