Monday, September 30, 2013

Quote from David Fincher

This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time.-David Fincher

Quote from Margot Asquith

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.-Margot Asquith

Quote from George Bernard Shaw

I never climbed any ladder.I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.-George Bernard Shaw

Quote from John Osborne

Don't clap too hard--it's a very old building.-John Osborne

Zen proverb

After enlightenment,the laundry.-Zen proverb

Quote from Ralph Marston

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.-Ralph Marston

Superb quote from Jean Anyon

Attempting to fix inner-city schools without fixing the city in which they are embedded is like trying to clean the air on one side of a screen door.-Jean Anyon(Jean Anyon sadly died in September 2013 at the age of 72). 

Three interesting quotes

1.The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down and half-finished loves.-Ralph W.Sockman
2.Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies,telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your life.-Marilyn Ferguson
3.No one can persuade another to change.Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.We cannot open the gate of another,either by argument or emotional appeal.-Marilyn Ferguson

Another quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon.We are never tired,so long as we can see far enough.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote from Norman Mailer

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.-Norman Mailer

Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose.It cannot have both.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote from Ralph W.Sockman

A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.-Ralph W.Sockman

Quote on Shirley Temple

Shirley Temple had charisma as a child.But it cleared up as an adult.-Totie Fields,American actress(1930-1978)

Great quote from Hubert H.Humphrey

Compassion is not weakness,and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.-Hubert H.Humphrey

Sunday, September 29, 2013

Insightful quote from Marilyn Ferguson

Over the years our bodies become walking autobiographies telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your life.-Marilyn Ferguson

Quote from Ralph W.Sockman

Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength.-Ralph W.Sockman

Inspiring quote from Marilyn Ferguson

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.-Marilyn Ferguson

Superb quote from Ralph W.Sockman

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority.The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.-Ralph W.Sockman

Great quote from Bill Cosby

Every closed eye is not sleeping,and every open eye is not seeing.-Bill Cosby

Quote on Adolescence

Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.-Carol Burnett

Quote from Thomas Hobbes

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone;the mind,those of the past and future as well as the present.Gluttony is a lust of the mind.-Thomas Hobbes

Quote from Cervantes

Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.-Cervantes

Great quote from Ralph Marston

You can close your eyes to reality,but not to memories.-Ralph Marston(b.1907)

Quote from Ernest Rohm

All revolutions devour their own children.-Ernst Rohm

Quote from Salvador Dali

Let my enemies devour each other.-Salvador Dali(1904-1989).

Quote from Thomas Nash

Beauty is but a flower which wrinkles will devour.-Thomas Nash

Saturday, September 28, 2013

Quote from Erma Bombeck

I am not a glutton,I am an explorer of food.-Erma Bombeck

Quote from John Chancellor

The avenues in my neighborhood are Pride,Covetousness and Lust;the cross streets are Anger,Gluttony,Envy and Sloth.I live over on Sloth,and the style on our street is to avoid the other thoroughfares.-John Chancellor

Quote on Happiness

Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation.-Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Quote from Ralph Marston

Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day,but also of the additional day it takes to regain ground.-Ralph Marston

Quote from Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.-Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Quote from Edith Wharton

Life is the only real counselor;wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.-Edith Wharton

Wise quote from Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Success is failure recycled.Life is death reborn.-Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Quote from George Bernard Shaw

The best place to seek God is in a garden.You can dig for him there.-George Bernard Shaw

Great quote from Charlie Chaplin

I always like walking in the rain,so noone can see me  crying.-Charlie Chaplin

Friday, September 27, 2013

Quote from George Wherry

Truly it may be said that the outside of a mountain is good for the inside of a man.-George Wherry

Quote from Ralph Marston

Your goals,minus your doubts,equal your reality.-Ralph Marston

Quote from Aldous Huxley

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of church-going.-Aldous Huxley(1894-1963)

Interesting quote from Pepper Giardino

The moon is like a mystery novel,the sun like a motivational self-help book,and the stars a coffee table book of photography.The sky is the whole library,and God the librarian.-Pepper Giardino

Quote from Oscar Wilde

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.-Oscar Wilde

Great quote from Pepper Giardino

Since the coming of air pollution and city lights,the stars have become much more shy than they used to be.-Pepper Giardino

Quote from Jean Rostand

In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices.-Jean Rostand(1894-1977),French historian and biologist.

Thursday, September 26, 2013

Great quote from Ralph Chaplin

It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth,upon which the race depends on food,clothing and shelter,should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites.-Ralph Chaplin

Quote on fame

Fame is morally neutral.-Edward R.Murrow

Great quote from Edward R.Murrow

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.When the loyal opposition dies ,I think the soul of America dies with it.-Edward R.Murrow

Quote from Charles M.Schulz

All you need is love.But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.-Charles M.Schulz

Wise quote from Epictetus

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.-Epictetus

Great quote from Pepper Giardino

Walking is good for solving problems-it's like the feet are little psychiatrists.-Pepper Giardino

Quote from Mary Anne Radmacher

Understand you die a little in every moment.Be Enlivened.-Mary Anne Radmacher

Insightful quote from Erich Fromm

Love is an act of faith,and whoever is of little faith is of little love.-Erich Fromm

Great quote from Edward R.Murrow

Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up,at least a little bit.-Edward R.Murrow

Quote from Martin H.Fischer

We humans are the greatest of earth's parasites.-Martin H.Fischer

Great quote from Lewis Mumford

Restore human legs as a means of travel.Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.-Lewis Mumford(1895-1990),U.S. urban planner,author and social critic.

Quote from Edgar Watson Howe

The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.-Edgar Watson Howe

Quote on parasites

Parasites seldom altogether abandon a monarch so long as the crown still glitters on his head.-William Beckford,`'EPISODES OF VATHEK'

Great quote from Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Feeling overwhelmed by apparent demands on our time is like going to a restaurant,ordering everything on the menu,and complaining about indigestion.-Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Quote from Harold Bell Wright

There is a bond of fellowship in sorrow that knows no conventionality.-Harold Bell Wright

Quote from Harry S.Truman

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.-Harry S.Truman

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Extraordinary quote from Grace Murray Hopper

Humans are allergic to change.They love to say 'We've always done it this way.'I try to fight that.That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.-Grace Murray Hopper

Quote from Eric Roberts

The earth is a great big orphanage for most animals.-Eric Roberts

Great quote on George Carlin

Marry an orphan: you'll never have to spend boring holidays with the in-laws(at most an occasional visit to the cemetery).-George Carlin(b.1937)

Quote from H.L.Mencken

The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.-H.L.Mencken(1880-1956).

An odd English proverb

Sorrow for a husband is like a pain in the elbow,sharp and short.-English proverb

Quote from Ivan Kozloff

Money is a bottomless sea,in which honor,conscience,and truth may be drowned.-Ivan Kozloff

Quote from Ralph Marston

When one approach is not working to reach the desired goal,that's not a reason to abandon the goal.Instead,it is time to devise another approach.-Ralph Marston

Quote from Ralph Marston

French proverb

Without grace beauty is an unabated hook.-French proverb

Quote on dreams

Dreams are unrealistic,impractical,demanding---and absolutely essential to living a rich and fulfilling life.-Ralph Marston

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Quote from Ralph Marston

Rest when you're weary.
Refresh and renew yourself,your body,your mind,your spirit.
Then get back to work.-Ralph Marston

Quote on solitude

Solitude is creativity's best friend,and solitude is refreshment for our souls.-Naomi Judd

Quote from Naomi Judd

A dead end street is a good place to turn around.-Naomi Judd

Monday, September 23, 2013

Great quote from Ralph Marston

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance.Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations.Expect the best of yourself,and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.-Ralph Marston

A French proverb

Nothing is as burdensome as a secret.-French proverb

Quote from Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I won't give up till goats sing and walruses fly.-Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Quote from Pierre Berton

Racism is a refuge for the ignorant.It seeks to divide and to destroy.-Pierre Berton

Quote on science

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.-Carl Sagan

Quote from Erma Bombeck

Never order food in excess of your body weight.-Erma Bombeck

Quote from Jim Rohn

Take care of your body.It's the only place you have to live.-Jim Rohn

Interesting quote from Naomi Judd

Your body hears everything your mind says.-Naomi Judd

Quote from William Hone

A good lather is half the shave.-William Hone

Sunday, September 22, 2013

Another nice quote from Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.-Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Quote from Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Smile broadly,sing loudly,paint your rooms in bold colors,search every rabbit hole for a magical white bunny,have caviar for breakfast and oatmeal for dinner,wear a purple coat with a red hat-dance lightly with life.Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Quote from Henry Ford

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business,always shaving away at costs.-Henry Ford(1863-1947).

Great quote from Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,celebrate your differences-make a great fruit salad.Love isn't about being the same-it's about being sweet with each other.-Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Great quote on enemies

You have enemies?Good.That means you've stood up for something ,sometime in your life.-Winston Churchill

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Quote from Mary Anne Radmacher

Judgment is discernment on a bad hair day.-Mary Anne Radmacher

Quote from Robert Brault

You do not wake up one morning a bad person.It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.-Robert Brault

Friday, September 20, 2013

Quote on the bluebird

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.-Henry David Thoreau

Great quote from Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Keep your feet firmly planted on the ground as you reach for the stars.-Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thursday, September 19, 2013

Great quote on empathy

Empathy---must be limited to herbivores or anyhow omnivores who could depart from a meat diet.Because,ultimately the empathic gift blurred the boundaries between hunter and victim,between the successful and the defeated.-Philip K.Dick

Quote from Peter Adejimi

A cockroach cannot attend the meeting of chicken and be offered innocent.-Peter Adejimi

Quote from Wyndham Lewis

Prostration is our natural position.A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade,and back,is the type of movement that is natural to men.-Wyndham Lewis

Superb quote from Arthur C.Clarke

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.-Arthur C.Clarke(b.1917),British writer of science fiction

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Quote from Barbara Christine Seifert

A baby is a blank cheque made payable to the human race.-Barbara Christine Seifert

Quote from Zachary Taylor

It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.-Zachary Taylor

Quote from Ezra Pound

The Image is more than an idea.It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.-Ezra Pound(1885-1972)

Quote from Emma Goodman

The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity;the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.-Emma Goldman(1869-1940)

Quote from Daj Hammarskjold

Life yields only to the conqueror.Never accept what can be gained by giving in.You will be living off stolen goods,and your muscles will atrophy.-Daj Hammarskjold (1905-1961)

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Quote from Emma Goodman

All claims of education notwithstanding,the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.-Emma Goldman(1869-1940)

Monday, September 16, 2013

Quote from Martha Gellhorn

It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.-Martha Gellhorn

Sunday, September 15, 2013

Quote from Theodore Sorensen

If we can but tear the blindfold of self-deception from our eyes and loosen the gang of self-denial from our voices,we can restore our country to greatness.-Theodore Sorensen

A mark of olive oil you finished consuming in September 2013

In September 2013,you finished consuming a 750 g glass bottle of CLEOPATRA Extra-Virgin Olive Oil.Packed in Italy.(Contains high-quality Extra-virgin olive oils from Greece,Spain and Italy).
                                             It was not bad.You bought it from the newly opened Adonis supermarket on Ste.Catherine Street,near Atwater metro,on special,for $2.99.

Great quote from Steve Albini

Know what you're trying to do before you do it.Turning knobs at random isn't enlightening any more than throwing paint at a wall blindfolded will let you paint a nice picture.-Steve Albini

Funny quote from Steve Martin

I believe you should place a woman on a pedestal-high enough so you can look up her dress.-Steve Martin(b.1945),American comedian,actor,writer,producer and musician.

Superb quote on apathy

The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.-William Lloyd Garrison(1805-1879),American social activist,Journalist and Abolitionist.

Great quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson

The true artist has the planet for his pedestal;the adventurer,after years of strife,has nothing broader than his shoes.-Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803-1882),American poet,essayist,lecturer and philosopher.

Saturday, September 14, 2013

Great quote from Frank Lloyd Wright

If it keeps up,man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.-Frank Lloyd Wright(1867-1959),American architect and writer,the most abundantly creative genius of American architecture.

Insightful quote from Emma Goldman

The political arena leaves one no alternative,one must either be a dunce or a rogue.-Emma Goldman(1869-1940).

Quote from Gloria Steinem

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small,confined space.-Gloria Steinem(b.1935)

Funny quote from Woody Allen

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.-Woody Allen(b.1933)

Provocative quote on prostitution

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body,but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.-Emma Goldman(1869-1940)

Quote from Emma Goldman

The most violent element in society is ignorance.-Emma Goldman(1869-1940)

Quote from Desmond Doig

The first tram cars rattled noisily through the empty streets,dilapidated monsters that just hours later would be festooned with people on their way to work.-Desmond Doig

Quote from Ezra Pound

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance----poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.-Ezra Pound(1885-1972),American editor,poet,critic and translator.

Quote on politics

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.-Emma Goldman

Quote from Emma Goldman

Methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim.-Emma Goldman

Friday, September 13, 2013

Insightful quote on puritanism

Puritanism,in whatever expression,is a poisonous germ.On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous,yet the poison works its way persistently,until the entire fabric is doomed.-Emma Goldman(1869-1940)

Another quote from Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Hitch a Ride on the River of Life.-Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Quote on writing

Writing is a dance with the uncertainties of language.-Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Quote from Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life doesn't step on your toes when you Dance Lightly.-Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Quote from Mary Anne Radmacher

Weariness comes on some days,from lack of service to self.-Mary Anne Radmacher

Quote from Dick Raymond

Before moving on,you have to clear away your cherished beliefs.-Dick Raymond

Quote from Rabindranath Tagore

By plucking her petals,you do not gather the beauty of the flower.-Rabindranath Tagore(1861-1941)

Interesting quote from Judith Rossner

Writers are the lunatic fringe of publishing.-Judith Rossner

Quote from Richard Baxter

Screw the truth into men's minds.-Richard Baxter

Quote from Emma Goldman

Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.-Emma Goldman(1869-1940)

Quote on Idealists

Idealists---foolish enough to throw caution to the winds and express their ardor and faith in some supreme deed,have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.-Emma Goldman(1869-1940)

Quote on crime

Crime is naught but misdirected energy.-Emma Goldman(1869-1940)

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Great line from Woody Allen film

Life's like Vegas.You're up,you're down,but in the end the house always wins.Doesn't mean you didn't have fun.-Line from the Woody Allen film DECONSTRUCTING HARRY.

Great quote from Marianne Williamson

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,but by the love we're not extending in the present.-Marianne Williamson

Great quote from Colin Firth

If you don't mind haunting the margins,I think there is more freedom there.-Colin Firth

Quote from Wynton Marsalis

It's hard to be prejudiced against someone you love.-Wynton Marsalis

Quote on jazz

Jazz is democracy in music.-Wynton Marsalis

Quote from John W.Gardner

Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.-John Gardner

Great quote on public relations

Public-relations specialists make flower arrangements of the facts,placing them so that the wilted and less attractive petals are hidden by sturdy blooms.-Alan Harrington

Quote from Ezra Pound

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.-Ezra Pound

Quote from Theodore Bikel

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.-Theodore Bikel

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Great quote from John McCarthy

Language is froth on the surface of thought.-John McCarthy

Quote on silence

Silence is exhilarating at first -as noise is-but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration,akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep.-Edward Hoagland

Quote from Edward Hoagland

Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga-stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.-Edward Hoagland

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Quote on solitude

True solitude is a din of birdsong,seething leaves,whirling colors,or a clamor of tracks in the snow.-Edward Hoagland

Quote on grandparents

Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet.-Gene Perret

Quote from Edward Hoagland

There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly,even at the height of summer.-Edward Hoagland

Monday, September 09, 2013

Quote from Johnny Bench

Slumps are like a soft bed.They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.-Johnny Bench

Quote from Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The common denominator of our heroes is that each set their own course.-Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Sunday, September 08, 2013

Quote from Ernst Fischer

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.-Ernst Fischer

Funny quote from Jean Kerr

When the grandmothers of today hear the word "Chippendales'',they don't necessarily think of chairs.- Jean Kerr,American writer(1923-2003).

Great quote from Edward Hoagland

Like a kick in the butt,the force of events wakes slumberous talents.-Edward Hoagland

Insightful quote from Jean Kerr

You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy,because the poor person has hope.He thinks money could help.-Jean Kerr(1923-2003)

Great quote from May Hobbs

One person's slum is another person's community.-May Hobbs

Quote from Jacob Riis

The slum is the measure of civilization.-Jacob Riis(1849-1914),American newspaper reporter and photographer.

Quote from Christopher Morley

Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.-Christopher Morley

Interesting quote from Jean Kerr

Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them.-Jean Kerr(1922-2003),American writer.

Saturday, September 07, 2013

Quote from Winston Churchill

The maxim "Nothing but perfection'' may be spelled "Paralysis."-Sir Winston Churchill(1874-1965)

Quote from George Carlin

Let a smile be your umbrella,and you'll end up with a face full of rain.-George Carlin

Quote from Jean Kerr

Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze?-Jean Kerr(1923-2003),American writer.

Quote from Michael Isenberg

When two men share an umbrella,both of them get wet.-Michael Isenberg

Friday, September 06, 2013

Quote from Oscar Wilde

Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art.Whatever is popular is wrong.-Oscar Wilde(1854-1900)

Great quote from John Steinbeck

Perhaps the less we have,the more we are required to brag.-John Steinbeck,EAST OF EDEN.

Great quote from Karol Newlin

Popularity comes from allowing yourself to be bored by people while pretending to enjoy it.-Karol Newlin

Quote from John Steinbeck

Men do not change,and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn,and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.-John Steinbeck

Quote on popularity

Popularity is not leadership.-Richard Marcinko

Thursday, September 05, 2013

Quote from Terry Goodkind

I've always said fantasy is sort of 'stealth philosophy.'-Terry Goodkind

Quote from Patti Smith

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon.In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.-Patti Smith

Quote from Donna Lynn Hope

It's hard to part the curtains when the dark holds such familiarity.-Donna Lynn Hope

Quote from Edmund Burke

Ambition can creep as well as soar.-Edmund Burke

Quote from Ken Blanchard

Don't quack like a duck,soar like an eagle.-Ken Blanchard

Quote from Cathy Guisewite

When life gives you lemons,squirt someone in the eye.-Cathy Guisewite

Great quote from Victor Hugo

Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.-Victor Hugo

Quote from Jeremy Collier

How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency,and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.-Jeremy Collier

Quote from Louis L'Amour

Actually,all education is self-education.A teacher is only a guide,to point out the way,and no school,no matter how excellent,can give you education.What you receive is like the outlines in a child's coloring book.You must fill in the colors yourself.-Louis L'Amour(1908-1988)

Superb quote on jealousy

Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read.It merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.-Margaret Mead

Tuesday, September 03, 2013

Great quote from Lloyd Alexander

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.-Lloyd Alexander

Quote from G.K.Chesterton

No man who worships education has got the best out of education---Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.-G.K.Chesterton

Quote from Don DeLillo

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.-Don DeLillo

Interesting quote from Theodore H.White

The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted.Then he doesn't lie.-Theodore H.White(1915-1986)

Quote from Jawaharlal Nehru

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.-Jawaharlal Nehru(1889-1964),Indian prime minister and freedom fighter

Insightful quote from Theodore H.White

All endeavors which are directed to a purely worldly end,contain within themselves the seeds of their own corruption.-Theodore H.White(1915-1986)

Quote on the press

I take a grave view of the press.It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.-A.J.Liebling(1904-1963)

Quote from A.J.Liebling

Curiosity is the key to creativity.-A.J.Liebling(1904-1963)

Great quote from Leonardo DaVinci

Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health ,so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory,and it retains nothing it takes in.-Leonardo DaVinci

Sunday, September 01, 2013

Great quote from A.J.Liebling

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.-A.J.Liebling(1904-1963)

Quote from Don DeLillo

Any assault on the borders of perception is going to seem rash at first.-Don DeLillo

Superb quote from Theodore H.White

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,of most of the people you see every day,is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.-Theodore H.White(1915-1986),English historian,journalist and novelist.

Great quote from Bruce Lee

A goal is not always meant to be reached,it often serves simply as something to aim at.-Bruce Lee

Great quote from Abraham Maslow

You will either step forward into growth,or you will step backward into safety.-Abraham Maslow

Quote from Carl Rogers

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.-Carl Rogers

Another quote by Theodore H.White

The world is beautiful if you are beautiful.-Theodore H.White(1915-1986)