English Quotations Complete Collection: Volume X E-Book

Daniel B. Smith

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Beschreibung

The main objective of this book series is to provide you an impressive and invaluable collection of English quotes, so as to enhance your general knowledge and maybe even your life. 
In this book you will find different quotes of renowned people, with regard to motivational, inspirational and even everyday life topics.
Reading the most relevant quotes will help you see the world in a new paradigm, according to author’s life experiences.
It is important to remember that life is a journey and we all learn from others’ experiences; thus we can discover new insights into what life might be all about.
I hope you find this book very useful and recommend it to your peers! Good luck! 

Leseprobe

English Quotations

Complete Collection:

Volume X

-6980 quotations-

From Terri Guillemets to Zsa Zsa Gabor

Daniel B. Smith

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Table of contents

Introduction

Quotations by Terri Guillemets (122)

Quotations by Terry Goodkind (20)

Quotations by Terry Mark (32)

Quotations by Terry Pratchett (107)

Quotations by Terry Tempest Williams (16)

Quotations by Theodor Adorno (22)

Quotations by Theodore Parker (15)

Quotations by Theodore Roosevelt (146)

Quotations by Thich Nhat Hanh (79)

Quotations by Thomas A. Kempis (38)

Quotations by Thomas A. Edison (38)

Quotations by Thomas Aquinas (35)

Quotations by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (15)

Quotations by Thomas Browne (17)

Quotations by Thomas Carlyle (121)

Quotations by Thomas Chandler Haliburton (16)

Quotations by Thomas Fuller (104)

Quotations by Thomas Hardy (51)

Quotations by Thomas Hobbes (27)

Quotations by Thomas Hood (17)

Quotations by Thomas Huxley (30)

Quotations by Thomas J. Watson (14)

Quotations by Thomas Jefferson (213)

Quotations by Thomas Mann (27)

Quotations by Thomas Merton (50)

Quotations by Thomas Moore (41)

Quotations by Thomas Paine (59)

Quotations by Thomas S. Monson (35)

Quotations by Thomas Sowell (49)

Quotations by Thomas Szasz (18)

Quotations by Thomas Wolfe (15)

Quotations by Thoreau (21)

Quotations by Thornton Wilder (23)

Quotations by Thucydides (12)

Quotations by Tiger Woods (17)

Quotations by Tim Fargo (16)

Quotations by Tim Ferriss (15)

Quotations by Timothy Keller (21)

Quotations by Timothy Leary (16)

Quotations by Tina Fey (23)

Quotations by Toba Beta (144)

Quotations by Todd Stocker (17)

Quotations by Tom Clancy (20)

Quotations by Tom Peters (24)

Quotations by Tom Robbins (37)

Quotations by Tom Stoppard (39)

Quotations by Tom Wilson (11)

Quotations by Tommy Lasorda (10)

Quotations by Toni Morrison (50)

Quotations by Tony Blair (21)

Quotations by Tony Dungy (18)

Quotations by Tony Evans (13)

Quotations by Tony Robbins (104)

Quotations by Tori Amos (19)

Quotations by Truman Capote (20)

Quotations by Tryon Edwards (28)

Quotations by Tullian Tchividjian (15)

Quotations by Tupac Shakur (29)

Quotations by Twyla Tharp (19)

Quotations by Tyra Banks (15)

Quotations by Ugo Betti (8)

Quotations by Umberto Eco (38)

Quotations by Ursula K. Le Guin (37)

Quotations by Vaclav Havel (17)

Quotations by Vance Havner (19)

Quotations by Vanna Bonta (20)

Quotations by Venus Williams (19)

Quotations by Vera Nazarian (44)

Quotations by Vernon Howard (26)

Quotations by Veronica Roth (39)

Quotations by Victor Hugo (178)

Quotations by Victoria Secunda (10)

Quotations by Vidal Sassoon (12)

Quotations by Vikrmn (23)

Quotations by Viktor E. Frankl (17)

Quotations by Vince Lombardi (63)

Quotations by Vincent Van Gogh (54)

Quotations by Vincenzo Berghella (37)

Quotations by Virgil (38)

Quotations by Virginia Satir (9)

Quotations by Virginia Woolf (69)

Quotations by Vivienne Westwood (12)

Quotations by Vladimir Lenin (21)

Quotations by Vladimir Nabokov (42)

Quotations by Vladimir Putin (22)

Quotations by Voltaire (154)

Quotations by W. C. Fields (41)

Quotations by W. Clement Stone (29)

Quotations by W. Edwards Deming (19)

Quotations by W. H. Auden (59)

Quotations by W. Somerset Maugham (76)

Quotations by Wallace D. Wattles (21)

Quotations by Wallace Stevens (45)

Quotations by Walt Disney (71)

Quotations by Walt Whitman (69)

Quotations by Walter Bagehot (28)

Quotations by Walter Lippmann (19)

Quotations by Walter Savage Landor (21)

Quotations by Walter Scott (32)

Quotations by Walter Winchell (15)

Quotations by Warren Bennis (15)

Quotations by Warren Buffett (99)

Quotations by Warren Farrell (17)

Quotations by Washington Irving (37)

Quotations by Wassily Kandinsky (17)

Quotations by Wayne Dyer (147)

Quotations by Wendell Berry (55)

Quotations by Wendell Phillips (23)

Quotations by Wes Fesler (14)

Quotations by Will Durant (30)

Quotations by Will Ferrell (13)

Quotations by Will Rogers (107)

Quotations by Will Smith (30)

Quotations by Willa Cather (27)

Quotations by William Arthur Ward (52)

Quotations by William Barclay (13)

Quotations by William Blake (99)

Quotations by William Butler Yeats (51)

Quotations by William Congreve (18)

Quotations by William Cowper (53)

Quotations by William Cullen Bryant (19)

Quotations by William Ellery Channing (20)

Quotations by William Faulkner (44)

Quotations by William Feather (43)

Quotations by William Hazlitt (88)

Quotations by William J. Clinton (26)

Quotations by William James (106)

Quotations by William Jennings Bryan (14)

Quotations by William Lyon Phelps (15)

Quotations by William Makepeace Thackeray (39)

Quotations by William Morris (24)

Quotations by William O. Douglas (15)

Quotations by William Osler (24)

Quotations by William Penn (56)

Quotations by William Ralph Inge (14)

Quotations by William S. Burroughs (40)

Quotations by William Shakespeare (550)

Quotations by William Shatner (18)

Quotations by William Wordsworth (75)

Quotations by Willie Nelson (28)

Quotations by Wilma Rudolph (9)

Quotations by Wilson Mizner (23)

Quotations by Winston Churchill (227)

Quotations by Wiz Khalifa (13)

Quotations by Woodrow Wilson (62)

Quotations by Woody Allen (108)

Quotations by Xandria Ooi (22)

Quotations by Yann Martel (19)

Quotations by Yogi Berra (31)

Quotations by Yoko Ono (44)

Quotations by Ziad K. Abdelnour (27)

Quotations by Zig Ziglar (175)

Quotations by Ziggy Marley (18)

Quotations by Zora Neale Hurston (28)

Quotations by Zsa Zsa Gabor (10)

Conclusion

Introduction

The main objective of this book series is to provide you an impressive and invaluable collection of English quotes, so as to enhance your general knowledge and maybe even your life.

In this book you will find different quotes of renowned people, with regard to motivational, inspirational and even everyday life topics.

Reading the most relevant quotes will help you see the world in a new paradigm, according to author’s life experiences.

It is important to remember that life is a journey and we all learn from others’ experiences; thus we can discover new insights into what life might be all about.

I hope you find this book very useful and recommend it to your peers!

Good luck!

Quotations by Terri Guillemets (122)

Terri Guillemets is a quotation anthologist from Phoenix, Arizona. Here are some representative quotations by Terri Guillemets:

“A hug is a smile with arms, a laugh with a stronger grip.”

“A lurking pun is the worst pun, one the offender has been waiting to spring on you.”

“A morning walk gives the body a chance to forgive the trials and tribulations of yesterday, to shed its rubbish and mental clutter.”

“A morning walk sets us out on the right foot for the day.”

“A new year is simply the turn of a calendar page and a beautiful chance for us to turn over a new leaf.”

“A nurse will always give us hope, an angel with a stethoscope.”

“A photographer gets people to pose for him. A yoga instructor gets people to pose for themselves.”

“A smile is the best defense against this offensive world.”

“A smile vanquishes loneliness, if only for a fleeting moment.”

“After a girl is grown, her little brothers—now her protectors—seem like big brothers.”

“After God perfected the sunrise, he created photographers, artists, and poets to ensure his feat remained immortal.”

“Age attacks when we least expect it.”

“Age swallows our childhood.”

“All the other colors are just colors, but purple seems to have a soul when you look at it, it's looking back at you.”

“Angels have no philosophy but love.”

“As each day comes to us refreshed and anew, so does my gratitude renew itself daily. The breaking of the sun over the horizon is my grateful heart dawning upon a blessed world.”

“Aside from new babies, new mothers must be the most beautiful creatures on earth.”

“Cell phones are the latest invention in rudeness.”

“Chair pose is a defiance of spirit, showing how high you can reach even when you're forced down.”

“Chase down your passion like it's the last bus of the night.”

“Chocolate is ground from the beans of happiness.”

“Clouds are the sky's imagination.”

“Coffee is the best thing to douse the sunrise with.”

“Coffee makes grisly mornings bearable.”

“Coffee smiles us into the day.”

“Dancing faces you towards Heaven, whichever direction you turn.”

“Desserts are the fairy tales of the kitchen, a happily-ever-after to supper.”

“Don't be mean when you've had a bad day. Be nice, and your day will get better.”

“Don't let the past steal your present.”

“Dreams are road signs along the nighttime highway of sleep.”

“Driving a brand new car feels like riding around in an open billfold with the dollars flapping by your ears as they fly out the window.”

“Each New Year's Day is like starting a treasure hunt again from scratch, with a slightly altered map.”

“Eliminate physical clutter. More importantly, eliminate spiritual clutter.”

“Even hundredfold grief is divisible by love.”

“Every morning is a beautiful morning.”

“Every son quotes his father, in words and in deeds.”

“Every time a champagne bottle pops, a party angel gets its wings.”

“February is the border between winter and spring.”

“Follow your passion, and success will follow you.”

“For happy health, fuel yourself with dreams and greens.”

“Give goodness to the day and before you know it, the day will be giving goodness to you.”

“Give your stress wings and let it fly away.”

“God is now serving scoops of orange and raspberry sherbet on the horizon. What a beautiful sunrise!”

“Grammar stops at love, and at art.”

“Guilt is always hungry, don't let it consume you.”

“Happiness breathes when you do.”

“Hate cages all the good things about you.”

“Hate less, live longer.”

“Health is a relationship between you and your body.”

“Hot fudge is the fairy prince, a knight in chocolate armor — the happily ever after of ice cream.”

“Human nature is just about the only nature some people experience.”

“I beat myself up every day, without so much as a scratch.”

“I don't know why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every other part of my body is broken too.”

“I like her because she smiles at me and means it.”

“I love my father as the stars - he's a bright shining example and a happy twinkling in my heart.”

“I orchestrate my mornings to the tune of coffee.”

“I think about you constantly, whether it's with my mind or my heart.”

“I tried yoga once but took off for the mall halfway through class, as I had a sudden craving for a soft pretzel and world peace.”

“I wake to sunlight's morning caress and beautiful, soft shine.”

“If soup isn't hot enough to make a grown man wince, it's undrinkable.”

“If you absolutely can't stay positive, don't go negative, just cruise neutral for a while until you can get back up.”

“In Arizona, shade trees are your best friends and occasionally the basis of small civil wars over parking.”

“In retirement, every day is Boss Day and every day is Employee Appreciation Day.”

“Invisible tears are the hardest to wipe away. Just let it out, my friend.”

“It was the tiniest thing I ever decided to put my whole life into.”

“Jealousy hyphenates love in all the wrong places.”

“Jealousy injures us with the dagger of self-doubt.”

“Keep your spirits up. Good things will come to you and you will come to good things.”

“Laughter is therapy to pain.”

“Leaves are words on tree branch sentences, each breeze punctuates as it pleases.”

“Life is a rough biography. Memories smooth out the edges.”

“Life is not always fair. Sometimes you get a splinter sliding down a rainbow.”

“Life is rough. If it were smooth, we'd slide right through it without noticing. A bumpy ride teaches us gratitude and perspective.”

“My favorite weather is bird-chirping weather.”

“My mom is a lifelong smile in my heart, her voice a comfort to my soul, her hugs my ladder to the stars.”

“My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot through the grass.”

“Once the lighthouse is seen, the rest of the sea is ignored.”

“One can only see clearly if one is going slowly. Quick motion creates a life-blur.”

“One man's daydreaming is another man's day.”

“Other than a dimple in a cute little chin, What's more adorable than a toothless grin?”

“Our behavior is human with a sliver of animal, our souls animal with a sliver of human.”

“Red is passion-lit, orange is flowerageous, yellow is suntastic, pink is lipsensual, green is lifebursting, blue is skyful, purple is berrydancing, gray is cloudrainy.”

“Some secrets are fires so scorching, the only way to quench the burn is to tell someone.”

“Sometimes clean feels empty. A bit of clutter and dirt gladdens the heart and affirms a life in progress.”

“Sometimes I get the feeling that aspirin companies are sponsoring my headaches.”

“Sometimes imagination pounces; mostly it sleeps soundly in the corner, purring.”

“Sometimes it's hard to tell if retirement is a reward for a lifetime of hard work or a punishment.”

“Soul shadows you everywhere.”

“Springtime flowers bloom like colorful arrows piercing their way to the sun.”

“Stress is sometimes just an excuse. You choose your own reactions to the world. Kick that excuse over and find smiling up at you the joy of choice and the choice of joy.”

“Sunshine is Nature's hug and spirit breath to the earth.”

“Tattoos are like marriage: it's a lifelong commitment, it hurts like hell, and the color fades over time.”

“The cigarette is a mortal passion.”

“The color of springtime is in the flowers; the color of winter is in the imagination.”

“The first sip of tea is always the best... you cringe as it burns the back of your throat, knowing you just had the hottest carpe-diem portion.”

“The green grass and the happy skies court the flattering butterflies.”

“The meaning of life is not an unquestionable answer; it is an unanswerable question.”

“The rose of the old year withers away as the new bud begins to bloom.”

“The secret to living contently and sanely in this modern world is to find the beautiful in the ugly, but don't get confused which is which.”

“The strongest thing in the world is a bad habit.”

“The sun shines different ways in winter and summer. We shine different ways in the seasons of our lives.”

“The swing on your porch is a better liver of life than the chair in front of your desk.”

“The wisest one-word sentence? Breathe.”

“There is no need to reach high for the stars. They are already within you just reach deep into yourself!”

“There's no other love like the love for a brother. There's no other love like the love from a brother.”

“There's nothing like a mama-hug.”

“Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity.”

“Tree pose grows confidence. It roots me to this world.”

“Trees quiet without the birds, My heart quiet without you.”

“Vegetables are food of the earth, but fruits taste of the heavens.”

“Vibrant verdure lights the springtime landscape in blazingly brilliant greens a fresh flourishing canvas for parti-colored sparks of wildly blooming things.”

“Walking gets the feet moving, the blood moving, the mind moving. And movement is life.”

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

“Weather is a great metaphor for life sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, and there's nothing much you can do about it but carry an umbrella or choose to dance in the rain!”

“Welcome, winter. Your late dawns and chilled breath make me lazy, but I love you nonetheless.”

“When you dance to your own rhythm, Life taps its toes to your beat.”

“Whiskers and tails and thousands of frails lion like nose with an angelesque pose silky pattern'd fur o'er heart touching purr.”

“Worry ducks when purpose flies overhead.”

“You flew off with the wings of my heart and left me flightless.”

“You left and my heart is a ceaseless sermon of loneliness.”

“You need special shoes for hiking—and a bit of a special soul as well.”

“You're either changing your life or you're not. No waiting for this or that or better weather or other hurdles. Hurdles are the change.”

Quotations by Terry Goodkind (20)

Terry Goodkind was an American writer. Here are some representative quotations by Terry Goodkind:

“Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is, in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy.”

“Even a foolish old woman like me knows that lazy people don't think for themselves; they only think about themselves.”

“Everything is valuable under the right conditions. To a man dying of thirst, water be more precious than gold. To a drowning man, water be of little worth and great trouble.”

“Her green eyes came unafraid to his. The connection was so intense that it threatened to drain his sense of self. He felt that he had always known her, that she had always been a part of him, that her needs were his needs.”

“I've always said fantasy is sort of stealth philosophy.”

“Life for the strongest. There is no sympathy for the slain, only admiration for the winner's strength.”

“Love is a passion for life shared with another person. You fall in love with a person who you think is wonderful. It's your deepest appreciation of the value of that individual, and that individual is a reflection of what you value most in life. Love, for sound reasons, can be one of life's greatest rewards.”

“Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie.”

“No one ever goes into battle thinking God is on the other side.”

“Only those you trust can betray you.”

“Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.”

“Reality is irrelevant; Perception is everything.”

“Sometimes that's all life is... One desperate act after another.”

“Sometimes, making the wrong choice is better than making no choice. You have the courage to go forward, that is rare. A person who stands at the fork, unable to pick, will never get anywhere.”

“The first step to believing something is true is wanting to believe it is true... or being afraid it is.”

“The light of a new day always chases the shadows of the night away, and shows us that the shape of our fears is only the ghost of our own minds.”

“The mark of a wise person is being able to reach beyond the truth, to admit they can learn more than they already know. A wise person doesn't string together the beads of unrelated events into a necklace simply to have something they wish to see. A wise person sees the truth even if it is something unexpected. That is the most beautiful necklace to wear - the truth.”

“The mice think they are right, but my cat eats them anyways. This is the point, reality is nothing, perception is everything.”

“There is magic in sincere forgiveness - magic to heal.”

“Those who have come here to hate should leave now; for in their hate, they only betray themselves.”

Quotations by Terry Mark (32)

Terry Mark is a Canadian scholar, explorer and filmmaker. Here are some representative quotations by Terry Mark:

“A positive attitude can destroy every negative obstacle.”

“Aces are good at their jobs.”

“Being alive everyday is an enough blessing to celebrate everyday.”

“Don't wake up in the morning thinking about the worst things that could happen today, but focus on those great things you can achieve today. Life is too short for worries.”

“Even when you have every right to be tired of everything, Never be tired of living.”

“Every beautiful mind has great dreams, but rarely is anyone ever ready to work hard for their dreams.”

“Happiness requires that we celebrate the positive sides of life. Peace requires that we accept both the positive and the negative outcomes of life and move on.”

“I went to sleep last night thinking about you, I woke up this morning still thinking about you. When I'm down, I whisper your name to myself and smile. I still love you, don't doubt it.”

“I won't promise to be always here for you, but I assure you that Christ will always be here for you. But I'll always be holding your hand in mine.”

“I would rather be blamed for telling the truththan freed for telling a lie.”

“If we're waiting for the most convenient time to say I LOVE YOU, we may never find one.”

“If you truly love someone, then no sacrifice is impossible.”

“Just when you give up and think the whole world is heartless, you turn around and face someone so wonderful that they give you a reason to Love again, at least one more time.”

“Life is an expression of the sum total of our beliefs. Believe in faith.”

“Loving someone is doing more than you say you'll do to show your love. Love is understood more when the words are replaced by actions.”

“Most times, how you treat your children is how they grow up to treat you.”

“Never let somebody's drama determine the outcome of your day.”

“Never let ungrateful remarks prevent you from doing what you feel is right and good. Let God be your judge.”

“No matter how beautiful a lie is, in the end it hurts even more than the truth would have done.”

“No matter how good you are, someone is always going to be against you. But never let them be the limit of your success.”

“Nothing good comes cheaply so we shouldn't be surprised when we meet the hard while going for the best. Hard times are not quit times.”

“Only a real man is able to stick to just one woman and treat her special, always.”

“People who try to bring you down everyday aren't important in your life, so you better treat their opinions as such.”

“Sometimes people are afraid of falling in love, because it sometimes comes in a way we never expected.”

“Sometimes we have to step down to help somebody up, not because we failed to go up, but as a humble sacrifice to save a great soul.”

“The last battle always seems the toughest and to give up will always bring the worst defeat.”

“There can't be a perfect replacement for those we lost, whom we love so much. But there's always a kind replacement, strong and caring enough to take us through those lonely moments.”

“There's always room for improvement if you're ready to let go of the invaluable aspects.”

“Tomorrow is fully for those who have fully lived today. Hope without plans is like a car without wheels.”

“When you let people bring you down, you've successfully made yourself a step upon which they'll climb and stand above you.”

“Work hard and always expect the best, but make your expectations so small such that it can be easily satisfied.”

“Your flaws are not enough obstacles to block those who truly love you.”

Quotations by Terry Pratchett (107)

Terry Pratchett was an English humorist, satirist and author of fantasy novels, especially comical works. Here are some representative quotations by Terry Pratchett:

“A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.”

“A good plan isn't one where someone wins, it's where nobody thinks they've lost.”

“A horse's skull always looks scary, even if someone has put lipstick on it.”

“A woman always has half an onion left over, no matter what the size of the onion, the dish or the woman.”

“After all it was only wood. It'd rot in a few hundred years. By the measure of infinity, it hardly existed at all. On average, considered over the lifetime of the multiverse, most things didn't.”

“Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.”

“Alzheimer’s is me, unwinding, losing trust in myself, a butt of my own jokes, and on bad days capable of playing hunt the slipper by myself and losing. You can't battle it, you can’t be a plucky ‘survivor.’ It steals you from yourself.”

“An Assassin, a real Assassin had to look like one-black clothes, hood, boots, and all. If they could wear any clothes, any disguise, then what could anyone do but spend all day in a small room with a loaded crossbow pointed at the door?”

“And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.”

“Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, then you can be my most trusted advisor.”

“As every student of exploration knows, the prize goes not to the explorer who first sets foot upon the virgin soil but to the one who gets that foot home first. If it is still attached to his leg this is a bonus.”

“Assassins did have a certain code, after all. It was dishonorable to kill someone if you weren't being paid.”

“Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.”

“Building a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture.”

“But what's worth more than gold? Practically everything. You, for example. Gold is heavy. Your weight in gold is not very much gold at all. Aren't you worth more than that?”

“Cats will amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw.”

“Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.”

“Coffee was only a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your slightly older self.”

“Correct observation followed by meticulous deduction and the precise visualization of goals is vital to the success of any enterprise.”

“Demons were like genies or philosophy professors if you didn't word things exactly right, they delighted in giving you absolutely accurate and completely misleading answers.”

“Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?”

“Escapism isn't good or bad in itself. What is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to.”

“Even the blind and meek and voiceless have gods.”

“Everyone knew there were wolves in the mountains, but they seldom came near the village - the modern wolves were the offspring of ancestors that had survived because they had learned that human meat had sharp edges.”

“Everywhere's been where it is ever since it was first put there. It's called geography.”

“Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.”

“Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.”

“Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.”

“Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”

“Given enough coffee I could rule the world.”

“Gnomes live ten times faster than humans. They're harder to see than a high-speed mouse. That's one reason why most humans hardly ever see them. The other is that humans are very good at not seeing things they know aren't there. And, since sensible humans know that there are no such things as people four inches high, a gnome who doesn't want to be seen probably won't be seen... Wings.”

“Have you ever bitten a red hot ice cube? That's curry.”

“He moved in a way that suggested he was attempting the world speed record for the nonchalant walk.”

“He said that there was death and taxes, and taxes was worse because at least death didn’t happen to you every year.”

“Hello, inner child, I'm the inner babysitter.”

“Her singing always cheered him up. Life seemed so much brighter when she stopped.”

“Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.”

“Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.”

“I think the best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I've got Alzheimer's.”

“If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes.”

“If you put butter and salt on it, it tastes like salty butter.”

“If you trust in yourself… and believe in your dreams… and follow your star… you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”

“In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.”

“In life, as in breakfast cereal, it is always best to read the instructions on the box.”

“In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”

“It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are the main thing. If they are on the other side then this is a valuable bonus.”

“It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.”

“It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases — one was Alzheimer’s, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimer’s.”

“It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.”

“It wasn't the wearing of the hat that counted so much as having one to wear. Every trade, every craft had its hat.”

“It’s useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.”

“It's better to ask Santa Claus for a pair of slippers for Christmas rather than peace on earth. You might actually get it.”

“It's true that some of the most terrible things in the works are done by people who think, genuinely think, that they're doing it for the best, especially if there is some god involved.”

“Last night there seemed to be a chance. Anything was possible last night. That was the trouble with last nights. They were always followed by this mornings.”

“Legends don't have to make sense. They just have to be beautiful. Or at least interesting.”

“Let grammar, punctuation, and spelling into your life! Even the most energetic and wonderful mess has to be turned into sentences.”

“Life could be horrible in the wrong trouser of time.”

“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”

“Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off.”

“Look, the life of gnomes and goblins is nasty, brutish and short. So are they.”

“Modesty is only arrogance by stealth.”

“Mort... had about the same talent for horticulture that you would find in a dead starfish.”

“Most horses don't walk backwards voluntarily, because what they can't see doesn't exist.”

“Most modern fantasy just rearranges the furniture in Tolkien's attic.”

“Never trust a species that grins all the time. It’s up to something.”

“Never trust any complicated cocktail that remains perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds.”

“Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful watcher that it is in the deserts and high places that religions are generated. When men see nothing but bottomless infinity over their heads they have always had a driving and desperate urge to find someone to put in the way.”

“No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.”

“No, what he didn’t like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk.”

“Oh, a very useful philosophical animal, your average tortoise. Outrunning metaphorical arrows, beating hares in races... very handy.”

“Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.”

“People are often so busy living that they never stop to wonder why.”

“Plans can break down. You cannot plan the future. Only presumptuous fools plan. The wise man steers.”

“Rings try to find their way back to their owner. Someone ought to write a book about it.”

“Science: A way of finding things out and then making them work. Science explains what is happening around us the whole time. So does religion, but science is better because it comes up with more understandable excuses when it's wrong.”

“Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.”

“Sometimes the only thing you could do for people was to be there.”

“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”

“Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.”

“The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking.”

“The dogged determination and patience of one person to do what is Right and Necessary may not always win the day or even be noticed, but it will tip the balance just a little in the direction of good.”

“The elevator shaft was a kind of heat sink. Hot food was cold by the time it arrived. Cold food got colder. No one knew what would happen to ice cream, but it would probably involve some rewriting of the laws of thermodynamics.”

“The fastest way to travel is to be there already.”

“The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.”

“The Librarian liked being best man. You were allowed to kiss bridesmaids, and they weren't allowed to run away.”

“The librarians were mysterious. It was said they could tell what book you needed just by looking at you, and they could take your voice away with a word.”

“The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.”

“The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.”

“The reaper does not listen to the harvest.”

“The reason that clichés become clichés is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication.”

“The thief, as will become apparent, was a special type of thief. This thief was an artist of theft. Other thieves merely stole everything that was not nailed down, but this thief stole the nails as well.”

“The thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football.”

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”

“The truth is a fog, in which one man sees the heavenly host and the other one sees a flying elephant.”

“The truth isn't easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap and much more difficult to find.”

“The whole business with the fossilized dinosaur skeletons was a joke the paleontologists haven't seen yet. This proves two things: Firstly, that God moves in extremely mysterious, not to say, circuitous ways. God does not play dice with the universe; Secondly, the Earth's a Libra.”

“There are better things in life than alcohol, but alcohol makes up for not having them.”

“There is no doubt that being human is incredibly difficult and cannot be mastered in one lifetime.”

“There was a certain something about the air in the city. You got the feeling that it was air that had seen life. You couldn’t help noting with every breath that thousands of other people were very close to you and nearly all of them had armpits.”

“There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.”

“Time is a drug; too much of it kills you.”

“To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest.”

“Voodoo is a very interesting religion for the whole family, even those members of it who are dead.”

“When much is taken, something is returned.”

“Where there is personality, there is discord.”

“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”

“You get a wonderful view from the point of no return.”

Quotations by Terry Tempest Williams (16)

Terry Tempest Williams is an American writer, educator, conservationist and activist. Here are some representative quotations by Terry Tempest Williams:

“A trip to the hospital is always a descent into the macabre. I have never trusted a place with shiny floors.”

“Abundance is a dance with reciprocity, what we can give, what we can share, and what we receive in the process.”

“Abundance is an expansion of energy. Abundance is a form of gratitude, a generosity, a modesty, a bow toward others what we can give, what we can share, rather than what we can take.”

“Abundance is rooted in community, not individualism. Abundance is what is before our eyes, but we cannot see when we are blinded by greed.”

“If you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go. This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future.”

“My body is a compass and it does not lie.”

“Myths have a way of bringing what is unconscious to the surface and putting a face on what we cannot see.”

“Social change can be seen as a mosaic, taking that which is broken and creating something new.”

“The act of civil disobedience is the act of taking our anger and turning it into sacred rage. It is a personal and collective gesture of resistance and insistance.”

“The danger is in what we codify, commodify, and exploit.”

“There is no one true church, no one chosen people.”

“To protect what is wild is to protect what is gentle. Perhaps the wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silent space that says we live only by grace. Wilderness lives by this same grace. Wild mercy is in our hands.”

“To slow down is to be taken into the soul of things.”

“What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.”

“What you come to see on the surface is not what you come to know. Emptiness in the desert is the fullness of space, a fullness of space that eliminates time. The desert is time, exposed time, geologic time. One needs time in the desert to see.”

“Who wants to be a goddess when we can be human? Perfection is a flaw disguised as control.”

Quotations by Theodor Adorno (22)

Theodor Adorno was a German philosopher, sociologist, psychologist, musicologist and composer known for his critical theory of society. Here are some representative quotations by Theodor Adorno:

“All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.”

“Fascism is itself less ideological, in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.”

“He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.”

“He who matures early lives in anticipation.”

“History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.”

“Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.”

“In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.”

“In sharp contrasts to traditional art, modern art does not hide the fact that it is something made and produced: on the contrary, it underscores the fact.”

“In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.”

“Intelligence is a moral category.”

“Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.”

“None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.”

“Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.”

“Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.”

“Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.”

“The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.”

“The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.”

“There is no love that is not an echo.”

“Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence knowing that one is nothing.”

“Today the order of life allows no room for the ego to draw spiritual or intellectual conclusions. The thought which leads to knowledge is neutralized and used as a mere qualification on specific labor markets and to heighten to commodity value of the personality.”

“Vague expression permits the hearer to imagine whatever suits him and what he already thinks in any case.”

“Work while you work, play while you play this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.”

Quotations by Theodore Parker (15)

Theodore Parker was an American transcendentalist and reforming minister of the Unitarian church. Here are some representative quotations by Theodore Parker:

“Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.”

“Democracy means not 'I am as good as you are' but 'You are as good as I am.”

“Disappointment is often the salt of life.”

“It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.”

“Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.”

“Nature is God's Old Testament.”

“Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.”

“Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.”

“Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe.”

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”

“The city has always been the fireplace of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.”

“The diamond which shines in the Saviour's crown shall burn in unquenched beauty at last on the forehead of every human soul.”

“The lottery of honest labor, drawn by time, is the only one whose prizes are worth taking up and carrying home.”

“The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.”

“The most useful is the greatest.”

Quotations by Theodore Roosevelt (146)

Theodore Roosevelt was an American politician, statesman, conservationist, naturalist, historian and writer who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909. Here are some representative quotations by Theodore Roosevelt:

“... the Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war, and the failure to act against Turkey is to condone it ... the failure to deal radically with the Turkish horror means that all talk of guaranteeing the future peace of the world is mischievous nonsense.”

“A churchless community, a community where men have abandoned and scoffed at or ignored their religious needs, is a community on the rapid downgrade.”

“A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace.”

“A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy.”

“A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.”

“A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterward.”

“A powerful Navy we have always regarded as our proper and natural means of defense; and it has always been of defense that we have thought, never of aggression or of conquest. But who shall tell us now what sort of Navy to build? We shall take leave to be strong upon the seas, in the future as in the past; and there will be no thought of offense or provocation in that. Our ships are our natural bulwarks.”

“A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.”

“A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood.”

“Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.”

“All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune—make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.”

“Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.”

“Athletic sports, if followed properly, and not elevated into a fetish, are admirable for developing character, besides bestowing on participants an invaluable fund of health and strength.”

“Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.”

“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”

“Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.”

“Black care rarely sits behind the rider whose pace is fast enough.”

“Both life and death are part of the same Great Adventure. Never yet was worthy adventure worthily carried through by the man who put his personal safety first.”

“Bullies do not make brave men; and boys of men of foul life cannot become good citizens, good Americans, until they change; and even after the change, scars will be left in their souls.”

“But life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living.”

“But we hold with Lincoln that labor deserves higher consideration than capital. Therefore we hold that labor has a right to the means of life—that there must be a living wage.”

“Certain rich men, whose lives are evil and corrupt, are the representatives of predatory wealth accumulated by all forms of inequity, from the oppression of wage workers to unfair methods of crushing out competition.”

“Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.”

“Comparison is the thief of joy.”

“Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation.”

“Conservation means development as much as it does protection. A man's usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can.”

“Conservation means development as much as it does protection. I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural resources of our land; but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful use, the generations that come after us.”

“Conservation means development as much as it does protection.”

“Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength.”

“Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.”

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”

“Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.”

“Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.”

“Every person who invests in well-selected real estate in a growing section of a prosperous community adopts the surest and safest method of becoming independent, for real estate is the basis of wealth.”

“Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.”

“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure...than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”

“Freemasonry teaches not merely temperance, fortitude, prudence, justice, brotherly love, relief, and truth, but liberty, equality, and fraternity, and it denounces ignorance, superstition, bigotry, lust tyranny and despotism.”

“Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.”

“Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.”

“Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.”

“His frailty was a result of asthma, a disease for which there was then no effective treatment, and his triumph began with a humiliation at the hands of two bullies.”

“I abhor injustice and bullying by the strong at the expense of the weak, whether among nations or individuals.”

“I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.”

“I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do: That is character!”

“I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor of the many, as against the privileged few.”

“I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.”

“If there is not the war, you don't get the great general, if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman, if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.”

“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.”

“If you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.”

“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”

“In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard.”

“In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world.”

“It is better to be faithful than famous.”

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”

“It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.”

“It is only through work and strife that either nation or individual moves on to greatness. The great man is always the man of mighty effort, and usually the man whom grinding need has trained to mighty effort.”

“It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worth hearing; but as a rule they don't know anything outside their own business.”

“Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.”

“Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.”

“Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.”

“Legislative government is, as its name implies, government by the enactment of laws after debate. The debate is to be used for the purpose of assisting legislation, for procuring wise legislation.”

“Let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.”

“Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds.”

“Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.”

“Make preparations in advance ... you never have trouble if you are prepared for it.”

“My experience... convinced me that tea was better than brandy, and during the last six months in Africa I took no brandy, even when sick taking tea instead.”

“No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.”

“No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it. Obedience to the law is demanded as a right; not asked as a favor.”

“No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.”

“No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life in a great cause.”

“No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.”

“No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care.”

“No ordinary work done by a man is either as hard or as responsible as the work of a woman who is bringing up a family of small children; for upon her time and strength demands are made not only every hour of the day but often every hour of the night.”

“No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.”

“No, I'm not a good shot, but I shoot often.”

“Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.”

“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”

“Nothing worth having comes easy.”

“Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.”

“Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.”

“Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.”

“Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.”

“Our flag is a proud flag, and it stands for liberty and civilization. Where it has once floated, there must be no return to tyranny.”

“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.”

“People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.”

“Performance should be made square with promise.”

“Perhaps there is no more important component of character than steadfast resolution.”

“Politeness is a sign of dignity, not subservience.”

“Power always brings with it responsibility.”

“Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.”

“Risk is like fire: If controlled it will help you; if uncontrolled it will rise up and destroy you.”

“Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.”

“Stand against him in no spirit of vengeance, but only with the resolute purpose to make him act as decent citizens must act if this Republic is to be, and to be kept, what it shall become.”

“The best leader is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”

“The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life.”

“The corporation is the creature of the state. It should always be held accountable to some sovereign, and this accountability shoul be real and not a sham.”

“The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended to produce a very unhealthy condition.”

“The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom.”

“The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.”

“The hardest lessons to learn are those that are the most obvious.”

“The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.”

“The light has gone out of my life.”

“The little owls call to each other with tremulous, quavering voices throughout the livelong night, as they sit in the creaking trees.”

“The longer I live the more I think of the quality of fortitude men who fall, pick themselves up and stumble on, fall again, and are trying to get back up when they die.”

“The lunatic fringe in all reform movements.”