Saturday, January 16, 2010

Quotes by famous people

Quotes by famous people

"Every beauty which is seen here below by persons
of perception resemble more than anything else that celestial
source from which we all are come...."
-Michelangelo (1475-1564)

"I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you."
-Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

"Heaven will be inherited by every man
who has heaven in his soul."
-Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)

"Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
-Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself
and know that everything in life has a purpose."
-Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926 -)

"Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them."
-David Hume (1711-1776)

"The whole of life, from the moment you are born
to the moment you die, is a process of learning."
-Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986)

"The mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one."
-Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

"My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky."
-William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

"The clearest way into the universe
is through a forest wilderness."
-John Muir (1838-1914)

"What else is nature but God?"
-Seneca (4? B.C.-65 A.D.)

"A faithful friend is the medicine of life."
-The Apocrypha, 6:16

"They are alive and well somewhere,
the smallest sprout shows there is really no death..."
-George Washington Carver (1864-1943)

"The superior reasoning power...revealed in the
incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God."
-Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Patience is the companion of wisdom."
-Saint Augustine (354-430)

"Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."
-Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

"In my Father's house are many mansions."
-The Bible, John 14:2

"Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves
that break upon the idle seashore of the mind."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

"People are like stained-glass windows.
They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when the darkness sets in,
their true beauty is revealed only
if there is light from within."
-Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926 -)

Friday, January 15, 2010

Quotes by famous people

Quotes by famous people

"There are no facts, only interpretations."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense."
- Edsgar Dijkstra (1930-2002)

"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg."
- Bjarne Stroustrup

"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems."
- Paul Erdos (1913-1996)

"Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back."
- Paul Erdos (1913-1996)

"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."
- Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)

"Dancing is silent poetry."
- Simonides (556-468bc)

"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."
- Salvador Dali (1904-1989)

"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near."
- Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
- Plato (427-347 B.C.)

"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

"Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-)

"Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain."
- Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)

"We have art to save ourselves from the truth."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Quotes by Famous People

Quotes by famous people

"Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer."
- Saint Thomas Moore (1478-1535)

"I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better."
- A. J. Liebling (1904-1963)

"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

"Give me chastity and continence, but not yet."
- Saint Augustine (354-430)

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you."
- Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)

"We are all atheists about most of the gods humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."
- Richard Dawkins (1941-)

"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."
- Emile Zola (1840-1902)

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Quotes by Famous People

Quotes by Famous People

"This book fills a much-needed gap."
- Moses Hadas (1900-1966) in a review

"The full use of your powers along lines of excellence."
- definition of "happiness" by John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

"I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart."
- e e cummings (1894-1962)

"Give me a museum and I'll fill it."
- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

"Assassins!"
- Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) to his orchestra

"I'll moider da bum."
- Heavyweight boxer Tony Galento, when asked what he thought of William Shakespeare

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is."
- Yogi Berra

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems."
- Rene Descartes (1596-1650), "Discours de la Methode"

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."
- Henry Ford (1863-1947)

"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'."
- Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back')

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed."
- George Burns (1896-1996)

"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Quotes by famous people

Our Top 10 Famous American History Quotes
(no particular order)


Quotes by men who have changed the course of American history:


These quotes from some of the forefathers and presidents that have been inspirations to men and established the United States of America.



1) “I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.”
--George Washington



2) “Diligence is the mother of good luck.”
--Benjamin Franklin

3) “Give me Liberty, or give me Death!”
--Patrick Henry
The speech was given as an opposition to the English Crown in 1775, however, this quote will always be heard wherever there is oppression of freedom. Life will not be worthwhile without being able to do the things we want to do.

4) Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

--Thomas Jefferson



5) “A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
--Abraham Lincoln

6) "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."
--Theodore Roosevelt

7) “I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.”

--J. Robert Oppenheimer

Quoted from the man who is the father of the atomic bomb.

8) “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”
--Martin Luther King Jr.

The person who fought for equal rights with a peaceful advocate.

9) “Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
--Ronald Regan

Led to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

10) “You are either with us, or against us”
--George W. Bush

The culmination of the war against terror that changed the United States.

Monday, January 11, 2010

Quotes by famous people

"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."
- H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake."
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956)

"Don't be so humble - you are not that great."
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat

"His ignorance is encyclopedic"
- Abba Eban (1915-2002)

"If a man does his best, what else is there?"
- General George S. Patton (1885-1945)

"Political correctness is tyranny with manners."
- Charlton Heston (1924-)

"You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality."
- Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

"When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion."
- Robert Pirsig (1948-)

"Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer."
- Saint Thomas Moore (1478-1535)

"I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better."
- A. J. Liebling (1904-1963)

"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

"Give me chastity and continence, but not yet."
- Saint Augustine (354-430)

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you."
- Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)