Serious Quotations
"A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be."
-- Rosalyn Carter"Education is more than filling a child with facts. It starts with posing questions."
-- D.T. Max"Not all those who wander are lost."
-- J.R.R. Tolkien"The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future."
-- Stephen Ambrose"If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colourful and lively."
-- Mel Brooks"Love is a great wrecker of peace of mind."
-- Susan Cheever"Your imperfections are what make you beautiful."
-- Sandra Bullock"One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered."
-- Michael J. Fox"The best way to get people to think out of the box is not to create the box in the first place."
-- Martin Cooper"Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to."
-- Joe Gores"The less their ability, the more their conceit."
-- Ahad HaAm"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit."
-- Albert Schweitzer"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
-- Unknown"Plan for the worst, and all your surprises are good ones."
-- Unknown"A closed mouth gathers no feet."
-- Unknown"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."
-- Alexander Graham Bell"If you take the easy road, you're considered lazy, if you take the hard road, you're considered
crazy, which one do you pick?"
-- Unknown"I hold you close today for fear off losing you tomorrow."
-- Anonymous"Don't try so hard, the best things come when you least expect them."
-- Unknown"In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."
-- Carl Sagan, Cosmos
"I have discovered that all human evil comes from this: man's being unable to sit still in a room."
-- Blaise Pascal
"The human race is a remarkable creature, one with great potential, and I hope that Star Trek has helped to show us what we can be if we believe in ourselves and our abilities."
-- Gene Roddenberry (1921-1991)
"I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night."
-- Milton
"Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."
-- Mark Twain
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Men of peace usually are brave."
-- Spock
"The Savage Curtain"
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"He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die."
-- Giacomo Leopardi
"We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another."
-- Luciano de Crescenzo
"Lonely is a man without love."
-- Unknown
"Where there is love, there is pain."
-- Spanish Proverb
"It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all."
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Take away love, and our earth is a tomb."
-- Robert Browning
"I wish they would only take me as I am."
-- Vincent Van Gogh
"The incomparable beauty of life is not discovered with the eyes or the mind, but with the soul."
-- George Webster Douglas
"Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well as now."
-- P.T. Barnum
"He who cannot forgive others destroys a bridge over which he must pass himself. For every man has a need to be forgiven."
"It is said that if there were no darkness in the world, it would not be possible to see the light; if this is the case, starlight is all the more rich for its illumination of the night sky."
-- Scott Fowler
"You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back."
-- Unknown
"Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart."
-- Unknown
"The measure of man's real character is what he would do it he knew he would never get caught."
-- Unknown
"Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey. It reminds us to cherish each moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we have lived."
-- Captain Jean-Luc Picard
"You will not grow if you sit in a beautiful flower garden, but you will grow if you are sick, if you are in pain, if you experience losses, and if you do not put your head in the sand. Take the pain as a gift to you with a very, very specific purpose."
-- Elizabeth Kubler Ross
"Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul.
Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal."
-- Unknown
"The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity."
-- George Bernard Shaw
"It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret."
-- Unknown
"The man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings."
-- Henri-Frederic Ameil
"Our lives are books, written in our own blood on the tattered pages of time."
-- Ryan K. Miller I
"Glory remains unaware of my neglected dwelling where alone I sing my tearful song which has charms only for me"
-- Charles Brugnot
"Nothing is more public than an expression of a private feeling frozen for all time in a photograph."
-- Robert U. Akeret
"A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences."
-- Dave Meurer
"I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist."
-- Billy Joel
"Never be afraid to try anything once, remember amateurs built the ark, professionals built the Titanic."
-- Unknown
"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart."
-- Unknown
"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget."
-- G. Randolf
"Friends are the part of our family we get to choose."
-- Unknown
"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together."
-- Woodrow Wilson
"Do not be dismayed at good-byes. A good-bye is necessary before meeting again and meeting again after moments or lifetimes is certain for those who are friends."
-- Richard Bach
Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength.
-- Ralph W. Sockman
"A friend is a person you abuse to their face
And defend to the death behind their back."
-- Amanda Morris
"Kindness in words creates confidence,
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness,
Kindness in giving creates love."
-- Lao-tzu
"The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts, but of values."
-- William Ralph Inge
"The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life."
-- Plato
"Humour is a rubber sword -- it allows you to make a point without drawing blood."
-- Mary Hirsch
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