Miscellaneous Quotations

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"Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure."

-Michael Levine

"It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."

-Albert Einstein

"The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on."

-Joseph Heller

"The Universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."

-Eden Philpotts

"Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions."

-Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it."

-Philip K. Dick

"You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics."

-Charles Bukowski

"To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it."

-Benjamin Franklin

"I am become death, shatterer of worlds."

-J. Robert Oppenheimer, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion

"They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for."

-Tom Bodett

"Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into."

-Henry Ward Beecher

"By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I think consumers want that right. We all want that, c'mon it's fun."

-Music agent John Parres, on the right to electronically transmit MP3s

"Winning is nice if you don't lose your integrity in the process."

-Arnold Horshak

"If you're going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it."

-Leo Rosten

"Now I'm the last guy on earth who looks like this."

-Howard Stern, on the death of Joey Ramone

"Two monologues do not make a dialogue."

-Jeff Daly

"Few things are harder to put up with than a good example."

-Mark Twain

"The plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'."

-unknown

"How come there's only one Monopolies Commission?"

-Nigel Rees

"The most decisive actions of our life -- I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future -- are, more often than not, unconsidered."

-Andre Gide

"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads."

-Erica Jong

"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."

-William Shakespeare

"Only the shallow know themselves."

-Oscar Wilde

"An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail."

-Edwin Land

"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."

-Peter Drucker

"A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?"

-Confuciu

"I think; therefore I am."

-Rene Descartes

"What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal."

-Albert Pine

"Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together."

-George Lichtenberg

"Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity. I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail."

-Henry David Thoreau

"If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting."

-Stephen Covey

"There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still."

-Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Whatever you are, be a good one."

-Abraham Lincoln

"We dance round in a ring and suppose,
But the Secret sits in the middle and knows."

-Robert Frost