Famous Quotes

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Dr. Joyce Brothers:

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can - - and surely will at times -- fail. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

Joni Mitchell, song-The Last Time I Saw Richard:

All romantics meet the same fate someday. Cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark cafe.

Edmond Burke:

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Lao-Tzu:

Arms are instruments of ill omen. . . . When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There is no glory in victory, and to glorify it despite this is to exult in the killing of men. . . . When great numbers of people are killed, one should weep over them with sorrow. When victorious in war, one should observe mourning rites.

Barbara Bush:

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell my children that, they just about throw up.

Euripides:

Your very silence shows you agree.

Michael Landon:

Whatever you want to do, do it know. There are only so many tomorrows.

John F. Kennedy:

We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.

Vince Lombardi, Lombardi Winning is the only thing (by Jerry Kramer):

I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.

Frederick Douglass.:

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

Ernest Hemmingway:

Courage is grace under pressure.

English Proverb:

Give neither advice nor salt, until you are asked for it.

Mahatma Gandhi:

We must become the change we want to see.

David Hume:

Custom is the great guide of human life.

Unknown, Latin Legal Phrase:

He is not deemed to give consent who is under a mistake.