17.12.07

Quotes... Some more...

"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well." ~ Horace Walpole

"If you cannot convince them, confuse them." ~ Harry S Truman

"It is a queer and fantastic world. Why can't people have what they want?
The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has got the wrong thing.
Perhaps you can make head or tail of it; it is beyond me." ~ Ford Madox Ford


The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it. ~ Jacques Barzun

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson


A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes something from the world, and has something to give in return. ~ Sarah Orne Jewett

Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. ~ Sarah Bernhardt


I have dreams, and I have nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams. ~ Jonas Salk


"As long as the world is turning and spinning,
we're gonna be dizzy
and we're gonna make mistakes..!"
- Mel Brooks

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