Friday, November 20, 2015

Quotes For Thoughts

"You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees." - Mahatma Gandhi

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." – Chinese Proverb

"Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right." – Henry Ford

"Half this game is ninety percent mental." - Yogi Berra

"I must follow my people, for I am their leader" -Mahatma Gandhi

" The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any." – Alice Walker

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

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

"The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing" - Mahatma Gandhi

"You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take." – Wayne Gretzky

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." - Mahatma Gandhi

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." – Plato

"Life is about making an impact, not making an income." – Kevin Kruse

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity." – Amelia Earhart

"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run." – Babe Ruth

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it." – Henry Ford

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

"The best revenge is massive success." – Frank Sinatra

"I may be despicable person, but when Truth speaks through me I am Invincible." - Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"If you are going through hell, keep going."
- Sir Winston Churchill

"The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'."
- unknown

"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass; it's about learning to dance in the rain." - Vivian Greene

"Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions."
- Frank Lloyd Wright

"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars."
- J. Paul Getty

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Arthur Schopenhauer

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." - Mahatma Gandhi

"The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice." - Martin Luther King Jr, Theodore Parker

"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action."
- Auric Goldfinger, in "Goldfinger" by Ian L. Fleming

"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."
- Mario Andretti

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
- Henry Ford

"When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong." - Buckminster Fuller

"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important." - Bertrand Russell

"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert Einstein

"No one can earn a million dollars honestly." - William Jennings Bryan

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names." - John F. Kennedy

"A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies." - Oscar Wilde

"You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there." - Yogi Berra

"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before." - Mae West

"Men have become the tools of their tools." - Henry David Thoreau

"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Sir Winston Churchill

"If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?" - Will Rogers

"A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood." - General George S. Patton

"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog." - Mark Twain

"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both." - Niccolo Machiavelli

"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame." - Benjamin Franklin

"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing." - Wernher Von Braun

"There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it." - Oscar Wilde

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." - Albert Einstein

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced." - Soren Kierkegaard

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on." - Robert Frost

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Okaaaaaaay.

Anonymous said...

Don't forget Nietzsche:

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."


Robert Smith and his Band of Misfit Indians have tried their best to "kill" us CupeƱo people, by separating us and breaking us apart, by lessening our voice, by pushing and squeezing us into the ground as hard has he can, but we are still here, we have survived and we will succeed.

Anonymous said...

Don't forget Robert Smith::

"I did not have urination relations with that wall..."

Anonymous said...

So what were the results of the Pala election??