Famous Quotations
To love beauty is to see light. - Victor Hugo
A goal without a plan is just a wish. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face. - Kofi Annan
It is the ability to choose which makes us human. - Madeleine L'Engle
Research is starting to show that a child should be engaged at least 20 hours a week. I do not think it matters which program you choose as long as it keeps the child actively engaged with the therapist, teacher, or parent for at least 20 hours a week. - Temple Grandin
There is no great genius without some touch of madness. - Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Epistles
Do not turn back when you are just at the goal. - Publilius Syrus
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier. - Bill Gates
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. - Beverly Sills
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. - W. Somerset Maugham
I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me. - Ernest Hemingway
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. - Elbert Hubbard
The more you do, the more experience you have and the next time it will be easier to choose the right thing. - Andy Lau
Choose a field that will supply sufficient remuneration to provide adequately for your companion and your children. I bear testimony that these criteria are very important in choosing your life's work. - Thomas S. Monson
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. - Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC)
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain. - William Faulkner
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more. - John Adams
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. - Douglas Adams
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. - Douglas Adams
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. - Confucius
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. - William Somerset Maugham
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own. - George Bernard Shaw
If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. - Charles Lindbergh
Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative. - Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. - Albert Einstein
Drugs? Every one has a choice and I choose not to do drugs. - Leonardo DiCaprio
If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion. - Noam Chomsky
In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don't keep them. - Isabelle Adjani
They do not love that do not show their love. - William Shakespeare
Love and work... work and love, that's all there is. - Sigmund Freud
We can do no great things, only small things with great love. - Mother Teresa
Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them. - Horace
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. - W. Somerset Maugham
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about... It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you. - Agatha Christie
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration. - Thomas A. Edison
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