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There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all those who profit by the old order and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order.
Speaker: MachiavelliSource: The PrincePosted: 18 Aug 2009 at 8:57 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Speaker: Abraham LincolnPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:10 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you have a question, ask. Better ask a question and reveal your ignorance for a few minutes than not ask and be ignorant for the rest of your life.
Speaker: Czer BergmanSource: http://www.salamon.net/ask.jpgPosted: 08 Dec 2008 at 3:28 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you ever need a helping hand, look at the end of your arm.
Speaker: Bryan B. GardnerPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:06 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
At first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. What we should fear and dread, of course, is that we won’t stop loving them, even after they’re dead and gone. For I still love you with the whole of my heart, Prabaker. I still love you. And sometimes, my friend, the love that I have, and can’t give to you, crushes the breath from my chest. Sometimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep.
Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 10:06 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You have the right to work, but for the work’s sake only. You have no right to the fruits of work. Desire for the fruits of work must never be your motive in working. Never give way to laziness, either.
Perform every action with your heart fixed on the Supreme Lord. Renounce attachment to the fruits. Be even-tempered in success and failure; for it is this evenness of temper which is meant by yoga.
Work done with anxiety about results is far inferior to work done without such anxiety, in the calm of self-surrender. Seek refuge in the knowledge of Brahman. They who work selfishly for results are miserable.Speaker: Bhagavad GitaSource: Franny and ZooeyPosted: 22 Aug 2010 at 6:17 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Men will work hard for money. [Men] will work harder for other men. But men will work hardest of all when they are dedicated to a cause… Duty is never worthily performed until it is performed by one who would gladly do more if only he could.
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Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
Speaker: Sydney J. HarrisPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:20 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.
Speaker: Bill NyePosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:58 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.”
Speaker: C.S. LewisPosted: 24 Apr 2011 at 11:32 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Speaker: Max EhrmannPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:46 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You seldom get what you go after unless you know in advance what you want. Indecision has often given an advantage to the other fellow because he did his thinking beforehand.
Speaker: Maurice SwitzerPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:00 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If every man in this church who has been ordained to the Melchizedek priesthood were to qualify himself to hold a temple recommend and then were to go to the house of the Lord and renew his covenants in solemnity before God and witness, we would be a better people. There would be little or no infidelity among us. Divorce would almost entirely disappear. So much of heartache and heartbreak would be avoided. There would be a greater measure of peace and love and happiness in our homes. There would be fewer weeping wives and weeping children. There would be a greater measure of appreciation and of mutual respect among us. And I am confident the Lord would smile with greater favor upon us.
Speaker: Gordon B. HinckleyPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:19 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
All those wooly hats, and mustaches with parts of them missing, all those new tattoos and plastic shoes… I mean, I’m a liberal guy, and I didn’t want Bush to bomb Iraq, and I like a toke as much as the next guy, but these people still fill my heart with fear and loathing, mostly because I know they wouldn’t have liked my band. When we played a college town, and we walked out in front of a crowd like this, I knew we were going to have a hard time. They don’t like real music, these people. They don’t like the Ramones or the Temptations or the 'Mats; they like DJ Bleepy and his stupid fucking bleeps. Or else they all pretend that they’re fucking gangstas, and listen to hip-hop about hos and guns.
Speaker: Nick HornbyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:52 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When you are a peacemaker, YOU are the evidence to the world that there is a God; you are the “salt of the earth.”
Speaker: paraphrased of Patrick DegnSource: Education Week 2010Posted: 25 Apr 2011 at 4:44 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There is one phrase which should be erased from your thinking and from the words you speak aloud. It is the phrase ‘if only.’ It is counterproductive and is not conducive to the Spirit of healing and of peace.
Speaker: Thomas S. MonsonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:40 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Confusion is the chief cause of worry… I have found that if a man will devote his time to securing facts in an impartial, objective way, his worries will usually evaporate in the light of knowledge.
Speaker: Herbert G. HawkesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:02 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It wasn’t true that women were fucking maniacs, of course it wasn’t – just the ones that I had slept with and Chas had slept with.
Speaker: Nick HornbyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:52 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
In civilized life domestic hatred usually expresses itself by saying things which would appear quite harmless on paper (the words are not offensive) but in such a voice, or at such a moment, that they are not far short of a blow in the face.
...Your patient must demand that all his own utterances are to be taken at their face value and judged simply on the actual words, while at the same time judging all his mother’s utterances with the fullest and most oversensitive interpretation of the tone and the context and the suspected intention… once this habit is well-established you have the delightful situation of a human saying things with the express purpose of offending and yet having a grievance when offense is taken.Speaker: C.S. LewisPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:26 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Lin, a man has to find a good woman, and when he finds her he has to win her love. Then he has to earn her respect. Then he has to cherish her trust. And then he has to, like, go on doing that for as long as they live. Until they both die. That’s what it’s all about. That’s the most important thing in the world. That’s what man is, yaar. A man is truly a man when he wins the love of a good woman, earns her respect, and keeps her trust. Until you can do that, you’re not a man.”
Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 10:03 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!
