466. "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty." —John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
467. "We must not let foreign enemies use the forms of liberty to destroy liberty itself." —George W. Bush
468. You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes—you just might find—you get what you need. —Mick Jagger (Rolling Stones)
469. People who trade freedom for security soon have neither. —Milt Copulos
470. "I'm very lucky in terms of making these predictions. I've got the $5 billion of Microsoft R and D to not only sit and speculate, but to tell those guys, "OK, you'd better make these things come true." —Bill Gates
471. In one way or another, everything is derivative. —Anon
472. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. —Arthur C. Clarke
473. Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. —Anon.
474. Success leaves clues. —Anon
475. "I believe in America." —The first line from The Godfather.
476. The only difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way in which we use them. —Anon
477. "What poison is to food, self-pity is to life." —Oliver C. Wilson
478. Do that which results in taking no action, and order will prevail. —Toa Te Ching
479. "It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it." —Jacob Chanowski
480. When you're dead you're dead. Any religion that denies that obvious fact does not deserve our belief. When we're alive we ought to enjoy it!—Al Hillix
481. The heights reached by great men and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upwards in the night. —Henry Wadworth Longfellow
482. Experience is the best (but most expensive) teacher. —Anon
483. You see a mans true strength when you take away all of his crutches. —Anon
484. Love is never having to say you are sorry. —Love Story
485. If you know a man's fear, you can conquer him. —Anon
486. Doing things that make you physically strong will make you emotionally strong. —Tony Robbins
487. "There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job." —Peter Drucker
488. It's not the fire that effects you. It's how you react to the fire. —Larry King
489. "Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads." —Erica Jong
490. Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. —Norman Cousins
491. The richness of the human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. —Helen Keller
492. We should try never to let our happy frame of mind be disturbed. Whether we are suffering at present or have suffered in the past, there is no reason to be unhappy. If we can remedy it, why be unhappy? And if we cannot, what use is there in being depressed about it? That just adds more unhappiness and does no good at all. —Dalai Lama
493. Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question. —Albert Camus
494. There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: Those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid that you will succeed. —Ray Goforth
495. Failures are only superficial skinned knees. —Anon
496. A stranger is a friend you just haven't met yet. —Anon
497. The only way to really learn something is to have failed. —Michael Crichton
498. Computers in the future will only weight a mere 1.5 tons. —Popular Mechanics (1949)
499. History will be kind to me because I will write that history. —Winston Churchill
500. All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts. —Shakespeare (As You Like It)
501. "Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." —Mahatma Gandhi
502. There is no learning without pain. —Plato
503. After you've heard two eyewitness accounts of an accident, it makes you wonder about history. —Dave Barry(DR)
504. "Dreams are the touchstones of our character." —Henry David Thoreau (DR)
505. Things are always at their best in their beginning. —Blaise Pascal
506. Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. —Marcus Aurelius
507. People usually fail when they are on the verge of success. So give as much care to the end as to the beginning. Then there will be no failure. —Lao-tzu
508. "The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it." —Jean Paul (DR)
509. Ignorance is the womb of monsters. —Henry Ward Beecher
510. Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years. —Bob Brown
511. One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet. —Joseph Joubert
512. We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be. —Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
513. The lighthouse is there. We can either break ourselves against it, or we can use it as a guiding light. —Stephen Covey.
514. The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore. —Dale Carnegie
515. The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. —Jim Rohn
516. Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments. —Henry Ward Beecher
517. "The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work." —Emile Zola (1840-1902)
518. Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies. —Albert Camus
519. Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone. —Jim Fiebig
520. Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. —Sir Cecil Beaton (MH)
521. Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. —Martin Luther King, Jr.
522. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. — Oscar Wilde (MH)
523. "You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do." —Henry Ford (christian nguyen)
524. The darkest light is before the dawn. —Anon
525. Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your feet on first. —Frederick Wilcox (MH)
526. Following your passion is the key to success. —Phillip McGraw
527. The wildest colts make the best horses. —Plutarch (MH)
528. If it's not going to plan, maybe there never was a plan. (Bill Spaulding)
529. We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing. —Anon (Brad Ellman)
530. California girls are the greatest in the world...each one a song in the making. —John Stewart (Gold)
531. When things don't go your way, don't be surprised if it ends up being a blessing in disguise. —Marjorie Ehrlich
532. If you live the lie long enough it becomes the truth. —Cary Grant
533. The three worst sins are:
-Wanting something because you can't have it.
-Wanting something because somebody else wants or has it.
-Worse of all is wanting something you already have (but don’t realize.)
-Anon
534. The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, until you get over there and realize its all just weeds. —Chi Ching Herlihy
535. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. —Anon
536. In times of challenge, there are two things you can do: you can either step on the brakes, or step on the gas. —Andy Grove.
537. There's nothing like the real thing. —Anon
538. If you never expect anything, you will never be disappointed. —Dora Jane Ehrlich
539. "Life is short and uncertain. Eat dessert first.." -Miss Penny (BE)
540. We seek not to emulate the masters, we seek what they sought. -Anon
541. Birds of a feather flock together. -Anon
542. Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich. ~ Sir Thomas Browne
543. I have been through some awful things in my life, some of which have actually happened. -Mark Twain
544. "I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." -Robert Frost (steve smith)
545. The ancestor to every action is a thought. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
546. The Final frontier is not space, it is the human imagination. -Boeing
547. Have a mind that is open to everything, and attached to nothing.- Tilopa (10th century)
548. The best gift you can give to yourself is a nice comfortable surrounding. -Oprah
549. "One of the most amazing things ever said on this earth is Jesus' statement: "He that is greatest among you shall be your servant." Nobody has one chance in a billion of being thought really great after a century has passed except those who have been the servants of all. That strange realist from Bethlehem knew that."-Harry Emerson Fosdick, D.D.
550. "Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself."- Oprah Winfreh
551. A lady by definition is a woman that makes it easy for a man to be a gentle man. -Bobby Wilcox.
552. The key to fashion is knowing how to accessorize. -Jason Dunn
553. Nothing makes money. -Art Buckwald
554. Our truest life... is when we are in our dreams awake. -Therauea
555. Whether you are rich or poor it's always nice to have money. -Zsa ZsaGabor
556. Simplify, Simplify, Simplify. -Henry David Therua?
557. We might have returned to normal during these past six months, ... but the fear and chaos of that day shifted something within us, something delicate and unacknowledged and, for now, unresolved.” --Joan Ryan
558. I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. - Vonnegut
559. "Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young." -Henry Ford
560. And of course, with the birth of the artist came the inevitable afterbirth - the critic. - Narrator in 'History of the World: Part I' (1981)
561. "I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it." -Henry Emerson Fosdick
562. The time to live and the place to die. That's all any man gets. No more, no less.- Parson (Hank Worden) in The Alamo
563. Well, there are some things a man just can't run away from.- The Ringo Kid (John Wayne) in Stagecoach
564. The mind cannot foresee its own advance. - Hayek
565. Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him and to let him know that you trust him.- Booker T. Washington
566. Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself. ~ Alice H. Rice
567. The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you got it made. - Groucho Marx
568. "Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path."- Henry Winkler, actor and director
569. "What separates those who achieve from those who do not is in direct proportion to one's ability to ask for help."- Donald Keough, former president of Coca-Cola
570. "Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius."- An Wang
571. Reality is that which when you stop believing in it doesn't go away.- Philip K. Dick
572. The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. -Aristotle Onassis
573. The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.- Michelangelo
574. The constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. ~ Ben Franklin
575. "Excellence can be attained if you Care more than others think is wise, Risk more than others think is safe, Dream more than others think is practical, and Expect more than others think is possible."- Author Unknown
576. Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies. Voltaire
577. The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.- John Powell
578. "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." -Confucius
579. Without a struggle, there can be no progress. - Frederick Douglass
580. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.- Eleanor Roosevelt
581. When a man won't listen to his conscience, it's usually because he doesn't want advice from a total stranger.~ Lindsey Stewart
582. "Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction." -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
583. He conquers who endures.- Persius
584. In every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it . -Epictetus - born AD 50
585. People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
586. The best is the enemy of the good. -Voltaire
587. "Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.'' - James Michener
588. Let no one come to you without leaving better and happier. -Mother Teresa
589. Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.- T.S. Eliot
590. When you expect good, it's available constantly, and it makes itself a reality in your life. ~ Alfre Woodard
591. Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, Let us be merciful as well as just. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Tales of a Wayside Inn)
592. You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream; you've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself. ~ Diana Ross
593. "Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life." -Immanuel Kant
594. My lady, would you sleep with me for a million pounds? Certainly. . . Would you sleep with me for ten pounds? Certainly not!! What do you think I am a prostitute? Well, we've already established that, now we're just haggling over the price. -George Bernard Shaw
595. "By the time we've made it, we've had it."- Malcolm Forbes
596. "Dreams are the touchstones of our character." - Henry David Thoreau
597. "God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends." -Addison Mizner
598. The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem. ~ Dr. Laura Schlessinger
599. All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. ~ Universal Declaration of Human Rights (U.N. Article 1.10 December 1948)
600. It is the lack of order which makes us slaves; the confusion of today discounts the freedom of tomorrow. Henri Frederic Amiel (from Order and Freedom)
601. You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension -- a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. You're about to enter into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone !!
602. Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal
603. Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
-- Charles Caleb Colton
604. Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
605. October is crisp days and cool nights, a time to curl up around the dancing flames and sink into a good book.
-- John Sinor
606. Old age is always 15 years older than you are.
607. "It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end." -Ursula K. Le Guin
608. Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.
- Samuel Davies
609. "The expert at anything was once a beginner."
-Hayes
610. Whatever reason you have for not being somebody, there's somebody who had that same problem and overcame it.~ Barbara Reynolds
611. "Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them." -Jawaharlal Nehru
612. If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when? - Rabbi Hillel
613. Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
614. "One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means." -Martin Luther King Junior
615. I was a-trembling because I'd got to decide forever betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied for a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself, " All right, then, I'll go to hell." -Mark Twain (The Adventures of Huck. Finn)
616. The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse. ~ Helen Keller
617. Storytelling is how we survive, when there's no feed, the story feeds something, it feeds the spirit, the imagination. I can't imagine life without stories, stories from my parents, my culture. Stories from other people's parents, their culture. That's how we learn from each other, it's the best way. That's why literature is so important, it connects us heart to heart. ~ Alice Walker
618. "There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress."-- Mark Twain
619. "When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing." -Enrique Jardiel Poncela
620. "One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force." -David Borenstein
621. Never explain - your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you anyway. - Elbert Hubbard
622. Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established. - Pascal
623. It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. - Leonardo da Vinci
624. "All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." -Walt Disney
625. "Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while." -Kin Hubbard
626. Treat your enemies with courtesy, and you'll see how valuable it really is. It costs little but pays a nice dividend: those who honor are honored. Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.~ Baltasar Gracian y Morales (The Worldly Art of Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle)
627. Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. - Ansel Adams
628. If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others. ~ Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld (Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims)
629. It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe--though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now because it's in the past, because we have survived.~ Susan Sontag
630. Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave. That is why I believe that this frightfulness we see everywhere today is only temporary. Tomorrow will be better for as long as America keeps alive the ideals of freedom and a better life. All men will want to be free and share our way of life. There must be so much that I should have said, but haven't. What I will say now is just what most of us are probably thinking every day. I thank God and America for the right to live and raise my family under the flag of tolerance, democracy and freedom.--Walt Disney (March 1, 1941)
631. Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. - Henri Bergson
632. "Sadness flies away on the wings of time.'
--Jean de La Fontaine
633. "No one knows what he can do until he tries."
--Publilius Syrus
634. Embrace the world, and the world will embrace you.- Janet Mehlhop
635. If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. - Rene Descartes
636. "A brother is a friend given by Nature." -Legouve
637. There are one hundred men seeking security - to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune. - J. Paul Getty
638. "Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.'' -Lillian Smith, American writer
639. "Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned."
--Ignazio Silone
640. "The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."--Thomas Jefferson
641. "Too much credit is given to the end result. The true lesson is in the struggle that takes place between the dream and reality. This struggle is called life."
642. Every great scientific truth goes through three stages: First, people say it conflicts with the Bible, Next, they say it has been discovered before, Lastly, they say they always believed it.--Jean Louis Agassiz [1807-1873]
643. "Happiness is the result of being too busy to be miserable."- Author unknown
644. Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try. -Yoda, from Star Wars V
645. Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said, "I think I'll drink whatever comes out of these things when I squeeze 'em!"? -Bill Watterson, from Calvin & Hobbes
646. Time is but the stream I go a-fishin in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains. -Henry David Thoreau
647. "I think, therefore I am" -Rene Descartes 1596-1650
648. "Keep your THOUGHTS positive...Because your thoughts become your WORDS.
Keep your WORDS positive...Because your words become your ACTIONS.
Keep your ACTIONS positive...Because your actions become your HABITS.
Keep your HABITS positive...Because your habits become your VALUES.
Keep your VALUES positive...Because your values become your DESTINY."
649. Few minds wear out; more rust out. -Christian Nestell Bovee
650. Now I've laid me down to die
I pray my neighbors not to pry
Too deeply into sins that I
Not only cannot here deny
But much enjoyed as life flew by.
-Preston Sturges, Epitaph
651. Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. -Babe Ruth
652. Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.-Hector Berlioz
653. An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived.-Herbert Samuel
654. While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future. -Ronald Reagan,US president, 1992
655. Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble. -Sidney J. Harris
656. Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen. -James Russel Lowell
657. If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.-Abraham Lincoln
658. Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil! -Golda Meir- New York Times, 6//10/73
659. Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many. -Anonymous
660. Applaud friends, the comedy is over. -Ludwig van Beethoven, last words
661. Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all. -Dale Carnegie
662. The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. -Sigmund Freud
663. My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.-Ernest Hemingway
664. Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. -Mao Tse-tung, revolutionary and party chairman
665. Life is what happens while you are making other plans. -John Lennon, singer and songwriter
666. If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters. -Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, reporter, editor, US First Lady
667. Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. -George Orwell, author
668. Business means compromise. -Franz Huber
669. Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use. -Rush Gordon
670. My father always told me. Find a job you love and you will never work a day in your life. -Jim Fox
671. Talent does what it can, Genius does what it must.-Ruiz
672. "Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."
--Anon.
673."What poison is to food, self-pity is to life."
--Oliver C. Wilson
674. "We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same."
--Carlos Castenada
675. Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.-- Howard Scott
676. "The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection."--Goethe
677. "Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is."
--Catfish Hunter
678. "'Worry' is a word that I don't allow myself to use."
--Dwight D. Eisenhower
679. Far better it is to dare mighty things, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those who neither enjoy much or suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.- T. Roosevelt
680. The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds, and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.~ Florence Scovel Shinn
681. "Nobody can bring you peace but yourself."--Ralph Waldo Emerson
682. "Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on." --Frederic Chopin
683. "People will feel safer around you and speak truthfully to you when they feel you are listening intently to them."--Brian Koslow
684. A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools a machine shop. -Robert Hughes
685. Action is the foundational key to all success. - Pablo Picasso
686. "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." -Naguib, Mahfouz
687. "The aim of life is self-development, to realize one's nature perfectly." --Oscar Wilde
688. Most people don't live. They exist. -Ruiz The Great
689. You should not step over dollars to pick-up pennies. -Ron Gonzales
690. The best way to predict the future is to invent it. -Alan Kay
691. Every time I step up to bat, I step up to hit a home run. -Babe Ruth (The irony behind this statement is that to this day, Babe holds the record not only for the greatest number of home runs per at bat, but also the record for the greatest number of strike-outs per at bat.
692. If you love somebody set them free. It they come back, they are yours forever. If they don't they were never yours to begin with. -Indecent Proposal
693. The difference between the right word, and almost the right word, is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.--Mark Twain
694. Familiarity breeds contempt. -Anon
