Say WHAT?!?!: M, N, and O
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
Click here to add "Say WHAT?!?!" to your bookmarks so you can come back some other time.
Alternately, you can return to the category menu for
more quotes.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| "The trouble with most of us is that we
would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism." |
|
|
| "We know that man(kind) was created,
not with an instinct for his own degradation, but imbued with the
desire and the power for improvement to which, perchance, there may be
no limit short of perfection even here in this life upon earth." |
|
|
| "When dealing with people, remember you
are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of
emotion." |
|
|
| "The man is only half himself —
the
other half is his expression." |
|
|
| "I believe that man will not merely
endure; he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among
creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a
spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance." |
|
- William Faulkner, Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Stockholm, Sweden
(December 10, 1950).
|
| "I was reading about how countless
species are being pushed toward extinction by man's destruction of
forests... Sometimes I think that the surest sign that intelligent
life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to
contact us." |
|
|
| "If you pick up a starving dog and make
him prosperous, he will not bite you. That is the principal difference
between a dog and a man." |
|
- Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
|
| "Man is the only animal that blushes.
Or needs to." |
|
- Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar
|
| "I hate mankind, for I consider myself
one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am." |
|
|
| "Our deepest fear is not that we are
inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us. We ask
ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your
playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened
about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We were born to manifest the glory of God within us. It's not
just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light
shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically
liberates others." |
|
- Nelson Mandela in his 1994 inaugural speech.
|
| "Such is the nature of men, that
howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more
eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many
so wise as themselves." |
|
- Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), from Leviathan,
pt. 1, ch. 13 (1651).
|
| "Sometimes I think we're alone in the
universe. Sometimes I think we're not. In both cases the
thought is equally shocking." |
|
- Arthur C. Clarke, science-fiction author.
|
| "I am a man: nothing human is alien to
me." |
|
- Publius Terentius Afer, The Self-Tormenter
|
| "Why does man kill? He kills for food.
But, often times there must also be a beverage involved." |
|
|
| "Other men live to eat, while I eat to
live." |
|
|
| "The human animal differs from the
lesser primates in his passion for lists of 'Ten Best'." |
|
|
| "The mass of men lead lives of quiet
desperation." |
|
|
| "There is not a more mean, stupid,
dastardly, pitiless, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal
than the public." |
|
- William Carew Hazlitt, Table Talk
|
| "Adults are obsolete children." |
|
- Theodore Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss
|
| "Human behavior flows from three main
sources: desire, emotion and knowledge." |
|
|
|
[ Return to Top ]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
www.800wine.com |
|
|
| "Like many other men, I felt that
marriage was like going to a restaurant. You ordered what you
wanted, but when you looked over at the guy next to you, you wish you
had ordered that instead." |
|
- Leslie Nielsen in Clarence Darrow - A One Man Show
|
|
[ Return to Top ]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Kaplan can help you learn math. |
|
|
| "Half this game is ninety percent
mental." |
|
- Former Philadelphia Phillies manager Danny Ozark
|
| "By the time they had diminished from
50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect Hungry." |
|
|
| "Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt."
(With me everything turns into mathematics.) |
|
|
| "Do not worry about your troubles in
mathematics. I can assure you that mine are still greater." |
|
|
|
[ Return to Top ]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
www.SpencerGifts.com |
|
|
| "You
can close your eyes to reality but not to memories." |
|
|
| "We all carry snapshots of our loved
ones in the wallet of our mind's eye. Grandparents, long lost,
are bright-eyed and strong. Parents are wise and caring,
children smiling and maybe slightly mischievous. We do not see —
we do not allow ourselves to dwell on — their frailties and
flaws." |
|
|
| "If you will want to remember me, then
I will live forever" |
|
|
| "A slip of the Foot you may soon
recover, But a slip of the Tongue you may never get over." |
|
|
| "Better by far you should forget and
smile than that you should remember and be sad." |
|
- Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
|
|
[ Return to Top ]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
www.time.com |
|
|
| "If a man is standing in the middle of
a forest, and he says something, and there's no woman around to hear
him, is he still wrong?" |
|
|
| "God gave us a penis and a brain, but
not enough blood to use both at the same time." |
|
|
|
[ Return to Top ]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
H&R
Block can help sort out your taxes and other finances. |
|
|
| "When a banker jumps out of a window,
jump after him — that's where the money is." |
|
|
| "A billion here, a billion there...
sooner or later it adds up to real money." |
|
|
| "Money is like an arm or a leg —
use
it or lose it." |
|
- Henry Ford, Interview (8 November 1931)
|
|
[ Return to Top ]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
One
of my favorite games. |
|
|
| "Morality is not an imposition removed
from life and reason; it is a compendium of the minimum of sacrifices
necessary for man to live in company with other men, without suffering
too much or causing others to suffer." |
|
- Gina Lombroso, The Tragedies of Progress (1931).
|
| "We are as near to heaven by sea as by
land." |
|
- Sir Humphrey Gilbert, before his death at sea (1583)
|
|
[ Return to Top ]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
www.AmericanExpress.com |
|
|
| "Applause is the spur of noble minds,
the end and aim of weak ones." |
|
- Charles Caleb Colton, English cleric, sportsman, and wine merchant
(c. 1780 - 1832).
|
| "Only positive consequences encourage
good future performances." |
|
|
| "Motivation will almost always beat
mere talent." |
|
- Norman R. Augustine, President Martin Marietta Corp. (1987).
|
| "The difference between the possible
and the impossible lies in a person's determination." |
|
|
| "Ability may get you to the top. but it
take character to keep you there." |
|
|
| "We know how rough the road will be,
how heavy here the load will be, we know about the barricades that
wait along the track, but we have set our soul ahead upon a certain
goal ahead and nothing left from hell to sky shall ever turn us
back." |
|
|
| "The expectations of life depend upon
diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first
sharpen his tools." |
|
- Confucius, Chinese philosopher and teacher (c. 551 - c. 479 BC).
|
| "I have not yet begun to fight." |
|
- John Paul Jones, battle at sea (September 1779).
|
| "The man who wins may have been counted
out several times, but he didn't hear the referee." |
|
|
| "Here's motivation for you not to puke:
I didn't keep the toilet seat too clean." |
|
|
| "(John Glenn's return to space) has
probably done more for the senior citizens in this country than
Viagra." |
|
- Gene Cernan, former Apollo astronaut and last man on the moon.
|
| "To those of you who received honors,
awards and distinctions, I say, well done. And to the C students, I
say, you too can be president of the United States." |
|
- President George W. Bush to Yale's graduates (21 May 2001).
|
|
[ Return to Top ]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| "When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news." |
|
|
| "The one function that TV news performs
very well is that, when there is no news, we give it to you with the
same emphasis as if there were." |
|
- David Brinkley, American TV journalist
|
|
[ Return to Top ]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
www.vault.com |
|
|
| "... the only way to have is to give,
the only way to keep is to share and the only thing worth finding is
opportunity." |
|
|
"There is no security on Earth, there
is only opportunity."
|
|
|
| "If you see a bandwagon, it's too
late." |
|
|
| "Opportunities are usually disguised as
hard work, so most people don't recognize them." |
|
|
| "If opportunity knocks, answer the
door." |
|
|
| "If opportunity doesn't knock, build a
door." |
|
|
| "Send SOS, it's the new call, and it
may be your last chance to use it." |
|
- Harold Bride, Marconi Telegraph Operator, RMS Titanic
|
| "Lives
of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and,
departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time." |
|
- Longfellow, "A Psalm of Life"
|
| "In every enterprise consider where you
would come out." |
|
- Publilius Syrus, Roman writer (c. 42 BC)
|
| "You're only young once, but you can be
immature forever." |
|
|
|
[ Return to Top ]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
www.expedia.com
|
|
|
| "Become a possibilitarian. No matter
how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see
possibilities - always see them, for they're always there." |
|
|
| "Keep your face to the sunshine and you
can not see the shadows." |
|
|
| "Contrary to the cliché, genuinely
nice guys most often finish first or very near it." |
|
|
|
[ Return to Top ]
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
Adopt a NeoPet today!
|
|
|
|
If you'd like to keep up to date with future updates of
"Say WHAT?!?!", I've created a Yahoo!
group that you can join. It's a newsletter group, so
you shouldn't get any annoying junk e-mail; I'll send all of the
messages to this group.
Click here to add "Say WHAT?!?!" to your
bookmarks so you can come back some other time.
|
|
|