Quotes: 2007
21 May 07
He taught me that you need to be available to pass it on to the ones who are interested enough to want to learn.
- Ronnie Milsap, Going Places (on Charley Pride, who taught Milsap to pass his teachings on.)
14 May 07
When people eat chocolate, they are eating my flesh.
- Drissa, a child laborer in the Cȏte D'Ivoire (child slaves are forced to make chocolate under inhumane conditions in the Cȏte D'Ivoire)
03 May 07
Remember: silence helps the killer, never his victims.
- Professor Elie Wiesel, Not On Our Watch (on the international silence regarding the genocide in Darfur)
12 Apr 07
He who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced, from mere barrennesss, to the poorest of all imitations; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before often repeated.
- Joshua Reynolds, Discourse to Students of the Royal Academy, 10 Dec 1774
He taught me that you need to be available to pass it on to the ones who are interested enough to want to learn.
- Ronnie Milsap, Going Places (on Charley Pride, who taught Milsap to pass his teachings on.)
14 May 07
When people eat chocolate, they are eating my flesh.
- Drissa, a child laborer in the Cȏte D'Ivoire (child slaves are forced to make chocolate under inhumane conditions in the Cȏte D'Ivoire)
03 May 07
Remember: silence helps the killer, never his victims.
- Professor Elie Wiesel, Not On Our Watch (on the international silence regarding the genocide in Darfur)
12 Apr 07
He who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced, from mere barrennesss, to the poorest of all imitations; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before often repeated.
- Joshua Reynolds, Discourse to Students of the Royal Academy, 10 Dec 1774
Quotes
He was not of an age, but for all time!
- Ben Johnson, “To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare”
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
- Ben Johnson, Dictionary of the English Language
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out …… Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
- Housman, The Name and Nature of Poetry
Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.
- Benjamin Franklin, Essays, Thoughts on Commercial Subjects
Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing.
- R. W. Emerson, Essays “Art”
Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity …………. It is a part of nature.
- Herbert Spencer, Social Statics
All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.
- Walter Pater, The Renaissance
Be careful what you wish for, as you just may get it.
- Mark Granata, Jr.
My mentor, Gunter Petz, once said, “Half drunk is a waste of money.” If you are going to do something, do it right, with 100 percent commitment.
- Leon Dreimann, CEO of Salton, Inc.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.
- Louis Pasteur
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
- William Hazlitt
Generally, he who occupies the field of battle first and awaits his enemy is at ease; he who comes later to the scene and rushes into the fight is weary. And therefore those skilled in war bring the enemy to the field of battle and are not brought there by the enemy.
- Sun Tzu, The Art of War (Chapter Six, Weaknesses and Strengths)
The Master said, “He who will not worry about what is far off will soon find something worse than worry close at hand.”
- Confucius, The Analects, Book XV
The Master said, “A gentleman is distressed by his own lack of ability; he is never distressed at the failure of others to recognize his merits.”
- Confucius, The Analects, Book XV
The Master said, “The demands that a gentleman makes are upon himself; those that a small man makes are upon others.”
- Confucius, The Analects, Book XV Tzu-kung asked, “Is there any single saying that one can follow all one’s life?”
The Master said, “Perhaps the saying about ‘consideration;’ Never do upon others what you would not like them to do upon you.”
- Confucius, The Analects, Book XV
- Ben Johnson, “To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare”
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
- Ben Johnson, Dictionary of the English Language
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out …… Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
- Housman, The Name and Nature of Poetry
Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.
- Benjamin Franklin, Essays, Thoughts on Commercial Subjects
Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing.
- R. W. Emerson, Essays “Art”
Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity …………. It is a part of nature.
- Herbert Spencer, Social Statics
All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.
- Walter Pater, The Renaissance
Be careful what you wish for, as you just may get it.
- Mark Granata, Jr.
My mentor, Gunter Petz, once said, “Half drunk is a waste of money.” If you are going to do something, do it right, with 100 percent commitment.
- Leon Dreimann, CEO of Salton, Inc.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.
- Louis Pasteur
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
- William Hazlitt
Generally, he who occupies the field of battle first and awaits his enemy is at ease; he who comes later to the scene and rushes into the fight is weary. And therefore those skilled in war bring the enemy to the field of battle and are not brought there by the enemy.
- Sun Tzu, The Art of War (Chapter Six, Weaknesses and Strengths)
The Master said, “He who will not worry about what is far off will soon find something worse than worry close at hand.”
- Confucius, The Analects, Book XV
The Master said, “A gentleman is distressed by his own lack of ability; he is never distressed at the failure of others to recognize his merits.”
- Confucius, The Analects, Book XV
The Master said, “The demands that a gentleman makes are upon himself; those that a small man makes are upon others.”
- Confucius, The Analects, Book XV Tzu-kung asked, “Is there any single saying that one can follow all one’s life?”
The Master said, “Perhaps the saying about ‘consideration;’ Never do upon others what you would not like them to do upon you.”
- Confucius, The Analects, Book XV