Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Ask a lot, but take what is offered.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship; and it is by far the best ending for one.
~Author : Oscar Wilde Sayings
Madeleine Albright Quotes
Madeleine L'Engle Sayings
Madeline Bridges Quotes
Madonna Sayings
Maduro Ash Quotes
Mae West Sayings
Maggie Kuhn Quotes
Maggie Roche Sayings
Magna Carta Quotes
A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.
~Author : John C Maxwell Quotes

Ask a lot, but take what is offered.
~Author : Assyrian Proverb Sayings

I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come together and make sense.
~Author : Rabbi Harold Kushner Quotes

Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.
~Author : William Shakespeare Sayings

Take this kiss upon the brow And, in parting from you now,Thus much let me avow--You are not wrong who deemThat my days have been a dreamYet if hope has flown awayIn a night, or in a day,In a vision, or in none,Is it therefore the less goneAll that we see or seemIs but a dream within a dream.
~Author : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another . . . and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.
~Author : Leonard Bernstein Sayings

Our minds are lazier than our bodies.

Our minds are lazier than our bodies.
~Author : La Rochefoucauld Sayings

Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, that neither love nor fame nor cash is a value if obtained by fraud.
~Author : Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged Quotes

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
~Author : Robert Frost Sayings

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.
~Author : G C Lichtenberg Quotes

One of the few good things about modern times If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
~Author : Kurt Vonnegut Sayings

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters - one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.
~Author : Saul David Alinsky Quotes

I think contraception is disgusting - people using each other for pleasure.
~Author : Joseph Schiedler Director ProLife Action League Sayings

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.

I think we agree, the past is over.
~Author : George W Bush On his meeting with John McCain Dallas Morning News May 10 2000 Sayings

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
~Author : Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
~Author : Henry David Thoreau Sayings

Let us make hay while the sun shines.
~Author : Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

To the Nahuas, words were flowers, metaphors that gave birth to thoughts and actions.
~Author : Jose Antonio Burciaga Sayings

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
~Author : Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
~Author : Oscar Wilde Sayings

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
~Author : George Herbert Sayings

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
~Author : Alan B Watts Quotes

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy course; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.
~Author : Theodore Roosevelt Paris Sorbonne 1910 Sayings

Freedom hath a thousand charms to show,
That slaves however contented never know.
~Author : Cowper Quotes

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
~Author : Dwight D Eisenhower Sayings

I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated
To closeness and the bettering of my mind.
~Author : William Shakespeare The Tempest Act 1 scene 2 Quotes