Quotes by Categories Quotes with SKY Category I do feel like I have a direct connection with God for some reason; always have since I was a little kid - I would talk to God, talk to the sky. Queen Latifah connections sky kids I belive I can fly, I believe I can touch the sky. R. Kelly dream sky believe To live in Wales is to be conscious at dusk of the spilled blood that went into the making of the wild sky R. S. Thomas conscious sky blood The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world are not reserved for scientists but are available to anyone who will place himself under the influence of earth, sea and sky and their amazing life. Rachel Carson amazing-life sea sky History's political and economic power structures have always abhorred 'idle people' as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky. R. Buckminster Fuller sky clouds people It's over when you decide it's over," Norah says. "When you call it a night. The rest is just a matter of where the sun is in the sky. That has nothing to do with us. Rachel Cohn matter sky night Quotes with JUSTICE Category Justice must not only be seen to be done but has to be seen to be believed. J. B. Morton done justice Justice is incidental to law and order. J. Edgar Hoover law justice order All creatures come into the world bringing with them the memory of justice. J. M. Coetzee justice memories world Justice is not Healing. Healing cometh only by suffering and patience, and maketh no demand, not even for Justice. Justice worketh only within the bonds of things as they are... and therefore though Justice is itself good and desireth no further evil, it can but perpetuate the evil that was, and doth not prevent it from the bearing of fruit in sorrow. J. R. R. Tolkien healing evil justice Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance. Jack Dempsey fairness ethics justice Justice is a word that resides in the dictionary. It occasionally makes its escape, but is promptly caught and put back where it belongs. Jack Black dictionary caught justice Quotes with WORRY Category I don't worry about great visuals that they showed that weren't actually running on real hardware. It doesn't matter. Gamers don't make their purchase decisions based on movies that were shown in May for products that come out in March. J Allard real worry running Worry springs from not being convinced of a sovereign God's absolute love for you. Worry disappears when you realize that God loves you unfailingly and will let nothing interrupt His plans for your good. J. D. Greear love-you worry spring When I really worry about something, I don’t just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I don’t go. I’m too worried to go. I don’t want to interrupt my worrying to go. J. D. Salinger fool want worry I want to be here with you, Avery. You don't have to worry about impressing me or wowing me. You've already done that. J. Lynn done want worry Work is honorable. It is good therapy for most problems. It is the antidote for worry. It is the equalizer for deficiency of native endowment. Work makes it possible for the average to approach genius. What we may lack in aptitude, we can make up for in performance. . . . J. Richard Clarke work worry average I worry about financial security, and the older I get the more I worry about it. J. Robbins financial-security financial worry Quotes with BUMPS Category Live in the moment, where everything is just right, take your time and limit your bad memories and you'll get wherever it is you're going a lot faster and with less bumps in the way. J.A. Redmerski bumps live-in-the-moment memories ...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing. Jack Kerouac landscape reading bumps Stuck in speed bump city/Where the only thing that's pretty/Is the thought of getting out. Jake Bugg speed cities bumps George: "I can't see anyone trying to bump off a quidditch team." Fred: "Wood might've done the Slytherins if he could've got away with it. J. K. Rowling team bumps trying At every crossroad, be prepared to bump into wonder. James Broughton be-prepared wonder bumps O'er folded blooms On swirls of musk, The beetle booms adown the glooms And bumps along the dusk. James Whitcomb Riley musk swirls bumps Quotes with TAILS Category The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail. Rabindranath Tagore sparrows sorry tails Every year the State will be the dog that chases its own tail... engaging in a futile attempt to close a perpetual budget gap. Richard Codey dog tails years Ronnie Spector's hair was taller and meaner and scarier than all four Shangri-La's combined, plus the drummer from the Honeycombs. You just know her rat-tail comb was a switchblade. Rob Sheffield four tails hair To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it. Robert Breault fancy tails happiness He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and there making himself unbearably unpleasant. He knew that such twisting of the tiger's tail was dangerous, for he understood the psychopathology of great power. Robert A. Heinlein often-is secret tails He thought that I was after him for a feather--- The white one in his tail: like one who takes everything said as personal to himself. Robert Frost white said tails Quotes with WINNI THE POOH Category Quotes with HOME Category I see so many fools in this world that sometimes I could just go home and cry about what people do to themselves Hey, wake up, wake up, look here! Think a minute, think a minute. This is your life! You got, what, ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty years here, and you gonna be gone.' J. California Cooper home years thinking I could never live with you; not 'cause I'm racist or nothing. It's just 'cause as a black man in America, I need to have someone I can come home and complain about white people to. And that just don't work with my white wife. J. B. Smoove home men america Jackson possessed the brutality essential in war; Lee did not. He could clasp the hand of a wounded enemy, whilst Jackson ground his teeth and murmured, 'No quarter to the violators of our homes and firesides', and when someone deplored the necessity of destroying so many brave men, he exclaimed: 'No, shoot them all, I do not wish them to be brave.' J. F. C. Fuller home men war It must not content us to take our bodies to church if we leave our hearts at home. J. C. Ryle church home heart In our home we have a rule: You can disagree with a man's position as much as you want - after you have been able to state it to his satisfaction. J. Irwin Miller want home men The government taxes you when you bring home a paycheck. J. C. Watts phones light home Quotes with OWL Category I think the shocking thing to discover is the owls are not stupid and very feral, very hard to train. Robbie Coltraine stupid owl thinking "Top" management is supposed to be a tree full of owls-hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is. Robert Townsend top-management owl tree I have learned that one of the most important rules in politics is poise - which means looking like an owl after you have behaved like a jackass. Ronald Reagan important owl mean Perhaps he does not want to be friends with you until he knows what you are like. With owls, it is never easy-come-easy-go. T. H. White doe want owl Understanding is always in some sense retrospective, which is what Hegel meant by remarking that the owl of Minerva flies only at night. Terry Eagleton understanding owl night If you are unwilling to defend your right to your own lives, then you are merely like mice trying to argue with owls. You think their ways are wrong. They think you are dinner. Terry Goodkind owl trying thinking Quotes with LOVE YOU Category Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind. Quincy Jones greatness love-you children I will always love you Drizzt Do'Urden my life was full and without regret because I knew you and was completed by you. Sleep well, my love. R. A. Salvatore regret love-you sleep Imagine if you would, what would happen to your sorrows and fears if God Himself, the maker of heaven and earth, the Father of our Lord, the sovereign One, were to come to you, wrap you in His almighty arms and say to you, 'I love you with a perfect love, exactly as I love My Son. I will never stop loving you, no matter what. I am completely, utterly for you. I promise, on My own life, that I will do you good every day of your life. And because I control all things, that means My good is all you will ever experience from this time forward.' R. C. Sproul, Jr. love-you mean father You don't need your eyes to love. You just feel it inside you. R. J. Palacio eye love-you needs In the end, you'll know which people really love you. They're the ones who see you for who you are and, no matter what, always find a way to be at your side. R. K. Milholland your-side love-you people Seriously, Shane? Ditto? That's the best you can do?" Shane and Michael exchanged identical looks and shrugs. Guys. "Let me show you idiots how it's done," Eve said, and hugged Claire fiercely. She kissed her on the cheek. "I love you, CB. Please take care of yourself, okay?" "I love you, too," Claire said, and suddenly her throat felt tight and her eyes burned with tears. "I really do." Shane and Michael watched them with identical expressions of blank bemusement, and finally Shane said, "So basically, it's what I said. Ditto. Rachel Caine eye expression love-you Quotes with MATH Category Mathematics is a language J. Willard Gibbs statistics language math The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of his imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases. What he is to imagine is a matter for his own caprice; he is not thereby discovering the fundamental principles of the universe nor becoming acquainted with the ideas of God. J. W. N. Sullivan imagination math ideas Today, it is not only that our kings do not know mathematics, but our philosophers do not know mathematics and - to go a step further - our mathematicians do not know mathematics. J. Robert Oppenheimer kings math today I think that great programming is not all that dissimilar to great art. Once you start thinking in concepts of programming it makes you a better person...as does learning a foreign language, as does learning math, as does learning how to read. Jack Dorsey math art thinking One must acknowledge with cryptography no amount of violence will ever solve a math problem. Jacob Appelbaum cryptography violence math It is utterly implausible that a mathematical formula should make the future known to us, and those who think it can would once have believed in witchcraft. Jacob Bernoulli education math thinking Quotes with WANTED Category I never had a trial I wanted to have, but I never had trial I wasn't glad I had. Jack Hyles trials glad wanted Nobody wanted to believe Jack Ma. Jack Ma wanted believe My idols were Michael Jackson and The Beatles and I would watch Justin Timberlake and John Mayer perform and I knew I wanted to do what they were doing! Jackson Harris idols wanted watches Did you ever hear of a kid playing accountant - even if they wanted to be one? Jackie Mason accountants wanted kids I didn't push any of my kids into golf, and they played golf because they wanted to. Jack Nicklaus wanted golf kids I love presents, But since I've gotten older, I haven't really wanted anything. Christmas is about family. Jacob Latimore about-family havens wanted Quotes with CHILDREN'S BOOKS Category I just wanted to be sure of you. A. A. Milne childrens-books wanted love Children's books are by nature partisan. Eric Walters childrens-books book children There is no place like home. L. Frank Baum childrens-books home inspiring For me, a good children's book is a good children's book is a good children's book. LeVar Burton childrens-books book children ...She Let Him Just Sit There and Be Happy. Munro Leaf childrens-books book We be of one blood, ye and I Rudyard Kipling childrens-books blood Quotes with LIARS Category Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life. A. N. Wilson angel liars believe The liar suffers twice: he neither believes nor is believed. Baltasar Gracian liars believe lying Readers are advised to remember that the devil is a liar. C. S. Lewis devil liars inspirational A liar goes in fine clothes, a liar goes in rags, a liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes. Carl Sandburg clothes liars lying A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it. Carlos Ruiz Zafon keys liars lying I can’t stand to hear his [Obama’s] voice anymore. He’s a liar, and worse. Caroline Kennedy i-can voice liars Quotes with POOH BEAR FRIEND Category Quotes with WALKING Category As a diabetic, I'm a walking picnic. I have to eat measured amounts of food at certain times. Elaine Stritch picnics certain walking I'm not walking around the stage, I'm not moving. Elton John stage walking moving I know so many songs. I'm like a walking karaoke torture machine. Evan Dando torture walking song I love walking onto the set and the blindfold is taken off and then everything I do is fresh and in the moment. That's why I loved working with Darren Aronofsky. Evan Rachel Wood moments taken walking Though my father was a sirdar, he always carried loads. It is hard for someone who is walking unburdened to generate in others an enthusiasm for work. Jamling Tenzing Norgay enthusiasm walking father I knew that I was choosing the road less traveled but I'm not walking it alone. Jason Collins traveled road-less-traveled walking Quotes with WORK Category Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping. A. C. Benson ambition work men Everything is worth it. The hard work, the times when you're tired, the times where you're a bit sad... In the end, it's all worth it because it really makes me happy. There's nothing better than loving what you do. Aaliyah loving-what-you-do tired work What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? ... And if you're not working on that, why aren't you? Aaron Swartz important work motivational To make headway, improve your head. B. C. Forbes habit work A day without work is a day without food. Baizhang Huaihai work We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential. Barack Obama nice work inspirational Quotes with BRAIN Category In New England, farmers say, "If you don't like the weather, wait a minute!" Meaning, of course, that New England weather is constantly changing. This is like the brain and its mind. J. Allan Hobson waiting brain weather I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory. J. Michael Straczynski brain memories thinking The propensity to play is situated in very ancient regions of the brain. Rats that have had their neocortex removed still engage in normal play. Jaak Panksepp rats play brain Make a sound and I will blow your brains out all over the windshield. Jack Bauer blow sound brain We are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe. By meaningless bulk, vastness without size, power without consequence. The stubborn iteration that is present without being felt. Nothing the spirit can marry. Merely phenomenon and its physics. An endless, endless of going on. No habitat where the brain can recognize itself. No pertinence for the heart. Helpless duplication. Jack Gilbert habitat brain heart Your muscles know nothing. It's your brain. Exercise is something you've got to do the rest of your life. It's a lifestyle. Dying is easy. Living is a pain in the neck. You've got to work at it. Jack LaLanne pain exercise brain Quotes with FOREVER Category 'Never put off tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop into today's and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow. J. A. Spender procrastination forever today Infidels: Repent of Mohammedanism or burn in hell forever, throughout eternity. J. B. Stoner hell scary forever That Yes, I know what you mean-that is the technical definition of Best Friend Forever. J. J. Johnson forever best-friend mean The twentieth century ended with its dreams in ruins. The notion of the community as a voluntary association of enlightened citizens has died forever. We realize how suffocatingly humane we've become, dedicated to moderation and the middle way. The suburbanization of the soul has overrun our planet like the plague. J. G. Ballard community dream forever Scripture sees hell as self-chosen. . . Hell appears as God's gesture of respect for human choice. All receive what they actually chose. Either to be with God forever, worshipping Him, or without God forever, worshipping themselves. J. I. Packer choices self forever Superman is going to live forever. They'll be reading Superman in the next century when you and I are gone. I felt, in that respect, I was doing the same thing. I wanted to be known. I wasn't going to sell a comic that was going to die quickly. Jack Kirby reading gone forever Quotes with EDUCATION Category Begun as a girl from a little country town in central western Queensland, inspired by noble ideas of justice, about fairness, about making the world a better place. Quentin Bryce girl education country Minds that are stupid and incapable of science are in the order of nature to be regarded as monsters and other extraordinary phenomena; minds of this sort are rare. Hence I conclude that there are great resources to be found in children, which are suffered to vanish with their years. It is evident, therefore, that it is not of nature, but of our own negligence, we ought to complain. Quintilian stupid education children Peace is no mere matter of men fighting or not fighting. Peace, to have meaning for many who have known only suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health, and education, as well as freedom and human dignity - a steadily better life. If peace is to be secure, long-suffering and long-starved, forgotten peoples of the world, the underprivileged and the undernourished, must begin to realize without delay the promise of a new day and a new life. Ralph Bunche freedom education peace Education is all a matter of building bridges. Ralph Ellison high-school-graduation bridges education Unicef's education initiative does not seek to impose, but to initiate and integrate. It does, however, aim to address the huge bias towards education for boys at the expense of girls in so many cultures. Ralph Fiennes girl education children Knowledge is not information, it's transformation. Rajneesh information educational education Quotes with MEMORABLE Category Instead of going out, I'm trying to encourage people to have a memorable experience in their own home. We call it 'Delicioso Night In.' I invite the people I care about the most. Then, when I get a lot of people together, I like to have finger foods. Aaron Sanchez memorable home night Make no mistake about it, you are dumb. You’re a group of incredibly well-educated dumb people. I was there. We all were there. You’re barely functional. There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups, but the screw-ups, they’re a-coming for ya. It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb. Aaron Sorkin mistake memorable graduation Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others. Barbara Bush generosity memorable giving Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power. Barbara Jordan freedom memorable inspirational If you can't dress expensive, dress memorable. Barbara Kingsolver ifs dresses memorable Dr. Lourie's determined and compassionate advocacy led to new and improved services for thousands of children and families across the nation... the Lourie Center has rededicated itself institutionally to continuing his important work. C. Everett Koop important memorable children «7891011121314151617»