Quotes by Categories Quotes with FORGET Category I fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another. J. C. Ryle one-thing danger forget It is ridiculous ever to forget that you and your business are each implanted in the society of the moment. We cannot ignore the world of our time. We had better understand it. J. Irwin Miller ridiculous forget world Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is we forget after a while that they are illusions and we are deeply shocked when reality is torn down around us. J. G. Ballard numbers forget reality I begin, then, with some remarks about 'the meaning of a word.' I think many persons now see all or part of what I shall say: but not all do, and there is a tendency to forget, or to get it slightly wrong. In so far as I am merely flogging the converted, I apologize to them. J. L. Austin apologizing forget thinking Half-way through any big project, everyone forgets what they're doing. J. Michael Straczynski half forget way His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom. J. R. R. Tolkien grief heart forget Quotes with GRIEVING Category Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men. Quintus Ennius grieving men death The failure to return thanks for definite blessings received is a manifestation of ingratitude that grieves Jesus Christ. R. A. Torrey blessing grieving jesus It's not the wickedness of the pagan that breaks my heart. It's the compromise of the Christian that grieves my soul. R. C. Sproul christian heart grieving Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it. Rabindranath Tagore pain heart grieving You'll live astride the line that separates life from death. You'll become experienced in the wisdom of grief. You won't wait until people die to grieve for them; you'll give them their grief while they are still alive, for then judgment falls away, and there remains only the miracle of being. Rana Dasgupta grief grieving fall I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings. Raymond Chandler winter grieving long Quotes with CUTE Category One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. A. A. Milne cute life science "You two would make a cute couple," she says as she passes by with a full dough tray in her arms. I don't know why she says it. We aren't doing anything but folding boxes with the other drivers and telling dirty jokes.But we would.We would make a cute couple. A.S. King couple cute dirty Since I was 8 months old, till I was 12, I did commercials and ads and cute little stuff for kids. Then I had braces on my teeth. They took them off when I was 16, and then I started modeling more seriously and doing more fashion. Bar Refaeli fashion cute kids We reward people a lot for being rich, for being famous, for being cute, for being thin... one of the values I think we need to instill in our country, in our children, is a sense of 'usefulness', in other words, are we useful, are we making other peoples' lives a little bit better? Barack Obama money cute country I remember when I was very little my idol was Britney Spears. I had just come to California and that's just who I wanted to meet. So I was in a store and she walked in and my jaw just fell to the floor. I started like sweating. I could not believe that I was meeting her. She told me that I was very cute. And I lost it — I was so excited. Dakota Fanning idols cute believe You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. Dale Carnegie cute best-friend inspirational Quotes with FUN Category My wife and I have been together for 11 years, and seven of those married. We got married on 07/07/07. We support each other 150 percent. We have fun. We are a modern-day Sonny & Cher. I don't sing. My wife sings. We're so different, but so alike. We got that ying and yang thing going on. You see it, but you don't know how it works. J. B. Smoove wife fun years Results have nothing at all whatever to do with the private fun of being an author. There lies the answer to the problem which puzzles many wise people. Now it is plain why there are so many of us ... But the public fun of being an author is rather apt to wear thin. J. E. Buckrose wise fun lying Energetic, inventive, swaggering fun, Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds is a consummate Hollywood entertainment--rich in fantasy and blithely amoral. J. Hoberman entertainment hollywood fun Failure is not fun. It can be awful. But living so cautiously that you never fail is worse. J. K. Rowling awful failing fun I'm a little more goofy than I think people give me credit for. I like to have fun. I like to have a good time. People don't always get to see that. J. J. Watt fun people thinking It's good to have certain restrictions sometimes, but it's definitely more fun to play really loud, with distortion. J Mascis play fun sometimes Quotes with MORNING Category Without love even the most radical devotion to God is of no value to Him. Let me make sure that sinks in… You can gain all the spiritual gifts in the world. You can take the most radical steps of obedience. You can share every meal with the homeless in your city. You can memorize the book of Leviticus. You can pray each morning for four hours like Martin Luther. But if what you do does not flow out of a heart of love - a heart that does those things because it genuinely desires to do them - it is ultimately worthless to God. J. D. Greear spiritual morning book I prefer formal techniques, and use sonnets and rhyme, any manner of scheme to give a shape and order-of feeling as well as argument-to a poem. But all my life, I've also been a person who's made his bed in the morning and picks up the bath mat. That's what I mean by temperament. Whether genetic or acquired, I have a disposition to arrangements. One is born with this, as if with blue eyes or a weak heart. Do you think Allen Ginsberg ever put the cap back on his toothpaste? J. D. McClatchy eye heart morning Do I as a Christian understand myself? Do I know my own real identity? My own real destiny? I am a child of God, God is my Father; heaven is my home; every day is one day nearer. My Saviour is my brother; every Christian is my brother too. Say it over and over again to yourself first thing in the morning, last thing at night, as you wait for the bus, any time when your mind is free, and ask God that you may be enabled to live as one who knows it is all utterly and completely true. For this is the Christians secret of the Christian life, of a God-honouring life. J. I. Packer brother christian morning he knows too much about himself to subject her to a morning after, when he will be cold, surly, impatient to be alone. J. M. Coetzee cold too-much morning Sorry,” he said, his voice thick and gruff. “It’s morning and you’re sitting on me. That’s a combination meant to bring any man down. J. Lynn sorry morning men You know Sven? The man who takes care of the gym?' he asked. He waited till he got a nod from Nicholson. 'Well, if Sven dreamed tonight that his dog died, he'd have a very, very bad night's sleep, because he's very fond of that dog. But when he woke up in the morning, everything would be all right. He'd know it was only a dream.' Nicholson nodded. 'What's the point exactly?' The point is if his dog really died, it would be exactly the same thing. Only he wouldn't know it. I mean he wouldn't wake up till he died himself. J. D. Salinger dog dream morning Quotes with FOOD Category And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man. A. E. Housman drinking food book An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed. A. J. Liebling teaching food travel You become what you think. You are what you eat. Barbara Cartland food thinking For the millions of us who live glued to computer keyboards at work and TV monitors at home, food may be more than entertainment. It may be the only sensual experience left. Barbara Ehrenreich sensual home food Food is my drug of choice. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison drug choices food A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand. Barbara Johnson dessert-first weight-loss food Quotes with PIGS Category Tiny as a sparrow, fierce as an eagle, Lisbeth Salander is one of the great Scandinavian avengers of our time, an angry bird catapulting into the fortresses of power and wiping smiles off the faces of smug, predatory pigs. A. O. Scott eagles pigs bird If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for? B. C. Forbes praying prayer pigs So the reason that the Bay of Pigs failed was that the original promise made by Eisenhower was not kept by the subsequent Administration. It allowed hostile air to wipe out the approaching invasion force. E. Howard Hunt air pigs promise Fern was up at daylight, trying to rid the world of injustice. As a result, she now has a pig. A small one to be sure, but nevertheless a pig. It just shows what can happen if a person gets out of bed promptly. E. B. White bed pigs trying Given a choice between dancing pigs and security, users will pick dancing pigs every time. Edward Felten dancing choices pigs There was an Old Man of Messina, Whose daughter was named Opsibeena; She wore a small wig, and rode out on a pig, To the perfect delight of Messina. Edward Lear daughter pigs men Quotes with ATTITUDE Category The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, and then help that best into the fullest expression. J. Boone service-culture expression attitude Peace of mind is much better than giving them a piece of your mind. J. P. McEvoy attitude giving peace In business, as in politics, it is never easy to go against the beliefs and attitudes held by the majority. The businessman who moves counter to the tide of prevailing opinion must expect to be obstructed, derided and damned. J. Paul Getty majority attitude moving Today the world faces a single man armed with weapons of mass destruction, manifesting an aggressive, bullying attitude, who may well plunge the world into chaos and bloodshed if he miscalculates. This person, belligerent, arrogant, and sure of himself, truly is the most dangerous person on Earth. The problem is that his name is George W. Bush, and he is our president. Jack Balkin bullying attitude men The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, and the laughs that he gets between the jokes rather than on top of the jokes. Jack Dee comedian attitude laughing I think setting goals is critical; having deadlines for ourselves- how much by when? Too many people have these big dreams where they want to have a big house on the ocean. But until we say what ocean, how big, what day, our conscience doesn't know what to do with that information. A positive expectancy, a positive attitude, a belief that your dream is possible is also helpful. Jack Canfield ocean dream attitude Quotes with EARTHQUAKES Category Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be. Rebecca Solnit spring earthquakes beautiful It was only after the earthquake that the health minister said mental health should be a priority and that the issue was talked about. Reggie Fils-Aime issues health earthquakes We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea. Ralph Waldo Emerson sea earthquakes morning If you’re listening to this, congratulations! You survived Doomsday. I’d like to apologize straightaway for any inconvenience the end of the world may have caused you. The earthquakes, rebellions, riots,tornadoes, floods, tsunamis, and of course the giant snake who swallowed the sun—I’m afraid most of that was our fault. Carter and I decided we should at least explain how it happened. Rick Riordan snakes congratulations earthquakes Easter is an earthquake, an explosion. If you see it as less than that, you're not getting it. Robert Barron explosions easter earthquakes We often think that tragedies happen because of great earthquakes in people's lives. I think they sometimes occur because of small things that become obsessive to a particular person. Robert Cormier earthquakes people thinking Quotes with SNOW Category The experimental film scene was very much misogynistic as well. I don't know if you have read what little attention was given to the films of Joyce Wieland, who was the wife of Michael Snow. Michael was the "genius" and she was not. If you look at the films they're wonderful, but very different. Michael was very proud of the films too, so it was not coming from him. It was coming from the general environment. I think both Chantal Akerman and I shared that. We wanted to find a language, which was the language of women. Babette Mangolte wife snow thinking Chilled-looking people walking along the riverside, the snow beginning, faintly, to pile up on the roofs of cars, the bare trees shaking their heads left and right, dry leaves tossing in the wind. The silver of the metal window sash sparkling coldly. Soon after, I heard sensei call, "Mikage! Are you awake? It's snowing, look! It's snowing!" "I'm coming!" I called out, standing up. I got dressed to begin another day. Over and over, we begin again. Banana Yoshimoto snow wind people I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience. Barbara Kingsolver white snow people You can begin as if nothing had ever gone wrong. White as snow. C. S. Lewis gone white snow Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder--no matter how old you became and how much you'd seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered. Candace Bushnell winter snow believe There's just something beautiful about walking on snow that nobody else has walked on. It makes you believe you're special. Carol Rifka Brunt snow beautiful believe Quotes with ZOOS Category Zoo animals are ambassadors for their cousins in the wild. Jack Hanna cousin animal zoos The idea that we can have a new life form, what does it say about the zoo's main purpose, which is to preserve life? What does it say when the artificial and real animal can have the same attraction to people? Patricia Piccinini real animal zoos My mom once lost track of me at the zoo and when she found me I was lecturing a man about the difference between dromedary and Bactrian camels. I was about 3 1/2. Patrick Rothfuss mom zoos men In my low periods, I wondered what was the point of creating art. For whom? Are we animating God? Are we talking to ourselves? And what was the ultimate goal? To have one's work caged in art's great zoos - the Modern, the Met, the Louvre? Patti Smith zoos talking art Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo. Paul Simon happenings zoos Life is a zoo in a jungle. Peter De Vries bad-day zoos life Quotes with ANIMAL Category Cold air rises from the ground as the sun goes down. The eye-burning clarity of the light intensifies. The southern rim of the sky glows to a deeper blue, to pale violet, to purple, then thins to grey. Slowly the wind falls, and the still air begins to freeze. The solid eastern ridge is black; it has a bloom on it like the dust on the skin of a grape. The west flares briefly. The long, cold amber of the afterglow casts clear black lunar shadows. There is an animal mystery in the light that sets upon the fields like a frozen muscle that will flex and wake at sunrise. J. A. Baker eye animal fall If the nature of the work is properly appreciated and applied, it will stand in the same relation to the higher faculties as food is to the physical body. It nourishes and enlivens the higher man and urges him to produce the best he is capable of. It directs his freewill along the proper course and disciplines the animal in him into progressive channels. It furnishes an excellent background for man to display his scale of values and develop his personality. J. C. Kumarappa discipline animal men We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison. J. B. Priestley prison revenge animal The faculty of self-help is that which distinguished man from animals; that it is the Godlike element, or holds within itself the Godlike element, of his constitution. J. G. Holland self animal men Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior. J. J. Abrams lines behavior animal It wasn't that I hated being asked a bunch of questions. I had nothing against questions. I just didn't like listening to them, because some questions take forever to make sense. Sometimes waiting for a question to finish is like watching someone draw an elephant starting with the tail first. As soon as you see the tail your mind wanders all over the place and you think of a million other animals that also have tails until you don't care about the elephant because it's only one thing when you've been thinking about a million others. Jack Gantos elephants animal thinking Quotes with INSPIRING Category A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason. J. P. Morgan leadership inspiring motivational Everyone has an idea, but it's really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you with the idea. Jack Dorsey inspiring inspirational ideas The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. Jack London inspiring inspirational life For ecommerce, the most important thing is trust. Jack Ma economic important inspiring No company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it. Jack Welch leadership running inspiring The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it. Jackie Gleason inspiring food funny Quotes with WITTY Category Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness. A. J. P. Taylor witty war history Many get the repute of being witty but thereby lose the credit of being sensible. Jest has its little hour, seriousness should have all the rest. Baltasar Gracian credit should-have witty Now it was just the three of us: the leader, the warrior, and the kid about to wet his pants. Guess who I was. D. J. MacHale warrior witty kids I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. e. e. cummings money witty art Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense. Earl Wilson money witty funny As an actor, you can really play the intensity and gravity and seriousness of the moment, and just rely on the circumstances being funny. The joke is kind of the situation you're in, or the way you're reacting to something, as opposed to the characters just saying something witty. Ed Helms play witty character Quotes with PATIENCE Category A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows? Aaron Spelling patience years thinking Patience will benefit you in every hour, every time and every opportunity. It helps you to overcome your opponent, howsoever strong he may be. It will help you in times of distress and hardships, in battles and in war and peace. Abd al-Karim Qasim strong patience war Patience is nobler motion than any deed. C. A. Bartol deeds patience It's amazing. My kids have grown me in ways I never knew possible. The patience I've received and the love I get from them is just amazing. Candace Cameron patience kids way One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb. Carl Hiaasen problem age patience we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers Carl Sagan our-world depth patience Quotes with TIGGER Category I am going to keep having fun every day I have left, because there is no other way of life. You just have to decide whether you are a Tigger or an Eeyore. Randy Pausch tigger fun way Quotes with MANNERS Category There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy. E. V. Lucas courtesy defence manners For you cannot have gentility without paying for it. E. M. Forster gentility class manners To offend is my pleasure; I love to be hated. Edmond Rostand moral pleasure manners Please don't think me negligent or rude. I am both, in effect, of course, but please don't think me either. Edna St. Vincent Millay rude manners thinking Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice. Edward Everett characteristics cowardice manners There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts,--fine breeding. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton thoughtful kindness manners Quotes with SONG Category What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of health and disease, of joy or sorrow. There are times in our lives when we seem to go singing on our way, and when the beauty of the world sets itself like a quiet harmony to the song we uplift. A. C. Benson uplifting song beauty I dont really take anything from home except some U.S. magazines and books and definitely some U.S. music. There are just certain songs that remind me of home. A. J. McLean home song book I listen to everything. As I told you, sometimes I just want to shut off from music and be silent. Then I play a song and it's refreshing. It's almost like initializing yourself. Recently I was in South Africa doing a press day for my tour. I listened to this band called "Freshly Ground." They were doing a live gig there so that's the last thing I've heard. A. R. Rahman band play song Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked on the bottom of the sea, learning the speech of whales and the songs of the dolphins, when pearly-fleshed and jewelled apparitions of Texan herdsmen and houris shimmered in the dusk on Nicaraguan hillsides, when folk in Norway and Tasmania in dead of winter could dream of fresh strawberries, dates, guavas and passion fruits and find them spread next morning on their tables, there was a woman who was largely irrelevant, and therefore happy. A. S. Byatt dream song morning What's amazing about a DJ set is when you're able to re-appropriate a song or give purpose to a song that people didn't really think it was supposed to have. Give it this sort of hidden power by playing it before this song and after that one. That it fits into this logic and it goes farther than you thought it could go. A-Trak song people thinking I wanted to be different and original but still have it be something my fans could get into. There also are some big, beautiful ballads. I told my producers that I wanted tracks that are going to blow up in the clubs, but I also wanted songs that were very melodic and with a lot of instrumentation. Aaliyah music song beautiful Quotes with ADVICE Category My final words of advice to you are educate, agitate and organize; have faith in yourself. With justice on our side I do not see how we can loose our battle. The battle to me is a matter of joy. The battle is in the fullest sense spiritual. There is nothing material or social in it. For ours is a battle not for wealth or for power. It is battle for freedom. It is the battle of reclamation of human personality. B. R. Ambedkar spiritual justice advice Don't be afraid to take advice. There's always something new to learn. Babe Ruth baseball advice motivational I leave for the guidance of other revolutionaries, who may tread the path which I have trod, this advice; never treat with the enemy, never to surrender to his mercy, but to fight to a finish. Eamonn Ceannt fighting advice enemy When a man tells you what people are saying about you, tell him what people are saying about him; that will immediately take his mind off your troubles. E. W. Howe advice men people In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist. Ed Koch primitive action advice The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone’s advice. Eddie Murphy advice giving Quotes with ADD Category I don't believe in putting in music as a band aid to get you over some rough parts or bad film making. If it's there it's got to add to it or take it to another level. Quentin Tarantino band add believe If you have an impulse, not if you're going to ruin someone elses' scene, if you have an impulse of a funny little add-on or taking something in a weird direction, try it. Rachel Dratch littles add trying The camera adds ten pounds and ten thousand dollars. Rainn Wilson dollars cameras add Life + a cat ... adds up to an incalculable sum. Rainer Maria Rilke cat add I've always thought that one of the the great thing about physics is that you can add more digits to any number and see what happens and nobody can stop you. Randall Munroe physics numbers add Hence my insistence that music and meditation should go together. That adds a new dimension to both. Both are enriched by it. Rajneesh meditation together add «345678910111213»
