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Post by Tamrin on Dec 21, 2013 7:17:56 GMT 10
A man is literally what he thinks
All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts
As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you
Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit
He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure
We do not attract what we want, but what we areJames Lane AllenAmerican novelist and short story writer ( King Solomon of Kentucky) (Born this day 1849) You cannot travel within and stand still without
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 21, 2013 7:18:43 GMT 10
Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs
Death solves all problems — no man, no problem
One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance
The only real power comes out of a long rifleJoseph Stalin, Soviet dictator and mass murderer (Born this day 1879) I trust no one, not even myself
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 21, 2013 7:25:21 GMT 10
I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success
So then put away, relentlessly away, all thought of the results. You cannot control them
It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable
The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it
We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us
God did not give you the spirit of cowardice
God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first alsoJoseph Barber LightfootEnglish theologian and Bishop of Durham (Died this day 1889) While disclaiming any change in my opinions, I desire equally to disclaim the representations of those opinions which have been put forward in some quarters
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 21, 2013 7:26:24 GMT 10
It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk
There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence
A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere
All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears
International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology
Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselvesDame Rebecca WestEnglish, journalist, novelist, critic and feminist ( Meaning of Treason) (Born this day 1892) I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 21, 2013 7:27:14 GMT 10
Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function
Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you
It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well
Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero
Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own jokeF. Scott Fitzgerald, US author (Great Gatsby, Zelda) (Died this day 1940) Action is character
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 21, 2013 7:27:59 GMT 10
Freaking Out is a process whereby an individual casts off outmoded and restricting standards of thinking, dress, and social etiquette in order to express creatively his relationship to his immediate environment and the social structure as a whole
Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read. Forget I mentioned it. This song has no message. Rise for the flag salute
Scientology, how about that? You hold on to the tin cans and then this guy asks you a bunch of questions, and if you pay enough money you get to join the master race. How's that for a religion?
Just because somebody hears something you say, or reads something that you write, doesn’t mean you’ve reached them
Rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, in order to provide articles for people who can't read
If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest or some guy on TV telling you how to do your shit, then YOU DESERVE IT
You've got to be digging it while it's happening 'cause it just might be a one shot dealFrank ZappaAmerican singer-songwriter (Born this day 1940) A wise man once said, "never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment"
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 21, 2013 7:28:51 GMT 10
Always do everything you ask of those you command
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash
Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking
Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory
You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals
Better to fight for something than live for nothing George PattonUS General (Sicily & Normandy) (Died this day 1945) Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 22, 2013 9:26:25 GMT 10
Sunday’s Quotes:The feeling of mistrust is always the last which a great mind acquires
None love, but they who wish to love
The heart that can no longer love passionately, must with fury hate
It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: It's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey
But without money honor is nothing but a malady
A benefit cited by way of reproach is equivalent to an injury
Often it is fatal to live too longJean-Baptiste Racine, French dramatist ( Andromaque) (Baptized this day 1639) Oh, I have loved him too much to feel no hate for him
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 22, 2013 9:29:42 GMT 10
Life is the game that must be played
Whenever Richard Cory went down town, we people on the pavement looked at him: He was a gentleman from sole to crown, clean favored, and imperially slim. And he was always quietly arrayed, and he was always human when he talked; But still he fluttered pulses when he said, "Good-morning," and he glittered when he walked
And he was rich—yes, richer than a king — And admirably schooled in every grace: In fine, we thought that he was everything to make us wish that we were in his place. So on we worked, and waited for the light, and went without the meat, and cursed the bread; And Richard Cory, one calm summer night, went home and put a bullet through his head
You have made the cement of your churches out of tears and ashes, and the fabric will not stand.
The world is not a prison house, but a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell God with the wrong blocks
Your dollar is your only word, the wrath of it your only fear
The gods are growing old; The stars are singing golden hair to gray. Green leaf to yellow leaf, — or chlorophyll to xanthophyl, to be more scientificEdwin Arlington RobinsonAmerican poet (thrice won Pulitzer Prize) (Born this day 1869) And thus we all are nighing the truth we fear to know: Death will end our crying for friends that come and go
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 22, 2013 9:30:42 GMT 10
Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster
Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy
Consequences are unpityingGeorge Eliot, (Mary Anne Evans)Victorian novelist ( Silas Marner) (Died this day 1880) You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl
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