Friday, April 15, 2011

quotes for new beginnings

quotes for new beginnings





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quotes for new beginnings quotes for new beginnings quotes for new beginnings







Information should be used as food for thought, not poison to the soul. ~Shellie R. Warren



The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source. ~Lucretia Mott



A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life. ~Irish Saying



Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. ~Winston Churchill



Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day. ~Ringo Starr



People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead. ~Edith Wharton People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. ~Logan Pearsall Smith, Trivia, 1917



The only man we have any respect for, is he who uses all the endowment he has, and uses it until he bleeds. ~Martin H. Fischer



For all of its faults, it gives most hardworking people a chance to improve themselves economically, even as the deck is stacked in favor of the privileged few. Here are the choices most of us face in such a system: Get bitter or get busy. ~Bill O'Reilly, about capitalism



Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity. ~Henry Beston



Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. ~George F. Will, Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball, 1990



Liberty is the breath of life to nations. ~George Bernard Shaw



Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was. ~Margaret Mitchell



When the historian of the Twentieth Century shall have finished his narrative, and comes searching for the subtitle which shall best express the spirit of the period, we think it not at all unlikely that he may select "The Age of Advertising" for the purpose. ~Printers' Ink, 27 May 1915



Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown



Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God. ~James Weldon Johnson



I am a man, and alive.... For this reason I am a novelist. And being a novelist, I consider myself superior to the saint, the scientist, the philosopher, and the poet, who are all great masters of different bits of man alive, but never get the whole hog. ~D.H. Lawrence, preface to Shestov, All Things Are Possible, 1938



If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be. ~Ecclesiastes 11:3



Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. ~Doug Larson



The list of Irish saints is past counting; but in it all no other figure is so human, friendly, and lovable as St. Patrick - who was an Irishman only by adoption. ~Stephen Gwynn



If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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