What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know EXACTLY what you want...and are fully determined not to quit until you get it. (Alexander Graham Bell)
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice In practice, there is. (Chuck Reid)
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it. (Margaret Hilda Thatcher)
A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it. (Stanley Baldwin)
Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea. (Rachel Carson)
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society. (Benjamin Franklin)
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud. (Sophocles)
The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little. (Thomas Babington)
I had it all, and I blew it. (shortly before dying from cancer and other complications of alcoholism) (Mickey Mantle)
Be neither too remote nor too familiar. (Prince Charles)
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy you can't build on it it's only for wallowing in. (Katherine Mansfield)
Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings And children's faces looking up Holding wonder like a cup. (Sara Teasdale)
That is what marriage really means helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life. (Paul Tournier)
Just because swans mate for life, I don't think it's that big of a deal. First of all, if you're a swan, you're probably not going to find a swan that looks that much better than the one you've got, so why not mate for life (Jack Handey Deep Thoughts)
He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
By the time you get to your ball, if you don't know what to do with it, try another sport. (Julius Boros)
To find fulfillment...don't exist with life - embrace it. (Jim Beggs)
Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel. (Charles Caleb Colton)
I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing. (Richard Milhous Nixon)
The fates have given mankind a patient soul. (Homer)