The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. (Chinese Proverb)
Austin Powers Yeah, baby, yeah (Austin Powers International Man of Mystery)
Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered. (W. H. Auden)
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born. Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led. (Warren Bennis)
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. (Booker T. Washington)
Let's play two (Ernie Banks)
Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son. (Lois McMaster Bujold)
The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten. (Jules Feiffer)
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. (Lady Nancy Astor)
The Congress will push me to raise taxes, and I'll say no, and they'll push and I'll say no, and they'll push again. And all I can say to them is read my lips No New Taxes. (George Herbert Walker Bush)
The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class. (Aristotle)
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. (Horace)
What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print. (Isadora Duncan)
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying Nothing. (William Shakespeare)
If you want to touch the other shore badly enough, barring an impossible situation, you will. If your desire is diluted for any reason, you'll never make it. (Diana Nyad)
Whatever you want too much you can't have, so when you really want something, try to want it a little less. (Joel Rosenberg)
When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both. (Al Franken)
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. (Nelson Mandela)
The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of their rulers no such engine of oppression as a standing army. Their system was to make every man a soldier, and oblige him to repair to the standard of his country whenever that was reared. This made them invincible and the same remedy will make us so. (Thomas Jefferson)
There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons-- That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes-- (Emily Dickinson)