Ø “Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
- Albert Einstein
Ø “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
- Helen Kellar
Ø “Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.”
- Benjamin Disraeli
Ø “A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.”
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Ø “But, as we well know, appearances can be deceiving, which brings me back to the reason why we’re here. We’re not here because we’re free. We’re here because we’re not free. There is no escaping reason; no denying purpose. Because as we both know, without purpose, we would not exist. It is purpose that created us. Purpose that connects us. Purpose that pulls us. That guides us. That drives us. It is purpose that defines us. Purpose that binds us. Purpose.”
- Mr. Smith
Ø “All the arguments to prove man’s superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.”
- Peter Singer
Ø “Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ø “I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it.”
- Thomas Aquinas
Ø “Lying is done with words and also with silence.”
- Adrienne Rich
Ø “Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?”
- Clarence Darrow
Ø “When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
- Ernest Hemingway
Ø “The problem with communication … is the illusion that it has been accomplished.”
- George Bernard Show
Ø “The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.”
- Hubert H. Humphrey
Ø “Chaos and Order are not enemies, only opposites.”
- Richard Garriot
Ø “You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.”
- Nietzsche
Ø “‘Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.”
- Abraham Lincoln
Ø “Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
- Albert Einstein
Ø “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”
- Albert Einstein
Ø “Most people would die sooner than think; in fact, they do.”
- Bertrand Russel
Ø “Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.”
- Elbert Hubbard
Ø “The dumbest people I know are those who know it all.”
- Malcolm Forbes
Ø “It’s so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.”
- Sam Levenson
Ø “I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose.”
- Clarence Darrow
Ø “Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color.”
- Don Hirschberg
Ø “Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.”
- Francis Bacon
Ø “Believing in gods always causes confusion.”
- Pearl S. Buck
Ø “The secret source of humour itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humour in heaven.”
- Mark Twain
Ø “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”
- Abraham Lincoln
Ø “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. The bamboozle has captured us. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
- Carl Sagan
Ø “Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.”
- Demosthenes
Ø “He who is not sure of his memory should not undertake the trade of lying.”
- Montaigne
Ø “People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.”
- Otto Von Bismark
Ø “Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ø “Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!”
- Sir Walter Scott
Ø “No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.”
- Albert Einstein
Ø “Love doesn’t make the world go ’round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”
- Franklin P. Jones
Ø “For everything there is a season,
And a time for every matter under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die;
A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
A time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
A time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to seek, and a time to lose;
A time to keep, and a time to throw away;
A time to tear, and a time to sew;
A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate,
A time for war, and a time for peace.”
- Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
Ø “When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.”
- Colleen C. Barrett
Ø “To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.”
- Elbert Hubbard
Ø “Never mistake motion for action.”
- Earnest Hemingway
Important Murphy Laws:
Ø Smile . . . tomorrow will be worse.
Ø If anything can go wrong, it will
Ø If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.
Ø If anything just cannot go wrong, it will anyway.
Ø If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
Ø In nature, nothing is ever right. Therefore, if everything is going right … something is wrong.
Ø The chance of the bread falling with the buttered side down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet.
Ø No matter how long or how hard you shop for an item, after you’ve bought it, it will be on sale somewhere cheaper.
Ø Everyone has a scheme for getting rich that will not work.
Ø Never argue with a fool, people might not know the difference.
Ø If you want something bad enough, chances are you won’t get it.
Ø Just when you think things cannot get any worse, they will.
Ø Your best golf shots always occur when playing alone.
Ø The worst golf shots always occur when playing with someone you are trying to impress.
Ø Whatever you want, you can’t have, what you can have, you don’t want.
Ø Whatever you want to do, is Not possible, what ever is possible for you to do, you don’t want to do it.
Ø Any thing that can go wrong, has already gone wrong. You just haven’t been notified.
Ø If anything was worth doing, it would’ve already been done.
Ø Things are never as good as they are bad.
Ø Anyone who isn’t paranoid simply isn’t paying attention.
Ø Nice guys finish last. The good ones die first.
Ø Money can’t buy love, but it sure gets you a great bargaining position.
Ø If something seems too good to be true, it probably is.
Ø Availability is a function of time. The minute you get interested is the minute they find someone else.
Ø All the good ones are taken. If the person isn’t taken, there’s a reason.
Ø The nicer someone is, the farther away she is from you.
Ø Brains + Beauty + Availability = Constant. This constant is always zero.
Ø Love thy neighbor, but don’t get caught.
Ø Love is a hole in the heart.
Ø Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Ø Never argue with a women when she’s tired… or rested.
World’s biggest lies:
Ø We are all equal.
Ø Money bring joy.
Ø I am free.
Ø Good people go to Heaven. Bad people go to Hell.
Ø Няма невъзможни неща.
Ø Съдбата управлява света.
Ø Животът има смисъл.
Ø За всеки има половинка в живота.
Ø Който се учи, той ще сполучи.
