I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.
THUCYDIDESWise to resolve, patient to perform.
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War and courage have done more great things than charity. Not your sympathy, but your bravery has saved the unfotunate.
ZOROASTER -
I had already learned from more than a decade of political life that I was going to be criticized no matter what I did, so I might as well be criticized for something I wanted to do.
ROSALYNN CARTER -
How can one come to possess great faith? Now listen, here is the answer to that: First, the blade, then the ear, then the full corn in the ear. Faith must grow by soil, moisture, and exercise.
SMITH WIGGLESWORTH -
I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
SAPPHO -
This is not the end of what you are doing; in fact, its the very beginning.
ABBY AUGUSTINE -
Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
ISAAC ASIMOV -
THERE’S NO MONKEY BUSINESS ABOUT THIS ELECTION,’ he told the voters. ‘IF YOU’RE ENOUGH OF AN ASSHOLE TO VOTE FOR NIXON, YOUR DUMB VOTE WILL BE COUNTED––JUST LIKE ANYBODY ELSE!
JOHN IRVING -
If there’s a God in heaven, what’s he waiting for? If He can’t hear the children, then he must see the war.
ELTON JOHN -
You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. This love must radiate from you to others.
B.K.S. IYENGAR -
I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
ROWAN ATKINSON -
You are a special combination for a purpose.
LEO BUSCAGLIA -
Our guests have an insatiable curiosity for up close and personal worldwide adventures – whether one is taking a segment of the World Cruise or the entire voyage.
BILL SMITH -
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
RICHARD FEYNMAN -
Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.
WOODROW WILSON -
We don’t, as a collective life on this planet, all get groovy together or all sink into ignorance together. One by one we liberate our souls, our individual souls, from the cycle by our own realizations.
GEORGE HARRISON