Always remember this: If you don’t attend the funerals of your friends, they will certainly not attend yours.
H. L. MENCKENWater and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
More Jacques-Yves Cousteau Quotes
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I’m all over the place with muffins. Carrots are great. Banana, chocolate chip, they rock, too.
SHAWN MENDES -
We create our own destiny by the way we do things. We have to take advantage of opportunities and be responsible for our choices.
BENJAMIN CARSON -
Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they’re all we have.
YANN MARTEL -
Crime can be a unifying argument – not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.
CHARLES SCHUMER -
My preference is that employees pay their union dues, but what I also get is that I’d rather someone be in the union than not in the union.
BILL SHORTEN -
I loved working with Bob Dylan.
BENMONT TENCH -
Kaisers and Czars will strut the stage Once more with pomp and greed and rage; Courtly ministers will stop At home and fight to the last drop; By the million men will die In some new horrible agony.
ROBERT GRAVES -
Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.
AGNES REPPLIER -
Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
JAMES THURBER -
I wished to be loved by another,’ [Éowyn] answered. ‘But I desire no man’s pity.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN -
In the spiritual journey, you cannot be a wine taster, you have to become a drunk.
MOOJI -
An ametuer is an artist who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.
BEN SHAHN -
Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY -
Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES -
Being constantly with children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn’t bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters.
BERYL BAINBRIDGE -
I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER -
Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity.
CHARLES BABBAGE -
Beware of the unloved, because they will eventually hurt themselves or others.
JIM CARREY -
I’m not losing no time soon, or ever, till I retire.
DEONTAY WILDER -
Knowing we will be with Christ forever far outweighs our burdens today! Keep your eyes on eternity!
BILLY GRAHAM -
The things He did in Bible days, He still lives to do today. Not a burden is there He cannot bear nor a fetter He cannot break.
AIMEE SEMPLE MCPHERSON -
The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
GEORGE ELIOT -
We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.
AGNES REPPLIER -
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
PETER DRUCKER -
Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
SRI AUROBINDO -
Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
JONATHAN EDWARDS