9 posts tagged “quotes”

More quotes from The Week's Wit and Wisdom section...

• "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do." - Mark Twain
• "Never explain- your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway." - Elbert Hubbard
• "I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure- which is: Try to please everybody." - Herbert Bayard Swope
• "In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these." - Paul Harvey
• "Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom." - Soren Kierkegaard
• "There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." - Edith Wharton
• "Life is getting up one more time than you've been knocked down." - John Wayne
• "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." - John F. Kennedy
• "Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers." - Voltaire
• "Experience is not what happens to you.  It is what you do with what happens to you." - Aldous Huxley
• "A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties." - Harry Truman
• "On the whole, human beings want to be good, but no too good and not quite all the time." - George Orwell
• "Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition." - Alexander Smith
• "The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one." - Elbert Hubbard
• "Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike." - JK Rowling
• "Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
• "You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life." - Albert Camus

I have had way more conversations with my Aunt Joy in the last couple weeks than I have in my whole life.  During our conversation today, we got a little off-topic from our discussion about the situation with Grandmom and Grandpop and we started talking about men.  I told her that I don't think that I want to be in a relationship anytime soon because I am completely unwilling to take a man who demonstrates any (negative) characteristics that my father has.  She told me that she and her closest friend Dale were talking about their dating mantra... it takes a great man to be better than no man.  I really liked that phrase and found it pretty fitting.

I came across this quote that I absolutely love...

Accentuate the positives, medicate the negatives. - Amy Sedaris.

I watched The Last Kiss today with Amy.  Each time I watch the movie (which has been several times this week alone), I find this one passage incredibly powerful.  The scene in particular was when Steven gave his response to Michael's admission of infidelity and claim that he now knows that he loves Steven's daughter (Jenna) more than he could ever love anyone else.

What you feel only matters to you. It's what you do to the people you love... that's what matters... that's the only thing that counts.

That movie just breaks my heart.

A half truth is a whole lie.  ~Yiddish Proverb

... from The Week this week (11/17/06) is as follows:

• An Australian firm launched the Wondercup, a line of underwear that claims to do for male genitalia what the Wonderbra does for women's breasts.  "It basically lifts, separates, and extends," said creator Sean Ashby.
• A Florida man was ambushed and shot in the chest by two assailants as he took out the trash.  The bullet was sopped by the two small Bibles has was carrying in his pocket.
• A survey of office workers found that the use of management jargon by bosses lowers employee morale.  Workers said they were particularly depressed by the terms "getting one's ducks in a row" and "thinking outside the box."
• A retired New Jersey police officer is suing a man whose life he saved on the grounds that their encounter left him depressed.  Two years ago, Sgt. Ron Nametko, 38, calmly persuaded a suicidal fellow office, Patrick O'Conner, 40, not to kill himself during a 45-minute standoff.  Nametko now claims that the incident has left him with depression and frequent nightmares, for which he wants financial compensation.  "You would think a fellow officer would be sympathetic for what Pat has gone through," said Alan Zagas, a lawyer for O'Conner.
• A Minnesota high school is selling advertising time during a student production of It's a Wonderful Life.  Mounds View High School's theatrical rendering of the 1946 James Stewart classic, about a man discovering the true meaning of Christmas, will pause periodically for students to read ads from local businesses.  The cost of a spot is $75, and businesses can also rent signage space on the stage set's backdrop.
• Per CNN/Opinion Research Corp: 41% of parents say they would want their child to grow up to be president. 58% say they would not.
• "Only those who are capable of silliness can be called truly intelligent." - Christopher Isherwood
• "Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business." - Dave Barry
• "Reality is a crutch for people who can't deal with drugs." - Robin Williams
• "Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others." - Jules Renard
• Elephants are highly intelligent animals that, like apes and dolphins, can recognize their own reflection in a mirror, as researchers at the Bronx Zoo have found.
• You should be washing your hands vigorously for 30-45 seconds, which is roughly equivalent to singing "Row, row, row your boat" twice.
• 35% of employers that research prospective employees on the web have rejected a candidate due to contact found as a result.  Red flags include omitted jobs on resumes to photos of drunken candidates at bars.
• Per CNNmoney.com: Depository institutions ordered $122 million in $2 notes last year, more than double the number orders between 1991 and 2000.  Among the groups that have embraced the note is the exotic dancing industry: Strip clubs hand out $2 bills as change, and they end in dancers' garters.  "It doubles their tip money," said Angelina Spencer of the Association of Club Executives.

Here's some recent quotes from The Week's Wit and Wisdom section...

* "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close to success they were before the gave up." - Thomas Edison
* "I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me, and I didn't have the heart to let him down." - Abraham Lincoln
* "If they only tool you have is a hammer, ever problem looks like a nail." - Abraham Maslow (psychologist)

• "Wear a smile and you have friends; wear a scowl and you have wrinkles." - George Eliot
• "It is the neature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him." - John Steinbeck
• "Tact is, after all, a kind of mind reading." - Sarah Orne Jewett
• "Man's loneliness is but his fear of life." - Eugene O'Neill

(The Week is my favorite magazine.  This is from it's Wit and Wisdom section, which reprints the quotes featured in various media throughout the last week.)

I've spent most of today cleaning out the extra bedroom in my house, which has been the catch-all for stuff El and I no longer use, but just can't seem to part with. Among these items are photos and keepsakes from high school. I found a piece of paper where I had compiled some favorite quotes:

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad. - Arnold H. Glascow

What lies behind us and lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. - William Morrow

Among those I like, I can find no common denominator, but among those I love, I can; all of them make me laugh. - WH Auden

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character is higher than intellect. - RWE

You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you should not have both. - RWE

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud. - RWE

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. - RWE

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. - RWE

Wait for the wisest of all teachers, time. - Pericles

Have no friends not equal to yourself. - Sophocles

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourseleves. - Sophocles

If you are not too long, I will wait for you my whole life. - Oscar Wilde

To be loved is to be fortunate, to be hated is to achieve distinction. - Minna Antrin

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. - ?

If you would be loved, love and be loveable. - Benjamin Franklin

I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first. - Thomas Jefferson

Like the force has the passion over all his nature. It expands the sentiment; it makes the clown gentle and gives the coward heart. - RWE, on men in love