Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
~Author : Japanese Proverb Famous Quotes
Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he’ll escape.
~Author : Wystan Hugh Auden Inspirational Sayings
My music is best understood by children and animals.
~Author : Igor Stravinsky In Observer 8 Oct 1961 Nice Quotes
People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
~Author : Anton Chekhov Great Sayings
All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.
~Author : Homer The Odyssey Meaningful Sayings
Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.
~Author : Samuel Johnson attributed Wise Quotes
By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action.
~Author : Albert Einstein Motivational Sayings
A snake lurks in the grass.
~Author : Virgil Famous Quotes
Nothing had excited me-the huge cars, the entourages, the bodyguards, the policeman jumping to attention, all meant nothing to me … till I came to the old man’s office. (On becoming prime minister)
~Author : Shimon Peres Inspirational Sayings
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
~Author : Alice Walker Nice Quotes
I must be cruel, only to be kind:
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
~Author : William Shakespeare Hamlet Act 3 scene 4 Great Sayings
Hell has no benefits, only torture.
~Author : John Milton Paradise Lost Meaningful Sayings
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.
~Author : William Hazlitt Wise Quotes
I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.
~Author : Roosevelt Eleanor Motivational Sayings
Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.
~Author : P G Wodehouse Uneasy Money Famous Quotes
There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
~Author : Titus Maccius Plautus Captivi Inspirational Sayings
It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.
~Author : Albert Einstein Nice Quotes
Many count their chickens before they are hatched and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.
~Author : Miguel de Cervantes Great Sayings
I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
~Author : Henry David Thoreau Meaningful Sayings
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
~Author : Thomas Tusser Wise Quotes
Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.
~Author : Marshal Ferdinand Foch 18511929 French military strategist 1911 July 18 2005 Information Week P72 Motivational Sayings
We look at adoption as a very sacred exchange. It was not done lightly on either side. I would dedicate my life to this child.
~Author : Jamie Lee Curtis Famous Quotes
By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.
~Author : Richard Buckminster Fuller Inspirational Sayings
Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.
~Author : Ronald Reagan Nice Quotes
There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed.
~Author : Peter Sellers Great Sayings
I used to think that the Civil War was our country’s greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate.
~Author : Sam James Ervin Jr Meaningful Sayings
“Every man has his price.” This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice – and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.
~Author : Friedrich Nietzsche Wise Quotes
I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
~Author : Joseph Campbell Motivational Sayings
