saying

Archived Posts from this Category

June 30, 2008

Understanding Sayings & Quotes

Posted by pearlvidel under famous quotes, good quotes, great quotes, inspirational quotes, inspirations, life quotes, one liner, proverb, proverbs, saying, wise quotes
No Comments 

It is not credible that any one should possess so little understanding as to desire the faith and yet be destitute of the most necessary faculty to enable him to receive it. - Pope John Paul II

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes. - George Soros

 

June 30, 2008

Clever Sayings & Quotes

Posted by pearlvidel under famous quotes, good quotes, great quotes, inspirational quotes, inspirations, life quotes, one liner, proverb, proverbs, saying, wise quotes
No Comments 

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man. - Bertrand Russell

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton

If you’re not very clever you should be conciliatory. - Benjamin Disraeli

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton

If men had wings and bore black feathers, few of them would be clever enough to be crows. - Henry Ward Beecher

 

June 2, 2008

Personality Sayings & Quotes

Posted by pearlvidel under inspirations, one liner, phrase, proverb, proverbs, quotations, quote, quotes, saying, sayings
No Comments 

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. - Albert Einstein

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost. - Lloyd Douglas

Man has a fund of emotional energy which is not all occupied with his self-preservation. This surplus seeks its outlet in the creation of art, for man’s civilization is built upon his surplus. In everyday life, when we are mostly moved by our habits, we are economical in our expression, for then our soul-consciousness is at its low level, it has just volume enough to guide on in accustomed grooves. But when our heart is fully awakened in love, or in other great emotions, our personality is in its flood-tide. - Sir Rabindranath Tagore

Humility is no substitute for a good personality. - Fran Lebowitz

Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality. - Erich Fromm

 

May 25, 2008

Clever Sayings & Quotes

Posted by pearlvidel under Clever Quotes, Clever Sayings, inspirations, one liner, phrase, proverbs, quotations, quote, quotes, saying, sayings
No Comments 

A stupid man’s report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. - Bertrand Russell

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool. - Rudyard Kipling

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The Bible has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies. - Mark Twain

To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it. - George Bernard Shaw

 

May 20, 2008

Sting~Nice Attitude Sayings

Posted by pearlvidel under inspirations, one liner, phrase, proverb, proverbs, quotations, quote, quotes, saying, sayings
No Comments 

you have to be yourself. be very honest about who and what you are. if people still like you thats fine. if they dont thats their problem.
~Author : Sting~Nice Attitude Sayings

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
~Author : Jonathan Swift~meaningful Genius Quotes

How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved
~Author : Sigmund Freud~Nice Love Quotes Sayings

Success is heavy burden, but not as heavy as failure.
~Author : ~meaningful Success Quotes

A goodbye isn’t painful unless you’re never going to say hello again
~Author : Author Unknown~Nice Missing You Sayings

Progress might have been all right once, but it’s gone on too long.
~Author : Ogden Nash~meaningful Civilization Quotes

A good friend is cheaper than therapy.
~Author : Author Unknown~Nice Friendship Sayings

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.
~Author : Mason Cooley~meaningful Travel Quotes

 

May 13, 2008

famous friendship quotes

Posted by pearlvidel under Friendship quotes, friendship quotations, friendship sayings, inspirations, one liner, phrase, quotations, quote, quotes, saying, sayings
No Comments 

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
~motivational work quotes by Thomas Jefferson

Cities are the abyss of the human species.
~work by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Émile

Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed.
~sayings about work by Lewis Gannit

Man - a being in search of meaning.
~quotes about Humankind by Plato

Some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
~motivational work quotes by Garth Brooks

The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.
~saying on Prayer by Will Rogers

 

May 8, 2008

motivational one liners & motivation sayings

Posted by pearlvidel under famous quotes, inspirations, motivation sayings, motivational one liners, one liner, phrase, quotations, quote, quotes, saying, sayings
No Comments 

While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate.
~words of encouragement by Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Physiology is the stepchild of medicine. That is why Cinderella often turns out the queen.
~sayings about words of encouragement by Martin H. Fischer

Women like silent men. They think they’re listening.
~quotes about Women by Marcel Achard, Quote, 4 November 1956

Poker is… a fascinating, wonderful, intricate adventure on the high seas of human nature.
~inspirational words of encouragement by David A Daniel

An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? No, said the priest, not if you did not know. Then why, asked the Inuit earnestly, did you tell me?
~saying on Religion by Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.
~inspirational words of encouragement by John C. Collins

 

May 3, 2008

famous quotes on change by Joseph Schenck

Posted by pearlvidel under famous quotes, one liner, phrase, proverb, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, saying, sayings, word
No Comments 

If four or five guys tell you that you’re drunk, even though you know you haven’t had a thing to drink, the least you can do is to lie down a little while
~famous quotes on change by Joseph Schenck

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.
~change by Iris Murdoch, The Red and the Green

Jealousy is the great exaggerator.
~sayings about change by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, The Conspiracy of Fiesco, 1783

Health - what my friends are always drinking to before they fall down
~quotes about Party Invitations by Phyllis Diller

America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.
~famous quotes on change by Peter Kroptkin, speech, 1891

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
~saying on Teachers by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

 

May 3, 2008

famous quotes on change by Anonymous Teacher

Posted by pearlvidel under famous quotes, inspirations, phrase, phrases, proverb, proverbs, quotations, quote, quotes, saying, sayings
No Comments 

If you promise not to believe everything your child says happens at school, I’ll promise not to believe everything he says happens at home.
~famous quotes on change by Anonymous Teacher

There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
~change by Mother Teresa

No man can follow Christ and go astray.
~sayings about change by William H.P. Faunce

I’m not against half naked girls - not as often as I’d like to be.
~quotes about Women by Benny Hill

Sometimes the biggest act of courage is a small one.
~famous quotes on change by Lauren Raffo

A grownup is a child with layers on.
~saying on Inner Child by Woody Harrelson

If you wish to keep your affairs secret, drink no wine.
~famous quotes on change by Author Unknown

 

April 13, 2008

inspirational away messages by Arthur Schopenhauer

Posted by pearlvidel under inspiration, inspirational away messages, life quotes, motivation, one liner, phrase, proverb, quotation, quote, saying, word
No Comments 

With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
~inspirational away messages by Arthur Schopenhauer

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.
~away messages by Saul Alinsky

In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it
~sayings about away messages by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

The history of free men is never written by chance, but by choice - their choice.
~quotes about Attitude by Dwight D. Eisenhower

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.
~inspirational away messages by Harlan Miller

A book of quotations . . . can never be complete
~saying on Books by Robert M. Hamilton

Wouldn’t it be great if you could only get AIDS from giving money to television preachers?
~inspirational away messages by Elayne Boosler

 

Next Page »