Famous Quotes & Sayings

Horace Greeley

The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Horace

Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.

Horace Mann

Injustice alone can shake down the pillars of the skies, and restore the reign of Chaos and Night.

Horace Mann

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

Horace Mann

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

Horace Mann

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Horace Mann

In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.

Horace Mann

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

Homer

Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.

Homer

youth is quick in feeling but weak in judgement.

Homer

A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time

Homer

If you serve too many masters, you'll soon suffer.

Homer

The journey is the thing.

Homer

A small rock holds back a great wave.

Gloria Steinem

The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.

J. K. Rowling

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

Greg Louganis

Fear is a part of everything you do ... You have to take great risks to get big rewards.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.

Gene Fowler

Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

Hunter S. Thompson

The first time I managed to pick up a basketball I knew I was destined to lead the UK to another National championship. ... Even now, so many years later, I still believe Kentucky will go undefeated in March & win everything.

Hunter S. Thompson

If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.

Aldous Huxley

In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of every thought and feeling remains incommunicable, locked up in the impenetrable strong-room of the individual soul and body. Our life is a sentence of perpetual solitary confinement.

Barack Obama

The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.

Carl Sandburg

It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

Matsuo Basho

There is nothing you can see that is not a Bashoflower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.

Marie Curie

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

Alexandra Adornetto

That was one of the saddest things about people--their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood.

Alexander Woollcott

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.

Alexander the Great

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

Alexander Pushkin

Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.