- "Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it."
- "Minds are like parachutes, they only function when open."
- "You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life."
- "It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for."
- "Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors."
- "To be great is to be misunderstood."
- "People only see what they are prepared to see."
- "Be great in act, as you have been in thought."
- "Excuse me while I kiss the sky."
- "I am not young enough to know everything."
- "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
- "You do what you love and fuck the rest."
- Dwayne in Little Miss Sunshine
- "I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then."
- "It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not."
- "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries."
- "Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber."
- "Only the dead have seen the end of war."
- "Well behaved women seldom make history."
- "You can't leave a footprint that lasts if you're walking on tiptoe."
- "Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry."
- "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
- "You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."
- A.A.Milne ~ Winnie The Pooh
- “To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him.”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- "Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows."
- "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
- "To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered."
- "Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference."
- "Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything."
- "Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes."
- "A witty saying proves nothing."
- "I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry."
- "A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places."
- "If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens."
- "Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth."
- "If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us."
- "Pathetic," he said. "That's what it is. Pathetic." (crosses stream) "As I thought," he said, "no better from this side."
- "To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks."
- Pooh's Little Instruction Book
- "I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him."
- "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
- "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear."
- "We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- "He who strikes the first blow admits he's lost the argument."
- "The important thing is not to stop questioning."
- "It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."
- "I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."
- "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
- "He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke."
- "My favorite thing is to go where I've never been."
- "Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday."
- "If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right."
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