Showing posts with label Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Show all posts

Friday, November 20, 2009

Quote (#557)

"Become who you are."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"If you want to build a ship, don't herd people
together to collect wood and don't assign them
tasks and work, but rather teach them to long
for the endless immensity of the sea."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"We ought to be more focused on enemies without
than preoccupied with finding them within."
- Alan Wolfe

"A patriot must always be ready to defend
his country against his government."
- Edward Abbey

"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal,
has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and
is not a conservative, has no brains."
- Winston Churchill

"I would have made a good Pope."
- Richard M. Nixon

Friday, August 14, 2009

Quotes - Favorites

"A poem is no place for an idea."
- Edgar Watson Howe


"The whole problem with the world is that fools
and fanatics are always so certain of themselves,
but wiser people so full of doubts."
- Bertrand Russell


"It's easy to make a buck. It's a
lot tougher to make a difference."
- Tom Brokaw


There's only one way to
fail, and that is to quit.
- [no attribution]

Knowing others is intelligence.
Knowing yourself is true wisdom.
- Lao Tse

Perfect is achieved, not when there is
nothing left to add, but when there is
nothing left to take away.
- Antoine de St. Exupery

Saturday, July 04, 2009

Theme: Oneliners

"Never mistake motion for action."
- Ernest Hemingway

"To dwell is to garden."
- Martin Heidegger

"Language is the source of misunderstandings."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Mother Nature is not sweet."
- John Shelby Spong


"Daisies are like sunshine to the ground."
- Drew Barrymore

"Eighty percent of success is showing up."
- Woody Allen

Friday, April 03, 2009

Quotaria

"You cannot get ahead while
you are getting even."
- Dick Armey

"I distrust camels, and anyone else
who can go a week without a drink."
- Joe E. Lewis

"Flowers always make people better, happier,
and more helpful; they are sunshine, food
and medicine for the soul."
- Luther Burbank

"Dreams are necessary to life."
- Anais Nin


Never give a sword to
a man who can't dance.
- Confucius


"Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves,
and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever
explaining things to them."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery