Showing posts with label Dwight D. Eisenhower. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dwight D. Eisenhower. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 05, 2009

Quotaria

"A morning-glory at my window satisfies
me more than the metaphysics of books."
- Walt Whitman

"Sooner or later, those who win
are those who think they can."
- Paul Tournier


"Nature is a good name for an
effect whose cause is God."
- William Cowper

"Peace and justice are two
sides of the same coin."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower


"The first question I ask myself when something
doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think
it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover
that there is no reason."
- John Cage

"The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became
obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines."
- Henry J. Tillman

Friday, April 17, 2009

Quotes

It may be the cock that crows, but
it is the hen that lays the eggs.
- Margaret Thatcher


"I don't think anyone should write their
autobiography until after they're dead."
- Samuel Goldwyn

Abortion is advocated only by persons
who have themselves been born.
- Ronald Reagan

A sense of humor is part of the art
of leadership, of getting along with
people, of getting things done.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Nature is wont to hide herself."
- Heraclitus

"When I give, I give myself."
- Walt Whitman

Sunday, April 05, 2009

Quotes

"Nobody outside of a baby carriage
or a judge's chamber believes in an
unprejudiced point of view."
- Lillian Hellman

"The stupid neither forgive nor forget;
the naive forgive and forget; the wise
forgive but do not forget."
- Thomas Szasz


"Americans detest all lies except lies
spoken in public or printed lies."
- Edgar Watson Howe

"You create your opportunities
by asking for them."
- Shakti Gawain

"In preparing for battle I have
always found that plans are useless,
but planning is indispensable."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood,
place it in the navel of a firefly and still
have room enough for three caraway seeds and
a producer's heart."
- Fred Allen

Saturday, February 14, 2009

Quotaria

"Doing is a quantum leap
from imagining."
- Barbara Sher

"The nice thing about being a celebrity
is that when you bore people, they think
it's their fault."
- Henry Kissinger

"We are going to have peace even
if we have to fight for it."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog;
fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the
wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion."
- Robertson Davies

"Competence, like truth, beauty and contact
lenses, is in the eye of the beholder."
- Laurence J. Peter

"Things are only impossible
until they're not."
- Jean-Luc Picard