Showing posts with label Rudyard Kipling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rudyard Kipling. Show all posts

Friday, September 25, 2009

Quotes (#486)

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
- Martin Luther King Jr.

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes
the worst are your own fears.
- Rudyard Kipling

"Plans are only good intentions unless they
immediately degenerate into hard work."
- Peter Drucker

"I know a lot about cars. I can look
at a car's headlights and tell you
exactly which way it's coming."
- Mitch Hedberg

Our lives begin to end the day we become
silent about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"What I wanted to do was to paint
sunlight on the side of a house."
- Edward Hopper

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Quotaria

"He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar
would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors."
- Rudyard Kipling

"He was a genius - that is to say, a man who
does superlatively and without obvious effort
something that most people cannot do by the
uttermost exertion of their abilities."
- Robertson Davies

"Experience is that marvelous thing that enables
you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."
- Franklin P. Jones


"I have learned to use the word 'impossible'
with the greatest caution."
- Wernher von Braun


"Try to leave the Earth a better
place than when you arrived."
- Sidney Sheldon

"Life must be understood backwards;
but... it must be lived forward."
- Soren Kierkegaard