DoolBug Quotes - Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era

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Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

Isaac Asimov

Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.

Bill Blackman

You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.

Gorden B. Hinkley

They're here !

Carol Anne Freeling, Poltergeist (1982)

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.

Arnold Glasgow

Obstacles are great incentives.

Jules Michelet

Positive anything is better than negative thinking.

Elbert Hubbard

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

I have spread my dreams under your feet , Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

William Butler Yeats

Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.

Michael Corleone, The Godfather (1990)

It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop

Desmond Tutu

Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.

Anonymous

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Stephen A. Brennan

Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.

Thomas Edison

Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.

William Lowe Bryan

Embrace that it's ok to grow.

John P. Strelecky

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Edgar Allan Poe

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

Albert Einstein

I have a head for business and a bod for sin.

Tess McGill, Working Girl (1988)

Love is like a mountain, hard to climb, but once you get to the top the view is beautiful.

Daniel Monroe Tuttle

Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.

Stacie Cunningham

Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

Paulo Coelho

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Muhamed Ali

The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.

David O. McKay

I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.

Abraham Lincoln

Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.

Unattributed

I can levitate birds, but nobody cares.

Steven Wright

It's never too late.

Unknown

Changes in life are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

Gail Sheehy

Where's the rest of me ?

Drake McHugh, Kings Row (1942)

You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?

George Bernard Shaw

My friends are my estate.

Emily Dickinson

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

Matthew 6: 34

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Mahatma Gandhi

We don't have to take our clothes off to have a good time

Jermaine Stewart

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

General George S. Patton

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

William J.H

Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.

Chinese Proverb

What's another word for thesaurus ?

Steven Wright

You're good, but you're going to be great.

Collin McCarty

Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

Joshua J. Marine

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.

Swami Vivekananda

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

William Edward Hickson

Must you flirt ?

Ninotchka, Leon (1939)

"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."

Samuel Johnson

In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.

Brian Weir

I won't be ignored, Dan !

Alex Forrest, Fatal Attraction (1987)

If they move, kill ' em.

Pike Bishop, The Wild Bunch (1969)

Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.

Anonymous

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.

J. Petit Senn

Think of me as a sex symbol for men who don't give a damn.

Phyllis Diller

Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

John Donne

If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?

Joe Namath

Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.

Martin Buber

All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.

Harvey Mackay

The secret of education lies in respecting the student.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Mark Twain

I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it.

City of Angels

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Winston Churchill

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

Abraham Lincoln

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Walter Anderson

To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.

Thomas Edison

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?

Robert Schuller

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

Norman Vincent Peale

Anything is possible.

Unknown

I bet you can squeal like a pig.

Mountain Man, Deliverance (1972)

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

George Sands

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.

Anonymous

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

Colette

The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.

Dale E. Turner

Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.

Winston Churchill

Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.

Gieselle C. Viera

When you suffer, psychologically, remain with it completely without a single movement of thought. Out of that suffering comes compassion. And that energy is totally different from the mechanistic energy of thought.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.

Napoleon Hill

True love never lives happily ever after. True love has no ending.

K. Knight

To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.

Warren G. Bennis

You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.

Roger Smith

When the going gets tough the tough get going.

Joseph P. Kennedy

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

Jane Addams

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

Anonymous

No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.

Norman Vincent Peale

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.

Gordon Gekko, Wall Street (1987)

My biological clock is ticking like this, and the way this case is going, I ain't never getting married !

Mona Lisa Vito, My Cousin Vinny (1992)

We'll always have Paris.

Rick Blaine, Casablanca (1942)

Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.

Robert Half

In the eyes of a lover pockmarks are dimples.

Japanese Proverb

The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.

Chinese Proverb

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

Erich Fromm