Quotes

[Shai]

 

[Elsker]

Please excuse this intrusion ... But this thread is very good . Some wonderful quotes and thoughts

 

[Shai]

Please excuse this intrusion ... But this thread is very good . Some wonderful quotes and thoughts

No intrusion, welcome and please add your thoughts/inspirations.. no pressure

 

[Elsker]

No intrusion, welcome and please add your thoughts/inspirations.. no pressure

Ohhhh I feel the pressure already
Lily Tomlin:" I always wanted to be someone, but now realise, I should have been more specific ."
Nelson Mandella: It always seems impossible until it is done

 

[Shai]

Definition of a smile - A curve that can set a lot of things straight.

The best things in this world should be easy to learn, but difficult to master. Nolan Bushell

 

[Shai]

HI If Elsker from North Melbourne is allowed to join in, me as well ? Come to think of it, I think I did sometimes on the Cat's board .
Friends are the siblings God never gave us . Mencius ... You can tell me off if you don't want me Shai

You are most welcome, of course

 

[chugginon]

Christmas isn't a season It is a feeling... Edna Ferber . And Merry Christmas to you , Shai

 

[Shai]

"This is another world to the ones most Australians know. It was explained by my father once that it’s like a blanket on the ground. We, the uninitiated, only see the blanket. Lift it up and that’s what our elders… see – the real thing – a world most of us will never know or understand. Through their paintings, artists… offer us a glimpse of the world of dreams where the past, present and the future link. "
Hetti Perkins, of Aboriginal Art

 

[Shai]

If you are going to quote @ me, live by it -

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”
― Ernest Hemingway

 

[Partridge]

"How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of a great mind is agreeing in the opinions of small minds?"

- John Stuart Mill

 

[Shai]

I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.
Roger Ebert

 

[Shai]

Have you noticed that all the people in favour of birth control are already born?
Benny Hill

 

[Shai]

What we lose in the fire, we will find in the ashes.

In many ways, I think that, while we've been remarkably violent in our media, there's been a real schizophrenia. In private, on the Internet, and on public-affairs shows or talk radio, we're way more explicit than we've ever been.
Ivan Reitman

 

[Shai]

 

[Shai]

For me, any fellow human being is a potential bro or sis, I do not presume to judge on any level -

Brothers and sisters, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against a brother or sister or judges them speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgement on it.

 

[chugginon]

The one who struggles, hasn't quit

 

[Shai]

The one who struggles, hasn't quit

Too true.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Mark Twain

 

[Shai]

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than the ones you did do.

 

[Shai]

“ Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.”

Bernard M. Maruch

 

[Shai]

Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.
Ambrose Bierce

Journalists who are devoted to strictly factual reporting take particular pleasure from satirical news outlets that have the liberty to laugh and even mock the hypocrisy that reporters and editors must simply observe without comment.
Tom Rachman

 

[Shai]

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

Enoch Arnold Bennett

 

[Shai]

On reading some of the comments in various threads here over the last couple of days -

You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

 

[Shai]

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

Enoch Arnold Bennett