Continuing with the Random Observations, here is the latest issue:
- “It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them – the character, the heart, the generous qualities, progressive ideas.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky – Writer
- “Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe.” – Winston Churchill – British Prime Minister
- “If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.” – Thomas Edison – Inventor
- “A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must . . . be undaunted when the going gets tough.” – Ronald Reagan – 40th US President
- “I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.” – Helen Keller – Author, Lecturer
- “Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T. S. Eliot – Poet
- “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared with what lies within us.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. – Supreme Court Chief Justice
- “Fears are educated into us and can, if we wish, be educated out.” – Karl Menninger – Psychiatrist
- “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein, Physicist
- “If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you’re right.” – Mary Kay Ash, Founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics
“I invented the internet”.
- Al Gore, former U.S. Vice President
“I think that the film Clueless was very deep. I think it was deep in the way that it was very light. I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if it’s true lightness.”
- Alicia Silverstone, Actress
“You guys line up alphabetically by height.”
- Bill Peterson, Florida State football coach
“I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Canada.”
- Britney Spears, Pop Singer
“China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.”
- Charles De Gaulle, former French President
If you give a person a fish, they’ll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they’ll fish for a lifetime.”
- Dan Quayle, former U.S. Vice President
“We don’t like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out.”
- Decca Records Rejecting the Beatles, in 1962
I have opinions of my own –strong opinions– but I don’t always agree with them.”
- George Bush, former U.S. President
Posted by poocha9 | September 30, 2005, 5:38 am