Category: Quotations

Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere.  Self-pity gets you nowhere.  One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world — making the most of one’s best.Harry Emerson Fosdick

I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn’t like it.Samuel Goldwyn (1882-1974)

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.Thomas Jefferson

Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.Sir Walter Scott, 1771-1832

You can’t wait for inspiration.  You have to go after it with a club.Jack London (1876 – 1916)

Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a worldview despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality.  When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.Bill Moyers, Minneapolis Star Tribune, 30 Jan 2005

Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.Edmund Burke (1729-1797)