Non-violence is a powerful and just weapon which cuts without wounding
and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The way lies in softness and patience,
as the softest water cuts through the hardest rock.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Tragedy is when I cut my finger.
Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks
The key is, to not think of death as an end,
but as more of a very effective way to cut down on your expenses.
- the movie Love and Death
The River of Life can cut through solid rock - in its own time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt
to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell
The River of Life knows no obstacles.
The River can cut through solid rock - in its own time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no short cut to achievement.
Life requires thorough preparation -
veneer isn't worth anything.
- George Washington Carver
We hardly ever realize that we can
cut anything out of our lives,
anytime, in the blink of an eye.
- Carlos Castaneda
Everywhere I look, I see the evidence of a creator.
But I don't see it as religion,
which has cut Irish people in two.
I don't see Jesus Christ as being
in any part of a religion.
Religion to me is almost like when God leaves -
and people devise a set of rules to fill the space.
- Bono
This physical world is to our imagination as ice is to water -
pure water forms pure ice - dirty water forms dirty ice.
Consider how much easier it is to purify water before it freezes
than it is to chip the impurities from the solid ice.
So also, it is much easier to purify your thoughts
before they manifest into physical reality,
than to try to cut the cancerous impurities from solid reality
after you have manifested your thoughts into physical form.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The task of the modern educator
is not to cut down jungles,
but to irrigate deserts.
- C.S. Lewis
The River of Life has no judgments.
The River flows with no concept of good and bad - right and wrong.
The fields and dreams of men may be nourished by the River of Life,
or flooded and covered with silt, and the River just flows.
Men may catch fish and live on the River of Life,
or they may founder in a storm and drown, and the River just flows.
The River of Life is timeless.
It is not unchanging, but it is timeless,
and it changes in its own time.
The River of Life knows no obstacles.
The River can cut through solid rock - in its own time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What exactly is the function of a rubber duck?
- the movie Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Live life on the edge, not with an edge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
The trick is growing up without growing old.
- Casey Stengel
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
Anger spells dANGER.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
Yesterday is like a dung heap;
you can complain about the smell,
or you can use it to fertilize tomorrow's garden.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
- Phyllis Diller
"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you always got.
- Mark Twain
Well, you ask a silly question, and you get a silly answer.
- Tom Lehrer
Crazy is walking down the street
with half a cantaloupe on your head,
muttering; "I'm a hamster, I'm a hamster."
- the movie Spy Hard (1996)
It looks like we're up chocolate creek without a Popsicle stick!
- the movie Shrek 2 (2004)
When you are courting a nice girl
an hour seems like a second.
When you sit on a red-hot cinder
a second seems like an hour.
That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak;
courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- Winston Churchill
Marriage is a sort of friendship recognized by the police.
- Anonymous
The proper office of a friend is to side with you
when you are in the wrong.
Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
- Mark Twain
Persevere. Plan. Strategize. Focus. Breathe. Write.
Let go: relax. Forgive. All this failing: take a nap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.
- Winston Churchill
Everyone who got where he is,
had to begin where he was.
- Richard L. Evans
All people know the same truth.
Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
Society is always taken by surprise
at any new example of common sense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Today, I am Sending My Monkey Mind to the Zoo.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who can take advice is sometimes superior
to him who can give it.
- Erica Jong
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
- Alexander Pope
The difference between school and life?
In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test.
In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
- Tom Bodett
Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives,
I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
- Winston Churchill
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
- Winston Churchill
The light at the end of the tunnel
may be an oncoming train.
- Anonymous
Tradition is the illusion of permanence.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
TEAMWORK...means never having to take all the blame yourself.
- Anonymous
INDECISION is the key to FLEXIBILITY.
- Anonymous
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
- Woody Allen
The most difficult phase of life
is not when no one understands you,
it is when you don't understand yourself.
- Anonymous
I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Today, I Tap Dance Across The Stage of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Twinkle, twinkle little bat
How I wonder what you're at!
Up above the world you fly,
Like a tea-tray in the sky.
- Lewis Carroll
Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
- Anonymous
The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe,
just so you're sincere.
- Linus Van Pelt in Charles M. Schulz' Go Fly A Kite, Charlie Brown
It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
- Neil Young
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves
for they shall never cease to be amused.
- Anonymous
The person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
- Chinese proverb
A question that sometimes drives me hazy:
am I or are the others crazy?
- Albert Einstein
Testing oneself is best when done alone.
- Jimmy Carter
If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
- Yogi Berra
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
- Abraham Lincoln
"Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile,
one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The trouble with the world is not
that people know too little,
but that they know so many things that ain't so.
- Mark Twain
It is far more impressive when others
discover your good qualities without your help.
- Judith Martin
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
- Mark Twain
God is at play,
I am his modeling clay.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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