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Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Quotations Index - Z


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Zig Ziglar

"It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude."

"When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there."
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Émile Zola

* "If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way."

"Truth and justice, so ardently longed for! How terrible it is to see them trampled, unrecognized and ignored!"
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Quotations Index - Y


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Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

* "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."  [attributed in the movie, "Tora Tora Tora."]
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William Butler Yeats

* "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."
[The Second Coming]
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Brigham Young

"Honest hearts produce honest actions."
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Quotations Index - X


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Quotations Index - W


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Henry A. Wallace

* "With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power."
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Neale Donald Walsch

"Every individual undertaking, every individual thought, word, or action which leads to the transformation of the Self and to the lifting of any other being, is of extraordinary importance. It is not necessary to move mountains to move mountains. It is necessary only to move pebbles."
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William Arthur Ward

* "The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change and the realist adjusts the sails."
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George Washington

"If the freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."

"If I could have entertained the slightest apprehension that the Constitution framed in the Convention, where I had the honor to preside, might possibly endanger the religious rights of any ecclesiastical Society, certainly I would never have placed my signature to it; and if I could now conceive that the general Government might ever be so administered as to render the liberty of conscience insecure, I beg you will be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution."  [letter to the United Baptists in Virginia, 1789]

"Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light."
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James Watt

"A lie can run around the world before the truth can get its boots on."
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John Wayne

“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”

“Government has no wealth, and when a politician promises to give you something for nothing, he must first confiscate that wealth from you -- either by direct taxes, or by the cruelly indirect tax of inflation.”

“Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.”

“Thanking people is dangerous business. A name always slips your mind.”

“Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.”
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Simone Weil

"The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say to him, 'What are you going through?'"
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Chaim Weizmann

* "A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey."

* "Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them."
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Jim Wern

"I like messy people; people who don’t fit in a box or stay between the lines, but who’s integrity is greater than any rule book and who’s loyalty is stronger than blood."
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Charles Wesley

"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can."
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Edwin Percy Whipple

"Cheerfulness in most cheerful people, is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline."
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Edith Wharton

* "Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins."

"If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time."
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Marcia Wieder

"One of your most powerful inner resources is your own creativity." [ascribed]
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Warren Wendel Wiersbe

"If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm."  [ascribed]
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Oscar Wilde

“In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.”

"It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist.  It produces a false impression."  

"The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity."

"What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities."
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Terry Tempest Williams

"Our sense of community and compassionate intelligence must be extended to all life forms, plants, animals, rocks, rivers, and human beings. This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future."
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Oprah Winfrey

"Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possiblity."
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John Wooden

* "Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
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William Wordsworth

"That best portion of good people's lives,
Their little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love."
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Frank Lloyd Wright

"Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasions to change."
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N. T. Wright

* "The line between good and evil does not lie between 'us' and 'them,' between the West and the rest, between Left and Right, between rich and poor. That fateful line runs down the middle of each of us, every human society, every individual. This is not to say that all humans, and all societies, are equally good or bad; far from it. Merely that we are all infected and that all easy attempts to see the problem in terms of 'us' and 'them' are fatally flawed."  [Surprised by Scripture]
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Cardinal Donald Wuerl

* "Bad ideas sometimes begin with a good impulse. The “loss of the sense of sin” arises, I believe, from a misguided notion of tolerance. Democracies thrive because of a neighborly forbearance of differences of opinion. Tolerance does not, however, require us to abandon our convictions or deny the existence of moral standards. Tolerance does not demand that we call "good" what is evil or "evil" what is good. Nor does forgiveness of an action mean that we approve the action; in fact, we can only forgive something that is a genuine offense."
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Quotations Index - V


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Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valéry

"That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere is almost certain to be false."
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Arthur H. Vandenberg

"It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity."
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Iyanla Vanzant

"Just do what you do and do it well. Stop worrying about what other people are doing, or what they will say about what you are doing. Just do what you do to the best of your ability. Whether people like or agree with what you do is not the issue."
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Virgil

"Fortune favors the brave."

* "Sed fugit interea, fugit irreparabile tempus." = "But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained."
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Voltaire

* "En général, l’art du gouvernement consiste à prendre le plus d’argent qu’on peut à une grande partie des citoyens, pour le donner à une autre partie." = "In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other."

"La morale est la même chez tous les hommes, donc elle vient de Dieu; le culte est différent, donc il est l’ouvrage des hommes." = "Morality is everywhere the same for all men, therefore it comes from God; sects differ, therefore they are the work of men."

"Qu’est-ce que la tolérance? c’est l’apanage de l’humanité. Nous sommes tous pétris de faiblesses et d’erreurs; pardonnons-nous réciproquement nos sottises, c’est la première loi de la nature." = "What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly — that is the first law of nature."

"Tous les hommes seraient donc nécessairement égaux, s’ils étaient sans besoins. La misère attachée à notre espèce subordonne un homme à un autre homme: ce n’est pas l’inégalité qui est un malheur réel, c’est la dépendance." = "All men would then be necessarily equal, if they were without needs. It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence."

"Virtue supposes liberty, as the carrying of a burden supposes active force. Under coercion there is no virtue, and without virtue there is no religion. Make a slave of me, and I shall be no better for it. Even the sovereign has no right to use coercion to lead men to religion, which by its nature supposes choice and liberty. My thought is no more subject to authority than is sickness or health."
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