Random Quotes

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

John Stossel American Journalist

I kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real job.

Mary Chapin Carpenter American Musician

Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.

Anthony Powell British Novelist

I know now that it is going to be a tough and long road ahead of me.

Susan Smith American Criminal

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

John Cheever American Writer

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.

Paul Robeson American Actor

Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience.

Jonas Salk American Scientist

Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.

Casey Stengel American Athlete

However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.

Adam Clarke British Theologian

V-J Day, or Victory in Japan Day, marks the date of the Japanese surrender that ended fighting in the Pacific.

Doc Hastings American Politician

I think Israel will think one thousands times before invading Gaza.

Ahmed Yassin Palestinian Activist

There are so many people that don't believe in themselves and don't have faith.

Lenny Kravitz American Musician

If he was lost for a moment, he would dive straight back into its honey.

Laurence Olivier English Actor

Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.

Arthur Erickson Canadian Architect

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

Laurence J. Peter Canadian Writer

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

George Orwell British Author

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

William Shakespeare English Dramatist

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German Poet

I also don't like films that are made just to make money, no this kind of film I don't like.

Dario Argento Italian Director

It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can.

Sargent Shriver American Politician