Random Quotes

Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.

Bobby Knight American Coach

We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has.

Deborah Tannen American Sociologist

He said that if we were going to have a war, they would never be the first ones to start it.

Samantha Smith American Celebrity

This (George W. Bush's) administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations.

Ralph Nader American Lawyer

The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.

Max de Pree

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

Dorothy Day American Activist

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln American President

I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.

Anton Chekhov Russian Dramatist

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

George Bernard Shaw Irish Dramatist

The mainstream media showed, for example, no blood and guts resulting from the 9/11 attacks.

Bruce Jackson Public Servant

The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.

Mia Hamm American Athlete

Spiritual beings, either from the beginning or soon thereafter, become what they are to be for ever and ever.

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Italian Writer

There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.

Gertrude Stein American Author

If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience.

Kurt Loder American Journalist

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.

Pope John Paul II Polish Clergyman

Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.

Friedrich Nietzsche German Philosopher

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

Josh Billings American Comedian

I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone.

Richard Armour American Poet

I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.

Carl Sandburg American Poet

I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.

John Stuart Mill English Philosopher