"Excellence is not an act, but a continuous habit" -Aristotle (I believe).
2007-02-08 07:37:43 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
"Thy will be done" - Jesus Christ
"this too shall pass" - A. Lincoln
"it goes on" - R. Frost
2007-02-08 08:42:30 · answer #1 · answered by DeanPonders 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"my favorite quote" varies from day to day, but here are two I found recently:
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children . . . Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."
http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/chance.htm
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Excerpt from "The Chance for Peace" address delivered before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16, 1953
“We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security." - Dwight David Eisenhower
2007-02-08 12:03:22 · answer #2 · answered by wholenote4 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
“You mean to say that when an imbecile walks into a church, office, day care center, or school, stumbling about, almost zombie-like, with gun-filled hands at his side, blabbering incoherently to his next victim, the reaction of grown men and women is to run, cry, whimper, and hide under a desk or pew? The sheeping of America is nearly complete.”
2007-02-08 08:43:30 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Through me is the way into the woeful city; through me is the way into eternal woe; through me is the way among the lost people. Justice moved my lofty maker: the divine Power, the supreme Wisdom and the primal Love made me. Before me were no things created, unless eternal, and I eternal last. Abandon all hope, ye who enter!" - Dante's Inferno
"Nothing good ever comes from staying with normal people." - Outlaw Star
"I think therefore I am." - Descartes
"All knowledge is worth knowing." - Kushiel's Chosen by Jacquelynn Carey
"Do no harm." - Wicca Mantra
"Not all who wander are lost." - unknown
"God is dead." - Nietzche
2007-02-08 09:16:04 · answer #4 · answered by AthenaGenesis 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mark Twain said:
"The difference between the almost right word & the right word is really a large matter--it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning."
2007-02-08 10:47:16 · answer #5 · answered by Ace Librarian 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How much the wind ever wines, behind the clouds sun always shines.
2007-02-08 07:59:18 · answer #6 · answered by x•°meadow°•-|- 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
Robert Frost
2007-02-08 07:51:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
"The only way we can win is to leave before the job is done." --George W. Bush, Greeley, Colo., Nov. 4, 2006
2007-02-08 08:10:32 · answer #8 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cook a man a fish and he eats for a day.
Teach him to fish and you have the weekends to yourself
2007-02-08 10:43:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
"If you can keep your head while all around you are losing theirs then you probably haven't checked with your answering service."
-- Captain Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce
2007-02-08 08:13:35 · answer #10 · answered by sarge927 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋