Famous Quotes: John F. Kennedy 102408

1. Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

2. The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

3. There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

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Famous Quotes: John F. Kennedy 101908

1. There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

2. We set sail on this new sea because there is knowledge to be gained.

3. When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.

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Famous Quotes: John F. Kennedy 100408

1. So, let us not be blind to our differences - but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.

2. The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

3. The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

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Famous Quotes: John F. Kennedy 092608

1. All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!"

2. As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

3. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

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Famous Quotes 091908

1. Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits, and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd tow'rs, the gorgeous palaces,

The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
Author: Prospero

2. All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.
Author: Jaques

3.If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
Author: Duke Orsino

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JK Rowling Quotes 091708

1. It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

2. Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

3. Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

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Famous Quotes: John F. Kennedy 091308

1. The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

2. The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

3. The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

- John F. Kennedy

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Famous Quotes: John F. Kennedy 083008

1. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

2. Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.

3. Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.

Author: John F. Kennedy

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Famous Quotes: John F. Kennedy

1. All of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea -- whether it is to sail or to watch it -- we are going back from whence we came.

2. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

3. The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.

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Famous Quotes 072108

The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does.
No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.
Author: Daisy Bates

There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.
Author: Christopher Darlington Morley

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
Author: Mark Twain

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Famous Quotes a420-a422

a420: My indignation, like th' imprisoned fire,
Pent in the troubled breast of glowing Etna,
Burnt deep and silent.
- Thomson.

a421: If anger is not restrained, it is frequently more hurtful to us, than the injury that provokes it.
- Seneco.

a422: O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth!
Then with a passion would I shake the world.
- Shakespeare.

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Fathers Day Text Messages a408-a410

a408: To My Father

It matters not that Time has shed
His thaw less snow upon your head,
For he maintains, with wondrous art,
Perpetual summer in your heart.
- William Hamilton Hayne

a409: None of you can ever be proud enough of being the child of such a Father who has not his equal in this world - so great, so good, so faultless. Try, all of you, to follow in his footsteps and don't be discouraged, for to be really in everything like him none of you, I am sure, will ever be. Try, therefore, to be like him in some points, and you will have acquired a great deal.
- Queen Victoria of England.

a410: Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown.
- Unknown.

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Fathers Day Text Messages a405-a407

a405: A little girl needs Daddy
For many, many things:
Like holding her high off the ground
Where the sunlight sings!
Like being the deep music
That tells her all is right
When she awakens frantic with
The terrors of the night.

Like being the great mountain
That rises in her heart
And shows her how she might get home
When all else falls apart.

Like giving her the love
That is her sea and air,
So diving deep or soaring high
She will always find him there.

a406: Our fathers toil with hands and heart
To make our lives complete.
They quietly brave the winter cold,
Endure the summer heat.

Our fathers' lives are busy, but
There's always time for us.
They boldly face the ups and downs
And seldom ever fuss.

Our fathers are the greatest dads.
We know you know this, too.
But thank you for the chance to share
Our love for them with you.

a407: A Father means so many things...
A understanding heart,
A source of strength and of support
Right from the very start.
A constant readiness to help
In a kind and thoughtful way.
With encouragement and forgiveness
No matter what comes your way.
A special generosity and always affection, too
A Father means so many things
When he's a man like you.

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Famous Quotes a399-a401

a399: To be angry, is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves.
- Pope.

a400: The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves and we injure our own cause, in the opinion of the world, when we too passionately and eagerly defend it.
- Colton.

a401: When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.
- Haliburton.

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Famous Quotes a381-a383

a381: Anger is blood, pour'd and perplexed into a froth.
- Davenant.

a382: My rage is not malicious; like a spark
Of fire by steel inforced out of a flint
It is no sooner kindled, but extinct.
- Goffe.

a383: There is no nature
A thing that makes a man so deform'd, so beastly,
As doth intemperate anger.
- Webster's Duchess of Malp.

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Famous Quotes a372-a374

a372: We are ne'er like angels 'till our passion dies.
- Dekker.

a373: Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
- Pope.

a374: Be ye angry and sin not; let not the sun go down upon your wrath.
- EPh.iv 26.

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Famous Quotes a364-a365

a364: Man hath two attendant angels,
Ever waiting by his side,
With his wheresoe'r he wonders,
Wheresoe'r his feet abide;
One to warm him when he darkleth,
And rebuke him if he stray;
One to leave him to his nature,
And so let him go his way.
- Prince.

a365: A guardian angel o'er his life presides,
Doubling his pleasures and his cares dividing.
- Rogers.

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Famous Quotes a356-a357

a356: The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustration ancestors, is like a potato--the only thing belonging to him is underground.
- Sir T. Overbury.

a357: So dear to heaven is saintly chastity,
That when a soul is found sincerely so
A thousand liveried angels lackey her.
- Milton.

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Famous Quotes a337

Live as if you're going to die tomorrow;
Learn as if you're going to live forever.
- Mahatma Gandhi.

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Famous Quotes a307-a309

a307: Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise.
By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies?
Heaven still with laughter the vain toil surveys,
And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
- Pope.

a308: The mind ought sometimes to be amused, that it may the better return to thought, and to itself.
- Phaedrus.

a309: I am one,
Who finds within me a nobility
That spurns the idle prating of the great,
And their mean boast of what their fathers were,
While they themselves are fools effeminate.
The scorn of all who know the worth of mind and virtue.
- Percival.

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