Everything Quotes: Inspirations for All Aspects of Life (Page 9)

"Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Plans are nothing; planning is everything"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

"I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election"

Margaret Thatcher, Leader

"So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"A place for everything, and everything in its place"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"Most new jobs won't come from our biggest employers. They will come from our smallest. We've got to do everything we can to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality"

Ross Perot, Businessman

"Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless"

Doug Coupland, Author

"I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies"

Will Rogers, Actor

"Christmas makes everything twice as sad"

Doug Coupland, Author

"Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair"

Doug Coupland, Author

"Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value"

Doug Coupland, Author

"It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists"

John Ruskin, Writer

"Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish"

Ovid, Poet

"But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time"

Ovid, Poet

"Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock"

Anaxagoras, Philosopher

"Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate"

W. H. Auden, Poet

"If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?"

Vince Lombardi, Coach

"Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything"

Vince Lombardi, Coach

"I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything"

Don Van Vliet, Artist

"I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening"

Don Van Vliet, Artist

"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher