October 2018 Quotations (56)

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."
~~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. [1929-68]

"Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon."
~~ Woody Allen

"You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway."
~~ Walt Disney [1901-66]

"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."
~~ Ernest Hemingway [1899-1961]

"If we're serious about preventing catastrophic warming, we can't dig any new coal mines, drill any new fields, build any more pipelines. Not a single one."
~~ eco-activist Bill McKibben

"Power is like being a lady . . . If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."
~~ Margaret Thatcher [1925-2013], former U.K. Prime Minister

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing you can do is keep your mind young."
~~ Mark Twain [1835-1910]

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
~~ Mahatma Gandhi [1869-1948]

"Only a fool would try to deprive men and women of their right to join a union of their choice."
~~ Gen. Dwight D. 'Ike' Eisenhower [1890-1969]

"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart."
~~ Eleanor Roosevelt [1884-1962]

"Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe."
~~ Thomas Jefferson [1743-1826]

"Make perfect art and you will be admired. Make imperfect art and you will be loved."
~~ experimental filmmaker Jack Smith [1932-89]

"Looks like they're gonna do it, Kavanaugh on the court: women of America, consider yourself boofed."
~~ TV talk show host Bill Maher

"Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.”
~~ musician Frank Ocean

“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”
~~ Theodore Roosevelt [1858-1919]

"There can be no peace without justice and respect for human rights."
~~ lawyer Irene Khan

"A leader is best when people barely know [that] he exists; when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves."
~~ Chinese philosopher Lao-Tzu [IVth Century B.C.E.]

"The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity."
~~ salesman & speaker Zig Ziglar [1926-2012]

"All political power emanates from the barrel of a gun."
~~ Chairman Mao Tse-tung [1893-1976], in 1927

"[Donald Trump is] the biggest moronic liar America has ever known."
~~ Truth Matters, on Facebook

"K.K.K. stands for KnucKle-draggers of AmeriKa."
~~ G.E. Nordell

"Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever."
~~ author & speaker Felice Leonardo 'Leo' Buscaglia, PhD [1924-98]

Dunning Kruger Effect: "Never expect rational debate with someone who thinks taxes are theft."

"Either everyone counts in America or no one does."
~~ Beto O'Rourke

"The divine right of kings has been replaced by the divine right of wealth – and it looks almost exactly the same."
~~ author Naomi Klein

"What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?"
~~ Thomas Jefferson [1743-1826]

"The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor."
~~ George Bernard Shaw [1856-1950]

"When the speech condemns a free press, you are hearing the words of a tyrant."
{Thomas Jefferson [1743-1826] never said this, so I might as well do so} ~~ G.E. Nordell

"Honesty and integrity are by far the most important assets of an entrepreneur."
~~ salesman & speaker Zig Ziglar [1926-2012]

"Clean up your act . . . Try to act Presidential"
~~ tweet response by John O. Brennan to tweet by {hashtag} realDonaldTrump

"For 2 years [Trump] has been pushing hate, bigotry, and violence from his podium. It's way past time for this to STOP!"
~~ Help STOP Truth Decay, on Facebook

"Knowledge has an infinite scope, and could take us across the galaxy."
~~ physicist David Deutsch of U.K.

"If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all . . . and don't write it on Facebook either!"
~~ Anonymous

"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you."
~~ novelist Anne Lamott

"Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on."
~~ Louis L'Amour [1908-88]

"Travel and tell no one, live a true love story and tell no one, live happily and tell no one - people ruin beautiful things."
~~ Kahlil Gibran [1883-1931]

"Your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born but not a child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed. That's not pro-life. That's pro-birth."
~~ Sister Joan D. Chittister, O.S.B.

"We live in capitalism, its power seems unescapable - but then, so did the divine right of kings."
~~ fantasy author Ursula K. Le Guin [1929-2018]

"The power of the people is stronger than the people in power."
~~ internet activist Wael Ghonim

"There is a special place in hell for women who do not help other women."
~~ Madeleine Albright

"If we become too timid to fight for what is right and just, we will lose in the legislatures what we have won on the picket lines."
~~ labor leader James R. 'Jimmy' Hoffa [1913-75]

"Whatever you do, never run back to what broke you."
~~ musician Frank Ocean

"When you stop treating people like a waste of time or a dollar sign, then you can begin to add real value to your life."
~~ Kora-lea Vidal

"I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement in the U.S. that thinks Americans are not selfish enough."
~~ Christopher Hitchens [1949-2011]

"Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature, unaware that the Nature [that] he is destroying is this God [that] he is worshipping."
~~ Canadian scientist Hubert Reeves

"Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?"
~~ Steve Jobs [1955-2011]

"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for the wrong reasons."
~~ R. Buckminster Fuller [1895-1983]

"Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them."
~~ Alfred North Whitehead, OM FRS [1861-1947]

"Scientists and artists are the world's noticers. Their job is simply to notice what other people cannot."
~~ physicist Frank Oppenheimer [1912-85]

"The whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room."
~~ Orson Welles [1915-85]

"Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul."
~~ Gen. Douglas MacArthur [1880-1964]

"When you are face to face with a difficulty, you are up against a discovery."
~~ British physicist William Thomson, Lord Kelvin [1824-1907]

"The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children."
~~ Clarence Darrow [1857-1938]

"Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave."
~~ Frederick Douglass [1818-95]

"The truth is like a lion. You don't have to defend it. Let it loose. It will defend itself."
~~ Saint Augustine [354-430 C.E.] of Hippo

"Today is the word for winners and tomorrow is the word for losers."
~~ motivational speaker Robert Kiyosaki

{each set of posted quotations are then posted at the Working Minds website, alphabetical by author}