Movements are as eloquent as words. ~Isadora Duncan
#quotes #isadora-duncan #sports #language

The apparent world, the one which is perceived, with its figures, its brightness, its colors, is a psychical product, a creation of the observer. The figures seen on the vault of heaven are neither the celestial bodies, nor the true clouds or the falling stars, but are only effigies which the observer's psyche has created and localized how and where it can. ~Vasco Ronchi
#quotes #vasco-ronchi #world

If you were to open up a baby's head, and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should; you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland. ~Dave Barry
#quotes #dave-barry #humor

I would say you have an ethical obligation to pay the taxes that you owe, but you don't have an ethical obligation to pay taxes that you do not owe. In fact, you should be seeking ways to legally minimise your taxes. ~John Mackey
#quotes #john-mackey #taxation #ethics

To create worry humans elongate fear with anticipation and memory, expand it in imagination and fuel it with emotion. The uniquely human mental process called worrying depends upon having a brain that can reason, remember, reflect, feel, and imagine. Only humans have a brain big enough to do this simultaneously and do it well. ~Edward Hallowell
#quotes #edward-hallowell #mind #memories #imagination

Take heed: you do not find what you do not seek. ~English Proverb
#proverbs #english-proverbs #motivation

I'm terrified of learning lines, and I've always been terrified that I won't learn them. ~Helen Mirren
#quotes #helen-mirren

There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen. ~Leland Stanford
#quotes #leland-stanford #industry

This Bush administration has a growing credibility gap, maybe even a credibility chasm, on environmental policy. The President has lost the trust of the American people when it comes to the environment. ~Jim Jeffords
#quotes #jim-jeffords #bush #environment #politics

May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors. ~Michael Servetus
#quotes #michael-servetus #god #mistakes

But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought of freedom, in that hope itself possess. All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength. The scorn of danger, and united hearts. The surest presage of the good they seek. ~William Cowper
#quotes #william-cowper #liberty

My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds. ~Annie Leibovitz
#quotes #annie-leibovitz #love #hope #world

No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble. ~Annie Proulx
#quotes #annie-proulx

I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment. ~Maria Monk
#quotes #maria-monk #christianity #power

Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks. ~Samuel P. Huntington
#quotes #samuel-p-huntington #united-states #black

The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations. ~Richard Reti
#quotes #richard-reti #games

The past has been a mint of blood and sorrow. That must not be true of tomorrow. ~Langston Hughes
#quotes #langston-hughes #optimism

I was very young. I thought I knew a lot and I really didn't. I trusted the wrong people. ~Tia Carrere
#quotes #tia-carrere #trust

For him and his brother, he now knew, that music was real. Because all you had to do, really, was be willing to use your imagination. And listen. ~Holly Goldberg Sloan
#quotes #holly-goldberg-sloan #imagination #music

In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight. ~Bobby Rahal
#quotes #bobby-rahal #competition

I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes. ~Camille Paglia
#quotes #camille-paglia #james-wolcott

All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth. ~Ted Williams
#quotes #ted-williams #work #management

Death closes all doors. ~English Proverb
#proverbs #english-proverbs #death

I've seen looting around the world and thought I knew the best looters in the world. The Iraqis excel at that. ~David Kay
#quotes #david-kay #iraq

If you are a really good marathoner, you have to run New York. ~Haile Gebrselassie
#quotes #haile-gebrselassie #marathon #running #new-york