Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot. ~Dutch Proverb
#proverbs #dutch-proverbs #health #disease

I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest. ~Alain Robert
#quotes #alain-robert #climbing #building

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

It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance. ~Spanish Proverb
#proverbs #spanish-proverbs #knowledge #speaking

I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking. ~Dan Savage
#quotes #dan-savage #baking

I really hate airport queues. I almost feel they should have cattle prods to hurry us up down the aisles. You can't even complain because they might stop you getting on to the flight. ~Len Goodman
#quotes #len-goodman #airports

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. ~James Stephens
#quotes #james-stephens #curiosity #fear

Children see things very well sometimes, and idealists even better. ~Lorraine Hansberry
#quotes #lorraine-hansberry #children #idealists

You seek problems because you need their gifts. ~Richard Bach
#quotes #richard-bach #hardship

A friend is known when needed. ~Saudi Proverb
#proverbs #saudi-proverbs #friendship

We must bear the medicine on account of its usefulness. ~Arabic Proverb
#proverbs #arabic-proverbs #medicine

I am still me even after all that has happened. ~Victoria Beckham
#quotes #victoria-beckham

Today, in the Internet gold rush, so many people go into dot-com jobs right from school or even before finishing. Their motivation is understandable, but sometimes they just lack experience. ~Mitch Kapor
#quotes #mitch-kapor #education #career #internet #motivation

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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. ~Theodore Roosevelt
#quotes #theodore-roosevelt #success #failure #trying

Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated; preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary. ~Thomas Sowell
#quotes #thomas-sowell #nuclear #bombing #terrorism

Just because I've stopped working doesn't mean that I've stopped being helpful. ~Walter Huston
#quotes #walter-huston #work #helping

A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages; in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy. ~Thomas Reid
#quotes #thomas-reid #philosophy #errors

Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have to dissolve the self into these larger universal truths, and explore these deeper mysteries. If it's purely autobiographical and ego-driven, it's going to fail. ~Nick Flynn
#quotes #nick-flynn #self #universe #ego

A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel. ~Portuguese Proverb
#proverbs #portuguese-proverbs #animals #cat #dog

Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night. ~Mary Lou Williams
#quotes #mary-lou-williams #career

The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature; that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone. ~Michael J. Fox
#quotes #michael-j-fox #nature #life #humility

Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result of being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings. ~Dave Barry
#quotes #dave-barry #love #marriage

I realized that even in a world of proliferating media venues, online and in print, and on TV and on countless cable channels, the idea that I could be considered an expert on chronic knee pain was I think troubling for society, but very exciting for me. ~John Hodgman
#quotes #john-hodgman #thinking #media

Whatever you choose you will repent because the other will remain and haunt you. If one needs absolute freedom then choiceless awareness is the only thing. ~Rajneesh
#quotes #rajneesh #choices