I don't care how paranoid and irrational this makes me sound, but I know for a fact that the people of Paris want me dead.
William Cullen Bryant
I can tell you that tonight in Des Moines, Iowa, my home town, people all across the city will be putting a hand to their ears and saying "What is that sound?", and it will be the sound of Mr De Vito, my High School Careers Officer, spinning in his grave.
William Cullen Bryant
It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
Jonathan Swift
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
Robert Louis Stevenson
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what\'s really going on to be scared.
P J Plauger
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what\'s really going on to be scared.
P. J. Plauger
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what\'s really going on to be scared.
P. J. Plauger
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
Dwight David Eisenhower
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
Victor Hugo
Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.
Joseph Addison
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
John Muir
God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
John Muir
The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!
Earl Nightingale
We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.
Stephen Covey