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Interesting Quotes
" Facts always get in the way of a good story " - A common saying in journalism
" Free is more Expsensive " - An Arab friend referring to 'free' hospitality
" The definition of stupidity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." Albert Einstein
" Dropped objects seek the point of least accessibility " Dilbert Laws of Physics
" When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging " - Denis Healey
" When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature then temples, mosques and churches become important " - Krishnamurti
" Highly educated people are fools outside their areas of expertise " Baber from Little Mosque on the Prarie
" Worrying is like a rocking chair, it is a lot of motion but it doesn't get you anywhere "
" What is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth " Richard Feynman
" Life is a Preparation for Death" -
"...the general picture of social interaction....is one of people actively involved in many different dramas: people are constantly changing costumes and roles. learning and adhering to a complex matrix of conventional behavior, and working hard to maintain their performance in each ongoing situation without undermining or threatening their different behaviors in other situation" Erving Goffman
" History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme " by Mark Twain
" 70 percent of praise is sarcasm "
" The smaller the pie, the bigger the politics "
" When a salesperson with education meets a client with money, the salesperson ends up with the money and the client ends up with an education "
" Art reflects the way the world should be "
" Save the Planet, Kill Yourself" Church of Euthanasia bumpersticker
" If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have one idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas..." George B. Shaw
" I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all." - Leo Rosten
" Live every day as though it were your last, learn every day as if you will live forever " Gandhi
" Engineering is doing for $1 what any fool can do for $10 "
" My grand-father was a coal miner so his son could be a doctor so I could be a poet "
" Two times zero is still zero and half of infinity is still infinity " - Understanding FEA Numbers
" The grand paradox of life is that one must suffer to enjoy it " - Scott Stoll
" Can you imagine what would happen if everyone will be a 'sensible' user of Frequent Flier miles? One will never be able to get an award. The whole system will lose value immensely once all user will start making sensible choices. " A user on flyertalk.com
" Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing " Lao Tzu
" There is nothing new under the sun "
" People only show their true colors when money is on the line "
" Too much of anything is never good "
" Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs " - Henry Ford
" When the ducks quack, feed them." Wall Street
" Experience makes an intelligent wan wiser but a foolish man dumber "
" Cambodians believe we just rent this body, it is just a house for the spirit, and if the house is full of termites, it is time to leave." Dith Pran
" When the logical appears illogical, then the illogical must become the logical " Spock
" If you don't know anything about the item you are buying then buy the second cheapest brand ".
" Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak."
" The way you can tell a psychologist from a group of men in a room is to watch what they do when a beautiful woman enters . The men will all turn to look at the woman, while the psychologist turns to look at the men. "
" The less one understands something, the greater one's faith in its capabilities "
" The most important customer is the unsatisfied one. "
" Those who do not find time for exercise will have to make time for illness" -Earl of Derby
" If you think education is expensive, try ignorance . "
" I can live with doubt and uncertainty. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong." Richard Feynman
" You know, science or knowledge is just a method. The thing is how to use that. Science itself is wonderful. Sometimes we use that knowledge for destruction. It.s not science's mistake, it's our mistake. Similarly, some people manipulate religion in the wrong way. It's not the fault of religion, it is the fault of people and politics. People talk about dirty science. There is also dirty religion and dirty politics. " Dalai Lama commenting on suicide bombings
" The people who talk don't know and the people who know don't tell" - Lao Tzu
" The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity. " - Voltaire
" If we are not failing most of the times we are not taking enough risk " The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
" The problem with the rat race is even if you win, you're still a rat " Lily Tomlin
" Two hands working accomplish more than a thousand clasped in prayer "
" Less is more "
" We live in a world were each move is dictated by the previous one " Tom Stoppard
" Has God created Man or Man created God? And if Man created God, does that mean he exists? "
" A little philosophy inclienth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion " Francis Bacon
" When the person you are arguing with resorts to Ad hominem, you can rest assured you have won the argument. "
" When you do not understand something, it is human nature to criticize it".
" When in Rome do as the Romans do "
" Your priorites in life should be Health, Family, Friends and Money last; sadly most people have this reversed . "
" The Pleasure lies Not in the Having but in the Wanting" - Anthony Hopkins in the movie, "Shadowlands" ( 1993 )
" We read to know we are not alone" - Anthony Hopkins as CS Lewis
" Life is a zero-sum game "
" The enemy of my enemy is my friend " - An Arab saying
" If my film makes one more person miserable, I've done my job. " Woody Allen
" Different strokes for different folks"
" Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. " Albert Einstein
" To each their own"
" We change yet we remain the same"
" I AM THAT I AM" , God ( Exodus 3:14)
" Think of your investment plan as a pyramid, you will want the bottom to be solid, with investments like CDs and/or government bonds, then you diversify into mutual funds, and last stocks. Don't put the cart before the horse." www.FinancialEssentials.net
A lot of folks used to ask Sam Walton: "Could a Wal-Mart-type story still occur in this day and age? My answer is of course it could happen again. Somewhere out there right now there's someone - probably hundreds of thousands of someones - with good enough ideas to go it all the way. It will be done again, over and over, providing that someone wants it badly enough to do what it takes to get there. It's all a matter of attitude and the capacity to constantly study and question the management of the business."
" Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect " - Mark Twain
" Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own " - Chinese proverb
" As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do " - Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919)
" The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment " - T. H. White
" What luck for the rulers that men do not think " - Adolf Hitler
" If you want to make enemies, try to change something " - Woodrow Wilson
" I Have nothing New to teach the World. Truth and Non-violence are as Old as the Hills" Gandhi
" Life is only as tough as the competition you have to face" Michael Jordan
" Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first " Mark Twain
" Curiousity + Time = Wisdom "
" Ignorance + Time = Stupidity "
" Stress + Time = Rage "
" Truth is ridding Oneself of Lies" Descartes
" We say Obviously, when Nothing in this World is Obvious"
" Your Mind is like a Parachute, It only Functions when Open" A Bumper Sticker
" There is Nothing Inside me Except my Life" From a film by Werner Herzog
" We Become Critics when We Fail at our Own Art" ??
" You can take people out of the gutter but you can't take the gutter out of the people".
" Although some excellent blogs do exist, most are written by monkeys banging on keyboards, disturbed or narcissistic individuals, failed novelists, pseudo-intellectual pinheads, and other morons who have no business stepping up to a public soapbox. So why be part of that?" - http://miserlybastard.blogspot.com
" Education is something we all pay for, but care not to get our money's worth." Anonymous
" Education is that that remains after we forget everything"
" Life is what happens to us while we are busy making other plans "
" Reality is 20% of Expectation " Faraz Hussain
" Endure what you cannot cure!! " Charlotte Bronte
" ASSUME makes an ASS out of U and ME"
" Without challenge there is no achievment "
" How do I know what I think till I see what I have written? "
" Truth is stranger than fiction "
" If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for? "
" Your future depends on your dreams , so go to sleep "
" Hard work never killed anybody but why take the risk "