quotes

"We don't laugh because we're happy, we're happy because we laugh." William James

"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." Steve Prefontaine

"We are all trying to get better--if you're standing still, you're getting worse." Tiger Woods

"Strong reasons make strong actions." Shakespeare

"Change is inevitable, growth is intentional." Glenda Cloud

"We turn not older with years but newer every day." Emily Dickinson

"Every obstacle is destroyed through rigor." Leonardo da Vinci

"A tragic indicator of the values of our civilization is that there's no business like war business." Douglas Mattern, peace activist (b. 1933)

"I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me." Banksy, street artist (b. 1974)

"We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth." John F. Kennedy (October 26, 1963)

"The desire to make a mark is ancient. It seems that many species communicate through marking. My dog walks with me every day before we go to the studio. He continues to 'mark' on trees outside the post office after sniffing around for several minutes to sense what other dog has been there before. I retrieve my mail, I read it, I look through the catalogs and colorful junk mail, and he checks the tree. We are both receiving communication through marks." Annette Carroll Compton, Drawing from the Mind, Painting from the Heart

"People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt." Otto von Bismarck, statesman (1815-1898)

"Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds." Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957)

"That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not." James Kern Feibleman, philosopher and psychiatrist (1904-1987)

"A politician is a man who thinks of the next election; while the statesman thinks of the next generation." James Freeman Clarke, preacher and author (1810-1888)

"Winter is not a season; it's an occupation." Sinclair Lewis

"Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now -- always." Albert Schweitzer, philosopher, physician, musician, Nobel laureate (1875-1965)

"Technology is anything that was invented after you were born." Alan Kay

"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan." Eleanor Roosevelt

"A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original." Louis Armstrong

"Enjoy yourself. It's later than you think." Chinese Proverb

"Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing." Adolph Monod

"May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions." Joey Adams