Motivational and Inspirational Quotes and Sayings

James Michener

Motivational Sayings — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:58:06 +0000

"I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions."

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Motivational Sayings — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:17:06 +0000

Weekend Caption Jam Linkfest. . . Rodney is ready to square off. Wizbang is looking in a different direction. Wyatt Earp runnin’ from the law. Cowboy Blob is pinchin’ a log RT’s Ponderings is having a meltdown. Willisms coulda had a G-8. The Gone Rick Motel had the holstein. Right Pundits thinks his smells like roses. Congrats to Blonde Sagacity on their new addition. *** not...

Thomas Paine

Quote of the Day — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:05:14 +0000

"We have it in our power to begin the world over again."

Dave Barry

Motivational Sayings — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:22:27 +0000

"We should enact an 'e' tax. Government agents would roam the country looking for stores whose names contained any word that ended in an unnecessary 'e,' such as 'shoppe' or 'olde,' and the owners of these stores would be taxed at a flat rate of $50,000 per year per 'e.' We should also consider an additional $50,000 'ye' tax, so that the owner of a store called 'Ye Olde Shoppe' would have to fork over $150,000 a year. In extreme cases, such as 'Ye Olde Barne Shoppe,' the owner would simply be taken outside and shot."

Troopergate: Palin Abused Powers, Violated Law

Motivational Sayings — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:03:43 +0000

The Republican-dominated Alaska legislature released its Troopergate investigation results last night and Sarah Palin does not come out covered in glory. Anchorage Daily News reports, under the headline “Troopergate report: Palin abused power,” A legislative investigation has concluded that Gov. Sarah Palin abused her power in pushing for the firing of an Alaska state trooper who...

Sarah Palin, Ignoramus

Motivational Sayings — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:23:53 +0000

Several commentators have objected to my characterization of Sarah Palin as an”ignoramus” in the post below. I’m simply using the term in its precise meaning as “an extremely ignorant person.” The dictionary definition of ignorant: 1. lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man. 2. lacking knowledge or information as to a particular subject...

John Lennon

Motivational Sayings — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:58:38 +0000

"Love is needing to be loved."

Mahatma Gandhi

Motivational Sayings — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:20:34 +0000

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

C.S. Lewis

Motivational Sayings — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:43:06 +0000

"A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere--'Bibles laid open, millions of surprises,' as Herbert says, 'fine nets and stratagems.' God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous."

Dwight Eisenhower

Motivational Sayings — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:09:35 +0000

"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field."

Fred Allen

Motivational Sayings — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 08:20:34 +0000

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

Andy Warhol

Motivational Sayings — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 08:14:52 +0000

"I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom."

Mark Twain

Motivational Sayings — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:04:40 +0000

"It is noble to be good; it is still nobler to teach others to be good - and less trouble."

E.B. White

Quote of the Day — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:04:10 +0000

"I wake each morning torn between the desire to improve the world and the desire to enjoy it. It makes it hard to plan the day."

Henry Thoreau

Motivational Sayings — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:50:16 +0000

"It is not what you look at, but what you see."

Bill Clinton

Quote of the Day — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:00:00 +0000

Without a high pain threshold, you can't be a successful President.

Homer Simpson

Motivational Sayings — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:20:34 +0000

Old people don't need companionship. They need to be isolated and studied so it can be determined what nutrients they have that might be extracted for our personal use.

Dante Alighieri

Motivational Sayings — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:57:56 +0000

"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis."

Victor Borge

Motivational Sayings — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:56:02 +0000

"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."

T.S. Eliot

Motivational Sayings — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:49:30 +0000

"Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome."