Quote of the day

Discussion in 'Discussion Group' started by Hught, Sep 21, 2012.

  1. Hught

    Hught Well-Known Member

    What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

    Jane Goodall,
    primatologist, anthropologist, conservationist
     
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  2. Hught

    Hught Well-Known Member

    There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

    Willa Cather, writer
     
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  3. Hught

    Hught Well-Known Member

    Rock stars come and go. Musicians play until they die.

    Eddie Van Halen,
    guitarist, songwriter, producer
    1955-2020
     
  4. Hught

    Hught Well-Known Member

    People really don't have to give you anything, so appreciate what people give you.

    Aretha Franklin,
    singer
     
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  5. Wayne Stollings

    Wayne Stollings Well-Known Member

    Except for those who only seem to want to give you bad advice... like don't wear a mask, Covid will disappear like magic soon, or the Earth is really flat.
     
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  6. Hught

    Hught Well-Known Member

    :)


    "What better time right now, we need this. I felt like this was the time for me to open my heart and my hand, and try to help."

    Dolly Parton,
    Country star, on her contribution to a promising coronavirus vaccine
     
  7. Wayne Stollings

    Wayne Stollings Well-Known Member

  8. Hught

    Hught Well-Known Member

    Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

    Thomas Huxley,
    biologist, anthropologist
     
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  9. Hught

    Hught Well-Known Member

    Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it'll always get you the right ones.
    John Lennon
    Singer-songwriter
     
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  10. Wayne Stollings

    Wayne Stollings Well-Known Member

    “One of the great challenges in life is knowing enough to think you're right but not enough to know you're wrong”

    ― Neil deGrasse Tyson
     
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  11. Hught

    Hught Well-Known Member

    Inspiration gives no warnings.

    Gabriel Garcia Marquez,
    writer, journalist, Nobel Prize winner
     
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  12. Hught

    Hught Well-Known Member

    Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.

    Charlotte Bronte,
    writer
     
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  13. Hught

    Hught Well-Known Member

    In light of my profession, this one is particularly relevant . . .

    I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

    Diane Sawyer,
    broadcast journalist
     
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  14. Hught

    Hught Well-Known Member

    The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

    Ray Kroc,
    businessman
     
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  15. DWK

    DWK Well-Known Member

    Abusers immediately switching from asserting sadistic domination OVER their victims, to demanding merciful empathy FROM their victims, is the basic “two-step” of any abusive relationship.

    Mike Duncan
    Historian and author of “The Storm Before the Storm:The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic”.
     
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  17. Hught

    Hught Well-Known Member

    My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

    Hank Aaron,
    Major League Baseball right fielder, former record holder for career home runs
    1934-2021
     
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  19. Hught

    Hught Well-Known Member

    For there is always light if only we're brave enough to see it, if only we're brave enough to be it.

    Amanda Gorman,
    National Youth Poet Laureate, during her speech at President Joe Biden's inauguration
     
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  20. Hught

    Hught Well-Known Member

    Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

    Muhammad Ali,
    professional heavyweight boxer, social activist, entertainer, philanthropist
     
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