Quotes

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

Nothing will work unless you do.

Life loves the liver of it.

~Maya Angelou~
 
biancataylor said:
All great achievements require time.

~Maya Angelou~

My great achievements with Ms. Bianca Taylor take no time. :p

~Scenicdrive Tzu~
 
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Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

Mark Twain
 
It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.

AESOP
Greek slave & fable author (620 BC - 560 BC)
 
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.


Aristotle
Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)
 
biancataylor said:
Note Doc..not just achievements but GREAT achievements
(Yes, yes, yes, my dear.)
It takes a great woman to make a man great. :cool:

~Scenicdrive Tzu~
 
I'm not sure who said this but.... " behind every strong man stands a strong woman "
 
biancataylor said:
I'm not sure who said this but.... " behind every strong man stands a strong woman "

You did
 
Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion. :)

(A tribute to the 'gone with the wind' Sam Jones/Lara Conbacio)

~Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, the great German Idealist~
 
What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it. :cool:

~Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, the great German Idealist~
 
“Dialectics gives expression to a law which is felt in all grades of consciousness and in general experience. Everything that surrounds us may be viewed as an instance of dialectic. We are aware that everything finite, instead of being inflexible, is rather changeable and transient; and this is exactly what we mean by the dialectic of the finite, by which the finite, as implicitly other than it is, is forced to surrender its own immediate or natural being, and turn suddenly into its opposite.”

~Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, the great German Idealist~
 
Respect yourself and others will respect you.

Confucius
 
A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

~ Niccolo Machiavelli
 
Before all else, be armed.

~ Machiavelli
 
Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

~ Machiavelli
 
He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.

~ Machiavelli
 
Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

~ Machiavelli
 
If a woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance; very various; heroic and mean; spendid and sordid; infinitely beautiful and hideous in the extreme; as great as a man, some think even greater.

Virginia Woolf