Archives for January 2025

There’s as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.
—F. Trammell Crow (American Businessman)

In the racial picture things will never be as they once were. History has reached a turning point, here and over the world.
—Medgar Evers (American Activist)

We have no right to say that the universe is governed by natural laws, but only that it is governed according to natural laws.
—William Benjamin Carpenter (English Biologist)

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.
—Marlon Brando (American Actor)

The perfect way is without difficulty, for it avoids picking and choosing. Only when you stop liking and disliking will all be clearly understood. Be not concerned with right or wrong, for the conflict between right and wrong is the sickness of the mind.
—Jianzhi Sengcan (Chinese-Buddhist Monk)

The only menace is inertia.
—Saint-John Perse (French Poet)

The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but by what takes place in our hearts.
—Arthur A. Kent (American Inventor)

Reality is, after all, too big for our frail understanding to fully comprehend. Nevertheless, we have to build our life on the theory which contains the maximum truth. We cannot sit still because we cannot, or do not, know the Absolute Truth.
—Subhas Chandra Bose (Indian Nationalist Leader)

Remember this: your body is your slave; it works for you.
—Jack LaLanne (American Fitness Guru)

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
—Matsuo Basho (Japanese Poet)

There is more similarity in the marketing challenge of selling a precious painting by Degas and a frosted mug of root beer than you ever thought possible.
—A. Alfred Taubman (American Businessman)

For national leaders it is sometimes easier to fight than to talk. Impatient cries for total victory are usually more popular than the patient tolerance required of a people whose leaders are seeking peaceful change down the intricate paths of diplomacy.
—Harlan Cleveland (American Diplomat)

Opportunities are seldom labeled.
—John Augustus Shedd (American Author)

Dream big and dare to fail.
—Norman D. Vaughan (American Sportsman, Explorer)

Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.
—Colley Cibber (English Playwright)

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
—John Barth (American Novelist)

Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child.
—Tina Brown (British-American Journalist, Editor)

I have been extraordinarily lucky. Anyone who pretends that some kind of luck isn’t involved in his success is deluding himself.
—Arthur Hailey (Canadian Novelist)

If we take care of the inches we will not have to worry about the miles.
—Hartley Coleridge (British Poet)

Don’t tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done.
—James J. Ling (American Businessman)

Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.
—C. William Pollard (American Businessman, Author)

For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.
—Margaret Lucas Cavendish (English Aristocrat, Philosopher, Writer)

We have to recognize accident, i.e., the fact that there is no formula, no ‘principle’, which covers all things; that there is no totality or system of things. And this recognition at once supports a life of ‘responsibility and adventure’ and leads to scientific discovery.
—John Anderson (Scottish Philosopher)

Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as flying animals, that nevertheless rarely or never actually flew. They would also be perplexed if they encountered in our seas, lakes, rivers, and ponds, creatures defined as swimmers that never did any swimming. But they would be even more surprised to encounter a species defined as a thinking animal if, in fact, the creature very rarely indulged in actual thinking.
—Steve Allen (American Entertainer)

The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.
—Ashleigh Brilliant (British Cartoonist)

The past, though it cannot be relived, can always be repaired.
—John La Farge (American Artist, Writer)