Destinados Para Quotes & Sayings

Ever since I was in Amherst College I have remembered how Garman told his class in philosophy that if they would go along with events and have the courage and industry to hold to the main stream, without being washed ashore by the immaterial cross currents, they would someday be men of power. He meant that we should try to guide ourselves by general principles and not get lost in particulars. That may sound like mysticism, but it is only the mysticism that envelopes every great truth. One of the greatest mysteries in the world is the success that lies in conscientious work. — Calvin Coolidge

But you cant be alive forever, and you always wear out life long before you have exhausted the possibilities of living. And all that must be somewhere; all that could not have been invented and created just to be thrown away. And the earth is shallow; there is not a great deal of it before you come to the rock. And the earth dont want to just keep things, hoard them; it wants to use them again. — William Faulkner

It is no misfortune if you do not know where you are going; it is far worse when there is no longer anywhere to go. He who stands on the path of experience cannot step away from it, even when it has come to its end. For the path is without end. — Marina Dyachenko

As long as our well-being depends on income, and income, for most depends on work, love will always be secondary... — Miya Tokumitsu

I'm usually pretty good in front of a live audience. I usually like that. — Michael Keaton

Each of our personal harbingers of doom is in reality the Ark which has brought us to this unique place and given us our unique Survivor's Perspective. — Robert Palasciano

Don't just do what is required, do what is respected then, at you'll know, you did the right thing even if it works out wrong. — Michael P. Naughton

Education is being redefined at the demand of the uneducated to suit the ideas of the uneducated. The student now goes to college to proclaim, rather than to learn. — Spiro T. Agnew

Emancipate yourself from the impotent mindset of, "It is what it is". Life does not come labeled; it is what you make it. — Steve Maraboli

The signatories quote various Muslim authorities and then proceed to the final and most important part of their declaration, the fatwa, laying down that to kill Americans and their allies, both civil and military, is an individual duty of every Muslim who is able, in any country where this is possible, until the Aqsa mosque [in Jerusalem] and the Haram mosque [in Mecca] are freed from their grip, and until their armies, shattered and broken-winged, depart from all the lands of Islam, incapable of threatening any Muslim. — Bernard Lewis

My God, there are times when the sexiest thing a woman can give a man is permission. — Jim Butcher

I rather doubt that life has a meaning. If I thought perhaps it did, and I wanted to find out what its meaning is, I don't imagine I'd ask someone whose credentials consist of a PhD in philosophy. — Jerry Fodor

I'm usually reading too many books - in fact, I'm usually reading enough books that if the stack fell on me, I'd be injured. — Nick Harkaway

All that is good in our history is gathered in libraries. At this moment, Plato is down there at the library waiting for us. So is Aristotle. Spinoza is there and so is Kats. Shelly and Byron adn Sam Johnson are there waiting to tell us their magnificent stories. All you have to do is walk in the library door and the great company open their arms to you. They are so happy to see you that they come out with you into the street and to your home. And they do what hardly any friend will-- they are silent when you wish to think. — Will Durant

Joe sang the loudest of all. He said, you belong to me. — T.J. Klune