Nice Ambience Quotes & Sayings

If history is to be creative, to anticipate a possible future without denying the past, it should, I believe, emphasize new possibilities by disclosing those hidden episodes of the past when, even if in brief flashes, people showed their ability to resist, to join together, occasionally to win. I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past's fugitive movements of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare. — Howard Zinn

Bailing on a company is just something you don't do. — Peter Fenton

Live Daringly! Give Boldly! Leave Love Everywhere You've Been! — D.J. Johnson

The more I see of life the more I perceive that only through solitary communion with nature can one gain an idea of its richness and meaning. — Cyril Connolly

America's leadership and prestige depend, not merely upon our unmatched material progress, riches and military strength, but on how we use our power in the interests of world peace and human betterment. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Blessed is he who has acquired a wealth of divine wisdom, but miserable he in whom there rests a dim opinion concerning the gods. — Empedocles

My one light American Spirit that I smoke once a week, on Saturday night. — Gwyneth Paltrow

Africans had to be taught that nudity is wicked; this was done very cheaply by missionaries. — Bertrand Russell

Real men don't make salad — Pete Decker

There are a significant number of learned men and women who hold that any successful effort to make ideas lively, intelligible and interesting is a manifestation of deficient scholarship. This is the fortress behind which the minimally coherent regularly find refuge. — John Kenneth Galbraith

The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch and a user with an idea. — Rick Cook

An' you told him what I said about a verbal contract not being worth the paper it's printed on? — Terry Pratchett

Whatsoever is good for God's children they shall have it, for all is theirs to further them to heaven; therefore, if poverty be good, they shall have it; if disgrace be good, they shall have it; if crosses be good, they shall have them; if misery be good, they shall have it; for all is ours, to serve for our greatest good. — Richard Sibbes

Amanda was always on her way somewhere. Sometimes she thought that feeling of moving forward was the only one she trusted. She just wondered whether she'd know when she was there. — Rachel Shukert