Top Five Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambiguity lurks in generality and may thus become an instrument of severity. — Felix Frankfurter

There is no finer company than inspiration, but its very goodness will leave you heartsick when it goes. So do not waste time asking it to wipe its feet. Embrace it at the treshold. — Benjamin Wood

Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit. — Nana Mouskouri

Artists have to show us what is not going well within the person and within the society, not try to cover it up. — Nhat Hanh

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances. — Benjamin Franklin

We can not imaging the pain, You must all be feeling At the loss of Your loving son But just to let you know You are in our thoughts, At this very sad time. — Julie McGregor

Well, the infrastructure part of the stimulus has worked. There's absolutely no question about it. We can demonstrate in Pennsylvania and other states around the union how it's produced good, paying jobs both on the construction sites and back in American factories. It has worked. — Ed Rendell

Now the need for seeking something outside will completely disappear. Once you are blissful by your own nature, your life becomes an expression of your blissfulness, not a pursuit of happiness. — Sadhguru

My generation is the first in my species to have put fitness next to godliness on the scale of things. Keeping in shape has become the imperative of our middle age. The heaviest burden of guilt we carry into our forties is flab. Our sense of failure is measured by the grade on a stress test. — Ellen Goodman

And so we see the paradox that evolution has handed us. If man is the only animal whose consciousness of self gives him an unusual dignity in the animal kingdom, he also pays a tragic price for it. The fact that the child has to identify -first- means that his very first identity is a social product. His habitation of his own body is built from the outside in; not from the inside out. He doesn't unfold into the world, the world unfolds into him. As the child responds to the vocal symbols learned from his object, he often gives the pathetic impression of being a true social puppet, jerked by alien symbols and sounds. What sensitive parent does not have his satisfaction tinged with sadness as the child repeats with such vital earnestness the little symbols that are taught him? — Ernest Becker

There is also the issue of personal privacy when it comes the executive power. Throughout our nation's history, whether it was habeas corpus during the Civil War, Alien and Sedition Acts in World War I, or Japanese internment camps in World War II, presidents have gone too far. — Dick Durbin

To politicians, perception trumps reality. — H. Peter Alesso

I found college awkward: another teacher, same old chalkboard.
I felt I was shifting backward, when I expected to shoot forward. — MC Paul Barman

Believe me, there is no goal, nor a way to reach it. You are the way and the goal, there is nothing else to reach except yourself. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj