Waikiki Inspirational Quotes & Sayings

It is always difficult for a woman to be grateful for a form of chivalry that seems to be based on the premise that she is a moron. — Alice Duer Miller

All right, so call me Miss Cliche of 1960, but the thing about the married ones that always spooks me is how sweet and attentive they are at first, when they're on the prowl. — S.J Perelman

It is as if a king had sent you to a country to carry out one special, specific task. You go to the country and you perform a hundred other tasks, but if you have not performed the task you were sent for, it is as if you have done nothing at all. So people have come into the world for particular tasks, and that is our purpose. If we don't perform it, we will have done nothing. — Rumi

The report falsely asserts that global warming is causing more extreme weather events, more droughts, more record high temperatures, more wildfires, warmer winters, etc., when each and every one of these false assertions is contradicted by objective, verifiable evidence. — James Taylor

At some point you may get fired, but don't worry you will learn from it — Nancy Giles

Choice of aim is clearly a matter of clarification of values, especially on the choice between possible options. — W. Edwards Deming

Forgiveness is a selective remembering. It is a conscious choice to focus on someone's innocence instead of his or her mistakes ... This serves *you* ... Your body was not created to bear the burden of your overattachment to it, but was created as a container for the light of your spirit. It will more easily remember how to function perfectly when you remember the perfection in everyone. — Marianne Williamson

The distinction of being without an honour is becoming a rare and valuable one and should not become extinct. — Robert Peel

I raised two sons, and I know that even though they're bigger and stronger than I am, they're still little boys inside. They still cry, they still hurt. So whenever I write a male character, no matter how 'heroic' he may be, I think of my sons. And I remember that every man was once a little boy. — Tess Gerritsen

The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage. — Ramana Maharshi

Only you can see true beauty when you focus your beautiful light on things. — Debasish Mridha

I've always been very tied to language. — Barbara Kruger

The music of lovers is not generally appreciated by lovers of music. — Mardy Grothe

The Auden/Kallman relationship had this to be said for it: It affirmed that it's better to be blatant than latent. — Christopher Hitchens