"Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands."
~~~~ Clint Eastwood
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Thought for Today
Monday, May 30, 2011
Thought for Today
"One way or the other, if you want to find reasons why you shouldn't keep on, you'll find 'em. The obstacles are all there; there are a million of 'em."
~~~~~ Benny Goodman
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Thought for Today
"Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it."
~~~~~ Louis Agassiz
Friday, May 27, 2011
Thought for Today
"Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for – because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything."
~~~~~ Peter Marshall
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Thought for Today
"No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been brought to ruin and reduced to slavery by suffering gradual impositions and abuses."
~~~~~ Edward Livingston
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Thought for Today
"In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try."
~~~~~ David Viscott
Monday, May 23, 2011
Thought for Today
"Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis."
~~~~~ Alfred P. Sloan
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Thought for Today
"Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it."
~~~~~ M. Scott Peck
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Thought for Today
"Try and live your life the way you wish other people would live theirs."
~~~~~ Raymond Burr
Friday, May 20, 2011
Thought for Today
"Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood."
~~~~~ Moshe Dayan
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Thought for Today
"I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground."
~~~~~ Serge Lang
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Thought for Today
"We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought."
~~~~~ Bertrand Russell
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Monday, May 16, 2011
Thought for Today
"A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad."
~~~~~ Bob Edwards
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Thought for Today
"A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth."
~~~~~ Max Frisch
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Thought for Today
"Truth is the greatest of all national possessions. A state, a people, a system which suppresses the truth or fears to publish it, deserves to collapse."
~~~~~ Kurt Eisner
Friday, May 13, 2011
Thought for Today
"Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind."
~~~~~ Daphne du Maurier
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Thought for Today
"Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin."
~~~~~ Henry Cabot Lodge
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Thought for Today
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool."
~~~~~ Richard P. Feynman
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Thought for Today
"The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any."
~~~~~ Fred Astaire
Monday, May 9, 2011
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Thought for Today
"My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference."
~~~~~ Harry S. Truman
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Thought for Today
"Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth."
~~~~~ Joseph Joubert
Friday, May 6, 2011
Thought for Today
"The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy."
~~~~~ Theodore White
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Thought for Today
"No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one."
~~~~~ Archibald Wavell
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Thought for Today
"Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen."
~~~~~ Horace Mann
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Thought for Today
"When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it."
~~~~~ Jacob Riis
Monday, May 2, 2011
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Thought for Today
"In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened."
~~~~~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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