Great short quotes - Page 306

M. Scott Peck

You cannot truly listen to anyone a…

27 Apr , 2010  

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time. Great short quote and quotation by: M. Scott Peck ,

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Michelangelo, Poem Fragment

You conquer every hardness with you…

27 Apr , 2010  

You conquer every hardness with your eyes, as you do likewise every light; so if it can happen that one can die of joy, now would be the time. Great short quote and quotation by: Michelangelo, Poem Fragment ,

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Heraclitus, On the Universe

You could not step twice into the s…

27 Apr , 2010  

You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you. Great short quote and quotation by: Heraclitus, On the Universe , Greek philosopher (540 BC – 480 BC)

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Heraclitus of Ephesus

You could not step twice into the s…

27 Apr , 2010  

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you. Great short quote and quotation by: Heraclitus of Ephesus ,

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William Shakespeare

You cram these words into mine ears…

27 Apr , 2010  

You cram these words into mine ears against the stomach of my sense. Great short quote and quotation by: William Shakespeare , Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

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Patty Hansen, Prevention Magazine, 11-05

You create your opportunities by as…

27 Apr , 2010  

You create your opportunities by asking for them. Great short quote and quotation by: Patty Hansen, Prevention Magazine, 11-05 ,

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Eric Hoffer

You dehumanize a man as much by ret…

27 Apr , 2010  

You dehumanize a man as much by returning him to nature – by making him one with rocks, vegetation, and animals – as by turning him into a machine. Both the natural and the mechanical are the opposite of that which is uniquely human. Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated […]

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Henri-Fr?d?ric Amiel

You desire to know the art of livin…

27 Apr , 2010  

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering. Great short quote and quotation by: Henri-Fr?d?ric Amiel ,

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Voltaire

You despise books; you whose lives …

27 Apr , 2010  

You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books. Great short quote and quotation by: Voltaire , French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 – 1778)

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Leonardo da Vinci

You do ill if you praise, but worse…

27 Apr , 2010  

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand. Great short quote and quotation by: Leonardo da Vinci , Italian engineer, painter, & sculptor (1452 – 1519)

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Edward Keating

You do not destroy an idea by killi…

27 Apr , 2010  

You do not destroy an idea by killing people; you replace it with a better one. Great short quote and quotation by: Edward Keating ,

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Lyndon Johnson

You do not examine legislation in t…

27 Apr , 2010  

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered. Great short quote and quotation by: Lyndon Johnson ,

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