Qoutes

I think it's spelled "Quotes", actually.

Here's one of my faves:

“Whatever you do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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"If you are too busy to laugh you are too busy."

~ Bill
~ USPictures.com

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty;
to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better, whether by a healthy child,
a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is the meaning of success ."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

If you're not going after your dream, you're merely existing.


--Roz Barron Abellera

From the "Big V's":

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
--Voltaire

Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
--Voltaire

Of course you can dance. Would I lie to you?
--Vodka

“Your mother knows how to push your buttons, because she installed them.” --- Robin Williams, quoting someone else...(he could not remember who it was that said it)

Two that I have repeated to myself most of my life are old favorites:

"Bloom where you are planted." and "If life hands you a lemon, make lemonade!"

"Death is not the last thing, it is the least thing" Anonymous

Life is not waiting for the storm to pass, it's learning to dance in the rain!

"A good quote is about as useful as a left handed nail" (TMurray)

I have 5 nails on my left hand! the little one is very useful for picking my nose!

"It's not just the right of the person who speaks to be heard, it is the right of everyone in the audience to listen, and to hear. And every time you silence somebody, you make yourself a prisoner of your own action. Because you deny yourself the right to hear something". Christopher Hitchens

Some of my favorite quotes....and words I always try to remember to live by!

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens" -Jimi Hendrix

"He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing" -Epicurus

"All paths are the same, they lead nowhere" -Carlos Castaneda

When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

Mary Oliver

It does not matter how badly you paint, so long as you don't paint badly like other people.- George Moore

“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst. – Henri Cartier-Bresson

“ I always thought good photos were like good jokes. If you have to explain it, it just isn’t that good. – Anonymous

“Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow. – Imogen Cunningham

“It can be a trap of the photographer to think that his or her best pictures were the ones that were hardest to get. – Timothy Allen – On editing photos

“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.” ― Ansel Adams

“I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted.”


― W.C. Fields

He who knows nothing, loves nothing.
He who can do nothing understands nothing.
He who understands nothing is worthless.
-- Paracelsus

He is rich who owes nothing.
French Proverb

Franklin's Rule:
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall not be
disappointed.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.
Groucho Marx

Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic and so am I.

" The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious,awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself."
- Henry Miller

-Robert Riordan

"You gotta know the rules before you can break 'em." -- Sonny Crockett, "Miami Vice"

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
T. E. Lawrence

A fool will tell you quickly everything he knows, a wise man quickly tell you everything he once knew. (TMurray)

There are more things in heaven and earth...than are dreamt of in your philosophy. Wm. Shakespeare

"If you want to be a better photographer, stand in front of more interesting stuff."

- Jim Richardson, National Geographic

"If you want to be a better painter, throw away your photographs."

"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."
(Plato)

Jesus said, “ Anyone who begins to plow a field but keeps looking back is of no use in the kingdom of God”. - Luke. 9:62

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." ~ Henry Ford

"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do." ~ Henry Ford

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. ~ Henry Ford

“Live a good life. In the end it is not the years in a life, but the life in the years.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

All the following by Zig Ziglar:

~ Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it's free-but it can't go anywhere.

~ Failure is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night.

~ Don't become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.

~ If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

~ Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission.

~ You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.

Sticking to what you know/ends up hurting the ones that tend to notes you

For everything you regret in life / use anger to go back and complete the past


Knowing their tear-drops will turn into blood drops / every child deserve their pencil and book

As far as politics.....
We have the best government money can buy!

"They misunderestimated me." George W Bush

"They misunderestimated me." George W Bush

"They misunderestimated me." George W Bush

- “If we have not gotten our troops out [of Iraq] by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do.” Didn’t happen.

- “Today I’m pledging to cut the deficit in half by the end of my first term in office.” Instead, the national debt increased $5 trillion on his watch.

- “As soon as we’re out of this recession, we’ve got to get serious about starting to live within our means.” Huh?

- “We agree on reforms that will reduce the costs of health care. Families will save on their premiums.”

- “We’ve got shovel-ready projects all across the country.” Later, Obama admitted his own lie, saying, “There’s no such thing as shovel-ready projects.”

- “We reject the use of national security … to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime.”

- We “will ensure that federal contracts over $25,000 are competitively bid.”

- We “will eliminate all income taxation of seniors making less than $50,000 per year.”

- “We are going to work with you to lower your [health care] premiums by $2,500,” and we’ll “do it by the end of my first term as president.”

- “I don’t take a dime of their [lobbyists’] money, and when I am president, they won’t find a job in my White House.” In fact, Obama granted waivers at will, and more than a dozen lobbyists got jobs in the Obama administration.

- “I pledge to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution.” But Obama has ignored the constitutional amendment granting powers not enumerated in the Constitution to the states.

- “If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”

- “The sequester is not something that I’ve proposed. It is something that Congress has proposed.” The truth is that the White House proposed an “automatic sequester” on July 12, 2011.

- “I didn’t set a red line [in Syria].” And yet, at a prior news conference, using unscripted language in a statement, he said, “a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around.”

- “It’s here that companies like Solyndra are leading the way toward a brighter and more prosperous future.” After Obama’s administration gave the company $535 million, Solyndra and its solar panels went belly up.

- To Israel, “We have not only made sure that they [Iran] have to stop adding additional centrifuges, we’ve also said that they’ve got to roll back their 20 percent advanced enrichment … down to zero.” In fact, the deal allows Iran uranium enrichment of 5 percent.

- “Eighty percent of Americans support including higher taxes as part of the [debt ceiling] deal.” However, that same week, a poll by Rasmussen showed only 34 percent supported a tax hike as part of the deal.

- In 2006: “America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America’s debt limit.” But as president, Obama has led the charge each year to increase America’s debt.

- And, let’s not forget PolitiFact’s 2013 Lie Of The Year: “If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what. … You can keep your family doctor.”

A fool speaks because he needs to say something...
A wise man speaks because there is something that needs to be said!

Don't just follow your dreams, chase them.

"Oh, well. Whatever. Nevermind." -- Kurt Cobain

To stay calm, I'd rather a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. The present moment is all we really have.

--Roz Barron Abellera

If used right, Failure is a stepping stone to success.

Dan Richards, 07/28/14

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
George S. Patton

The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.
Soren Kierkegaard

In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.
George Carlin

When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.
Ron Paul

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.
Marilyn Monroe

Talking about perfection

She only does things
by half-measures.
It is told.

The jump from the bridge,
she got it right.
(nifri)


One move
One decision
One thought
One step
coalesce
in something new
that is
unknown.

Do you really think
there is only one world
written in the books of
all the forgotten and
coming human lifes?

(nifri)


There is always light everywhere ... even when there is nothing!

(nifri)

"I just do not want to lose my mind"

A cat is a cat and still will be a cat...
Faces of unknown creatures...
never to be known and recognized...
but always be a mysterial part of the world
we have to share the world with those cats!

(nifri)

All those who believe in psychokinesis raise my hand. -- Steven Wright

“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”


― Kurt Vonnegut

“There are old mountaineers and there are bold mountaineers, but there are no old, bold mountaineers.” ... -ed viesturs.

“I am what I am, and that's all that I am.”

Popeye

Adventure is just bad planning - Roald Amundsen

Who's the more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows him? - Obi-Wan Kenobi

And then one day you find ten years have got behind you, No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun - Roger Waters

I have two very rare photographs.
One is a picture of Houdini locking his keys in his car.
The other is a rare photograph of Norman Rockwell beating up a child.
-- Steven Wright

Planet Earth is bipolar

You want to know why you never see old fat, obese people? There are none!

"Our job is improving the quality of life, not just delaying death." – Robin Williams as Patch Adams

Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
-Jack London

We read to know we are not alone - C S Lewis