"I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous."
-Brian W. Kernighan
"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there."
-Charles F. Kettering
"In the long run, we are all dead."
-John Maynard Keynes
"'I think therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches."
-Miles Kindera
"Why can't we all just get along?
-Rodney King
"Knowledge is a deadly friend when no-one sets the rules. The fate of all mankind, I see, is in the hands of fools."
-King Crimson
"Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics."
-Fletcher Knebel
"In a mad world only the mad are sane."
-Akira Kurosawa
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
-Bert Lance
"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in determination."
-Tommy Lasorda
"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 their dream with open eyes, to make it possible."
-T. E. Lawrence
"There are three side effects of acid. Enhanced long term memory, decreased short term memory, and I forget the third."
-Timothy Leary
"Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat"
-John Lehman (Secretary of the US Navy 1981-1987)
"The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions."
-Claude Levi-Strauss
"Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up save in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket --safe, dark, motionless, airless --it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable."
-C.S. Lewis
"Winning is not a sometime thing; its an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit."
-Vince Lombardi
"Every generation thinks it has the answers, and every generation is humbled by nature."
-Phillip Lubin
"I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them."
-E.V. Lucas
"Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy."
-Charlie McCarthy
"Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming."
-J.P. McEvoy
"Because it's there."
-George Leigh Mallory
"A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else."
-Andre Malraux
"Get up, stand up. Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up. Never give up the fight."
-Bob Marley
"Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms."
-Groucho Marx
"I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man."
-George Meredith
"When shit becomes valuable, the poor will be born without assholes."
-Henry Miller
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries."
-A. A. Milne
"Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof."
-Ashley Montague
"The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo."
-Desmond Morris
"Murphy's Law: If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it."
-Edward A. Murphy Jr
"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
-Reinhold Niebuhr
"Everything starts as somebody's daydream."
-Larry Niven
"Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power."
-P.J. O'Rourke
"It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits that depend on them. Like a man who has worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them on, we forget that the world looks to us the way it does because we have become used to seeing it that way through a particular set of lenses. Today, however, we need new lenses. And we need to throw the old ones away."
-Kenich Ohmae
"I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it."
-Sir Laurence Olivier
"Being Politically Correct means always having to say you're sorry."
-Charles Osgood
"There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule."
-George Osner
"The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true."
-Robert Oppenheimer
"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."
-George S. Patton
"But I heard a tiny, quiet voice within me that persisted in the midst of the madness saying I would somehow, someday, become the person on the outside that I was from within."
-Dave Pelzer
"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
-Pablo Picasso
"The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future."
-Gifford Pinchot
"The difference between man and animals is that we don't use our tongues to clean our genitals."
-Rimmer (from Red Dwarf)
"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects."
-Will Rogers
"If you are going to do something wrong at least enjoy it."
-Leo Rosten
"The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage."
-Mark Russell
"I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind."
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Sure, winning isn't everything. It's the only thing."
-Harry Sanders
"Everything has been figured out except how to live."
-Jean-Paul Sartre
"I love mankind; it's people I can't stand."
-Charles Schultz
"Finally, in conclusion, let me say just this."
-Peter Sellers
"Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement."
-Snoopy
"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again."
-Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want."
-Dan Stanford
"Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well."
-Phillip Stanhope
"What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public."
-Vilhjalmur Stefansson
"No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions."
-Charles Steinmetz
"Visible goodwill is the strongest negotiation strategy."
-Dr. S. U. Sunrei
"There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness."
-Han Suyin
"If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia."
-Thomas Szasz
"Science is to see what everyone else has seen but think what no one else has thought."
-Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
"Like having your own license to print money."
-Lord Thomson (of Fleet)
"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him."
-J. R. R. Tolkien
"Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent."
-Pierre Trudeau
"When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship."
-Harry S Truman
"Know the masculine, keep to the feminine."
-Lao Tzu
"I cried because my soul knew... that I didn't know... that my soul knew... all that I needed to know."
-Iyanla Vanzant
"By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong."
-Charles Wadsworth
"In the future everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes."
-Andy Warhol
"A week is a long time in politics."
-Harold Wilson
"We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true."
-Woodrow Wilson
"If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done."
-Wittgenstein
"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."
-Frank Lloyd Wright
"If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live."
-Lin Yutang
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