Best J. D. Salinger Quotes: The most famous quotes by J. D. Salinger
I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. — J. D. Salinger
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one. — J. D. Salinger
Many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You’ll learn from them–if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry. — J. D. Salinger
You’re going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you’ve got to start going there. But immediately. You can’t afford to lose a minute. — J. D. Salinger
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. — J. D. Salinger
Best Lord Salisbury Quotes: The most famous quotes by Lord Salisbury
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent if you believe the military, nothing is safe. — Lord Salisbury
Best Luke Salisbury Quotes: The most famous quotes by Luke Salisbury
Watching football is like watching pornography. There’s plenty of action, and I can’t take my eyes off it, but when it’s over, I wonder why the hell I spent an afternoon doing it. — Luke Salisbury
Best Dr. Jonas Salk Quotes: The most famous quotes by Dr. Jonas Salk
Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process, and nature in marking man’s papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival and by the quality of life of those who survive. — Dr. Jonas Salk
The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more. — Dr. Jonas Salk
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next. — Dr. Jonas Salk
I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams. — Dr. Jonas Salk
Best Sallust Quotes: The most famous quotes by Sallust
The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile virtue is a possession glorious and eternal. — Sallust
They envy the distinction I have won let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it. — Sallust
Ambition drove many men to become false to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue. — Sallust
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means. — Sallust
The higher your station, the less your liberty. — Sallust
Few men desire liberty The majority are satisfied with a just master. — Sallust
To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful. — Sallust
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord. — Sallust
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals. — Sallust
Every man is the architect of his own fortune. — Sallust
Before you act consider when you have considered, tis fully time to act. — Sallust
To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship. — Sallust
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession. — Sallust
Best Dan Salomon Quotes: The most famous quotes by Dan Salomon
Sometimes it pays to stay in bed in Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debuging Monday’s code. — Dan Salomon
Best Sharon Salzberg Quotes: The most famous quotes by Sharon Salzberg
If we fall, we don’t need self-recrimination or blame or anger – we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again. — Sharon Salzberg
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we’re more likely to be changed by it. — Sharon Salzberg
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it. — Sharon Salzberg
Any ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can’t see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can’t design or ordain. — Sharon Salzberg
Life is like and ever-shifting kaleidoscope – a slight change, and all patterns alter. — Sharon Salzberg
Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don’t give up after a mistake, when something doesn’t come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we’re not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished. — Sharon Salzberg
Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention. — Sharon Salzberg
Best Anthony Sampson Quotes: The most famous quotes by Anthony Sampson
In Britain, the segregated world of public schools crops up in all kinds of institutions A boy can pass from Eton to the Guards to the Middle Temple to Parliament and still retain the same male world of leather armchairs, teak tables and nicknames. They need never deal closely with other kinds of people, and some never do. — Anthony Sampson
Best Patricia Sampson Quotes: The most famous quotes by Patricia Sampson
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one’s own person is its ultimate reward. — Patricia Sampson
Best Jessie Sampter Quotes: The most famous quotes by Jessie Sampter
Simplicity is the peak of civilization. — Jessie Sampter
Best Leon Samson Quotes: The most famous quotes by Leon Samson
The Diplomat sits in silence, watching the world with his ears. — Leon Samson
Best Herbert Samuel Quotes: The most famous quotes by Herbert Samuel
Without doubt the greatest injury was done by basing morals on myth, for sooner or later myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built. — Herbert Samuel
It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own. — Herbert Samuel
Best Hofni Samuel Quotes: The most famous quotes by Hofni Samuel
When in doubt, do without. — Hofni Samuel
Best Jim Samuels Quotes: The most famous quotes by Jim Samuels
The United States is like the guy at the party who gives cocaine to everybody and still nobody likes him. — Jim Samuels
Best Paul A. Samuelson Quotes: The most famous quotes by Paul A. Samuelson
Good questions outrank easy answers. — Paul A. Samuelson
Best Oscar Arias Sanchez Quotes: The most famous quotes by Oscar Arias Sanchez
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves. — Oscar Arias Sanchez
Best Raul E. Sanchez Quotes: The most famous quotes by Raul E. Sanchez
Mire Hacia Las Estrellas. Look At The Stars. — Raul E. Sanchez
Best George Sand Quotes: The most famous quotes by George Sand
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness. — George Sand
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one’s talent, to one’s affections, and one’s inner happiness. — George Sand
There is only one happiness in life, to love and to be loved. — George Sand
Work is not man’s punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure. — George Sand
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. — George Sand
It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides. — George Sand
Best Carl Sandburg Quotes: The most famous quotes by Carl Sandburg
Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky — or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time. — Carl Sandburg
Nothing happens unless first a dream. — Carl Sandburg
History is a living horse laughing at a wooden horse. History is a wind blowing where it listeth. History is no sure thing to bet on. History is a box of tricks with a lost key. History is a labyrinth of doors with sliding panels, a book of ciphers with the code in a cave of the Saragossa sea. History says, if it pleases, Excuse me, I beg your pardon, it will never happen again if I can help it. — Carl Sandburg
In reply to the question, What was it the last man on earth said Where is everybody — Carl Sandburg
Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of al evil, the sum of all blessings. — Carl Sandburg
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. — Carl Sandburg
Our lives are like a candle in the wind. — Carl Sandburg
A baby is God’s opinion that life should go on. — Carl Sandburg
Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes. — Carl Sandburg
Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder. — Carl Sandburg
One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude. — Carl Sandburg
The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to. — Carl Sandburg
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work. — Carl Sandburg
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. — Carl Sandburg
Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come. — Carl Sandburg
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes. — Carl Sandburg
I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision. — Carl Sandburg
The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on. — Carl Sandburg
I’m an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way. — Carl Sandburg
I won’t take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth. — Carl Sandburg
Best Colonel Sanders Quotes: The most famous quotes by Colonel Sanders
There’s no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can’t do any business from there. — Colonel Sanders
Best Harry Sanders Quotes: The most famous quotes by Harry Sanders
Sure, winning isn’t everything. It’s the only thing. — Harry Sanders
Best Scott Russell Sanders Quotes: The most famous quotes by Scott Russell Sanders
The deepest American dream is not the hunger for money or fame it is the dream of settling down, in peace and freedom and cooperation, in the promised land. — Scott Russell Sanders
Best T. Clay Sanders Quotes: The most famous quotes by T. Clay Sanders
Your love will last forever, If you do not expect her to walk the same path, But you look in the same direction. — T. Clay Sanders
Best Sandra Quotes: The most famous quotes by Sandra
As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate. — Sandra
Best Bill Sands Quotes: The most famous quotes by Bill Sands
Do more than you’re supposed to do and you can have or be or do anything you want. — Bill Sands
Best Bobby Sanghavi Quotes: The most famous quotes by Bobby Sanghavi
I am not an optimist, but i am not a pessimist, what I am is a realist. — Bobby Sanghavi
Best Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Quotes: The most famous quotes by Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
I thank You, God, in Heaven, for friends. — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
Best Sankara Quotes: The most famous quotes by Sankara
The spirit is smothered, as it were, by ignorance, but so soon as ignorance is destroyed, spirit shine forth, like the sun when released from clouds. — Sankara
Best Jacopo Sannazaro Quotes: The most famous quotes by Jacopo Sannazaro
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so. — Jacopo Sannazaro
Best George Santayana Quotes: The most famous quotes by George Santayana
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Thse who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. — George Santayana
Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body. — George Santayana
The Soul is the voice of the body’s interests. — George Santayana
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads. — George Santayana
It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to. — George Santayana
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. — George Santayana
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. — George Santayana
Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited. — George Santayana
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. — George Santayana
All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible. — George Santayana
Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves. — George Santayana
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool. — George Santayana
To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language. — George Santayana
A man’s memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present. — George Santayana
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love. — George Santayana
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood. — George Santayana
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. — George Santayana
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity. — George Santayana
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it. — George Santayana
The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular. — George Santayana
Love is only half the illusion the lover, but not his love, is deceived. — George Santayana
The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend. — George Santayana
… everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence. — George Santayana
An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity. — George Santayana
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness. — George Santayana
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different. — George Santayana
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you’re older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out. — George Santayana
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one’s life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. — George Santayana
Sanity is a madness put to good use. — George Santayana
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots. — George Santayana
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. — George Santayana
Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament. — George Santayana
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny. — George Santayana
A man’s feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. — George Santayana
Culture is on the horns of this dilemma if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean. — George Santayana
Music is essentially useless, as life is. — George Santayana
One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. — George Santayana
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is. — George Santayana
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality….The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral. — George Santayana
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion. — George Santayana
Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand. — George Santayana
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career. — George Santayana
America is a young country with an old mentality. — George Santayana
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him. — George Santayana
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument its function is to make the worse appear the better. — George Santayana
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation. — George Santayana
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated. — George Santayana
Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily. — George Santayana
Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel. — George Santayana
The wisest mind has something yet to learn. — George Santayana
Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject. — George Santayana
Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality. — George Santayana
Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions. — George Santayana
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. — George Santayana
Our character…is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be. — George Santayana
Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. — George Santayana
For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned. — George Santayana
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience. — George Santayana
Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it. — George Santayana
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. — George Santayana
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