Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
- Michael Jordan
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Ideas
A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.
- John Berry
Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.
- Anonymous
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
- Anonymous
Ideas are the roots of creation.
- Anonymous
Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.
- Anonymous
Ideas move fast when their time comes.
- Anonymous
A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.
- Anonymous
If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.
- Anonymous
Freedom
It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.
- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin 1870-1924, Russian Revolutionary Leader
Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.
- Abraham Lincoln
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.
- Abraham Lincoln
If you're not ready to die for it, put the word ''freedom'' out of your vocabulary.
- Malcolm X 1925-1965, American Black Leader, Activist
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
- Malcolm X 1925-1965, American Black Leader, Activist
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
- St. Augustine 354-430
Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.
- Bhagavad Gita c. BC 400
The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.
- Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
- Martin Luther King Jr. 1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964
Funny Quotes
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher...and that is a good thing for any man.
- Socrates
Tell a man there are 300 Billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch to be sure.
- Jarger
There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
- Steven Wright
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
- Anonymous
First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.
- George Burns
I'm desperately trying to figure out why kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
- Dave Edison
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
For Sale: Parachute. Only used once, never opened, small stain.
- Anonymous
Since light travels faster than sound, people appear bright until you hear them speak.
- Anonymous
Women say all men are the same, but they have no problem telling you how different you are from Mel Gibson.
- Anonymous