quotes for determination

Television has a real problem. They have no page two. Consequently every big story gets the same play and comes across to the viewer as a really big, scary one. ~Art Buchwald, 1969



Trying to maintain order during a legalized gang brawl involving 80 toughs with a little whistle, a hanky and a ton of prayer. ~Anonymous referee, explaining his job



Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone. ~Author Unknown



Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular. ~Kathy Norris



The purpose of primary education is the development of your weak characteristics; the purpose of university education, the development of your strong. ~Nevin Fenneman



Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep. ~Edward Hoagland



I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude. ~Benjamin Disraeli



There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly. ~Publius Terentius Afer



The good news is the White House is now giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. Some of these jokes actually write themselves. ~David Letterman



A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of a forest. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high. ~Fiona MacLeod



Real charity doesn't care if it's tax-deductible or not. ~Dan Bennett Real charity doesn't care if it's tax-deductible or not. ~Dan Bennett



Death never takes the wise man by surprise; He is always ready to go. ~Jean de La Fontaine



Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife - what's the answer to that? ~Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass



Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. ~Philippians 4:8



When you take flight by skipping, your baggage gets left behind - there's no room to carry on worries. ~Jessi Lane Adams



Sometimes life's Hell. But hey! Whatever gets the marshmallows toasty. ~J. Andrew Helt



What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. ~Albert Pike



You don't have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. ~John Ciardi, Simmons Review, Fall 1962



Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. ~Albert Einstein