inspirational quotes about women

We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. ~Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man



Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. ~Barack Obama, 2008 Feb 05, Chicago, Illinois



Not savages? and what else are we, I ask you? We are worse savages than the Australian bushmen, since possessing the knowledge of our savagery, we persist in it. ~"The Mission," Chapter 6



Come now, don't make such a funeral face. It isn't dying that's sad; it's living when you're not happy. ~"The Garden," Chapter 6



A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. ~Michelangelo



A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it. ~Mark Twain, speech in New York City, 31 March 1885



It's double the giggles and double the grins, and double the trouble if you're blessed with twins. ~Author Unknown



A three-year-old gave this reaction to her Christmas dinner: "I don't like the turkey, but I like the bread he ate." ~Author Unknown



The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert



I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future. ~David Gerrold



If you do not agree with the prevalent point of view, be ready to explain why. ~Martin H. Fischer



I wasn't using my civil liberties anyway. ~Author Unknown



We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. ~Franklin Delano Roosevelt



Cocktail party: A gathering held to enable forty people to talk about themselves at the same time. The man who remains after the liquor is gone is the host. ~Fred Allen



That's baseball, and it's my game. Y' know, you take your worries to the game, and you leave 'em there. You yell like crazy for your guys. It's good for your lungs, gives you a lift, and nobody calls the cops. Pretty girls, lots of 'em. ~Humphrey Bogart



The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by other people's rules, while quietly playing by your own. ~Michael Korda



Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character. ~Calvin Coolidge



Nothing is so often irretrievably missed as a daily opportunity. ~Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach



A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable. ~Thomas Jefferson



At the rate we're going, the Inaugural Ball is going to be a surprise party. ~Argus Hamilton