October 12th, 2007

Great Quotes | Volume 2

“The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger.”
~ Goering at the Nuremberg Trials
(Sound familiar? Uh huh.)

“Get the important things right.”
~ N. P. Collingwood

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
~ Mark Twain

“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word.”
~ Stephen King

“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”
~ Einstein

“The best writing is rewriting.”
~ E. B. White

“Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.”
~ Alan Perlis

“It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.”
~ Mark Twain

“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.”
~ Bill Gates

“To me, swimming is a confusing sport because sometimes you do it for fun and sometimes you do it to not die.” ~ Demetri Martin