Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Death quotes and one liners

  • Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men. ~~Herodotus
  • Death cancels all engagements. ~~Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm
  • Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken. ~~Hans Christian Andersen
  • Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world ~~Albom, Mitch
  • Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to. ~~Sophocles
  • Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time. ~~Susan Cheever
  • Death is a distant rumor to the young. ~~Andrew A. Rooney
  • Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. ~~W. Somerset Maugham
  • Death's in the good-bye.~~Anne Sexton
  • He who doesn't fear death dies only once. ~~Giovanni Falcone
  • Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts. ~~Aeschylus

Saturday, March 31, 2012

Best faith quotes, one liners

  • When the solution is simple, God is answering. ~~ Albert Einstein 
  • Faith isn't faith until it's all you're holding on to. ~~ Unknown
  • In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. ~~ Benjamin Franklin
  • What does God the Father look like? Although I've never seen Him, I believe - as with the Holy Spirit - He looks like Jesus looked on earth. ~~ Benny Hinn
  • Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them. ~~ Blaise Pascal
  • Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods. ~~ C.S. Lewis
  • Just because you can't see it doesn't mean it isn't there. You can't see the future, yet you know it will come; you can't see the air, yet you continue to breathe. ~~ Claire London
  • Faith is like radar that sees through the fog. ~~ Corrie Ten Boom
  • Have faith in God; God has faith in you. ~~ Edwin Louis Cole
  • Faith means not wanting to know what is true. ~~ Friedrich Nietzsche
  • The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness. ~~ Henry David Thoreau
  • Faith is spiritualized imagination. ~~ Henry Ward Beecher
  • One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying. ~~ Joan of Arc
  • Faith is believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe." ~~ Voltaire
  • Don't tell God how big your storm is....tell your storm how big your God is. ~~ Unknown
  • We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they’re called memories. Some take us forward, they’re called dreams. ~~ Unknown

Friday, March 30, 2012

Facebook status messages

  • I speak my mind. I never mind what I speak.
  • Insert coin to view my status message.
  • ....is trying to think of a witty status message.
  • Smile, it increases your face value :).
  • your intelligence is my common sense.
  • . . . is achieving the things you fail at
  • the only constant is change, except from a vending machine.
  • never laugh at your wife's choices. you're one of them!
  • seeing a spider is nothing. it becomes a problem when it disappears.
  • scratch here ###### to see today's status!
  • Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right.
  • light travels faster than sound. this is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
  • For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
  • Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes.
  • Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
  • We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Monday, December 24, 2007

Some Useless Facts...

  • Starfish have no brain.
  • Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
  • Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "E".
  • Bulls are color blind.
  • A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds.
  • "Babe" was played by over 48 pigs.
  • Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
  • Lip stick contains fish scales.
  • The Poison Arrow frog has enough poison to kill 2200 people.
  • The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36 kilograms.
  • Kidney stones come in any color from yellow to brown.
  • Women blink twice as many times as men do.
  • The McDonalds at the SkyDome in Toronto, Ontario is the only one in the world that sells hot dogs.
  • A bowling pin only has to tilt 7.5 degrees in order to fall down.
  • The first episode of Leave It To Beaver aired on October 4, 1957.
  • Beaver Cleaver's locker number is 9.
  • The first flushing toilet seen on TV was on Leave It To Beaver.
  • Jerry Seinfeld's apartment number (on the show) is 5A. In the old episodes it was 3A.
  • The life span of a taste bud is ten days.
  • Pi has been calculated to 2,260,321,363 digits.
  • The billionth digit in Pi is 9.

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

More Inspirational one liners and quotes

  • Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
  • Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
  • We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
  • Smile, it increases your face value.
  • Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
  • Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.
  • Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
  • A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all-he's walking on them.
  • It's your aptitude not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude.
  • The greatest discovery of my generation is that a man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
  • Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right.
  • It is not the position, but the disposition.
  • Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities.
  • Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
  • Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help with man with the wrong mental attitude.
  • For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
  • Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes.
  • Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
  • We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
  • Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.

Inspirational one liners and quotes

  • Failure is always temporary, only giving up makes it permanent.
  • Do a little more every day than you think you can.
  • Character equals destiny.
  • When character is gained, everything is gained.
  • The best way to predict the future is to create it.
  • Be critical of both new ideas and accepted wisdom.
  • Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
  • Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
  • Keep your face to the sunshine and you can never see the shadow.
  • People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.
  • A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
  • If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.
  • We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
  • To change and to change for the better are two different things.

Monday, December 17, 2007

Some Quotes from Fountainhead

  • "A house can have integrity, just like a person, and just as seldom."
  • "People were his protection against people. Howard Roark had no sense of people."
  • "One can't love man without hating most of the creatures who pretend to bear his name."
  • "Worry is a waste of emotional reserve."
  • "There is a stage of worship which makes the worshiper himself an object of reverence."
  • "Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched."
  • "Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men."
  • "Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential."
  • "His face was closed like a safety vault; things locked in safety vaults are valuable; men did not care to feel that."
  • "Show me your achievement - and the knowledge will give me courage for mine.
  • "She could not have reached this white serenity except as the sum of all the colors, of all the violence she had known."
  • "They talked quietly, with a feeling of companionship such as that of an old married couple; as if he had possessed her body, and the wonder of it had long since been consumed, and nothing remained but an untroubled intimacy."
  • "I am a man who does not exist for others.
  • "...the person who loves everybody and feels at home everywhere is the true hater of mankind. He expects nothing of men, so no form of depravity can outrage him."
  • "I have come here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life. . . . It had to be said. The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing."