Serious Quotes

Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; Some blunders and absurdities crept in; Forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; You shall begin it serenely and With too high a spirit to be encumbered With your old nonsense.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson…

If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.
-Amores Perros

All our young lives we search for someone to love, someone who makes us complete. We choose partners and change partners. We dance to a song of heartbreak and hope, all the while wondering if somewhere and somehow there is someone searching for us.
-The Wonder Years

be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind dont matter and those who matter dont mind
-Dr. Seuss

Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
-Voltaire

A person is a person no matter how small!
-Dr. Seuss

The basic difference between an ordinary person and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary person takes everything as a blessing or a curse.
-Carlos Castaneda

If I have seenn farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier seashell than ordinary whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered for me.
-Isaac Newton

Having a free operating system is the first step, but ultimately all software should be free, because users should always have freedom.
-Richard Stallman

It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education is a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.
-Albert Einstein

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
-Warren Bennis

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute — and it’s longer than any hour. That’s relativity.
-Albert Einstein

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
-Antoine de Saint Exupery

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.
-Philip K Dick

Software Industry, the: unique industry where selling substandard goods is legal and you can charge extra for fixing the problems.
-Duncan Simpson

The skill of accurate perception is called cynicism by those who don’t possess it.
-Alan Millar

True friends stab you in the front
-Winston Churchill

The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.
-Joe Ancis

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they’re okay, then it’s you.
-Rita Mae Brown

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
-Dorothy Parker

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
-Joseph Heller Catch-22

Meetings are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything.
-John Kenneth Galbraith

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
-Douglas Adams

They that can give up liberty to obtain a little temporary security deserve neither liberty nor safety.
-Benjamin Franklin

I know I’m stealing and I’m proud of it. It just sounds better when I don’t pay for it.
-”smooth criminal” on f*ckedcompany.com, discussing music piracy via online trade in .MP3’s

College is nothing more than a “period of training in techniques for dealing with boredom.”
-Mike Stone on Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (translation by Jay Rubin)


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