Monday 31 December 2012

Happy New Year!


Another year drawing to a close soon! I hope all of you have had a good year! If not, do not worry, for it’s time to say goodbye to the disappointments, the sadness and the unpleasantness of 2012.

Let’s welcome the New Year 2013 and make it an awesome year! Let the pursuance of your goals, dreams, and happiness continue. May this be the start of a year of good tidings for us all!

Wishing you and your loved ones a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year! And best wishes in all your endeavours in the year 2013!

Here’s a song by the group ABBA – an old song, but by far the best and my favourite New Year Song! Enjoy!


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Sunday 30 December 2012

Integrity - Quotes

A little integrity is better than any career. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A singly lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity. - Baltasar Gracian

For the integrity of a man's heart we can learn much from the consistency of his life: conduct is, perhaps, the best paradigm of intention or desire. - Norman MacDonald

Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity. The ignorant peasant without fault is greater than the philosopher with many. What is genius or courage without a heart? - Oliver Goldsmith

Don’t worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward. - Laura Schlessinger

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity. - W. Clement Stone

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows. - Moliere

In looking for someone to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. But the most important is integrity, because if they don't have that, the other two qualities, intelligence and energy, are going to kill you. - Warren Buffet

Integrity encompasses compassionately living our morals and ethics in all actions, thoughts and feelings. - Heather Lang

Integrity is choosing your thoughts and actions based on values rather than personal gain. - Unknown

Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn’t blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won’t cheat, then you know he never will. - John D. Macdonald

Integrity is nothing hidden, being truthful and honest, doing complete work, working from an empowering context, and doing very well what you do, doing it as it was meant to be done or better, and without cutting corners. - Unknown

Integrity is the light that shines from a disciplined conscience. - James E. Faust

Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones. - Tom Peters

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. - Samuel Johnson

Keen adversity is the best crucible in which to try a man's integrity. - William Scott Downey

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted. - William Cobbett

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another. - Charles Caleb Colton

On personal integrity hangs humanity's fate. - Buckminster Fuller

Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. - Don Miguel Ruiz

The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity. - Roy L. Smith

The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity. - Zig Ziglar

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home. Confucius

There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity. - Tom Peters

Saturday 29 December 2012

Justice - Quotes

A rule isn't unfair if it applies to everyone. - Unknown

Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradictions; therefore, it destroys freedom. - Albert Camus

As nothing is straighter than that which is straight, so nothing is more just than that which is just. - Epictetus

Delay of justice is injustice. - Walter Savage Landor

Extreme justice is often injustice. - Jean Racine

Fine as justice is, as an everyday quality, it is not winning. It is lacking in warmth. We need something better. We need sympathy with the other fellow and kindness. - John Daniel Barry

If justice must be dealt, then let it be dealt, but don't poison yourselves with vengeance. - David Weber

If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. One goes to the unprotected – those, precisely, who need the law's protection most! – and listens to their testimony. - James Baldwin

If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. - Francis Bacon

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same. - Albert Einstein

In most moral determinations wherein self is umpire, justice is hoodwinked. - Norman MacDonald

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear. What stings is justice. - H. L. Mencken

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive. - Earl Warren

Justice ... is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it judges sharply what is right and what is wrong. On the other hand, judgment based on justice naturally calls forth a counter-judgment as a reaction from the side so-judged. Accordingly, we fall into an endless conflict and struggle between judge and the judged. - Masao Abe

Justice ... limps along, but it gets there all the same. - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just. - Blaise Pascal

Justice commands us to have mercy upon all men, to consult the interests of the whole human race, to give to everyone his due. - Cicero

Justice consists in an exact and scrupulous regard to the rights of others, with a deliberate purpose to preserve them upon all occasions secret and inviolate. -Wellins Calcott

Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong. - Theodore Roosevelt

Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed. - Epicurus

Justice is a glorious and a communicative virtue, ordained for the common good of mankind, without any regard to itself. This it is, that keeps men from worrying one another, and preserves tranquillity in the world. It is the bond of human society. - Wellins Calcott

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die. - Martin Luther

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies. Joseph Addison

Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom. - Gottfriend Wilhelm Leibniz

Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Justice is incidental to law and order. - John Edgar Hoover

Justice is justly represented blind, because she sees no difference in the parties concerned. She has but one scale and weight, for rich and poor, great and small. - William Penn

Justice is often the wind that blows the criminal to his punishment. - Edward Counsel

Justice is the constant and perpetual wish to render to every one his due. - Emperor Justinian

Justice is the exchange of equivalencies. - Leo J. Muir 

Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don’t believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely. - Judge Learned Hand

Justice is truth in action. - Benjamin Disraeli

Justice lacking passion fails, betrays. - Jane Hirshfield

Justice like the sunflower hangs its head on the sunny side. - Abraham Miller

Justice required resort to law and that could be a fickle mistress, subject always to the whims and prejudices of those who administered the laws. - Frank Herbert

Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws. - Pope Pius XI

Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate. - Robert G. Ingersoll

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. - Benjamin Franklin

Justice without wisdom is impossible. - James Anthony Froude

Men are always invoking justice; and it is justice which should make them tremble. - Madame Swetchine

Men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice. - Robert Jordan

Most people say they want justice, but they don't really want justice. They want revenge. They want to see the pain spread around equally. - David Gerrold

No man suffers injustice without learning, vaguely but surely, what justice is. - Isaac Rosenfeld

Partial justice may exist with hatred; full justice requires charity. - Austin O’Malley

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create. - Pope John Paul II

The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government. - George Washington

The course of justice often prevents it. - Edward Counsel

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them. - Lois McMaster Bujold

The death penalty is not about vengeance or deterrence. It is about justice. It is a measure of a nationss civility and moral backbone that it rewards and punishes in due measure for great deeds and heinous crimes. So, along with Nobel prizes for great accomplishments, humans must also be brave enough and morally confident enough to exact severe penalties for those who commit the worst deed known to humankind: murder. - David Elmore

The failure to invest in civil justice is directly related to the increase in criminal disorder. The more people feel there is injustice the more it becomes part of their psyche. - Wilhelm Joseph

The first request of civilization ... is that of justice. - Sigmund Freud

The love of justice is, in most men, nothing more than the fear of suffering injustice. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man’s life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die. - George R.R. Martin

The need for justice grows out of the conflict of human interests. That is to say, if there were no conflict of interests among mankind we should never have invented the word justice, nor conceived the idea for which it stands. - Thomas Nixon Carver

The universal law of justice is: act externally in such a way that the free use of your will is compatible with the freedom of everyone according to a universal law. - Immanuel Kant

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong. - Winston Churchill

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime – namely, repressive justice. - Simone Weil

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. - Elie Weasel

Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others, who feel that the world has done them justice. - William Hazlitt

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace. Dwight Eisenhower

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph. - Haile Selassie

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man. Joseph Addison

To delay justice is injustice. - William Penn

We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

What is justice in one place is injustice in another. - Edward Counsel

When justice has spoken, humanity must have its turn. - Pierre Vergniaud

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is, in my opinion, safe. - Edmund Burke

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. - Frederick Douglass

While craving justice for ourselves, it is never wise to be unjust to others. - Lew Wallace

You know, the courts may not be working any more, but as long as everyone is videotaping everyone else, justice will be done. - Marge Simpson

Friday 28 December 2012

Quote Worthy


Wise is the person who finds a reason to make every day a special one. - Leo Buscaglia

Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. - Walter Gagehot

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him. - George Bernard Shaw

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. - Issac Newton

People will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one. - Adolf Hitler

The bitterest tragic element in life is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I plant my acorns knowing that I will never live to harvest the oaks. - Danny Hillis

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly. - St. Francis De Sales

Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes! - Earl Nightingale

Thursday 27 December 2012

Honesty - Quotes

A nod of an honest man is enough. - English Proverb

An honest man is believed without an oath, for his reputation swears for him. - Eliza Cook

An honest man is like a plain coat, which, without welt or guard, keepeth the body from wind and weather, and being well made, fits him best that wears it; and where the stuff is more regarded than the fashion, there is not much ado in the putting of it on. So, the mind of an honest man, without trick or compliments, keeps the credit of a good conscience from the scandal of the world and the worm of iniquity, which, being wrought by the workman of heaven, fits him best that wears it to his service; and where virtue is more esteemed than vanity, it is put on and worn with that ease that shows the excellency of the workman. His study is virtue, his word truth, his life the passage of patience, and his death the rest of his spirit. His travail is a pilgrimage, his way is plainness, his pleasure peace, and his delight is love. His care is his conscience, his wealth is his credit, his charge is his charity, and his content is his kingdom. In sum, he is a diamond among jewels, a phoenix among birds, an unicorn among beasts, and a saint among men. - Nicholas Breton

An honest man is the man who keeps his own counsel, and will not divide the plunder. - Honore de Balzac

An honest man lives not to the world, but to himself. - Wellins Calcott

An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues. - Charles Caleb Colton

An honest man's word is as good as the king's. - Portuguese Proverb

Be honest about who you are, flaws and all. You never know who you are inspiring by simply being you. - Mandy Hale

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. - Sigmund Freud

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends, but it’ll always get you the right ones. - John Lennon

Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them. - Christian Nevell Bovee

Every act of dishonesty has at least two victims: the one we think of as the victim, and the perpetrator as well. Each little dishonesty makes another line rotten spot somewhere in the perpetrator's psyche. - Lesley Conger

Expression of affection, like putting your arm around someone's shoulder, holding hands, or giving a kiss good night, involve the principle of honest. - John Bytheway

He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, is himself a knave. - George Berkeley

Honest hearts produce honest actions. - Brigham Young

Honest manhood cannot be attained. It is. If a man is small, as an honest man he stands up and acknowledges he is small and only tries to do what a small man can do – and HE DOES IT. If an honest man is a blacksmith, he merely says he is a blacksmith and he tries to do what a blacksmith can do – and HE DOES IT. In all lines of life an honest man only holds himself out as being just what he is and tries to do the tasks he is able to do – and ALWAYS DOES THEM. An honest man cannot fail. - Honor L. Wilhelm

Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten. - Thomas Otway

Honest men fear neither the light nor the dark. - Thomas Fuller

Honest people are never touchy about the matter of being trusted. - Ayn Rand

Honest people don't hide their deeds. - Emily Bronte

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control. - Don Marquis

Honesty is a person's most valuable asset. His or her good name, good reputation, and good word depend on the individual's quality of honesty. A business that operates under the principles of profound honesty is elevated within the community. It is respected and treasured. The absence of honesty is a liability to an individual or business. - James H. Merkel & Abdul Wahad Al-Falaij

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity. - Stephen Vincent Benet

Honesty is like an icicle - if once it melts that is the end of it. - American Proverb

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving. - James E. Faust

Honesty is the best policy. - Miguel de Cervantes / Aesop

Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honour, I lose myself. - William Shakespeare

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist. - Mary Kay Ash

Honesty is the cruellest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone – and hurt them to the bone – you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time. - Dave Van Ronk

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. - Thomas Jefferson

Honesty is the poor man's pork and the rich man's pudding. - English Proverb

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain’t lawful tender for a loaf of bread. - Josh Billings

Honesty maketh rich, but she works slowly. - German Proverb

Honesty prospers in every condition of life. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it. - Lee Iacocca

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is the best policy. - George Washington

I'd rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer. - Ursula K. le Guin

I'm just honest, I like that I don't have to worry about what I say. I really don't have the time or energy to pretend and I don't want to live that way. - Angelina Jolie

Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people. - Spencer Johnson

It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. - Noël Coward

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door. - Vernon Howard

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not. - Dean William R. Inge

Lies get people into trouble, but honesty is its own defence. - David Huddleston

Make yourself an honest man, and you can be sure there is one less rascal in the world. - Thomas Carlyle

No legacy is so rich as honesty. - William Shakespeare

People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty. - Richard J. Needham

Sometimes honesty can be incredibly messy. - WM. Paul Young

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment. - Merry Browne

The hardest person to be honest with is yourself. - Unknown

The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more. - Richard J. Needham

The plain truth is that honesty is critical to the moral fibre of every individual. Experts agree that people who are honest feel better about themselves. They are able to enjoy stronger friendships, are more successful in school and in other pursuits and, in the long run, have deeper, happier marriages. It is from honesty that so many other desirable traits spring forth. - Betsy Brown Braun

There is one way to find out if a man is honest. Ask him! If he says yes, you know he's crooked. - Groucho Marx

To be honest as this world goes is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. - William Shakespeare

We all need to know what it means to be honest. Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving. - James E. Faust

We have to stand up for what we believe in, even when we might not be popular for it. Honesty starts with being ourselves, authentic and true to who we are and what we believe in, and that may not always be popular, but it will always let you follow your dreams and your heart. - Tabatha Coffey

When we are not honest, we are cut off from a significant resource of ourselves, a vital dimension that is necessary for unity and wholeness. - Clark Moustakas

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully. - Richard Bach

Tuesday 25 December 2012

Quote Worthy


A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying ... that he is wiser today than yesterday. - Jonathan Swift

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time. - James Baldwin

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself? - Orison Swett Marden

Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men. - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy. - Wayne Dyer

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. - Norman Vincent Peale

The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything. - Michel Montaigne

Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be! - Miguel de Cervantes

Monday 24 December 2012

Nobel Prize


A man is driving down a country road when he spots a farmer standing in the middle of a huge field of grass. He pulls the car over to the side of the road and notices that the farmer is just standing there, doing nothing, looking at nothing. The man gets out of the car, walks all the way out to the farmer and asks him, “Um, excuse me mister, but what are you doing?”

The farmer replies, “I'm trying to win one of them Nobel Prizes.”

“How?” asks the man, puzzled.

“Well, I heard they give the Nobel Prize to people who are out standing in their field.” 

Sunday 23 December 2012

Intelligence - Quotes

An intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. - Ernest Hemingway
Brains in the head saves blisters on the feet. - Ken Alstad

I would much rather have people think I’m stupid, and shock them, than have people think I’m smart, and disappoint them. - Mike Bronson

Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong. - David Fasold

Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes. - Maxim Gorky

Intelligence consists of enough wit to talk brilliantly or enough sense to shut up. - Unknown

Intelligence is power; it is the flame behind the spark of intrigue. Find out all the facts and stamp out the fire. Demystify. - Tobsha Learner

Intelligence is the art of good guesswork. - H. B. Barlow

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. - Salvador Dali

Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. - Eugene V. Debs

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own. - Henry Adams

It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently. - Fyodor Dostoevsky

No human is more intelligent than the other … just more adept at certain areas of intelligence. - Siddharth katragadda

Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark. - Stefan Zweig

Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man. - Erich Fromm

The only means of strengthening one’s intellect is to make up one’s mind about nothing – to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. Not a select party. - John Keats

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason. - Unknown

The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life. - Vasudev

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour. - Bertolt Brecht

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course powerful muscles, but no personality. - Albert Einstein

When you fool a fool, you strike a blow for intelligence. - Giovanni Giacomo Casanova de Seingalt

You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature. - Philip Roth

Saturday 22 December 2012

Facts


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Facts

Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what the stars foretell, avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable verdict of history…. You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your only clue. Get the facts! - Robert A. Heinlein

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. - Norman Vincent Peale

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. - John Adams

You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on. - Harry Truman

We should keep so close to facts that we never have to remember the second time what we said the first time. - F. Marion Smith

Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments. - Marie Dressler

A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. - William Bliss Carman

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. - Aldous Huxley

There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact. - Arthur Conan Doyle 

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion. - Arnold H. Glasow


Friday 21 December 2012

Quote Worthy


The earth is mankinds ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, its as though one of Gods checks has bounced. - Lyman Abbott

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense. - Arthur Phelps

Whoever makes it a rule to test action by thought, thought by action, cannot falter, and if he does, will soon find his way back to the right road. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

That it is better 100 guilty persons should escape than that one innocent person should suffer, is a maxim that has been long and generally approved. - Benjamin Franklin

Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until it dies is more admirable than the mole that lives in a dark tunnel. - Kahlil Gibran

Tuesday 18 December 2012

Games - Quotes

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Games

Even when you know the game, you must check whether the rules have changed. - Unknown

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher. - Unknown

Games are meant to be enjoyed and if they always end in tears and unhappiness then they should not be played. - Unknown

Games lubricate the body and the mind. - Benjamin Franklin

Its not the hand that you’re dealt, its how you play the game. - Unknown

The most important thing in any game is not to win but to take part. - Unknown

Quote Worthy


An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects. - Martin Luther

It’s important that people know what you stand for. It’s equally important that they know what you won’t stand for. - Mary H. Waldrip

No longer forward nor behind I look in hope or fear; But grateful, take the good I find, the best of now and here. - John Whittier 
  
Thoughts lead to acts, acts lead to habits, habits lead to character – and our character will determine our eternal destiny. - Ezra Taft Benson

We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong.  The amount of work is the same. - Juan Matus

To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect. - Lu Xun 

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them. - George Santayana  

A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure. - Lee Segall

Monday 17 December 2012

Facts - Quotes

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective. - Edward Teller

A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. - William Bliss Carman

A man never gets anywhere if facts and his ledgers don't square. - William Faulker

A wise and honest man looks to broad facts, and forms his judgment from them; a rogue endeavours to lead your attention off the true scent, away to details, that he may puzzle and confound you with minutiae always difficult to detect, and sometimes impossible to deny, but which, nevertheless, are nothing more than stakes laid in your path to trip you up, that he may plunder you at his convenience. If, therefore, the broad facts appear suspicious, doubt, but if details be brought to aid them, be sure, that you are in the high road to be deceived. - Charles William Day

Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another. - Umberto Eco

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. - Norman Vincent Peale

Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments. - Marie Dressler

Basic facts tend always to be those most easily overlooked. - Doris Lessing

Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. - Charles Dickens

Facts are lonely things. - Don Delillo

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. - John Adams

Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law. - Louis Agassiz

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. - Aldous Huxley

Facts may speak for themselves. - George Washington

Facts, therefore, have merely a potential and, as it were, subsequent value, and the only advantage of possessing them is the possibility of drawing conclusions from them; in other words, of rising to the idea, the principle, the law which governs them. Our knowledge is composed not of facts, but of the relations which facts and ideas bear to themselves and to each other; and real knowledge consists not in an acquaintance with facts, which only makes a pedant, but in the use of facts, which makes a philosopher. - Henry Thomas Buckle

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. - Mark Twain

It is not the number of facts he knows, but how much of a fact he is himself, that proves the man. - Christian Nestell Bovee

It is wiser and better always to face facts, never to ignore them. Interrogate them; ask them what they mean, and what they have to teach. - Reuen Thomas

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. - Thomas Henry Huxley

Sometimes, legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts. - Salman Rushdie

Sometimes, fact mixed with fiction so thoroughly that, though no lies were told, it was hard to remember what was strictly true. - Stephenie Meyer

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion. - Arnold H. Glasow

The totality of facts determines both what is the case, and also all that is not the case. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

There are no facts, only interpretations. - Friedrich Nietzsche

There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact. - Arthur Conan Doyle

To no circumstance is the wide diffusion of error in the world more owing than to our habit of adopting conclusions from insufficiently established data. An indispensable preliminary, then, in every investigation, is to get at facts. Until these are arrived at, every opinion, theory, or system, however ingeniously framed, must necessarily rest upon an uncertain basis. - Christian Nestell Bovee

We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it. - George Eliot

We should keep so close to facts that we never have to remember the second time what we said the first time. - F. Marion Smith

What are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what "the stars foretell," avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable "verdict of history"--what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future, facts are your single clue. - Robert A. Heinlein

When facts speak, the wise man listens. - Stephen King

You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on. - Harry Truman