Compulsions Quotes

We still do not know

one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

One person can change history.

If past history was all there was to the game,

the richest people would be librarians.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity.

Another man's, I mean.

I’m just a guy who likes to tell jokes.

Without electricity,

the air would rot.

Maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times.

Good, better, best.

Never let it rest.

Til your good is better and

your better is best

St. Jerome

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.

If you buy things you do not need,

soon you will have to sell things you need.

Lazy people may look busy,

but they are only wasting time.

Acting is a collaboration between yourself and the world.

My humanity is bound up in yours,

for we can only be human together.

I had three chairs

in my house;

one for solitude,

two for friendship,

three for society.

Perseverance is not a long race;

it is many short races one after the other

Walter Elliot

When we quarrel,

how we wish we had been blameless.

One way to keep momentum

going is to have constantly greater goals

Michael Korda

The whole point of being alive

is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.

Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

Nationalism is an infantile disease.

It is the measles of mankind.