Spped Quotes

Predicting rain doesn’t count.

Building arks does.

It behooves every man to remember

that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance,

and that, in the end,

progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

I understand a ship to be made for the carrying

and preservation of the cargo,

and so long as the ship can be saved, with the cargo,

it should never be abandoned.

This Union likewise should never be abandoned unless

it fails and the possibility of its preservation shall cease to exist,

without throwing passengers and cargo overboard.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope.

He wants to reform the world.

When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world,

but he knows he can't.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

When one must,

one can

Charlotte Whitton

Greatness is measured by how you handle adversity.

Friends and good manners

will carry you

where money won't go.

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction.

Fiction has to make sense.

I never had a drink in my life.

I don't smoke or anything.

As we express our gratitude,

we must never forget that

the highest appreciation is

not to utter words,

but to live by them.

Every morning we are born again.

What we do today is what matters most.

I’ll take a child that has talent and a great mother over a child

that has world class talent and a mother that’s a nut.

If the doors of perception were cleansed,

everything would appear to man as it is: infinite.

You only learn who has been swimming naked

when the tide goes out.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times,

always with the same person.

A true friend is one

who overlooks your failures

and tolerates your success!

God never gives someone

a gift they are not

capable of receiving.

If he gives us the gift

of Christmas, it is

because we all have the

ability to understand

and receive it.

A single big winning bet can more than

cover the cost of many losers.

Life opens up opportunities to you,

and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.