David L Boren Famous Quotes
"What makes the difference between a Nation that is truly great and one that is merely rich and powerful It is the simple things that make the difference. Honesty, knowing right from wrong, openness, self-respect, and the courage of conviction."
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch--what makes you go beyond the norm.
David L Boren Quotations
"Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine."
Isak Dinesen
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
Josephus Daniels
"The elective system ... offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canaps of knowledge and never had their fill."
Ted Morgan
"In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs."
William Osler
"Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand."
Dr Karl Menninger
"Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together...."
Carl Zwanzig
"There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed."
Peter Sellers
A person who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.
G F Lessing
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
Seneca
Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
Horace