quotes for strength

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. ~Steven Kloves, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (movie)



We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn't matter. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow. ~Jeff Valdez



What this planet needs is more mistletoe and less missile-talk. ~Author Unknown



Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up. ~Red Auerbach



Vegetarian: A person who eats only side dishes. ~Gerald Lieberman



Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving. ~Robertson Davies



Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers, and blocked up the way to knowledge, are entirely owing to our selves. That we have first raised a dust, and then complain, we cannot see. ~George Berkeley



Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. ~Mark Overby



By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Courage is the fear of being thought a coward. ~Horace Smith



Silence never won rights. They are not handed down from above; they are forced by pressures from below. ~Roger Baldwin



His clothes fit him so ill, and constrain him so much, that he seems rather their prisoner than their proprietor. ~Philip Dormer Stanhope



Music is well said to be the speech of angels. ~Thomas Carlyle, Essays, "The Opera"



With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions. ~Pete Rose, 1977



The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb



We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. ~Winston Churchill



You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough. ~Joseph E. Levine You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. ~Abraham Lincoln



A Mission Statement is a dense slab of words that a large organization produces when it needs to establish that its workers are not just sitting around downloading Internet porn. ~Dave Barry



Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark. ~Walter Lippmann