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Post by dilvish on Feb 18, 2024 0:01:19 GMT -5
"Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all." - Ban Ki-moon [1944-present]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 18, 2024 0:01:31 GMT -5
"When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier." - Roy E. Disney [1930-2009]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 18, 2024 0:01:51 GMT -5
"If someone says something hurtful to you or makes you feel down on yourself, then you just gotta stay positive and keep moving forward because they might not know much about you, or they may not understand the situation." - Jazz Jennings
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Post by dilvish on Feb 18, 2024 0:02:03 GMT -5
"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues." - Abraham Lincoln [1809-1865]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 18, 2024 0:02:14 GMT -5
"I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments." - Friedrich August von Hayek [1899-1992]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 18, 2024 0:02:30 GMT -5
"I have the bug again. I'm expecting the response to seeing the show again on Nick to be very good, and this will set the groundwork for what I want to do." - Flip Wilson [1933-1998]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 18, 2024 0:02:41 GMT -5
"When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome." - Wilma Rudolph [1940-1994]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 18, 2024 0:02:54 GMT -5
"I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches." - Alice Roosevelt Longworth [1884-1980]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 18, 2024 0:03:04 GMT -5
"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best." - Epictetus [50 AD-130 AD]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 18, 2024 0:03:59 GMT -5
"Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with." - Adam Ant [1954-current]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 18, 2024 0:04:10 GMT -5
"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best." - Epictetus [50 AD-130 AD]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 18, 2024 0:04:20 GMT -5
"Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light." - Le Corbusier [1887-1965]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 18, 2024 0:04:37 GMT -5
"In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it." - Ernst Fischer [1899-1972]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 18, 2024 0:04:49 GMT -5
"He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature." - Socrates [469 BC-399 BC]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 18, 2024 0:05:00 GMT -5
"Fear has many eyes and can see things underground." - Miguel de Cervantes [1547-1616]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 18, 2024 0:05:17 GMT -5
"Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit." - Vince Lombardi [1913-1970]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 18, 2024 0:05:27 GMT -5
"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts." - Abraham Lincoln [1809-1865]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 18, 2024 0:05:39 GMT -5
"Valentine's Day is one of those tricky celebrations where you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. If you love it, you're buying into a holiday created to sell greeting cards, bad bouquets, and shoddy love-themed stuffed animals. And if you're opposed to it, you're considered lonely and single and have clearly never had a valentine." - Dan Levy [1981-present]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 18, 2024 0:05:56 GMT -5
"Valentine's Day is a holiday of high emotions, mostly stress. The occasion has the unique ability to make both those who do participate in it and those who don't feel vaguely unfulfilled." - Mary Katherine Ham [1980-present]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 18, 2024 0:06:08 GMT -5
"The only journey is the one within." - Rainer Maria Rilke [1875-1926]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 18, 2024 0:06:19 GMT -5
"It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake." - Frederick Douglass [1818-1895]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 18, 2024 0:06:29 GMT -5
"I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age." - Johnnie Cochran [1937-2005]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 19, 2024 1:43:10 GMT -5
"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books." - Thomas Carlyle [1795-1881]
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Post by Admin Pete on Feb 19, 2024 12:51:37 GMT -5
"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books." - Thomas Carlyle [1795-1881] Great quote! And so very, very true.
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Post by Admin Pete on Feb 19, 2024 12:52:55 GMT -5
"One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young." - William Feather [1889-1981] While I am long past middle age, it was a better time of life for me than large parts of my youth.
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Post by dilvish on Feb 23, 2024 11:04:23 GMT -5
"Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal." - E.O. Wilson [1929-present]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 23, 2024 11:04:36 GMT -5
"Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment." - Fred Brooks [1931-present]
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Mar 30, 2024 22:18:33 GMT -5
"An apology is a good way to have the last word." -
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Mar 30, 2024 22:18:45 GMT -5
"Fools live to regret their words, wise men to regret their silence." - Will Henry
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Mar 30, 2024 22:19:16 GMT -5
"The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause." - Mark Twain"
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