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Abbott, Rev. Lyman
The city presents in microcosism all the contrasts of our modern life, its worst and best aspects. Here are the broad avenues, and here the fetid streets whose festering filth pollutes the atmosphere. Here, palaces, on which self-extravagance has lavished every artifice for luxury and display. And here, tenements, where, in defiance of every law, moral and sanitary, men, women, and children are crowded together like maggots in a cheese. Here are the noblest men and women, putting forth the most concentrated energies in self-sacrificing labors for the redemption of their fellow men, appalled but not discouraged by the immensity of the problem which confronts them. And here, the most hopeless specimens of degraded humanity, in whom, so far as human sight can see, the last spark of divinity has been quenched forever. What shall we do with our great cities? What shall our great cities do with us? These are the two problems which confront every thoughtful American.
Abel, Bree
You never know what happiness a simple act of kindness will bring about.
Adams, Abigail Smith
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
Adams, Cindy
Success has made failures of many men.
Adams, Douglas
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Adams, Douglas
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
Adams, Douglas
It gives me a headache just trying to think down to your level.
Adams, Scott
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Addison, Joseph
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Addison, Joseph
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Addison, Joseph
True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Addison, Joseph
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
Adfani, Isabelle
Life is worth being lived, but not worth being discussed all the time.
African proverb
From contentment with little comes happiness.
Ahmanson, Howard
I'm so happy to be rich, I'm willing to take all the consequences.
Albert, Geoffrey
The most important thing about goals is having one.
Alcott, Louisa May
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Alcott, Louisa May
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Alcott, Louisa May
"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
Alda, Alan
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
Ali, Muhammad
The man who views his life at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
Allen, Fred
California is a fine place to live&emdash;if you happen to be an orange.
Allen, Fred
Committee: a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Allen, Tim
Children are God's way of saying you've slept enough.
Allen, Woody
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Altito, Noelie
The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
Alvarez, Julia T.
Men often say that women change their minds too much. I say they sometimes don't change them enough. I mean changing their state of mind, their attitudes, their outlook, their expectations, their consciousness&emdash;most of all, about themselves and what is possible in their lives.
Anderson, Margaret
As I look at the human story, I see two stories. They run parallel and never meet. One is of people who live, as they can or must, the events that arrive; the other is of people who live, as they intend, the events they create.
Anderson, Marian
As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.
Anderson, Harry
A fool and his money were lucky to get together in the first place.
Angelou, Maya
Courage is the most important of all virtues, because without it we can't practice any other virtue with consistency.
Angelou, Maya
You don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking.
Anonymous
Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way you're a mile away, and you have their shoes, too.
Anonymous
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it.
Anonymous
Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.
Anonymous
Fear less, hope more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.
Anonymous
Home is where the house is.
Anonymous
Hope is the denial of reality.
Anonymous
Knowledge is never useless.
Anonymous
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable.
Anonymous
Success is not counted by how high you have climbed but by how many people you brought with you.
Anonymous
The future belongs to those who live intensely in the present.
Anonymous
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Anouilh, Jean
The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.
Anthony, Dr. Robert
What you are afraid to do is a clear indicator of the next thing you need to do.
Anthony, Susan Brownell
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.
Antrim, Minna
Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.
Appleton, Sir Edward
I do not mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it's a language I don't understand.
Arab Proverb
Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.
Aragon, Louis
Geniuses are like ocean liners: they should never meet.
Arendt, Hannah
To think and to be fully alive are the same thing.
Arias, Oscar
The effect of one upright individual is incalculable.
Aristotle
Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Armstrong, Louis
There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.
Ashe, Arthur
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
Ashrawi, Hanan
Women in politics are more honest and forthright. We are not in it for the ego gratification.
Asimov, Isaac
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
Asimov, Isaac
Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
Asimov, Isaac
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny ...'
Asquith, Herbert Henry
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
Astaire, Fred
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
Astor, Lady Nancy
I married beneath me, as all women do.
Astor, Lady Nancy
In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on woman.
Astor, Lady Nancy
One reason I don't drink is I want to know when I'm having a good time.
Auden, W. H.
Among those whom I like and admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those who I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
Austin, Jane
Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
Australian Aboriginal Elder
You white people are so strange. We think it is very primitive for a child to have only two parents.
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