Into Motivation

Quotes by Tallulah Bankhead "Here's a rule I recommend. Never practise two vices at once". Quotes by Hannah Arendt "What makes it plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core". Quotes by Anonymous "What you do when you ... Read More

Quotes by Ludwig van Beethoven "Nature has an etiquette all her own". Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher "Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into". Quotes by Walter Bagehot "Taken as a whole, the universe is absurd". Quotes by Francis Bacon "God Almighty first planned a garden; and indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. Nature cannot be ordered about, except by obeying her". Quotes by St Augustine "All nature is good". Quotes by Apollonius of Tyana "God made the beauties of nature like ... Read More

Quotes by The Bible "Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding. It is an honour for a man to cease from stife: but every fool will be meddling. Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit. He that  sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet and drinketh damage. The heart of the ... Read More

Simone de Beauvoir "It is not in giving but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills". Phineas Taylor Barnum "There's sucker born every minute". Sir Alfred Jules Ayer "Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?" St Augustine of Hippo "He that is good is free, though he be a slave; he that is evil is a slave, ... Read More

Quotes by Arthur Asa Berger "Baseball represents America before the frontier ended, when there was plenty of space and plenty of time, and philosophic anarchists roamed about on verdant fields "doing their thing" with a free and reckless abandon. The game is relaxing and not particularly taxing on the players, who play many times each week. Football is tremendously difficult on the players and is so tiring that sixty minutes of clock time - which amounts to several hours of real time - ... Read More

Quotes by Ambrose Bierce "Passport: a document treacherously inflicted upon a citizen going abroad, exposing him as an alien and pointing him out for special reprobation and outrage". Quotes by Doromont de Belloy "The more foreigners I saw, the more I loved my homeland". Quotes by Sir Thomas Beecham "I have recently been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it". Quotes by Gluseppe Baretti "Travellers...seem to have no other purpose by taking long journeys but to procure themselves the pleasure of railing at ... Read More

Quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Life differs from the play only in this...it has no plot - all is vague, desultory, unconnected - till the curtain drops with the mystery unsolved". Quotes by Bertolt Brecht "Life is short and so is money". Quotes by Alan Bennett "Life, you know, is rather like opening a tin of sardines. We're all of us looking for the key". Quotes by Anonymous "Death is a port whereby we pass to joy, Life is a lake that drowneth all in payn". Quotes by Maya Angelou "My life ... Read More