Quotes - May 2007

Thursday, 03 May 2007

"Nothing happens unless first we dream."
--Carl Sandburg,
two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and poet

Friday, 04 May 2007

"Lying is done with words and also with silence."
--Adrienne Rich,
poet and teacher

Thursday, 10 May 2007

"Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live."
--Dorothy Thompson,
journalist

Friday, 11 May 2007

"How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time."
--Fred Brooks,
software engineer and author

Monday, 14 May 2007

"You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing."
--Michael Pritchard,
motivational speaker

Thursday, 18 May 2007

"A closed mind is a dying mind."
--Edna Ferber,
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist

Monday 21 May 2007

"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy."
--Anne Frank,
German-Jewish diarist, Holocaust victim

Thursday, 24 May 2007

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right -- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't."
--Eleanor Roosevelt,
former first lady and American political leader

Friday, 25 May 2007

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
--Winston Churchill,
British prime minister

Saturday, 26 May 2007

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear."
--Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain,
writer

Tuesday, 29 May 2007

"Every wall is a door."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson,
poet and philosopher

Wednesday, 30 May 2007

"Not failure, but low aim is a crime."
--James Russell Lowell,
poet, diplomat and satirist

Thursday, 31 May 2007

"Ability is sexless."
--Christabel Pankhurst,
English suffragist