“Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived.”
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Inspired Quotes — page 123 of 313
“Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection.”
“Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor.”
“I know something you do not know. I am not left-handed either.”
“Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void.”
“Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered, and I fear I never will.”
“Thus sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud; And after summer evermore succeeds Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold: So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.”
“To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on.”
“Men so noble, However faulty, yet should find respect For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty To load a falling man.”
“This day's black fate on more days doth depend; This but begins the woe, others must end.”
“My purpose is to inspire people of all walks of life to discover the virtue inherent within them and to bring forth that virtue in their daily lives.”
“Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.”
“When I'm driving the highway by myself is when I write best.”
“I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.”
“Don't think of death as an ending. Think of it as a really effective way of cutting down your expenses.”
“The chief problem about death ... is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought.”
“Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.”
“If someone accidentally ingests sodium azide, you shouldn't try to resuscitate the person because you could die, too, giving CPR. This is a highly toxic chemical.”
“Imagination inspires you to look at everything with fresh eyes, as though you had just come forth from a dark tunnel into the light of day. Imagination becomes for you a magic lamp with which to search the darkness of the unknown, that you may discover new goals or chart more productive paths to old goals.”
“The future has become uninhabitable. Such hopelessness can arise, I think, only from an inability to face the present, to live in the present, to live as a responsible being among other beings in this sacred world here and now, which is all we have, and all we need, to found our hope upon.”