X-Mas Quotes

A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up. 

Leonard Maltin 

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Benjamin Franklin

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

Garrison Keillor 

According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until the end of time.

Grazia Deledda

Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely.

Frank McCourt

And of course there's so much music in and around our family. I had a piano during Christmas because it's obviously useful through the season. There are so many people, songwriters, who are around.

Ashley Judd

At Christmas our house is like a Donnie and Marie Christmas Special.

Kevin Richardson

At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.

Thomas Tusser

At Christmas, 'It's a Wonderful Life' makes me cry in exactly the same places every time, even though I know it's coming.

Nicholas Lea

Besides the two Christmas things, we've got a about a dozen new tracks we're working on.

Chris Frantz

Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.

Wendy Cope

But Tammy Faye calls me, and Ron Jeremy calls me, Erik Estrada sends me a Christmas card every year.

Trishelle Cannatella

Christmas albums are not something you do frequently.

Isaac Hanson

Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own.

Ethel Merman

Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love.

Lucinda Franks

Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.

Jimmy Cannon

What they said about Poetry??

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

Robert Frost

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Robert Frost

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Paul Valery

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.

E. M. Forster

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

Oscar Wilde

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

W. H. Auden

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

Wallace Stevens

A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.

Rene Char

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

A poet's work is to name the unnamed able, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

Salman Rushdie

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.

Samuel McChord Crothers

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

Jean Cocteau

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

Oscar Wilde

Always be a poet, even in prose.

Charles Baudelaire

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

Charles Baudelaire

Edgar Allan Poe

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

Thomas Gray

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

Robert Frost

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Robert Frost

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

John Keats

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.

Eli Khamarov

Famous Quotes on Leader Ship.

                Leader Ship

Whoever wants to be a leader should educate himself before educating others. Before preaching to others he should first practice himself. Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals is superior to the man who tries to teach and train others.

Ali Ibn e Abi Talib (A.S)

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

Euripides

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

Mary Kay Ash

The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.

Cyril Falls

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

John F. Kennedy

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

Max Lucado

 

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

Stephen Covey

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Mohandas Gandhi

Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.

Bo Bennett

The exploits of your leaders in many a historic field of battle; the progress of your Revolution; the rise and career of the great Ataturk, his revitalization of your nation by his great statesmanship, courage and foresight all these stirring events are well-known to the people of Pakistan.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

Oscar Wilde

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Plato

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

Plato

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

Winston Churchill

Quotes on Identity & Art.

A people must have dignity and identity.

Andrew Goodman

A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support.

Wentworth Miller

A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same.

Djuna Barnes

A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost.

Lucy Stone

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

Woodrow Wilson

After that I couldn't show my face outside. I lost my identity and balance. I was still living with my parents, and they were my only friends. For so many people, this thing with the nurse was confirmation that I must be mad or mentally ill.

Mathias Rust

Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.

Eugenio Montale

Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.

Jean Baudrillard

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

James Baldwin

An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity.

Robyn Hitchcock

As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being.

Abdolkarim Soroush

As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.

Edmund White

As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling.

Michelle Shocked

 

As I look over my work, I mean every time I look over my early work, I see, yes, I could do that then and then I could do that and that... That may be the hardest thing for a writer, at least for a poet, to tell what the identity of his work is.

Kenneth Koch

As part of my efforts to fight identity theft, I worked with my colleagues on the Financial Services Committee to strengthen consumer protection with a reasonable notification requirement.

Melissa Bean

Quotes On Life: Islamic n Other Quotes.

Anyone who loves us Ahlul Bait must be ready to face a life of austerity.

Ali Ibn e Abi Talib (A.S)

Our life is made by the death of others.

Leonardo da Vinci

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

Oscar Wilde

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Plato

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

Oscar Wilde

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

Dalai Lama

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Elbert Hubbard

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Plato

When somebody asked Imam Ali as to how he was getting on, he replied: “What do you want to know about a person whose life is leading him towards ultimate death, whose health is the first stage towards illness and whom society has forced out of his retreat”.

Ali Ibn e Abi Talib (A.S)

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

Albert Einstein

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

Aristotle

Unfortunate is he who cannot gain a few sincere friends during his life and more unfortunate is the one who has gained them and then lost them (through his deeds).

Ali Ibn e Abi Talib (A.S)

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Aristotle

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quotes on Dreams: Successive peoples who prove there Ability Says About there Dreams.

We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.

Bill Gates

Do not dwell in the past; do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Buddha

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

Elbert Hubbard

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

John Barrymore

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

T. E. Lawrence

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

William Faulkner

Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action. When you can taste, smell, and touch your dream, you can enroll the world.

Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

Bill Gates

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Walt Disney

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

Elias Canetti

Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be.

Joy Page

Dream in a pragmatic way.

Aldous Huxley

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.

Marsha Norman

Quotes About Change

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

Maya Angelou

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

Mohandas Gandhi

We must become the change we want to see in the world.

Mohandas Gandhi

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Mohandas Gandhi

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

Mohandas Gandhi

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

Winston Churchill

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

Theodore H. White

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Confucius

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

Lao Tzu

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Stephen Hawking

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore,  you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Barbara De Angelis

Change of any sort requires courage.

Mary Anne Radmacher

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Winston Churchill

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