o ADIAI STEVENSON –” A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.” o ALAN WATTS –”Faith is, above all, openness; an act of trust in the unknown.” o ALBERT CAMUS –”In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” o ALEXANDRA LEDRU-ROLLIN –”There go the people, I must follow them for I am their leader.” o ANAIS NIN –”When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.” o ANDY WARHOL –”They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” o ANNE BRADSTREET –”If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity won’t be so welcome.” o ARTHUR C CLARKE –”The only way of finding the limits of the possible Is by going beyond them into the impossible.” o BENJAMIN NETANYAHU –” I always lose the election in the polls, and.l always win it on election day.” o BIBLE –”Faith is the evidence of things that are not seen.” o BUDDHA –”If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.” o CHARLES DARWIN –” It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the ow which is most responsive to change.” o COUNTESS OF BLESSINGTON –” Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.” o FRANK MCKINNEY HUBBARD –” We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.” o FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE –”For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.” o GEORGE ELIOT –”Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.” o GEORGE MIKES –”Many continentals think ,iife is a game; the English think cricket is a game.”
o GEORGE ORWELL –”The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.”
o GOETHE –”Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do,”
o GOETHE –”Sometimes we become fully aware and realize that error as well as truth can move and spur us on to action. Now because action is always a decisive factor, something really good can result from an active error, because the effect of all that has been done reaches out into infinity. So although creative action is certainly always best, destroying what has been done is also not without happy consequence.”
o GORDON BROWN –”Now that people can communicate so easily and instantaneously across borders, cultures and faiths, we can be confident that, across the world, we are discovering that there is a shared moral sense. It is a sense strong enough to ensure the constant replenishment of that well of values upon which we depend and which must infuse the shared rules of our society. Can there be a shared global ethic that can lie behind global rules? Through each of our heritages, traditions and faiths, there runs a single powerful moral sense demanding responsibility from all and fairness to all. ”
o GRACE MCGARVIE –”Name it and blame it, doesn’t mean you solved it, nor owned it, nor changed it.” o GRANTLAND RICE –”For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes — not that you won or lost — but how you played the Game.”
o GREETING CARD –”Climb every mountain in your life. You will reach the top. Best Wishes To You… in whatever you do.”
o GUATEMALAN PROVERB –”Everyone is the age of their heart.”
o GURU GOBIND SINGH –”The Khalsa is my own image. I shall always manifest myself in the Khalsa. The Khalsa is my body and soul; The Khalsa is the life of my life. The Khalsa is my perfect leader. The Khalsa is my brave friend. I say nothing untrue and to this; Guru Nanak, united with God, is my witness.” o GURU GOBIND SINGH –”Why impress false religion on the world? It will be of no service to it. Why run about for the sake of wealth? ou cannot escape from death. Son, wife, friends, disciples, companions none of those will bear witness for thee. Think, 0 think, you thoughtless fool, you shall have in the end to depart alone.”
o GURU GOBIND SINGH –”Without the support of the One Name, Consider all religious ceremonies superstitions., Karta the Creator and Karim the Beneficient are names of the same God. Razak the Provider and Rahim the Merciful are also the names given to Him. Let no one in error wrangle over differences in names. Worship the One God who is the Lord of all. Know that his form is one and He is the One light diffused in all.” o GURU GRANTH SAHIB –”If the mind becomes balanced and detached, and comes to dwell in its own true home, it comes to enjoy the essence of supreme spiritual wisdom.”
o HADITH OF ABU DAWUD –”Surely Allah will raise for this community at the beginning of every century one who shall revive for it its faith.”
o HADITH OF BAIHAQI –”Moses, son of Imran said, ‘My Lord, who is the greatest of Thy servants in Thy estimation?’ and received the reply, ‘The one who forgives when he is in a position of power.”
o HARRY S TRUMAN –”I would rather have-peace in the world than be president.” o HEMACHANDRA –”Lord Mahavira! Your word sometimes supports the view of providence, at other times calls events spontaneously occurring or ascribes destiny to external factors. At times you hold the deeds of individuals to be the mould of their desert, at other times find that another’s deeds project their moral reflection on the individual. The miracle is that none blames you for these paradoxical utterances!”
o HENNY YOUNGMAN –”If youre going to do something tonight that youll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.” o HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL –”In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.” o HENRI J M NOUWEN –”The spiritua! life does not remove us from the world but leadu us deeper into it. ” o HENRY D THOREAU –”A lake is the landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth’s eye; looking into, which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature… The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to a fine fringe on their edges, with here and there a blue mountain, like amethyst jewels set around some jewel of the first water — so anterior, so superior, to all the changes that are to take place on their shores, even now civil and refined, and fair as they can ever be.”
o HENRY D THOREAU-”I went to the woods because i wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if i could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when i came to die, discover that i had not lived i did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did i wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms…”
o HENRY DAVID THOREAU –” Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.” o HENRY ELLIS –”The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.” o HENRY FORD –”The question, “Who ought to be boss?” is like asking “Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?” Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.”
o HENRY KISSINGER –”The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.” o HENRY MILLER –”Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.”
o HERMAN WOUK –”Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.” o HILLARY CLINTON –”I think that the Pakistani government is basically abdicating to the Taliban and to the extremists.” o HOMER –”He saw the cities of many peoples and learnt their ways. He suffered many hardships on the high seas in his struggles to preserve his life and bring his comrades home.”
o HU SHIH –”Even the absolute universality of the law of causality does not necessarily limit a person’s freedom, because the law of causality not only enables him to explain the past and predict the future, but also encourages him to use his intelligence to create new causes and attain new results.”
o HU SHIH –”Even the absolute universality of the law of causality does not necessarily limit a person’s freedom, because the law of causality not only enables him to explain the past and predict the future, but also encourages him to use his intelligence to create new causes and attain new results.”
o I CHING –”Danger arises when a man feels secure in his position. Destruction i threatens when a man seeks to preserve his worldly estate. Confusion develops when ell man has put everything in order. Therefore, the superior man does not ^ forget danger in his security nor ruin when he is well-established, ,mor confusion when his affairs are in order.”
o I CORINTHIANS –”But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.”
o IBN AL’ARABI –”The Cosmos is His form The forms of the Cosmos are the manifest Reality, He being the manifest. He is also their inner essence, being also the unmanifest. He is the first, since He was when they were not, and also the Last, since in theirmanifestation He is the Essence.”
o IGBO PROVERB, NIGERIA –”God has both the yam and the knife; only those whom He gives a slice can eat!”
o INGRID BENGIS –”Words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.” o INGRID BERGMAN –”You must train your intuition — you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.”
o INSCRIPTION ON A ROMAN TOMBSTONE –”Do not pass by my epitaph, traveller. But having stopped, listen and
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