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Archives - July 2007

July 1, 2007

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

– Henry David Thoreau

July 2, 2007

The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.

– Elaine Agather

July 3, 2007

Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.

– Paul Tillich, THE COURAGE TO BE

July 4, 2007

It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.

– J. Horace McFarland

July 5, 2007

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.

– Diane Ackerman

July 6, 2007

Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.

– Dorothy Sarnoff

July 7, 2007

The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep.

– E. Joseph Cossman

July 8, 2007

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

– Jean Jacques Rousseau

July 9, 2007

He who believes that the past cannot be changed has not yet written his memoirs.

– Torvald Gahlin

July 10, 2007

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

– Robert G. Ingersoll

July 11, 2007

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

– J. K. Rowling, HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX

July 12, 2007

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

– James Thurber

July 13, 2007

...All of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon --- instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

– Dale Carnegie

July 14, 2007

When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument.

– Virginia Woolf

July 15, 2007

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.

– Bergen Evans

July 16, 2007

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

– Steve Jobs

July 17, 2007

Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.

– Annie Dillard

July 18, 2007

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

– Lillian Hellman

July 19, 2007

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

– Ed Parker

July 20, 2007

Any ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

– Augustine Birrell

July 21, 2007

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.

– J. K. Rowling

July 22, 2007

Peace is costly, but it is worth the expense.

– Kenyan Proverb

July 23, 2007

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.

– M. C. Escher

July 24, 2007

Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned.

– Ayn Rand, ATLAS SHRUGGED

July 25, 2007

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

– Carl Jung

July 26, 2007

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart: I am, I am, I am.

– Sylvia Plath

July 27, 2007

We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.

– Tobias Wolff, IN PHARAOH'S ARMY

July 28, 2007

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of.

– Charles Richards

July 29, 2007

As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists.

– Joan Gussow

July 30, 2007

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.

– Richard Carlson

July 31, 2007

I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself.

– J. K. Rowling