| "A coalition of groups ... is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. ... an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him. (On Watergate crisis)" »Gerald R. Ford |
| "total self-esteem requires total and unconditional acceptance of yourself. You are a unique and worthy individual, regardless of your mistakes, defeats and failures, despite what others may think, say or feel about you or your behavior. If you truly accept and love yourself, you won't have a driving need for attention and approval. Self-esteem is a genuine love of self. Stop all adverse value judging of yourself. Stop accepting the adverse value judgments of others. Purge yourself of all condemnation, shame, blame, guilt & remorse." »Unknown |
| "The world is the sum-total of our vital possibilities." »Jose Ortega y Gasset |
| "Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life." »William James |
| "Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas." »Laurence Sterne |
| "In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place." »May Sarton |
| "total absence of humor renders life impossible." »Colette |
| "All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others." »Cyril Connolly |
| "I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win." »Arnold Palmer |
| "In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet." »Erma Bombeck |
| "As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood -- and an almost total inability to practice it." »Sydney Harris |
| "I never add up. I only subtract from the total dying... . . . It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters." »Mother Theresa |
| "In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, That is mine" »Abraham Kuyper |
| "Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it - his mind, his body, his heart - what's life worth to him" »Vince Lombardi |
| "If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers." »Maya Angelou |
| "Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle--he defeated the fear of trying." »Dr. Robert Schuller |
| "The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people." »Claiborne Pell |
| "More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly." »Woody Allen |
| "Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing." »Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| "If you ever reach total enlightenment while you're drinking a beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "You are right on target when you say that mad scientists have a total disregard for the wellbeing of others. We don't want to spread evil we just see no point in bothering to spread good." »Richard M. Mathews |
| "From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines, Going where I list, my own master total and absolute, Listening to others, considering well what they say, Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating, Gently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me." »Walt Whitman |
| "The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, and there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence. Yet, government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words." »David McIntosh |
| "Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith-a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will-but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world-faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity." »George Frost Kennan |
| "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." »Frank Herbert |
| "There is divine beauty in learning, just as there is human beauty in tolerance. To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests. And so are you." »Elie Wiesel |
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