| "Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order putting things in order always means getting other people under your control." »Barbara DeAngelis |
| "To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it." »Mother Theresa |
| "The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed." »Edwin Percy Whipple |
| "Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales." »Byron J. Langenfeld |
| "If we want a love message to be heard, it has to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it." »Mother Theresa |
| "A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." »Mark Twain |
| "During the Middle Ages, probably one of the biggest mistakes was not putting on your armor because you were 'just going down to the corner.'" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice." »Otto von Bismark |
| "Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour for we are members one of another." »Ephesians 425 Bible |
| "Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him." »Geoffrey Holder |
| "When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty." »Norm Crosby |
| "Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm." »Pamela Ribon |
| "putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness." »J. Frank Dobie |
| "Instead of putting a quarter under a kid's pillow, how about a pinecone That way, he learns that 'wishing' isn't going to save our national forests." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide he exposes himself." »Jeanne Moreau |
| "Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms." »Mark Twain |
| "To make inexpensive guns impossible to get is to say that you're putting a money test on getting a gun. It's racism in its worst form." »Roy Innis |
| "History is written by the winners. The books say the Indians were bad guys and the whites just needed a little land. It's like, Excuse me, let me take your car. I'm discovering it. I'm putting my flag on your windshield." »Mario Van Peebles |
| "I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten--happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another." »Brenda Ueland |
| "Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out." »Stephen Covey |
| "It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets." »Douglas Hurd |
| "We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves." »John Buchan |
| "Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed" »Solomon Short |
| "Do you ever sit down and wonder what is wrong with the world Do you ever ask yourself why it is that Christians seem to have so little influence, why they seem to achieve so little, for all their numbers, in putting the world right To each of those two questions there is ultimately but one answer. It is this we lack the mind of Christ." »J. Arthur Lewis |
| "Our banking system is like a bunch of kids stealing from the cookie jar, and when the central bankers are questioned about it, they lie, or they say they're doing it for our own good - and then we keep putting cookies in the jar - and keep allowing them to steal - when all that's really happening is they're getting a free snack on us. They don't even have to be on their best behavior to get the treat!" »John Rocco Savalli |
| "My final merit I refuse you, I refuse putting from me what I really am, Encompass worlds but never try to encompass me, I crowd your sleekest and best by simply looking toward you. Writing and talk do not prove me, I carry the plenum of proof in my face, With the hush of my lips I wholly confound the skeptic." »Walt Whitman |
| "People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives." »J. Michael Straczynski |
| "What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life." »Albert Einstein |
| "If I had to choose between putting a saloon or a liberal church on a corner, I'd choose the saloon every time. People who drink up the pay check in the saloon are less likely to become Pharisees, thinking that they don't need the Great Physician, than those who weekly swill the soporific doctrine of man's goodness." »Jay Edward Adams |
| "When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous--a man who brutalizes people. But *you* love him or you wouldn't be here. You're going to Mississippi to create social change--and you love Eastland in your desire to create conditions which will redeem his children. Loving your enemy is manifest in putting your arms not around the man but around the social situation, to take power from those who misuse it--at which point they can become human too." »Bayard Rustin |
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