Archive for July, 2007

Colin Powell on War

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we’ve done this as recently as the last year in Afghanistan and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in.

- Colin Powell

Doris Day on Age

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

- Doris Day

George Washington Carver on Nature

Monday, July 30th, 2007

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.

- George Washington Carver

Anwar Sadat on History

Monday, July 30th, 2007

Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.

- Anwar Sadat

Les Brown on Dreams & Dreaming

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

- Les Brown

Vincent Canby on Technology

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who’s never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a Nile sunset, the sorts of vegetation one will find along the upper Amazon and that Big Ben has not yet gone digital.

- Vincent Canby

Mohandas Gandhi on Society

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

- Mohandas Gandhi

Harrison Ford on Change

Friday, July 27th, 2007

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

- Harrison Ford

Jean-Paul Sartre on War

Friday, July 27th, 2007

When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

Friedrich Nietzsche on Life

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

- Friedrich Nietzsche