Compelling Quotations

"He adapted to what there was to adapt to."

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 11:15:24 -0400

“He adapted to what there was to adapt to.”

- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.,

Breakfast of Champions

"Suit your manner to the man."

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 11:14:54 -0400

“Suit your manner to the man.”

- Terence, Adelphi

"We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn’t turn out, we modify it."

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 11:14:29 -0400

“We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn’t turn out, we modify it.”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"It’s an ill plan that cannot be changed."

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 11:13:51 -0400

“It’s an ill plan that cannot be changed.”

- Proverb (Latin)

"Who keeps company with the wolf will learn to howl."

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 11:13:28 -0400

“Who keeps company with the wolf will learn to howl.”

- Proverb (16th century)

"Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow..."

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 11:03:10 -0400

“Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.”

- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem."

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 11:02:23 -0400

“Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.”

- Eric Hoffer, The Ordeal of Change

"Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding."

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 11:01:56 -0400

“Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.”

- Eric Hoffer, The Ordeal of Change

"Slowly we adjust, but only if we have to."

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 10:59:12 -0400

“Slowly we adjust, but only if we have to.”

- Ellen Goodman

"Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything!"

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 10:58:38 -0400

“Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything!”

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"In Adam’s fall We sinned all. In the new Adam’s rise, We shall all reach the skies."

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 10:49:50 -0400

“In Adam’s fall
We sinned all.
In the new Adam’s rise,
We shall all reach the skies.”

- Henry David Thoreau, “In Adam’s Fall”

"Lord, forgive Adam, for Adam is me."

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 10:49:13 -0400

“Lord, forgive Adam, for Adam is me.”

- Richard G. Jones, 100 Hymns for Today

"Adam Had ‘em."

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 10:48:39 -0400

“Adam
Had ‘em.”

- Strickland Gillilan, “On the Antiquity of Microbes”

"In Adam’s fall We sinned all."

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 10:47:57 -0400

“In Adam’s fall
We sinned all.”

- Anonymous, in Benjamin Harris, compiler and publisher, The New England Primer, 1690

"Thought and learning are of small value unless translated into action."

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 14:51:25 -0400

“Thought and learning are of small value unless translated into action.”

- Wang Yang-ming

"(Action) is the last resource of those who know not how to dream."

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 14:50:57 -0400

“(Action) is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.”

- Oscar Wilde, Intentions, “The Critic as Artist”

"People rarely do what they don’t want to."

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 14:50:31 -0400

“People rarely do what they don’t want to.”

- Peter de Vries, Forever Panting

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now..."

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 14:49:55 -0400

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.”

- Henry David Thoreau

"I myself must mix with action, lest I wither by despair."

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 14:49:09 -0400

“I myself must mix with action, lest I wither by despair.”

- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Locksey Hall

"Action is eloquence …"

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 14:48:42 -0400

“Action is eloquence …”

- William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act III, Sc. Ii