Desire for security keeps littleness little and threatens the great with smallness.
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Desire for security keeps littleness little and threatens the great with smallness.
SOURCE UNKNOWN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire.
My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly,
Ke...
THEODORE ROETHKE The privatization plan weakens Social Security and threatens our economic security by creating trill...
RUBEN HINOJOSA Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
VICTOR HUGO American dependence on foreign oil threatens our national security,
TED STEVENS That's part of your curse. To drive men mad with desire and feel no pleasure".
"Great," I...
KRISTINA DOUGLAS Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.
FRANCIS MACDONALD CORNFORD Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.
FRANCES CORNFORD Magnificently unprepared For the long littleness of life
FRANCES CORNFORD Terrorism gravely threatens international peace and security, and as a solution, the power and appar...
CHARLES KENNEDY She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate obser...
J.D. SALINGER Father said I have no sense of humor at all. He said I was unequipped to meet life because I have no...
J.D. SALINGER You take a really sleepy man, Esmé, and he always stands a chance of again becoming a man with all ...
J.D. SALINGER He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.
J.D. SALINGER Written in ink, in German, in a small, hopelessly sincere handwriting, were the words "Dear God, lif...
J.D. SALINGER There is in the soul a desire for not thinking.
For being still. Coupled with this
a desir...
RAYMOND CARVER Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire,
ROBERT FROST We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
VERONICA ROTH Desire great things in life.
Expect great things in life.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Fire and Ice
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve t...
ROBERT FROST Job offered for static security guard in G&A Security? Contact us for best job in the UK includi...
G&A SECURITY The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
BILL WATTERSON Her desire for fame is like her hair. It keeps getting bigger.
JOHNNY MATHIS Life was good
before I
met
the monster.
After,
life
was great
...
ELLEN HOPKINS Great man is the one who is aware of his smallness in this universe! Greatness starts first of all w...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN In the area of national security, I urge the swift passage of an anti-terrorism law that will protec...
GLORIA MACAPAGAL ARROYO I like smallness. I like the perverse audacity of someone aiming tiny.
KYO MACLEAR, BIRDS ART LIFE: A YEAR OF OBSERVATION And in this he showed me a little thing, the quantity of a hazel nut, lying in the palm of my hand, ...
JULIAN OF NORWICH I prayed for riches and achieved success,
All that I touched turned into gold. Alas!
My cares...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX That cat was a spy. You had to take a pot shot at it. It was a very clever German midget dres...
J.D. SALINGER Forgive me, Lord, for the smallness and selfishness of my mind. Amen.
MICHEL FABER It is not acceptable for people to completely cover themselves on the street. It threatens public or...
GEERT WILDERS No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
THOMAS CARLYLE No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
THOMAS CARLYLE If you [Americans] are sincere in your desire for peace and security, we have answered you.
OSAMA BIN LADEN If life is a curse, then few are cursed with littleness, majority with mediocrity and rare ones with...
DR HITESH C SHETH If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a hum...
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE For without you, I swear, the town
Has become like a prison to me.
Distraction and the mou...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Clean energy is good for the environment, good for national security, and good for thousands of Amer...
JOHN GARAMENDI My eyes constantly seek
the rainbow of my dreams
and I sometimes fail
to be grateful...
VIJAYA GOWRISANKAR Children should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and a...
NATALIA GINZBURG I hope this means Mr. Reich will educate Senator Bradley's team on Medicaid, Medicare and Social Sec...
CHRIS LEHANE Smallness is subversive, because smallness can creep into smaller places and wreak transformation at...
SARAH RUHL Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to ou...
JOHN UPDIKE Why should I blame her that she filled my days
With misery, or that she would of late
Hav...
W.B. YEATS It's the Bush administration and Washington Republicans who are addicted to oil, and this administra...
SENATOR JOHN KERRY The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory out of desir...
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for res...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH It's totally out of desire and totally out of belief that - not that I am essential, but that I am s...
MARTHA STEWART With the magnificence of eternity before us, let time, with all its fluctuations, dwindle into its o...
THOMAS CHALMERS A criminal pipeline from Cuba to Florida threatens U.S. national security interests with Cuban migra...
JEFF DUNCAN Thank God for poverty
That makes and keeps us free,
That lets us go our unobtrusive way,
WILLIAM BLISS CARMAN I have come to realize that all my trouble with living has come from fear and smallness within me.
ANGELA L. WOZNIAK The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. It puts people...
HILLARY CLINTON The rain keeps constantly raining,
And the sky is cold and gray,
And the wind in the trees k...
WILLIAM WETMORE STORY The little boy was looking for his voice.
(The king of the crickets had it.)
In a drop of ...
FEDERICO GARCíA LORCA The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS We still think it's a great event and a great sport. Its recognition with the public keeps getting b...
BILL NIELSEN Life keeps throwing me stones.
And I keep finding the diamonds...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES If you never see a fool
You'll always be happy.
The one who keeps company with fool...
ANONYMOUS I can't promise you that money will bring you happiness, because it didn't do it for me.
But th...
CELSO CUKIERKORN The Internet has fashioned a new and complicated environment for an age-old dilemma that pits the de...
MISHA GLENNY The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
TACITUS The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
MARCUS CLAUDIUS TACITUS Each night I lie and dream about the one
Who kissed me and awakened my desire
I spent a si...
L.J. SMITH The more functionality you have, the more likelihood there is for a security vulnerability, and Wind...
IRA WINKLER His approach, enjoying small spots of nature every day rather than epic versions of wilderness and e...
KYO MACLEAR, BIRDS ART LIFE: A YEAR OF OBSERVATION The secret tugs at my sleeve.
A child looking for attention.
It is not a big secret.
...
ADELHEID MANEFELDT We're looking for hard-working individuals who recognize this as a great professional opportunity an...
GEORGE NACCARA I don't think there's a desire on any side to deal with this militarily. I think that . . . everybod...
EMILY LANDAU I'll tell you one thing. Being with you keeps a girl fit.'
The Doctor beamed breathlessl...
MIKE TUCKER For Hell and the foul fiend that rules
God's everlasting fiery jails
(Devised by rogues, d...
JOHN WILMOT Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext ...
HONORE DE BALZAC People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their...
BILL LASWELL I follow Plato only with my mind
Pure beauty strikes me as a little thin
A little cold, ho...
ROBERT FRANCIS Jaques: God be wi' you. Let's meet as little as we can.
Orlando: I do desire we may be better s...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE People where you live," the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they ...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY It may be that the seemingly intrinsic attraction that past time has for me is merely a desire for e...
DAVID SOUTER Well, now,
if little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you little by little...
PABLE NERUDA O it's I that am the captain of a tidy little ship,
Of a ship that goes a sailing on the pond; ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Then sail, my fine lady, on the billowing wave -
The water below is as dark as the grave,
...
MARGARET ATWOOD In the dark beside me, she smelled of sweat and sunshine and vanilla,
JOHN GREEN Think you a little din can daunt mine ears?
Have I not in my time heard lions roar?
Have I...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE People are not an interruption of our business. People are our business.
A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in men. Ordinary people see no diff...
The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn.
Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.
Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads
Let love through good deeds show.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
In everyone's heart stirs a great homesickness.
That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.
Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.
One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first ti...
To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to...
Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.
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People are not an interruption of our business. People are our business.
A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in men. Ordinary people see no diff...
The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn.
Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.
Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads
Let love through good deeds show.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
In everyone's heart stirs a great homesickness.
That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.
Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.
One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first ti...
To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to...
Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of...
Some families can trace their ancestors back three hundred years, but can't tell you where their chi...
A recent survey was said to prove that the people we Americans most admire are our politicians and d...
If a man defrauds you one time, he is a rascal; if he does it twice, you are a fool.
Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it ...
Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs.
Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.
The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - and friendless.
Friendship is love with understanding.
So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius
Your life can't go according to plan if you have no plan.
Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.
Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.
An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation
To live so that you would not be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip, is to have li...
Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind
If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts.
We are born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.
People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.
Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good...
The guilty catch themselves.
Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.
If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
Hatred is a boomerang which is sure to hit you harder than the one at whom you throw it.
Hate pollutes the mind.
If we miraculously became the people we hate, how lovable we would find ourselves.
To feel "fit as a fiddle" you must tone down your middle.
Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.
A patient going to a doctor for his first visit was asked, "And whom did you consult before coming t...
"Oh," replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, "he told me to come and see you."
It is impossible to make wisdom hereditary.
Honesty is a question of right or wrong, not a matter of policy.
It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.
It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside.
Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the t...
Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for ...
Humor - the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.
Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth - a sense of humor.
"What made the deepest impression upon you?" inquired a friend one day of Lincoln, "when you stood i...
It isn't easy for an idea to squeeze itself into a head filled with prejudice.
Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.
Imagination is the pontoon bridge making way for the timid feet of reason.
Practical observation commonly consists of collecting a few facts and loading them with guesses.
Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and u...
Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?
A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are.
One look around us ought to show that all our arbitrary measures and bounds have been clamped on us ...
No punishment of the unrighteous has ever been too severe in the eyes of the righteous.
Why keep on enacting laws when we already have more than we can break.
The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self-re...
Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand.
Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others.
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea
Old age may seem a long way off. But on the day it doesn't, it will be too late to do anything about...
Age withers only the outside.
Where ambition ends happiness begins.
The best answer to answer to anger is silence.
The size of a man is measured by the size of the thing that makes him angry.
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
People who know the least always argue the most.
If you look for the positive things in life; you will find them.
What we are doing at the moment is more that just one thing added to the rest; it is a memoir.
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes
The human mind must believe in something, so why not let it believe what it does believe.
He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance
It is better to live richly than to die rich.
On his examination paper a boy wrote, "A natural death is where you die by yourself without a doctor...
Many things are worse than defeat,and compromise with evil is one of them.
We cannot be too earnest, too persistent, too determined, about living superior to the herd-instinct...
A college education never hurt anybody who was willing to learn after he got it.
Shortchange your education now and you may be short of change the rest of your life.
Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them
Catch your people doing something right and let them know you appreciate it.
Create the kind of climate in your organization where personal growth is expected, recognized and re...
Enthusiasm is very good lubrication for the mind.
Enthusiasm is that kindling spark which marks the difference between the leaders in every activity a...
There are many roads to hate, but envy is the shortest of them all.
The only person worth envying is he person who doesn't envy.
Excellence is best described as doing the right things right - selecting the most important things t...
Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your...
Don't mind criticism. If it is untrue, disregard it; if unfair, keep from irritation; if it is ignor...
It is usually best to be generous with praise, but cautious with criticism.
There is one way to handle the ignorant and malicious critic. Ignore him.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.
When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment.
Results are what you expect, and consequences are what you get.
A conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.
One should be more concerned about what his conscience whispers than about what other people shout.
The bigger a man's head gets, the easier it is to fill his shoes.
You know how you hate to be interrupted, so why are you always doing it to me.
The biggest shortage of all is the shortage of common sense.
A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.
No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he choos...
Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.
Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.
Our children seem to have wonderful taste, or none - depending, of course, on whether or not they ag...
Cheerfulness greases the axles of the world.
You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character.
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of charac...
The test of any man's character is how he takes praise.
If you don't like your own character there may be a new one ready-made and waiting for you. The snak...
Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both
The shortest answer is the doing the thing.
Education is not received. It is achieved.
It doesn't do any good to sit up and take notice if you keep on sitting.
None of us are responsible for all the things that happen to us, but we are responsible for the way ...
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner, neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success qualify ...
Where we go and what we do advertises what we are.
It is strange that we do not temper our resentment of criticism with a thought for our many faults w...
The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bend...
I don't like it and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it.
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ...
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divi...
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possessi...
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
He's a complete and total psychopath. I don't mean that in the criminal sense, of course, but in a p...
Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforti...
Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.
I always turn to the sports pages first, which record people's accomplishments. The front page has n...
I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has ...
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat.
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
How should they answer?
Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why me...
Find expression for a sorrow and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will...
In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of thine own uprightness will alleviate the ...
The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are...
Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious...
I may not agree with what you say, but I'll fight to the death for your right to die in a fire of su...
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
Everybody's a self-made man; but only the successful ones are ever willing to admit it.
The deadliest contagion is majority opinion.
Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.
Many people seem to think that opportunity means a chance to get money without earning it.
Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushe...
Few cases of eyestrain have been developed by looking on the bright side of things.
Children begin by loving their parents. As they grow older, they judge them. Sometimes they forgive ...
If your children look up to you, you've made a success of life's biggest job.
Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficul...
A patient man is one who can put up with himself.
Peace won by the compromise of principles is a short-lived achievement.
Peace may cost as much as war, but it is a better buy.
If you get up one time more than you fall, you will make it through.
Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel.
No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he choos...
Protest long enough that you are right, and you will be wrong. It is easier to admire hard work if y...
He who ashamed of his poverty would be equally proud of his wealth.
Prayer doesn't change things. It changes people and they change things.
Prejudice is the reasoning of fools.
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
The hardest work in the world is that which should have been done yesterday.
An expert knows all the answers - if you ask the right questions.
Beware of the man who knows the answer before he understands the question.
If someone offers to furnish a sure test, ask what the test was which made the sure test sure.
There is a growing suspicion that what the world needs now is a religion that will cover the other s...
Religion is meant to be bread for daily use, not cake for special occasions.
Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences.
If the world were so organized that everything has to be fair, no living creature could survive for ...
Someone has described science as an orderly arrangement of what, at the moment, seems to be facts.
Before a diamond shows its brilliancy and prismatic colors it has to stand a good deal of cutting an...
Think highly of yourself, for the world takes you at your own estimate.
To save time is to lengthen life.
Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others.
Get into the habit of asking yourself if what you are doing can be handled by someone else.
Most people pay too much for the things they get for nothing.
The greatest paradox of them all is to speak of "civilized warfare."
We always prefer war on our terms to peace on someone else's.
A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune.
Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health.
If wisdom were on sale in the open market, the stupid would not even ask the price.
The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.
You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God.
Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be.
One thing you can give and still keep is your word.
When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language w...
The written word can be erased - not so with the spoken word.
Behind every successful man there are usually a lot of unsuccessful years.