quotes about changing the world

Time flies... scrapbook it. ~Vivian Perez-Espinosa, owner of Let�s Scrap!, a scrapbooking store in South Miami, Florida (www.lets-scrap.com)



Ice cream cravings are not to be taken lightly. ~Betsy Canas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com



We seem as a nation to be suffering from a mania for play. The huge development of pleasure-chasing automobiles merely symbolizes our universal restless eagerness to be running after something, anything, that we can classify as diversion. Under pressure from tormenting constituents our legislatures are piling up holidays. And the cry of labor everywhere is "Cut down hours; cut down hours," until it seems as if brief, tired minutes were all that would be left for work. The obvious deduction is that work is always something to be got rid of, as if it were a curse. Yet life is work. ~Author unknown, editorial from Labor Digest, June 1922, quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions by Maud van Buren



To have great poets there must be great audiences too. ~Walt Whitman



Would you kill your pet dog or cat to eat it? How about an animal you're not emotionally attached to? Is the thought of slaughtering a cow or chicken or pig with your own hands too much to handle? Instead, would hiring a hit-man to do the job give you enough distance from the emotional discomfort? What animal did you put a contract out on for your supper last night? Did you at least make sure that none went to waste and to take a moment to be grateful for its sacrifice? ~Anonymous Would you touch a nettle without being stung by it? take hold of it stoutly. Do the same to other annoyances, and hardly will any thing annoy you. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture. ~Susan Strasberg



Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. ~Henry David Thoreau



Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. ~Marie Curie



We are each of us born into the arms of mortality, the Lord recognizing our need to be held. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say. ~Sharon O'Brien



What Washington needs is adult supervision. ~Barack Obama



Appreciate everything your associates do for the business. Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune. ~Sam Walton Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. ~Voltaire



I am thankful for the mess to clean after a party because it means I have been surrounded by friends. ~Nancie J. Carmody



If you knew how meat was made, you'd probably lose your lunch. ~k.d. lang



The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do. ~Sarah Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy, 1996



I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. ~Henry David Thoreau



People who love cats have some of the biggest hearts around. ~Susan Easterly



O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles. ~Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller



Most guys aren't that picky. They may have quicker reflexes around large breasts, but they need more to keep them interested. We know plenty of women whose sex appeal makes their breasts exactly the right size. ~From "The Playboy Advisor," Playboy magazine, March 2004, in answer to the question, "If you have small breasts, how do you make yourself look sexy? Most guys want girls with large breasts."



If we aren't supposed to eat animals, then why are they made of meat? ~Author Unknown