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I would never want to be a member of a group
whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood.
- George Carlin
Related topics: Cynical
As soon as someone is identified as an unsung hero,
he no longer is.
- George Carlin
I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out
where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
- George Carlin
One great thing about getting old is that
you can get out of all sorts of social obligations
just by saying you're too tired.
- George Carlin
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.
- George Carlin
If it's true that our species is alone in the universe,
then I'd have to say that the universe
aimed rather low and settled for very little.
- George Carlin
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
- George Carlin
Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
- George Carlin
I don't like to think of laws
as rules you have to follow,
but more as suggestions.
- George Carlin
Honesty may be the best policy,
but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination,
dishonesty is the second-best policy.
- George Carlin
One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends
is that three out of four murders
are committed by people who know the victim.
- George Carlin
Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.
- George Carlin
I love and treasure individuals as I meet them;
I loathe and despise the groups
they identify with and belong to.
- George Carlin
Think of how stupid the average person is,
and realize half of them are stupider than that.
- George Carlin
Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice"?
- George Carlin
So far, this is the oldest I've been.
- George Carlin
The reason I talk to myself is because
I'm the only one whose answers I accept.
- George Carlin
No one knows what's next, but everybody does it.
- George Carlin
Inside every cynical person,
there is a disappointed idealist.
- George Carlin
The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American
recently passed each other in opposite directions.
- George Carlin
I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed.
- George Carlin
If a man smiles all the time,
he's probably selling something that doesn't work.
- George Carlin
Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it.
- George Carlin
If it requires a uniform, it's a worthless endeavor.
- George Carlin
Capitalism tries for a delicate balance:
It attempts to work things out so that
everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from
getting violent and trying to take other people's stuff.
- George Carlin
Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man
... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do
every minute of every day. And the invisible man
has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do.
And if you do any of these things,
he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire
and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever,
and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream,
until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you.
He loves you and he needs money.
- George Carlin
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
If you concentrate on what you don't have,
you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey
I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
May your right hand always be
stretched out in friendship, never in want.
- Irish Blessing
Never be stopped by fear or self-pity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's never too late.
- Anonymous
You should never be content with so little,
when you can reach out for something big.
- Charles L. Allen
(This quote is about making a big difference
in the world - not about greed)
Give the world the best you have
and it may never be enough.
Give the world your best anyway.
- Mother Teresa
We are shaped by our thoughts;
we become what we think.
When the mind is pure, joy follows
like a shadow that never leaves.
- The Buddha
Never forget the three powerful resources
you always have available to you:
love, prayer, and forgiveness.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Dance like no one is watching,
love like you'll never be hurt.
Sing like no one is listening.
Live life like it's heaven on earth.
- Anonymous (various attributions and alternate phrasings)
You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow,
it only saps today of its joy.
- Leo Buscaglia
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
Never give up, for that
is just the place and time
that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
- Satchel Paige
Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk backward.
- Abraham Lincoln
We can never obtain peace in the outer world
until we make peace with ourselves.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Who never walks save where he sees
men's tracks, makes no discoveries.
- J. G. Holland
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgive those who have injured you -
not because they deserve your forgiveness,
but because you can never be happy
until you release your anger and grant forgiveness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As we express our gratitude,
we must never forget that the highest appreciation
is not to utter words, but to live by them.
- John F. Kennedy
We would never have a word for Joy
if there were no suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
- Henry David Thoreau
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
We are formed and molded by our thoughts.
Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts
give joy when they speak or act.
Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
- The Buddha
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach
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