Great Quotes
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
You use a glass mirror to see your face you use works of art to see your soul.
Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.
Hope is the denial of reality.
Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.
We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.
History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed.
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
All brave men love for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
You aren't learning anything when you're talking.
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.
Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
Veiling truth in mystery.
If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman.
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.
The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.
The home is the chief school of human virtues.
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.
I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.
War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
Every man of courage is a man of his word.
It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.
Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
I think it's something that needs to be said - that there are interracial marriages out there, and the couples live happy lives, and there's nothing wrong with it.
When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.
The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.
It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.
Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.
Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.
I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies history has no place for them.
I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.
He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.
Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war love is a growing up.
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them.
People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
Expose yourself to your deepest fear after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
The most important influence in my childhood was my father.
Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.
You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
You must not fear death, my lads defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.
Oceania was at war with Eurasia therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.
Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen the more select, the more enjoyable.
No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
Don't ever let economics alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.
I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
No matter where I've been overseas, the food stinks, except in Italy.
Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.
Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?
The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.
Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.
The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
He not busy being born is busy dying.
His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.
Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.
I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?
Every noble work is at first impossible.
The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Man cannot live by bread alone: he must have peanut butter.
If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable.
Who, being loved, is poor?
God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
The only real failure in life is one not learned from.
I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
I'm like the kid in kindergarten I really do send valentines to everyone.
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.
Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.
You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.
There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.
Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person.
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
The Great Quotes plugin provides an easy way to add rotating quotations to a WordPress site. It supports multiple widgets and multiple shortcodes per page. Clicking on the author’s name opens a new tab with his Wikipedia entry. It provides the ability to add, edit, and delete quotations. Approximately 20,000 quotes are pre-loaded into the database.
The plugin randomly chooses 200 quotes from the database each time a page is displayed that contains a Great Quotes widget or shortcode. Limiting the number of quotes loaded is done to avoid noticeably slowing the page load time. Besides, reading thru 200 quotes takes a considerable time – it’s unlikely a website visitor will read that many before going to another page.
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Great Quotes
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Great Quotes
Installation Instructions
- Upload ‘great-quotes’ folder to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory
- Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
Usage Instructions
To enter quotations, go to Tools > Great Quotes
To display “great quotes” on a web page you have two options:
1) Add a shortcode, examples below, to a page (more than one is ok). All options are optional.
[GreatQuotes]
[GreatQuotes title="Great Quotes" delay="20000" fontsize="15" textcolor="blue"]
The shortcode options can also be edited at Settings > Great Quotes. If a shortcode does not included a short-code option, the default will be taken from the Options page.
2) Create a widget(s) got to Appearance > Widgets
If you decide to enter quotations with more than 170 or so characters, or use a font size great than 20, you’ll probably need to modify the CSS.
To modify a shortcode, do something like the following:
#Silder_holder# .bx-wrapper .bx-viewport { height: 300px !important; } Use Google Chrome "Inspect" (right click on quote/Inspect)to determine what to substitute for the # above. It will be "1" unless you have more than one shortcode on your page.
Similarly, to modify a widget, do something like the following:
Silder_holdergreat_quotes_widget_# .bx-wrapper .bx-viewport {
height: 300px !important;
}
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I include more than one shortcode on a page?
Yes, the plugin is designed to handle more than one quote area on an individual page.
Can I have more than one Great Quote widget on my site?
Yes.
Can I put HTML code in the quote?
Yes.
Can Great Quotes make my quotes look exactly like I want them to?
Maybe not. It’s likely you’ll want to add some CSS to your site to get it to look exactly the way you want. If you don’t know what CSS means, well, that’s going to be a problem. CSS is a bit confusing. Start here.
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