Tion Quotes

#1. In no time whatever can small critics entirely eradicate out of living men's hearts a certain altogether peculiar collar reverence for Great Men
genuine admiration, loyalty, adora-tion.

Thomas Carlyle

#2. AFFORESTATION (AFFORESTA'TION) n.s.[from afforest.] The charter de Foresta was to reform the encroachments made in the time of Richard I. and Henry II. who had made new afforestations, and much extended the rigour of the forest laws.Hales'sCommon Law of England.

Samuel Johnson

#3. Christian giving is to be marked by self-sacrifice and self-forgetfuln ess, not by self-congratula tion.

John Stott

#4. Successful people are people of (mo.ti.va.tion), motivation, and action.

Jon Jones

#5. If we can give up attachment to our roles as helpers, then maybe our clients can give up attachment to their roles as patients and we can meet as fellow souls on this incredible journey. We can fulfill the duties of our roles without being trapped by over-identifica tion with them.

Ram Dass

#6. Sex is not about reproduc-tion, gender is not about males and females, courtship is not aboutpersuasion, fashion is not about beauty, and love is not about affec-tion. Below the surface of every banality and cliche there lies irony,cynicism, and profundity.

Matt Ridley

#7. ACCEPTILATION (ACCEPTILA'TION) n.s.[acceptilatio, Lat.]A term of the civil law,importing the remission of a debt by an acquittance from the creditor, testifying the receipt of money which has never been paid.

Samuel Johnson

#8. Dedication to one's work in the world is the only possible sanctifica-tion. Religion in all its forms is dedication to Someone Else's work, not yours.

Cynthia Ozick

#9. Drinking in his scent, I curl around him, trying to ignore the loss and devasta- tion I felt in my dream, and in that moment, I know that my deepest, darkest fear would be losing him

E.L. James

#10. ACCEPTATION (ACCEPTA'TION) n.s.[from accept.]1. Reception, whether good or bad. This large sense seems now wholly out of use.

Samuel Johnson

#11. AFFIDATION (AFFIDA'TION) AFFIDATURE (AFFIDA'TURE) n.s.[from affido, Lat.See AFFIED.] Mutual contract; mutual oath of fidelity. Dict.

Samuel Johnson

#12. The final goal of human effort is man's self-transforma tion.

Lewis Mumford

#13. It is too ironical to bear, but I give you my word that valorous people require far more protec-tion than meets the eye.

J.D. Salinger

#14. Throw away your 10-function chronometer, heart-rate monitor with the computer printout, training log, high-tech underwear, pace charts, and laboratory-rat-tested-air-injected-gel-lined-mo-tion-control-top-of-the-line footwear. Run with your own imagination.

Lorraine Moller

#15. Almost all instruction seems to revolve around language ac-(Jermaine spelling now) "q, a-kwi-si-tion acquisition!" ("What that?" I ask. "You know, to get. Language acquisition, to get some language.")

Sapphire.

#16. A business without sales is just ego masturb*tion.

Dan Meredith

#17. Another world, another life, proximate but inaccessible. The elusive . . . Sat-is-fac-tion.

Graeme Simsion

#18. Everything is in flux: everything changes; the body changes, the soul changes. We are capable of extraordinary self-transmutat ion and internal self-transforma tion.

Clive Barker

#19. ABNODATION (ABNODA'TION) n.s.[abnodatio, Lat.] The act of cutting away knots from trees;a term of gardening.Dict.

Samuel Johnson

#20. Great doubt: great awakening. Little doubt: little awakening. No doubt: no awakening. - Zen mantra

Barry L. Duncan

#21. I'm surprised." My eyes find hers as I cock an eyebrow.
"Why?"
"You loved science."
"I loved you more.

Kristen Proby

#22. I watch 'The Voice' and 'American Idol,' and I sit in my Brookstone foot massager. It's so exciting at my house.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

#23. Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madam Blaize, Who never wanted a good word From those who spoke her praise.

Oliver Goldsmith

#24. The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.

Gottfried Leibniz