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Quotations |
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Here are some English quotations collected.
Serial No | And I quote | Who said | Date | Reference |
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151 | In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence | "The Peter Principle" by Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull | 91/01/01 | Japanese189 |
265 | If we discover a complete theory, it should in time be understandable in broad principle by everyone, not just a few scientists. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people, be able to take part in the discussion of why it is that we and the universe exist. If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason- for then we would truly know the mind of God. | Stephen Hawking Concluding sentence of A Brief History of Time |
98/06/04 | "The Mind of God" by Paul Davis |
266 | The best way to predict the future is to create it. | Peter Drucker | 98/06/16 | Dr. Gadeken cited in IPMA meeting. |
279 | We trained hard---- but it seemed every time we were
beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any situation by reorganizing, and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization. |
Petronius Arbiter Rome, 66 A.D. |
98/07/25 | Dr. Gadeken cited in IPMA meeting. |
280 | Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the gazelle or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle--- When the sun comes up, you'd better be running. |
Norm Augustine Augustine's Travels |
98/07/25 | Dr. Gadeken cited in IPMA meeting. |
281 | Managing project in this environment is similar to raising cattle in some of the more barren areas of Texas where it is said that a cow must graze at 60 miles per hour simply to stay alive. | Norm Augustine Augustine's Travels |
98/07/25 | Dr. Gadeken cited in IPMA meeting. |
370 | England expects every man to do his duty. | Nelson | 2000/04/09 | Japanese 28 |
371 | We have met the enemy, and he is us. |
Pogo | 2000/04/09 | Japanese 35 |
372 | If I wasn't hard I couldn't be alive If I couldn't ever be gentle I wouldn't deserve to alive |
from "Play Back" by R. Chandler | 2000/04/09 | Japanese 57 |
373 | Don't listen critics no stature ever made on critics |
Jean Sibelius 1865-1957? | 2000/04/09 | Japanese 58 |
374 | NARRATOR "A French man recently criticized the US. He said that America is a wasteland, a cultural desert. You people has no culture, none. He sys the only thing you gave the world is ronkn` rolls and Harley Davidson." Peter Fonda "Yea, well that may be the case. Then what more you need." |
Peter Fonda | 2000/04/09 | Japanese 72 |
375 | Control your destiny, or some one else will Face realty as it is, not as it was or as you wish it were Be candid with everyone Don't manage; lead Change before you have to If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete |
Jack Welch's Six Rules for Success |
2000/04/09 | Japanese 102 |
376 | divide and rule
divide et impera |
A principle of controlling complexity found by Romans and refound by British. | 2000/04/09 | Japanese 144 |
377 | Unlearning | main cause of misleading | 2000/04/09 | Japanese 147 |
378 | Out of sight, out of mind | old saying | 2000/04/09 | Japanese 197 |
379 | If winter comes, can Spring be behind? | Percy Bysshe Shelley his epitaph: Here lies, one whose name was writ in water |
2000/04/09 | Japanese 260 |
380 | There are no whole truth; all truths are half-truths. | Whitehead | 2000/04/09 | Japanese 313 |
381 | ...creation is a continuing process, and `the process is itself the actuality`, since no sooner do you arrive than you start on a fresh journey | Whitehead | 2000/04/09 | Japanese 314 |
382 | From being to becoming | Ilya Prigogine 1917- | 2000/04/09 | Japanese 315 |
383 | First flight has been achieved | Wright Brothers | 2000/04/09 | Japanese 337 |
384 | Though I am old with wandering Through hollow lands and hay lands I will find out where she has gone And kiss her lips and take her hands And walk among long dappled grass And pluck till time and times are done The silver apples of the moon The golden apples of the sun |
W. B. Yeats | 93/12/31 | |
385 | From Settin in Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. | Sir Winston Churchill the speech entitled "The Sinews of Peace", given to Westminster Colledge, Fulton, Missouri, 1946 |
2000/04/23 | origin of the word "iron curtain" |
386 | Through them, you see the rise and fall of the fields beyond, piled upon one another like pillows. The Buttercup field, which is nearest, slopes down to the small brook that runs between four willows; beyond that, the Rise, overlapping with the Dove house field, and so gently on, and up, to where the topmost field lies like an arm outstretched, and forms a boundary to one side of the village. On a few, very clear days in winter, you can even see further, right over the top of the apple tree to where the blue hump of the village of Hope-Hope-on-the-Slope-is sometimes visible. But, mostly, there is mist or some other grayness obscuring it, and later in the year it is almost blocked out by the foliage. | Susan Hill from The Magic Apple Tree, 1982 |
2000/04/23 | |
387 | Dearest, I feel certain I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best things to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don't think two people could have been happier till this terrible disease came. I can't fight any longer. I knew that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can't even write this properly. O can't read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that- everybody knows it. If any body could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been. V. |
Virginia Woolf the last letter to Leonard,1941 |
2000/04/23 | |
398 | the winners of past wars were not always the armies with the best generals and weapons, but were often merely those bearing the nastiest germs to transmit to their enemies. | Jared Diamond | 2000/8/18 | in his book "Guns, Germs, and Steel" |
404 | Good judgment comes from experience. And when does experience come from ----- Experience comes from bad judgment. |
Mark Twain | 2000/11/8 | Prof. Yotsuyanagi |
407 | Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners. | W. Shakespeare, Othello I-III | 2000/11/26 | Prof. Suzuki |
408 | You must remember this A kiss is still a kiss A sigh is just a sigh The fundamental things apply As time goes by And when two lovers woo They still say I love you On that you can rely No matter what the future brings As times goes by ....... |
Herman Hupfeld, "As Time Goes By" in mivie Casablanca 1942 |
2000/12/20 | Ron Cooper |
426 | If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not
love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. |
1 Corintheans 13 | 2001/1/30 | Tony Blair read this chapter in the funeral for Princes Dyana. |
553 | No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness or as good as drink. | G. K. Chesterton | 2001/12/8 | Famous and Infamous Drinking Quotes cited by Ron Cooper |
554 | Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. | Ambrose Bierce | 2001/12/8 | Famous and Infamous Drinking Quotes cited by Ron Cooper |
555 | I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast. | W. C. Fields |
2001/12/8 | Famous and Infamous Drinking Quotes cited by Ron Cooper |
556 | I would rather commit adultery than drink a glass of beer. Who wouldn't? |
Lady Astor, Social reformer A voice from the crowd |
2001/12/8 | Famous and Infamous Drinking Quotes cited by Ron Cooper |
557 | Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink. Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it. |
Lady Astor to Winston Churchill Winston Churchill's reply |
2001/12/8 | Famous and Infamous Drinking Quotes by cited Ron Cooper |
558 | Adhere to the Schweinheitsgebot. Don't put anything in your beer that a pig wouldn't eat. | David Geary | 2001/12/8 | Famous and Infamous Drinking Quotes cited by Ron Cooper |
559 | One more drink and I'd be under the host. | Dorothy Parker | 2001/12/8 | Famous and Infamous Drinking Quotes cited by Ron Cooper |
560 | The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind. | The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind. | 2001/12/8 | Famous and Infamous Drinking Quotes cited by Ron Cooper |
561 | Why is American beer served cold? So you can tell it from urine. | David Moulton | 2001/12/8 | Famous and Infamous Drinking Quotes cited by Ron Cooper |
562 | A drink a day keeps the shrink away. | Edward Abbey |
2001/12/8 | Famous and Infamous Drinking Quotes by Ron Cooper |
563 | Put it back in the horse! | H. Allen Smith, an American humorist in the '30s-'50s, after he drank his first American beer at a bar. |
2001/12/8 | Famous and Infamous Drinking Quotes cited by Ron Cooper |
564 | Give a man a beer, waste an hour. Teach a man to brew, and waste a lifetime! | Bill Owen |
2001/12/8 | Famous and Infamous Drinking Quotes cited by Ron Cooper |
565 | Okay, brain, I don't like you and you don't like me. Let's just take this exam so I can get back to killing you with beer. | Homer Simpson | 2001/12/8 | Famous and Infamous Drinking Quotes cited by Ron Cooper |
622 | Aimer, ce n'est pas se regarder l'un l'autre, c'est regarder ensemble dans la meme direction | Saint-Exupery 1900-1944 | 2002/9/8 | Mrs. Greenwood |
676 | Great Truths About Growing Old: 1. Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. 2. You're getting old when you get the same sensation from a rocking? chair that you once got from a roller coaster. 3. It's frustrating when you know all the answers, but nobody bothers to? ask you the questions. 4. Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. 5. Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone. |
Mr. Myrick of Catalytic Inc. | 2003/2/12 | Masaaki Noguchi introduced this phase |
640 | HE SERENITY PRAYER O God, give us serenity to accept what cannot be changed, courage to change what should be changed, and wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. |
Reinhold Niebuhr | 2003/12/13 | Seki Shoutarou
Waseda University |
769 | It's the genes that, for their own good, are manipulating the bodies they ride about in. The individual organism is a survival machine for its genes." | Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene |
2004/5/3 | Edge Library Serial No.10 |
809 | Boys be ambitious | William Smith Clark | 2004/9/25 | Asahi, be on Sunday |
816 | people don't want to go to war.... But, after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a parliament or a communist dictatorship.... Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to greater danger. It works the same way in any country. | Hermann Goering | 2004/10/2 | Ron Cooper |
888 | We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. | Benjamin Franklin | 2005/2/17 | The Darwin
Awards salute the improvement of the human genome by honoring those who accidentally kill themselves in really stupid ways. |
1483 |
Et secundas res splendidiores
facit amicitia et adversas partiens communicansque leviores. friendship makes prosperity brighter while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties |
Cicero: Laelius. 6.22 |
2012/6/22 |
Mr. Mochizuki |
1484 |
Nullius boni sine socio
iucunda
possessio est. "There is no pleasure in the possession of any blessing unless we share it with another." |
Seneca, Epistolae VI |
2012/6/22 |
Mr. Mochizuki |
1486 |
Beer is living proof that God
loves us and wants us to be happy |
Ben Franklin |
2012/6/30 |
Putting away one of my sweaters
today, I noticed the quote from Ben Franklin printed on it. But many people question whether he actually said it, or was talking about wine. Perhaps the best attribution would be "Commonly Attributed to Benjamin Franklin". Ron |