Donald Quotes

It’s good to want God to speak to you, but smarter to let God speak through you, because when God speaks through you, more than one can hear.

When someone would mistreat, misinform, misuse, misguide, mishandle, mislead… or any other "mis"… to others, they’re obviously missing something from their lives.

There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and activity.

If you're not happy every morning when you get up leave for work or start to work at home-if you're not enthusiastic about doing that you're not going to be successful.

Fear can be headier than whisky once man has acquired a taste for it.

We don't need to increase our goods nearly as much as we need to scale down our wants. Not wanting something is as good as possessing it.

In the Orient people believed that the basis of all disease was unhappiness. Thus to make a patient happy again was to restore him to health.

A five-word sentence that could change the world tomorrow is "What would love do now?"

A little while with grief and laughter And then the day will close The shadows gather . . . what comes after No man knows.

The Sonata is an essentially dramatic art form combining the emotional range in vivid presentation of a full-size stage drama with the terseness of a short story.

Fear can be headier than whiskey once man has acquired a taste for it.

The successful person is the individual who forms the habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.

If you're not happy every morning when you get up leave for work or start to work at home if you're not enthusiastic about doing that you're not going to be successful.

Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches.

The future is wider than vision and has no end.

This muck heaves and palpitates. It is multi-directional and has a mayor.

When people talk about you behind your back, they're not just behind you, they're beneath you.

If you don’t believe others can end your suffering, why believe they can end your happiness?

Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream.

If it were a fact, it wouldn't be called intelligence.

Sorry I have no space left for advice. Just do it.

My parents were willing to let me follow my nose, do what I wanted to do, and they supported my interest by buying the books that I wanted for birthdays and Christmas, almost always poetry books.

As a doctor, an educator, an innovator and someone who has dedicated his professional career to making things work better and to helping people - I am ready to lead.

Even famous poets such as Marianne Moore and William Carlos Williams were rarely asked to read their poems.

People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones.

The great American tradition is one of pluralism, not exclusive secularism. The strength of our country is reflected in the contributions that we all make to the common good.

You ever try to beat your dad up? It just don't happen. He's got that old man strength.

We should believe in the strength and vitality of the values which constitute the E.U. and which neighbouring states can believe in and aspire to join.

Sunday morning church service is not an enormous priority spending time with other believers is.

A young dog's faith is absolute... Dogs are notorious for hope. Dogs believe that this morning, this very morning, may begin a day of fascination, easily grander than any day in the past.

I was aware of it, but I grew up in a very a-religious family. My mother never went to church, she never had any religious training or background. It was never a part of our social interaction.

Isn't one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that it's basically impossible to use text to show that.

Once they become AKC registered, the newspapers will become flooded with ads for them. And you'll see Border collies in pet stores and animal shelters.

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Not everything in old age is grim. I haven't walked through an airport for years, and wheelchairs are the way to travel.

It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available in proper format.

I prefer design by experts - by people who know what they are doing.

Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone.

Future public education will require involvement and collaboration among various local, civic, private and nonprofit entities, a concept I like to refer to as 'community entrepreneurship.'

Everything important always begins from something trivial.

I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. That's the way my mother raised me.

I'm the middle man. I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. That's the way my mother raised me.

As I grew older - collapsing into my seventies, glimpsing ahead the cliffs of the eighties, colliding into eighty-five - poetry abandoned me.

After a couple of years of public high school, I went to Exeter - an insane conglomeration of adolescent males in the wilderness, all of whom claimed to hate poetry.

I've always felt that poetry was particularly erotic, more than prose was... I say that you read poems not with your eyes and not with your ears, but with your mouth. You taste it.

For better or worse, poetry is my life.

Sound had always been my portal to poetry, but in the beginning, sound was imagined through the eye.

In my life, I've seen enormous increase in the consumption of poetry. When I was young, there were virtually no poetry readings.

I was at Harvard with a whole bunch of poets, and that was very rare. They published a lot of books because there was an excitement after the war that translated into poetry.

When it comes to poetry, I think partly the numbers of people attempting to write poems is probably a result or the reaction to technology.