Facebook share Tweet This Email this
Martyrs cannot be silenced.
- the television show Star Trek: The Next Generation
Related topics: Cynical
Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation
There are times, sir, when men of good conscience
cannot blindly follow orders.
- Captain Picard, STAR TREK: The Next Generation
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
Please sign-up for my Free Inspirational Daily Email on the form below.
The claim "I was only following orders" has been used
to justify too many tragedies in our history.
- Captain Picard of the television series
STAR TREK: The Next Generation
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett
The presence of those seeking the truth
is infinitely to be preferred
to the presence of those who think they've found it.
- Terry Pratchett
Life is fully as bad as you think it is,
so never think life is bad.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
Everything popular is wrong.
- Oscar Wilde
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand
with a grip that kills it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell
Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
When you ask the wrong question,
you usually get a nonsense answer.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry
When all else fails, try thinking.
- Anonymous
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
When we remember we are all mad,
the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain
The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
- Helen Keller
Always listen to the experts.
They'll tell you what can't be done and why.
Then do it.
- Robert Heinlein
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
- Robert A. Heinlein
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never ascribe to malice that which is
adequately explained by incompetence.
- Napoleon
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
An unsolicited suggestion is
undistinguishable from a criticism.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin
It is well to remember that the
entire population of the universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- Andrew J. Holmes
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training,
for it trains people as to how they should think.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
- Mark Twain
Life is a game - a game you can never win.
You already know the final score: Life 1, You 0.
Doesn't mean you can't have fun playing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie
Life - for most people - is their past projected large
onto the movie screen of their future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
- W. C. Fields
Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed,
for if you merely offend them, they take vengeance,
but if you injure them greatly, they are unable to retaliate,
so that the injury done to a man
ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
Don't part with your illusions.
When they are gone you may still exist,
but you have ceased to live.
- Mark Twain
Okay, so it's a matter of life and death - now are you happy?
Urgency is never a path to joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most truths are so naked
that people feel sorry for them
and cover them up,
at least a little bit.
- Edward R. Murrow
I love being married.
It's so great to find that one special person
you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
- Rita Rudner
---------
Thank you for visiting: Martyrs cannot be silenced. ... by Star Trek.
Please sign up on the form below to receive
my Free Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes email.
You can also search my large collection of Quotes and Sayings.
May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All materials & writings are copyright ©. You may read about our disclaimer, our privacy policy, our copyright policy, terms of use, participation in affiliate programs, and the list of all our websites.