This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
With melting airs, or martial, brisk, or grave; some chord in unison with what we hear is touch'd within us, and the heart replies.
Confidence | Father | Heaven |
Wilkie Collins, fully William Wilkie Collins
Time, animals, and buildings wear out with years, and submit to their hard lot. Time only meets with flat contradiction when he ventures to tell a woman that she is growing old.
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.
Confidence | Honesty | Honor | Man | Public | Right | Will |
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.
Confidence | Future | Hope | Knowledge | Will |
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.
Confidence | Will | Friends |
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
I have looked politics and the movies both over and, while they have much in common I believe politics is the most common, so I will stay with the movies.
Confidence | Work | World |
Jealousy, which serves the struggle for survival, can deteriorate into the envy which draws defeat even from victory.
Confidence | Question | Survival | Will | World |
Willa Cather, fully Willa Sibert Cather
We were at last in Monte Cristo's country, fairly into the country of the fabulous, where extravagance ceases to exist because everything is extravagant, and where the wildest dreams come true.
Confidence | Design | Enough | Fault | Fault |
Walt Disney, fully Walter Elias "Walt" Disney
Teen-agers have to discover the product. (Then) they tell their friends and it grows through a grass roots marketing effort
Confidence | Dreams | Man |
Walt Disney, fully Walter Elias "Walt" Disney
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing
Cynicism | Entertainment | Experience | Good | Happy | Little | Method | Morality | Satire | Story | Style | Virtue | Virtue | Wickedness |
The move from economic exploitation to policies that are grounded in fear seems deliberately designed to produce suffering. Finally, as every exploitative system eventually learns, the exploitation rooted in fear reaches its limit of unbearable suffering.
Don't worry about life, you're not going to survive it anyway.
Confidence | Credit | Means | Trust | Will |
Sabbath, in the first instance, is not about worship. It is about work stoppage. It is about withdrawal from the anxiety system of Pharaoh, the refusal to let one’s life be defined by production and consumption and the endless pursuit of private well-being.
Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman
This is the city, and I am one of the citizens. Whatever interests the rest interests me
Confidence | Will |
War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.
Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman
There is that in me—I do not know what it is—but I know it is in me... I do not know it—it is without name—it is a word unsaid, it is not in any dictionary, utterance, symbol... Do you see O my brothers and sisters? It is not chaos or death—it is form, union, plan—it is eternal life—it is Happiness.
Confidence | People | Spirit | Tyranny |
Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman
What chemistry! That the winds are really not infectious, that this is no cheat, this transparent green-wash of the sea which is so amorous after me, that it is safe to allow it to lick my naked body all over with its tongues, that it will not endanger me with the fevers that have deposited themselves in it, that all is clean forever and forever,