The Witness

Nice Thoughts.....

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 05:41:00 +0000

I came across a very nice email from my Yahoo Groups community. I would like to share with the readers. It is as follows:

Nice Thoughts.... .

1. If you want your dreams to come true, don't oversleep.

2. The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention.

3. Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.

4. The best vitamin for making friends .B1.

5. The 10 commandments are not multiple choice.

6. The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.

7. Minds are like parachutes.. . they function only when open.

8. Ideas won't work unless YOU do.

9. One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.

10. One who lacks the courage to start has already finished.

11. The heaviest thing to carry is a grudge.

12. Don't learn safety rules by accident.

13. We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves.

14. Jumping to conclusions can be bad exercise.

15. A turtle makes progress when it sticks its head out.

16. One thing you can give and still keep is your word.

17. A friend walks in when everyone else walks out.

AND FINALLY...

18. The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a lifetime!

Quotes on Politics

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 13:12:00 +0000

1	Hot heads & cold hearts never solved anything	-Billy Graham
2	The spirit of democracy cannot be superimposed from the outside. It must come from within.	-Mahatma Gandhi
3	It is said that ‘power corrupts’, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible	-David Brin
4	All weakness tends to corrupt & impotence corrupts absolutely.	- Edgar z Freidenberg
5	The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.	- Milton Friedman
6	Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil, in its worst state, an intolerable one.	- Thomas Paine
7	Democracy means having the choice. Dictatorship means being given the choice.	- Jeannine Luczak
8	The most serious threat to democracy is the notion that it has already been achieved.	- Anonymous
9	Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty & happiness of the people whose manners are universally corrupt.	- Samuel Adams.
10	It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting.	- Tom Stoppard
11	Good example & education are the only weapons against narrow-mindedness be it communalism, casteism or partyism.	- C. Rajagopalchari
12	One can always win a war; but how does one conquer peace ?	- Michael Holmboe Meyer
13	Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional.	- Max Lucade
14	If it’s natural to kill, why do men have to go into training to learn how ?	- Joan Baez
15	We have guided missiles & misguided men.	- Martin Luther King Jr
16	Ring a ring of Uranium, Pocket full of Plutonium, Fission, we all fall down.	- Nuclear nursery rhyme
17	In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.	- Charles de Gaulle
18	Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people of other than your own come first	- Charles de Gaulle
19	Peace is not something you wish for, it’s something you make, something you are, something you give away.	- Robert Fulghum
20	When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.	- Jimi Hendrix
21	The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.	– Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Wise Thoughts

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 04:44:00 +0000

1. Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. – B.F. Skinner

2. When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. – George Washington Carver

3. Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead. – Benjamin Franklin

4. It’s a beggar’s pride that he is not a thief. – Anonymous

5. No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow – Alice Walker

6. If you can’t change your fate, change your attitude – Amy Tan

7. To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world – Brandi Snyder

8. A worried person sees a problem, a concerned person solves it. – Harold Stevens

9. A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks – Charles Gordy

10. You are never really caught in a traffic jam. You are the traffic jam. – The Times of India