quotes about people copying you

Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once. ~Isaac Asimov


Don't miss the donut by looking through the hole. ~Author Unknown


Drinking and driving: there are stupider things, but it's a very short list. ~Author Unknown


No pillow so soft as God's promise. ~Author Unknown


A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done. ~Ralph Nader


It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that. ~J.K. Rowling, "The Mirror of Erised," Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1997, spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore


Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular. ~E.V. Lucas


Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. ~Joseph Addison


One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well. ~Louis Kronenberger, Company Manners, 1954


The universal joy of Christmas is certainly wonderful. We ring the bells when princes are born, or toll a mournful dirge when great men pass away. Nations have their red-letter days, their carnivals and festivals, but once in the year and only once, the whole world stands still to celebrate the advent of a life. ~Author Unknown


Life's like a novel with the end ripped out. ~Danny Orton and Blair Daly, "Stand"


If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees. ~Hal Borland


He's not a Republican, he's a Republican't. ~Author Unknown


When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments. Here was a machine of precision and balance for the convenience of man. And (unlike subsequent inventions for man's convenience) the more he used it, the fitter his body became. Here, for once, was a product of man's brain that was entirely beneficial to those who used it, and of no harm or irritation to others. Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle. ~Elizabeth West, Hovel in the Hills


I've written some poetry I don't understand myself. ~Carl Sandburg


Metaphor for the night sky: A trillion asterisks and no explanations. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart. ~Mencius, Book IV


All know the way; few actually walk it. ~Bodhidharma


Perhaps we are looking at this from a wrong perspective; this search for the truth, the meaning of life, the reason of God. We all have this mindset that the answers are so complex and so vast that it is almost impossible to comprehend. I think, on the contrary, that the answers are so simple; so simple that it is staring us straight in the face, screaming its lungs out, and yet we fail to notice it. We're looking through a telescope, searching the stars for the answer, when the answer is actually a speck of dirt on the telescope lens. ~Jason Q., from generationterrorists.com


A liberal is a conservative who's been arrested. A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged. ~Wendy Kaminer