Chapter 2. Literature Review
2.5. Express pass systems at theme parks
- A. Robert Turgot
A perfect wife is one who doesn't expect a perfect husband.
- Anonymous
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
- Edwin Hubbell Chapin
If Jesus Christ were to come today people would not even crucify him. The would ask him to dinner, hear what he has to say, and make fun of it.
- Thomas Carlyle
We find freedom when we find God; we lose it when we lose Him.
- Paul E. Scherer
The most valuable talent is that of never using two words when one will do.
- Thomas Jefferson
Do not make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
Many people feel "guilty" about things they shouldn't feel guilty about, in order to shut out feelings of guilt about things they should feel guilty about.
- Sydney J. Harris
I have read Plato and Cicero sayings that are very wise and beautiful; but I never read in either of them: "Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden and I will give thee rest."
- St. Augustine
Patience often gets the credit that belongs to fatigue.
- Franklin P. Jones
Do not make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
Faith on a full stomach may be simply contentment- but if you have it when you're hungry, it's genuine.
- Frank A. Clark
Far away, there in the sunshine, are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they may lead.
- Louisa May Alcott
Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
- Joe Paterno
People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
- Abigail Van Buren
Sometimes the best way to convince someone he is wrong is to let him have his way.
- Nashville Banner
A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.
- Chinese proverb
Truth hurts
- not the searching after; the running from!
- John Eyberg
Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.
- Unknown
We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff.
- Dean Stanley
There are no hopeless situations; there are only people who have grown hopeless about them.
- Clare Boothe Luce
The Past is over for all of us... the Future is promised to none of us.
- Wayne Dyer
Happiness is a way station between too much and too little.
- Channing Pollock
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
- Sydney J. Harris
Fame is a cancer and ego: its seed.
- Toad the Wet Sprocket
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
- Felix Frankfurter
The quickest way to become an old dog is to stop learning new tricks.
- John Rooney
One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.
- Judith Viorst
The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the rainbow won't wait while you do the work.
- Patricia Clafford
Ill gotten gains will be ill spent.
- Cicero
Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
- Eurpides
We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
- Plato
Whatever man loves, that is his god. For he carries it in his heart; he goes about with it night and day;
he sleeps and wakes with it, be it what it may
- wealth or self, pleasure or renown.
- Martin Luther
Opinions are flexible prejudices.
- Gerald Horton Bath
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Let those that love us, love us. And those that don't, may God turn their hearts. And, if He cannot turn their hearts, May He turn their ankles so we may know them by their limping!
- Irish blessing
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
Improvement begins with "I."
- Arnold H. Glasow
An argument is the longest distance between two points of view.
- Dan Bennett
We are no more responsible for the evil thoughts that pass through our minds than a scarecrow for the birds which fly over the seedplot he has to guard. The sole responsibility in each case is to prevent them from settling.
- John Churtom Collins
A bad conscience embitters the sweetest comforts; a good one sweetens the bitterest crosses.
- Anonymous
Love must be learned again and again... Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.
- Katherine Anne Porter
Temptation usually comes in through a door that has deliberately been left open.
- Unknown
No man, for any considerable time, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
I can do only one thing at a time, but I can avoid doing many things simultaneously.
- Asleigh Brilliant
Sometimes I think I understand everything... Then I regain consciousness.
- Ashleigh Brilliant
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
- Ambrose Redmoon
The hardest thing in the world to open is a closed mind.
- Modern Maturity
Everyone is an explorer. How could you possibly live your life looking at a door and not open it?
- Robert D. Ballard
The true test of humility is whether you can say grace before eating crow.
- Robert Orben
There's no point in burying the hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.
- Sydney J. Harris
If moral behavior were simply following rules, we could program a computer to be moral.
- Samuel P. Ginder
People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.
- Albert Camus
We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones.
- Andrew A. Rooney
Just remember- when you think all is lost, the future remains.
- Bob Goddard
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
- Mahatma Ghandi
Shared joy is double joy and shared sorrow is half-sorrow.
- Swedish Proverb
And there 's a lust in man no charm can tame, Of loudly publishing our neighbour's shame; On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly, While virtuous actions are but born and die.
- Stephen Harvey
The impossible is often the untried.
- Jim Goodwin
If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record.
- Jan McKeithen
Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.
- Mignon McLaughlin
People seem to get nostalgic about a lot of things they weren't so crazy about the first time around.
- Webster's Crosswords
Some people think it's holding on that makes one strong. Sometimes it's letting go.
- Sylvia Robinson
If life is a comedy to him who thinks and a tragedy to him who feels, it is a victory to him who believes.
- Anonymous
No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.
- Seneca
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- Anonymous
Suspicion often creates what it suspects.
- C.S. Lewis
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
- Theodore Roosevelt
The most prominent place in hell is reserved for those who are neutral on the great issues of life.
- Billy Graham
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
- Erich Fromms
Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
- James McCosh
There is no permanent place in [this universe] for evil... Evil may hide behind this fallacy and that, but it will be hunted from fallacy to fallacy until there is no more fallacy for it to hide behind.
- Thomas Carlyle
Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
- Abigail Adams
Experience is a hard teacher, it tests first and teaches afterward.
- Unknown
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
- Lord Byron
Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.
- Mignon McLaughlin
If you have made mistakes... there is always another chance for you... you may have a fresh start any moment you chose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
- Mary Pickford
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
- Charles Kingsley
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
- C.S. Lewis
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
- St. Augustine
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.
- Ursula K. LeGuin
Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
- Ben Hecht
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you are in deep water, it's a good idea to keep your mouth shut.
- St. Louis Tribune
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
- Benedict de Spinoza
Why is the Atheist's main target always Jesus of Nazareth, and never Buddha, Confucius, or
Mohammed? Why is the aspiring athlete's target always the true champion and never the also-rans?
- Anonymous
The trick is to hold opinions without letting opinions hold you.
- Unknown
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Sir Winston Churchill
No amount of good deeds can make us good persons. We must be good before we can do good.
- Chester A. Pennington
To the victor belong the responsibilities.
- Al Bernstein
Always put off until tomorrow what you shouldn't do at all.
- Morris Mandel
You can't run a society or cope with its problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.
- John Leo
While faith makes all things possible, it is love that makes all things easy.
- Evan H. Hopkins
What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a world but his having gone to search for it on the faith of an opinion.
- A. Robert Turgot
There are so many men who can figure costs, and so few who can measure values.
- California Tribune
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
- Josh Billings
In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy.
- Karl Reiland
You do not destroy an idea by killing people; you replace it with a better one.
- Edward Keating
The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.
- Gene Hackman
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free practice thereof.
- First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States I couldn't wait for success... so I went ahead without it.
- Jonathan Winters
When you speak of heaven, let your face light up... When you speak of hell- well then, your everyday face will do.
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and the wrong. Sometime in your life you will have been all of these.
- Bob Goddard
Some people always sigh in thanking God.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; The loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.
- Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without, you can see no glory, nor can imagine any, but standing within, every ray of light reveals a harmony of unspeakable splendors.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
- J.M. Power
The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.
- Phillips Brooks
You cannot train a horse with shouts and expect it to obey a whisper.
- Dagobert D. Runes
How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever.
- David B. Norris
We bring the atoms of sin to the cross where they are smashed.
- Anonymous
It's not a question of who's going to throw the first stone; it's a question of who's going to start building with it.
- Sloan Wilson
If anything is worth doing, it is worth telling someone how to do it well.
- Franklin P. Jones
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
- Peter F. Drucker
Love is what you've been through with somebody.
- James Thurber
I used to have an open mind but my brains kept falling out.
- Stephen Wright
God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December.
- James M. Barrie
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
- Lou Holtz
Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards.
- William Arthur Ward
Reflect upon your present blessings - of which every man has many- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
- Charles Dickens
Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.
- R.C. Sproul
Faith is, in the spiritual realm, what money is in the commercial realm.
- Anonymous
A ship in harbor is safe - but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
Our Creator would never have made such lovely days and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them unless we were meant to be immortal.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The eyes shout what the lips fear to say.
- Will Henry
All men are idolators, some of fame, others of self-interest, most of pleasure.
- Baltasor Gracian y Morales
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
Time neither subtracts nor divides, but adds at such a pace it seems like multiplication.
- Bob Talbert
A wise man is one who has finally discovered that there are some questions to which nobody has the answer.
- Unknown
An atheist's most embarrassing moment is when he feels profoundly thankful for something, but can't think of anybody to thank for it.
- Mary Ann Vincent.
The question is not whether a doctrine is beautiful but whether it is true. When we wish to go to a place, we do not ask whether the road leads through a pretty country, but whether it is the right road.
- Augustus William and Julius Charles Hare Friends, though absent, are still present.
- Cicero
It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
- William G. McAdoo
No man will learn anything at all, unless he first will learn humility.
- Owen Merideth
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but, after a while, knows something.
- Wilson Mizner
A friend is someone who can see through you and still enjoys the show.
- Farmer's Almanac
Divine love is a sacred flower, which in its early bud is happiness, and in its full bloom is heaven.
- Eleanor Louisa Hervey
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
- William James
To get to heaven, turn right and keep straight.
- Wesleyan Methodist
Have you noticed that even the busiest people are never too busy to take time to tell you how busy they are?
- Bob Talbert
A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
- Mohandis K. Gandhi
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
- Edgar J. Mohn
"I can forgive but I cannot forget," is only another way of saying, "I cannot forgive."
- Henry Ward Beecher
Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.
- Unknown
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor, to console him for what he is.
- Wall Street Journal
Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.
- C.S. Lewis
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
- James D. Miles
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Justice is truth in action.
- Joseph Joubert
The Lord is my shepherd, that's all I want.
- Small child misquoting the Bible's 23rd Psalm
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced. Even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
- John Keats