Thursday, February 21, 2008
Quotations for Today
Harry Emerson Fosdick
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
Cesare Pavese
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.
Frederick Bastiat, "Government" published in 1848
Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
Edgar Lee Masters
Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back.
Confucius
He does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.
Carol Burnett
Celebrity was a long time in coming it will go away. Everything goes away.
Carl Gustav Jung
If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
Louis D. Brandeis
America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.
More Quotes
1972: Nixon makes historic visit to China
Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:06:00 GMT
BBC News - Using one of Mao's own quotations, Mr Nixon said it was time to seize the day and seize the hour "for our two peoples to rise to the heights of greatness which can build a new and ...
China money brokers halt onshore FX swap quotes (Reuters via Yahoo! Malaysia News)
Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:25:46 GMT
SHANGHAI, Feb 21 - China's two biggest money brokers have stopped providing quotes for onshore foreign exchange forward contracts and swaps, apparently because of pressure from the country's foreign exchange regulator.
Northwestern reviews dean's use of anonymous quotes (KWQC-TV 6 Davenport)
Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:17:01 GMT
EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) - Northwestern University says it's reviewing the use of unnamed sources and the veracity of quotes in writings by the dean of the Medill School of Journalism.
¶ 9:47 PM
Give me Quotations now!
Harry Emerson Fosdick
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
Cesare Pavese
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.
Frederick Bastiat, "Government" published in 1848
Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
Edgar Lee Masters
Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back.
Confucius
He does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.
Carol Burnett
Celebrity was a long time in coming it will go away. Everything goes away.
Carl Gustav Jung
If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
Louis D. Brandeis
America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.
More Quotes
1972: Nixon makes historic visit to China
Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:06:00 GMT
BBC News - Using one of Mao's own quotations, Mr Nixon said it was time to seize the day and seize the hour "for our two peoples to rise to the heights of greatness which can build a new and ...
China money brokers halt onshore FX swap quotes (Reuters via Yahoo! Malaysia News)
Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:25:46 GMT
SHANGHAI, Feb 21 - China's two biggest money brokers have stopped providing quotes for onshore foreign exchange forward contracts and swaps, apparently because of pressure from the country's foreign exchange regulator.
Northwestern reviews dean's use of anonymous quotes (KWQC-TV 6 Davenport)
Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:17:01 GMT
EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) - Northwestern University says it's reviewing the use of unnamed sources and the veracity of quotes in writings by the dean of the Medill School of Journalism.
¶ 9:47 PM
