Friday, February 01, 2008
Quotations Update
Woody Allen
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them
John Calvin
For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know, so nothing is taught but what is expedient to know. Therefore we must guard against depriving believers of anything disclosed about predestination in Scripture, lest we seem either wickedly to defraud them of the blessing of their God or to accuse and scoff at the Holy Spirit for having published what it is in any way profitable to suppress.
Stendhal
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
Charles Bukowski
I was no petty thief, I wanted the world or nothing.
Adam Smith
The difference of natural talents in different men is, in reality, much less than we are aware of; and the very different genius which appears to distinguish men of different professions, when grown up to maturity, is not upon many occasions so much the cause as the effect of the division of labour. The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature as from habit, custom, and education. When they came into the world, and for the first six or eight years of their existence, they were perhaps very much alike, and neither their parents nor playfellows could perceive any remarkable difference...
More Quotations
Canadian dollar closed up 0.63 of a cent at 100.68 cents US
Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:46:00 GMT
Canada East - Pound sterling closed C$1.9785, down 1.03 cents and US$1.9920, up 0.22 of a cent. The euro was worth C$1.4780, up 0.11 of a cent. Quotations provided by BMO Nesbitt Burns, Capital Markets.
Mersmann: I think not
Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:17:00 GMT
University Daily Kansan - Fortunately, most people leave these quotations where they found them. But, of course, some don’t. Someday, you will find yourself in class with someone who has saved up a Western Civ II gem to blow ... ¶ 12:12 AM
Today's Quotations:
Woody Allen
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them
John Calvin
For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know, so nothing is taught but what is expedient to know. Therefore we must guard against depriving believers of anything disclosed about predestination in Scripture, lest we seem either wickedly to defraud them of the blessing of their God or to accuse and scoff at the Holy Spirit for having published what it is in any way profitable to suppress.
Stendhal
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
Charles Bukowski
I was no petty thief, I wanted the world or nothing.
Adam Smith
The difference of natural talents in different men is, in reality, much less than we are aware of; and the very different genius which appears to distinguish men of different professions, when grown up to maturity, is not upon many occasions so much the cause as the effect of the division of labour. The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature as from habit, custom, and education. When they came into the world, and for the first six or eight years of their existence, they were perhaps very much alike, and neither their parents nor playfellows could perceive any remarkable difference...
More Quotations
Canadian dollar closed up 0.63 of a cent at 100.68 cents US
Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:46:00 GMT
Canada East - Pound sterling closed C$1.9785, down 1.03 cents and US$1.9920, up 0.22 of a cent. The euro was worth C$1.4780, up 0.11 of a cent. Quotations provided by BMO Nesbitt Burns, Capital Markets.
Mersmann: I think not
Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:17:00 GMT
University Daily Kansan - Fortunately, most people leave these quotations where they found them. But, of course, some don’t. Someday, you will find yourself in class with someone who has saved up a Western Civ II gem to blow ... ¶ 12:12 AM
