Monday, March 10, 2008
Quotes Update
Victor Borge
Santa Claus has the right idea; visit people once a year.
H. L. Mencken
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety.
Benjamin Disraeli
Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.
John Sloan Dickey
There is no more vulnerable human combination than an undergraduate.
Horace
He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.
Jean de la Bruyere
There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.
William Arthur Ward
Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
We stand today on the edge of a new frontier-the frontier of the 1960s-a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils-a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.
Valerie Polakow
Rigidly organized pre-school classrooms, which value obedience more than development, create the deficits in poor children, imposing a self-image of marginality and failure.
Maxim Gorky
A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
Nina Berberova, O Magazine, September 2003
I had learnt to seek intensity�more of life, a concentrated sense of life.
More Quotes
Palo Alto Online News
Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:45:00 GMT
Palo Alto Online - The words are quotations from poems and observations from patients, and from doctors, nurses and medical students. The graphic-screen presentation was created by Douglas Rosenberg ...
Canadian dollar closed 0.27 of a cent lower to 101.05 cents US
Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:48:00 GMT
Canada East - Pound sterling closed C$1.9936, up 0.86 of a cent and US$2.0146, up 0.35 of a cent. The euro was worth C$1.5190, down 0.03 of a cent. Quotations provided by BMO Nesbitt Burns ...
Quotes of the week (Aspen Daily News)
Sun, 09 Mar 2008 16:34:11 GMT
“This is theft, and we do take it seriously.” Snowmass Village Police Chief Art Smythe, commenting on people who engage in ski pass fraud. “I think the finger should be pointed at them (the Pitkin County commissioners) a little bit.”
Quotations of the day
Sat, 08 Mar 2008 10:27:00 GMT
Charleston Gazette - "With the commitment to never again attack a brother country and the request for forgiveness, we can consider this grave incident as over.'' -- Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa ...
Now hear this: Entertainment quotes (The Globe Gazette)
Sun, 09 Mar 2008 08:02:00 GMT
``There was a melancholy feel to the `70s. I was so into the bicentennial. No joke. I bought a Liberty Bell necklace that was pewter. It was like a prized possession.'' — Will Ferrell, who stars in the new film ``Semi-Pro,'' about a fictional ABA basketball team, which is set in the '70s.
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Here are the Quotes ...
Victor Borge
Santa Claus has the right idea; visit people once a year.
H. L. Mencken
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety.
Benjamin Disraeli
Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.
John Sloan Dickey
There is no more vulnerable human combination than an undergraduate.
Horace
He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.
Jean de la Bruyere
There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.
William Arthur Ward
Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
We stand today on the edge of a new frontier-the frontier of the 1960s-a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils-a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.
Valerie Polakow
Rigidly organized pre-school classrooms, which value obedience more than development, create the deficits in poor children, imposing a self-image of marginality and failure.
Maxim Gorky
A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
Nina Berberova, O Magazine, September 2003
I had learnt to seek intensity�more of life, a concentrated sense of life.
More Quotes
Palo Alto Online News
Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:45:00 GMT
Palo Alto Online - The words are quotations from poems and observations from patients, and from doctors, nurses and medical students. The graphic-screen presentation was created by Douglas Rosenberg ...
Canadian dollar closed 0.27 of a cent lower to 101.05 cents US
Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:48:00 GMT
Canada East - Pound sterling closed C$1.9936, up 0.86 of a cent and US$2.0146, up 0.35 of a cent. The euro was worth C$1.5190, down 0.03 of a cent. Quotations provided by BMO Nesbitt Burns ...
Quotes of the week (Aspen Daily News)
Sun, 09 Mar 2008 16:34:11 GMT
“This is theft, and we do take it seriously.” Snowmass Village Police Chief Art Smythe, commenting on people who engage in ski pass fraud. “I think the finger should be pointed at them (the Pitkin County commissioners) a little bit.”
Quotations of the day
Sat, 08 Mar 2008 10:27:00 GMT
Charleston Gazette - "With the commitment to never again attack a brother country and the request for forgiveness, we can consider this grave incident as over.'' -- Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa ...
Now hear this: Entertainment quotes (The Globe Gazette)
Sun, 09 Mar 2008 08:02:00 GMT
``There was a melancholy feel to the `70s. I was so into the bicentennial. No joke. I bought a Liberty Bell necklace that was pewter. It was like a prized possession.'' — Will Ferrell, who stars in the new film ``Semi-Pro,'' about a fictional ABA basketball team, which is set in the '70s.
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