Sunday, May 04, 2008
Quotations for Today
Office Space
Bob We find it's always better to fire people on a Friday. Studies have statistically shown that there's less chance of an incident if you do it at the end of the week.
George Santayana
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.
Lois McMaster Bujold
If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us
Sir B. Brodie
The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.
J. K. Rowling, J. K. Rowling Official Website
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.
Quintus Fabius Maximus
To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office.
Euripides, 438 B.C.
I have found power in the mysteries of thought.
Author Unknown
If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts.
Dwight D Eisenhower
From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.
Unknown
If you want to have the rainbow, Then sometimes you're gonna have to deal with the rain.
More Quotes
Quotes from the members of the 2008 FBS College Football Hall of Fame (WIBW Topeka)
Fri, 02 May 2008 20:36:14 GMT
The National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame captured the following quotes from the members of the 2008 College Football Hall of Fame Football Bowl Subdivision
Brands Hatch: Friday Quotes (Pitpass)
Fri, 02 May 2008 21:49:21 GMT
Brands Hatch: Friday Quotes
Fine silver quotations Thursday: $17.097 ounce (Canadian Business)
Thu, 01 May 2008 17:58:29 GMT
The Canadian Press May 1, 2008 - 1:43 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Thursday $17.097 oz., $549.67 kg.; Wednesday $17.424 oz., $560.18 kg.
Coach's spirit is alive in annual road race - Bennington Banner
Sat, 03 May 2008 12:05:00 GMT
NORTH BENNINGTON — Running is nearly synonymous with solitude. The British author Allan Sillitoe built his career on a short story entitled "The Loneliness of the Long Distance ...
Introducing Tourist (Torontoist)
Sat, 03 May 2008 09:31:10 GMT
Summer, we've heard, is supposed to be the time for travelling the world, seeing new sights, accumulating new experiences, and exploring new places. According to the first Google result for "travel quotations" (the extent of our research), Helen Keller said that "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
¶ 10:34 AM
Today's Quotations:
Office Space
Bob We find it's always better to fire people on a Friday. Studies have statistically shown that there's less chance of an incident if you do it at the end of the week.
George Santayana
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.
Lois McMaster Bujold
If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us
Sir B. Brodie
The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.
J. K. Rowling, J. K. Rowling Official Website
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.
Quintus Fabius Maximus
To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office.
Euripides, 438 B.C.
I have found power in the mysteries of thought.
Author Unknown
If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts.
Dwight D Eisenhower
From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.
Unknown
If you want to have the rainbow, Then sometimes you're gonna have to deal with the rain.
More Quotes
Quotes from the members of the 2008 FBS College Football Hall of Fame (WIBW Topeka)
Fri, 02 May 2008 20:36:14 GMT
The National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame captured the following quotes from the members of the 2008 College Football Hall of Fame Football Bowl Subdivision
Brands Hatch: Friday Quotes (Pitpass)
Fri, 02 May 2008 21:49:21 GMT
Brands Hatch: Friday Quotes
Fine silver quotations Thursday: $17.097 ounce (Canadian Business)
Thu, 01 May 2008 17:58:29 GMT
The Canadian Press May 1, 2008 - 1:43 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Thursday $17.097 oz., $549.67 kg.; Wednesday $17.424 oz., $560.18 kg.
Coach's spirit is alive in annual road race - Bennington Banner
Sat, 03 May 2008 12:05:00 GMT
NORTH BENNINGTON — Running is nearly synonymous with solitude. The British author Allan Sillitoe built his career on a short story entitled "The Loneliness of the Long Distance ...
Introducing Tourist (Torontoist)
Sat, 03 May 2008 09:31:10 GMT
Summer, we've heard, is supposed to be the time for travelling the world, seeing new sights, accumulating new experiences, and exploring new places. According to the first Google result for "travel quotations" (the extent of our research), Helen Keller said that "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
¶ 10:34 AM
