Monday, November 10, 2008
Quotes for Today
Confucius
Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
American Proverb
Scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.
Dwight D Eisenhower
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
Pearl Buck, The Joy of Children, 1964
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
Anonymous, As told in Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, "I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one. The grandson asked him, Which wolf will win the fight in your heart? The grandfather answered, The one I feed.
Louis L'Amour
He might never really do what he said, but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped.
Laertius Diogenes
Democritus says, But we know nothing really for truth lies deep down.
Carl Schurz
Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
Will Rogers
Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.
Anonymous
A man is known by the company he avoids.
H Hahn Blavatsky
Desire nothing, Chafe not at fate, nor at Nature's changeless laws. But struggle only with the personal, the transitory, the evanescent and the perishable.
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Give me Quotes now!
Confucius
Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
American Proverb
Scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.
Dwight D Eisenhower
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
Pearl Buck, The Joy of Children, 1964
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
Anonymous, As told in Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, "I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one. The grandson asked him, Which wolf will win the fight in your heart? The grandfather answered, The one I feed.
Louis L'Amour
He might never really do what he said, but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped.
Laertius Diogenes
Democritus says, But we know nothing really for truth lies deep down.
Carl Schurz
Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
Will Rogers
Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.
Anonymous
A man is known by the company he avoids.
H Hahn Blavatsky
Desire nothing, Chafe not at fate, nor at Nature's changeless laws. But struggle only with the personal, the transitory, the evanescent and the perishable.
More Quotes
Showing entries for Category: Mission-Hill - San Francisco Examiner
Sat, 08 Nov 2008 21:57:00 GMT
Roxbury Puddingstone is Massachusetts' state mineral. It is a sedimentary rock formed ages ago from pebbles settled into the sand of a shallow sea. Boulders of it crop out of the ...
Media and the sex slave industry: Prosecutors wrong to use 'pimp' to ... - Journal Inquirer
Mon, 10 Nov 2008 06:24:00 GMT
Federal prosecutors have said one-time East Hartford “pimp” Brian Forbes sold two young women to another “pimp” for a promised payment of more than $1,000 in late 2003. The ...
Power Industry 1991-2000 - Kommersant
Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:31:00 GMT
RAO UES (Unified Energy System) Russia can be considered a unified system only in a relative sense: the Far North and Kamchatka, say, are not part of it. Nevertheless, it is the ...
Anti-Prop. 8 protests spring up in California - Los Angeles Times
Sun, 09 Nov 2008 12:16:00 GMT
Thousands protest in hopes of overturning Proposition 8 at Sunset Junction in Silver Lake. Over 20,000 gather in Los Angeles, San Diego and elsewhere to oppose the gay-marriage ban ...
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