Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Latest greatest Quotes
Mignon McLaughlin
The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.
Harry Hershfield
New York: where everyone mutinies but no one deserts.
Walt Whitman
I see great things in baseball. It's our game--the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
All cruelty springs from weakness.
French Proverb
He that does not ask will never get a bargain.
William A. Smith, 1908
Engineering is the science of economy, of conserving the energy, kinetic and potential, provided and stored up by nature for the use of man. It is the business of engineering to utilize this energy to the best advantage, so that there may be the least possible waste.
Alan Stewart Paton
Who knows why we live, and struggle, and die... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
Scott Adams
I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.
Hellen Keller
Toleration is the greatest gift of mind, it requires that same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Cheyenne Proverb
A danger foreseen is half-avoided.
More Quotes
Quotations of the day - Charleston Gazette
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:26:00 GMT
"Giving Hamas a respite just to regroup, rearm is a mistake.'' The pressure on the Hamas military machine must continue.'' -- Mark Regev, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, in regard to Israel's rejection of a 48-hour truce proposal ...
Canadian dollar closed at 82.10 cents US, up 0.20 of a cent - Canada East
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:52:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar closed at 82.10 cents US, up 0.20 of a cent on Wednesday. The U.S. dollar stood at 121.80 cents Canadian, down 0.30 of a cent. Pound sterling closed C$1.7749, up 1.19 cents and US$1.4572, up 1.33 cents. The euro was ...
where to turn for refuge - Lucianne.com
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:57:00 GMT
"War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over." "War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want." These are quotations from Gen. William T. Sherman. He ...
U.S. Department of Treasury - Chicago Tribune
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:04:00 GMT
The struggling financing arm of General Motors Corp., rescued by $5 billion in federal aid, plans to use some of the money to make cars and trucks more affordable to a larger pool of customers. GMAC LLC on Tuesday promised to loosen its tight lending ...
What Barack Obama, Britney Spears, President Bush, Sarah Palin ... - US News and World Report
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:57:00 GMT
With apologies for liberally adapting some famous quotations, here are my fantasies about what a few names in the news might have said over the New Year's holiday: (1) President-elect Barack Obama on his victory: "Nothing is impossible for a man if ...
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Here are the Quotes ...
Mignon McLaughlin
The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.
Harry Hershfield
New York: where everyone mutinies but no one deserts.
Walt Whitman
I see great things in baseball. It's our game--the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
All cruelty springs from weakness.
French Proverb
He that does not ask will never get a bargain.
William A. Smith, 1908
Engineering is the science of economy, of conserving the energy, kinetic and potential, provided and stored up by nature for the use of man. It is the business of engineering to utilize this energy to the best advantage, so that there may be the least possible waste.
Alan Stewart Paton
Who knows why we live, and struggle, and die... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
Scott Adams
I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.
Hellen Keller
Toleration is the greatest gift of mind, it requires that same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Cheyenne Proverb
A danger foreseen is half-avoided.
More Quotes
Quotations of the day - Charleston Gazette
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:26:00 GMT
"Giving Hamas a respite just to regroup, rearm is a mistake.'' The pressure on the Hamas military machine must continue.'' -- Mark Regev, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, in regard to Israel's rejection of a 48-hour truce proposal ...
Canadian dollar closed at 82.10 cents US, up 0.20 of a cent - Canada East
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:52:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar closed at 82.10 cents US, up 0.20 of a cent on Wednesday. The U.S. dollar stood at 121.80 cents Canadian, down 0.30 of a cent. Pound sterling closed C$1.7749, up 1.19 cents and US$1.4572, up 1.33 cents. The euro was ...
where to turn for refuge - Lucianne.com
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:57:00 GMT
"War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over." "War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want." These are quotations from Gen. William T. Sherman. He ...
U.S. Department of Treasury - Chicago Tribune
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:04:00 GMT
The struggling financing arm of General Motors Corp., rescued by $5 billion in federal aid, plans to use some of the money to make cars and trucks more affordable to a larger pool of customers. GMAC LLC on Tuesday promised to loosen its tight lending ...
What Barack Obama, Britney Spears, President Bush, Sarah Palin ... - US News and World Report
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:57:00 GMT
With apologies for liberally adapting some famous quotations, here are my fantasies about what a few names in the news might have said over the New Year's holiday: (1) President-elect Barack Obama on his victory: "Nothing is impossible for a man if ...
¶ 4:30 PM
