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Tuesday, January 08, 2008
Latest Famous Quotations
Phillip Lopate
The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'.
Anais Nin
There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
Max Percy
The priest persuades a humble people to endure their hard lot, a politician urges them to rebel against it, and a scientist thinks of a method that does away with the hard lot altogether.
Saint Jerome, On the Epistle to the Ephesians
Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
William H. Borah
My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.
Seneca
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
Iris Murdoch
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country.
George Whelton
The resounding echo of the mortal coil, echoes in the ears of those who are unprepared for it. To some, it sounds like a symphony - to others, a death toll.
George Fabricius
Death comes to all But great achievements raise a monument Which shall endure until the sun grows old.
Hasidic Saying
To worry is a sin. Only one sort of worry is permissible; to worry because one worries.
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Bond Quotes
Sun, 06 Jan 2008 21:50:00 +0000
The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith. - Bertrand Russell V. Delong
Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. ...]
4 Quotes about Owners
Tue, 01 Jan 2008 21:16:00 +0000
We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich or poor, lovingly nurtured or bled white. Our present attitudes and laws governing the ownership and use of land represent an abuse of the concept of private property…. Today you ...]
3 Quotes on Utilization
Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:54:00 +0000
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the ...] ¶ 11:51 PM 0 comments
Famous Quotations:
Phillip Lopate
The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'.
Anais Nin
There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
Max Percy
The priest persuades a humble people to endure their hard lot, a politician urges them to rebel against it, and a scientist thinks of a method that does away with the hard lot altogether.
Saint Jerome, On the Epistle to the Ephesians
Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
William H. Borah
My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.
Seneca
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
Iris Murdoch
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country.
George Whelton
The resounding echo of the mortal coil, echoes in the ears of those who are unprepared for it. To some, it sounds like a symphony - to others, a death toll.
George Fabricius
Death comes to all But great achievements raise a monument Which shall endure until the sun grows old.
Hasidic Saying
To worry is a sin. Only one sort of worry is permissible; to worry because one worries.
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Bond Quotes
Sun, 06 Jan 2008 21:50:00 +0000
The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith. - Bertrand Russell V. Delong
Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. ...]
4 Quotes about Owners
Tue, 01 Jan 2008 21:16:00 +0000
We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich or poor, lovingly nurtured or bled white. Our present attitudes and laws governing the ownership and use of land represent an abuse of the concept of private property…. Today you ...]
3 Quotes on Utilization
Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:54:00 +0000
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the ...] ¶ 11:51 PM 0 comments
Quotes for Today
Fritz Perls
To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.
Henry David Thoreau
In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think.
Virginia Hanson
We must determine whether we really want freedom--whether we are willing to dare the perils of...rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.
Arthur C. Clarke
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Thomas Paine
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
George Frost Kennan
The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been.
John Newton
How sweet the name of Jesus sounds In a believer's ear It soothes his sorrow, heals his wounds, And drives away his fears.
J. William Fulbright, Speech to the American Newspaper Publishers Assn. April 28, 1966
The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.
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Reformed al-Zawahiri disciple in Israel
Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:22:00 GMT
Jerusalem Post - He cited quotations where the Old Testament is described as "a light," said that there is repeated support in the Koran for the Children of Israel as the "preferred" and "chosen" people, and stated that even Zionism finds resonance in the Koran ...
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Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:23:00 GMT
Reuters UK - TORONTO, Jan 7 (Reuters) - The Toronto Stock Exchange's main index sank on Monday for the second session in a row as resource and financial issues helped drag the market broadly lower. The index trimmed some of its losses -- it was down more than 200 ...
Republican forum quotes (AP via Yahoo! News)
Mon, 07 Jan 2008 03:20:22 GMT
Some quotes from Sunday's forum for Republican presidential candidates in Manchester, N.H. Ron Paul was excluded from the debate.
Fine silver quotations Monday: $15.785 ounce (Canadian Business)
Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:53:18 GMT
The Canadian Press January 7, 2008 - 12:50 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Monday $15.785 oz., $507.49 kg.; Friday $15.795 oz., $507.81 kg. ¶ 6:00 PM 0 comments
Here are the Quotes ...
Fritz Perls
To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.
Henry David Thoreau
In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think.
Virginia Hanson
We must determine whether we really want freedom--whether we are willing to dare the perils of...rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.
Arthur C. Clarke
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Thomas Paine
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
George Frost Kennan
The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been.
John Newton
How sweet the name of Jesus sounds In a believer's ear It soothes his sorrow, heals his wounds, And drives away his fears.
J. William Fulbright, Speech to the American Newspaper Publishers Assn. April 28, 1966
The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.
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Reformed al-Zawahiri disciple in Israel
Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:22:00 GMT
Jerusalem Post - He cited quotations where the Old Testament is described as "a light," said that there is repeated support in the Koran for the Children of Israel as the "preferred" and "chosen" people, and stated that even Zionism finds resonance in the Koran ...
(Adds details, quotes)
Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:23:00 GMT
Reuters UK - TORONTO, Jan 7 (Reuters) - The Toronto Stock Exchange's main index sank on Monday for the second session in a row as resource and financial issues helped drag the market broadly lower. The index trimmed some of its losses -- it was down more than 200 ...
Republican forum quotes (AP via Yahoo! News)
Mon, 07 Jan 2008 03:20:22 GMT
Some quotes from Sunday's forum for Republican presidential candidates in Manchester, N.H. Ron Paul was excluded from the debate.
Fine silver quotations Monday: $15.785 ounce (Canadian Business)
Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:53:18 GMT
The Canadian Press January 7, 2008 - 12:50 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Monday $15.785 oz., $507.49 kg.; Friday $15.795 oz., $507.81 kg. ¶ 6:00 PM 0 comments
Today's Famous Quotations
Ibycus
Contests allow no excuses, no more do friendships.
Vince Lombardi, Lombardi Winning is the only thing (by Jerry Kramer)
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
J. R. R. Tolkien, Gandalf on Saruman, The Two Towers
The treacherous are ever distrustful.
George Will
The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism.
Noela Evans
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth�Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Dale Carnegie
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
Paul Hawken
Everything is connected... no one thing can change by itself.
Unknown
If Today If you planted hope today In any hopeless heart If someone's burden was lighter Because you did your part, If you caused a laugh That chased some tears away If tonight your name is named When someone kneels to pray Then your day has been well spent.
William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 4 scene 1
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
Hosea Ballou
Weary the path that does not challenge. Doubt is an incentive to truth and patient inquiry leadeth the way.
Carl T. Rowan, Jr.
Let... others call me a hypocrite because I fired a gun in a moment of personal peril. I shall still be for strict gun control. But as long as authorities leave this society awash in drugs and guns, I will protect my family.
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5 Quotes on Zeal
Fri, 28 Dec 2007 21:25:00 +0000
People say I’ve had brushes with the law. That’s not true. I’ve had brushes with overzealous prosecutors. - Mark Duffy
Experience shows that success is due less to ability that to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul. - Charles Buxton
Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the ...]
What's on Now (TheGolfChannel.com)
Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:50:50 GMT
Editor's Note: In our Parting Shots feature, the GOLFCHANNEL.com team offers up the best quotes from the most recent week in golf. "If I showed up out there, they'd think I was a whale that got beached." ¶ 9:44 AM 0 comments
Check out these Famous Quotations:
Ibycus
Contests allow no excuses, no more do friendships.
Vince Lombardi, Lombardi Winning is the only thing (by Jerry Kramer)
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
J. R. R. Tolkien, Gandalf on Saruman, The Two Towers
The treacherous are ever distrustful.
George Will
The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism.
Noela Evans
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth�Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Dale Carnegie
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
Paul Hawken
Everything is connected... no one thing can change by itself.
Unknown
If Today If you planted hope today In any hopeless heart If someone's burden was lighter Because you did your part, If you caused a laugh That chased some tears away If tonight your name is named When someone kneels to pray Then your day has been well spent.
William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 4 scene 1
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
Hosea Ballou
Weary the path that does not challenge. Doubt is an incentive to truth and patient inquiry leadeth the way.
Carl T. Rowan, Jr.
Let... others call me a hypocrite because I fired a gun in a moment of personal peril. I shall still be for strict gun control. But as long as authorities leave this society awash in drugs and guns, I will protect my family.
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5 Quotes on Zeal
Fri, 28 Dec 2007 21:25:00 +0000
People say I’ve had brushes with the law. That’s not true. I’ve had brushes with overzealous prosecutors. - Mark Duffy
Experience shows that success is due less to ability that to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul. - Charles Buxton
Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the ...]
What's on Now (TheGolfChannel.com)
Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:50:50 GMT
Editor's Note: In our Parting Shots feature, the GOLFCHANNEL.com team offers up the best quotes from the most recent week in golf. "If I showed up out there, they'd think I was a whale that got beached." ¶ 9:44 AM 0 comments
Quotes for Today
Dr. A. B. Meldrum
Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bulldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.
John Mason Brown
She knows what is the best purpose of education not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.
Ray Douglas Bradbury
Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day.
Thomas Jefferson
The Price Of Freedom Is Eternal Vigilance.
Jessamyn West
It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels loveable.
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Reporting: London
Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:10:00 GMT
American Reporter - The paper is known to invent stories and quotations on occasion, however. The project would be "a big blow to al-Qaeda," as it would send the message that the heart of terrorism has become a beautiful tourist attraction, it said. Al Queda is ...
What's on Now (TheGolfChannel.com)
Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:50:50 GMT
Editor's Note: In our Parting Shots feature, the GOLFCHANNEL.com team offers up the best quotes from the most recent week in golf. "If I showed up out there, they'd think I was a whale that got beached."
‘wOOt’ there it is; experts pronounce their words of the year (Fairbanks Daily News-Miner)
Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:40:00 GMT
Among the listings in the ThinkExist.com website’s quotations about planning is Donald Rumsfeld’s “Think ahead.” I followed that advice when I pledged last January to read another year’s worth of Samuel Pepys’ diary entries from the 1660s and got a jump start on Santa’s good boy list when I finished reading the Dec. 31 entry ...]
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Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:10:00 GMT
Reuters - LAS VEGAS, Jan 6 (Reuters) - U.S. telephone carrier customers of Samsung Electronics (005930.KS: Quote , Profile , Research ) saw slowing sales of cell phones towards the end of the 2007 holiday shopping period, which was a strong sales period for ... ¶ 9:43 AM 0 comments
Today's Quotes:
Dr. A. B. Meldrum
Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bulldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.
John Mason Brown
She knows what is the best purpose of education not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.
Ray Douglas Bradbury
Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day.
Thomas Jefferson
The Price Of Freedom Is Eternal Vigilance.
Jessamyn West
It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels loveable.
More Quotes
Reporting: London
Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:10:00 GMT
American Reporter - The paper is known to invent stories and quotations on occasion, however. The project would be "a big blow to al-Qaeda," as it would send the message that the heart of terrorism has become a beautiful tourist attraction, it said. Al Queda is ...
What's on Now (TheGolfChannel.com)
Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:50:50 GMT
Editor's Note: In our Parting Shots feature, the GOLFCHANNEL.com team offers up the best quotes from the most recent week in golf. "If I showed up out there, they'd think I was a whale that got beached."
‘wOOt’ there it is; experts pronounce their words of the year (Fairbanks Daily News-Miner)
Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:40:00 GMT
Among the listings in the ThinkExist.com website’s quotations about planning is Donald Rumsfeld’s “Think ahead.” I followed that advice when I pledged last January to read another year’s worth of Samuel Pepys’ diary entries from the 1660s and got a jump start on Santa’s good boy list when I finished reading the Dec. 31 entry ...]
(Repeats with no changes to text) (Adds quotes)
Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:10:00 GMT
Reuters - LAS VEGAS, Jan 6 (Reuters) - U.S. telephone carrier customers of Samsung Electronics (005930.KS: Quote , Profile , Research ) saw slowing sales of cell phones towards the end of the 2007 holiday shopping period, which was a strong sales period for ... ¶ 9:43 AM 0 comments
