Favorite Quotations
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
Great Famous Quotations
Sir Winston Churchill
My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.
Miguel de Cervantes
I must follow him through thick and thin.
Jonathan Kozol
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
D. H. Lawrence
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
Alan Watts
Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.
Moses Hadas
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.
Leonard Bernstein
Any great work of art revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world -- the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.
Thomas a Kempis
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.
Thomas Fuller
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
Unknown
If you want to have the rainbow, Then sometimes you're gonna have to deal with the rain.
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The Woman Hater
Tue, 08 Jan 2008 09:51:00 GMT
Guardian Unlimited - Her only problem is a bad memory which, as she says, "puzzles my quotations abominably". Played by Auriol Smith in a constant verbal dither, she becomes a great comic creation to set alongside the word-mangling Mrs Malaprop in The Rivals. While ...
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Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:57:00 GMT
Minot Daily News - One of my favorite quotations is that quote by Gandhi that says that you must be the change you wish to see in the world, and people have need and we can make a difference,” she said. “People can make a difference in small ways.” To learn more ...
Arianespace 2007 sales dip to 940 mln eur vs 985 mln; record number of ...
Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:24:00 GMT
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Yahoo! Co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang Outlines Vision To Become The ...
Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:03:00 GMT
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Consistent Quotes
Sat, 05 Jan 2008 21:10:00 +0000
The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency. - Henry David Thoreau
He who consistently plans each day will journey successfully through all of life’s years. - Drew Eric Whitman
Delores breezed along the surface of her life like a flat stone forever skipping along smooth water, rippling reality sporadically but oblivious to ...] ¶ 12:43 AM 1 comments
Famous Quotations:
Sir Winston Churchill
My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.
Miguel de Cervantes
I must follow him through thick and thin.
Jonathan Kozol
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
D. H. Lawrence
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
Alan Watts
Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.
Moses Hadas
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.
Leonard Bernstein
Any great work of art revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world -- the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.
Thomas a Kempis
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.
Thomas Fuller
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
Unknown
If you want to have the rainbow, Then sometimes you're gonna have to deal with the rain.
More Quotes
The Woman Hater
Tue, 08 Jan 2008 09:51:00 GMT
Guardian Unlimited - Her only problem is a bad memory which, as she says, "puzzles my quotations abominably". Played by Auriol Smith in a constant verbal dither, she becomes a great comic creation to set alongside the word-mangling Mrs Malaprop in The Rivals. While ...
Coat donation boxes full at Minot locations
Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:57:00 GMT
Minot Daily News - One of my favorite quotations is that quote by Gandhi that says that you must be the change you wish to see in the world, and people have need and we can make a difference,” she said. “People can make a difference in small ways.” To learn more ...
Arianespace 2007 sales dip to 940 mln eur vs 985 mln; record number of ...
Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:24:00 GMT
Forbes - The content on this site, including news, quotes, data and other information, is provided by AFX News and its third party content providers for your personal information only, and neither AFX News nor its third party content providers shall be liable ...
Yahoo! Co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang Outlines Vision To Become The ...
Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:03:00 GMT
Forbes - Mail ("the services") (including without limitation the statements contained in the quotations from management in this press release), as well as Yahoo!'s strategic and operational plans. Actual events or results may differ materially from those ...
Consistent Quotes
Sat, 05 Jan 2008 21:10:00 +0000
The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency. - Henry David Thoreau
He who consistently plans each day will journey successfully through all of life’s years. - Drew Eric Whitman
Delores breezed along the surface of her life like a flat stone forever skipping along smooth water, rippling reality sporadically but oblivious to ...] ¶ 12:43 AM 1 comments
Famous Quotations Update
Herman Melville
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
Martha Beck, O Magazine, Growing Wings, January 2004
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
We are born to inquire into truth it belongs to a greater to possess it.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Let's be honest Isn't a lot of what we call tap dancing really just nerves
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Thai shares close firmer on rebound, capped by political uncertainty ...
Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:17:00 GMT
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Microsoft to buy Fast Search and Transfer for agreed 6.6 bln nkr ...
Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:24:00 GMT
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Quotes about Reach
Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:17:00 +0000
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant. - Helen Keller
If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love’s reach. - Margaret Cho
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that ...]
Dared Quotes
Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:58:00 +0000
I never dared to be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old. - Robert Frost
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance. - Bruce Barton
It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had ...] ¶ 12:42 AM 0 comments
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Herman Melville
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
Martha Beck, O Magazine, Growing Wings, January 2004
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
We are born to inquire into truth it belongs to a greater to possess it.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Let's be honest Isn't a lot of what we call tap dancing really just nerves
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Thai shares close firmer on rebound, capped by political uncertainty ...
Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:17:00 GMT
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Microsoft to buy Fast Search and Transfer for agreed 6.6 bln nkr ...
Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:24:00 GMT
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Quotes about Reach
Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:17:00 +0000
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant. - Helen Keller
If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love’s reach. - Margaret Cho
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that ...]
Dared Quotes
Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:58:00 +0000
I never dared to be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old. - Robert Frost
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance. - Bruce Barton
It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had ...] ¶ 12:42 AM 0 comments
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Michel de Montaigne
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.
H. Jackson Browne, P. S. I Love You
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
Mark Twain
How come we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
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Thai shares close firmer on rebound, capped by political uncertainty ...
Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:17:00 GMT
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UK DMO auction of 2.25 bln stg covered by bids 1.39 times
Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:17:00 GMT
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ADDING MULTIMEDIA Yahoo! Co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang Outlines Vision ...
Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:33:00 GMT
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German Nov manufacturing orders up 3.4 pct vs Oct; consensus down 2.1 ...
Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:24:00 GMT
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Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:32:00 GMT
Reuters - NAIROBI, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Kenya's opposition said on Tuesday it would only hold talks with President Mwai Kibaki as part of international mediation efforts to end post-election unrest that has killed hundreds of people. Kibaki and his rival Raila ... ¶ 12:42 AM 0 comments
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Michel de Montaigne
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.
H. Jackson Browne, P. S. I Love You
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
Mark Twain
How come we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
More Quotes
Thai shares close firmer on rebound, capped by political uncertainty ...
Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:17:00 GMT
Forbes - The content on this site, including news, quotes, data and other information, is provided by AFX News and its third party content providers for your personal information only, and neither AFX News nor its third party content providers shall be liable ...
UK DMO auction of 2.25 bln stg covered by bids 1.39 times
Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:17:00 GMT
Forbes - The content on this site, including news, quotes, data and other information, is provided by AFX News and its third party content providers for your personal information only, and neither AFX News nor its third party content providers shall be liable ...
ADDING MULTIMEDIA Yahoo! Co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang Outlines Vision ...
Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:33:00 GMT
MSN MoneyCentral - Mail ("the services") (including without limitation the statements contained in the quotations from management in this press release), as well as Yahoo!'s strategic and operational plans. Actual events or results may differ materially from those ...
German Nov manufacturing orders up 3.4 pct vs Oct; consensus down 2.1 ...
Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:24:00 GMT
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(Adds finance minister, details, quotes)
Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:32:00 GMT
Reuters - NAIROBI, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Kenya's opposition said on Tuesday it would only hold talks with President Mwai Kibaki as part of international mediation efforts to end post-election unrest that has killed hundreds of people. Kibaki and his rival Raila ... ¶ 12:42 AM 0 comments
Latest greatest Famous Quotations
Spider-Man
Uncle Ben With great power, comes great responsibility.
Abraham Lincoln, speech in Washington D.C., 1865
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed there is no winter and no night all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish,-all duties even.
Mark Russell
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
Johann von Goethe
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.
Jerry Garcia
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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(Adds finance minister, details, quotes)
Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:32:00 GMT
Reuters - NAIROBI, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Kenya's opposition said on Tuesday it would only hold talks with President Mwai Kibaki as part of international mediation efforts to end post-election unrest that has killed hundreds of people. Kibaki and his rival Raila ...
3 Boat Quotes
Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:30:00 +0000
We are living in a day of self-seeking and irresponsibility, even in Christian circles. Few indeed are the Christian believers who have truly laid their all on the altar for Christ. Few are the spiritual leaders who truly put God FIRST . Rather they think first, albeit subconsciously, of their positions, popularity, salaries and the ...]
Reporting: London
Tue, 08 Jan 2008 06:59:00 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 ...
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 ...] ¶ 12:41 AM 0 comments
Here are the Famous Quotations ...
Spider-Man
Uncle Ben With great power, comes great responsibility.
Abraham Lincoln, speech in Washington D.C., 1865
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed there is no winter and no night all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish,-all duties even.
Mark Russell
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
Johann von Goethe
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.
Jerry Garcia
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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(Adds finance minister, details, quotes)
Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:32:00 GMT
Reuters - NAIROBI, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Kenya's opposition said on Tuesday it would only hold talks with President Mwai Kibaki as part of international mediation efforts to end post-election unrest that has killed hundreds of people. Kibaki and his rival Raila ...
3 Boat Quotes
Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:30:00 +0000
We are living in a day of self-seeking and irresponsibility, even in Christian circles. Few indeed are the Christian believers who have truly laid their all on the altar for Christ. Few are the spiritual leaders who truly put God FIRST . Rather they think first, albeit subconsciously, of their positions, popularity, salaries and the ...]
Reporting: London
Tue, 08 Jan 2008 06:59:00 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 ...
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 ...] ¶ 12:41 AM 0 comments
Latest greatest Famous Quotations
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Mark Rutherford
It is possible by long-continued practice, not merely in lying, but in talking on subjects in which we have no real interest, not to know when we are sincere and when we are not.
Irv Kupcinet
What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Lord John Whorfin
History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark.
Mark Twain
Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned. - Notebook, 1898
Mark Twain
Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.
Emily Dickinson
I dwell in possibility...
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Bid-Rig Scheme Involved Marsh, Suit Claims
Tue, 08 Jan 2008 06:52:00 GMT
CFO.com - Professional Risk Brokers Inc., a subsidiary that provides coverage quotations to brokers on Great American's behalf, was also named as a defendant in the lawsuit. The complaint seeks restitution, attorneys’ fees, civil penalties, and a court order ...
(Adds finance minister, details, quotes)
Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:32:00 GMT
Reuters - NAIROBI, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Kenya's opposition said on Tuesday it would only hold talks with President Mwai Kibaki as part of international mediation efforts to end post-election unrest that has killed hundreds of people. Kibaki and his rival Raila ...
3 Boat Quotes
Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:30:00 +0000
We are living in a day of self-seeking and irresponsibility, even in Christian circles. Few indeed are the Christian believers who have truly laid their all on the altar for Christ. Few are the spiritual leaders who truly put God FIRST . Rather they think first, albeit subconsciously, of their positions, popularity, salaries and the ...]
(Changes dateline, byline, adds quotes, updates prices)
Tue, 08 Jan 2008 09:22:00 GMT
Reuters UK - LONDON, Jan 8 (Reuters) - The yen fell on Tuesday and high yielding currencies gained as risk aversion ebbed slightly, leading investors to edge back into more risky positions. The yen -- with interest rates of just 0.5 percent -- has benefited since ...
Harmful Quotes
Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:57:00 +0000
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted. - Seneca
The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all ...] ¶ 12:36 AM 0 comments
Today's Famous Quotations:
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Mark Rutherford
It is possible by long-continued practice, not merely in lying, but in talking on subjects in which we have no real interest, not to know when we are sincere and when we are not.
Irv Kupcinet
What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Lord John Whorfin
History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark.
Mark Twain
Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned. - Notebook, 1898
Mark Twain
Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.
Emily Dickinson
I dwell in possibility...
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Bid-Rig Scheme Involved Marsh, Suit Claims
Tue, 08 Jan 2008 06:52:00 GMT
CFO.com - Professional Risk Brokers Inc., a subsidiary that provides coverage quotations to brokers on Great American's behalf, was also named as a defendant in the lawsuit. The complaint seeks restitution, attorneys’ fees, civil penalties, and a court order ...
(Adds finance minister, details, quotes)
Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:32:00 GMT
Reuters - NAIROBI, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Kenya's opposition said on Tuesday it would only hold talks with President Mwai Kibaki as part of international mediation efforts to end post-election unrest that has killed hundreds of people. Kibaki and his rival Raila ...
3 Boat Quotes
Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:30:00 +0000
We are living in a day of self-seeking and irresponsibility, even in Christian circles. Few indeed are the Christian believers who have truly laid their all on the altar for Christ. Few are the spiritual leaders who truly put God FIRST . Rather they think first, albeit subconsciously, of their positions, popularity, salaries and the ...]
(Changes dateline, byline, adds quotes, updates prices)
Tue, 08 Jan 2008 09:22:00 GMT
Reuters UK - LONDON, Jan 8 (Reuters) - The yen fell on Tuesday and high yielding currencies gained as risk aversion ebbed slightly, leading investors to edge back into more risky positions. The yen -- with interest rates of just 0.5 percent -- has benefited since ...
Harmful Quotes
Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:57:00 +0000
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted. - Seneca
The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all ...] ¶ 12:36 AM 0 comments
