Favorite Quotations
Monday, January 21, 2008
Latest Famous Quotes
Leroy Robert Satchel Paige
Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
Mother Teresa
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Probably to a shark, about the funniest thing there is is a wounded seal, trying to swim to shore, because WHERE DOES HE THINK HE'S GOING
Kahlil Gibran
Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
William Shakespeare, "King Henry VI Part III", Act 2 scene 1
And many strokes, though with a little axe,
Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak.
George Eliot
Teach us to care and not to care. Teach us to sit still.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
After I die, wherever my spirit goes, I'm going to try to get back and visit my skeleton at least once a year, because, 'Hey, old buddy, how's it going'
Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers, that the mind can never break off from the journey.
Benjamin Cohen
A world in which others controlled the course of their own development ... would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered.
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Kids Avenue for January 21, 2008 (The Advocate)
Mon, 21 Jan 2008 06:16:51 GMT
“Home,” an exhibit featuring the work of Renaissance Village residents who participated in classes provided by the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge, will be on display 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. today through Friday at the Council’s Community Gallery, 427 Laurel St.
4 Lift Quotes
Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:11:00 +0000
Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, for he has no one to help lift him up. - Ecclesiastes 4910 Bible
I hold before you my hand with each ...]
Lesson Quotes
Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:36:00 +0000
When you make a mistake, don’t look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. - Phyllis Bottome
If someone breaks your heart, forgive them. For they have helped you ...]
Quotes of the Week
Mon, 21 Jan 2008 07:48:00 GMT
Argus Leader - One-thousand adults act as mentors to 1,000 school children in Sioux Falls. But if every child in the city who needs a mentor had one, it would take another 1,500 adults willing to help. Says Todd ... ¶ 11:40 PM 0 comments
Straight to the Famous Quotes ...
Leroy Robert Satchel Paige
Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
Mother Teresa
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Probably to a shark, about the funniest thing there is is a wounded seal, trying to swim to shore, because WHERE DOES HE THINK HE'S GOING
Kahlil Gibran
Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
William Shakespeare, "King Henry VI Part III", Act 2 scene 1
And many strokes, though with a little axe,
Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak.
George Eliot
Teach us to care and not to care. Teach us to sit still.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
After I die, wherever my spirit goes, I'm going to try to get back and visit my skeleton at least once a year, because, 'Hey, old buddy, how's it going'
Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers, that the mind can never break off from the journey.
Benjamin Cohen
A world in which others controlled the course of their own development ... would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered.
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Kids Avenue for January 21, 2008 (The Advocate)
Mon, 21 Jan 2008 06:16:51 GMT
“Home,” an exhibit featuring the work of Renaissance Village residents who participated in classes provided by the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge, will be on display 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. today through Friday at the Council’s Community Gallery, 427 Laurel St.
4 Lift Quotes
Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:11:00 +0000
Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, for he has no one to help lift him up. - Ecclesiastes 4910 Bible
I hold before you my hand with each ...]
Lesson Quotes
Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:36:00 +0000
When you make a mistake, don’t look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. - Phyllis Bottome
If someone breaks your heart, forgive them. For they have helped you ...]
Quotes of the Week
Mon, 21 Jan 2008 07:48:00 GMT
Argus Leader - One-thousand adults act as mentors to 1,000 school children in Sioux Falls. But if every child in the city who needs a mentor had one, it would take another 1,500 adults willing to help. Says Todd ... ¶ 11:40 PM 0 comments
Quotes Update
Anon.
Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique.
Aesop, The Jay and the Peacock
It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
Teena Booth
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
Bertrand Russell
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
Corazn Cojuangco Aquino
It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history.
Anonymous
A man is known by the company he avoids.
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good on this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
I have never seen a more lucid, better balanced, mad mind than mine.
George Bernard Shaw
Few people think more than two or three times a year I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
Marcel Marceau
I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth.
Jerry Coleman
Mike Caldwell, the Padres' right-handed southpaw, will pitch tonight.
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Clever Velcro fasteners make windows easy
Sun, 20 Jan 2008 07:56:00 GMT
Hampton Roads Daily Press - The almanac is a compilation of all things garden-related — tips, bits of wisdom, quotations, odd facts, recipes, you name it. It's the kind of book that gives you a smile or an insight whenever you pick it up, a volume to be absorbed a bit at a ...
Todays Quotes
Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:03:00 +0000
Memories, important yesterdays, were once todays. Treasure and notice today. - Gloria Gaither
Do not be so quick to judge or label, for one day the objects of ridicule may become what they are ever so used to being seen as. And when this happens it is too late, another soul has fallen to the cruel ...]
Serbian hardliner leads presidential polls, but run-off expected ...
Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:08:00 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 ...
Quotes about Architecture
Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:02:00 +0000
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton
In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, High-Tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit-if totally different in form-from all the romantic architecture of ...] ¶ 5:28 PM 0 comments
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Anon.
Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique.
Aesop, The Jay and the Peacock
It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
Teena Booth
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
Bertrand Russell
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
Corazn Cojuangco Aquino
It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history.
Anonymous
A man is known by the company he avoids.
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good on this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
I have never seen a more lucid, better balanced, mad mind than mine.
George Bernard Shaw
Few people think more than two or three times a year I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
Marcel Marceau
I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth.
Jerry Coleman
Mike Caldwell, the Padres' right-handed southpaw, will pitch tonight.
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Clever Velcro fasteners make windows easy
Sun, 20 Jan 2008 07:56:00 GMT
Hampton Roads Daily Press - The almanac is a compilation of all things garden-related — tips, bits of wisdom, quotations, odd facts, recipes, you name it. It's the kind of book that gives you a smile or an insight whenever you pick it up, a volume to be absorbed a bit at a ...
Todays Quotes
Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:03:00 +0000
Memories, important yesterdays, were once todays. Treasure and notice today. - Gloria Gaither
Do not be so quick to judge or label, for one day the objects of ridicule may become what they are ever so used to being seen as. And when this happens it is too late, another soul has fallen to the cruel ...]
Serbian hardliner leads presidential polls, but run-off expected ...
Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:08:00 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 ...
Quotes about Architecture
Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:02:00 +0000
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton
In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, High-Tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit-if totally different in form-from all the romantic architecture of ...] ¶ 5:28 PM 0 comments
Great Famous Quotations
Brad Hull
I'm not dumb enough to be a goalie.
George Santayana
An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well, remembering that she has seen dark times before, indeed with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day.
Niccolo Machiavelli
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
Charles F. Kettering
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
Art Turock
There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstance permit. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.
Joseph Addison
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Og Mandino, The Greatest Miracle in the World
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
Francis William Bourdillon
The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one Yet the life of a whole life dies When love is done.
William Shakespeare
His life was gentle and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN
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Post Fight Quotes: Jones Jr, Trinidad, Goloto, Bunema
Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:38:00 GMT
East Side Boxing - 20.01.08 - ROY JONES JR .: “All my fans around the world said I was done. He took a lot of hard punches. Jones said to Trinidad, “I can’t believe you stayed in there 12 rounds with me. We had a ...
Metal prices from London Commodities Exchange (EARTHtimes.org)
Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:24:15 GMT
London - Final prices in dollars per ton - cash and forward. Also given are the previous trading day's quotations....
Reading Films
Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:25:00 GMT
Egypt Today - From Hollywood Lesbians and Off Screen/On Screen to The Dictionary of Film Quotations, whole libraries have been published, all in the name of cashing in on anything that is even remotely related to ... ¶ 2:52 AM 0 comments
Straight to the Famous Quotations ...
Brad Hull
I'm not dumb enough to be a goalie.
George Santayana
An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well, remembering that she has seen dark times before, indeed with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day.
Niccolo Machiavelli
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
Charles F. Kettering
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
Art Turock
There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstance permit. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.
Joseph Addison
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Og Mandino, The Greatest Miracle in the World
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
Francis William Bourdillon
The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one Yet the life of a whole life dies When love is done.
William Shakespeare
His life was gentle and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN
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Post Fight Quotes: Jones Jr, Trinidad, Goloto, Bunema
Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:38:00 GMT
East Side Boxing - 20.01.08 - ROY JONES JR .: “All my fans around the world said I was done. He took a lot of hard punches. Jones said to Trinidad, “I can’t believe you stayed in there 12 rounds with me. We had a ...
Metal prices from London Commodities Exchange (EARTHtimes.org)
Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:24:15 GMT
London - Final prices in dollars per ton - cash and forward. Also given are the previous trading day's quotations....
Reading Films
Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:25:00 GMT
Egypt Today - From Hollywood Lesbians and Off Screen/On Screen to The Dictionary of Film Quotations, whole libraries have been published, all in the name of cashing in on anything that is even remotely related to ... ¶ 2:52 AM 0 comments
Quotations Update
Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
Peter Stack, in a movie review in the San Francisco Chronicle, Jan 2, 1983
My tears stuck in their little ducts, refusing to be jerked.
Ronald Reagan
You can accomplish much if you don't care who gets the credit.
Grantland Rice, "Alumunus Football," Only the Brave and Other Poems, p. 144 (1941)
For when the One Great Scorer comes
To write against your name,
He marks-not that you won or lost-
But how you played the game.
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Tawfik Hamid's warning
Sat, 19 Jan 2008 15:28:00 GMT
Jerusalem Post - Now he was advocating a humane approach to Islam, arguing that some of the key quotations from the Koran, utilized by violent, fundamentalist ideologues like al-Zawahiri, to encourage personal jihad ...
4 Quotes on Fields
Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:32:00 +0000
Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them, and they are full of toads. - Logan Pearsall Smith
On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days and other fields will bear the fruits of victory. - General Douglas MacArthur
We shall defend our ...]
Cartoon animator inspires a young artist (Orange County Register)
Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:13:46 GMT
15 local children studied art at the Chuck Jones Center for Creativity. ¶ 2:42 AM 0 comments
Here are the Quotations ...
Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
Peter Stack, in a movie review in the San Francisco Chronicle, Jan 2, 1983
My tears stuck in their little ducts, refusing to be jerked.
Ronald Reagan
You can accomplish much if you don't care who gets the credit.
Grantland Rice, "Alumunus Football," Only the Brave and Other Poems, p. 144 (1941)
For when the One Great Scorer comes
To write against your name,
He marks-not that you won or lost-
But how you played the game.
More Quotations
Tawfik Hamid's warning
Sat, 19 Jan 2008 15:28:00 GMT
Jerusalem Post - Now he was advocating a humane approach to Islam, arguing that some of the key quotations from the Koran, utilized by violent, fundamentalist ideologues like al-Zawahiri, to encourage personal jihad ...
4 Quotes on Fields
Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:32:00 +0000
Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them, and they are full of toads. - Logan Pearsall Smith
On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days and other fields will bear the fruits of victory. - General Douglas MacArthur
We shall defend our ...]
Cartoon animator inspires a young artist (Orange County Register)
Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:13:46 GMT
15 local children studied art at the Chuck Jones Center for Creativity. ¶ 2:42 AM 0 comments
Latest greatest Quotations
James Russell Lowell
There is no good arguing with the inevitible. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
Vince Lombardi
Our greatest glory was not in never falling, but in rising when we fell.
Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Apocalypse Explained" #338
True wisdom is seeing what is beneficial to your eternal life, and managing your life according to that. You do this when you not only know these things and grasp them with your understanding, but also will and do them.
Henri-Fr�d�ric Amiel
Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
Laura Swenson
Men are like a deck of cards. You'll find the occasional king, but most are jacks.
Laurence J. Peter
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
Scarface
Tony Montana In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.
Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Srange Land
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love the greater the jealousy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We become what we think about all day long.
Julian Weber Gordon
Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
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Quotes from the 2008 presidential candidates (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Sun, 20 Jan 2008 03:32:45 GMT
"I guess this is how the West was won." _ New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, to cheering supporters after winning a majority of the popular vote in Nevada.
Candidates' quotes on Bush's remarks (AP via Yahoo! News)
Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:04:01 GMT
Some quotes Friday from the presidential candidates regarding President Bush's call for an economic package worth about $145 billion:
Sidney Coleman; Harvard icon taught physics classes with wit
Sun, 20 Jan 2008 08:03:00 GMT
Boston Globe - On the back was a sampling of his classroom quotations, including: "Not only God knows, I know, and by the end of the semester, you will know." "I think he was one of the physicists who thought more ...
Quotes From The 2008 Candidates
Sun, 20 Jan 2008 03:24:00 GMT
Guardian Unlimited - ``I guess this is how the West was won.'' - New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, to cheering supporters after winning a majority of the popular vote in Nevada. ``We ran an honest, uplifting campaign ...
Quotes about Architecture
Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:02:00 +0000
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton
In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, High-Tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit-if totally different in form-from all the romantic architecture of ...] ¶ 12:21 AM 0 comments
Today's Quotations:
James Russell Lowell
There is no good arguing with the inevitible. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
Vince Lombardi
Our greatest glory was not in never falling, but in rising when we fell.
Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Apocalypse Explained" #338
True wisdom is seeing what is beneficial to your eternal life, and managing your life according to that. You do this when you not only know these things and grasp them with your understanding, but also will and do them.
Henri-Fr�d�ric Amiel
Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
Laura Swenson
Men are like a deck of cards. You'll find the occasional king, but most are jacks.
Laurence J. Peter
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
Scarface
Tony Montana In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.
Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Srange Land
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love the greater the jealousy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We become what we think about all day long.
Julian Weber Gordon
Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
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Quotes from the 2008 presidential candidates (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Sun, 20 Jan 2008 03:32:45 GMT
"I guess this is how the West was won." _ New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, to cheering supporters after winning a majority of the popular vote in Nevada.
Candidates' quotes on Bush's remarks (AP via Yahoo! News)
Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:04:01 GMT
Some quotes Friday from the presidential candidates regarding President Bush's call for an economic package worth about $145 billion:
Sidney Coleman; Harvard icon taught physics classes with wit
Sun, 20 Jan 2008 08:03:00 GMT
Boston Globe - On the back was a sampling of his classroom quotations, including: "Not only God knows, I know, and by the end of the semester, you will know." "I think he was one of the physicists who thought more ...
Quotes From The 2008 Candidates
Sun, 20 Jan 2008 03:24:00 GMT
Guardian Unlimited - ``I guess this is how the West was won.'' - New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, to cheering supporters after winning a majority of the popular vote in Nevada. ``We ran an honest, uplifting campaign ...
Quotes about Architecture
Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:02:00 +0000
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton
In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, High-Tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit-if totally different in form-from all the romantic architecture of ...] ¶ 12:21 AM 0 comments
