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Japanese ProverbThe nail that sticks out is hammered down.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
Jean CocteauThe extreme limit of wisdom-- that is what the public calls madness.
Marlin Finch LupusWe seek the comfort of another. Someone to share our dreams and to share in the life we choose. Someone to help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along the way.
Italian ProverbOnce the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.
G. K. ChestertonTruth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
Carl R. RogersThe very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
Heinrich Gotthard von TreitschkeMillions must plough and forge and dig in order that a few thousand may write and paint and study.
Babylonian Talmud, tractate GittinEat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
More QuotationsQuotes about ArchitectureTue, 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 ...]
Month QuotesTue, 15 Jan 2008 21:23:00 +0000
We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. - Phyllis
…simple fact that any land looks like Eden after months at sea. - Robert Hughes, Fatal Shore
I’m 65 and I guess that puts me in with ...]
Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:37:25 GMT
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: DAX 6,818.85 (+ 2.11) MDAX8,499.21 (- 145.73) Adidas 40.82 (-0.68) Allianz 123.78 (+2.16) BASF ...
Month QuotesTue, 15 Jan 2008 21:23:00 +0000
We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. - Phyllis
…simple fact that any land looks like Eden after months at sea. - Robert Hughes, Fatal Shore
I’m 65 and I guess that puts me in with ...]
Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:37:25 GMT
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: DAX 6,818.85 (+ 2.11) MDAX8,499.21 (- 145.73) Adidas 40.82 (-0.68) Allianz 123.78 (+2.16) BASF ...
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CaddyShackSandy Carl I want you to kill all the gophers on the golf course Carl Spackler Correct me if I'm wrong Sandy, but if I kill all the golfers they'll lock me up and throw away the key. Sandy Not golfers, you great fool. Gophers. THE LITTLE BROWN, FURRY RODENTS. Carl Spackler We can do that. We don't even need a reason.
StingYou have to be yourself. Be very honest about who and what you are. And if people still like you, that's great. If they don't, that's their problem.
MoliereDoubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
Geoffrey NeighorONE WHO WAITS There are those who believe that time is a wheel turning forever. Which would mean that your moment will surely come. Then, there are those who believe that time is a river. Which, if that's true, it's possible that your moment has already flowed by. ED Which one do you think it is ONE WHO WAITS Ah. I think that time is just time.
Fran Lebowitz, Metropolitan Life, 1978Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
Cato the ElderPatience is the greatest of all virtues.
Jack Handey Deep ThoughtsDon't ever get your speedometer confused with your clock, like I did once, because the faster you go, the later you think you are.
Daphne Rose KingmaToday, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also those who need it so much.
More QuotesQuotations for Russian Minfin bondsMon, 28 Jan 2008 13:23:00 GMT
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Quotes of the week (BBC News)Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:27:17 GMT
Steven Gerrard gets a shock in the Havant game as Sven issues balloon threats
6 Singular QuotesSat, 12 Jan 2008 21:58:00 +0000
I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive epochs is like omitting Hamlet from the play which is named after him. . . But it is certainly analogous to cutting out the part of Ophelia. This simile is ...]
Todays QuotesWed, 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 ...]
Daily Quotations
Today's Quotations:
W. Clement StoneTry, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
Mary HemingwayWorry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.
AesopPlease all, and you will please none.
Thomas JeffersonThat government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
Martin Fraquhar TupperWell-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
Jack Handey Deep ThoughtsIf you make ships in a bottle, I bet the thing that really makes your heart sink is when you look in, and there at the wheel is Captain Termite.
More QuotationsIn quotes: State of Union reaction (BBC News)Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:54:36 GMT
US politicians give their reaction to President George W Bush's final State of the Union address.
Lesson QuotesWed, 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 ...]
International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:51:57 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets....
Today's Quotations
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Hindustani ProverbWhen an elephant is in trouble even a frog will kick him.
Friedrich NietzscheHow people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThere is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Haida Indian sayingWe do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.
King Farouk of Egypt, 1948The whole world is in revolt. Soon there will be only five Kings left--the King of England, the King of Spades, The King of Clubs, the King of Hearts, and the King of Diamonds.
Martin LutherIn this life, Christ is an example, showing us how to live in his death, he is a sacrifice, satisfying for our sins in his resurrection, a conqueror in his ascentions, a kind in his intercession, a high priest.
Gerald JampolskyLove is letting go of fear.
More QuotesEnlightenMon, 14 Jan 2008 21:10:00 +0000
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility. - George Orwell
Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world. - Karl Kraus
In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. ...]
Fine silver quotations Tuesday: C$17.344 ounceTue, 29 Jan 2008 19:06:00 GMT
Canada East - TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Tuesday $17.344 oz., 557.61 kg.; Monday $17.472 oz., $561.72 kg. Log in to access premium content and features on this site. You ...
4 Lift QuotesFri, 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 ...]
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George LorimerBack of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
Swedish ProverbLove is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies.
Hermocrates of SyracuseHas not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?
Ruth GordonTo be somebody, you must last.
Robert Smith Surtees'Humph' grunted Mr. Romford, seeing his worst fears about to be realized. He had dreamt that he had timbled over a poodle in the drawing-room, and squirted a bottle of porter right into a lady's face. 'Who's goin' besides ourselves' asked Romford, wishing to know the worst at once. 'Better be killed than frightened to death,' thought he.
Jean Baptiste MontegutMusic like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.
Anthony BurgessI must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.
Christopher MorleyThere are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning.
More QuotesQuotations of the day (Charleston Daily Mail)Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:47:12 GMT
"We can all see that growth is slowing.'' -- President Bush in his State of the Union address, acknowledging rising food and gas prices, increasing unemployment and turmoil in the housing and financial markets.
Fine silver quotations Monday: $17.472 ounce (Canadian Business)Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:06:40 GMT
The Canadian Press January 28, 2008 - 12:46 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Monday $17.472 oz., 561.72 kg.; Friday $17.05 oz., $548.16 kg.
Sports quotes of the weekMon, 28 Jan 2008 05:59:00 GMT
ONE News - "Hey, I didn't win. I would have liked it to be different. But, unfortunately, I don't have a time machine, so I cannot reverse this loss. If any of you have one, please let me know." - VENUS WILLIAMS ...
Canadian dollar opens at 100.15 cents US, up 0.59 of a centTue, 29 Jan 2008 12:53:00 GMT
Canada East - Pound sterling worth C$1.9890, down 0.36 of a cent, and US$1.9920, up 0.81 of a cent. The Euro was worth C$1.4760, down 0.88 of a cent. Quotations provided by BMO Nesbitt Burns, Capital Markets.