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Jean Paul Friedrich RichterIn later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character the multitude pass us by like a distant army.
James DeanMy purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.
Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Lady Duff-GordonPut even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it.
Francis Bacon, 1597-1625When a traveller returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath travelled altogether behind him.
Abraham LincolnCorporations have been enthroned .... An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands ... and the Republic is destroyed.
Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Heaven and Hell" #51The activity of love and faith is what makes heaven.
Muhammad AliFloat like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
Mark TwainReader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
More QuotationsEastern Creek: Sunday QuotesSun, 03 Feb 2008 11:14:00 GMT
Pitpass - As A1 Team Brasil is away from home during the country's carnival celebrations, the team brought the carnival to A1GP for round six of the A1GP World Cup of Motorsport at Eastern Creek in Australia. A ...
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ONE News - They've actually used some of the film's quotes as rallying points," Stallone, 61, said in a telephone interview. "That, to me, is the one of the proudest moments I've ever had in film.
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Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets....
Book briefsSun, 03 Feb 2008 08:51:00 GMT
Santa Cruz Sentinel - Confirm your description of the book through quotations. 4. Limit plot summary. 5. If the book's bad, cite a successful book with similar goals. Make sure the book's failure is the author's not yours!
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Chuang-tzuGreat wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of FireIf you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
Lewis ThomasWe are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a 'common goal' of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.
Henry BromelSometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.
Auguste RodinArt is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.
H. Allen SmithWhen there are two conflicting versions of a story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst.
Sir Harry MacLennan LauderKeep right on to the end of the road.
Rudyard KiplingGardens are not made by sitting in the shade.
Rose Dorothy FrankenAnyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
Robert Charles BenchleyA boy can learn a lot from a dog obedence, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
More QuotesQuotes of the week (Aspen Daily News)Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:33:04 GMT
“If he lifted up that gun, I was jumping over the counter.” John Chaplin, a clerk at Of Grape & Grain, after a man entered the store with a rifle. Chaplin asked the man to put down the gun, which he did before shopping for wine.
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Giants postgame quotes (Bradenton Herald)Sun, 03 Feb 2008 07:01:09 GMT
Postgame quotes from the New York Giants after their 24-14 wild-card playoff victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday:
Cross gives history of Gullah communitySun, 03 Feb 2008 05:09:00 GMT
Island Packet Online - While Cross has done a good job of explaining the Gullahs and their heritage, his book is often repetitive and depends heavily on quotations from other published works, and could have benefitted from ...
Somber tribute by Sontag's sonSun, 03 Feb 2008 07:54:00 GMT
Philadelphia Inquirer - She constantly read (she didn't own a TV), made "lists of restaurants and books, quotations and facts, writing projects and travel schedules," and took in any information available. Still a "rock-hard ...
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Sir Edward DyerMy mind to me a kingdom is,
Such present joys therein I find,
That it excels all other bliss.
Carl RowenThere aren't any embarrassing questions--just embarrassing answers.
Ann LandersNobody gets to live life backwards. Look ahead -- that's where your future lies.
Polish ProverbGod pays, but not weekly wages.
Johnny Depp, Pirates of the CaribbeanNot all treasure is silver and gold, mate.
Helen KellerI do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
More Quotations'Class Act' teacher wraps students up in literatureSun, 03 Feb 2008 20:26:00 GMT
Jackson Sun - Brown, who has been a teacher for eight years, often uses quotes in her class to help her students. "I use quotes as an engagement strategy to capture and re-focus a class's attention.
Shakespeare season in full bloomSun, 03 Feb 2008 16:15:00 GMT
San Marcos Daily Record - Our 10 volume set, “Shakespearean Criticism,” offers long quotations from key works by major scholars. Our reference shelves are loaded with books on Shakespeare: “Shakespeare for Students ...
Quotations for Today
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Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills WildeThe man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.
Cesare PaveseThe only joy in the world is to begin.
SocratesWisdom begins in wonder.
Norman Vincent PealeFormulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
Chuck PalahniukSomeone bent on suicide won�t have much sense of humour left.
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H. L. MenckenHenry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.
AnonymousUnity in things necessary, liberty in things doubtful, charity in everything.
Unknown, Polish SloganNever lose hope.
Danish proverbLawyers and painters can soon change white to black.
Jack Handey Deep ThoughtsI remember when I was in the army, we had the toughest drill sergeant in the world. He'd get right up next to your face and yell, and if you didn't have the right answers, mister, you'd be peeling potatoes or changing the latrine. Hey, wait. I wasn't in the army. Then who WAS that guy
Henry David ThoreauIf a man constantly aspires is he not elevated
Lady Nancy AstorTruth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
Samuel JohnsonESSAY -- A loose sally of the mind an irregular indigested piece not a regular and orderly composition.
Mark TwainPessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.
J. Gresham MachenThe Christian cannot be satisfied so long as any human activity is either opposed to Christianity or out of connection with Christianity. Christianity must pervade not merely all nations but also all of human thought.
Wayne W DyerMost people are searching for happines. They're looking for it. They're trying to find it in someone or something outside of themselves.That's a fundemental mistake. Happiness is something that you are, and it comes from the way you think.
G. C. LichtenbergActual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
More QuotationsSomber tribute by Sontag's sonSun, 03 Feb 2008 07:54:00 GMT
Philadelphia Inquirer - She constantly read (she didn't own a TV), made "lists of restaurants and books, quotations and facts, writing projects and travel schedules," and took in any information available. Still a "rock-hard ...
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Somber tribute by Sontag's sonSun, 03 Feb 2008 07:54:00 GMT
Philadelphia Inquirer - She constantly read (she didn't own a TV), made "lists of restaurants and books, quotations and facts, writing projects and travel schedules," and took in any information available. Still a "rock-hard ...
Enter stage left Mr Akeem Bello –former first son-in-lawSun, 03 Feb 2008 05:31:00 GMT
Vanguard - Vanguard Book of Quotations, p254. LET’s face it, an EFCC comprising a chairman drawn from the police or armed forces and on which the CBN governor, IGP, Customs boss, NDLEA ogapatapata, NDIC ...
A classic, or a fraud?Sun, 03 Feb 2008 07:54:00 GMT
Los Angeles Times - Stegner assured Micoleau in 1967 that the book would contain no recognizable characters and "no quotations direct from the letters." Was this all right with her?