Favorite Quotations
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Quotes for Today
Anthony Robbins
Let fear be a counselor and not a jailer.
Albert Camus
In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Bill Watterson
Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous - Calvin
Rabbi H. Schachtel
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Brooks Atkinson
Don't condescend to unskilled labor. Try it for half a day first.
Albert Einstein
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal. Not to people or things.
Miguel de Cervantes
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars and the world will be better for this.
Anna Lappe
Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action.
Terry Pratchet, The Last Continent
Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.
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International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:51:05 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.February 4 February 3 Difference...
Tender:GPS Pathfinder Pro XRS receiver -Stellenbosch tender (Cape Business News South Africa Business)
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 03:12:57 GMT
Contractors/experienced service providers for a GPS Pathfinder Pro XRS receiver. Quotations close at 12h00 on 11 February 2008. ¶ 1:28 PM 0 comments
Today's Quotes:
Anthony Robbins
Let fear be a counselor and not a jailer.
Albert Camus
In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Bill Watterson
Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous - Calvin
Rabbi H. Schachtel
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Brooks Atkinson
Don't condescend to unskilled labor. Try it for half a day first.
Albert Einstein
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal. Not to people or things.
Miguel de Cervantes
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars and the world will be better for this.
Anna Lappe
Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action.
Terry Pratchet, The Last Continent
Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.
More Quotes
International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:51:05 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.February 4 February 3 Difference...
Tender:GPS Pathfinder Pro XRS receiver -Stellenbosch tender (Cape Business News South Africa Business)
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 03:12:57 GMT
Contractors/experienced service providers for a GPS Pathfinder Pro XRS receiver. Quotations close at 12h00 on 11 February 2008. ¶ 1:28 PM 0 comments
Latest Famous Quotations
Nora Ephron
If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters.
Wystan Hugh Auden
A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Scene 2
If Love be rough with you, be rough with Love, prick Love for pricking, and you beat Love down.
James Thomson
Absence, with all its pains, is, by this charming moment, wiped away.
Mark Twain
If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be--a christian.
Martin Luther
In 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.
George F. Will
We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.
Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm.
Og Mandino
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The adoration of his heart had been to her only as the perfume of a wild flower, which she had carelessly crushed with her foot in passing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
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OFZ quotations move upward following positive external market trends (Interfax)
Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:28:12 GMT
MOSCOW. Feb. 1. (Interfax) - Quotations for Federal Loan Bonds (OFZ) posted gains on Friday following positive trends on foreign markets. The average weighted price of OFZ 46018, which matures in 2021, increased 0.07 of a percentage point to 110.22% with 225.456 million rubles in deals.
Fine silver quotations Monday: $17.171 ounce
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:54:00 GMT
Canada East - TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Monday $17.171 oz., $562.05 kg.; Friday $17.533 oz., $563.69 kg. Log in to access premium content and features on this site. You ... ¶ 7:37 AM 0 comments
Check out these Famous Quotations:
Nora Ephron
If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters.
Wystan Hugh Auden
A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Scene 2
If Love be rough with you, be rough with Love, prick Love for pricking, and you beat Love down.
James Thomson
Absence, with all its pains, is, by this charming moment, wiped away.
Mark Twain
If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be--a christian.
Martin Luther
In 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.
George F. Will
We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.
Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm.
Og Mandino
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The adoration of his heart had been to her only as the perfume of a wild flower, which she had carelessly crushed with her foot in passing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
More Quotations
OFZ quotations move upward following positive external market trends (Interfax)
Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:28:12 GMT
MOSCOW. Feb. 1. (Interfax) - Quotations for Federal Loan Bonds (OFZ) posted gains on Friday following positive trends on foreign markets. The average weighted price of OFZ 46018, which matures in 2021, increased 0.07 of a percentage point to 110.22% with 225.456 million rubles in deals.
Fine silver quotations Monday: $17.171 ounce
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:54:00 GMT
Canada East - TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Monday $17.171 oz., $562.05 kg.; Friday $17.533 oz., $563.69 kg. Log in to access premium content and features on this site. You ... ¶ 7:37 AM 0 comments
Daily Famous Quotes
Johann von Goethe
Our friends show us what we can do our enemies teach us what we must do.
Richard Milhous Nixon
My strong point is not rhetoric, it isn't showmanship, it isn't big promises-those things that create the glamour and the excitement that people call charisma and warmth.
Blaise Pascal
Our heart has its reasons that reason cannot know.
Herbert Mitgang
Johnson himself turned out to be so many different characters he could have populated all of War and Peace and still had a few people left over.
Lillian Eichler Watson
Don't reserve your best behavior for special occasions. You can't have two sets of manners, two social codes - one for those you admire and want to impress, another for those whom you consider unimportant. You must be the same to all people.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, February 2003
Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.
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Quotations of the day
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 08:21:00 GMT
International Herald Tribune - "We offer our condolences to the families of those who were killed in this incident, and we mourn the loss of innocent civilian life." — U.S. Navy Lt. Patrick Evans on the accidental killing of nine ...
Fine silver quotations Wednesday: $17.219 ounce (Canadian Business)
Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:05:39 GMT
The Canadian Press January 30, 2008 - 12:51 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Wednesday $17.219 oz., $553.59 kg.; Tuesday $17.344 oz., $557.61 kg.
2nd UPDATE: Bush Budget Request Sees Near-Record Deficits (Nasdaq)
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:43:33 GMT
(Updates with quotes from President Bush.)
Eastern Creek: Sunday Quotes (Pitpass)
Sun, 03 Feb 2008 12:11:29 GMT
Eastern Creek: Sunday Quotes ¶ 6:43 AM 0 comments
Today's Famous Quotes:
Johann von Goethe
Our friends show us what we can do our enemies teach us what we must do.
Richard Milhous Nixon
My strong point is not rhetoric, it isn't showmanship, it isn't big promises-those things that create the glamour and the excitement that people call charisma and warmth.
Blaise Pascal
Our heart has its reasons that reason cannot know.
Herbert Mitgang
Johnson himself turned out to be so many different characters he could have populated all of War and Peace and still had a few people left over.
Lillian Eichler Watson
Don't reserve your best behavior for special occasions. You can't have two sets of manners, two social codes - one for those you admire and want to impress, another for those whom you consider unimportant. You must be the same to all people.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, February 2003
Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.
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Quotations of the day
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 08:21:00 GMT
International Herald Tribune - "We offer our condolences to the families of those who were killed in this incident, and we mourn the loss of innocent civilian life." — U.S. Navy Lt. Patrick Evans on the accidental killing of nine ...
Fine silver quotations Wednesday: $17.219 ounce (Canadian Business)
Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:05:39 GMT
The Canadian Press January 30, 2008 - 12:51 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Wednesday $17.219 oz., $553.59 kg.; Tuesday $17.344 oz., $557.61 kg.
2nd UPDATE: Bush Budget Request Sees Near-Record Deficits (Nasdaq)
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:43:33 GMT
(Updates with quotes from President Bush.)
Eastern Creek: Sunday Quotes (Pitpass)
Sun, 03 Feb 2008 12:11:29 GMT
Eastern Creek: Sunday Quotes ¶ 6:43 AM 0 comments
Today's Famous Quotes
Clare Booth Luce
There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.
George Bernard Shaw, Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet (1911) "Limits to Toleration"
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
Dorothy Parker
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea And love is a thing that can never go wrong And I am Marie of Roumania.
A. C. Benson
All the best stories are but one story in reality--the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
Isaac Asimov, Second Foundation - First Speaker
The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.
Alan Paton, Cry the Beloved Country
Fear is a journey, a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arriving.
Bruce Lee
True refinement seeks simplicity.
Michel de Montaigne
It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.
Sylvia Ashton-Warner, Spinster
No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.
Marcus Aurelius
Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
George Herbert, 1651
The best mirror is an old friend.
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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:
Quotations of the day (Charleston Daily Mail)
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:40:16 GMT
"We offer our condolences to the families of those who were killed in this incident, and we mourn the loss of innocent civilian life.'' -- U.S. Navy Lt. Patrick Evans on the accidental killing of nine Iraqi civilians during an operation targeting al-Qaida.
UW men's basketball: Notes and quotes from Minneapolis (The Capital Times)
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:38:24 GMT
Summing it all up The Badgers never trailed during their 63-47 victory over Minnesota, which led UW coach Bo Ryan to say, "I'd like to have a start like that, a middle like that and an end like that. How about that? I'll take all of it." To the point Brian Butch said point guard Trevon Hughes' improvement and better decision-making helps the offense in many ways. "This offense is a point-guard ...
Today's quotes from the Associated Press
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:25:00 GMT
Island Packet Online - “We offer our condolences to the families of those who were killed in this incident, and we mourn the loss of innocent civilian life.” — U.S. Navy Lt. Patrick Evans on the accidental killing of ... ¶ 5:41 AM 0 comments
Famous Quotes:
Clare Booth Luce
There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.
George Bernard Shaw, Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet (1911) "Limits to Toleration"
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
Dorothy Parker
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea And love is a thing that can never go wrong And I am Marie of Roumania.
A. C. Benson
All the best stories are but one story in reality--the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
Isaac Asimov, Second Foundation - First Speaker
The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.
Alan Paton, Cry the Beloved Country
Fear is a journey, a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arriving.
Bruce Lee
True refinement seeks simplicity.
Michel de Montaigne
It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.
Sylvia Ashton-Warner, Spinster
No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.
Marcus Aurelius
Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
George Herbert, 1651
The best mirror is an old friend.
More Quotations
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:
Quotations of the day (Charleston Daily Mail)
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:40:16 GMT
"We offer our condolences to the families of those who were killed in this incident, and we mourn the loss of innocent civilian life.'' -- U.S. Navy Lt. Patrick Evans on the accidental killing of nine Iraqi civilians during an operation targeting al-Qaida.
UW men's basketball: Notes and quotes from Minneapolis (The Capital Times)
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:38:24 GMT
Summing it all up The Badgers never trailed during their 63-47 victory over Minnesota, which led UW coach Bo Ryan to say, "I'd like to have a start like that, a middle like that and an end like that. How about that? I'll take all of it." To the point Brian Butch said point guard Trevon Hughes' improvement and better decision-making helps the offense in many ways. "This offense is a point-guard ...
Today's quotes from the Associated Press
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:25:00 GMT
Island Packet Online - “We offer our condolences to the families of those who were killed in this incident, and we mourn the loss of innocent civilian life.” — U.S. Navy Lt. Patrick Evans on the accidental killing of ... ¶ 5:41 AM 0 comments
Latest greatest Famous Quotes
Ronald Firbank
The world is disgracefully managed one hardly knows to whom to complain.
Albert Einstein
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
Mark 9:23
All things are possible to him that believeth.
Neil Gaiman, Good Omens
When he stood up, it was a very complicated motion. If the deck chairs on the Ship to the Sea of Night had opened up, they would have done so like that. It was like he was unfolding himself forever.
Walter Savage Landor
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
Christian Nestell
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
Robert Hall
The innocence of the intention abates nothing of the mischief of the example.
Saint Jerome
Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, 'Why do you not practice what you preach'
Plato, Dialogues, Parmenides
You cannot conceive the many without the one.
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Following CWP campaign, city seeks to unify locals
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 06:27:00 GMT
Yale Daily News - The leaflets distributed last Sunday, titled “African Americans on Illegal Immigration,” featured quotations from black figures such as Frederick Douglass and U.S.
Tender:GPS Pathfinder Pro XRS receiver -Stellenbosch tender (Cape Business News South Africa Business)
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 03:05:43 GMT
Contractors/experienced service providers for a GPS Pathfinder Pro XRS receiver. Quotations close at 12h00 on 11 February 2008.
Quotes from and about 2008 Pro Football Hall of Famers (KVOA Tucson)
Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:48:26 GMT
PHOENIX -- Quotes from and about the class of 2008 for the Pro Football Hall of Fame, which was selected on Saturday: "The 1983 first-round class _ I made it.
Putting on the Ritz
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 05:15:00 GMT
New York Sun - Stroman's quotations from ballet imagery — the morning-sicknessstricken Ms. Kowroski fumbles like Aurora pierced by the sewing needle in "The Sleeping Beauty" — are more effective than her ...
Quotable Quotes
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 04:54:00 GMT
Egypt Today - Don’t kill a child, a woman, an old man or anyone taking refugue in God’s house. Don’t mutilate, don’t tear down a house, and don’t use excessive violence. These were the Prophet Mohammed ... ¶ 12:30 AM 0 comments
Today's Famous Quotes:
Ronald Firbank
The world is disgracefully managed one hardly knows to whom to complain.
Albert Einstein
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
Mark 9:23
All things are possible to him that believeth.
Neil Gaiman, Good Omens
When he stood up, it was a very complicated motion. If the deck chairs on the Ship to the Sea of Night had opened up, they would have done so like that. It was like he was unfolding himself forever.
Walter Savage Landor
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
Christian Nestell
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
Robert Hall
The innocence of the intention abates nothing of the mischief of the example.
Saint Jerome
Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, 'Why do you not practice what you preach'
Plato, Dialogues, Parmenides
You cannot conceive the many without the one.
More Quotes
Following CWP campaign, city seeks to unify locals
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 06:27:00 GMT
Yale Daily News - The leaflets distributed last Sunday, titled “African Americans on Illegal Immigration,” featured quotations from black figures such as Frederick Douglass and U.S.
Tender:GPS Pathfinder Pro XRS receiver -Stellenbosch tender (Cape Business News South Africa Business)
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 03:05:43 GMT
Contractors/experienced service providers for a GPS Pathfinder Pro XRS receiver. Quotations close at 12h00 on 11 February 2008.
Quotes from and about 2008 Pro Football Hall of Famers (KVOA Tucson)
Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:48:26 GMT
PHOENIX -- Quotes from and about the class of 2008 for the Pro Football Hall of Fame, which was selected on Saturday: "The 1983 first-round class _ I made it.
Putting on the Ritz
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 05:15:00 GMT
New York Sun - Stroman's quotations from ballet imagery — the morning-sicknessstricken Ms. Kowroski fumbles like Aurora pierced by the sewing needle in "The Sleeping Beauty" — are more effective than her ...
Quotable Quotes
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 04:54:00 GMT
Egypt Today - Don’t kill a child, a woman, an old man or anyone taking refugue in God’s house. Don’t mutilate, don’t tear down a house, and don’t use excessive violence. These were the Prophet Mohammed ... ¶ 12:30 AM 0 comments
