Favorite Quotations
Monday, February 18, 2008
Daily Famous Quotations
Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts"
People find life entirely too time-consuming.
Samuel Butler
I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.
Elbert Hubbard
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?
Daniel J. Boorstin
Americans expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly...to revere God and be God.
Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Mentat Fixe
Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ablility to learn. The judgemental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.
Aaron Copland
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity.
Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
George Carlin
There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Ridicule is the best test of truth.
Stephen Covey
Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.
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In quotes: Kosovo reaction (BBC News)
Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:30:19 GMT
Kosovo's declaration of independence brings wide-ranging and conflicting reactions from global leaders.
Stock & fund quotes
Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:16:00 GMT
ninemsn - The Singapore Airshow gives planemakers a shopfront to the fast-growing Asian aviation market, but worries about a global economic slowdown and delays to Boeing's new 787 jumbo risk denting the ...
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Today's Famous Quotations:
Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts"
People find life entirely too time-consuming.
Samuel Butler
I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.
Elbert Hubbard
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?
Daniel J. Boorstin
Americans expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly...to revere God and be God.
Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Mentat Fixe
Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ablility to learn. The judgemental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.
Aaron Copland
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity.
Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
George Carlin
There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Ridicule is the best test of truth.
Stephen Covey
Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.
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In quotes: Kosovo reaction (BBC News)
Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:30:19 GMT
Kosovo's declaration of independence brings wide-ranging and conflicting reactions from global leaders.
Stock & fund quotes
Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:16:00 GMT
ninemsn - The Singapore Airshow gives planemakers a shopfront to the fast-growing Asian aviation market, but worries about a global economic slowdown and delays to Boeing's new 787 jumbo risk denting the ...
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Today's Famous Quotes
John Andrew Holmes
A good excercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up.
Euripides
Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave.
Thomas Carlyle
Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
Abraham Lincoln
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Al Boliska
Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight
Quintus Fabius Maximus
To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office.
Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson
The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.
Sydney Smith
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.
Joseph Conrad
For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort.
American Heart Association Cookbook
Eat before shopping. If you go to the store hungry, you are likely to make unnecessary purchases.
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The Perfect Love Letter
Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:12:00 GMT
Indolink - It did not appear out of character, therefore, when poetry would appear in a letter, I did not suspect him of turning to Barrette’s ´Familiar Quotations´ to beef up his letter! Staying in character is very important. It´s tempting to play the ...
Right priorities: Motivational book asks: What would you do if you had ...
Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:44:00 GMT
Carroll County Times - The preponderance of religious imagery and Bible quotations makes the book seem particularly aimed toward a Christian market. But Shook said "One Month to Live" is not solely for people whose faith is central to their lives. "The first thing I always ...
TNT Q4 misses estimates on restructuring; sees 10 pct organic growth ...
Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:26:00 GMT
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Famous Quotes:
John Andrew Holmes
A good excercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up.
Euripides
Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave.
Thomas Carlyle
Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
Abraham Lincoln
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Al Boliska
Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight
Quintus Fabius Maximus
To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office.
Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson
The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.
Sydney Smith
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.
Joseph Conrad
For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort.
American Heart Association Cookbook
Eat before shopping. If you go to the store hungry, you are likely to make unnecessary purchases.
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The Perfect Love Letter
Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:12:00 GMT
Indolink - It did not appear out of character, therefore, when poetry would appear in a letter, I did not suspect him of turning to Barrette’s ´Familiar Quotations´ to beef up his letter! Staying in character is very important. It´s tempting to play the ...
Right priorities: Motivational book asks: What would you do if you had ...
Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:44:00 GMT
Carroll County Times - The preponderance of religious imagery and Bible quotations makes the book seem particularly aimed toward a Christian market. But Shook said "One Month to Live" is not solely for people whose faith is central to their lives. "The first thing I always ...
TNT Q4 misses estimates on restructuring; sees 10 pct organic growth ...
Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:26:00 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 ...
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Henry Taylor
He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.
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.
Daisy Bates
No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
Richard Milhous Nixon
Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.
Vincent McNabb
What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them.
Isaac Asimov
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Bible, Colossians 3:16
Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly, as you teach and admonish one another in all wisdom, and as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
Thomas Carlyle
In idleness there is a perpetual despair.
George Bernard Shaw
Nothing ever is done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
Demosthenes
You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.
William A. Ward
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
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Czech Parliament Reelects President
Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:07:00 GMT
OhmyNews - He won't keep silent on the EU and on global warming, but we can also expect more quotations from first Czechoslovak President Tomas Garage] Masaryk. In internet jargon, what we're getting is not ...
In quotes: Northern Rock reaction (BBC News)
Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:00:35 GMT
Northern Rock is to be nationalised as a temporary measure, Chancellor Alistair Darling has said.
Quotations of the day (Charleston Daily Mail)
Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:46:05 GMT
"I personally Army-crawled halfway up the aisle. I said I could get up and run or I could die here.'' -- Lauren Carr, a 20-year-old sophomore, who was sitting in the third row of a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University when a gunman opened fire. Five students died and 16 were wounded.
London Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)
Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:27:26 GMT
FT-100 Index 5,787.60(- 91.70) BAT Industries 1,811.00(- 23.00) BP Amoco 553.50(- 10.50) Diageo 1,062.00(- 19.00) HSBC Holdings 730.00(- 17.00) Prudential 593.00(+3.00) R.Dutch Shell 'A' 1,763...
Sentul - Race 2 Quotes (Pitpass)
Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:31:30 GMT
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Check out these Quotes:
Henry Taylor
He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.
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.
Daisy Bates
No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
Richard Milhous Nixon
Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.
Vincent McNabb
What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them.
Isaac Asimov
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Bible, Colossians 3:16
Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly, as you teach and admonish one another in all wisdom, and as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
Thomas Carlyle
In idleness there is a perpetual despair.
George Bernard Shaw
Nothing ever is done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
Demosthenes
You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.
William A. Ward
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
More Quotations
Czech Parliament Reelects President
Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:07:00 GMT
OhmyNews - He won't keep silent on the EU and on global warming, but we can also expect more quotations from first Czechoslovak President Tomas Garage] Masaryk. In internet jargon, what we're getting is not ...
In quotes: Northern Rock reaction (BBC News)
Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:00:35 GMT
Northern Rock is to be nationalised as a temporary measure, Chancellor Alistair Darling has said.
Quotations of the day (Charleston Daily Mail)
Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:46:05 GMT
"I personally Army-crawled halfway up the aisle. I said I could get up and run or I could die here.'' -- Lauren Carr, a 20-year-old sophomore, who was sitting in the third row of a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University when a gunman opened fire. Five students died and 16 were wounded.
London Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)
Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:27:26 GMT
FT-100 Index 5,787.60(- 91.70) BAT Industries 1,811.00(- 23.00) BP Amoco 553.50(- 10.50) Diageo 1,062.00(- 19.00) HSBC Holdings 730.00(- 17.00) Prudential 593.00(+3.00) R.Dutch Shell 'A' 1,763...
Sentul - Race 2 Quotes (Pitpass)
Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:31:30 GMT
Sentul - Race 2 Quotes
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Latest greatest Quotations
Anne Besant
Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.
Eckhart Tolle
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.
Andrew Alden
Before speaking, consider the interpretation of your words as well as their intent.
Chinese Proverb
Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.
La Bruyere
This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.
Terence, Eunuchus
I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.
Miguel de Cervantes
I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine every man for himself, and God for us all.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
I think a new, different kind of bowling should be 'carpet bowling.' It's just like regular bowling, only the lanes are carpet instead of wood. I don't know why we should do this, but my God, we've got to try something
Kin Hubbard
Of all the unbearable nuisances, the ignoramus that has travelled is the worst.
Bette Davis
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
Ronald Reagan
I have come to the conclusion that the 22nd Amendment limiting the presidency to two terms was a mistake. Shouldn't the people have the right to vote for someone as many times as they want to vote for him
George Bernard Shaw
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:14:00 GMT
Reuters - LONDON, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Britain decided to nationalise Northern Rock (NRK.L: Quote , Profile , Research ) on Sunday, abandoning a five-month attempt to snare a private sector buyer for the ailing ...
Make golden years great
Sun, 17 Feb 2008 09:03:00 GMT
Orlando Sentinel - The book is sprinkled with cartoon illustrations and pertinent quotations on work and retirement. Get this book if you look forward to a retirement with "zing.
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Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:57:00 GMT
Reuters - DUBAI, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Borse Dubai said on Sunday it would consider selling a stake in the London Stock Exchange Group (LSE.L: Quote , Profile , Research ) to Qatar, but had not received any ...
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Today's Quotations:
Anne Besant
Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.
Eckhart Tolle
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.
Andrew Alden
Before speaking, consider the interpretation of your words as well as their intent.
Chinese Proverb
Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.
La Bruyere
This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.
Terence, Eunuchus
I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.
Miguel de Cervantes
I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine every man for himself, and God for us all.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
I think a new, different kind of bowling should be 'carpet bowling.' It's just like regular bowling, only the lanes are carpet instead of wood. I don't know why we should do this, but my God, we've got to try something
Kin Hubbard
Of all the unbearable nuisances, the ignoramus that has travelled is the worst.
Bette Davis
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
Ronald Reagan
I have come to the conclusion that the 22nd Amendment limiting the presidency to two terms was a mistake. Shouldn't the people have the right to vote for someone as many times as they want to vote for him
George Bernard Shaw
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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(Adds quotes, background, detail
Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:14:00 GMT
Reuters - LONDON, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Britain decided to nationalise Northern Rock (NRK.L: Quote , Profile , Research ) on Sunday, abandoning a five-month attempt to snare a private sector buyer for the ailing ...
Make golden years great
Sun, 17 Feb 2008 09:03:00 GMT
Orlando Sentinel - The book is sprinkled with cartoon illustrations and pertinent quotations on work and retirement. Get this book if you look forward to a retirement with "zing.
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Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:57:00 GMT
Reuters - DUBAI, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Borse Dubai said on Sunday it would consider selling a stake in the London Stock Exchange Group (LSE.L: Quote , Profile , Research ) to Qatar, but had not received any ...
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Great Famous Quotes
William Strunk Jr., Elements of Style
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.
Marylin Monroe
Sex is part of nature, I go with nature.
John Leax
Christianity is a matter of willing God's will and through Christ become one with it.
James Branch Cabell
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears this is true.
George Orwell, 1984
Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad.
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Sun, 17 Feb 2008 09:25:00 GMT
CBS Sportsline - --For a team that ranks near the bottom of almost all of the NHL's key statistics, Edmonton ranks fourth in the league in penalty killing. "It's something that we do take pride in," said Marty ...
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Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:57:00 GMT
Reuters - DUBAI, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Borse Dubai said on Sunday it would consider selling a stake in the London Stock Exchange Group (LSE.L: Quote , Profile , Research ) to Qatar, but had not received any ...
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Check out these Famous Quotes:
William Strunk Jr., Elements of Style
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.
Marylin Monroe
Sex is part of nature, I go with nature.
John Leax
Christianity is a matter of willing God's will and through Christ become one with it.
James Branch Cabell
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears this is true.
George Orwell, 1984
Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad.
More Quotes
Oilers report: Notes, quotes
Sun, 17 Feb 2008 09:25:00 GMT
CBS Sportsline - --For a team that ranks near the bottom of almost all of the NHL's key statistics, Edmonton ranks fourth in the league in penalty killing. "It's something that we do take pride in," said Marty ...
Ecliptek Announces Availability of IBIS Models for the EMO™ Family ...
Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:57:00 GMT
PR.com - Samples and quotations for the EMO™ family can be requested from any of Ecliptek's authorized distributors or from our sales staff at sales@ecliptek.com.
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Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:57:00 GMT
Reuters - DUBAI, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Borse Dubai said on Sunday it would consider selling a stake in the London Stock Exchange Group (LSE.L: Quote , Profile , Research ) to Qatar, but had not received any ...
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