Favorite Quotations
Friday, February 22, 2008
Daily Famous Quotations
Thomas Jefferson
One man with courage is a majority.
William Penn
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
John Maynard Keynes
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
George Seaton Bowes
The heart that is to be filled to the brim with holy joy must be held still.
Victor Hugo
Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the souls of men.
George Gurdjieff
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
Sir John Vanbrugh
Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
Napolean Hill
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, Just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
C.S. Lewis, Chicken Soup for the Soul (book)
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
Germaine Greer
Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.
E. M. Cioran
Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.
Al Rogers
In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
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Tempest in a pastepot
Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:24:00 GMT
The Washington Times - Could they, for example, identify the source of the quotations lifted from the pages of history by Deval Patrick, the governor of Massachusetts, and Mr.
UW men's hockey: The book on Connelly (Wisconsin State Journal)
Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:33:37 GMT
MINNEAPOLIS — The book on Shane Connelly has a non-descript black cover and page after page of stellar, free-hand penmanship, but is yet unfinished. It's filled with inspirational quotations, precise diagrams, distinct objectives and random insights that have tremendous meaning to the author. Connelly, the junior goaltender for the University of Wisconsin men's hockey team, was asked where one ...
Icers' coach uses quotes to motivate team (Penn State Collegian)
Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:13:25 GMT
Scott Balboni, top right, yells at his team during a game vs. Drexel earlier this season. Balboni posts motivational quotes in the Icers' locker room.
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Give me Famous Quotations now!
Thomas Jefferson
One man with courage is a majority.
William Penn
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
John Maynard Keynes
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
George Seaton Bowes
The heart that is to be filled to the brim with holy joy must be held still.
Victor Hugo
Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the souls of men.
George Gurdjieff
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
Sir John Vanbrugh
Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
Napolean Hill
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, Just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
C.S. Lewis, Chicken Soup for the Soul (book)
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
Germaine Greer
Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.
E. M. Cioran
Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.
Al Rogers
In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
More Quotations
Tempest in a pastepot
Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:24:00 GMT
The Washington Times - Could they, for example, identify the source of the quotations lifted from the pages of history by Deval Patrick, the governor of Massachusetts, and Mr.
UW men's hockey: The book on Connelly (Wisconsin State Journal)
Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:33:37 GMT
MINNEAPOLIS — The book on Shane Connelly has a non-descript black cover and page after page of stellar, free-hand penmanship, but is yet unfinished. It's filled with inspirational quotations, precise diagrams, distinct objectives and random insights that have tremendous meaning to the author. Connelly, the junior goaltender for the University of Wisconsin men's hockey team, was asked where one ...
Icers' coach uses quotes to motivate team (Penn State Collegian)
Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:13:25 GMT
Scott Balboni, top right, yells at his team during a game vs. Drexel earlier this season. Balboni posts motivational quotes in the Icers' locker room.
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Famous Quotes for Today
John Milton
When the waves are round me breaking,As I pace the deck alone,And my eye in vain is seekingSome green leaf to rest uponWhat would not I give to wanderWhere my old companions dwellAbsence makes the heart grow fonder,Isle of Beauty, fare thee well
Unknown
Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd.
Gerald Barzan
Taxation WITH representation ain't so hot either.
Thales, (The Seven Sages) from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Know thyself.
Oprah Winfrey
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
Virgil
As the twig is bent the tree inclines.
Gore Vidal
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
Quentin Crisp
The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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International stock market quotations
Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:20:00 GMT
Earthtimes - New York Dow Jones 12,409.1812,427.26(-18.08) New York NASDAQ Comp.2,326.54 2,327.10(- 0.56) TokyoNikkei13,688.2813,310.37(+ 377.91) Sydney All Ordinaries 5,663.00 5,577.30(+85.70) Hong KongHang Seng 23,623.0023,590.58(+32.42) London Fin.-Times 5,932 ...
Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations
Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:35:00 GMT
Earthtimes - Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: DAX6,899.68 (-102.61) MDAX 9,103.81 (- 85.35) Adidas42.88 (-1.17) Allianz117.49 (+0.16) BASF86 ...
Quotes from the Democratic debate (The San Luis Obispo Tribune)
Fri, 22 Feb 2008 04:23:15 GMT
Quotes from the Democratic debate between New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama on Thursday in Austin, Texas. --- CLINTON
Fine silver quotations Thursday: $18.977 ounce (Canadian Business)
Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:47:29 GMT
The Canadian Press February 21, 2008 - 12:44 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Thursday $18.977 oz., $610.11 kg.; Wednesday $18.496 oz., $594.65 kg.
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Here are the Famous Quotes ...
John Milton
When the waves are round me breaking,As I pace the deck alone,And my eye in vain is seekingSome green leaf to rest uponWhat would not I give to wanderWhere my old companions dwellAbsence makes the heart grow fonder,Isle of Beauty, fare thee well
Unknown
Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd.
Gerald Barzan
Taxation WITH representation ain't so hot either.
Thales, (The Seven Sages) from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Know thyself.
Oprah Winfrey
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
Virgil
As the twig is bent the tree inclines.
Gore Vidal
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
Quentin Crisp
The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
More Quotes
International stock market quotations
Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:20:00 GMT
Earthtimes - New York Dow Jones 12,409.1812,427.26(-18.08) New York NASDAQ Comp.2,326.54 2,327.10(- 0.56) TokyoNikkei13,688.2813,310.37(+ 377.91) Sydney All Ordinaries 5,663.00 5,577.30(+85.70) Hong KongHang Seng 23,623.0023,590.58(+32.42) London Fin.-Times 5,932 ...
Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations
Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:35:00 GMT
Earthtimes - Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: DAX6,899.68 (-102.61) MDAX 9,103.81 (- 85.35) Adidas42.88 (-1.17) Allianz117.49 (+0.16) BASF86 ...
Quotes from the Democratic debate (The San Luis Obispo Tribune)
Fri, 22 Feb 2008 04:23:15 GMT
Quotes from the Democratic debate between New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama on Thursday in Austin, Texas. --- CLINTON
Fine silver quotations Thursday: $18.977 ounce (Canadian Business)
Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:47:29 GMT
The Canadian Press February 21, 2008 - 12:44 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Thursday $18.977 oz., $610.11 kg.; Wednesday $18.496 oz., $594.65 kg.
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Quotations Update
Jerry Coleman
Mike Caldwell, the Padres' right-handed southpaw, will pitch tonight.
Shirley Temple
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.
Sophocles
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be When there's no help in truth
Jillian Graham, Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul
Never let a stain from the past put a mark on your future.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.
Wystan Hugh Auden
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
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Quotes From the Democratic Debate
Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:28:00 GMT
Guardian Unlimited - - On the subject of challenging moments that tested the candidates the most: ``Well, I think everybody here knows I've lived through some crises and some challenging moments in my life. ... And I am grateful for the support and the prayers of ...
Myanmar's foreign trade up over 30% in first half of 2007-08
Fri, 22 Feb 2008 02:52:00 GMT
Xinhua News Agency - Due to increased export of natural gas as well as effective administration of the Trade Council over export price quotations, Myanmar's foreign trade picked up to 5.54 billion dollars in 2005-06 and then to 7.92 billion dollars in 2006-07, according ...
Stock & fund quotes
Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:50:00 GMT
ninemsn - Surfwear and snowboard retailer Billabong International Ltd says it's on track for strong annual earnings growth, even though a high Australian dollar is weighing on its bottom line. Billabong, the world's biggest surfwear maker by market value ...
Stock & fund quotes
Fri, 22 Feb 2008 04:11:00 GMT
ninemsn - The nation's largest and only listed oil refiner and marketer, Caltex Australia Ltd has lifted profits by three per cent but says tighter refiner margins will affect earnings this year. Caltex announced a replacement cost of sales operating profit ...
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Today's Quotations:
Jerry Coleman
Mike Caldwell, the Padres' right-handed southpaw, will pitch tonight.
Shirley Temple
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.
Sophocles
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be When there's no help in truth
Jillian Graham, Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul
Never let a stain from the past put a mark on your future.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.
Wystan Hugh Auden
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
More Quotations
Quotes From the Democratic Debate
Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:28:00 GMT
Guardian Unlimited - - On the subject of challenging moments that tested the candidates the most: ``Well, I think everybody here knows I've lived through some crises and some challenging moments in my life. ... And I am grateful for the support and the prayers of ...
Myanmar's foreign trade up over 30% in first half of 2007-08
Fri, 22 Feb 2008 02:52:00 GMT
Xinhua News Agency - Due to increased export of natural gas as well as effective administration of the Trade Council over export price quotations, Myanmar's foreign trade picked up to 5.54 billion dollars in 2005-06 and then to 7.92 billion dollars in 2006-07, according ...
Stock & fund quotes
Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:50:00 GMT
ninemsn - Surfwear and snowboard retailer Billabong International Ltd says it's on track for strong annual earnings growth, even though a high Australian dollar is weighing on its bottom line. Billabong, the world's biggest surfwear maker by market value ...
Stock & fund quotes
Fri, 22 Feb 2008 04:11:00 GMT
ninemsn - The nation's largest and only listed oil refiner and marketer, Caltex Australia Ltd has lifted profits by three per cent but says tighter refiner margins will affect earnings this year. Caltex announced a replacement cost of sales operating profit ...
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More Quotations
Aristotle
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Martin Luther
Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.
Dorothy Sarnoff
Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.
Ennius
The idle mind knows not what it wants.
Dwight D Eisenhower
Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
Confucius
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Unknown
One ought every day at least to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
Henry Louis Mencken
Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are once in a blue moon, and men seem wise and brave, which they never are at all. Throttle it, denaturalize it, take it away, and human existence would be reduced to the prosiac, laborious, boresome, imbecile level of life in an anthill.
Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897)
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Sir Francis Bacon
He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many.
Carl Van Vechten
There are two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is the irony of life that neither is gratified.
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Stock & fund quotes
Fri, 22 Feb 2008 05:51:00 GMT
ninemsn - Sky Network Television Limited has reported a 40.3% increase in half year net profit to $NZ51.2 million ($44.62 million). Sky said work on a new high definition, digital ...
Northwestern Dean Apologizes For Unattributed Quotes (NBC 5 Chicago)
Fri, 22 Feb 2008 02:27:50 GMT
The dean of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism issues an apology over unattributed quotes.
Canadian dollar rises 0.16 of a cent to close at 98.88 cents US
Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:27:00 GMT
Canada East - Pound sterling closed C$1.9849, up 1.80 cents and US$1.9627, up 2.10 cents. The euro was worth C$1.4983, up 0.83 of a cent. Quotations provided by BMO Nesbitt Burns, Capital Markets
Northwestern reviews quotes used by dean (The Charlotte Observer)
Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:02:58 GMT
Northwestern University said it is reviewing the use of unnamed sources and "the veracity of quotations" in writings by the dean of its prestigious Medill School of Journalism. John Lavine cited unnamed students in two introductory letters he wrote for Medill's alumni magazine last year. One of the quotes, attributed to a Medill junior, praised a particular advertising class, saying in part: ...
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Quotations:
Aristotle
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Martin Luther
Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.
Dorothy Sarnoff
Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.
Ennius
The idle mind knows not what it wants.
Dwight D Eisenhower
Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
Confucius
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Unknown
One ought every day at least to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
Henry Louis Mencken
Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are once in a blue moon, and men seem wise and brave, which they never are at all. Throttle it, denaturalize it, take it away, and human existence would be reduced to the prosiac, laborious, boresome, imbecile level of life in an anthill.
Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897)
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Sir Francis Bacon
He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many.
Carl Van Vechten
There are two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is the irony of life that neither is gratified.
More Quotes
Stock & fund quotes
Fri, 22 Feb 2008 05:51:00 GMT
ninemsn - Sky Network Television Limited
Northwestern Dean Apologizes For Unattributed Quotes (NBC 5 Chicago)
Fri, 22 Feb 2008 02:27:50 GMT
The dean of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism issues an apology over unattributed quotes.
Canadian dollar rises 0.16 of a cent to close at 98.88 cents US
Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:27:00 GMT
Canada East - Pound sterling closed C$1.9849, up 1.80 cents and US$1.9627, up 2.10 cents. The euro was worth C$1.4983, up 0.83 of a cent. Quotations provided by BMO Nesbitt Burns, Capital Markets
Northwestern reviews quotes used by dean (The Charlotte Observer)
Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:02:58 GMT
Northwestern University said it is reviewing the use of unnamed sources and "the veracity of quotations" in writings by the dean of its prestigious Medill School of Journalism. John Lavine cited unnamed students in two introductory letters he wrote for Medill's alumni magazine last year. One of the quotes, attributed to a Medill junior, praised a particular advertising class, saying in part: ...
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Daily Quotations
Richard Milhous Nixon
Well, I'm not a crook.
Benjamin Disraeli
Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.
Pearl Bailey
We must change in order to survive.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
Alfonso the Wise
Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.
Yiddish Proverb
True poverty does not come from God.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.
Edward Albee
Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales
The most dangerous folly of old people who were once attractive is to forget that they are not so any longer.
More Quotes
Quotes from the 2008 candidates (AP via Yahoo! News)
Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:51:11 GMT
Quotes from the Democratic and Republican candidates on Tuesday.
UW men's hockey: The book on Connelly
Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:27:00 GMT
Wisconsin State Journal - It's filled with inspirational quotations, precise diagrams, distinct objectives and random insights that have tremendous meaning to the author.
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Here are the Quotations ...
Richard Milhous Nixon
Well, I'm not a crook.
Benjamin Disraeli
Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.
Pearl Bailey
We must change in order to survive.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
Alfonso the Wise
Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.
Yiddish Proverb
True poverty does not come from God.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.
Edward Albee
Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales
The most dangerous folly of old people who were once attractive is to forget that they are not so any longer.
More Quotes
Quotes from the 2008 candidates (AP via Yahoo! News)
Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:51:11 GMT
Quotes from the Democratic and Republican candidates on Tuesday.
UW men's hockey: The book on Connelly
Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:27:00 GMT
Wisconsin State Journal - It's filled with inspirational quotations, precise diagrams, distinct objectives and random insights that have tremendous meaning to the author.
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