Favorite Quotations
Monday, February 25, 2008
Great Famous Quotes
Joan Baez
Action is the antidote to despair.
Celia Thaxter
There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.
Rush Hour
Carter This is the United States of James Carter here. I'm the president, I'm the emperor, I'm the king. I'm Michael Jackson, you Tito
Dwight D Eisenhower
This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.
Eli Khamarov
... the inability to view the validations of unpopular views, because the focus of their casuistry has been reduced to mindless invalidation.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
Virgil
Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to Hell the door of dark Dis stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps and come out to the air above, that is work, that is labor
Eric Temple Bell
Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along without it for a week.
T. S. Eliot
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
George Santayna
Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
Anonymous
Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have.
Sir George Savile
In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, will gain you more respect than all your fine trappings.
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Medill Dean Taken to Task Over Quotations
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Check out these Famous Quotes:
Joan Baez
Action is the antidote to despair.
Celia Thaxter
There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.
Rush Hour
Carter This is the United States of James Carter here. I'm the president, I'm the emperor, I'm the king. I'm Michael Jackson, you Tito
Dwight D Eisenhower
This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.
Eli Khamarov
... the inability to view the validations of unpopular views, because the focus of their casuistry has been reduced to mindless invalidation.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
Virgil
Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to Hell the door of dark Dis stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps and come out to the air above, that is work, that is labor
Eric Temple Bell
Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along without it for a week.
T. S. Eliot
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
George Santayna
Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
Anonymous
Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have.
Sir George Savile
In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, will gain you more respect than all your fine trappings.
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Japan's auto sales elsewhere in Asia to top domestic sales in 2008 ...
Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:21:00 GMT
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Stock & fund quotes
Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:19:00 GMT
ninemsn - LONDON, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Platinum powered to an historic high near $2,200 an ounce on Friday as supply problems in top producer South Africa triggered speculative buying, but ...
Japan successfully launches satellite for high-speed Internet access
Sun, 24 Feb 2008 09:16:00 GMT
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Medill Dean Taken to Task Over Quotations
Sat, 23 Feb 2008 19:55:00 GMT
Daily Herald - When David Spett, a Northwestern University journalism student, read an item by his dean, John Lavine, in an alumni magazine last spring, something didn't sit right with him. Some ...
TFN NEWS BRIEFING: Macroeconomics highlights to 10:10 GMT
Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:21:00 GMT
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Quotes Update
Horace
To save a man's life against his will is the same as killing him.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
To live is to function. That is all there is in living.
Ian Hornak, Cover Magazine, 1994; American Idealist & Realist Painter and Draughtsman recognized for his collaboration with the
While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual, and the sublime are today suspect, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art.
John Burroughs
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
Napoleon
Men, in general, are but great children.
Thomas Paine
What we obtain too cheap we esteem too little it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Bonnie Friedman, in New York Times
An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.
Margaret Cho, weblog, 10-30-03
People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.
Max Percy
The priest persuades a humble people to endure their hard lot, a politician urges them to rebel against it, and a scientist thinks of a method that does away with the hard lot altogether.
Quintus Septimius Tertullianus, Adversus Valentinianos
Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
Robert J. Sawyer
How do you define God Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.
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Rock me, baby: MP3 plus Taser
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Philadelphia Inquirer - The clip became so popular that the Yale Book of Quotations made Meyer's remark its most memorable quote of 2007. Asked whether she would be buying the MPH, Susan Billbrough, a 38 ...
Benazir's blueprint
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Medill Dean Taken to Task Over Quotations
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Today's Quotes:
Horace
To save a man's life against his will is the same as killing him.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
To live is to function. That is all there is in living.
Ian Hornak, Cover Magazine, 1994; American Idealist & Realist Painter and Draughtsman recognized for his collaboration with the
While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual, and the sublime are today suspect, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art.
John Burroughs
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
Napoleon
Men, in general, are but great children.
Thomas Paine
What we obtain too cheap we esteem too little it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Bonnie Friedman, in New York Times
An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.
Margaret Cho, weblog, 10-30-03
People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.
Max Percy
The priest persuades a humble people to endure their hard lot, a politician urges them to rebel against it, and a scientist thinks of a method that does away with the hard lot altogether.
Quintus Septimius Tertullianus, Adversus Valentinianos
Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
Robert J. Sawyer
How do you define God Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.
More Quotes
Rock me, baby: MP3 plus Taser
Sun, 24 Feb 2008 07:58:00 GMT
Philadelphia Inquirer - The clip became so popular that the Yale Book of Quotations made Meyer's remark its most memorable quote of 2007. Asked whether she would be buying the MPH, Susan Billbrough, a 38 ...
Benazir's blueprint
Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:28:00 GMT
Deccan Herald - In furtherance of her thesis, she quotes at length a number of Muslim scholars. For those who have spent the better part of the past decade making the same argument, this chapter ...
Medill Dean Taken to Task Over Quotations
Sat, 23 Feb 2008 19:55:00 GMT
Daily Herald - When David Spett, a Northwestern University journalism student, read an item by his dean, John Lavine, in an alumni magazine last spring, something didn't sit right with him. Some ...
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Franklin P. Adams
The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.
Arlene Raven
The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how our world sees us and how we can see ourselves successfully acknowledged by that world.
Plutarch, Lives
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who so would be a man, must be a nonconformist.
Gore Vidal
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Leonard
I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy, golden storm, yes many loved before us, I know we are not new, in city and in forest they smiled like me and you, but now it's come to distances and both of us must try, your eyes are soft with sorrow, Hey, that's no way to say goodbye.
Sacha Guitry
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
Ralph Nader
Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.
Tom Stoppard
Every exit is an entry somewhere.
Charles de Montesquieu
In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
Robert Heinlein
Anyone who clings to the historically untrue - and thoroughly immoral - doctrine that violence never settles anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forgot this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and there freedoms.
Terry Pratchett, Sourcery
"I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"
Death thought about it.
"Cats," he said eventually. "Cats are nice."
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FCC-Led Discussion to Focus on 'Net Surfers, Providers Rights
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Quotes:
Franklin P. Adams
The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.
Arlene Raven
The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how our world sees us and how we can see ourselves successfully acknowledged by that world.
Plutarch, Lives
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who so would be a man, must be a nonconformist.
Gore Vidal
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Leonard
I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy, golden storm, yes many loved before us, I know we are not new, in city and in forest they smiled like me and you, but now it's come to distances and both of us must try, your eyes are soft with sorrow, Hey, that's no way to say goodbye.
Sacha Guitry
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
Ralph Nader
Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.
Tom Stoppard
Every exit is an entry somewhere.
Charles de Montesquieu
In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
Robert Heinlein
Anyone who clings to the historically untrue - and thoroughly immoral - doctrine that violence never settles anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forgot this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and there freedoms.
Terry Pratchett, Sourcery
"I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"
Death thought about it.
"Cats," he said eventually. "Cats are nice."
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Obama's Ohio mailings infuriate Clinton
Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:42:00 GMT
CNBC - The second mailing, on the North American Free Trade Agreement, quotes a 2006 Newsday article suggesting Clinton believed the agreement had been a "boon" to the economy.
FCC-Led Discussion to Focus on 'Net Surfers, Providers Rights
Sat, 23 Feb 2008 21:28:00 GMT
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Latest greatest Famous Quotations
George Eliot, 1819-1880
It is never too late to become what we might have been.
Adrienne E. Gusoff
Girls just want to have funds.
Ronald Reagan
Die-hard conservatives thought that if I couldn't get everything I asked for, I should jump off the cliff with the flag flying-go down in flames. No, if I can get 70 or 80 percent of what it is I'm trying to get ... I'll take that and then continue to try to get the rest in the future.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
Mother Theresa
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me There is nothing between.
Richard Whately, Archbishop of Dublin
Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
Michael Korda
Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.
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Rock me, baby: MP3 plus Taser
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Give me Famous Quotations now!
George Eliot, 1819-1880
It is never too late to become what we might have been.
Adrienne E. Gusoff
Girls just want to have funds.
Ronald Reagan
Die-hard conservatives thought that if I couldn't get everything I asked for, I should jump off the cliff with the flag flying-go down in flames. No, if I can get 70 or 80 percent of what it is I'm trying to get ... I'll take that and then continue to try to get the rest in the future.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
Mother Theresa
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me There is nothing between.
Richard Whately, Archbishop of Dublin
Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
Michael Korda
Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.
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Japan's auto sales elsewhere in Asia to top domestic sales in 2008 ...
Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:21:00 GMT
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Right priorities: Motivational book asks: What would you do if you had ...
Sun, 24 Feb 2008 04:37:00 GMT
Carroll County Online - 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 ...
China, Japan vow to solve sea dispute - report
Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:35:00 GMT
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Rock me, baby: MP3 plus Taser
Sun, 24 Feb 2008 07:58:00 GMT
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Latest greatest Famous Quotes
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
If you're at a Thanksgiving dinner, but you don't like the stuffing or the cranberry sauce or anything else, just pretend like you're eating it, but instead, put it all in your lap and form it into a big mushy ball. Then, later, when you're out back having cigars with the boys, let out a big fake cough and throw the ball to the ground. Then say, 'Boy, these are good cigars'
Edythe E. Bregnard
You may search my time-worn face, You'll find a merry eye that twinkles I am NOT an old lady Just a little girl with wrinkles.
Publilius Syrus
Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
William Shakespeare, Romeo, in Romeo and Juliet, act 1, sc. 1.
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers’ tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet.
Don Herold
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Better is the enemy of good.
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FCC-Led Discussion to Focus on 'Net Surfers, Providers Rights
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Ghana: Treasury of Motivational Quotes (AllAfrica.com)
Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:44:22 GMT
Treasury of Motivational Quotes, French and English versions] by a Ghanaian journalist chronicles Ghana's historical landscape and jubilee story in vivid colours through an array of distinguished voices.
Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)
Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:16:45 GMT
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: DAX 6,806.29 (-98.56) MDAX9,179.46 (-41.64) Adidas 42.54 (-0.50) Allianz 116.16 (-2.28) BASF 84...
China, Japan vow to solve sea dispute - report
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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
If you're at a Thanksgiving dinner, but you don't like the stuffing or the cranberry sauce or anything else, just pretend like you're eating it, but instead, put it all in your lap and form it into a big mushy ball. Then, later, when you're out back having cigars with the boys, let out a big fake cough and throw the ball to the ground. Then say, 'Boy, these are good cigars'
Edythe E. Bregnard
You may search my time-worn face, You'll find a merry eye that twinkles I am NOT an old lady Just a little girl with wrinkles.
Publilius Syrus
Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
William Shakespeare, Romeo, in Romeo and Juliet, act 1, sc. 1.
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers’ tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet.
Don Herold
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Better is the enemy of good.
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Much memory loss is normal: book explains the problem amusingly and ...
Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:07:00 GMT
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal - Lear, a former articles editor at The New York Times, strews her chatty and informative book with anecdotes and quotations from scientists. She seems to have met as many ...
FCC-Led Discussion to Focus on 'Net Surfers, Providers Rights
Sat, 23 Feb 2008 21:28:00 GMT
FOX News - The flier includes quotations from several civil rights groups criticizing Martin's policies on media ownership. The Rev. Jesse Jackson was quoted as claiming Martin supports a ...
Ghana: Treasury of Motivational Quotes (AllAfrica.com)
Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:44:22 GMT
Treasury of Motivational Quotes, French and English versions] by a Ghanaian journalist chronicles Ghana's historical landscape and jubilee story in vivid colours through an array of distinguished voices.
Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)
Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:16:45 GMT
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: DAX 6,806.29 (-98.56) MDAX9,179.46 (-41.64) Adidas 42.54 (-0.50) Allianz 116.16 (-2.28) BASF 84...
China, Japan vow to solve sea dispute - report
Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:35:00 GMT
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