Favorite Quotations
Monday, March 10, 2008
Daily Quotations
Robert C. Byrd
Well, Mr. Secretary, I lived in a house without electricity too. No running water, no telephone...I can stand toe-to-toe with you. in response to Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill
Clarence Darrow
The pursuit of truth shall set you free - even if you never catch up with it.
David Letterman
Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.
Muriel Spark
One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.
Henry David Thoreau, Simplify Simplify
How sweet it would be to treat men and things, for an hour, for just what they are!
Sallust
Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
Clifford Stoll
Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users
Unknown
Life is like an onion. You peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep.
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Key quotes from the keynote
Sun, 09 Mar 2008 15:26:00 GMT
Guardian Unlimited - "You want to know the great political story of our generation? It isn't new Labour. It isn't New Conservatives. Those are just the dying sparks of a fire that's running out of fuel ...
Education For Slavery
Sun, 09 Mar 2008 18:47:00 GMT
Post Chronicle - Unthinking voters are led to believe that the essential need in education is spending more money, without regard for the purposes to which the spending is put. Key quotations from ...
Fine silver quotations Wednesday: $21.289 ounce (Canadian Business)
Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:57:36 GMT
The Canadian Press March 5, 2008 - 12:31 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Wednesday $21.289 oz., $684.44 kg.; Tuesday $20.331 oz., $653.64 kg.
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Today's Quotations:
Robert C. Byrd
Well, Mr. Secretary, I lived in a house without electricity too. No running water, no telephone...I can stand toe-to-toe with you. in response to Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill
Clarence Darrow
The pursuit of truth shall set you free - even if you never catch up with it.
David Letterman
Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.
Muriel Spark
One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.
Henry David Thoreau, Simplify Simplify
How sweet it would be to treat men and things, for an hour, for just what they are!
Sallust
Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
Clifford Stoll
Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users
Unknown
Life is like an onion. You peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep.
More Quotations
Key quotes from the keynote
Sun, 09 Mar 2008 15:26:00 GMT
Guardian Unlimited - "You want to know the great political story of our generation? It isn't new Labour. It isn't New Conservatives. Those are just the dying sparks of a fire that's running out of fuel ...
Education For Slavery
Sun, 09 Mar 2008 18:47:00 GMT
Post Chronicle - Unthinking voters are led to believe that the essential need in education is spending more money, without regard for the purposes to which the spending is put. Key quotations from ...
Fine silver quotations Wednesday: $21.289 ounce (Canadian Business)
Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:57:36 GMT
The Canadian Press March 5, 2008 - 12:31 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Wednesday $21.289 oz., $684.44 kg.; Tuesday $20.331 oz., $653.64 kg.
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Famous Quotations for Today
John Milton
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Yogi Berra
It ain't over 'till it's over.
George D. Prentice
When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it is a pretty certain sign that she has his.
Albert Einstein
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist
Robert Englund
Do you want to know the secret of pain? If you just stop feeling it, you can start to use it.
Mark Twain
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Friederich Nietzsche, quoted in "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" (movie)
Blessed are the forgetful for they get the better even of their blunders.
Russell Baker
Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperatelly? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
Harry S Truman
When even one American -- who has done nothing wrong -- is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth -- then all Americans are in peril.
Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Fifth, Chapter 2
People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course--with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here--to keep an eye on the fleeting hour.
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Writing contest to mark women’s history month (Vietnam Net)
Sun, 09 Mar 2008 16:22:48 GMT
VietNamNet Bridge - The Public Affairs Section of the US Embassy is holding an essay contest for Vietnamese students in Vietnam to celebrate Women’s History Month in March.
Tripoint appointed to panel for Victoria government
Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:39:00 GMT
CIO.de - The panel was established to improve the speed of seeking quotes and selecting developers.
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John Milton
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Yogi Berra
It ain't over 'till it's over.
George D. Prentice
When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it is a pretty certain sign that she has his.
Albert Einstein
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist
Robert Englund
Do you want to know the secret of pain? If you just stop feeling it, you can start to use it.
Mark Twain
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Friederich Nietzsche, quoted in "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" (movie)
Blessed are the forgetful for they get the better even of their blunders.
Russell Baker
Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperatelly? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
Harry S Truman
When even one American -- who has done nothing wrong -- is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth -- then all Americans are in peril.
Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Fifth, Chapter 2
People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course--with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here--to keep an eye on the fleeting hour.
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Writing contest to mark women’s history month (Vietnam Net)
Sun, 09 Mar 2008 16:22:48 GMT
VietNamNet Bridge - The Public Affairs Section of the US Embassy is holding an essay contest for Vietnamese students in Vietnam to celebrate Women’s History Month in March.
Tripoint appointed to panel for Victoria government
Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:39:00 GMT
CIO.de - The panel was established to improve the speed of seeking quotes and selecting developers.
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Quotes Update
Victor Borge
Santa Claus has the right idea; visit people once a year.
H. L. Mencken
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety.
Benjamin Disraeli
Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.
John Sloan Dickey
There is no more vulnerable human combination than an undergraduate.
Horace
He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.
Jean de la Bruyere
There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.
William Arthur Ward
Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
We stand today on the edge of a new frontier-the frontier of the 1960s-a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils-a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.
Valerie Polakow
Rigidly organized pre-school classrooms, which value obedience more than development, create the deficits in poor children, imposing a self-image of marginality and failure.
Maxim Gorky
A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
Nina Berberova, O Magazine, September 2003
I had learnt to seek intensity�more of life, a concentrated sense of life.
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Palo Alto Online News
Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:45:00 GMT
Palo Alto Online - The words are quotations from poems and observations from patients, and from doctors, nurses and medical students. The graphic-screen presentation was created by Douglas Rosenberg ...
Canadian dollar closed 0.27 of a cent lower to 101.05 cents US
Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:48:00 GMT
Canada East - Pound sterling closed C$1.9936, up 0.86 of a cent and US$2.0146, up 0.35 of a cent. The euro was worth C$1.5190, down 0.03 of a cent. Quotations provided by BMO Nesbitt Burns ...
Quotes of the week (Aspen Daily News)
Sun, 09 Mar 2008 16:34:11 GMT
“This is theft, and we do take it seriously.” Snowmass Village Police Chief Art Smythe, commenting on people who engage in ski pass fraud. “I think the finger should be pointed at them (the Pitkin County commissioners) a little bit.”
Quotations of the day
Sat, 08 Mar 2008 10:27:00 GMT
Charleston Gazette - "With the commitment to never again attack a brother country and the request for forgiveness, we can consider this grave incident as over.'' -- Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa ...
Now hear this: Entertainment quotes (The Globe Gazette)
Sun, 09 Mar 2008 08:02:00 GMT
``There was a melancholy feel to the `70s. I was so into the bicentennial. No joke. I bought a Liberty Bell necklace that was pewter. It was like a prized possession.'' — Will Ferrell, who stars in the new film ``Semi-Pro,'' about a fictional ABA basketball team, which is set in the '70s.
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Here are the Quotes ...
Victor Borge
Santa Claus has the right idea; visit people once a year.
H. L. Mencken
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety.
Benjamin Disraeli
Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.
John Sloan Dickey
There is no more vulnerable human combination than an undergraduate.
Horace
He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.
Jean de la Bruyere
There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.
William Arthur Ward
Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
We stand today on the edge of a new frontier-the frontier of the 1960s-a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils-a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.
Valerie Polakow
Rigidly organized pre-school classrooms, which value obedience more than development, create the deficits in poor children, imposing a self-image of marginality and failure.
Maxim Gorky
A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
Nina Berberova, O Magazine, September 2003
I had learnt to seek intensity�more of life, a concentrated sense of life.
More Quotes
Palo Alto Online News
Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:45:00 GMT
Palo Alto Online - The words are quotations from poems and observations from patients, and from doctors, nurses and medical students. The graphic-screen presentation was created by Douglas Rosenberg ...
Canadian dollar closed 0.27 of a cent lower to 101.05 cents US
Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:48:00 GMT
Canada East - Pound sterling closed C$1.9936, up 0.86 of a cent and US$2.0146, up 0.35 of a cent. The euro was worth C$1.5190, down 0.03 of a cent. Quotations provided by BMO Nesbitt Burns ...
Quotes of the week (Aspen Daily News)
Sun, 09 Mar 2008 16:34:11 GMT
“This is theft, and we do take it seriously.” Snowmass Village Police Chief Art Smythe, commenting on people who engage in ski pass fraud. “I think the finger should be pointed at them (the Pitkin County commissioners) a little bit.”
Quotations of the day
Sat, 08 Mar 2008 10:27:00 GMT
Charleston Gazette - "With the commitment to never again attack a brother country and the request for forgiveness, we can consider this grave incident as over.'' -- Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa ...
Now hear this: Entertainment quotes (The Globe Gazette)
Sun, 09 Mar 2008 08:02:00 GMT
``There was a melancholy feel to the `70s. I was so into the bicentennial. No joke. I bought a Liberty Bell necklace that was pewter. It was like a prized possession.'' — Will Ferrell, who stars in the new film ``Semi-Pro,'' about a fictional ABA basketball team, which is set in the '70s.
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Daily Famous Quotes
Carl R. Rogers
If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.
Quentin Tarantino, Referring to the movie Pulp Fiction
If a million people see my movie, I hope they see a million different movies.
Blow
George The official toxicity limit for humans is between one and one and half grams of cocaine depending on body weight. I was averaging five grams a day, maybe more. I snorted ten grams in ten minutes once. I guess I had a high tolerance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a festival only to the wise.
Galileo Galilei
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
Russell Baker
Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
Jim Rohn
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.
Isadora Duncan, The Sensational Life of Isadora Duncan
No flower of art ever fully blossomed save it was nourished by tears of agony.
Tom Stoppard
Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
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Why are stock quotes updated cst. Market is eastern (edt)?-The ...
Wed, 20 Feb 2008 07:41:00 GMT
Commerce Journal - Why are stock quotes updated cst. Market is eastern (edt)? ... Times reported are the Eastern United States time zone. The U.S. stock markets are open from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m ...
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Give me Famous Quotes now!
Carl R. Rogers
If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.
Quentin Tarantino, Referring to the movie Pulp Fiction
If a million people see my movie, I hope they see a million different movies.
Blow
George The official toxicity limit for humans is between one and one and half grams of cocaine depending on body weight. I was averaging five grams a day, maybe more. I snorted ten grams in ten minutes once. I guess I had a high tolerance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a festival only to the wise.
Galileo Galilei
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
Russell Baker
Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
Jim Rohn
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.
Isadora Duncan, The Sensational Life of Isadora Duncan
No flower of art ever fully blossomed save it was nourished by tears of agony.
Tom Stoppard
Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
More Quotations
Why are stock quotes updated cst. Market is eastern (edt)?-The ...
Wed, 20 Feb 2008 07:41:00 GMT
Commerce Journal - Why are stock quotes updated cst. Market is eastern (edt)? ... Times reported are the Eastern United States time zone. The U.S. stock markets are open from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m ...
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Today's Famous Quotes
Ann Landers
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
Harry S Truman, quoted by Time, June 9, 1975
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.
Jerrold Mundis
I am years gone from my family and miles away ... but they raid by telephone with jarring suddenness they have the cyclic constancy of a mortgage and they are inevitable and relentless, like the erosion of my remaining youth. Like certain frightening dreams, my family returns.
Lawrence Sterne
To have respect for ourselves guides our morals and to have a deference for others governs our manners.
Keller
Security is an illusion. Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.
William Penn
Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.
Tieck
He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.
Donnie Brasco
Lefty Wise guy dont carry wallets, they carry their money in a roll....beaner on the outs
Woody Allen
If only God would give me some clear sign Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.
Umberto Eco
Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
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Quotes of the Week
Sun, 09 Mar 2008 08:24:00 GMT
Ottawa Citizen - 'I know why I get one from my mom. I'm not entirely sure why I get one from the National Capital Commission.' Conservative MP scott reid expressing surprise that the NCC spent ...
International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)
Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:36:05 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets....
Quips and quotes
Sun, 09 Mar 2008 10:33:00 GMT
Eagle-Tribune - "I'm just getting warmed up." Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, who on Tuesday won primaries in Texas, Ohio and Rhode Island. "MassHighway is trying to fix something that's not ...
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Straight to the Famous Quotes ...
Ann Landers
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
Harry S Truman, quoted by Time, June 9, 1975
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.
Jerrold Mundis
I am years gone from my family and miles away ... but they raid by telephone with jarring suddenness they have the cyclic constancy of a mortgage and they are inevitable and relentless, like the erosion of my remaining youth. Like certain frightening dreams, my family returns.
Lawrence Sterne
To have respect for ourselves guides our morals and to have a deference for others governs our manners.
Keller
Security is an illusion. Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.
William Penn
Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.
Tieck
He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.
Donnie Brasco
Lefty Wise guy dont carry wallets, they carry their money in a roll....beaner on the outs
Woody Allen
If only God would give me some clear sign Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.
Umberto Eco
Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
More Quotations
Quotes of the Week
Sun, 09 Mar 2008 08:24:00 GMT
Ottawa Citizen - 'I know why I get one from my mom. I'm not entirely sure why I get one from the National Capital Commission.' Conservative MP scott reid expressing surprise that the NCC spent ...
International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)
Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:36:05 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets....
Quips and quotes
Sun, 09 Mar 2008 10:33:00 GMT
Eagle-Tribune - "I'm just getting warmed up." Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, who on Tuesday won primaries in Texas, Ohio and Rhode Island. "MassHighway is trying to fix something that's not ...
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