Favorite Quotations
Sunday, May 04, 2008
Quotes Update
William Shakespeare
See first that the design is wise and just that ascertained, pursue it resolutely do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.
Samuel Johnson, Lives of the Poets
What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.
Buddha, The Dharmapada
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
Warren Bennis
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
Coco Chanel
Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
Herbert Hoover
A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.
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Boris's London will be a Tory laboratory - Daily Telegraph
Sat, 03 May 2008 23:18:00 GMT
As we looked over the multi-coloured "Back Boris" ice sculpture across the dazzling evening cityscape - what Peter Ackroyd has so rightly called "infinite London" - the full ...
Doonesbury.com Book Gathers Iraq War-Related Quotes (Editor & Publisher)
Sat, 03 May 2008 17:03:59 GMT
NEW YORK A book called "Doonesbury.com's The War in Quotes" will be released this August by Andrews McMeel Publishing.
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Today's Quotes:
William Shakespeare
See first that the design is wise and just that ascertained, pursue it resolutely do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.
Samuel Johnson, Lives of the Poets
What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.
Buddha, The Dharmapada
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
Warren Bennis
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
Coco Chanel
Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
Herbert Hoover
A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.
More Quotes
Boris's London will be a Tory laboratory - Daily Telegraph
Sat, 03 May 2008 23:18:00 GMT
As we looked over the multi-coloured "Back Boris" ice sculpture across the dazzling evening cityscape - what Peter Ackroyd has so rightly called "infinite London" - the full ...
Doonesbury.com Book Gathers Iraq War-Related Quotes (Editor & Publisher)
Sat, 03 May 2008 17:03:59 GMT
NEW YORK A book called "Doonesbury.com's The War in Quotes" will be released this August by Andrews McMeel Publishing.
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Latest Quotes
Author Unknown
Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own.
Edward Keating
You do not destroy an idea by killing people you replace it with a better one.
Douglas MacArthur
I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul.
Andy Anderson
The origin of every excuse is the failure to do something.
Trotsky
Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.
Aldous Huxley
Experience is not what happens to a man it is what a man does with what happens to him.
John Kenneth Galbraith
In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.
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Quotations of the day - Charleston Daily Mail
Sat, 03 May 2008 09:35:00 GMT
"I know it's tough times, and I know you're having to pay more at the fuel pump than you want. But this economy is going to come on. I'm confident it will.'' -- President Bush ...
It's all about Concierge Services and related Topics. - Colleyville Courier
Sat, 03 May 2008 21:09:00 GMT
Shows & Campaign Appearances. Twain humor & wisdom on politics. From downtown to down under, get quick quotes to and from any zip code nationwide. Come and visit our site. Service ...
Bobbi Kristina Tries To Stab Whitney & Herself? - NBC5i.com
Sat, 03 May 2008 22:35:00 GMT
There are exclusive reports in the National Enquirer that Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston's daughter Bobbi Kristina tried to stab Whitney and then stab herself during an argument ...
F1: Turkey preview quotes: BMW (autosport.com)
Fri, 02 May 2008 12:26:16 GMT
Turkey preview quotes: BMW
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Straight to the Quotes ...
Author Unknown
Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own.
Edward Keating
You do not destroy an idea by killing people you replace it with a better one.
Douglas MacArthur
I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul.
Andy Anderson
The origin of every excuse is the failure to do something.
Trotsky
Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.
Aldous Huxley
Experience is not what happens to a man it is what a man does with what happens to him.
John Kenneth Galbraith
In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.
More Quotes
Quotations of the day - Charleston Daily Mail
Sat, 03 May 2008 09:35:00 GMT
"I know it's tough times, and I know you're having to pay more at the fuel pump than you want. But this economy is going to come on. I'm confident it will.'' -- President Bush ...
It's all about Concierge Services and related Topics. - Colleyville Courier
Sat, 03 May 2008 21:09:00 GMT
Shows & Campaign Appearances. Twain humor & wisdom on politics. From downtown to down under, get quick quotes to and from any zip code nationwide. Come and visit our site. Service ...
Bobbi Kristina Tries To Stab Whitney & Herself? - NBC5i.com
Sat, 03 May 2008 22:35:00 GMT
There are exclusive reports in the National Enquirer that Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston's daughter Bobbi Kristina tried to stab Whitney and then stab herself during an argument ...
F1: Turkey preview quotes: BMW (autosport.com)
Fri, 02 May 2008 12:26:16 GMT
Turkey preview quotes: BMW
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Quotations for Today
Office Space
Bob We find it's always better to fire people on a Friday. Studies have statistically shown that there's less chance of an incident if you do it at the end of the week.
George Santayana
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.
Lois McMaster Bujold
If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us
Sir B. Brodie
The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.
J. K. Rowling, J. K. Rowling Official Website
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.
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.
Euripides, 438 B.C.
I have found power in the mysteries of thought.
Author Unknown
If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts.
Dwight D Eisenhower
From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.
Unknown
If you want to have the rainbow, Then sometimes you're gonna have to deal with the rain.
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Quotes from the members of the 2008 FBS College Football Hall of Fame (WIBW Topeka)
Fri, 02 May 2008 20:36:14 GMT
The National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame captured the following quotes from the members of the 2008 College Football Hall of Fame Football Bowl Subdivision
Brands Hatch: Friday Quotes (Pitpass)
Fri, 02 May 2008 21:49:21 GMT
Brands Hatch: Friday Quotes
Fine silver quotations Thursday: $17.097 ounce (Canadian Business)
Thu, 01 May 2008 17:58:29 GMT
The Canadian Press May 1, 2008 - 1:43 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Thursday $17.097 oz., $549.67 kg.; Wednesday $17.424 oz., $560.18 kg.
Coach's spirit is alive in annual road race - Bennington Banner
Sat, 03 May 2008 12:05:00 GMT
NORTH BENNINGTON — Running is nearly synonymous with solitude. The British author Allan Sillitoe built his career on a short story entitled "The Loneliness of the Long Distance ...
Introducing Tourist (Torontoist)
Sat, 03 May 2008 09:31:10 GMT
Summer, we've heard, is supposed to be the time for travelling the world, seeing new sights, accumulating new experiences, and exploring new places. According to the first Google result for "travel quotations" (the extent of our research), Helen Keller said that "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
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Today's Quotations:
Office Space
Bob We find it's always better to fire people on a Friday. Studies have statistically shown that there's less chance of an incident if you do it at the end of the week.
George Santayana
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.
Lois McMaster Bujold
If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us
Sir B. Brodie
The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.
J. K. Rowling, J. K. Rowling Official Website
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.
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.
Euripides, 438 B.C.
I have found power in the mysteries of thought.
Author Unknown
If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts.
Dwight D Eisenhower
From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.
Unknown
If you want to have the rainbow, Then sometimes you're gonna have to deal with the rain.
More Quotes
Quotes from the members of the 2008 FBS College Football Hall of Fame (WIBW Topeka)
Fri, 02 May 2008 20:36:14 GMT
The National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame captured the following quotes from the members of the 2008 College Football Hall of Fame Football Bowl Subdivision
Brands Hatch: Friday Quotes (Pitpass)
Fri, 02 May 2008 21:49:21 GMT
Brands Hatch: Friday Quotes
Fine silver quotations Thursday: $17.097 ounce (Canadian Business)
Thu, 01 May 2008 17:58:29 GMT
The Canadian Press May 1, 2008 - 1:43 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Thursday $17.097 oz., $549.67 kg.; Wednesday $17.424 oz., $560.18 kg.
Coach's spirit is alive in annual road race - Bennington Banner
Sat, 03 May 2008 12:05:00 GMT
NORTH BENNINGTON — Running is nearly synonymous with solitude. The British author Allan Sillitoe built his career on a short story entitled "The Loneliness of the Long Distance ...
Introducing Tourist (Torontoist)
Sat, 03 May 2008 09:31:10 GMT
Summer, we've heard, is supposed to be the time for travelling the world, seeing new sights, accumulating new experiences, and exploring new places. According to the first Google result for "travel quotations" (the extent of our research), Helen Keller said that "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
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Great Famous Quotes
William Proxmire
Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.
Henri Matisse
Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
Scottish Proverb
A cold needs the cook as much as the doctor.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
Richard M. Nixon
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.
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Apps: Sound Studio, iMedia Browser - MacNN
Sat, 03 May 2008 00:16:00 GMT
Sound Studio 3.5.6 ($80) sound recording and editing tool. This new version provides enhanced marker support, localization updates and bug fixes, and is a free upgrade for existing ...
A safe haven for tourists - Times of Oman
Sat, 03 May 2008 18:53:00 GMT
MUSCAT: “A former maritime empire that stretched from India to Zanzibar, Oman is an anomaly, both in its own backyard and in the larger Middle East region. “The ‘Yin’ to ...
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Famous Quotes:
William Proxmire
Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.
Henri Matisse
Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
Scottish Proverb
A cold needs the cook as much as the doctor.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
Richard M. Nixon
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.
More Quotes
Apps: Sound Studio, iMedia Browser - MacNN
Sat, 03 May 2008 00:16:00 GMT
Sound Studio 3.5.6 ($80) sound recording and editing tool. This new version provides enhanced marker support, localization updates and bug fixes, and is a free upgrade for existing ...
A safe haven for tourists - Times of Oman
Sat, 03 May 2008 18:53:00 GMT
MUSCAT: “A former maritime empire that stretched from India to Zanzibar, Oman is an anomaly, both in its own backyard and in the larger Middle East region. “The ‘Yin’ to ...
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Latest greatest Quotes
G. K. Chesterton
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
Mahatma Gandhi
The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The faith that stand on authority is not faith.
Roger Lewin
Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
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Medill dean tells alumni he made a mistake in using quotes (Chicago Tribune)
Fri, 02 May 2008 11:27:06 GMT
Lavine also says he should have kept notebook with statements Two months after a student questioned the Northwestern University journalism school dean's use of anonymous quotes, more than 100 alumni gathered in a downtown Chicago hotel Tuesday night to discuss how the dean handled the incident.
Coach's spirit is alive in annual road race (Bennington Banner)
Sat, 03 May 2008 12:42:57 GMT
Saturday, May 3 NORTH BENNINGTON — Running is nearly synonymous with solitude. The British author Allan Sillitoe built his career on a short story entitled "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner," and countless other films, poems and quotations have referenced the isolation that envelops an athlete when all he or she has is the road ahead, and the rhythm of jagged breaths and
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Here are the Quotes ...
G. K. Chesterton
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
Mahatma Gandhi
The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The faith that stand on authority is not faith.
Roger Lewin
Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
More Quotes
Medill dean tells alumni he made a mistake in using quotes (Chicago Tribune)
Fri, 02 May 2008 11:27:06 GMT
Lavine also says he should have kept notebook with statements Two months after a student questioned the Northwestern University journalism school dean's use of anonymous quotes, more than 100 alumni gathered in a downtown Chicago hotel Tuesday night to discuss how the dean handled the incident.
Coach's spirit is alive in annual road race (Bennington Banner)
Sat, 03 May 2008 12:42:57 GMT
Saturday, May 3 NORTH BENNINGTON — Running is nearly synonymous with solitude. The British author Allan Sillitoe built his career on a short story entitled "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner," and countless other films, poems and quotations have referenced the isolation that envelops an athlete when all he or she has is the road ahead, and the rhythm of jagged breaths and
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