Favorite Quotations
Monday, May 05, 2008
Great Quotes
John William Fletcher
Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution.
Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1825
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.
Will Durant
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
If you go flying back through time, and you see somebody else flying forward into the future, it's probably best to avoid eye contact.
Wilson Mizner
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education.
William James
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
M. Grundler
It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The hour which gives us life begins to take it away. - Hercules Furens
Sir Thomas Beecham
Try everything once except incest and folk dancing.
Laurence Peter
Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.
Henry David Thoreau
I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.
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Area briefs - Police find bodies of college students - Akron Beacon Journal
Sun, 04 May 2008 11:35:00 GMT
ATHENS: The bodies of two college students were discovered early Saturday at an off-campus apartment complex near Ohio University. Athens police said authorities were called to the ...
JFK aide Ted Sorensen tells his story - Fosters Daily Democrat
Mon, 05 May 2008 07:09:00 GMT
NEW YORK (AP) — As he watched the breach and then the break between Sen. Barack Obama and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, former White House speechwriter Ted Sorensen was reminded, as ...
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Quotes:
John William Fletcher
Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution.
Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1825
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.
Will Durant
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
If you go flying back through time, and you see somebody else flying forward into the future, it's probably best to avoid eye contact.
Wilson Mizner
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education.
William James
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
M. Grundler
It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The hour which gives us life begins to take it away. - Hercules Furens
Sir Thomas Beecham
Try everything once except incest and folk dancing.
Laurence Peter
Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.
Henry David Thoreau
I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.
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Area briefs - Police find bodies of college students - Akron Beacon Journal
Sun, 04 May 2008 11:35:00 GMT
ATHENS: The bodies of two college students were discovered early Saturday at an off-campus apartment complex near Ohio University. Athens police said authorities were called to the ...
JFK aide Ted Sorensen tells his story - Fosters Daily Democrat
Mon, 05 May 2008 07:09:00 GMT
NEW YORK (AP) — As he watched the breach and then the break between Sen. Barack Obama and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, former White House speechwriter Ted Sorensen was reminded, as ...
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Daily Famous Quotes
Sophocles
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be When there's no help in truth
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Riches, like glory or heath, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.
Clare Booth Luce
They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
George Barrell Cheever
Faith in tomorrow, instead of Christ, is Satan's nurse for man's perdition.
Trey and Matt Stone Parker
I just realized that there's going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with it the right way.
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Gawker Media Network - Gawker
Mon, 05 May 2008 05:08:00 GMT
Deadspin Marvin Harrison Defamer Tom Cruise On Oprah Jezebel Clips io9 sidekicks Kotaku say no to drugs Valleywag Nerdfight Gizmodo Essay Gawker Summer Movie Fun Times! Lifehacker ...
OFZ quotations fail to display unified trading trend - Interfax Information Agency
Sun, 04 May 2008 14:34:00 GMT
MOSCOW. May 4. (Interfax) - Federal Loan Bond (OFZ) quotations on Sunday did not display a unified trading trend. The average weighted price for OFZ 25060, which matures in 2009 ...
Fine silver quotations Wednesday: $17.424 ounce (Canadian Business)
Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:28:49 GMT
The Canadian Press April 30, 2008 - 1:09 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Wednesday $17.424 oz., $560.18 kg.; Tuesday $17.493 oz., $562.40 kg.
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Today's Famous Quotes:
Sophocles
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be When there's no help in truth
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Riches, like glory or heath, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.
Clare Booth Luce
They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
George Barrell Cheever
Faith in tomorrow, instead of Christ, is Satan's nurse for man's perdition.
Trey and Matt Stone Parker
I just realized that there's going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with it the right way.
More Quotations
Gawker Media Network - Gawker
Mon, 05 May 2008 05:08:00 GMT
Deadspin Marvin Harrison Defamer Tom Cruise On Oprah Jezebel Clips io9 sidekicks Kotaku say no to drugs Valleywag Nerdfight Gizmodo Essay Gawker Summer Movie Fun Times! Lifehacker ...
OFZ quotations fail to display unified trading trend - Interfax Information Agency
Sun, 04 May 2008 14:34:00 GMT
MOSCOW. May 4. (Interfax) - Federal Loan Bond (OFZ) quotations on Sunday did not display a unified trading trend. The average weighted price for OFZ 25060, which matures in 2009 ...
Fine silver quotations Wednesday: $17.424 ounce (Canadian Business)
Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:28:49 GMT
The Canadian Press April 30, 2008 - 1:09 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Wednesday $17.424 oz., $560.18 kg.; Tuesday $17.493 oz., $562.40 kg.
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Quotations for Today
Oriana Fallaci
Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't. . .out of respect for DeGaulle and Disraeli. I described him as a cowboy because thats how he described himself. If I were a cowboy I would be offended.
Henry David Thoreau
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.
Charles Rosin
There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park- like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand.
Douglas Noel Adams
Totally mad. Utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.
Bible, Paul, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Aeschylus
I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.
Gore Vidal
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
Unknown
Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd.
George Sarton, History of Science
There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.
Jillian Graham, Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul
Never let a stain from the past put a mark on your future.
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Hewlett-Packard Pavilion dv3000 (dv3021TX) - Australian PC World
Mon, 05 May 2008 02:30:00 GMT
The Pavilion dv3000 (dv3021TX) will not disappoint its target audience of business users and multimedia enthusiasts. With the exception of hardcore gamers, it will please anyone on ...
OECD: Norwegians second richest - Norway Post
Sun, 04 May 2008 22:34:00 GMT
New benchmark comparisons based on purchasing power parities (PPPs) show the level of gross domestic product per head has risen closer to the OECD average in a number of countries ...
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Give me Quotations now!
Oriana Fallaci
Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't. . .out of respect for DeGaulle and Disraeli. I described him as a cowboy because thats how he described himself. If I were a cowboy I would be offended.
Henry David Thoreau
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.
Charles Rosin
There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park- like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand.
Douglas Noel Adams
Totally mad. Utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.
Bible, Paul, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Aeschylus
I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.
Gore Vidal
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
Unknown
Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd.
George Sarton, History of Science
There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.
Jillian Graham, Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul
Never let a stain from the past put a mark on your future.
More Quotes
Hewlett-Packard Pavilion dv3000 (dv3021TX) - Australian PC World
Mon, 05 May 2008 02:30:00 GMT
The Pavilion dv3000 (dv3021TX) will not disappoint its target audience of business users and multimedia enthusiasts. With the exception of hardcore gamers, it will please anyone on ...
OECD: Norwegians second richest - Norway Post
Sun, 04 May 2008 22:34:00 GMT
New benchmark comparisons based on purchasing power parities (PPPs) show the level of gross domestic product per head has risen closer to the OECD average in a number of countries ...
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Great Famous Quotations
Jimmy Carter, Spech in March 1976
We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
Thomas Jefferson
One man with courage is a majority.
Mark Twain
Some people get an eduction without going to college the rest get it after they get out.
Joni Mitchell, song-The Last Time I Saw Richard
All romantics meet the same fate someday. Cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark cafe.
Henri Frdric Amiel
Love is faith, and one faith leads to another.
Richard Jeni
It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!
Germaine Greer
Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.
Robert Green Ingersoll
If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.
Epicurus
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.
Gerald Barzan
Taxation WITH representation ain't so hot either.
Quentin Crisp
The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
William Penn
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
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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.
Fine silver quotations Wednesday: $17.424 ounce (Canadian Business)
Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:28:49 GMT
The Canadian Press April 30, 2008 - 1:09 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Wednesday $17.424 oz., $560.18 kg.; Tuesday $17.493 oz., $562.40 kg.
OECD: Norwegians second richest - Norway Post
Sun, 04 May 2008 22:34:00 GMT
New benchmark comparisons based on purchasing power parities (PPPs) show the level of gross domestic product per head has risen closer to the OECD average in a number of countries ...
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Straight to the Famous Quotations ...
Jimmy Carter, Spech in March 1976
We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
Thomas Jefferson
One man with courage is a majority.
Mark Twain
Some people get an eduction without going to college the rest get it after they get out.
Joni Mitchell, song-The Last Time I Saw Richard
All romantics meet the same fate someday. Cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark cafe.
Henri Frdric Amiel
Love is faith, and one faith leads to another.
Richard Jeni
It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!
Germaine Greer
Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.
Robert Green Ingersoll
If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.
Epicurus
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.
Gerald Barzan
Taxation WITH representation ain't so hot either.
Quentin Crisp
The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
William Penn
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
More Quotations
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.
Fine silver quotations Wednesday: $17.424 ounce (Canadian Business)
Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:28:49 GMT
The Canadian Press April 30, 2008 - 1:09 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Wednesday $17.424 oz., $560.18 kg.; Tuesday $17.493 oz., $562.40 kg.
OECD: Norwegians second richest - Norway Post
Sun, 04 May 2008 22:34:00 GMT
New benchmark comparisons based on purchasing power parities (PPPs) show the level of gross domestic product per head has risen closer to the OECD average in a number of countries ...
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Famous Quotes Update
Danish proverb
If you would be pope, you must think of nothing else.
Anon.
Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique.
Virgil
As the twig is bent the tree inclines.
Blaise Pascal
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
Robert Louis Stephenson
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
Vince Lombardi
After the cheers have died down and the stadium is empty, after the headlines have been written and after you are back in the quiet of your room and the championship ring has been placed on the dresser and all the pomp and fanfare has faded, the enduring things that are left are the dedication to excellence, the dedication to victory, and the dedication to doing with our lives the very best we can to make the world a better place in which to live.
Robert Pirsig
Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is.
Edward R. Murrow
To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
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.
Finley Peter Dunne
An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
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.
Theodore Roosevelt
If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness.
More Quotes
Moms Say the Darndest Things (Provo Daily Herald)
Sat, 03 May 2008 07:13:38 GMT
Does your mom have a favorite saying that you've heard over and over again? Ever catch yourself saying something that sounds just like your mother? With Mother's Day just around the corner, we'd like to record some of those familiar quotations as a way to pay tribute to Mom on her special day. We'd love for you to share that favorite saying, as well as a few words about what it means to you, for ...
Fine silver quotations Wednesday: $17.424 ounce (Canadian Business)
Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:28:49 GMT
The Canadian Press April 30, 2008 - 1:09 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Wednesday $17.424 oz., $560.18 kg.; Tuesday $17.493 oz., $562.40 kg.
Obama's new pastor quotes 'F--- AmeriKKKa' rap song (WorldNet Daily)
Mon, 05 May 2008 02:47:53 GMT
JERUSALEM – Otis Moss, the man slated to become the new chief pastor at the Trinity United Church of Christ, referenced a rap song during one of his recent sermons that includes among its lyrics "F--- America" and states the U.S. is "still with triple K" – referring to the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan.
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Here are the Famous Quotes ...
Danish proverb
If you would be pope, you must think of nothing else.
Anon.
Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique.
Virgil
As the twig is bent the tree inclines.
Blaise Pascal
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
Robert Louis Stephenson
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
Vince Lombardi
After the cheers have died down and the stadium is empty, after the headlines have been written and after you are back in the quiet of your room and the championship ring has been placed on the dresser and all the pomp and fanfare has faded, the enduring things that are left are the dedication to excellence, the dedication to victory, and the dedication to doing with our lives the very best we can to make the world a better place in which to live.
Robert Pirsig
Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is.
Edward R. Murrow
To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
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.
Finley Peter Dunne
An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
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.
Theodore Roosevelt
If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness.
More Quotes
Moms Say the Darndest Things (Provo Daily Herald)
Sat, 03 May 2008 07:13:38 GMT
Does your mom have a favorite saying that you've heard over and over again? Ever catch yourself saying something that sounds just like your mother? With Mother's Day just around the corner, we'd like to record some of those familiar quotations as a way to pay tribute to Mom on her special day. We'd love for you to share that favorite saying, as well as a few words about what it means to you, for ...
Fine silver quotations Wednesday: $17.424 ounce (Canadian Business)
Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:28:49 GMT
The Canadian Press April 30, 2008 - 1:09 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Wednesday $17.424 oz., $560.18 kg.; Tuesday $17.493 oz., $562.40 kg.
Obama's new pastor quotes 'F--- AmeriKKKa' rap song (WorldNet Daily)
Mon, 05 May 2008 02:47:53 GMT
JERUSALEM – Otis Moss, the man slated to become the new chief pastor at the Trinity United Church of Christ, referenced a rap song during one of his recent sermons that includes among its lyrics "F--- America" and states the U.S. is "still with triple K" – referring to the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan.
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