Favorite Quotations
Friday, October 03, 2008
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George Santayana
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
Aristotle
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Rollo May
The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt.
George Carlin, George Carlin: You Are All Diseased
Hobbies cost money but interests are free.
Walter Bagehot
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
Will Rogers
We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it.
e.e. cummings
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
Author Unknown
Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
A page of history is worth a pound of logic.
John and Brand, Josh Falsey
You signed a contract. But much more important than that, you gave your word. And I intend to hold you to that word within the bounds of the law. If necessary, without the bounds of the law.
Oliver Schreiner
There was never a great man who had not a great mother
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In quotes: Reaction to vote - BBC Americas
Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:56:00 GMT
We put forth a plan that was big because we've got a big problem. Our strategy is to continue to address this economic situation head-on and we'll be working to develop a strategy that will enable us to continue to move forward. At the end of the day ...
Quotes of note - Boston Globe
Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:58:00 GMT
"It is privatizing the gains and profits, and socializing the losses as usual. This is socialism for Wall Street and the rich."-- NOURIEL ROUBINI, New York University professor of economics, on the federal government bailout of major financial firms ...
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Check out these Famous Quotes:
George Santayana
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
Aristotle
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Rollo May
The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt.
George Carlin, George Carlin: You Are All Diseased
Hobbies cost money but interests are free.
Walter Bagehot
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
Will Rogers
We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it.
e.e. cummings
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
Author Unknown
Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
A page of history is worth a pound of logic.
John and Brand, Josh Falsey
You signed a contract. But much more important than that, you gave your word. And I intend to hold you to that word within the bounds of the law. If necessary, without the bounds of the law.
Oliver Schreiner
There was never a great man who had not a great mother
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In quotes: Reaction to vote - BBC Americas
Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:56:00 GMT
We put forth a plan that was big because we've got a big problem. Our strategy is to continue to address this economic situation head-on and we'll be working to develop a strategy that will enable us to continue to move forward. At the end of the day ...
Quotes of note - Boston Globe
Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:58:00 GMT
"It is privatizing the gains and profits, and socializing the losses as usual. This is socialism for Wall Street and the rich."-- NOURIEL ROUBINI, New York University professor of economics, on the federal government bailout of major financial firms ...
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Latest Quotes
Dorothy Parker, suggested for her tombstone
This is on me.
George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (1916) preface
It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
Job 1414 Bible Hebrew
If a man die, shall he live again All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
Pablo Casals
You must work--- we must all work To make the world worthy of its children.
Emily Dickinson
My friends are my estate.
William Congreve
I came upstairs into the world for I was born in a cellar.
S�ren Kierkegaard
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential -- for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.
Julius Caesar
Et tu, Brute. You also, Brutus.
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Sarah Palin didn't change much after all - Daily Telegraph
Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:16:00 GMT
And now for a test: which one of the following two Sarah Palin quotations is real, and which one is a parody? Both are answers to a question about the Republican vice-presidential ...
Book Review: How to Write Your Book (Guaranteed!) by Thomas A ... - Blogcritics.org
Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:34:00 GMT
See also: » An Interview with Simon Gosden, Owner of Fantastic Literature Limited » Book Review: My Mommy’s Tote by P.H. Hanson » Book Review: No Innocent Bystander - Riding ...
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Quotes:
Dorothy Parker, suggested for her tombstone
This is on me.
George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (1916) preface
It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
Job 1414 Bible Hebrew
If a man die, shall he live again All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
Pablo Casals
You must work--- we must all work To make the world worthy of its children.
Emily Dickinson
My friends are my estate.
William Congreve
I came upstairs into the world for I was born in a cellar.
S�ren Kierkegaard
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential -- for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.
Julius Caesar
Et tu, Brute. You also, Brutus.
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Sarah Palin didn't change much after all - Daily Telegraph
Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:16:00 GMT
And now for a test: which one of the following two Sarah Palin quotations is real, and which one is a parody? Both are answers to a question about the Republican vice-presidential ...
Book Review: How to Write Your Book (Guaranteed!) by Thomas A ... - Blogcritics.org
Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:34:00 GMT
See also: » An Interview with Simon Gosden, Owner of Fantastic Literature Limited » Book Review: My Mommy’s Tote by P.H. Hanson » Book Review: No Innocent Bystander - Riding ...
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Daily Famous Quotations
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Of all the warning sounds that animals make, I think the one that's the least effective on me is a kind of clicking noise.
Lord Chesterfield
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.
John A. Dix
If anyone attempts to hall down the American flag shoot him on the spot.
Sam Ewig
When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.
James Fenimore Cooper
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
Johnson
Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
Frederic William Maitland
The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it.
Unknown
As long as I'm faced in the right direction, It does not matter the size of my steps.
C. S. Lewis, First things First
Pride is a spiritual Cancer: It eats up the very possibilty of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
Robert Frost
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
Ronald Reagan
I will veto again and again until spending is brought under control.
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters.
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British Ambassador: Best Solution For Afghanistan Is An "Acceptable ... - Huffingtonpost.com
Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:44:00 GMT
A coded French diplomatic cable leaked to a French newspaper quotes the British ambassador in Afghanistan as predicting that the NATO-led military campaign against the Taliban will ...
There’s Nothing Wrong With A Glass Of Pellegrino At Lunch - Defamer.com
Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:03:00 GMT
Die hard Beatles and botox fan Sharon Stone washed away the drama of the week’s events with a nice tall glass of Pellegrino at lunch with a friend on Thursday. Stone believed it ...
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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Of all the warning sounds that animals make, I think the one that's the least effective on me is a kind of clicking noise.
Lord Chesterfield
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.
John A. Dix
If anyone attempts to hall down the American flag shoot him on the spot.
Sam Ewig
When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.
James Fenimore Cooper
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
Johnson
Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
Frederic William Maitland
The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it.
Unknown
As long as I'm faced in the right direction, It does not matter the size of my steps.
C. S. Lewis, First things First
Pride is a spiritual Cancer: It eats up the very possibilty of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
Robert Frost
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
Ronald Reagan
I will veto again and again until spending is brought under control.
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters.
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British Ambassador: Best Solution For Afghanistan Is An "Acceptable ... - Huffingtonpost.com
Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:44:00 GMT
A coded French diplomatic cable leaked to a French newspaper quotes the British ambassador in Afghanistan as predicting that the NATO-led military campaign against the Taliban will ...
There’s Nothing Wrong With A Glass Of Pellegrino At Lunch - Defamer.com
Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:03:00 GMT
Die hard Beatles and botox fan Sharon Stone washed away the drama of the week’s events with a nice tall glass of Pellegrino at lunch with a friend on Thursday. Stone believed it ...
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Today's Quotations
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Thomas Jefferson
...it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg.
Edward Dahlberg
What men desire is a virgin who is a whore.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Henry Fielding
Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.
Bette Midler
Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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In quotes: Mandelson on Brown - BBC UK News
Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:50:00 GMT
"Within the party, or more strictly within the New Labour family, there has been a fissure really from the word go. And the reason for that is that Gordon thought that he could and ...
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Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:31:00 GMT
D. E. Shaw Valence Portfolios, L.L.C., D. E. Shaw Oculus Portfolios, L.L.C. (the “ D. E. Shaw group ” ) and CR Intrinsic Investors, LLC today announced that RiskMetrics Group ...
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Thomas Jefferson
...it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg.
Edward Dahlberg
What men desire is a virgin who is a whore.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Henry Fielding
Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.
Bette Midler
Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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In quotes: Mandelson on Brown - BBC UK News
Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:50:00 GMT
"Within the party, or more strictly within the New Labour family, there has been a fissure really from the word go. And the reason for that is that Gordon thought that he could and ...
RiskMetrics Group - ISS Governance Services (ISS) Recommends - MSN MoneyCentral
Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:31:00 GMT
D. E. Shaw Valence Portfolios, L.L.C., D. E. Shaw Oculus Portfolios, L.L.C. (the “ D. E. Shaw group ” ) and CR Intrinsic Investors, LLC today announced that RiskMetrics Group ...
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Today's Famous Quotes
J.B. Priestley
When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going.
Henry Ward Beecher
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
Joan Brannon
He who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.
Clarence Cramer
Being filled with the Holy Spirit, then, is a matter of obedience to the Word of God. The filling of the Spirit that all experienced at Pentecost was a matter of a promise being fulfilled. Today, the believer is to be filled in obedience to the command of Ephesians 518, continuously, not merely by a single, crisis experience. The Christian life is a growth process toward maturity.
Richard Nixon, Nixon
The President can bomb anybody he likes.
Louis D. Brandeis
Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
Terry Lynn Taylor
Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. The more we seek gratitude, the more reason the angels will give us for gratitude and joy to exist in our lives.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present 'I am rising to a man's work.'
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Matthew Perry To Star In 'Friends' Spin Off, 'Bros' - Defamer.com
Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:52:00 GMT
After years and years of development, production finally began on Bros , Matthew Perry’s long gestating Friends spin off, in West Hollywood on Wednesday afternoon. In Bros ...
Palin stands her ground in VP debate with Biden - Times Union
Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:49:00 GMT
ST. LOUIS -- Under intense scrutiny, Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin stood her ground Thursday night against a vastly more experienced Joe Biden, debating the ...
High School Notes & Quotes - Modesto Bee
Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:25:00 GMT
Stanislaus District's softball community lost a treasured member when longtime umpire Shawn McHale passed away recently. McHale was a fixture at tournaments and also mentored a ...
One Last Smoke Before The Ride Home - Defamer.com
Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:55:00 GMT
Bosom buddies Lindsay “Flame702” Lohan and Samantha “Rizzo” Ronson made a triumphant and safe return home to Los Angeles early on Thursday morning. The terrific twosome ...
Bill gives Paulson unprecedented power - The Washington Times
Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:31:00 GMT
In all of American history, it is likely that no government official besides a wartime president has ever been given as much power over taxpayer money as Treasury Secretary Henry M ...
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Check out these Famous Quotes:
J.B. Priestley
When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going.
Henry Ward Beecher
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
Joan Brannon
He who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.
Clarence Cramer
Being filled with the Holy Spirit, then, is a matter of obedience to the Word of God. The filling of the Spirit that all experienced at Pentecost was a matter of a promise being fulfilled. Today, the believer is to be filled in obedience to the command of Ephesians 518, continuously, not merely by a single, crisis experience. The Christian life is a growth process toward maturity.
Richard Nixon, Nixon
The President can bomb anybody he likes.
Louis D. Brandeis
Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
Terry Lynn Taylor
Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. The more we seek gratitude, the more reason the angels will give us for gratitude and joy to exist in our lives.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present 'I am rising to a man's work.'
More Quotations
Matthew Perry To Star In 'Friends' Spin Off, 'Bros' - Defamer.com
Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:52:00 GMT
After years and years of development, production finally began on Bros , Matthew Perry’s long gestating Friends spin off, in West Hollywood on Wednesday afternoon. In Bros ...
Palin stands her ground in VP debate with Biden - Times Union
Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:49:00 GMT
ST. LOUIS -- Under intense scrutiny, Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin stood her ground Thursday night against a vastly more experienced Joe Biden, debating the ...
High School Notes & Quotes - Modesto Bee
Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:25:00 GMT
Stanislaus District's softball community lost a treasured member when longtime umpire Shawn McHale passed away recently. McHale was a fixture at tournaments and also mentored a ...
One Last Smoke Before The Ride Home - Defamer.com
Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:55:00 GMT
Bosom buddies Lindsay “Flame702” Lohan and Samantha “Rizzo” Ronson made a triumphant and safe return home to Los Angeles early on Thursday morning. The terrific twosome ...
Bill gives Paulson unprecedented power - The Washington Times
Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:31:00 GMT
In all of American history, it is likely that no government official besides a wartime president has ever been given as much power over taxpayer money as Treasury Secretary Henry M ...
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Quotes for Today
Natalie Clifford Barney
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
John Cage
If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
W. Somerset Maugham
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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Patersons HR and Payroll Solutions Ranks No. 27 in Tech Track 100 - WebitPR
Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:53:00 GMT
-Global HR and Payroll Provider Earns Impressive First-Year Position on Coveted Ranking of Britain’s Fastest-Growing Private Technology Companies- SALISBURY, U.K. (2 October 2008 ...
Dann's favorite celebrity quotes - Arlington Heights Daily Herald
Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:02:00 GMT
» 'Nick & Norah' infinitely charming » Screen test: Test your Dann Gire knowledge » 'Flash' fails to notice the heart of the story » Pegg, pig best part of 'How to Lose Friends ...
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Today's Quotes:
Natalie Clifford Barney
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
John Cage
If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
W. Somerset Maugham
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
More Quotes
Patersons HR and Payroll Solutions Ranks No. 27 in Tech Track 100 - WebitPR
Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:53:00 GMT
-Global HR and Payroll Provider Earns Impressive First-Year Position on Coveted Ranking of Britain’s Fastest-Growing Private Technology Companies- SALISBURY, U.K. (2 October 2008 ...
Dann's favorite celebrity quotes - Arlington Heights Daily Herald
Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:02:00 GMT
» 'Nick & Norah' infinitely charming » Screen test: Test your Dann Gire knowledge » 'Flash' fails to notice the heart of the story » Pegg, pig best part of 'How to Lose Friends ...
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