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Woody Allen
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick, not wounded: dead.
Spinoza
Be not astonished at new ideas for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
Ivy Baker Priest
Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities, like two sides of a dollar bill, each different in design. ... Her problem is to keep one from draining the life from the other.
Mother Theresa
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
Fulton J. Sheen
Baloney is the lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it.
Johnson
The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.
La Bruyere
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
Mencius, Works
Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
Peter McWilliams, Life 101
The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.
More QuotationsFeeding on markets' meltdown fear - StuffSun, 21 Sep 2008 15:02:00 GMT
"When people see share prices going from whatever they are to zero, and the fear is out there that a particular institution could be next, you salvage whatever you can, don't you ...
Jail term upheld for postal scam architect - ThanhnienSat, 04 Oct 2008 03:05:00 GMT
However, it reduced jail terms for several state officials involved to 14 months, and suspended sentences for some. The appeals court confirmed the 26-year jail term handed down ...
How to publish your family history - NetGuide WebMon, 18 Aug 2008 22:37:00 GMT
At some point in researching our family histories most of us confront the issue of whether it should be published. So, regardless of whether you have a big family reunion just ...
Daily Voice « - Village VoiceFri, 26 Sep 2008 09:19:00 GMT
"There's something very intimate about being next to someone who you don't know that well when they're unconscious," Miranda July says over breakfast one recent morning in Chelsea ...
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G. K. Chesterton
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
Chinese Proverb
A bit of fragrance clings to the hand that gives flowers.
John Stewart Mills
A state that dwarfs its men in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes, will find that with small men no great things can really be accomplished.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Chapter 1: Economy
The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
More QuotationsAfghan campaign 'not doomed' - AnanovaSat, 04 Oct 2008 23:07:00 GMT
The Government has denied a claim that it believes the military campaign in Afghanistan is doomed to failure. The denial came after a French newspaper quoted a report that London's ...
Fashion house Valentino names 2 new designers - WTOP RadioSat, 04 Oct 2008 23:07:00 GMT
PARIS (AP) - Italian fashion house Valentino said on Saturday it had named its in-house accessories designers as joint creative directors of the brand. Outgoing designer Alessandra ...
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French sites fined for linking to privacy-invading content - Out-LawThu, 02 Oct 2008 19:20:00 GMT
Three French websites have been found guilty of invading an actor's privacy for publishing links to articles containing the offending material. The Paris Tribunal has fined the ...
Capitalism in an Apocalyptic Mood - Common DreamsThu, 02 Oct 2008 21:15:00 GMT
Skyrocketing oil prices, a falling dollar, and collapsing financial markets are the key ingredients in an economic brew that could end up in more than just an ordinary recession ...
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John Kenneth Galbraith
The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character-building value of privation for the poor.
John Updike
If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and earning money.
Dwight D Eisenhower
Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
Unknown
Try and fail, but don't fail to try.
Mel Levine, MD, A Mind At A Time
Everyone is expected to be highly productive... but they do not all need to be turning out the same product.
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Playboy Interview - May 1966
No national political party is going to nominate another right-wing candidate for a long time.
Hubert Humphrey
Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be carefully used and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of the citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.
Claudianus
Virtue is indeed its own reward.
Arnold Bennett
'And yet,' demanded Councilor Barlow, 'what's he done Has he ever done a day's work in his life What great cause is he identified with' 'He's identified,' said the first speaker, 'with the great cause of cheering us all up.'
Anacreon
I both love and do not love and am mad and not mad.
Jane Austen, Emma
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
Robert Heilbroner
Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis.
More QuotesSan Francisco Giants Notes, Quotes - FOXSports.comTue, 30 Sep 2008 22:50:00 GMT
--INF Kevin Frandsen had his only at-bat of the season and grounded out to shortstop. He had a season-long rehab from Achilles tendon surgery in spring training and is a candidate to be the Opening Day second baseman in 2009. --INF/C Pablo Sandoval ...
Sport quotes of the week - BBC SportTue, 23 Sep 2008 00:54:00 GMT
"I feel like a dog someone stuck a needle into and juiced them up at a greyhound track to chase one of them bunnies." The inimitable Boo Weekley with his take on the Ryder Cup. "I have to put it on my sandwich list. If you see five cheeses next to it ...
Quotations of the day - International Herald TribuneFri, 03 Oct 2008 07:23:00 GMT
"It's unfortunate that holding your own is a plus. By not falling on her face, she looked good." — Mike Morse on GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's performance in her debate against Democratic rival Joe Biden. Morse, a former Republican ...
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Judith Viorst
One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you maybe fall in love again.
James Thurber
All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
William Dukane
It takes a village to raise an idiot.
Johnson
One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of attention, and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied but to be read.
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Ken Thompson
Maybe I should have screwed up.
Euripides
Your very silence shows you agree.
Anderson H. Scruggs
Yet after brick and steel and stone are gone, and flesh and blood are dust, the dream lives on.
Adrienne E. Gusoff
Girls just want to have funds.
Mother Teresa
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . .
More Quotes24-Hour Room Service: O'Fabulous, Ardara, Co Donegal, Ireland - The IndependentSat, 04 Oct 2008 16:41:00 GMT
The small, bustling town of Ardara has long been welcoming tourists on the coast of County Donegal, and for decades its attractions have been as predictable as they have been reliable: a lovely dogleg of a high street, with an indecent number of pubs ...
KNICKS: Getting different looks - NewsdaySat, 04 Oct 2008 19:40:00 GMT
SARATOGA SPRINGS - Stephon Marbury 's options - outside of remaining a Knick, of course - dwindled Friday after Shaun Livingston was signed to a two-year contract by Miami. The Heat hopes the 6-7 point guard can regain some of the promise he showed ...
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Jorge Luis Borges
There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics I refer to the infinite.
Clive Staples Lewis
The Future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
Romanian Proverb
The anvil fears no blows.
Orison Swett Marden
Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
More QuotationsInternational stock market quotations - Monsters and CriticsFri, 03 Oct 2008 16:35:00 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets: #> October 3 October 2 Difference New York Dow Jones 10,685.47 10,482.85 (+ 202.62) New York NASDAQ Comp. 2,032.03 1,976.72 (+ 55.31) Tokyo Nikkei 10,938.14 11 ...
The pioneers who would not be lost for words - Times OnlineFri, 03 Oct 2008 21:14:00 GMT
There are longer books (dashed few). There are books with less jerky plot-lines. But none of their great dictionaries pack the heavy artillery of the Oxford English Dictionary. Twenty volumes (and rising), 300,000-plus main entries, 2.5 million ...
24-Hour Room Service: O'Fabulous, Ardara, Co Donegal, Ireland - The IndependentSat, 04 Oct 2008 16:41:00 GMT
The small, bustling town of Ardara has long been welcoming tourists on the coast of County Donegal, and for decades its attractions have been as predictable as they have been reliable: a lovely dogleg of a high street, with an indecent number of pubs ...
The pioneers who would not be lost for words - Times OnlineFri, 03 Oct 2008 21:14:00 GMT
There are longer books (dashed few). There are books with less jerky plot-lines. But none of their great dictionaries pack the heavy artillery of the Oxford English Dictionary. Twenty volumes (and rising), 300,000-plus main entries, 2.5 million ...
Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations - Monsters and CriticsFri, 03 Oct 2008 16:35:00 GMT
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: #> DAX 5,797.03 (+ 136.40) MDAX 6,713.09 (- 32.01) Adidas 37.18 (+ 0.29) Allianz 99.09 (+ 4.36 ...
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Anais Nin
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.
Walter Bagehot
Nothing is more unpleasant that a virtuous person with a mean mind.
Clifford Bax
No one becomes forty without incredulity and a sense of outrage.
Hendry Adams
They know enough who know how to learn.
Will Rogers
The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.
Irving
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.
I Ching
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
George F. Gilder
Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind.
Peter De Vries
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
Robert Browning
Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph?
J. Michael Straczynski
People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.
More QuotesQ&A with Norbert Haug - Planet F1Sat, 04 Oct 2008 07:51:00 GMT
Q: Why did Lewis Hamilton not win after Felipe Massa's refuelling problems? At the time he was second and the winner came from 15th on the grid, the runner-up from eighth - Lewis ...
KNICKS: Getting different looks - am New YorkSat, 04 Oct 2008 08:12:00 GMT
SARATOGA SPRINGS - Stephon Marbury 's options - outside of remaining a Knick, of course - dwindled Friday after Shaun Livingston was signed to a two-year contract by Miami. The ...
The art of investing - Focus InfomationFri, 03 Oct 2008 23:16:00 GMT
Sofia. Nine of the 63 mutual funds and investment companies for which data could be found in the website of the Bulgarian Association of Management Companies, reported positive ...