Favorite Quotations
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Daily Quotes
Voltaire
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
Cato the Elder
Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
James Grover Thurber
But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo the splendor of fame fades into nothing but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette.
Heywood
I see no wisdom in saving up indignation for a rainy day.
Vince Lombardi
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
John Holt
...since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.
Q., Star Trek, the Next Generation, "Deja Q"
This is getting on my nerves, now that I have them.
Jorge Luis Borges
My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol
As long as a word remains unspoken, you are it's master once you utter it, you are it's slave.
William Gordon
I believe that all of us have the capacity for one adventure inside us, but great adventure is facing responsibility day after day.
Bertolt Brecht
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone
More Quotes
Quotations of the day - Charleston Gazette
Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:27:00 GMT
"The defendant was the prime minister at the time. He should have been honest and ethical and should not have violated counter-corruption laws.'' -- Thai Judge Thongloh Chomngam ...
Willingham's Tuesday coachspeak - Seattle Post Intelligencer Blogs
Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:50:00 GMT
-Yawn- I recently woke up from Tyrone Willingham 's brief portion of the Pac-10 coaches teleconference and don't have a lot to provide you in terms of news, insight or ...
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Voltaire
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
Cato the Elder
Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
James Grover Thurber
But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo the splendor of fame fades into nothing but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette.
Heywood
I see no wisdom in saving up indignation for a rainy day.
Vince Lombardi
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
John Holt
...since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.
Q., Star Trek, the Next Generation, "Deja Q"
This is getting on my nerves, now that I have them.
Jorge Luis Borges
My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol
As long as a word remains unspoken, you are it's master once you utter it, you are it's slave.
William Gordon
I believe that all of us have the capacity for one adventure inside us, but great adventure is facing responsibility day after day.
Bertolt Brecht
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone
More Quotes
Quotations of the day - Charleston Gazette
Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:27:00 GMT
"The defendant was the prime minister at the time. He should have been honest and ethical and should not have violated counter-corruption laws.'' -- Thai Judge Thongloh Chomngam ...
Willingham's Tuesday coachspeak - Seattle Post Intelligencer Blogs
Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:50:00 GMT
-Yawn- I recently woke up from Tyrone Willingham 's brief portion of the Pac-10 coaches teleconference and don't have a lot to provide you in terms of news, insight or ...
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Today's Quotations
H. L. Mencken
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
James Rodges, a murderer, on his final request before the firing squad
Why yes - a bulletproof vest.
Wachowski Brothers, The Matrix Reloaded
Choice is an illusion, created between those with power, and those without.
Bob Dylan
He not busy being born is busy dying.
Daisy Bates
No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
John Mayer
Love is a hot shower where your skin never prunes.
Mel Brooks
If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
Bill Vaughan
Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income -- which he then spends sending his son to college.
Paulette Bates Alden
Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.
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Editorial: Time to float fuel prices - Jakarta Post
Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:31:00 GMT
Given the presidential election later next year, it must be a great temptation for President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to lower domestic fuel prices since international crude oil ...
Phils get feel for Tropicana Field - Detroit Free Press
Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:58:00 GMT
The Philadelphia Phillies are getting their workouts in at Tropicana Field, and nobody seems to think playing indoors will be a problem in the World Series. Manager Charlie Manuel ...
Does every actor dream of Hamlet? - Kerrville Daily Times
Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:50:00 GMT
Hearing as a child that every actor dreams of playing Hamlet, I wondered, “How could anybody know what every actor in the world wants to do?” It was the kind of question that I ...
When Mourning Dawns: Living Your Way Fully Through the Seasons of ... - Muscatine Journal
Wed, 22 Oct 2008 05:28:00 GMT
This grief workshop uses wise quotations and photographs from nature. The pattern of grief is compared to the rhythm of the seasons. Specific suggestions and practical help are ...
Sarkozy plans legal action over voodoo doll - Pretoria News
Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:44:00 GMT
Paris - French President Nicolas Sarkozy has threatened to sue a publishing company unless it withdraws a Sarkozy doll that comes with a "voodoo manual" instructing readers to ...
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Straight to the Quotations ...
H. L. Mencken
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
James Rodges, a murderer, on his final request before the firing squad
Why yes - a bulletproof vest.
Wachowski Brothers, The Matrix Reloaded
Choice is an illusion, created between those with power, and those without.
Bob Dylan
He not busy being born is busy dying.
Daisy Bates
No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
John Mayer
Love is a hot shower where your skin never prunes.
Mel Brooks
If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
Bill Vaughan
Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income -- which he then spends sending his son to college.
Paulette Bates Alden
Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.
More Quotes
Editorial: Time to float fuel prices - Jakarta Post
Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:31:00 GMT
Given the presidential election later next year, it must be a great temptation for President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to lower domestic fuel prices since international crude oil ...
Phils get feel for Tropicana Field - Detroit Free Press
Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:58:00 GMT
The Philadelphia Phillies are getting their workouts in at Tropicana Field, and nobody seems to think playing indoors will be a problem in the World Series. Manager Charlie Manuel ...
Does every actor dream of Hamlet? - Kerrville Daily Times
Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:50:00 GMT
Hearing as a child that every actor dreams of playing Hamlet, I wondered, “How could anybody know what every actor in the world wants to do?” It was the kind of question that I ...
When Mourning Dawns: Living Your Way Fully Through the Seasons of ... - Muscatine Journal
Wed, 22 Oct 2008 05:28:00 GMT
This grief workshop uses wise quotations and photographs from nature. The pattern of grief is compared to the rhythm of the seasons. Specific suggestions and practical help are ...
Sarkozy plans legal action over voodoo doll - Pretoria News
Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:44:00 GMT
Paris - French President Nicolas Sarkozy has threatened to sue a publishing company unless it withdraws a Sarkozy doll that comes with a "voodoo manual" instructing readers to ...
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Famous Quotes for Today
Kenneth A. Wells
A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but because he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with.
Hal
I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I just want to become a modern-type Grandpa myself-and really start living.
Joseph Stalin
I believe in one thing only, the power of the human will.
Stacia Tauscher
We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.
Stephen King
Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. (On steel industry executives who increased prices)
Wendell Berry
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
Saint Augustine
The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell.
Irish Proverb
Better be quarrelling than lonesome.
More Quotations
S.Korea 91-day note yields extend rise - Forbes
Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:34:00 GMT
SEOUL, Oct 22 SEOUL (Reuters) - Prices of South Korea's 91-day debt instruments declined further on Wednesday, with yields extending their month-long rally as the latest government ...
Editorial: Time to float fuel prices - Jakarta Post
Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:31:00 GMT
Given the presidential election later next year, it must be a great temptation for President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to lower domestic fuel prices since international crude oil ...
Quotations of the day - Charleston Gazette
Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:27:00 GMT
"The defendant was the prime minister at the time. He should have been honest and ethical and should not have violated counter-corruption laws.'' -- Thai Judge Thongloh Chomngam ...
Oklahoma Agriculture - Tulsa World
Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:37:00 GMT
Davis 4.17, Shattuck 4.65, Temple 4.67, Clinton, Weatherford 4.71, Frederick 4.72, Miami 4.80, Banner, El Reno, Geary, Lawton, Okarche, Okeene, Watonga 4.82, Buffalo 4.83, Ponca ...
Your search yielded no results. Please try another keyword - Top News India
Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:03:00 GMT
Check if your spelling is correct. Remove quotes around phrases to match each word individually: "blue smurf" will match less than blue smurf . Consider loosening your query with ...
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Here are the Famous Quotes ...
Kenneth A. Wells
A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but because he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with.
Hal
I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I just want to become a modern-type Grandpa myself-and really start living.
Joseph Stalin
I believe in one thing only, the power of the human will.
Stacia Tauscher
We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.
Stephen King
Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. (On steel industry executives who increased prices)
Wendell Berry
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
Saint Augustine
The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell.
Irish Proverb
Better be quarrelling than lonesome.
More Quotations
S.Korea 91-day note yields extend rise - Forbes
Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:34:00 GMT
SEOUL, Oct 22 SEOUL (Reuters) - Prices of South Korea's 91-day debt instruments declined further on Wednesday, with yields extending their month-long rally as the latest government ...
Editorial: Time to float fuel prices - Jakarta Post
Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:31:00 GMT
Given the presidential election later next year, it must be a great temptation for President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to lower domestic fuel prices since international crude oil ...
Quotations of the day - Charleston Gazette
Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:27:00 GMT
"The defendant was the prime minister at the time. He should have been honest and ethical and should not have violated counter-corruption laws.'' -- Thai Judge Thongloh Chomngam ...
Oklahoma Agriculture - Tulsa World
Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:37:00 GMT
Davis 4.17, Shattuck 4.65, Temple 4.67, Clinton, Weatherford 4.71, Frederick 4.72, Miami 4.80, Banner, El Reno, Geary, Lawton, Okarche, Okeene, Watonga 4.82, Buffalo 4.83, Ponca ...
Your search yielded no results. Please try another keyword - Top News India
Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:03:00 GMT
Check if your spelling is correct. Remove quotes around phrases to match each word individually: "blue smurf" will match less than blue smurf . Consider loosening your query with ...
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Great Quotes
William Strunk Jr., Elements of Style
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.
Matthew 1820 Bible
Jesus said, 'Where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in their midst.'
George Bernard Shaw
A pessimist thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
John Keats
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth - whether it existed before or not.
Samuel Goldwyn
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
Marc Maihueird
Love is what we call the situation which occurs when two people who are sexually comptatible discover that they can also tolerate one another in various other circumstances.
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1781-82
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But 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.
James Allen
In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of effort is the measure of the results.
Thomas Jefferson
I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.
William Langland
Necessity has no law.
Mae West
You're never too old to become younger.
Michael Shermer
It is sad that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine-tuning our knowledge of how life originated and evolved, creationists remain mired in medieval debates about angels on the head of a pin and animals in the belly of an Ark.
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Your search yielded no results. Please try another keyword - Top News India
Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:03:00 GMT
Check if your spelling is correct. Remove quotes around phrases to match each word individually: "blue smurf" will match less than blue smurf . Consider loosening your query with ...
Rosario Dawson Is Just SO Happy To See You! - Defamer.com
Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:26:00 GMT
Popular film actress Rosario Dawson appeared to be very excited about unloading some negative energy and loading up on the positive vibes at a Los Angeles loading station. Dawson ...
Sarkozy threatens to sue over doll with 'voodoo manual' - Edinburgh News
Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:50:00 GMT
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has threatened to sue a publishing company unless it withdraws a Sarkozy doll that comes with a "voodoo manual" instructing readers to plant pins ...
Quotations for Russian Eurobonds - Interfax Information Agency
Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:24:00 GMT
21.10.2008 Dealer Date of issue 31.03.10 24.07.18 24.06.28 31.03.30 Roseximbank 103.000 134.000 132.500 85.500 103.750 135.000 134.000 85.750 Bank Zenit 103.500 134.000 134.000 85 ...
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Check out these Quotes:
William Strunk Jr., Elements of Style
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.
Matthew 1820 Bible
Jesus said, 'Where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in their midst.'
George Bernard Shaw
A pessimist thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
John Keats
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth - whether it existed before or not.
Samuel Goldwyn
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
Marc Maihueird
Love is what we call the situation which occurs when two people who are sexually comptatible discover that they can also tolerate one another in various other circumstances.
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1781-82
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But 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.
James Allen
In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of effort is the measure of the results.
Thomas Jefferson
I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.
William Langland
Necessity has no law.
Mae West
You're never too old to become younger.
Michael Shermer
It is sad that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine-tuning our knowledge of how life originated and evolved, creationists remain mired in medieval debates about angels on the head of a pin and animals in the belly of an Ark.
More Quotes
Your search yielded no results. Please try another keyword - Top News India
Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:03:00 GMT
Check if your spelling is correct. Remove quotes around phrases to match each word individually: "blue smurf" will match less than blue smurf . Consider loosening your query with ...
Rosario Dawson Is Just SO Happy To See You! - Defamer.com
Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:26:00 GMT
Popular film actress Rosario Dawson appeared to be very excited about unloading some negative energy and loading up on the positive vibes at a Los Angeles loading station. Dawson ...
Sarkozy threatens to sue over doll with 'voodoo manual' - Edinburgh News
Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:50:00 GMT
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has threatened to sue a publishing company unless it withdraws a Sarkozy doll that comes with a "voodoo manual" instructing readers to plant pins ...
Quotations for Russian Eurobonds - Interfax Information Agency
Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:24:00 GMT
21.10.2008 Dealer Date of issue 31.03.10 24.07.18 24.06.28 31.03.30 Roseximbank 103.000 134.000 132.500 85.500 103.750 135.000 134.000 85.750 Bank Zenit 103.500 134.000 134.000 85 ...
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Famous Quotations for Today
R. D. Laing
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
A. E. Houseman
The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.
Sigmund Freud
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Colette, in New York World-Telegram and Sun, 1961
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Thomas Hughes
Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.
Donald J. Trump
As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big.
J. K. Galbraith
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
Charles Caleb Colton
He that knows himself, knows others and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
Epictetus, Enchiridion
It is the action of an uninstructed person to reproach others for his own misfortune; of one entering instruction, to reproach himself; and one perfectly instructed, to reproach neither others nor himself.
More Quotes
Stock & fund quotes - ninemsn
Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:36:00 GMT
LONDON, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Britain's FTSE 100 .FTSE> slid 2.9 percent by midday on Wednesday, as recession fears hit heavyweight commodity stocks and banks, with investors worrying about metal demand and more soured loans. By 1029 GMT, the FTSE 100 ...
Your Morning Market Weather Report - CNBC
Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:14:00 GMT
Weather reports are useful. We here at CNBC.com have one for you: Our premarkets page ... it's a weather report for the market day. It has all the morning indicators to let you know how the day, money-wise, is likely to go. The central element is the ...
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Today's Famous Quotations:
R. D. Laing
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
A. E. Houseman
The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.
Sigmund Freud
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Colette, in New York World-Telegram and Sun, 1961
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Thomas Hughes
Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.
Donald J. Trump
As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big.
J. K. Galbraith
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
Charles Caleb Colton
He that knows himself, knows others and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
Epictetus, Enchiridion
It is the action of an uninstructed person to reproach others for his own misfortune; of one entering instruction, to reproach himself; and one perfectly instructed, to reproach neither others nor himself.
More Quotes
Stock & fund quotes - ninemsn
Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:36:00 GMT
LONDON, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Britain's FTSE 100 .FTSE> slid 2.9 percent by midday on Wednesday, as recession fears hit heavyweight commodity stocks and banks, with investors worrying about metal demand and more soured loans. By 1029 GMT, the FTSE 100 ...
Your Morning Market Weather Report - CNBC
Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:14:00 GMT
Weather reports are useful. We here at CNBC.com have one for you: Our premarkets page ... it's a weather report for the market day. It has all the morning indicators to let you know how the day, money-wise, is likely to go. The central element is the ...
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