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W. Somerset Maugham
It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
Franklin P. Adams
To err is human to forgive, infrequent.
Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Chapter 13
Oh! love!... That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.
David B. Haight
Love is this divine ingredient. It alone describes what can be our perfect relationship to our Heavenly Father and our family and neighbors, and the means by which we accomplish His work.
Clifton Fadiman
A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.
Publilius Syrus
As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
Sam Walton
High expectations are the key to everything.
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Since we’ve been doing the annual, year-end Best Books list, I’ve had readers ask, “Why don’t you run the list in time for holiday shopping?” To steal a line from Mark ...
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Thomas Jefferson
One man with courage is a majority.
Thomas Paine
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
Niels Henrik David Bohr
We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough
Henry David Thoreau
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.
More QuotesBest Books 2008 - School Library JournalSun, 30 Nov 2008 21:02:00 GMT
Of the more than 5000 books reviewed in SLJ ’s pages in 2008, the 67 books listed below stood out as having distinctive voices, singular vision, and/or innovative approaches ...
Best books of 2008 - Arkansas OnlineSun, 30 Nov 2008 08:38:00 GMT
Since we’ve been doing the annual, year-end Best Books list, I’ve had readers ask, “Why don’t you run the list in time for holiday shopping?” To steal a line from Mark ...
Best Books 2008 - School Library JournalSun, 30 Nov 2008 21:02:00 GMT
Of the more than 5000 books reviewed in SLJ ’s pages in 2008, the 67 books listed below stood out as having distinctive voices, singular vision, and/or innovative approaches ...
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EDWARD WAS ONLY six years old when, during visits to his mother in the hospital, he discovered the joy of elevators and got his first job. He offered his services and the elevator ...
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Edward R. Murrow
To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Mark Twain
Some people get an eduction without going to college the rest get it after they get out.
Jimmy Carter, Spech in March 1976
We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.
George Gurdjieff
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
Quentin Crisp
The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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.
Charles Baudelaire
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
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.
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The climax of every tragedy lies in the deafness of its heroes —Albert Camus, 1903-1960, my favourite existentialist philosopher (Vanguard Book of Quotations p. 90). IT was Dr ...
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LONDON, Nov 30 (Reuters) - British furniture retailer Land of Leather Plc has received a number of preliminary bid approaches, the Sunday Times reported. The furniture retailer ...
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Turkish Proverb
A heart in love with beauty never grows old.
Brian Sutton-Smith
The parent who gets down on the floor to play with a child on Christmas Day is usually doing a most remarkable thing -- something seldom repeated during the rest of the year. These are, after all, busy parents committed to their work or their success in the larger society, and they do not have much left-over time in which to play with their children.
Unknown
Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd.
Shirley Temple
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.
Henri Frdric Amiel
Love is faith, and one faith leads to another.
Stephen Stills
There are three things men can do with women love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.
John Maynard Keynes
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.
P. G. Wodehouse, Uneasy Money
At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.
Robert Pirsig
Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is.
Miguel de Cervantes
The more thou stir it, the worse it will be.
Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", Chapter 2
He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.
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E. M. Cioran
Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.
Victor Hugo
Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the souls of men.
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.
Barbara Sher
Isolation is a dream killer.
George Bernard Shaw
A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
Voltaire
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.
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.
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good on this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?
Jerry Coleman
Mike Caldwell, the Padres' right-handed southpaw, will pitch tonight.
John Milton
When the waves are round me breaking,As I pace the deck alone,And my eye in vain is seekingSome green leaf to rest uponWhat would not I give to wanderWhere my old companions dwellAbsence makes the heart grow fonder,Isle of Beauty, fare thee well
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“Rick Baker at the Cotton Bowl and Bruce Binkowski at the Holiday Bowl and I are good friends, and we formed this relationship that we have with the Big 12 and we talk a lot ...
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Scarface
Tony Montana What you lookin' at You all a bunch of f***ing assholes. You know why You don't have the guts to be what you wanna be You need people like me. You need people like me so you can point your f***ing fingers and say, That's the bad guy. So... what that make you Good You're not good. You just know how to hide, how to lie. Me, I don't have that problem. Me, I always tell the truth. Even when I lie. So say good night to the bad guy Come on. The last time you gonna see a bad guy like this again, let me tell you. Come on. Make way for the bad guy. There's a bad guy comin' through Better get outta his way
Henry Rollins, From his song "Shine"
When you start to doubt yourself, the real world will eat you alive.
Publilius Syrus
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
Francis Bacon
If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant to attain , in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks.
Lewis Black, "Black on Broadway" (2004)
There are two things I know about life... Only the good die young but the real jerks will live forever.
Matthew Arnold
I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
Will Durant
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
Anaximenes
To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes?
Ross MacDonald
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
Albert Einstein
I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts the rest are details.
More QuotationsBest books of 2008 - Arkansas OnlineSun, 30 Nov 2008 08:38:00 GMT
Since we’ve been doing the annual, year-end Best Books list, I’ve had readers ask, “Why don’t you run the list in time for holiday shopping?” To steal a line from Mark ...
Iran Proposed Light-Water Nuclear Power Plants With Arab Countries - FOX NewsSun, 30 Nov 2008 08:45:00 GMT
Sunday's IRNA report quotes the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Gholam Reza Aghazadeh. He says Iran is ready to offer a proposal to Arab countries if they are ...