Favorite Quotations
Monday, December 01, 2008
Quotes Update
Pablo Picasso
Give me a museum, and I'll fill it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
Roosevelt, Eleanor
A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music -- that would be rest.
Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find something to worship...What is essential is that all may be together in it. The craving for community worship is the chief misery of...all humanity. For the sake of common worship they've slain each other with the sword.
Larry McMurtry, "Flim Flam - Essays on Hollywood"
Mystery is underrated, and understanding is overrated.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
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Mon, 01 Dec 2008 06:56:00 GMT
In this totally bizarre exploration of what an overgrown American suburb filled with shallow upper-middle class characters might look like if a serial killer from an alternate ...
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“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, and snow is exhilarating. There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.” - John ...
Turnbull praises embattled Bishop - West Online
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Malcolm Turnbull has come to the defence of his deputy Julie Bishop, saying she is doing a "great job" as the opposition's treasury spokeswoman. Ms Bishop came under attack in ...
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Pablo Picasso
Give me a museum, and I'll fill it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
Roosevelt, Eleanor
A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music -- that would be rest.
Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find something to worship...What is essential is that all may be together in it. The craving for community worship is the chief misery of...all humanity. For the sake of common worship they've slain each other with the sword.
Larry McMurtry, "Flim Flam - Essays on Hollywood"
Mystery is underrated, and understanding is overrated.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
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Blankety Blank - Popmatters.com
Mon, 01 Dec 2008 06:56:00 GMT
In this totally bizarre exploration of what an overgrown American suburb filled with shallow upper-middle class characters might look like if a serial killer from an alternate ...
What's French for We've Seen This Before? - Cornell Daily Sun
Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:04:00 GMT
If film has universally taught us anything, it is that love triangles really suck. There’s nothing quite as painful as introducing an odd number into an aspect of human nature ...
Interesting quotes on government - Culpeper Star Exponent
Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:05:00 GMT
The Democrats will be running the White House, the House and the Senate soon. Before they make drastic changes, they may want to consider some interesting quotations on government ...
Alice Schroeder's "The Snowball": Wisdom from Buffett's Biography - Seekingalpha.com
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“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, and snow is exhilarating. There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.” - John ...
Turnbull praises embattled Bishop - West Online
Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:37:00 GMT
Malcolm Turnbull has come to the defence of his deputy Julie Bishop, saying she is doing a "great job" as the opposition's treasury spokeswoman. Ms Bishop came under attack in ...
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Clint Eastwood, Movie: "A Fistful of Dollars," 1964
Once a man has some money, peace begins to sound good to him.
Alan Greenspan
How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values
Oscar Wilde
I can resist anything but temptation.
William M. Holden
Hell is paved with good Samaritans.
Thomas S. Szasz
Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Life is God's novel. Let him write it.
Ed Koch
The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
Kahlil Gibran
My friends and my road-fellows, pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave, eats a bread it does not harvest, and drinks a wine that flows not from its own winepress. Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero, and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful. Pity the nation that raises not its voice save when it walks in a funeral, boasts not except among its ruins, and will rebel not save when its neck is laid between the sword and the block. Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, and farewells him with hootings, only to welcome another with trumpetings again. Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation.
Walter Linn
It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to.
Albert Einstein
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
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Clint Eastwood, Movie: "A Fistful of Dollars," 1964
Once a man has some money, peace begins to sound good to him.
Alan Greenspan
How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values
Oscar Wilde
I can resist anything but temptation.
William M. Holden
Hell is paved with good Samaritans.
Thomas S. Szasz
Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Life is God's novel. Let him write it.
Ed Koch
The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
Kahlil Gibran
My friends and my road-fellows, pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave, eats a bread it does not harvest, and drinks a wine that flows not from its own winepress. Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero, and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful. Pity the nation that raises not its voice save when it walks in a funeral, boasts not except among its ruins, and will rebel not save when its neck is laid between the sword and the block. Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, and farewells him with hootings, only to welcome another with trumpetings again. Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation.
Walter Linn
It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to.
Albert Einstein
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
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Book Review: Students collaborate to support, tell stories of Ethopian ... - Dartmouth
Mon, 01 Dec 2008 06:49:00 GMT
“The goal is for people to understand the amazing journey the kids have gone through,” Ben Beisswenger ‘09 said. On a summer service learning trip to Ethiopia, Ben ...
Alice Schroeder's "The Snowball": Wisdom from Buffett's Biography - Seekingalpha.com
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“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, and snow is exhilarating. There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.” - John ...
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Assyrian Proverb
You can not write in the chimney with charcoal.
Han Suyin
There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
Eugene Paul Wigner
Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.
Beryl Pfizer
I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.
W. C. Fields, in Richard J. Anobile - "Godfrey Daniels"
Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed.
Jerry Coleman
You didn't have to say it was gone. It was gone before it got outta here. It was gonna that fast.
Deepak Chopra
Religion is confining and imprisoning and toxic because it is based on ideology and dogma. But spirituality is redeeming and universal.
Athenus
Treat the other man's faith gently it is all he has to believe with.
Greek Proverb
The beginning is the half of every action.
Frank Sinatra
When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.
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Today's Quotations:
Assyrian Proverb
You can not write in the chimney with charcoal.
Han Suyin
There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
Eugene Paul Wigner
Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.
Beryl Pfizer
I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.
W. C. Fields, in Richard J. Anobile - "Godfrey Daniels"
Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed.
Jerry Coleman
You didn't have to say it was gone. It was gone before it got outta here. It was gonna that fast.
Deepak Chopra
Religion is confining and imprisoning and toxic because it is based on ideology and dogma. But spirituality is redeeming and universal.
Athenus
Treat the other man's faith gently it is all he has to believe with.
Greek Proverb
The beginning is the half of every action.
Frank Sinatra
When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.
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Mumbai & Beyond: Turning Horror toward Healing - OpEdNews.com
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I am writing from Uppsala, Sweden, where Phyllis and I have been taking part in an "Interfaith Summit on the Climate Crisis" called by the Church of Sweden and addressed by the ...
Report: Russia to upgrade missiles - Guardian Unlimited
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Latest Famous Quotations
Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
Who could tell what forms, what visions, what faces, what forgiveness he could see in the glow of the west!
Ancient Simian Proverb
What one fool can do, another can.
Japanese Proverb
Beginning is easy - Continuing is hard.
Horace
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
Douglas Noel Adams
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.
Mary Ann Brussat
Nature often holds up a mirror so we can see more clearly the ongoing processes of growth, renewal, and transformation in our lives.
Israel Zangwill
The only true love is love at first sight second sight dispels it.
Thomas More
When the destroyer comes, his first act will be to destroy all the books.
Henry David Thoreau
We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.
Lord Acton
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
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Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:10:00 GMT
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Famous Quotations:
Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
Who could tell what forms, what visions, what faces, what forgiveness he could see in the glow of the west!
Ancient Simian Proverb
What one fool can do, another can.
Japanese Proverb
Beginning is easy - Continuing is hard.
Horace
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
Douglas Noel Adams
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.
Mary Ann Brussat
Nature often holds up a mirror so we can see more clearly the ongoing processes of growth, renewal, and transformation in our lives.
Israel Zangwill
The only true love is love at first sight second sight dispels it.
Thomas More
When the destroyer comes, his first act will be to destroy all the books.
Henry David Thoreau
We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.
Lord Acton
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
More Quotes
Stock & fund quotes - ninemsn
Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:10:00 GMT
LONDON, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Oil fell more than $2 to below $52 a barrel on Monday after OPEC decided to wait until mid-December to make another cut in output to try to defend sagging ...
Report: Russia to upgrade missiles - Guardian Unlimited
Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:08:00 GMT
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Latest greatest Quotes
Mark Twain
Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it....
Thomas Alva Edison
When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Aphorisms in Beyond Good and Evil
Disgust with dirt can be so great that it prevents us from cleaning ourselves - from "justifying" ourselves.
Dag Hammarskjold
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
Proverbs 2719 Bible
A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses.
Aldous Huxley
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness it is generally the by-product of other activities.
La Rochefoucauld
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
E. M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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Give me Quotes now!
Mark Twain
Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it....
Thomas Alva Edison
When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Aphorisms in Beyond Good and Evil
Disgust with dirt can be so great that it prevents us from cleaning ourselves - from "justifying" ourselves.
Dag Hammarskjold
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
Proverbs 2719 Bible
A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses.
Aldous Huxley
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness it is generally the by-product of other activities.
La Rochefoucauld
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
E. M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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Olympic Games Participation Medals
Sun, 09 Dec 2007 11:24:01 +0000
Beijing 2008 Olympic Participation Medal
US $299.00
click for more information
...]
Quotes of the week - Argus Leader
Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:54:00 GMT
Four out of every five students graduating from college in South Dakota have loan debt. No state has a higher percentage. By the time he graduates from Augustana College, Isaac ...
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