Favorite Quotations
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Quotations for Today
Jacques Martin Barzun
The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
Arthur Baer
Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
Lyndon B. Johnson
War is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to kill a man that you do not even know well enough to hate. Therefore, to know war is to know that there is still madness in the world.
Maya Angelou
I answer the heroic question 'Death, where is thy sting' with 'It is here in my heart and mind and memories.'
Virginia
These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.
Larry Riemersma
As a sinner I could not please God, I could not neutralize or pay for my own sin. But when God justified me by His grace He went on record declaring me righteous. He didn't wave a magic wand and declare me to be innocent. His holiness would not permit it. A basis for declaring me righteous was needed. The ground upon which my justification is built is the substitutionary death of His son, Jesus Christ. The shedding of blood demonstrates the righteousness of God 'that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus' (Rom. 326 NKJV). What a marvelous plan Man's plan of salvation by good works is offensive to God and to anyone who has been saved by God's grace.
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Eric J. Greene: 'Favorite quotations' of 2008 - Battle Creek Enquirer
Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:25:00 GMT
For much of this year, I've kept track of some of my favorite quotations that have appeared on the pages of the Battle Creek Enquirer. Some are funny, some are disturbing, some are ...
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Sun, 21 Dec 2008 02:44:00 GMT
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Jacques Martin Barzun
The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
Arthur Baer
Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
Lyndon B. Johnson
War is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to kill a man that you do not even know well enough to hate. Therefore, to know war is to know that there is still madness in the world.
Maya Angelou
I answer the heroic question 'Death, where is thy sting' with 'It is here in my heart and mind and memories.'
Virginia
These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.
Larry Riemersma
As a sinner I could not please God, I could not neutralize or pay for my own sin. But when God justified me by His grace He went on record declaring me righteous. He didn't wave a magic wand and declare me to be innocent. His holiness would not permit it. A basis for declaring me righteous was needed. The ground upon which my justification is built is the substitutionary death of His son, Jesus Christ. The shedding of blood demonstrates the righteousness of God 'that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus' (Rom. 326 NKJV). What a marvelous plan Man's plan of salvation by good works is offensive to God and to anyone who has been saved by God's grace.
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Obama set to release Blagojevich report - MSNBC
Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:22:00 GMT
WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama will offer details early this week about his transition staff's contact with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who is facing federal charges ...
Eric J. Greene: 'Favorite quotations' of 2008 - Battle Creek Enquirer
Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:25:00 GMT
For much of this year, I've kept track of some of my favorite quotations that have appeared on the pages of the Battle Creek Enquirer. Some are funny, some are disturbing, some are ...
Tressel provides manual for 'game of life' - Times-Leader
Sun, 21 Dec 2008 02:44:00 GMT
IT ISN'T often that Albert Einstein and former Ohio State Buckeye Chris Gamble are mentioned in the same book, but "The Winners Manual" is unusual. Known as the manual for the game ...
Sign Up for Bleacher Report - Bleacherreport.com
Mon, 22 Dec 2008 02:57:00 GMT
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Quotations Update
George Bernard Shaw
In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
Heywood Broun, Sitting on the World, 1924
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
Jefferson Davis
All we ask is to be let alone.
Anon.
Ama me fideliter Fidem meam noto De corde totaliter Et ex mente tota, Sum presentialiter Absens in remota.
Marcus Valerius Martialis
There is no glory in otustripping donkeys.
Lao Tzu
It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.
Stephen Leacock, "Nonsense Novels",1911
Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
Richard Bach
As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.
William Shakespeare
To die, to sleep --To sleep, perchance to dream, ay there's the rub,For in that sleep of death what dreams may comeWhen we have shuffled off this mortal coil,Must give us pause there's the respectThat makes calamity of so long life.
Deepak Chopra
You cannot stand anywhere in the universe that is outside of yourself.
Albert Schweitzer
As we acquire more knowldege, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: Progress of Culture, 1876
Every artist was first an amateur.
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Today's Quotations:
George Bernard Shaw
In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
Heywood Broun, Sitting on the World, 1924
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
Jefferson Davis
All we ask is to be let alone.
Anon.
Ama me fideliter Fidem meam noto De corde totaliter Et ex mente tota, Sum presentialiter Absens in remota.
Marcus Valerius Martialis
There is no glory in otustripping donkeys.
Lao Tzu
It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.
Stephen Leacock, "Nonsense Novels",1911
Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
Richard Bach
As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.
William Shakespeare
To die, to sleep --To sleep, perchance to dream, ay there's the rub,For in that sleep of death what dreams may comeWhen we have shuffled off this mortal coil,Must give us pause there's the respectThat makes calamity of so long life.
Deepak Chopra
You cannot stand anywhere in the universe that is outside of yourself.
Albert Schweitzer
As we acquire more knowldege, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: Progress of Culture, 1876
Every artist was first an amateur.
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The Recount: No hanging chads, but plenty of hang-ups - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Sun, 21 Dec 2008 15:44:00 GMT
I've had several college courses recently that either included information literacy in the course content or actually were an information … read more literacy course taught by ...
Quotations of the day - Charleston Daily Mail
Sat, 20 Dec 2008 13:29:00 GMT
"I have done nothing wrong. And I'm not going to quit a job that people hired me to do because of false accusations and a political lynch mob. I will fight. I will fight. I will ...
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Albert Einstein
Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the pressure of fear, it would not do.
Walter Bagehot
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
Arthur C. Clarke, 2010
We are just tenants on this world. We have just been given a new lease, and a warning from the landlord.
Friedrich Von Schlegel
In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
Johann von Neumann
You wake me up early in the morning to tell me I am right Please wait until I am wrong.
Unknown
Never frown, even when you're sad, because you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile.
Virgil
Your descendants shall gather your fruits.
Hoshang N. Akhtar
Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
George Eliot
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Chinese Proverb
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
David Hume
If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, "Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number?" No. "Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence?" No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.
William Carlos Williams
If they give you lined paper, write the other way.
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Sat, 20 Dec 2008 13:29:00 GMT
"I have done nothing wrong. And I'm not going to quit a job that people hired me to do because of false accusations and a political lynch mob. I will fight. I will fight. I will ...
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Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:30:00 GMT
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Quotations of the day - Charleston Daily Mail
Sat, 20 Dec 2008 13:29:00 GMT
"I have done nothing wrong. And I'm not going to quit a job that people hired me to do because of false accusations and a political lynch mob. I will fight. I will fight. I will ...
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When George W. Bush became president in 2000, he brought with him a kind of "hey, guy" Christianity that had been quietly booming in megachurches throughout the land. It was ...
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Quotations:
Albert Einstein
Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the pressure of fear, it would not do.
Walter Bagehot
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
Arthur C. Clarke, 2010
We are just tenants on this world. We have just been given a new lease, and a warning from the landlord.
Friedrich Von Schlegel
In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
Johann von Neumann
You wake me up early in the morning to tell me I am right Please wait until I am wrong.
Unknown
Never frown, even when you're sad, because you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile.
Virgil
Your descendants shall gather your fruits.
Hoshang N. Akhtar
Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
George Eliot
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Chinese Proverb
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
David Hume
If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, "Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number?" No. "Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence?" No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.
William Carlos Williams
If they give you lined paper, write the other way.
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Quotations of the day - Charleston Daily Mail
Sat, 20 Dec 2008 13:29:00 GMT
"I have done nothing wrong. And I'm not going to quit a job that people hired me to do because of false accusations and a political lynch mob. I will fight. I will fight. I will ...
Stock & fund quotes - ninemsn
Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:30:00 GMT
The Irish government said it's injecting 5.5 billion euros ($A11.47 billion) into three of Ireland's major banks as part of a recapitalisation rescue package. The financing ...
Quotations of the day - Charleston Daily Mail
Sat, 20 Dec 2008 13:29:00 GMT
"I have done nothing wrong. And I'm not going to quit a job that people hired me to do because of false accusations and a political lynch mob. I will fight. I will fight. I will ...
Rick Warren’s ‘The Purpose-Driven Life’ - Newsweek
Sat, 20 Dec 2008 01:55:00 GMT
When George W. Bush became president in 2000, he brought with him a kind of "hey, guy" Christianity that had been quietly booming in megachurches throughout the land. It was ...
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