Favorite Quotations
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Latest greatest Quotes
Mignon McLaughlin
The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.
Harry Hershfield
New York: where everyone mutinies but no one deserts.
Walt Whitman
I see great things in baseball. It's our game--the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
All cruelty springs from weakness.
French Proverb
He that does not ask will never get a bargain.
William A. Smith, 1908
Engineering is the science of economy, of conserving the energy, kinetic and potential, provided and stored up by nature for the use of man. It is the business of engineering to utilize this energy to the best advantage, so that there may be the least possible waste.
Alan Stewart Paton
Who knows why we live, and struggle, and die... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
Scott Adams
I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.
Hellen Keller
Toleration is the greatest gift of mind, it requires that same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Cheyenne Proverb
A danger foreseen is half-avoided.
More Quotes
Quotations of the day - Charleston Gazette
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:26:00 GMT
"Giving Hamas a respite just to regroup, rearm is a mistake.'' The pressure on the Hamas military machine must continue.'' -- Mark Regev, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, in regard to Israel's rejection of a 48-hour truce proposal ...
Canadian dollar closed at 82.10 cents US, up 0.20 of a cent - Canada East
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:52:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar closed at 82.10 cents US, up 0.20 of a cent on Wednesday. The U.S. dollar stood at 121.80 cents Canadian, down 0.30 of a cent. Pound sterling closed C$1.7749, up 1.19 cents and US$1.4572, up 1.33 cents. The euro was ...
where to turn for refuge - Lucianne.com
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:57:00 GMT
"War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over." "War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want." These are quotations from Gen. William T. Sherman. He ...
U.S. Department of Treasury - Chicago Tribune
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:04:00 GMT
The struggling financing arm of General Motors Corp., rescued by $5 billion in federal aid, plans to use some of the money to make cars and trucks more affordable to a larger pool of customers. GMAC LLC on Tuesday promised to loosen its tight lending ...
What Barack Obama, Britney Spears, President Bush, Sarah Palin ... - US News and World Report
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:57:00 GMT
With apologies for liberally adapting some famous quotations, here are my fantasies about what a few names in the news might have said over the New Year's holiday: (1) President-elect Barack Obama on his victory: "Nothing is impossible for a man if ...
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Here are the Quotes ...
Mignon McLaughlin
The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.
Harry Hershfield
New York: where everyone mutinies but no one deserts.
Walt Whitman
I see great things in baseball. It's our game--the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
All cruelty springs from weakness.
French Proverb
He that does not ask will never get a bargain.
William A. Smith, 1908
Engineering is the science of economy, of conserving the energy, kinetic and potential, provided and stored up by nature for the use of man. It is the business of engineering to utilize this energy to the best advantage, so that there may be the least possible waste.
Alan Stewart Paton
Who knows why we live, and struggle, and die... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
Scott Adams
I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.
Hellen Keller
Toleration is the greatest gift of mind, it requires that same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Cheyenne Proverb
A danger foreseen is half-avoided.
More Quotes
Quotations of the day - Charleston Gazette
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:26:00 GMT
"Giving Hamas a respite just to regroup, rearm is a mistake.'' The pressure on the Hamas military machine must continue.'' -- Mark Regev, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, in regard to Israel's rejection of a 48-hour truce proposal ...
Canadian dollar closed at 82.10 cents US, up 0.20 of a cent - Canada East
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:52:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar closed at 82.10 cents US, up 0.20 of a cent on Wednesday. The U.S. dollar stood at 121.80 cents Canadian, down 0.30 of a cent. Pound sterling closed C$1.7749, up 1.19 cents and US$1.4572, up 1.33 cents. The euro was ...
where to turn for refuge - Lucianne.com
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:57:00 GMT
"War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over." "War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want." These are quotations from Gen. William T. Sherman. He ...
U.S. Department of Treasury - Chicago Tribune
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:04:00 GMT
The struggling financing arm of General Motors Corp., rescued by $5 billion in federal aid, plans to use some of the money to make cars and trucks more affordable to a larger pool of customers. GMAC LLC on Tuesday promised to loosen its tight lending ...
What Barack Obama, Britney Spears, President Bush, Sarah Palin ... - US News and World Report
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:57:00 GMT
With apologies for liberally adapting some famous quotations, here are my fantasies about what a few names in the news might have said over the New Year's holiday: (1) President-elect Barack Obama on his victory: "Nothing is impossible for a man if ...
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Famous Quotes Update
Sovereign
In all things there are three choices: Yes, No & no choice, except in this -- I either choose the truth or I am deceit.
Jeff Melvoin
Ed, we just witnessed a peaceful transition in government. Do you realize how miraculous that is...Today, tiny Cicely, Alaska, stood up and put another W in the win category for democracy.
Epicharmus
Judgement, not passion should prevail.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
Amy Vanderbilt
Everyone knows that a man can always marry even if he reaches 102, is penniless, and has all his faculties gone. There is always some woman willing to take a chance on him. (from the Complete Book of Etiquette, 1952)
Charlotte Bronte
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
Kin Hubbard
Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
Thomas Edison
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Seneca
The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.
More Quotes
Canadian dollar opens at 81.46 cents US, down 0.44 of a cent - Canada East
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:20:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar opened at 81.46 cents US this morning, down 0.44 of a cent. The U.S. dollar stood at 122.76 cents Cdn, up 0.66 of a cent. Pound sterling worth C$1.7921, up 2.91 cents, and US$1.4598, up 1.59 cents. The Euro was worth C$1 ...
Do Immigration Concerns Equal Racism? - Spectator.org
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:50:00 GMT
At its September board meeting, the National Council of Churches approved a resolution essentially supporting virtually open borders for the U.S, ascribing support for border control to "fear" and racism. "We acknowledge the ease with which we as ...
U.S. Department of Treasury - Chicago Tribune
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:04:00 GMT
The struggling financing arm of General Motors Corp., rescued by $5 billion in federal aid, plans to use some of the money to make cars and trucks more affordable to a larger pool of customers. GMAC LLC on Tuesday promised to loosen its tight lending ...
Reflections of an eternal optimist - Zd Net Asia.com
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:50:00 GMT
We are left with very few hours of 2008 – a rather volatile and difficult year for most of us. I have been meeting quite a few people of late – business tycoons, fund managers, senior executives at multinational firms, consultants and lots of ...
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Here are the Famous Quotes ...
Sovereign
In all things there are three choices: Yes, No & no choice, except in this -- I either choose the truth or I am deceit.
Jeff Melvoin
Ed, we just witnessed a peaceful transition in government. Do you realize how miraculous that is...Today, tiny Cicely, Alaska, stood up and put another W in the win category for democracy.
Epicharmus
Judgement, not passion should prevail.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
Amy Vanderbilt
Everyone knows that a man can always marry even if he reaches 102, is penniless, and has all his faculties gone. There is always some woman willing to take a chance on him. (from the Complete Book of Etiquette, 1952)
Charlotte Bronte
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
Kin Hubbard
Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
Thomas Edison
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Seneca
The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.
More Quotes
Canadian dollar opens at 81.46 cents US, down 0.44 of a cent - Canada East
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:20:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar opened at 81.46 cents US this morning, down 0.44 of a cent. The U.S. dollar stood at 122.76 cents Cdn, up 0.66 of a cent. Pound sterling worth C$1.7921, up 2.91 cents, and US$1.4598, up 1.59 cents. The Euro was worth C$1 ...
Do Immigration Concerns Equal Racism? - Spectator.org
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:50:00 GMT
At its September board meeting, the National Council of Churches approved a resolution essentially supporting virtually open borders for the U.S, ascribing support for border control to "fear" and racism. "We acknowledge the ease with which we as ...
U.S. Department of Treasury - Chicago Tribune
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:04:00 GMT
The struggling financing arm of General Motors Corp., rescued by $5 billion in federal aid, plans to use some of the money to make cars and trucks more affordable to a larger pool of customers. GMAC LLC on Tuesday promised to loosen its tight lending ...
Reflections of an eternal optimist - Zd Net Asia.com
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:50:00 GMT
We are left with very few hours of 2008 – a rather volatile and difficult year for most of us. I have been meeting quite a few people of late – business tycoons, fund managers, senior executives at multinational firms, consultants and lots of ...
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More Famous Quotations
Dick Houser
When you're a lawyer, you expect your client to lie to you, but not when he is the president.
Tom Stoppard
The days of the digital watch are numbered.
Joe Jacobs
We was robbed!
Edward Dahlberg
We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.
Simondes of Ceos
The city is the teacher of the man.
William James Lampton
Same old slippers, Same old rice, Same old glimpse of paradise.
George W. Bush, On TV, about his passing out eating a pretzel
Chew before you swallow.
Albert Einstein
Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted fate.
Granni Nazzano
My only hobby is laziness, which naturally rules out all others.
Publilius Syrus
Speech is a mirror of the soul as a man speaks, so is he.
More Quotes
Quotations of the day - Charleston Gazette
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:26:00 GMT
"Giving Hamas a respite just to regroup, rearm is a mistake.'' The pressure on the Hamas military machine must continue.'' -- Mark Regev, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, in regard to Israel's rejection of a 48-hour truce proposal ...
Increase in Injured Worker Benefits - It's About Fairness - CNW Group
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:56:00 GMT
McGuinty Government Helps Injured Workers TORONTO, Dec. 31 /CNW/ - NEWS Ontario is helping workers who have been injured on the job by increasing their Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) benefits by two-and-a-half per cent as of January 1 ...
Martin Chemnitz Press Releases New Edition of Catholic, Lutheran ... - Earthtimes
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:28:00 GMT
GLENDALE, Ariz. , Dec. 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Martin Chemnitz Press has released a new edition of Catholic, Lutheran, Protestant, A Comparison of Three Christian Confessions, by Gregory L. Jackson . The book emerged from an adult class for ...
Barr Street work nearly complete From staff reports - FortWayne.com
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:00:00 GMT
The Barr Street streetscape improvement project, running from Main to Wayne streets, is nearly complete with the final components currently being added, Mayor Tom Henry’s office reported Tuesday. Two special features, the “Reflection Totem” and ...
Lance Armstrong's Tour de Big Island - San Francisco Gate
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:49:00 GMT
Many celebrities love the seclusion and luxurious resorts of Hawaii's Big Island; Lance Armstrong also likes the climbs. While others are spending their Hawaiian holidays lying on the beach, the seven-times champion of the Tour de France has been ...
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Check out these Famous Quotations:
Dick Houser
When you're a lawyer, you expect your client to lie to you, but not when he is the president.
Tom Stoppard
The days of the digital watch are numbered.
Joe Jacobs
We was robbed!
Edward Dahlberg
We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.
Simondes of Ceos
The city is the teacher of the man.
William James Lampton
Same old slippers, Same old rice, Same old glimpse of paradise.
George W. Bush, On TV, about his passing out eating a pretzel
Chew before you swallow.
Albert Einstein
Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted fate.
Granni Nazzano
My only hobby is laziness, which naturally rules out all others.
Publilius Syrus
Speech is a mirror of the soul as a man speaks, so is he.
More Quotes
Quotations of the day - Charleston Gazette
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:26:00 GMT
"Giving Hamas a respite just to regroup, rearm is a mistake.'' The pressure on the Hamas military machine must continue.'' -- Mark Regev, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, in regard to Israel's rejection of a 48-hour truce proposal ...
Increase in Injured Worker Benefits - It's About Fairness - CNW Group
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:56:00 GMT
McGuinty Government Helps Injured Workers TORONTO, Dec. 31 /CNW/ - NEWS Ontario is helping workers who have been injured on the job by increasing their Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) benefits by two-and-a-half per cent as of January 1 ...
Martin Chemnitz Press Releases New Edition of Catholic, Lutheran ... - Earthtimes
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:28:00 GMT
GLENDALE, Ariz. , Dec. 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Martin Chemnitz Press has released a new edition of Catholic, Lutheran, Protestant, A Comparison of Three Christian Confessions, by Gregory L. Jackson . The book emerged from an adult class for ...
Barr Street work nearly complete From staff reports - FortWayne.com
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:00:00 GMT
The Barr Street streetscape improvement project, running from Main to Wayne streets, is nearly complete with the final components currently being added, Mayor Tom Henry’s office reported Tuesday. Two special features, the “Reflection Totem” and ...
Lance Armstrong's Tour de Big Island - San Francisco Gate
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:49:00 GMT
Many celebrities love the seclusion and luxurious resorts of Hawaii's Big Island; Lance Armstrong also likes the climbs. While others are spending their Hawaiian holidays lying on the beach, the seven-times champion of the Tour de France has been ...
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Quotations for Today
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
A funny thing is if you're out hiking and your friend gets bit by a poisonous snake, tell him you're going for help, then go about ten feet and pretend YOU got bit by a snake. Then start an argument about who's going to get help. A lot of guys will start crying. That's why it makes you feel good when you tell them it was just a joke.
Bertrand Russell
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Gustave Flaubert
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
Henry James
She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.
Anthony Burgess
I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.
Albert Einstein
The wirless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but is also a disruption of thought.
Ignazio Silone, The God That Failed (1950)
Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority--literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
Clint Eastwood, Movie: "A Fistful of Dollars," 1964
Once a man has some money, peace begins to sound good to him.
Isaac Asimov
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. . .
More Quotations
Überfall auf Zeltlager: "Es war nichts Persönliches" - Hessisch-Niedersächsische Allgemeine
Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:58:00 GMT
Kassel. Die Opfer hatten sich vermummt: Mit Sonnenbrille, Schals vor dem Gesicht und Kapuzen auf dem Kopf betraten gestern die 13-jährige S. und ihr 23 Jahre alter Stiefbruder ...
A Christmas gift worth remembering - Payson Roundup
Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:29:00 GMT
I must admit, I’m not a big fan of the “Your Roundup” blog on our newspaper’s Web site. It’s a good idea and probably is needed but, in my opinion, there are a few users who spoil the blog for almost everyone with their negative ...
Athens Olympics Memorabilia
Sat, 12 Jan 2008 04:44:42 +0000
GREECE 2004 ATHENS OLYMPIC GAMES TORCH RELAY RARE SET
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click for more information
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SQL-Injection - Angriff und Abwehr - Heise
Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:35:00 GMT
Webshops, News-Boards, Groupware- und Content-Management-Systeme setzen Datenbanken ein, um darin Kundendaten, Artikel und Texte abzulegen. Oft trifft der Besucher solch einer ...
You learnt it all at school - but how much do you remember? Test your ... - Daily Mail
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:01:00 GMT
As our brains become addled with the detritus of our adult lives - bus timetables, children's shoe sizes, interest rates - the knowledge we acquired at school often seems swamped. At the time we learned it, anyway, much of it seemed irrelevant. It's ...
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Here are the Quotations ...
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
A funny thing is if you're out hiking and your friend gets bit by a poisonous snake, tell him you're going for help, then go about ten feet and pretend YOU got bit by a snake. Then start an argument about who's going to get help. A lot of guys will start crying. That's why it makes you feel good when you tell them it was just a joke.
Bertrand Russell
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Gustave Flaubert
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
Henry James
She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.
Anthony Burgess
I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.
Albert Einstein
The wirless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but is also a disruption of thought.
Ignazio Silone, The God That Failed (1950)
Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority--literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
Clint Eastwood, Movie: "A Fistful of Dollars," 1964
Once a man has some money, peace begins to sound good to him.
Isaac Asimov
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. . .
More Quotations
Überfall auf Zeltlager: "Es war nichts Persönliches" - Hessisch-Niedersächsische Allgemeine
Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:58:00 GMT
Kassel. Die Opfer hatten sich vermummt: Mit Sonnenbrille, Schals vor dem Gesicht und Kapuzen auf dem Kopf betraten gestern die 13-jährige S. und ihr 23 Jahre alter Stiefbruder ...
A Christmas gift worth remembering - Payson Roundup
Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:29:00 GMT
I must admit, I’m not a big fan of the “Your Roundup” blog on our newspaper’s Web site. It’s a good idea and probably is needed but, in my opinion, there are a few users who spoil the blog for almost everyone with their negative ...
Athens Olympics Memorabilia
Sat, 12 Jan 2008 04:44:42 +0000
GREECE 2004 ATHENS OLYMPIC GAMES TORCH RELAY RARE SET
US $2,699.99
click for more information
...]
SQL-Injection - Angriff und Abwehr - Heise
Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:35:00 GMT
Webshops, News-Boards, Groupware- und Content-Management-Systeme setzen Datenbanken ein, um darin Kundendaten, Artikel und Texte abzulegen. Oft trifft der Besucher solch einer ...
You learnt it all at school - but how much do you remember? Test your ... - Daily Mail
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:01:00 GMT
As our brains become addled with the detritus of our adult lives - bus timetables, children's shoe sizes, interest rates - the knowledge we acquired at school often seems swamped. At the time we learned it, anyway, much of it seemed irrelevant. It's ...
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