Favorite Quotations
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Daily Quotations
Pericles, from Plutarch, Lives
Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
Rainer Maria Rilke
For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Sir Winston Churchill, Radio speech, 1939
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.
Leonard Bernstein
Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.
Lyndon B. Johnson
I won't have you electioneering on my doorstep. Every time you get in trouble in Parliament you run over here with your shirttail hanging out. (To Prime Minister Harold Wilson)
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.
Kulawiec
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
John Updike
The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.
Yiddish Proverb
Truth never dies, but lives a wretched life.
Arabic Parable
Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble.
Blaise Pascal, "Lettres provinciales", letter 16, 1657
I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
Murray Edelman, _Politics as Symbolic Action_, p. 1
Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes.
More Quotations
Sydney Olympic Games 2000 Memorabilia
Sat, 12 Jan 2008 04:46:01 +0000
SYDNEY 2000 OLYMPIC GAMES - OLYMPIC RELAY TORCH
US $2,396.10
click for more information
...]
ΒΆ 3:25 AM 0 comments
Today's Quotations:
Pericles, from Plutarch, Lives
Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
Rainer Maria Rilke
For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Sir Winston Churchill, Radio speech, 1939
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.
Leonard Bernstein
Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.
Lyndon B. Johnson
I won't have you electioneering on my doorstep. Every time you get in trouble in Parliament you run over here with your shirttail hanging out. (To Prime Minister Harold Wilson)
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.
Kulawiec
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
John Updike
The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.
Yiddish Proverb
Truth never dies, but lives a wretched life.
Arabic Parable
Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble.
Blaise Pascal, "Lettres provinciales", letter 16, 1657
I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
Murray Edelman, _Politics as Symbolic Action_, p. 1
Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes.
More Quotations
Sydney Olympic Games 2000 Memorabilia
Sat, 12 Jan 2008 04:46:01 +0000
SYDNEY 2000 OLYMPIC GAMES - OLYMPIC RELAY TORCH
US $2,396.10
click for more information
...]
ΒΆ 3:25 AM 0 comments
