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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
- Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 05, 2004
- Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
- Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)
- Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616)
- Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
- Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
- First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.
- Helmuth von Moltke (1800 - 1891)
- They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- The wisest men follow their own direction.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
- Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
- Stephen King (1947 - ), "Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully - in Ten Minutes", 1988
- I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809), The Crisis, no. 1
- The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
- William James (1842 - 1910)
- As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
- M. Cartmill
- You try to give away what you want yourself.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
- We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
- Cullen Hightower
- To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
- Mary Pettibone Poole, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, 1938
- Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
- Carrie Fisher (1956 - )
- My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892
- Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.
- Penn Jillette (1955 - )
- When love is gone, there's always justice.
And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom! - Laurie Anderson
- I read part of it all the way through.
- Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
- The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.
- Jane Wagner
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