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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
- Randall Jarrell (1914 - 1965)
- I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.
- Sharon Salzberg
- We can aspire to anything, but we don't get it just 'cause we want it. I would rather spend my life close to the birds than waste it wishing I had wings.
- Eli Attie, House M.D., Dying Changes Everything, 2008
- Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
- Redd Foxx (1922 - 1991)
- Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details.
- William Feather (1908 - 1976)
- You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
- Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
- A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark,' Act III, scene ii
- Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
- Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
- Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825)
- It's very strange when the life you never had flashes before your eyes.
- Terri Minsky, Sex and the City, The Baby Shower, 1998
- The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
- Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)
- Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
- Gore Vidal (1925 - )
- Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
- Paul Fix
- The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.
- Gordon Atkinson, reallivepreacher.com weblog, September 4, 2003
- The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.
- David Starr Jordan (1851 - 1931)
- An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
- Alfred A. Knopf
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