Random Quotations

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Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
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George Saunders, last words
It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
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Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882), Hyperion, 1839
The body is a sacred garment.
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Martha Graham (1894 - 1991)
Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money.
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Joey Bishop (1918 - )
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
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Trieu Thi Trinh
What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing--to live in accord with his nature.
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Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
Avoidance is a great tool to get away from food in my face all day long.
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Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
Creativity is...seeing something that doesn't exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God.
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Michele Shea
I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience.
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John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.
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Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879 - 1962), "Discovery", 1964
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
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Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
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Jackson Pollock (1912 - 1956)
Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.
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Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
Any ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can't see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't design or ordain.
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Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004
The particular human chain we're part of is central to our individual identity.
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Elizabeth Stone
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
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Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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