Random Quotations

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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.
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Luisa Sigea, O Magazine, September 2003
I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
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Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
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Emo Phillips
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902)
All television is children's television.
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Richard P. Adler
There's something amazing about the passion of youth and its power to sustain. If there's a more powerful energy source, I don't know about it.
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Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
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Eugene McCarthy (1916 - 2005)
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
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Eudora Welty (1909 - )
You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others.
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Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
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Dave Barry (1947 - )
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth…Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
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Noela Evans
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
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H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
The cure for writer's cramp is writer's block.
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Inigo DeLeon
Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
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Susan Ertz, Anger in the Sky
Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?
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Peter McWilliams, Life 101
The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
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Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
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Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004
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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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