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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.
- Robin Norwood
- Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.
- William Baziotes
- One picture is worth a thousand words.
- Fred R. Barnard
- The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
- If living conditions don't stop improving in this country, we're going to run out of humble beginnings for our great men.
- Russell P. Askue
- No good deed goes unpunished.
- Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987)
- The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
- Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart
- I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.
- Joanna Field
- And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), As You Like It, Act II, Scene i, Lines 15-17
- The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.
- Gordon Parks
- Death likes it when you play hard to get.
- Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 09-20-12
- Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), New York TImes, Apr. 29, 1930
- The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.
- Robert J. Sawyer (1960 - ), "Calculating God", 2000
- If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.
- Carl Schurz (1829 - 1906)
- The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950), Polemic, May 1946, "Second Thoughts on James Burnham"
- When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
- Bernard Bailey
- You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
- Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
- Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight.
- Barbara Schapiro, O Magazine, May 2003
- Frequency of a tragedy does not diminish the wound when it is your own.
- Linda Berdoll, Mr. Darcy Takes A Wife, 2004
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