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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003
- The things you own end up owning you.
- Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Fight Club, 1996
- Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
- Paul Eldridge
- Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at.
- Jimmy Demaret
- I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed.
- Rosie O'Donnell, Today Show interview, 04-08-08
- It's a lot like nature. You only have as many animals as the ecosystem can support and you only have as many friends as you can tolerate the bitching of.
- Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 08-16-05
- Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Eat before shopping. If you go to the store hungry, you are likely to make unnecessary purchases.
- American Heart Association Cookbook
- The trouble with jogging is that, by the time you realize you're not in shape for it, it's too far to walk back.
- Franklin P. Jones
- The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.
- Thorstein Veblen (1857 - 1929)
- Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace.
- Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000
- The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
- It takes hundreds of nuts to hold a car together, but it takes only one of them to scatter it all over the highway.
- Evan Esar (1899 - 1995), Esar's Comic Dictionary
- To be a saint is the exception; to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. Sin is a gravitation.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), 'Les Miserables'
- Ah! Memory impairment: the free prize at the bottom of every vodka bottle!
- Chuck Lorre, Steven Molaro and Eric Kaplan, Big Bang Theory, The Agreement Dissection, 2011
- Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
- Don't fall before you're pushed.
- English Proverb
- An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- I don't really trust a sane person.
- Lyle Alzado (1949 - 1992)
- Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.
- Sophia Loren (1934 - )
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