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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - I can't bring myself to say, 'Well, I guess I'll be toddling along.' It isn't that I can't toddle. It's just that I can't guess I'll toddle.
- Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
- In many cases, the more you try to compete, the less competitive you actually are.
- Kathy Sierra, Creating Passionate Users, 07-22-06
- If the fans don't wanna come out to the ballpark, no one can stop 'em.
- Yogi Berra (1925 - ), as quoted by Joe Garagiola on the Jack Paar show, NBC 1963
- 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.
- Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992
- When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
- Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
- Clifton Fadiman (1904 - 1999)
- By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
- Eve Babitz
- Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
- Sir Robert Hutchinson
- Never miss a chance to keep your mouth shut.
- Robert Newton Peck, 'A Day No Pigs Would Die'
- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
- Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992), Salvor Hardin in "Foundation"
- Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007)
- The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959), 1908
- When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
- Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)
- The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its enemies is lunch.
- Michael Friedman
- History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
- Abba Eban (1915 - 2002)
- I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.
- Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976), An Autobiography, 1977
- I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.
- Leo Rosten (1908 - )
- I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours.
- Monica Baldwin
- Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
- Alan Dean Foster, "To the Vanishing Point"
- Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963), Vedanta for the Western World, 1945
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