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Random Quotations
The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.
- Steven Wright (1955 - )
- The secret of being boring is to say everything.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- You gotta dream? You gotta protect it. People can't do somethin' themselves, they wanna tell you you can't do it. If you want somethin', go get it, period.
- Steven Conrad, Pursuit of Happyness, 2006
- What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
- P. D. James, Time to Be in Earnest
- The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
- When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
- Norm Crosby
- What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.
- Lucretius (96 BC - 55 BC), De Rerum Natura
- This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.
- Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)
- Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.
- Shakti Gawain
- Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
- Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 03-13-05
- It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought.
- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
- Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.
- Juvenal (55 AD - 127 AD)
- With Epcot Center the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn't think possible in today's world. They have created a land of make-believe that's worse than regular life.
- P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
- Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
- M. Scott Peck, O Magazine, February 2004
- I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it.
- Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
- I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do?
- Ronnie Shakes
- A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man; it is what he wants and must have to be good for anything. Hardship and opposition are the native soil of manhood and self-reliance.
- John Neal
- Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
- Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
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