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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.
- Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
- When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
- Saint Francis de Sales (1567 - 1622)
- Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
- Colin Powell (1937 - )
- I am a galley slave to pen and ink.
- Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
- The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778), Emile, 1762
- Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
- Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
- A minute's success pays the failure of years.
- Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)
- Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
- Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965)
- Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.
- Wernher von Braun (1912 - 1977)
- When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.
- Paul Brown (1908 - 1991)
- It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
- Sally Kempton
- It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.
- David Richerby
- Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.
- Howard Aiken (1900 - 1973)
- Living in the moment brings you a sense of reverence for all of life's blessings.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
- If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.
- Woody Allen (1935 - )
- She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
- Henry James (1843 - 1916)
- She was conscious that the things she did were the things she had always wanted to do.
- Zelda Fitzgerald, 1922
- A man that don't believe in destiny don't need to know what his destiny is.
- Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: Twelve Hours from San Francisco, 08-20-08
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