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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying?
- Shantideva
- There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Mrs. Warren's Profession" (1893), act III
- In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
- Paul Dirac (1902 - 1984)
- We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
- All my possessions for a moment of time.
- Elizabeth I (1533 - 1603)
- I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.
- Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, 2005
- Ever tried? Ever failed? No Matter, try again, fail again, Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989)
- Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
- One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- I believe that uncertainty is really my spirit's way of whispering, "I'm in flux. I can't decide for you. Something is off-balance here."
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, June 2003
- New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.
- David Letterman (1947 - )
- Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
- Larry McMurtry (1936 - ), 'Lonesome Dove'
- Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!'
- Ellen DeGeneres, on Oprah Winfrey 1995
- People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
- Russell Baker (1925 - )
- Some days you're a bug, some days you're a windshield.
- Price Cobb
- What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
- Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939)
- I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first.
- Josiah Quincy
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