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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Politics and the English Language", 1946
- We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.
- Ethel Barrett
- One of the things about being a grown-up is learning how to act right even when you feel wrong.
- Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
- Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
- Marcus Valerius Martialis (40 AD - 103 AD)
- Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
- Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944)
- The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
- An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
- Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
- Robert Orben
- The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- Better to look weak and be strong than to look strong and be weak.
- Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: 35 Minutes from Home, 05-19-12
- I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
- E. V. Lucas
- Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
- Dave Barry (1947 - )
- It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
- What you will do matters. All you need is to do it.
- Judy Grahn, Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds, 1984
- What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pine
- Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.
- Robert Byrne
- Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
- Margaret Atwood (1939 - ), Cat's Eye, 1988
- Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
- Ben Hecht (1893 - 1964)
- The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
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