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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
- Peter McArthur
- I don’t think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.
- Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 20, 2003
- The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.
- Gordon Parks
- Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, September 2002
- It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
- Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
- John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
- I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), Speech during 1952 Presidential Campaign
- Acts of sacrifice and decency without regard to what's in it for you create ripple effects. Ones that lift up families and communities, that spread opportunity and boost our economy.
- Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
- Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey (1881 - 1965), Lecture title, 1950
- The first rule of life is to reveal nothing, to be exceptionally cautious in what you say, in whatever company you may find yourself. If you have a secret, you have only to whisper it to your dearest friend with the strictest injunction that it will go no further, and within half a day the story is all over town, and when you do make what would seem to be a perfectly sensible remark, you will find it reported in the most grotesque form, thus incurring no end of criticism to rebound upon you.
- Elizabeth Aston, The Darcy Connection, 2008
- Life is just a bowl of pits.
- Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)
- There is only one real deprivation, I decided this morning, and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
- May Sarton
- Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.
- L. L. Henderson
- It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
- J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973), The Fellowship of the Ring
- I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
- George Burns (1896 - 1996)
- Please do not be cynical. I hate cynicism. For the record, it’s my least favorite quality. It doesn’t lead anywhere.
- Conan O'Brien, Final Tonight Show Speech, 2010
- The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- Such friendship at once enhances the lustre of prosperity, and by dividing and sharing adversity lessens its burden.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), On Friendship, 44 B.C.
- Any ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can't see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't design or ordain.
- Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004
- Good writing takes more than just time; it wants your best moments and the best of you.
- Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com weblog, 10-09-04
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