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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
- Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
- I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.
- Woody Allen (1935 - )
- What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
- Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)
- When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
- Anais Nin (1903 - 1977)
- I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
- Pat Conroy (1945 - )
- The bars of West Hollywood and New York are awash with people throwing their lives away in the desperate hope of finding a shortcut, any shortcut. And a lot of them aren't even young anymore; their B-plans having been washed away by Vodka & Tonics years ago.
Meanwhile their competition is at home, working their asses off. - Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 14. Dying young is overrated., 08-22-04
- The first time I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider it.
- Joan Rivers (1935 - )
- The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887), "Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit", 1887
- At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.
- P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975), Uneasy Money
- Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
- Arab Proverb
- You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
- Sam Levenson (1911 - 1980)
- If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
- Vince Lombardi (1913 - 1970)
- Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.
- Stella Benson
- And that's the world in a nutshell, an appropriate receptacle.
- Stan Dunn
- You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others.
- Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992
- There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.
- Marshall McLuhan (1911 - 1980)
- Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you--if you don't play, you can't win.
- Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
- Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), letter to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, July 18, 1864
- Years ago my mother said to me, 'In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant.' For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant.
- Mary Chase (1887 - 1973), Elwood P. Dowd (Jimmy Stewart) in "Harvey", 1950
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