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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - It's going to come true like you knew it, but it's not going to feel like you think.
- Rosie O'Donnell, Today Show interview, 04-08-08
- We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.
- Marie Ebner von Eschenbach
- I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.
- Marshall McLuhan (1911 - 1980)
- Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream.
- W. S. Gilbert (1836 - 1911)
- all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
- Dale Carnegie
- The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens. We can't be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we're not all there is. If so, we're in big trouble.
- Ellen DeGeneres
- The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.
- Franklin P. Jones
- The things you own end up owning you.
- Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Fight Club, 1996
- Never promise more than you can perform.
- Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
- A friend is a second self.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem, or saying a prayer.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- Washington is the only place where sound travels faster than light.
- C. V. R. Thompson
- If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- History is more or less bunk.
- Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
- To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), De Divinatione
- Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
- Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), The Black Cottage
- I am interested in the homeless, but they're a symptom. You're treating a symptom and the disease rages on and consumes the human race. I'm talking about an overhaul of the system: putting power in different hands.
- Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, 2008
- The arts must be considered an essential element of education... They are tools for living life reflectively, joyfully and with the ability to shape the future.
- Shirley Trusty Corey
- All important persons have about them someone in a subordinate position who has their ear. These dependents are very susceptible to slights, and, when they are not treated as they think they should be, will by well-directed shafts, constantly repeated, poison the minds of their patrons against those who have provoked their animosity. It is well to keep in with them.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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