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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
- Agnes de Mille (1909 - 1993)
- Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
- Scandinavian Proverb
- Every crowd has a silver lining.
- Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810 - 1891)
- There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
- Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
- Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?
- Josh Brand and John Falsey, Northern Exposure, The Pilot, 1990
- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself.
- Louis L'Amour (1908 - 1988), 'Bendigo Shafter'
- I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
- Mae West (1892 - 1980)
- You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.
- Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Fight Club, 1996
- There is no remedy for love but to love more.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Journal, July 25, 1839
- You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
- Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
- Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
- Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
- Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do, you'll put a touch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces. You'll love it into greatness.
- Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
- No good deed goes unpunished.
- Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987)
- Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
- Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
- Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
- Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.
- Jimmy Breslin
- Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
- Brian Adams
- Love is the reason for it all.
- Dorothy Fields
- Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home. - John Howard Payne (1791 - 1852)
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