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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Beauty often seduces us on the road to truth.
- David Shore, House M.D., Occam's Razor, 2004
- Anybody who has doubts about the ingenuity or the resourcefulness of a plumber never got a bill from one.
- George Meany
- Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.
- Paul Tillich (1886 - 1965), The Courage to Be
- The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.
- Leo Rosten (1908 - )
- The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape...
- Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
- Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.
- William Wirt (1772 - 1834)
- Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
- Jim Horning
- When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- The report of my death was an exaggeration.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), New York Journal, June 2, 1897
- Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Life of Boerhaave
- If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'The First Part of King Henry the IV'
- An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
- Somebody once asked me if I have anything like faith, and I said I have faith in the narrative. I have a belief in a narrative that is bigger than me, that is alive and I trust will work itself out.
- Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13
- A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
- Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)
- I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.
- Henny Youngman (1906 - 1998)
- I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.
- Simone de Beauvoir
- I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
- There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961), New Yorker, Feb. 4, 1939, "The Fairly Intelligent Fly"
- It's not about the writing. It's about the feelings behind the words.
- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
- The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), in Christian Science
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