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Random Quotations
The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
- Clarence Thomas (1948 - )
- Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
- It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.
- Dame Rose Macaulay (1881 - 1958)
- After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager."
- William S. Burroughs (1914 - 1997)
- [Spring is] when life's alive in everything.
- Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
- Desire, ask, believe, receive.
- Stella Terrill Mann
- I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.
- Joan Didion (1934 - )
- If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)
- To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
- Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
- Do not consider painful what is good for you.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
- Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
- It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
- Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, July 7, 2003
- Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
- Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
- I'm not worried about the bullet with my name on it... just the thousands out there marked 'Occupant.'
- Unknown
- Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.
- Leon Trotsky (1879 - 1940)
- Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
- Doug Larson
- The first time I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider it.
- Joan Rivers (1935 - )
- The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
- Bret Harte (1836 - 1902)
- A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.
- Dan Rather (1931 - )
- Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
- Bill Cosby (1937 - )
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