Random Quotations

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944)
We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.
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Nick Faldo
Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.
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Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.
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Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987)
Beauty often seduces us on the road to truth.
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David Shore, House M.D., Occam's Razor, 2004
There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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Dick Cavett (1936 - )
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
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Ben Hecht (1893 - 1964)
Knowing that there is worse pain doesn't make present pain hurt any less.
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Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 03-22-05
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.
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Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
I can't understand it. I can't even understand the people who can understand it.
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Queen Juliana (1909 - 2004), of the Netherlands
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
There is no good lighting that is healthy and for our well being without proper darkness.
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Roger van der Heide, TED: Why light neds darkness
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
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Dennis Miller
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
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Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
It's not the will to win that matters...everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.
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Paul "Bear" Bryant, I Ain't Never Been Nothing but a Winner
The prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from talking.
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Louis Vermeil
Seasons change, so do cities. People come into your life and people go, but it's comforting to know: the ones you love are always in your heart and if you're very lucky, a plane ride away.
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Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, I Heart NY, 2002
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
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William James (1842 - 1910)
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
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Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
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Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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