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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.
- Roseanne Barr
- Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
- Theophrastus (372 BC - 287 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
- What happens when the future has come and gone?
- Robert Half
- Only the mediocre are always at their best.
- Jean Giraudoux (1882 - 1944)
- The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.
- Martha Graham (1894 - 1991)
- Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.
- John L. Motley (1814 - 1877)
- People who are 'ready' give off a different vibe than people who aren't. Animals can smell fear; maybe that's it.
The minute you become ready is the the minute you stop dreaming. Suddenly it's no longer about 'becoming'. Suddenly it's about 'doing'. - Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 28. Power is never given. Power is taken., 08-22-04
- Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time.
- Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
- Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- I don't want to talk as much. It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over.
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
- Thomas Jones (1892 - 1969)
- The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
- Anne Tyler (1941 - ), Celestial Navigation
- My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can. That's almost $7.00 in dog money.
- Joe Weinstein
- For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
- Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941)
- The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
- Henry S. Haskins
- If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!
- Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
- I have seen flowers come in stony places
And kind things done by men with ugly faces And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races, So I trust too. - John Masefield (1878 - 1967)
- Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
- Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
- Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.
- Diane Wakoski
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