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I love stuff as much as the next guy, but I’ve come to understand that, regardless of the cost of acquiring it, the price of having it is freedom.: Colleen Wainwright, Communicatrix, 06-23-09
- More quotations on: [Possessions]
I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, September 2002
- More quotations on: [Dreams] [Service]
I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.: Rita Rudner
Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
We are none of us infallible--not even the youngest of us.: W. H. Thompson
- More quotations on: [Youth]
Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.: Marston Bates
The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.: Maya Angelou (1928 - )
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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On a lazy Saturday morning when you're lying in bed, drifting in and out of sleep, there is a space where fantasy and reality become one. Are you awake, or are you dreaming? You see people and things; some are familiar; some are strange. You talk, you feel, but you move without walking; you fly without wings. Your mind and your body exist, but on separate planes. Time stands still. For me, this is the feeling I have when ideas come.: Lynn Johnston (1947 - ), Lynn on Ideas
- More quotations on: [Morning]
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
A month in the laboratory can often save an hour in the library.: Frank Westheimer, Westheimers Discovery
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.: Mark Russell (1932 - )
Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
- More quotations on: [Failure]
I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. Then I'm gonna put pins into all the locations that I've traveled to. But first, I'm gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won't fall down.: Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think interior decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.: Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805)
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A single day is enough to make us a little larger.: Paul Klee (1879 - 1940)
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Neither enemy faces, nor the mothers that love them, come to mind when one is thinking of nothing but endeavouring to survive. Philosophising about war is useless under fire.: Linda Berdoll, Mr. Darcy Takes A Wife, 2004
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Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.: Saskya Pandita
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I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.: Rita Rudner