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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.
- Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), speaking of Katharine Hepburn
- It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
- David Broder
- Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning.
- Marlo Thomas
- Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson
- My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), Speech in Detroit, 7 Oct. 1952
- If you ever start to feel too good about yourself, they have this thing called the Internet, and you can find a lot of people there who don't like you.
- Tina Fey, Golden Globes Acceptance Speech, 2009
- Act as if it were impossible to fail.
- Dorothea Brande
- I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.
- Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), Here Lies (1939), "The Little Hours"
- We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.
- Martha Grimes
- Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
- John Wilmot
- I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), Speech during 1952 Presidential Campaign
- Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.
- Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
- Home is where the heart is, so your real home's in your chest.
- Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, 2008
- I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
- I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
- Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
- Memories can be sad, but sometimes they can also save you.
- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
- I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.
- Garry Trudeau (1948 - )
- I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.
- Patricia Moyes
- It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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