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Random Quotations
The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - No man ever listened himself out of a job.
- Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)
- Security is a kind of death.
- Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983)
- It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- Humankind cannot stand very much reality.
- T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
- When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.
- Julia Cameron, The Vein of Gold
- Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
- Jonathan Winters
- You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, February 2003
- You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!
- Amy Tan (1952 - )
- The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.
- Henry J. Tillman
- Make your life a mission - not an intermission.
- Arnold Glasgow
- Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
- Anthony Burgess (1917 - 1993)
- When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), The World as I See It.
- It is a sadness of growing older that we lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.
- Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
- I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years.
- Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
- Don’t let the fear of not pleasing someone stop you from being creative.
- Wil Wheaton, WIL WHATON dot NET, 12-07-13
- A person who trusts no one can't be trusted.
- Jerome Blattner
- You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar, "Secrets of Closing the Sale", 1984
- There are worse things than looking stupid. Sleeping through life is one of them.
- Laura Preble, The Queen Geek Social Club, 2006
- Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
- Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987), in Reader's Digest, 1979
- We only know of one duty, and that is to love.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
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