Random Quotations

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Doing nothing is very hard to do ... you never know when you're finished.
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Leslie Nielsen (1926 - )
Health is not simply the absence of sickness.
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Hannah Green
When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.
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Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
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Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD)
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
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Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004
Maybe because it's entirely an artist's eye, patience and skill that makes an image and not his tools.
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Ken Rockwell, Your Camera Does Not Matter, 2005
But seduction isn’t making someone do what they don’t want to do. Seduction is enticing someone into doing what they secretly want to do already.
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Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant weblog, 11-29-05
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
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D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930)
God help those who do not help themselves.
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Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
Mistakes and disappointment make the sweet things in life that much sweeter.
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Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
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P. D. James, Time to Be in Earnest
To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.
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Michael Hanson
To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
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H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.
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Henry Allen
Sometimes it is the quiet observer who sees the most.
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Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
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Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978)
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)
Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
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Arnold Lobel
I only know two pieces; one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't.
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Victor Borge (1909 - 2000)
Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
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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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