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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - You can make those promises with just as much passion the second time around. Such is the regenerative power of the human heart.
- Marion Wink, O Magazine, 2003
- [Memory is] a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
- Alexander Smith (1830 - 1867)
- Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's 'St. Matthew's Passion' on a ukulele.
- Bagdikian's Observation
- Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
- Minna Thomas Antrim
- Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778)
- Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
- It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
- Italian Proverb
- Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904 - 1967), speaking of Albert Einstein
- Frequency of a tragedy does not diminish the wound when it is your own.
- Linda Berdoll, Mr. Darcy Takes A Wife, 2004
- There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
- Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
- We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.
- Vincent Canby, on the Academy Awards
- Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
- True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.
- Jennifer Aniston, O Magazine, February 2004
- To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
- Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure.
- Bible, Old Testament
- I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
- Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
- Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
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