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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - The future is much like the present, only longer.
- Dan Quisenberry
- Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
- Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
- If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
- Jay Leno (1950 - )
- One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "The Apple Cart" (1930), act I
- The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
- Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)
- Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude.
- Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923)
- I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people.
- Mary S. Calderone
- Water is the most neglected nutrient in your diet but one of the most vital.
- Kelly Barton
- When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.
- W. S. Gilbert (1836 - 1911)
- You can't please all of the people all of the time, and last night all of those people came to my show.
- Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005), stand-up
- There isn’t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren’t really living without it.
- Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, August 27, 2003
- A finished person is a boring person.
- Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
- Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
- Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
- If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.
- Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004
- There are more of them than us.
- Herb Caen
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
- Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888), 'Sohrab and Rustum,' 1853
- Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
- This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.
- Hortense Calisher
- Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.
- William Penn (1644 - 1718)
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