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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
- When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
- Thomas Szasz, "The Second Sin"
- He not busy being born is busy dying.
- Bob Dylan (1941 - )
- Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.
- Ernest Benn
- Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.
- Robert Sternberg
- The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
- Casey Stengel (1890 - 1975)
- Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.
- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946)
- You would not think that birds who have no brain at all could become so friendly. I swear some of them are more intelligent than many humans, but that says more about our fellow beings than it does about the birds.
- Elizabeth Aston, The Second Mrs. Darcy, 2007
- I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.
- Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
- When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
- Brendan Behan (1923 - 1964)
- An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
- John Buchan (1875 - 1940)
- I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
- Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991)
- It's noble to want to confess, but if the results are just damage and pain, that's not noble. It's selfish.
- Carol Green, House M.D., Adverse Events, 2008
- ...myopia. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.
- John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
- Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.
- Malcolm X (1925 - 1965), Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
- I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
- Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
- Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
- Looks are part of business. A businessman should never stand out more than his customers. His mannerisms, his clothes, everything about him... Moderation is the key.
- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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