Quotations for Today

Today's Quotations:

Anna Quindlen


A finished person is a boring person.

Norman Mailer, "Esquire", June 1960


Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

Henry Graham Greene


Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.

Alfred North Whitehead, Introduction to Mathematics (1911)


Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.

Maurice Hulst


We all of us need assistance. Those who sustain others themselves want to be sustained.

Bob Ross


We don't make mistakes here, we just have happy accidents. - from the Joy of Painting

Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)


The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.

Richard Milhous Nixon


The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. ... The new president and his first lady.

Ludwig van Beethoven


I wish you all the good and charm that life can offer. Think of me kindly, and rest assured that no one would more rejoice to hear of your happiness.

R. D. Hitchcock


The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man and without this all other education is good for nothing.

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What'd they say? Google launches new quotes Web site - Detroit Free Press

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:53:00 GMT
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International stock market quotations - Monsters and Critics

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:19:00 GMT
New York Dow Jones 11,284.63 11,268.92 (+ 15.71) New York NASDAQ Comp. 2,244.45 2,228.70 (+ 15.75) Tokyo Nikkei 12,102.50 12,346.63 (- 244.13) Sydney All Ordinaries 4,871.50 4,961.40 (- 89.90) Hong Kong Hang Seng 19,388.72 19,999.78 (- 611.06) London ...

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