Great Famous Quotations

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Great Famous Quotations

Famous Quotations:



Joe Moore


As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit and parking as close to the stadium as possible.

Author Unknown


Where we go and what we do advertises what we are.

Sean O'Casey


What time has been wasted during man's destiny in the struggle to decide what man's next world will be like The keener the effort to find out, the less he knew about the present one he lived in.

Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde


When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.

Hannah Arendt


Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

Mark Twain


A verb has a hard enough time of it in this world when it is all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it a way over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German.

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In the women's mags: Royal shenanigans and lady love

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:32:00 GMT
New Zealand Herald - Fortunately, the magazine quotes a palace source as saying whatever may have happened between the pair is now over. Britney remains a favourite in the magazines after another meltdown. New Idea reveals ...

4 Lift Quotes

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:11:00 +0000
Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, for he has no one to help lift him up. - Ecclesiastes 4910 Bible
I hold before you my hand with each ...]

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Stephen Hawking


We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

Marchioness Townsend


Never tell a man you can read him through and through; most people prefer to be thought enigmas.

Armand Jean du Plessis Richelieu


Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.

Ambrose Bierce


Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

Rolfe Neill


Reading transports me. I can go anywhere and never leave my chair. It lets me shake hands with new ideas.

Robert A. Heinlein


Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.

Conte Camillo Benso di Cavour


I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me.

Cesare Pavese


We do not remember days, we remember moments.

Daniel Webster


If we work upon marble, it will perish if we work upon brass, time will efface it if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity.

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Fine silver quotations Friday: $17.126 ounce (Canadian Business)

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:02:11 GMT
The Canadian Press January 11, 2008 - 12:45 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Friday $17.126 oz., $550.60 kg.; Thursday $16.719 oz., $537.52 kg.

Aussie Open quotes (BBC News)

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:49:31 GMT
"With my website, I'm really interactive. I've written a lot of things about me"

Daily Famous Quotations

Today's Famous Quotations:



George W. Bush, State of the Union address, January 20, 2004


I believe that God has planted in every human heart the desire to live in freedom. And even when that desire is crushed by tyranny for decades, it will rise again.

George Washington


There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves.

Albert Eintein, World As I See It, 1934 - referring to the military system


That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed.

Henry Steele


Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.

Dave Barry


You can say any fool thing to a dog, and the dog will give you this look that says, My God, you're RIGHT I NEVER would've thought of that'

Carl Sandburg


The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown in "Peanuts"


Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Cicero


Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.

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Gewinnen ohne Risiko

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 19:36:00 GMT
Capital - Das Joint Venture von Deutscher Börse und SWX Group liefert Kurse und Quotes in Echtzeit. Hier geht es zu den Spielregeln und Teilnahmebedingungen.

Quotes about Architecture

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:02:00 +0000
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton
In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, High-Tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit-if totally different in form-from all the romantic architecture of ...]

Inflation wird handelbar

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:46:00 GMT
Boerse Online - In dieser Zeit dürften die Hauptumsätze getätigt werden. Ansonsten erfolgt ein kontinuierlicher Handel, bei dem Marketmaker auf Preisanfragen handelbare Quotes stellen.

Consistent Quotes

Sat, 05 Jan 2008 21:10:00 +0000
The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency. - Henry David Thoreau
He who consistently plans each day will journey successfully through all of life’s years. - Drew Eric Whitman
Delores breezed along the surface of her life like a flat stone forever skipping along smooth water, rippling reality sporadically but oblivious to ...]

Today's Quotes

Quotes:



Hortense Calisher


This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Albert Einstein


Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.

Lois McMaster Bujold


Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We're not giving up. We're waiting for a better opportunity to win.

Publilius Syrus


It is only the ignorant who despise education.

B. J. Gupta


Any activity that adversely affects society is immoral.

Joseph Baretti


I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

John Dryden


Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are.

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes


Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.

John Henry Newman


Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, But rather that it shall never have a beginning.

Benjamin Franklin


Who is rich? He who is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Aristotle


Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

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Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:59:00 GMT
Reuters UK - RIYADH, Jan 14 (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush discussed concerns about the high price of oil in talks with Gulf Arab leaders during his Middle East tour, a senior White House official said ...

The Krugman Factor (Washington Post)

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:49:08 GMT
You might expect Barack Obama, as one of the more liberal candidates in the race, to be feeling the love from the left-wing blogosphere, where Hillary Clinton is not exactly a favorite.

ART REVIEW

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:06:00 GMT
Deccan Herald - Jogen Chowdhury’s charcoal drawings were appropriated elegantly but somewhat literally by Rajesh Pratap Singh and Viki Sardesai in a play with black surfaces and embossed or silver quotations from ...

In the women's mags: Royal shenanigans and lady love

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:32:00 GMT
New Zealand Herald - Fortunately, the magazine quotes a palace source as saying whatever may have happened between the pair is now over. Britney remains a favourite in the magazines after another meltdown. New Idea reveals ...

Fine silver quotations Thursday: C$16.719 ounce (Canadian Business)

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:18:01 GMT
The Canadian Press January 10, 2008 - 1:07 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Thursday $16.719 oz., $537.52 kg.; Wednesday $16.515 oz., $530.96 kg.

Famous Quotes Update

Here are the Famous Quotes ...



The Best of the Best (motion picture)


To save a Life in defeat, is to receive Victory and Honor.

Steven Wright


What's another word for Thesaurus

Rene Descartes


Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire


Le sens commun n'est pas si commun (Common sense is not so common)

Edward R. Murrow


A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.

George Orwell, 1984


One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

Jonathan Swift


Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

J. K. Rowling


It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

Robert Frost


The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

Douglas Lurtan


When you determined what you want, you have made the most important decision of your life. You have to know what you want in order to attain it.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy


The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistant, persuasive and unrealistic.

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Report: Cell phone explosion may have killed man

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 06:42:00 GMT
CIO.de - The report quotes an unnamed police official as saying, "we presume that the cell phone battery exploded," but the official spoke on the condition of anonymity because the ...

Consistent Quotes

Sat, 05 Jan 2008 21:10:00 +0000
The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency. - Henry David Thoreau
He who consistently plans each day will journey successfully through all of life’s years. - Drew Eric Whitman
Delores breezed along the surface of her life like a flat stone forever skipping along smooth water, rippling reality sporadically but oblivious to ...]

INTERNATIONAL MOTORSPORTS EVENT SCHEDULE - 2008 (The Auto Channel)

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:12:59 GMT
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4 Lift Quotes

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:11:00 +0000
Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, for he has no one to help lift him up. - Ecclesiastes 4910 Bible
I hold before you my hand with each ...]

Year in quotes (Monroe County Clarion)

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:44:28 GMT
Here is what people were saying around Columbia in 2007: