Quotations for Today

Today's Quotations:

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Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Krishnamurti


Truth is a pathless land.

Kay Ingram


Women prefer men who have something tender about them -- especially the legal kind.

Harry Emerson Fosdick


He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.

Joni Mitchell, song-The Last Time I Saw Richard


All romantics meet the same fate someday. Cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark cafe.

Christopher Darlington Morley


There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca


All cruelty springs from weakness.

Jillian Graham, Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul


Never let a stain from the past put a mark on your future.

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Report: Hewitt wins all-night epic

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 08:03:00 GMT
BBC News - He played better than me. That's it. No big deal." More press room gold from David Nalbandian ... Aussie Open day five quotes 18 Jan 08 | Tennis

Quotes from the 2008 candidates (Boston Globe)

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 04:07:36 GMT
Quotes from the presidential candidates regarding Saturday's contests: DEMOCRATS

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Mon, 21 Jan 2008 04:42:00 GMT
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.

Robert Louis Stevenson


A friend is a present you give yourself.

Danish proverb


If you would be pope, you must think of nothing else.

Benjamin Franklin


Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

Malcolm S. Forbes


Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.

Warren Earl Burger


We must have a program to learn the way out of prison.

Samuel Johnson


An intellectual improvement arises from leisure.

Robert Louis Stephenson


We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Bhagavad Gita


All created beings are unmanifest in their beginning, manifest in their interim state, and unmanifest again when they are annihilated. So what need is there for lamentation

Frederick William Robertson


The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.

G.K. Chesterton


The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

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10 things you should know about ‘fixed’ charges

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:26:00 GMT
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Quotes from the 2008 presidential candidates (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 03:32:45 GMT
"I guess this is how the West was won." _ New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, to cheering supporters after winning a majority of the popular vote in Nevada.

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
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Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:25:00 GMT
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Virgil


As the twig is bent the tree inclines.

Edward W. Howe


The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark, 1915


There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Charles Baudelaire


It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Isak Dinesen, (Karen Blixen)


I belong to an ancient, idle, wild, and useless tribe... I am a storyteller.

Jerry Van Amerongen, Ballard Street, 08-18-05


I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Napoleon Bonaparte


There are two levers for moving men interest and fear.

Fred Allen


The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.

Golda Meir


Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.

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DSK au FMI : aller "plus vite et plus loin"

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:56:00 GMT
Le Figaro - La révision de la répartition des quotes-parts devra ainsi être réalisée avant avril prochain. Elle règle l'équilibre des forces entre les 185 membres du FMI, et fait l ...

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Fri, 02 Nov 2007 01:23:00 GMT
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Today's Famous Quotes

Famous Quotes:

Rainer Maria Rilke


If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.

Gore Vidal


Never have children, only grandchildren.

Cicero, De Amicitia


The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.

Homer, The Odyssey


The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

Leonardo DaVinci


Iron rusts from disuse water loses its purity from stagnation and in cold weather becomes frozen even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

Michael Flatley


Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success.

Henry Ford


If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Horace Walpole


The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

Sydney Smith


Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

General Robert E. Lee


Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less.

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Recent Articles (Yale Daily News)

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 07:03:03 GMT
The end of Joe Biden’s presidential campaign after the Iowa caucuses was a blow to the Delaware senator’s supporters, staff and — at least in a sense — to Fred Shapiro, author of the “Yale Book of Quotations.”

Fine silver quotations Friday: $17.028 ounce (Canadian Business)

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:48:05 GMT
The Canadian Press January 18, 2008 - 12:36 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Friday $17.028 oz., $547.45 kg.; Thursday $16.88 oz., $542.69 kg.

Fine silver quotations Thursday: $16.88 ounce (Canadian Business)

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:47:45 GMT
The Canadian Press January 17, 2008 - 12:44 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Thursday $16.88 oz., $542.69 kg.; Wednesday $16.787 oz., $539.70 kg.

Fine silver quotations Wednesday: $16.787 ounce (Canadian Business)

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:47:45 GMT
The Canadian Press January 16, 2008 - 12:33 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Wednesday $16.787 oz., $539.70 kg.; Tuesday $17.116 oz., $550.28 kg.

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Check out these Famous Quotations:

Albert Einstein


If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal. Not to people or things.

Rod Serling


It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

Johann Kaspar Lavater


Kiss the hand of him who can renounce what he has publicly taught, when convicted of his error and who, with heartfelt joy, embraces the truth, though with the sacrifice of favorite opinions.

Britney Spears, on her web site, October 2004


My prerogative right now is to just chill and let all the other overexposed blondes on the cover of Us Weekly (magazine) be your entertainment.

Kyle Schmidt


I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.

Mary H. Waldrip


A laugh is a smile that bursts.

Benjamin Franklin


There is no little enemy.

Joyce


Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, making it, or success.

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Quotes from the 2008 candidates (AP via Yahoo! News)

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 03:23:33 GMT
Quotes from the presidential candidates regarding Saturday's contests:

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Quotes From The 2008 Candidates

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 03:24:00 GMT
Guardian Unlimited - ``I guess this is how the West was won.'' - New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, to cheering supporters after winning a majority of the popular vote in Nevada. ``We ran an honest, uplifting campaign ...

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