Great Famous Quotations

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

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Jules Renard


Failure is not the only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca


It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Solon


In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend.

Publilius Syrus


The judge is condemned when the criminal is absolved.

Richard Buckminster Fuller


Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.

Walter Benjamin


Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.

Kate Chopin


She wanted something to happen - something, anything she did not know what.

Napoleon I


Ability is nothing without opportunity.

Andrew Schneider


I'm grateful to you. If it weren't for you, I'd be in Cicely right now and I'd still be running that rat race, still locked in that commute. I'd be totally stressed, I'd be totally ignorant of what my life could be. I'm happier now than I've ever been.

Nicholas Chamfort


An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

Lyndon B. Johnson


The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends. It should be a place where each individual's dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaciton and warmth which comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man sought at the dawn of civilzation. It is what we seek today.

Zig Ziglar


Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.

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(Updates with European outlook, fresh prices, quotes)

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 06:48:00 GMT
Reuters UK - HONG KONG, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Gold hit a record high just short of $930 an ounce and stock markets rose on Tuesday as the U.S. Federal Reserve prepared to consider a further interest rate cut, which ...

International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:36:37 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.25 january24 Januarydifference New York Dow Jones 12,397.6312,378.61(+19.02) New York NASDAQ Comp.2,372.55 2,360.92(+11.63) TokyoNikkei13,629.1613,092.78(+ 536.3...

Todays Quotes

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:03:00 +0000
Memories, important yesterdays, were once todays. Treasure and notice today. - Gloria Gaither
Do not be so quick to judge or label, for one day the objects of ridicule may become what they are ever so used to being seen as. And when this happens it is too late, another soul has fallen to the cruel ...]

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Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:14:00 GMT
Reuters UK - SEOUL, Jan 29 (Reuters) - LG Chem Ltd (051910.KS: Quote , Profile , Research ) said on Tuesday its fourth quarter net profit rose 49 percent from a year earlier, supported by strong petrochemical ...

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Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus


Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

Margaret Mead


Women want medicore men. and men are working hard to become as medicore as possible.

Author Unknown


Humor - the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.

Thucydides, Peloponnesian War


We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

Henry Ward Beecher


Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.

George Bernard Shaw


Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

Daniel J. Boorstin


More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.

Diogenes Laertius, Zeno


One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus


It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities.

Rose Macauley


You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.

Joe Moore


Before borrowing money from a friend it's best to decide which you need most.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart


Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

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6 Singular Quotes

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 21:58:00 +0000
I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive epochs is like omitting Hamlet from the play which is named after him. . . But it is certainly analogous to cutting out the part of Ophelia. This simile is ...]

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 ...]

Month Quotes

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:23:00 +0000
We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. - Phyllis
…simple fact that any land looks like Eden after months at sea. - Robert Hughes, Fatal Shore
I’m 65 and I guess that puts me in with ...]

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Plutarch, Morals


For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

Albert Einstein


Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Harold Loukes


An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Life is a Dream


What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story,
And the greatest good is little enough:
for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

Anon.


Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.

Charles Franklin Kettering


The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Unknown


You're the one I love to love, hate to hate, love to hate and hate to love.

Trey and Matt Stone Parker


Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable.

Eileen Caddy


Expect your every need to be met, expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level, expect to grow spiritually.

Miles Davis


Do not fear mistakes, there are none.

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Todays Quotes

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:03:00 +0000
Memories, important yesterdays, were once todays. Treasure and notice today. - Gloria Gaither
Do not be so quick to judge or label, for one day the objects of ridicule may become what they are ever so used to being seen as. And when this happens it is too late, another soul has fallen to the cruel ...]

Fine silver quotations Monday: $17.472 ounce

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:48:00 GMT
Canada East - TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Monday $17.472 oz., 561.72 kg.; Friday $17.05 oz., $548.16 kg. Log in to access premium content and features on this site. You may experience problems accessing content. Images ...

Romney Criticizes McCain Legislation

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:24:00 GMT
Seattle Times - Each has dredged up earlier quotes to criticize the other; Romney thumped McCain for admitting less familiarity with the economy than with foreign affairs, and McCain tried to lump Romney with congressional Democrats because he supported private ...

Lesson Quotes

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:36:00 +0000
When you make a mistake, don’t look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. - Phyllis Bottome
If someone breaks your heart, forgive them. For they have helped you ...]

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Lois McMaster Bujold


You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

French Proverb


A father is a banker provided by nature.

David Joseph Schwartz


How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.

Howard Scott


Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.

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Sports quotes of the week

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 05:59:00 GMT
ONE News - "Hey, I didn't win. I would have liked it to be different. But, unfortunately, I don't have a time machine, so I cannot reverse this loss. If any of you have one, please let me know." - VENUS WILLIAMS ...

OVERHEARD: The best quotes from MSU/U-M game (Detroit Free Press)

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:22:06 GMT
The Izzone's "Little Sister" chant may have grabbed all the headlines, but there were other memorable quotes from Sunday's 77-62 Spartan win over Michigan.

International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:51:16 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets....

Overheard at the SAG Awards (AP via Yahoo! News)

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:29:19 GMT
Quotes from Sunday night's Screen Actors Guild Awards:

Compass Logistics Launches New Website for On-line Freight Quotes and Web-based Shipping Tools (PRWeb)

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:29:55 GMT
New interactive website www.compass-logistics.com provides online shipping rates, freight quotes and internet tools for web-based shippers. With this new website, customers can easily obtain competitive freight quotes on any size shipment moving between any points within North America. Customers can also open an account online and download a variety of forms and shipping tools. (PRWeb Jan ...

Great Famous Quotes

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Victor Hugo


Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the souls of men.

Ashley Smith


Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. You are the center of your universe, and you can make anything happen.

Lord Byron


For the sword outwears its sheath,
And the soul wears out the breast,
And the heart must pause for breath,
And love itself have rest.

Marya Mannes


It is not enough to show people how to live better there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.

Alexander Graham


Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

William Shakespeare, "King John", Act 5 scene 7


This England never did, nor never shall,
Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.

Will Durant


Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.

Zsa Zsa Gabor


I know nothing about sex because I was always married.

Napoleon Bonaparte


There are two levers for moving men interest and fear.

George Orwell


All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

Rebecca West


People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

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Todays Quotes

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:03:00 +0000
Memories, important yesterdays, were once todays. Treasure and notice today. - Gloria Gaither
Do not be so quick to judge or label, for one day the objects of ridicule may become what they are ever so used to being seen as. And when this happens it is too late, another soul has fallen to the cruel ...]

Fun with Daughtry Idol Quotes (antiMUSIC)

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 04:06:21 GMT
(antiMusic) Former American Idol contestant and top selling artist of 2007, Chris Daughtry is in a bit of a whirlwind of controversy following a Rolling Stone article where he is quoted as saying that American Idol is in decline.

Peter King: Even with Giants in Super Bowl, Tiki has no regrets (Sports Illustrated)

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:17 GMT
Much of what you read in the lead to this column you won't believe. There is nothing I can do about that. Reminds me of the time last fall when Wade Phillips accused me of making up the quotes he told me about Spygate scarring the Patriots' success this year.

4 Quotes on Fields

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:32:00 +0000
Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them, and they are full of toads. - Logan Pearsall Smith
On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days and other fields will bear the fruits of victory. - General Douglas MacArthur
We shall defend our ...]

Say what? Top Super Bowl quotes from Covers.com's posting forum

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:24:00 GMT
Covers.com - I think the Giants have proven themselves to the betting world as well as the Patriots. There is no doubt in my mind that they can hang within 12 ½ points to cover. It would be awesome to see them ...