Great Famous Quotations

Thursday, February 07, 2008

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Quotations:



Sir Walter Scott


Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive

Dag Hammarskjold


Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.

Jeff Pesis


Hardware the parts of a computer that can be kicked.

I Ching


Water, everywhere over the earth, flows to join together. A single natural law controls it. Each human is a member of a community and should work within it.

Branch Rickey/ Dogers GM (1943-50)


Thou shall not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, thou shall steal and thou must.

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International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:38:00 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets....

TEAM REPORTS (DAYTONA, NC.) - RCR SHOOTOUT NOTES/QUOTES (The Auto Channel)

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:38:40 GMT
* This Week’s Jack Daniel’s Chevrolet at Daytona International Speedway … Clint Bowyer will pilot Chassis No. 221 from the Richard Childress Racing (RCR) stable in this year’s Budweiser Shootout.

Famous Quotations Update

Today's Famous Quotations:



Quintilian


Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

James J. Roche


Be not surprised if thou findest thyself in possession of unexpected wealth. Allah will provide an unexpected use for it.

Roger Zelazny


Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

Ken Wisdom


A person determined never to be wrong won't likely accomplish much.

Edward E. Hale


I am only one, but I am one. I can not do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I can not do interfere with what I can do.

Roald Dahl


We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.

Homer, The Odyssey


A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

Carl Zwanzig


Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together ...

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ASX goes mobile with first dedicated share trading site

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:47:00 GMT
CIO.de - Users can trade both Australian Stock Exchange (ASX-listed) equities and options and view live watch lists and stock quotes while managing existing orders.

In quotes: Super Tuesday (BBC News)

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 08:47:03 GMT
Reaction to the Super Tuesday results.

Famous Quotations for Today

Today's Famous Quotations:



Ralph Waldo Emerson


Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm.

Elliot Wayne Eisner


We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being poor at what you do is seldom corrected nor penalized.

Dorothy Parker


I went to a convent in New York and was fired finally for my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion.

Thich Nhat Hanh


The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth.

John Keats


I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affection and the truth of imagination.

O. Henry


It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.

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Quotes from the candidates (AP via Yahoo! News)

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:46:40 GMT
Quotes from the candidates on Super Tuesday's presidential nominating contests:

A life in six words? Fantastic

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:35:00 GMT
Daily Telegraph - It's frequently attributed to the late American wit Ogden Nash, though The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations plays safe and ascribes it to "Anon". (Its title, it seems, is either "Fleas" or "On the ...

Great Famous Quotes

Famous Quotes:



Thomas Fuller


Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

Arthur Godfrey


Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Plato


So as this only point among the rest remaineth sure and certain, namely, that nothing is certain.

William Goldman, The Princess Bride


Life is pain, anyone who says differently is selling something.

Albert Ellis, founder of Rational Emotive Therapy


People and things do not upset us, rather we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.

J. Bartlett Brebner


Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.

Franck Sebastian


The world loves to be deceived.

Shakti Gawain


When we create something, we always create it first in a thought form. If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioning pleasure, satisfaction and happiness, we will attract and create people, situations, and events which conform to our positive expectations.

Charles Lindbergh


Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

Akira Kurosawa


In a mad world only the mad are sane.

Anon.


Hit any user to continue.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


When you die, if you get a choice between going to regular heaven or pie heaven, choose pie heaven. It might be a trick, but if it's not, ummmm, boy.

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Quotations of the day

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:05:00 GMT
International Herald Tribune - "We've had eight years of an administration that has basically destroyed America's image." — Peter Gardiner, an American living in Indonesia and voting from Jakarta, saying this year's election is ...

Peters announces racing safety fund grants

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:21:00 GMT
Scoop - The following applications were approved, conditional on supplying appropriate quotes for the work: - $38,750 to the Cambridge -Te Awamutu Harness Racing Club for lowering light bulkheads to eliminate ...

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Straight to the Quotations ...



John Stuart Mill


War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

Aesop, The Goose with the Golden Eggs


Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find - nothing.

William Penn


True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

Blaise Pascal


Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

C. Neil Strait


A man can go on without wealth, and even without purpose, for a while. But he will not go on without hope.

Jefferson Davis


All we ask is to be let alone.

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Term Life Insurance Quotes and Coverage Selection Available Online ...

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:03:00 GMT
dBusinessNews.com - Columbus - Term Life Insurance Site Makes Online Comparison of Coverage Options Easy Columbus, Ohio, January 31, 2008 -- DirectInsurance.com offers convenient term life insurance quotes and coverage ...

Quotes, Boxscore After Tennessee's Win Over Florida

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 09:23:00 GMT
Chattanoogan - KNOXVILLE -- Tennessee rolled past defending national champion Florida, 104-82, in an SEC men's basketball game Tuesday night. Tennessee Head Coach Bruce Pearl: "What a great game. Anybody who talks ...