Great Famous Quotations

Friday, February 29, 2008

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Arnold Toynbee


The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

William H. Mauldin


I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

Theodore Roethke


I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.

John Locke


A dreamer lives forever, And a toiler dies in a day.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton


A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

A. E. Housman


In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

Sun-tzu


Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.

e e cummings


Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

T. S. Eliot, The Rock


Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

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Boom in green stock quotations

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:33:00 GMT
Copenhagen Capacity - The Danish stock market is facing a number of stock quotations from companies, working within sustainable energy. In spite of the last few months’ turbulence on the stock market ...

Stock & fund quotes

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:57:00 GMT
ninemsn - Rising interest rates are having a dampening impact on demand for credit, but economists say this will not stop the Reserve Bank of Australia from raising interest rates next week ...

Fine silver quotations Wednesday: $19.626 ounce (Canadian Business)

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:53:11 GMT
The Canadian Press February 27, 2008 - 12:37 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Wednesday $19.626 oz., $630.98 kg.; Tuesday $18.975 oz., $610.05 kg.

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Stella Terrill Mann


Every time we say, Let there be in any form, something happens.

Irish Proverb


Better be quarreling than lonesome.

Calvin Coolidge


All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

Albert Einstein


I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

Benjamin Disraeli


Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.

Woody Allen


I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Swedish Carol


Dear brightest star o'er Bethlehem, O let your precious light shine in with hope and peace toward men in every home tonight.

Robert Ardrey


Human war has been the most successful of our cultural traditions.

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Avici Systems shares gain in premarket trading on strong 4Q results

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:48:00 GMT
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Global Cash Access buys Certegy Gaming Services for $25 million

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:41:00 GMT
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Nikita Khrushchev


If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for-to bite when he feels like it (On military preparedness)

Lou Vickery


Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe that they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever searching and striving to become the best they possibly can. If we seek the average level, we cannot hope to achieve a higher level of success. Our only hope is to avoid being a failure.

General Omar Bradley


Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.

Louise Nevelson


It is as hard to take success as it is failure.

Bill Cosby


Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.

Andy & Larry Wachowski, Merovingian - The Matrix Revolutions


It is remarkable how similar the pattern of love is to the pattern of insanity.

John Gay


Cowards are cruel, but the brave
Love mercy, and delight to save.

Rainer Maria Rilke


Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

Yugoslav Proverb


A good rest is half the work.

Andre Gide


It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

Bennett Alfred Cerf


Censor a self-appointed snoophound who sticks his nose in other people's business.

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Pourquoi eux et pas nous?

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:11:00 GMT
Cyberpresse - ... demandaient au maire Labeaume de leur permettre d'étaler le paiement des frais qu'ils doivent à la Ville de Québec pour les services municipaux que nous leur rendons (quotes ...

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Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:17:00 GMT
Le Devoir - En vertu de l’application de la Loi 6, adoptée par l’Assemblée nationale plus tôt cette année, la fiscalité d’agglomération a été remplacée par des quotes-parts qui ...

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Scott Alexander, film writer and director


All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying,losing, cheating, and mediocrity are easy. Stay away from easy.

John C. Maxwell


A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.

Heraclitus


If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.

Homer, The Odyssey


We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.

Mark Twain


I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.

Michel de Montaigne


Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose if you belittle yourself, you are believed if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.

George W. Bush Jan. 21, 2001, Inauguration speech


....it is better to succeed with success than failure.

Theodore Roosevelt, An Autobiography


Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare

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Reporting: London

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 06:56:00 GMT
American Reporter - The paper is known to invent stories and quotations on occasion, however. The project would be "a big blow to al-Qaeda," as it would send the message that the heart of terrorism ...

Quotes remembering Steelers broadcaster Myron Cope (USA Today)

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 07:36:39 GMT
A sampling of what friends, fans and Pittsburgh Steelers had to say about Myron Cope, who died Wednesday at age 79:

Stock & fund quotes

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:25:00 GMT
ninemsn - LONDON, Feb 28 (Reuters) - A dispute over marketing rights held by mining group Xstrata's biggest shareholder is threatening a possible takeover by Brazil's Vale worth around $90 ...