Quotes for Today

Today's Quotes:

Caleb Carr


So if it seems that some of what I'll have to say in the pages to come doesn't reflect the mellowing of age, that's only because I've never found that life and memories respond to time the way that tobacco does.

Germaine Greer


Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.

Henri Frdric Amiel


Love is faith, and one faith leads to another.

Tallulah Bankhead


It's the good girls who keep diaries the bad girls never have the time.

Thomas Jefferson


One man with courage is a majority.

Teena Booth


If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.

Epicurus


Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.

George Gurdjieff


Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

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.

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.

Victor Hugo


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

Finley Peter Dunne


An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.

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International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:45:55 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets....

FACTBOX-Iraq war, the notable quotes (AlertNet)

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:15:09 GMT
Source: Reuters March 11 (Reuters) - Following are notable quotes from before and after the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March 2003. * July 11, 2002 - "Support for Saddam, including ...

Quotes of the week (BBC News)

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:27:49 GMT
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Great Quotations

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)

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:36:35 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.March 10 March 7 difference New York Dow Jones 11,857.5511,893.69(-36.14) New York NASDAQ Comp.2,198.04 2,212.49(-14.45) TokyoNikkei12,532.1312,782.80(- 250.67) ...

Quotes from feds prostitution complaint (AP via Yahoo! News)

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:58:08 GMT
Excerpts from the federal complaint that charges four individuals with operating a prostitution ring. The complaint was filed in the Southern District of New York. It is reported that Client-9 is New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer. Temeka Lewis is one of the four defendants. "Kristen" is a prostitute marketed by the Emperors Club under that name, the document says. QAT, mentioned in section 75, is a ...

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Aristotle


We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Signs


Merrill Morgan, this crop stuff is just about a bunch of nerds who never had a girlfriend their whole lives. They're like thirty now. They make up secret codes and analyze Greek mythology and make secret societies where other guys who never had girlfriends can join in. They do stupid crap like this to feel special. It's a scam. Nerds were doin' it twenty five years ago and new nerds are doing it again.

Hiram Powers


Educate the heart -- educate the heart. Let us have good men.

Richard Dawkings:, "The Selfish Gene"


"We are survival machines - robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.

H. L. Mencken


Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.

Isaac Bashevis Singer


We have to believe in free will. Weve got no choice.

Robert Frost


Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things To yield with a grace to reason And bow and accept at the end Of a love or a season.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge


The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

Mark Twain


There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

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London Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:36:55 GMT
London - Closing prices in pence on the London Stock Exchange today. In brackets movement against previous quotation.FT-100 Index5,629.10(- 70.80)(- 1.24%) BAT Industries    1,875.00(+ 52.00)(+ 2.85%) BP Amoco    534.00(+5.50)(+ 1.04%) Diageo        ...

Stock & fund quotes

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:54:00 GMT
ninemsn - NEW YORK, March 11 (Reuters) - High copper and gold prices are the talk of the mining industry right now, but coal is also getting attention as new contract prices for steelmaking ...

FACTBOX - Quotes on N.Y. Gov. Spitzer prostitute report

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:53:00 GMT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Following are comments on reports that New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer hired a $1,000-an-hour (499.3 pounds) prostitute in a scandal that threatens to force his ...

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Frank McKinney Hubbard


The safest way to double your money is to fold it over twice and put it in your pocket.

Confucius


Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Robert Orben


Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some smaller countries are neutral.

Edward Teller


Two paradoxes are better than one they may even suggest a solution.

Horace Mann


Be ashamed to die unless you have won some victory for humanity.

Lawana Blackwell


I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Stanley Marcus


Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.

Francis Quarles


Be wisely worldly, be not worldly wise.

W.C. Fields


A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

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F1: Australia preview quotes: Williams (autosport.com)

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:53:04 GMT
Australia preview quotes: Williams

Elsevier.nl - Economie - Quotes van topmoeders en topvaders

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:03:00 GMT
Elsevier - Hoe doen vrouwen in topfuncties het als moeder en baas, volgens hun kinderen? Vraag het hen en je krijgt lang niet altijd diplomatieke antwoorden.

F1: Australia preview quotes: Toyota (autosport.com)

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:23:14 GMT
Australia preview quotes: Toyota

AD.nl - Sport - 'Zelfmoord. Geen sprake van!'

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:00:00 GMT
Algemeen Dagblad - QUOTES] Opmerkelijke, kritische en ontroerende uitspraken van sporters en sportliefhebbers, verzameld door de redactie van AD Sportwereld.

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Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:55:00 GMT
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Daily Quotations

Today's Quotations:

Groucho Marx


I like my cigar, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while.

Marcus Tullius Cicero


A home without books is a body without soul.

Karl Kraus


Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well.

Bertolt Brecht


Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

Newt Gingrich


I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.

George Orwell


To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Albert Einstein


As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

Swami Sivanada


When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

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FACTBOX - Quotes on N.Y. Gov. Spitzer prostitute report

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:53:00 GMT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Following are comments on reports that New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer hired a $1,000-an-hour (499.3 pounds) prostitute in a scandal that threatens to force his ...

Enjoy the wit and wisdom of Will Rogers

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:06:00 GMT
Mexia Daily News - Many of his quotations are included in Will Rogers Says - Favorite Quotations Selected by the Will Rogers Memorial Staff published by Quaid Publishing LLC.

Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:36:45 GMT
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: DAX 6,448.08 (-65.91) MDAX8,528.43 (- 286.27) Adidas 40.60 (+0.61) Allianz 108.70 (-2.44) BASF ...

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