Famous Quotes Update

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Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes


God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.

Philip Guedalla


Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

John Milton


How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year

Rainer Maria Rilke


For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Bob Marley


Open your eyes and look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're livin'

Mark Twain


Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

Lester Bangs


The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if the answer is no.

Henry J. Kaiser


Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

Seneca


I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

Jonathan Swift, A Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind (1709)


There is nothing in this world constant, but inconsistancy.

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Stock & fund quotes

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:09:00 GMT
ninemsn - LONDON, March 13 (Reuters) - Oil held steady above $110 on Thursday, trading just below a record high as a weak dollar overshadowed an increase in U.S. crude inventories. U.S ...

AG: Give us time to investigate EPA

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:42:00 GMT
IPP Media - The AG responded that the team was currently probing the office bearers of the implicated firms, so as to identify the specific individuals who submitted the quotations to BoT.

Right priorities: Motivational book asks: What would you do if you had ...

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:26:00 GMT
Carroll County Online - The preponderance of religious imagery and Bible quotations makes the book seem particularly aimed toward a Christian market. But Shook said "One Month to Live" is not solely for ...

Stock & fund quotes

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:42:00 GMT
ninemsn - SYDNEY, March 13 (Reuters) - The Australian dollar briefly jumped to its highest in more than a week against a broadly weak U.S. dollar on Thursday, after a strong jobs report for ...

Stellar HBO cast lifts low-key history lesson

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:50:00 GMT
Buffalo News - ... in “Michael Clayton” as a burned-out lawyer, practically steals the show as a witty Ben Franklin, whose every line seems to belong (and probably is) in Bartlett’s quotations.

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Maxim Gorky


A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

Abigail Adams, letter to John Adams, 1774


We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

Robert Anton Wilson


It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Democracy in America, 1992


The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.

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Right priorities: Motivational book asks: What would you do if you had ...

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:26:00 GMT
Carroll County Online - The preponderance of religious imagery and Bible quotations makes the book seem particularly aimed toward a Christian market. But Shook said "One Month to Live" is not solely for ...

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Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:38:00 GMT
International Herald Tribune - "I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and violates my — or any — sense of right and wrong." — New York Gov. Elliot Spitzer apologizing to his ...

Stock & fund quotes

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:42:00 GMT
ninemsn - SINGAPORE, March 13 (Reuters)- The Asia-Pacific crude market ticked higher on Thursday, as the arbitrage opened with a Stybarrow cargo sold to the U.S. and as Indonesia ramped up ...

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Isaac Newton


If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

Robert Southey


How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.

Euripides


Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Gypsy Smith


You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table.

Orison Swett Marden


All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

Joe Moore


If you want to make certain a job gets done, give it to somebody who is really busy. They'll have their secretary do it.

Virginia


One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Rudyard Kipling


I always prefer to believe the best of everybody - it saves so much trouble.

Maurice Chevalier


Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Anne Sexton


Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort.

Logan Pearsall Smith


The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

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Right priorities: Motivational book asks: What would you do if you had ...

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:26:00 GMT
Carroll County Online - The preponderance of religious imagery and Bible quotations makes the book seem particularly aimed toward a Christian market. But Shook said "One Month to Live" is not solely for ...

Stock & fund quotes

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:42:00 GMT
ninemsn - SYDNEY, March 13 (Reuters) - The Australian dollar briefly jumped to its highest in more than a week against a broadly weak U.S. dollar on Thursday, after a strong jobs report for ...

Canadian dollar closed 0.32 of a cent higher to 100.99 cents US

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:14:00 GMT
Canada East - Pound sterling closed at C$2.0077, up 1.62 cents and US$2.0276, up 2.27 cents. The euro was worth C$1.5408, up 1.95 cents. Quotations provided by BMO Nesbitt Burns, Capital Markets

Carl Bernstein criticizes press' 'idiot culture'

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:22:00 GMT
Santa Cruz Sentinel - In a less formal talk a few hours before his speech, Bernstein said, "One of the problems in this campaign is a lack of precision in terms of quotations and context.

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Meryl Streep


Integrate what you believe into every single area of your life.

Sophia Loren


Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.

Edward Thorndike


Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.

Stephen


Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life.

Ken Olsen, President, Digital Equipment, 1977


There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature"


The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eyes and the heart of the child.

Lowell Duckett


Gun control has not worked in D.C. The only people who have guns are criminals. We have the strictest gun laws in the nation and one of the highest murder rates. It's quicker to pull your Smith & Wesson than to dial 911 if you're being robbed.

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Carl Bernstein criticizes press' 'idiot culture'

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:22:00 GMT
Santa Cruz Sentinel - In a less formal talk a few hours before his speech, Bernstein said, "One of the problems in this campaign is a lack of precision in terms of quotations and context.

Ukrainian News Agency

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:11:00 GMT
Ukrainian News - According to dealers of commercial banks, at the beginning of the trading session the quotations fluctuated within 5.0280-5.0350 UAH/USD, then fell to 5.0300-5.0320 UAH/USD and by ...

Caught in trap of their own words

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:40:00 GMT
Baltimore Sun - As we head toward the exit, please note the donation box to your right, our last stop today is the Foyer of Famous Quotations, each relating to hypocrisy.

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Robert Browning


To do good thing in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.

Confucius


What the superior man seeks is in himself what the small man seeks is in others.

Robyn Davidson


The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of an endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.

John Irving


To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.

Confucius


He who learns but does not think, is lost He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Claude Adrien Helvetius


Genius is nothing but continued attention.

Dean Gordon Brown


Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the possession of the capacity to get elegant solutions to non-existent engineering problems; engineering is practicing the art of the organized forcing of technological change... Engineers operate at the interface between science and society...

Kenneth Hildebrand


Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.

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La vie en noir

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 06:25:00 GMT
Minnesota Daily - ... You'll be Dead," David Shields examines the experience uniting the whole of the human race: death and its inescapability. The book, a jumble of biological statistics, quotations and

Canadian dollar closed 0.32 of a cent higher to 100.99 cents US

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:14:00 GMT
Canada East - Pound sterling closed at C$2.0077, up 1.62 cents and US$2.0276, up 2.27 cents. The euro was worth C$1.5408, up 1.95 cents. Quotations provided by BMO Nesbitt Burns, Capital Markets

La vie en noir

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 06:25:00 GMT
Minnesota Daily - ... You'll be Dead," David Shields examines the experience uniting the whole of the human race: death and its inescapability. The book, a jumble of biological statistics, quotations and

Debate team stays grounded

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:57:00 GMT
Vallejo Times-Herald - Under the rules of impromptu speaking, contestants are allowed two minutes to prepare a five-minute speech on one of three quotations, such as "Don't be afraid your life will end ...

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