Quotes Update

Today's Quotes:

Proverbs 1532 Bible


He who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains understanding.

Helen Thomson


A cat does not want all the world to love her -- only those she has chosen to love.

Jim


Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

William Blake


When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!

Lucius Annaeus Seneca


No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

Thomas Szasz


People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

Lao-Tzu


The softest things in the world to overcome the hardest things in the world.

Anthony Jay


The only real training for leadership is leadership.

Benjamin Franklin


Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment.

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International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:51:15 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.New York Dow Jones 12,533.2512,548.64(-15.39) New York NASDAQ Comp.2,332.94 2,326.75(+ 6.19) TokyoNikkei12,745.2212,480.09(+ 265.13) Sydney All Ordinaries 5,355....

International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:36:05 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets....

International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:51:15 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.New York Dow Jones 12,533.2512,548.64(-15.39) New York NASDAQ Comp.2,332.94 2,326.75(+ 6.19) TokyoNikkei12,745.2212,480.09(+ 265.13) Sydney All Ordinaries 5,355....

The views of Pennsylvania Catholics (AP via Yahoo! News)

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:05:33 GMT
Quotes from Pennsylvania Catholics who are planning to vote in the state's Democratic primary on April 22:

UPDATE: Fighting Slows Iraq's S Oil Output, Exports -Sources (Nasdaq)

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:23:50 GMT
(Adds details, quotes, Iraqi government reaction.) AMMAN -(Dow Jones)- The ongoing military operations in the oil hub Basra have slowed down Iraq's crude oil production and exports from southern oil fields, an Iraqi official with the South Oil Company and a shipping agent said Thursday.

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Famous Quotations Update

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Chris Thyberg


Sorry for the disaster. And thanks for your patience!

Carl Lotus Becker


All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any.

Oliver L. North


I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance ... was a neat idea.

Joe Lewis


I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.

Rodney Dangerfield


My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.

William James


The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.

Margot Asquith


Truthfulness with me is hardly a virtue. I cannot discriminate between truths that and those that don't need to be told.

H. L. Mencken


Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing they die earlier.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton


If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.


Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.

James Lileks


Ill feel that horrible feeling in my stomach you get when youve gone over to the Dark Side. But Ill be fine. Thats the good thing about the Dark Side. Eventually, your eyes adjust.

Albert Einstein


A storm broke loose in my mind.

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Fine silver quotations Monday: $18.24 ounce (Canadian Business)

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:38:07 GMT
The Canadian Press March 24, 2008 - 1:34 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Monday $18.24 oz., $586.42 kg.; Thursday $18.365 oz., $590.43 kg.

International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:51:15 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.New York Dow Jones 12,533.2512,548.64(-15.39) New York NASDAQ Comp.2,332.94 2,326.75(+ 6.19) TokyoNikkei12,745.2212,480.09(+ 265.13) Sydney All Ordinaries 5,355....

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Daily Famous Quotes

Today's Famous Quotes:

James Thurber


I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.

Jerry Della Femina


I'm hard-nosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah, if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter, and then one day somebody gives you a job, you can say, Gee, I was lucky I happened to go up there today. But, dammit, I was going to go up there sooner or later in the next seventy years. If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost make your own fortune.

William Congreve


Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.

Roosevelt, Eleanor


I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiousity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Marcel Archard


The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn


Own only what you can carry with you know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Lewis Grizzard


The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.

John Updike


If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and earning money.

Neil Postman


The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in one page.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld


Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.

Hazrat Ali Ibn-e-Abi Talib, Nahj-ul-Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation)


Be generous but not extravagant, be frugal but not miserly.

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Fine silver quotations Wednesday: $19.215 ounce (Canadian Business)

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:08:19 GMT
The Canadian Press March 26, 2008 - 12:59 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Wednesday $19.215 oz., $617.76 kg.; Tuesday $18.641 oz., $599.31 kg.

Astronauts prepare to land shuttle in Florida (AlertNet)

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:11:43 GMT
Source: Reuters (Updates with quotes; changes dateline from Houston, byline) By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., March 26 (Reuters) - The shuttle Endeavour astronauts packed gear and turned off equipment on ...

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Today's Quotes

Quotes:

Bob Edwards


Now I know what a statesman is he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.

John Holt


...since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Phyllis


Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Juvenal, Satires


The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses!

Henrik Ibsen, Norweigen Playwright


Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.

Henry Louis Mencken


Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are once in a blue moon, and men seem wise and brave, which they never are at all. Throttle it, denaturalize it, take it away, and human existence would be reduced to the prosiac, laborious, boresome, imbecile level of life in an anthill.

Martin Luther King, Jr.


We shall have to repent in this generation , not so much for the evil deeds of the wicked people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

Lucy Montgomery


Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about It just makes me feel glad to be alive -- it's such an interesting world.

Pirates of the Caribbean The Curse of the Black Pearl


Jack When you marooned me on that god forsaken spit of land, you forgot one very important thing, mate I'm Captain Jack Sparrow.

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France may send more troops to Afghanistan-Sarkozy (AlertNet)

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:25:53 GMT
Source: Reuters (Adds details, quotes) LONDON, March 26 (Reuters) - France will send more troops to Afghanistan to help fight the Taliban and al Qaeda if certain conditions are met by NATO, President Nicolas ...

International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:36:05 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets....

Safety panel's independence in doubt (Middletown Times Herald-Record)

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 06:08:42 GMT
BUCHANAN — Critics are flashing "air quotations" around Indian Point's new "independent" safety evaluation panel.

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Famous Quotes for Today

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Gelett Burgess


The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992


Actions have consequences...first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions.

Father Larry Lorenzoni


The average person thinks he isn't.

Confucius


To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.

James M. Barrie


God gave us memory that we might have roses in December.

John Kenneth Galbraith, Guardian (London, 28 July 1989)


In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.

Colonel Morgan, In response to the British demand of the surrender of Fort Washington


Actuated by the most glorious cause that mankind ever fought in, I am determined to defend this post to the very last extremity.

Seneca


What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing--to live in accord with his nature.

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Quotes & Comments (Western Herald)

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:30:59 GMT
"At the end of the game I want him to be breathless and remember what team he played against and how hard he worked." - Michael Flowers, Wisconsin's senior defensive specialist, about getting ready to defend Davidson star Stephen Curry, who is averaging 25.5 points per game.

Safety panel's independence in doubt (Middletown Times Herald-Record)

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 06:08:42 GMT
BUCHANAN — Critics are flashing "air quotations" around Indian Point's new "independent" safety evaluation panel.

GOP report questions whether Rocket lied (AP via Yahoo! News)

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:32:17 GMT
The Roger Clemens vs. Brian McNamee dispute over whether the seven-time Cy Young Award winner took performance-enhancing drugs has become a feud between Republicans and Democrats.

p0798 BC-CommuterRailCrash 1stLd-Writethru 03-25 0369 (Hays Daily News)

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:33:13 GMT
Eds: UPDATES with details on those injured; quotes from passengers; company saying the freight car was a flat car, not a box car. CANTON, Mass. (AP) -- A train car loaded with lumber hit a stationary commuter train during the Tuesday afternoon rush hour, injuring dozens of people, authorities said.

Fighting may soon affect Iraq south oilfield work (AlertNet)

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:40:42 GMT
Source: Reuters (Adds quotes) BAGHDAD, March 26 (Reuters) - Oil production and exports from Iraq's southern oilfields could be disrupted in three days if workers cannot reach their offices due to fighting in Basra ...

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