Great Famous Quotations

Wednesday, April 02, 2008

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Ivy Baker Priest, in Parade, 1958


The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.

H. L. Mencken


Democracy: The worship of jackals by jackasses.

Dwight D. Eisenhower


An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Bill Cosby


You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything --even poverty--you can survive it.

Krishnamurti


Truth is a pathless land.

H.L. Mencken


I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.

Rita Rudner


To attract men, I wear a perfume called ``New Car Interior.'

Jean Rostand


My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

Native American Proverb


A brave man dies but once, a coward many times.

Friedrich Nietzsche


It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them

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BANK NEGARA EXCHANGE RATES (Bernama via Yahoo! Malaysia News)

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:12:18 GMT
BANK NEGARA EXCHANGE RATES: APRIL 01 THE FOLLOWING IS THE BEST QUOTATIONS AVAILABLE FROM COMMERCIAL BANKS IN KUALA LUMPUR AT 11.30 A.M, TODAY, ISSUED BY BANK NEGARA.

Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:46:07 GMT
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: DAX 6,720.33 (+ 185.36) MDAX9,048.88 (+ 261.50) Adidas 42.65 (+0.54) Allianz 132.22 (+6.74) BAS...

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Lord Chesterfield


Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.

Thomas Tusser


At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year.

Betty Naomi Friedan


Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffered Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night-she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-Is this all

William J. Clinton


I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale.

Washington Irving


Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes.

Roger Rosenblatt


They do not leave home without American Express. ... Blame the moral carelessness that parents pass off as the gift of freedom as they cut their children loose like colorful kites and wish them an exciting flight.

Plato


The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Henry Van Dyke


Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

Unknown


Yesterday's failures are today's seeds That must be diligently planted to be able to abundantly harvest Tomorrow's success.

J.W.N. Sullivan


For every living creature that succeeds in getting a footing in life there are thousands or millions that perish. There is an enormous random scattering for every seed that comes to life. This does not remind us of intelligent human design. "If a man in order to shoot a hare, were to discharge thousands of guns on a great moor in all possible directions; if in order to get into a locked room, he were to buy ten thousand casual keys, and try them all; if, in order to have a house, he were to build a town, and leave all the other houses to wind and weather - assuredly no one would call such proceedings purposeful and still less would anyone conjecture behind these proceedings a higher wisdom, unrevealed reasons, and superior prudence."

Confucius, The Confucian Analects


To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

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Notes and quotes from the Louisiana Legislature (The Daily Comet)

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:37:56 GMT
BATON ROUGE, La. House Speaker Jim Tucker was direct Tuesday about his feelings toward attempts to repeal the state's motorcycle helmet requirement. "I think it's crazy, myself. I'm not in favor of a motorcycle helmet repeal," Tucker, R-Terrytown, told reporters.

Quotations of the Day (Charleston Daily Mail)

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:38:57 GMT
"To our knowledge, the next plan of the Tibetan independence forces is to organize suicide squads to launch violent attacks. They claimed that they fear neither bloodshed nor sacrifice.'' -- China's Public Security Bureau spokesman Wu Heping.

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Oren Arnold


Christmas gift suggestions To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.

Andrew Schneider


As a doctor, as a man of science, I can tell you there is no such thing as curses Everything just happens as a question of probability. The statistical likelihood of a specific event.

Democritus, Fragment 145


Word is a shadow of a deed.

John Flansburgh


I was working in a parking lot, which is a great place to learn the guitar. I sat in the booth and practiced all day long. And only two cars were stolen while I worked there.

Tom Wolfe, "Bonfire of the Vanities"


Over the past ten years, for the first time, intelligence had become socially correct for girls.

Mary Astor


Life without emotions is like an engine without fuel.

Haniel Long


Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time


Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles today,
Tomorrow will be dying.

Sir Francis Bacon


He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

Hamilton Wright Mabi


Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.

Enid Bagnold


Judges don't age time decorates them.

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In quotes: Immigration reaction (BBC News)

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:26:46 GMT
A Lords report calling for a cap on immigration levels draws a wide-range of opinions.

Fine silver quotations Tuesday: $17.834 ounce (Canadian Business)

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:50:00 GMT
The Canadian Press April 1, 2008 - 12:37 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Tuesday $17.834 oz., $573.36 kg.; Monday $18.577 oz., $597.25 kg.

AGR QUOTES - POST-HOMESTEAD (The Auto Channel)

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:34:17 GMT
Danica Patrick, #7 Motorola Dallara/Honda/Firestone "I am glad that we got the first race behind us. It was not the result that I was looking for, but I keep getting reminded that it was my best finish there.

One-liners steal the show on 'Dancing With the Stars' (Detroit Free Press)

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:54:22 GMT
Huh? What was that again? Although "Dancing With the Stars" is supposed to be about the walk, Monday night was all about the talk, as the judges and dancers took turns blurting out the strangest quotable quotes.

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John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty", 1859


The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.

Robert Englund


Do you want to know the secret of pain? If you just stop feeling it, you can start to use it.

Stephen Nachmanovitch


Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Charles De Gaulle


Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

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In quotes: Immigration reaction (BBC News)

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:26:46 GMT
A Lords report calling for a cap on immigration levels draws a wide-range of opinions.

F1: Bahrain preview quotes: Force India (autosport.com)

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:39:31 GMT
Bahrain preview quotes: Force India

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Nikola Tesla, New York Times, October 19, 1931


If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search... I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.

Clement of Rome


How blessed and amazing are God's gifts, dear friends Life with immortality, splendor with righteousness, truth with confidence, faith with assurance, self-control with holiness And all these things are within our comprehension.

Dr. Robert Schuller


Most people who succeed n the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.

Dicky Barrett


If it was an overnight success, it was one long, hard, sleepless night.

Woody Allen


Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Helen Hayes


My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

Rabbi Harold Kushner


I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come together and make sense.

Heraclitus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers


Nothing endures but change.

Eva Young


To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar


There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.

Joseph Sobran


The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.

Joyce Carol Oates


If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they'll divulge it.

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Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:31:45 GMT
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: DAX 6,534.97 (-24.93) MDAX8,787.38 (+26.35) Adidas 42.11 (+0.33) Allianz 125.48 (-0.58) BASF 85...

Quotes of the week (BBC News)

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:00:53 GMT
Rio Ferdinand's mantelpiece blunder, plus all your top chants