Great Famous Quotations

Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Famous Quotations Update

Today's Famous Quotations:



Edgar A. Shoaff


Immortality -- a fate worse than death.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus


If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Confucius


Men's natures are alike, it is their habits that carry them far apart.

Crow, The


T-Bird You know, Lake Eerie actually caught on fire once from all the crap floating around in it. I wish I could've seen that.

Benjamin Franklin


He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

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Tour Insider (TheGolfChannel.com)

Mon, 05 May 2008 11:41:43 GMT
Editor's Note: In our Parting Shots feature, the GOLFCHANNEL.com team offers up the best quotes from the most recent week in golf. "After what Butch said…my marketability went right down.

Quotations of the day (Charleston Daily Mail)

Mon, 05 May 2008 09:47:11 GMT
"International expertise in dealing with natural disasters is urgently required. The military regime is ill-prepared to deal with the aftermath of the cyclone.'' -- Naing Aung, secretary general of the Forum for Democracy in Burma.

Extreme Motorsports Quotations Department Goes Crazy! - MSN MoneyCentral

Mon, 05 May 2008 12:03:00 GMT
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Bill Clinton's Post-Presidential Life - Slate

Mon, 05 May 2008 19:19:00 GMT
Carol Felsenthal's new book about Bill Clinton's post-presidential years, Clinton in Exile , is often catty, occasionally malicious, and overly reliant on unnamed sources. It's ...

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Saint Francis de Sales


Nothing is so powerful as gentleness nothing is so gentle as true strength.

Al Jaffee


Book dedication To myself, without whose inspired and tireless efforts this book would not have been possible.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity.

Alfred Hitchcock


Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

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Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Mon, 05 May 2008 16:48:04 GMT
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation:...

Quotations of the day (Charleston Daily Mail)

Mon, 05 May 2008 09:47:11 GMT
"International expertise in dealing with natural disasters is urgently required. The military regime is ill-prepared to deal with the aftermath of the cyclone.'' -- Naing Aung, secretary general of the Forum for Democracy in Burma.

Area briefs - Police find bodies of college students - Akron Beacon Journal

Sun, 04 May 2008 11:35:00 GMT
ATHENS: The bodies of two college students were discovered early Saturday at an off-campus apartment complex near Ohio University. Athens police said authorities were called to the ...

Bilic extends contract and names Euro squad (Reuters via Yahoo!7 Sports)

Mon, 05 May 2008 13:12:22 GMT
(Adds quotes and details) ZAGREB, May 5 (Reuters) - Croatia coach Slaven Bilic named a 23-man squad for Euro 2008 with few surprises but only six defenders after extending his contract with the country's Football Association until 2010 on Monday.

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Groucho Marx


I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

Barbara Bloom


You have to choose where you look, and in making that choice you eliminate entire worlds.

George Carlin


Keep thy religion to thyself.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


I think Superman and Santa Claus are actually the same guy, and I'll tell you why Both fly, both wear red, and both have a beard.

Thomas Jefferson


Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

Henry Kissinger


When you meet the president, you ask yourself, How did it ever occur to anybody that he should be governor much less president

John Adams


Facts are stubborn things and what ever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they can not alter the state of facts, and evidence.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge


What comes from the heart goes to the heart.

Henry Kissinger


Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

Marie Curie


Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood.

Edward H. S. Terry


I am part of the sea and stars And the winds of the South and North Of mountains and Moon and Mars, And the ages sent me forth

John Constable


I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

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UK drowning in spam tidal wave - CIO.de

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:25:00 GMT
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Der Bonus ist für die UBS ein Malus - Neue Zürcher Zeitung

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:15:00 GMT
Trotz einem Verlust von 4,4 Milliarden Franken im letzten Jahr zahlt die UBS ihren Bankern Boni im Gesamtwert von geschätzt über 10 Milliarden Franken. Diese Lohnpolitik stösst ...

UK drowning in spam tidal wave - CIO.de

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:25:00 GMT
According to the Cisco subsidiary's Internet Security Trends report for 2007, this deluge means that each business inbox now receives between 100 and 1,000 spam emails per day ...

Papst kritisiert Atheismus und Privat-Christentum - Neue Zürcher Zeitung

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:10:00 GMT
Papst Benedikt XVI. verurteilt den Atheismus macht ihn für einige der schlimmsten Verbrechen in der Geschichte verantwortlich. In seiner neuen Enzyklika «Spe salvi» (Gerettet ...