Great Famous Quotations

Saturday, May 17, 2008

Great Famous Quotes

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Plato


Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Austin O'Malley


Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

Martin Luther King, Jr.


We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us.

Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu


He who knows does not speak.
He who speaks does not know.

Rabindranath Tagore


Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

Geoffrey Neighor


ONE WHO WAITS There are those who believe that time is a wheel turning forever. Which would mean that your moment will surely come. Then, there are those who believe that time is a river. Which, if that's true, it's possible that your moment has already flowed by. ED Which one do you think it is ONE WHO WAITS Ah. I think that time is just time.

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All-Star: Toyota teams qualifying quotes (Motorsport.com)

Sat, 17 May 2008 03:27:42 GMT
Were you pleased with your qualifying run? "Our run really didn't mean anything because we had to change a motor so we have to go to the back anyway. We basically did it just to go through the motions. I got 12 laps of practice so not real sure what to expect for tomorrow now.

'America's toughest sheriff' slams McCain - Baxter Bulletin

Fri, 16 May 2008 09:19:00 GMT
In his soon-to-be published new book, the toughest sheriff in America has some straight talk for Sen. John McCain, and the presumptive Republican presidential nominee won't like it ...

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Fri, 16 May 2008 23:38:00 GMT
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Press Quotes (All About Jazz)

Fri, 16 May 2008 19:17:59 GMT
”Michael Webster's creations are long, unfurling musical journeys chock full of content. Singable melodies come swathed in a background of advanced, modern harmonies and adventurous, challenging rhythms.”

Fine silver quotations Wednesday: $17.294 ounce (Canadian Business)

Wed, 14 May 2008 17:26:05 GMT
The Canadian Press May 14, 2008 - 12:57 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Wednesday $17.294 oz., $556 kg.; Tuesday $17.575 oz., $565.04 kg.

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Robert Armstrong


It a letter contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.

Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde


I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.


A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

Charles Peguy


The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.

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USDA Chicago Terminal Grain - May 16 (INO News)

Fri, 16 May 2008 20:07:55 GMT
GX_GR110 Springfield, IL Fri, May 16, 2008 USDA-IL Market News Chicago terminal grain report To Arrive Truck and Rail Bids for Grain Delivered to Chicago. The following quotations represent Bids ($/ bu) from Terminal Elevators, Processors, Mills, and Merchandisers after 1:30 p.m. today.

F1: Monaco preview quotes: BMW (autosport.com)

Fri, 16 May 2008 11:40:30 GMT
Monaco preview quotes: BMW

Sinovac Reports First Quarter 2008 Unaudited Financial Results - Phramalive.com

Fri, 16 May 2008 12:26:00 GMT
Mr. Weidong Yin, Chairman, President and CEO, commented, "Our first quarter sales demonstrate the continued execution of our commercialization strategy. We were pleased with the ...

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning


Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true

Abraham Lincoln


No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Michael Caine


Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, August 27, 2003


There isn�t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren�t really living without it.

Stephen Jay Gould


Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day.

Francisco Franco


I am responsible only to God and history.

Jimmy Swaggart


Sex education classes in our public schools are promoting incest.

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Sat, 17 May 2008 03:02:31 GMT
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Birch Mountain reports first quarter results - MSN MoneyCentral

Fri, 16 May 2008 22:41:00 GMT
The construction season is now underway in the Fort McMurray Region and I am optimistic about our business opportunities this year. Oil sands development continues to be supported ...

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Edmund Burke


The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.

Bryant Gumbel


I once read that the only way to enjoy life is to observe everything with a sense of detached amusement. I don't always do that, but it serves you well to keep it in mind.

Adam Smith


The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.

Bill Watterson


I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.

John Fletcher, The Custom of the Country (1647)


Death hath so many doors to let out life.

William Shakespeare


God bless thee and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty

Sir Arthur Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World


Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.

J. R. R. Tolkien


If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

Ken Olson


There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.

Dorothy Sayers


The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people seem to think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and sudden acquisition of wealth.

Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers


Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

Norman Cousins


We will not have peace by afterthought.

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Force India Paul Ricard test notes ... - Motorsport.com

Sat, 17 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT
After a productive two days testing on the shorter, twistier 2D-SC configuration of the Paul Ricard circuit in preparation for next week's Monaco Grand Prix, the Force India ...

Fine silver quotations Friday: C$17.635 ounce (Canadian Business)

Fri, 16 May 2008 17:08:50 GMT
The Canadian Press May 16, 2008 - 12:58 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Friday $17.635 oz., $566.97 kg.; Thursday $17.588 oz., $565.45 kg.

Grief, cancer, Nietzsche and Santa - Salon

Fri, 16 May 2008 19:49:00 GMT
From left, Anne Consigny, Hippolyte Girardot and Catherine Deneuve in Arnaud Desplechin's "A Christmas Tale." CANNES, France -- With cool, rainy weather settling in here for the ...

Muslim forum quotes 12 Muslim deaths in Jaipur blasts (IE via Yahoo! India News)

Fri, 16 May 2008 13:48:10 GMT
At least 12 Muslims were killed and about 30 others from the community were injured in the serial blasts in Jaipur, Rajasthan Muslim Forum said on Friday.

How To Compare Auto Insurance Quote Online - Best Syndication

Fri, 16 May 2008 19:56:00 GMT
When you get car insurance quote online from an insurance company, always keep in mind to compare it with quotes issued by other companies with the same car insurance policy ...

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John Milton


He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires and fears is more than a King.

Epictetus


We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.

Publilius Syrus


The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.

Anatole France, The Red Lily, 1894, chapter 7


The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

J.B.S. Haldane


It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we CAN imagine.

Yogi Berra


It ain't over 'till it's over.

Aesop


The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.

Saint Augustine, Confessions


I was in love with loving.

Michael Horton


When salvation is viewed as man's program, it is left up to man as to whether he will let God do this or that, but when it is viewed as God's program, there is a confidence and a certainty that no one whom God regenerates will be a carnal Christian.

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Town Meeting Quotes of Note (Ipswich Chronicle)

Thu, 15 May 2008 23:18:47 GMT
The readings, speaches and comments made during Town Meeting Tuesday, April 13 struck funny, passionate and incredulous notes. Here's a selection of notable quotes from the evening.

Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:15:21 GMT
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: ...