Great Famous Quotations

Wednesday, October 01, 2008

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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

Robert Pirsig


Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is.

Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", Chapter 2


He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.

Sophocles


How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be When there's no help in truth

Trey and Matt Stone Parker


I just realized that there's going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with it the right way.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca


All cruelty springs from weakness.

Robert Louis Stephenson


We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Bertrand Russell


The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

E. M. Cioran


Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.

Harry Emerson Fosdick


He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.

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Canadian dollar opens at 94.38 cents US, up 0.41 of a cent - Canada East

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:44:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar opened at 94.38 cents US this morning, up 0.41 of a cent from Tuesday's close. The U.S. dollar stood at C$1.0595 cents, down 0.47 of a cent. Pound ...

Quotations by Paul Newman - Associated Press

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:11:00 GMT
"The light that you think you emanate is not necessarily the light that other people see. You think of yourself as a shy, retiring whatever it is, and some other people will see ...

Quotes for Today

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Eido Tai Shimano Roshi


If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your back.

Osama Bin Laden, BBC


Your security does not lie in the hands of Kerry, Bush or al-Qaeda. Your security is in your own hands.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Paul Clifford


It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

Henry de Bracton, De Legibus in 1240


An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Edgar Watson Howe


Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

Mark Twain


One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

Albert Einstein


The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

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Ukrainian News Agency - Ukrainian News

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:34:00 GMT
On Wednesday, the interbank hryvnia rate fell by 2 kopecks to 5.0950 UAH/USD, after a decrease on Tuesday. According to dealers of commercial banks, at the beginning of the trading ...

The Social - CNET News

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:45:00 GMT
When the news broke earlier this week that Facebook had hired D.C. veteran Ted Ullyot as its general counsel , many news outlets (this one included) took it to mean that this was ...

Online harmony between Telegraph and Mail - Guardian Unlimited

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:07:00 GMT
In a couple of postings last week - notably here - I dealt with the accusations made by journalists on almost every national newspaper about other papers stealing their content to ...

Quotations by Paul Newman - Associated Press

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:11:00 GMT
"The light that you think you emanate is not necessarily the light that other people see. You think of yourself as a shy, retiring whatever it is, and some other people will see ...

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Albert Schweitzer


There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Mort Sahl


We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children? Well, she and I were.

John Evans


The Internet is like a giant jellyfish. You can't step on it. You can't go around it. You've got to get through it.

Voltaire, when asked on his deathbed to forswear Satan.


This is no time to make new enemies.

Saint Francis de Sales


Do not wish to be anything but what you are, And try to be that perfectly.

Scarface


Tony Montana What you lookin' at You all a bunch of f***ing assholes. You know why You don't have the guts to be what you wanna be You need people like me. You need people like me so you can point your f***ing fingers and say, That's the bad guy. So... what that make you Good You're not good. You just know how to hide, how to lie. Me, I don't have that problem. Me, I always tell the truth. Even when I lie. So say good night to the bad guy Come on. The last time you gonna see a bad guy like this again, let me tell you. Come on. Make way for the bad guy. There's a bad guy comin' through Better get outta his way

Alexandre Dumas, Translation from "The Count of Monte Cristo"


Until divinity decides to reveal the future to human kind, the sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.

Epicurus


He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

William Shakespeare


Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.

Andrew A. Rooney


I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.

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Afternoon Interbank Intercurrency - Forbes

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:34:00 GMT
Copyright Thomson Financial News Limited 2008. All rights reserved. The copying, republication or redistribution of Thomson Financial News Content, including by framing or similar ...

Obama keeps vow to hit harder - Cincinnati.com

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:10:00 GMT
Barack Obama's new ad portrays John McCain as 'running the sleaziest ads ever,' using partial quotes and headline excerpts. Obama had pledged to swing the hammer harder in his TV ...