Famous Quotes Update

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Tom Wilson, Ziggy (comic)


Honesty is the best image.

H Hahn Blavatsky


There is no religion higher than the truth.

Uta Hagan


More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

Salvador Dali


There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

Indira Ghandi


Whenever you take a step forward you are bound to disturb something. You disturb the air as you go forward, you disturb the dust, the ground.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy


Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

Jane Austen


Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong

Evan Esar


America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

George Washington


To please everybody is impossible were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody.

Susan Sontag


AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences suicide. Or murder.

Benjamin Disraeli


Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.

La Rochefoucauld


Our minds are lazier than our bodies.

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The art of investing - Focus Infomation

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:16:00 GMT
Sofia. Nine of the 63 mutual funds and investment companies for which data could be found in the website of the Bulgarian Association of Management Companies, reported positive ...

Sarah Palin didn't change much after all - Daily Telegraph

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:16:00 GMT
And now for a test: which one of the following two Sarah Palin quotations is real, and which one is a parody? Both are answers to a question about the Republican vice-presidential ...

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George Sarton, History of Science


There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.

Germaine Greer


Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.

Anatole France, Revolt of the Angels


To die for an idea is to place a pretty high price upon conjectures.

Napoleon Bonaparte


There are two levers for moving men interest and fear.

Jerry Coleman


Mike Caldwell, the Padres' right-handed southpaw, will pitch tonight.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca


All cruelty springs from weakness.

Brian Sutton-Smith


The parent who gets down on the floor to play with a child on Christmas Day is usually doing a most remarkable thing -- something seldom repeated during the rest of the year. These are, after all, busy parents committed to their work or their success in the larger society, and they do not have much left-over time in which to play with their children.

Benjamin Disraeli


Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

William Penn


Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

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Obama Hunts and Wins Yea Votes in House (Update) - New York Daily News

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:01:00 GMT
There was no cavalry charge into Washington, no chest-thumping rhetoric, and no need to suspend his campaign. In other words, there were no political theatrics. Barack Obama simply picked up the phone and wooed hesitant House members into voting yes ...

Lawsuits fly over Wash. GOP election mailers - Seattle Times

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:23:00 GMT
Attorney General Rob McKenna on Friday sued the state Republican Party over alleged campaign finance violations, leading the party to file its own lawsuit contending its First Amendment rights are being violated. Shortly after the Republican attorney ...

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Sophia Loren


Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.

Thomas Gray


Yet ah why should they know their fateSince sorrow never comes too late,And happiness too swiftly flies.Thought would destroy their paradise.No more where ignorance is bliss,'Tis folly to be wise.

Bill Cosby, Playboy Interview - May 1969


I really do plan to get out of show business within five years or so.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca


A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

Victor Hugo


People do not lack strength, they lack will.

Peter De Vries


There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.

Miguel de Cervantes


There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.

Cherokee Proverb


When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

Joan Baez


The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.

S.J. Perelman


I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartettes, chamber music, and cantatas.

William Wordsworth


How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold Because the lovely little flower is free Down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

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Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:31:00 GMT
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Leader: The fruitless hunt for more stuff - Church Times

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:40:00 GMT
THE Revd Tim Hastie-Smith quoted a range of sources in his chairman’s address to the Headmasters’ and Headmistresses’ Conference on Monday evening, from Alexander ...

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Ring Lardner, The Young Immigrants, 1920


Shut up he explained.

Philo Judaeus


The air is full of souls those who are nearest to earth descending to be tied to mortal bodies return to other bodies, desiring to live in them.

William Phillips


Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

Miriam Beard


Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

E.B. White


Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

Earl Eisenhower


The story of my boyhood and that of my brothers is important only because it could happen in any American family. It did, and will again.

Unknown


Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Joseph Addison


I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

Orison Swett Marden


When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - this is happiness, this is success.

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New Bond film cuts catch phrases - Stuff

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:58:00 GMT
NOT SHAKEN, NOT STIRRED: Daniel Craig won't utter two classic James Bond lines in the new flick, Quantum of Solace. Sorry, Bond fans - those classic catch phrases you know and love ...

Browse by day posted: - Union-News & Sunday Republican

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 21:28:00 GMT
Select a date September 21, 2008 - September 27, 2008 September 14, 2008 - September 20, 2008 September 7, 2008 - September 13, 2008 August 31, 2008 - September 6, 2008 August 24 ...

New Bond film cuts catch phrases - Stuff

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:58:00 GMT
NOT SHAKEN, NOT STIRRED: Daniel Craig won't utter two classic James Bond lines in the new flick, Quantum of Solace. Sorry, Bond fans - those classic catch phrases you know and love ...

Dann's favorite celebrity quotes - Arlington Heights Daily Herald

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:07:00 GMT
» Screen test: Test your Dann Gire knowledge » 'Nick & Nora' infinitely charming » 'Flash' fails to notice the heart of the story » Pegg, pig best part of 'How to Lose Friends ...

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Edith Nesbitt


It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.

Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine


I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time". So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.

Bette Davis


My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today I knew it then as purpose.

Arthur Goldberg


If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.

Dora Russell


We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.

John W. Gardner


I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.

George Orwell, 1984


In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion: the more intelligent, the less sane.

Jerry Coleman


You didn't have to say it was gone. It was gone before it got outta here. It was gonna that fast.

Marcel Proust


Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Groucho Marx


I do not care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.

Mary Wilson Little


There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

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International stock market quotations - Monsters and Critics

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:29:00 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets: #> October 2 October 1 Difference New York Dow Jones 10,610.76 10,831.07 (- 220.31) New York NASDAQ Comp. 2,016.85 2,069.40 (- 52.55) Tokyo Nikkei 11,154.76 11 ...

Why the bailout is crucial for healthcare reform of the Pakistan ... - Guardian Unlimited

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:55:00 GMT
In case you can't wait until Thursday night's debate for your next helping of words emitted in an approximately grammatical sequence from the mouth of Sarah Palin, here's Interview Sarah Palin , which generates alarmingly convincing random strings of ...

(Adds quotes, more details) - Reuters

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:58:00 GMT
PARIS/LONDON, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) is opening three research centres in Europe as it steps up efforts to catch market leader Google Inc (GOOG.O: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ...

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Edmund Burke


Good order is the foundation of all things.

Bernard of Chartres, 12th Century


We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a great distance, not by virtue of any sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.

Peter De Vries


We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school.

Publilius Syrus


The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time.

Cullen Hightower


Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.

Tao Le Ching


In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

--Henry David Thoreau


The man for whom law exists - the man of forms, the Conservative, is a tame man.

Barbara DeAngelis


Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.

S�ren Kierkegaard, Journal, july 6., 1838


Fixed ideas are like a cramp in the foot - the best remedy against it is to tread on it.

Matthew Henry


Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice.

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Stock & fund quotes - ninemsn

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:08:00 GMT
LONDON, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Oil rose above $94 on Friday, supported by expectations that the U.S. House of Representatives was likely to pass a financial rescue plan to stem further ...

Palin stands her ground in VP debate with Biden - Times Union

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:49:00 GMT
ST. LOUIS -- Under intense scrutiny, Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin stood her ground Thursday night against a vastly more experienced Joe Biden, debating the ...

Matthew Perry To Star In 'Friends' Spin Off, 'Bros' - Defamer.com

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:52:00 GMT
After years and years of development, production finally began on Bros , Matthew Perry’s long gestating Friends spin off, in West Hollywood on Wednesday afternoon. In Bros ...

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