Great Famous Quotations

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Quotations for Today

Today's Quotations:



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.

Nicholas Boileau


Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.

Ernest J. Gaines


Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.

Winston Churchill, Speech about World War II


Never in the course of history, have so many owed so much to so few.

Raynor Schein


Tears are the rinse water of an unhappy heart.

Robert Bresson


Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.

Raymond Lindquist


Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.

Matrix, The


Neo I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid... afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you. A world without rules or controls, borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you.

Barbara Charline Jordan


We must exchange the philosophy of excuse--what I am is beyond my control--for the philosophy of responsibility.

Friedrich Nietzsche


Thinking evil is making evil.

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Canadian dollar is down 0.17 of a cent at 79.53 cents US at 11 a.m. ET - Canada East

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:14:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar traded at 79.53 cents US this morning, down 0.17 of a cent from Thursday's close. The U.S. dollar stood at 125.73 cents Cdn, up 0.26 of a cent. Pound ...

Unhappy buyer faces court for negative eBay feedback - News.com.au

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:04:00 GMT
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Quotations of the day - International Herald Tribune

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:17:00 GMT
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Benjamin Disraeli


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

Douglas Noel Adams


Totally mad. Utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.

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.

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.

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.

Caleb Carr


So if it seems that some of what I'll have to say in the pages to come doesn't reflect the mellowing of age, that's only because I've never found that life and memories respond to time the way that tobacco does.

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.

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Phils get feel for Tropicana Field - Detroit Free Press

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:58:00 GMT
The Philadelphia Phillies are getting their workouts in at Tropicana Field, and nobody seems to think playing indoors will be a problem in the World Series. Manager Charlie Manuel ...

Does every actor dream of Hamlet? - Kerrville Daily Times

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:50:00 GMT
Hearing as a child that every actor dreams of playing Hamlet, I wondered, “How could anybody know what every actor in the world wants to do?” It was the kind of question that I ...

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca


All cruelty springs from weakness.

Richard Jeni


It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!

Unknown


Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

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NY Giants Quotes, October 23rd - WNYT

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:00:00 GMT
A: There say there is nothing bone; no vertebra, nothing like that. He is very sore; still stiff today. But the reason that all of the tests were made was because he continued to ...

Mickey Rourke and Companion Get A Piss Out Of Rome - Defamer.com

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:04:00 GMT
Pausing slightly during a whirlwind shopping expedition, Mickey Rourke and beloved dog Loki decided to experience Rome in all of its glory and splendor. "It’s a beautiful city ...

Canadian dollar opens at 78.80 cents US, down 0.90 of a cent - Canada East

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:00:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar opened at 78.80 cents US this morning, down 0.90 of a cent from Wednesday's close. The U.S. dollar stood at C$1.2690 cents, up 1.43 cents. Pound ...

Stock & fund quotes - ninemsn

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 04:07:00 GMT
PERTH, Oct 24 (Reuters) - U.S. crude futures shed early gains of over $1 to fall below $68 a barrel on Friday, dented by tumbling Asian stocks and worries a possible global ...

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Henry Ward Beecher


Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

Author Unknown


Enthusiasm is very good lubrication for the mind.

Groucho Marx


The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.

Oliver Wendell Holmes


Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we like.

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Travelers soothes investors; Allstate posts loss - Reuters

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:32:00 GMT
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Property insurer Travelers Cos Inc (TRV.N: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) and Allstate Corp (ALL.N: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ), the ...

Candidates unite for World Series - Bennington Banner

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:38:00 GMT
GREEN, Ohio — Presidential rivals John McCain and Barack Obama united to help narrate an opening to the World Series telecast Wednesday highlighting how baseball — America's ...

Livestock report - Houston Chronicle

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:47:00 GMT
OKLAHOMA CITY — Here are Wednesday's closing hog quotations from the Oklahoma National Stockyards. HOGS — 120 head. Compared to Tuesday: Barrows and Gilts: Steady. U.S. 1-3 220 ...