Daily Quotations

Today's Quotations:

Isocrates


Of all possessions wisdom alone is immortal.

Martin Luther King, Jr.


We must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means.

Wystan Hugh Auden


As a rule it was the pleasure haters that became unjust.

Orison Swett Marden


All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

Albert Pike


A Human Thought is an actual Existence, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind.

Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects


When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

Groucho Marx


Go, and never darken my towels again.

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Basketball roots of Notre Dame’s Palladino spread wide and deep - New Haven Register

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:13:00 GMT
WEST HAVEN — There they all stood, three basketball coaches, all with their own teams to go back to, yet still sticking around to watch their former mentor run a preseason ...

Palin tops list of memorable quotes - KTVA

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:40:00 GMT
Palin tops list of memorable quotes ... NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - Sarah Palin lost the election, but she's a winner to a connoisseur of quotations at Yale.

Insure.com Unveils the Most and Least Expensive Popular Cars to Insure ... - Yahoo Finance

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:21:00 GMT
DARIEN, Ill., Dec. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Car insurance premiums can add substantially to the annual cost of operating your auto. Insure.com has calculated the average ...

RPT-YEARENDER-Sports quotes of 2008 - Reuters UK

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:52:00 GMT
"With so many people saying it couldn't be done, all it takes is an imagination" -- U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps after winning an unprecedented eight gold medals at a single Games ...

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Today's Quotes

Quotes:

Cato the Elder


Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Unknown, epitaph for a loved one


Love is my Sword,
Goodness my Armor,
And Humor my Shield.

Robert Browning


Grow old along with me The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made Our times are in his hand who saith, A whole I planned, Youth shows but half trust God See all, nor be afraid

John Locke


We are a kind of Chameleons, taking our hue - the hue of our moral character, from those who are about us.

Spinoza, Dutch Philosopher


I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them.

John von Neumann, on being phoned at 10 a.m.


You wake me up early in the morning to tell me I am right? Please wait until I am wrong.

Robert Frost


I'm against a homogenized society, because I want the cream to rise.

Juvenal


Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living.

H. L. Mencken


I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

Martin Luther King, Jr.


One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society ... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

Mahatma Gandhi


The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.

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MAGAZINE BOSSES BLAME JOHANSSON 'LIES' ON FREELANCE REPORTER - Daily Express

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:13:00 GMT
Magazine bosses accused of fabricating an interview with SCARLETT JOHANSSON are blaming the controversy on a freelance reporter. The actress was furious when the U.K. edition of ...

Scarlett Johansson may sue UK Cosmpolitan over 'fabricated interview' - Daily Telegraph

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:36:00 GMT
According to Johansson’s publicist, Marcel Pariseau, the magazine had claimed the four-page interview, headlined “Why I HAD to get married”, had taken place in August, yet ...

Russian military mulls buying Israeli drones - KPNews.com

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:42:00 GMT
MOSCOW (AP) _ The Interfax news agency is reporting that Russia's military is considering buying spy drones from Israel. The agency quotes Russia's top military officer as saying ...

Editorial: Politically smart move - Jakarta Post

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:15:00 GMT
Given the parliamentary and presidential elections next year, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono made a politically smart move by further lowering the price of regular gasoline by ...

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Kathleen Norris


Life is easier to take than you think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.

Will Durant


Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

Alfred Bernhard Nobel


If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

F. Scott Fitzgerald


Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

Unknown


Through the doors of perception Down the corridors of uncertainty Into the room of self doubt Opens the window of opportunity.

Andrew Alden


Before speaking, consider the interpretation of your words as well as their intent.

Abraham Lincoln


If this is coffee, please bring me some tea but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

Lillian Hellman


If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

Anne Frank


Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

Peter McWilliams


Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories We would be more alive if we did more of this, and, Life would be more lovely if we did less of that. Once we get the pain's message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away.

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Scarlett Johansson may sue UK Cosmpolitan over 'fabricated interview' - Daily Telegraph

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:36:00 GMT
Scarlett Johansson has threatened to sue UK Cosmopolitan magazine for allegedly fabricating an interview which contained quotes about her marriage to actor Ryan Reynolds that ...

Stock & fund quotes - ninemsn

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:09:00 GMT
LONDON, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Rail regulators should consider longer franchise terms, 12 to 15 years or longer, to give train operators more leverage in talks with rolling stock ...

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Michelangelo


The idea is there, locked inside, and all you have to do is remove the excess stone.

Anatole France


If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

C. Wright Mills


The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college the task is to help him become a self-educating man.

Danish proverb


Young pigs grunt as as old pigs grunted before them.

Mark Twain


Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Betty Naomi Friedan


Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffered Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night-she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-Is this all

Thomas Carlyle


Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

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Editorial: Politically smart move - Jakarta Post

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:15:00 GMT
Given the parliamentary and presidential elections next year, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono made a politically smart move by further lowering the price of regular gasoline by ...

Sarah Palin and impersonator Tina Fey top list of 2008's best ... - New York Daily News

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:40:00 GMT
Tina Fey as Sarah Palin on "Saturday Night Live." The funniest thing Sarah Palin never said is number one on Yale 's top 10 list of quotes uttered in 2008. Palin impersonator Tina ...

Dutch anti-Islam MP shrugs off terror fears - ONE News

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:07:00 GMT
Reuters Geert Wilders poses during a visit to promote his film - the 17-minute Fitna, which describes Islam as a fascist religion - in Jerusalem, Israel A right-wing Dutch ...

MAGAZINE BOSSES BLAME JOHANSSON 'LIES' ON FREELANCE REPORTER - Daily Express

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:13:00 GMT
Magazine bosses accused of fabricating an interview with SCARLETT JOHANSSON are blaming the controversy on a freelance reporter. The actress was furious when the U.K. edition of ...

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Kitty Kelley


Once I decide to do something, I can't have people telling me I can't. If there's a roadblock, you jump over it, walk around it, crawl under it.

Moliere


No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.

Richard M. Devos


If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy-one

Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford-Mason, Thinking About Quality


If there is no worker involvement, there is no quality system.

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Dutch anti-Islam MP shrugs off terror fears - ONE News

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:07:00 GMT
Reuters Geert Wilders poses during a visit to promote his film - the 17-minute Fitna, which describes Islam as a fascist religion - in Jerusalem, Israel A right-wing Dutch ...

Scarlett Johansson threatens to sue Cosmopolitan in dispute over ... - Guardian Unlimited

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:35:00 GMT
Hollywood actor Scarlett Johansson has accused Cosmopolitan magazine's UK edition of running fabricated quotes in a cover story interview and is threatening to sue the title ...

MAGAZINE BOSSES BLAME JOHANSSON 'LIES' ON FREELANCE REPORTER - Daily Express

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:13:00 GMT
Magazine bosses accused of fabricating an interview with SCARLETT JOHANSSON are blaming the controversy on a freelance reporter. The actress was furious when the U.K. edition of ...

Russian military mulls buying Israeli drones - KPNews.com

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:42:00 GMT
MOSCOW (AP) _ The Interfax news agency is reporting that Russia's military is considering buying spy drones from Israel. The agency quotes Russia's top military officer as saying ...

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Dante Alighieri


For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act

Charlotte Bronte


Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

Henry Miller


What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it

Carol Malia, BBC Anchorwoman


Most cars on our roads have only one occupant, usually the driver.

Claude Adrien Helvetius


Genius is nothing but continued attention.

Fred Allen


Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

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Russian military mulls buying Israeli drones - KPNews.com

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:42:00 GMT
MOSCOW (AP) _ The Interfax news agency is reporting that Russia's military is considering buying spy drones from Israel. The agency quotes Russia's top military officer as saying ...

Thomson Financial News - Forbes

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:35:00 GMT
Copyright Thomson Reuters 2008. All rights reserved. The copying, republication or redistribution of Reuters News Content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly ...

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Quotes:

Henry David Thoreau


Faint heart never won true friend. O my friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my friend I may be yours.

Henry Miller


What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?

Dwight D. Eisenhower


Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

Joseph Addison


Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

Friedrich Engels, preface to Kark Marx, The Civil War in France, 1891


The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another--no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.

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Scarlett Johansson may sue UK Cosmpolitan over 'fabricated interview' - Daily Telegraph

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:36:00 GMT
Scarlett Johansson has threatened to sue UK Cosmopolitan magazine for allegedly fabricating an interview which contained quotes about her marriage to actor Ryan Reynolds that ...

Palin tops list of memorable quotes - KTVA

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:40:00 GMT
Palin tops list of memorable quotes ... NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - Sarah Palin lost the election, but she's a winner to a connoisseur of quotations at Yale.

Nt-themed Xmas Quiz - Whatsonstage.com

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:52:00 GMT
I was very hurt to have been accused of lacking the Xmas spirit on this board - so to prove I don't here's a quiz for you all. Which Director of the National Theatre was ...

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