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Random Quotations
The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.
- Charlie Chaplin (1889 - 1977)
- You've got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever 'the old' means for you.
- Sarah Ban Breathnach
- The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
- You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
- Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2005
- I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
- W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
- One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
- William Feather (1908 - 1976)
- The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
- Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
- The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Speech in Indianapolis, April 12, 1959
- External signs of wealth and success are often cheap storefronts that hide internal mediocrity or even incompetence.
- Gordon Atkinson, Gospel Living in a Superficial World, 05-30-06
- I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
- Evenius
- Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
- Thomas Merton (1915 - 1968), 'No Man Is an Island'
- An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.
- J. G. C. Brainard
- Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.
- L. L. Henderson
- It's very easy to feel someone's pain when you love them.
- Salma Hayek, Conversation with Salma Hayek, 2002
- Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn't hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
- Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 02-14-2003
- Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
- William Feather (1908 - 1976)
- The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
- Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie
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