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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie (1867 - 1934), Letter to her brother, 1894
- The only thing we have to fear is fear itself, but raptors are pretty dang scary.
- Devin J. Monroe (1983 - )
- I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny.
- Sam Donaldson (1934 - )
- If the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.
- Norman Douglas
- The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
- J. Paul Getty (1892 - 1976)
- If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884 - 1980)
- It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.
- Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)
- The cure for anything is salt water... tears, sweat or the sea.
- Isak Dinesen, Seven Gothic Tales, 1934
- When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
- The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), "Technology and the Future" (Clarke's second law)
- There is only one real deprivation, I decided this morning, and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
- May Sarton
- Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art.
- Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
- One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Emma
- It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
- Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
- The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
- Kilgore Trout, (Philip Jose Farmer), "Venus on the Half Shell"
- 'Taint't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.
- Sarah Orne Jewett (1849 - 1909), The Country of the Pointed Firs, 1896
- The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good.
- Ruth Benedict (1887 - 1948)
- Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Illiterate Digest (1924), "Warning to Jokers: lay off the prince"
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