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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
- More quotations on: [Death]
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
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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)
- More quotations on: [Maturity]
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
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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Emma
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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"