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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - I know love and lust don't always keep the same company.
- Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, 2005
- I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
- Rita Rudner
- My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
- Trieu Thi Trinh
- Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.
- Napoleon Hill
- People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.
- Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
- When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is any thing you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
- Edgar Watson Howe (1853 - 1937)
- If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- When I see somebody 'suffering for their art', it%uFFFDs usually a case of them not knowing where that red line is, not knowing where the sovereignty lies.
- Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 15, 08-22-04
- To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
- Robertson Davies, "The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks"
- What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
- Walter Pater (1839 - 1894), 1873
- Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), in a letter to J. M. Cutts, October 26, 1863
- The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
- Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.
- Christina Baldwin
- If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- Nothing is too small to know, and nothing is too big to attempt.
- William Van Horne
- People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.
- Russell Baker (1925 - )
- The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
- Joe Ancis
- Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
- Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989)
- Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 1
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