Quotations Weblog

Twitter Quotations for 2009-11-06

Laura Moncur — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:00:00 +0000

"When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield." – Quintilian http://tqpage.com/2878 #
"The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need." – Ann Richards http://tqpage.com/39137 #
"The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end." – Harriet Beecher Stowe http://tqpage.com/31043 #

Laura Moncur — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:00:00 +0000

"If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old." – Edgar Watson Howe http://tqpage.com/3002 #
"You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy." – Bob Ross http://tqpage.com/40531 #
"We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible." – Vince Lombardi http://tqpage.com/39802 #
"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved." – Victor Hugo http://tqpage.com/2065 #

Laura Moncur — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:00:00 +0000

"Life itself is a quotation." – Jorge Luis Borges http://tqpage.com/25877 #
"We don't know who we are until we see what we can do." – Martha Grimes http://tqpage.com/1728 #
"Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor." – Elizabeth I http://tqpage.com/1843 #
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others." – Cicero http://tqpage.com/2035 #

Laura Moncur — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:00:00 +0000

"All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life." – M. C. Richards http://tqpage.com/27148 #
"Don't need to say please to no man for a happy tune." – Neil Diamond http://tqpage.com/39907 #
"Just because it's only 'stuff' doesn't mean I can't appreciate it while I have it." – Starline X. Hodge http://tqpage.com/37847 #
"To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success." – Anna Pavlova http://tqpage.com/1650 #

Laura Moncur — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:00:00 +0000

"Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power." – Shirley MacLaine http://tqpage.com/1497 #
"Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it." – Joseph Conrad http://tqpage.com/1739 #
"All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough." – Anna Quindlen http://tqpage.com/37944 #
"Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today." – Meredith Willson http://tqpage.com/40002 #

Laura Moncur — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:00:00 +0000

"Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows." – Sir William Osler http://tqpage.com/2762 #
"Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form." – Stephen Nachmanovitch http://tqpage.com/27144 #
"When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected." – Marquis de Vauvenargues http://tqpage.com/39006 #
"If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm." – Bruce Barton http://tqpage.com/2317 #

Laura Moncur — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:00:00 +0000

"Parents are never as bad as kids think they are." – Matt Witten http://tqpage.com/40412 #
"If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred." – Walt Whitman http://tqpage.com/33328 #
"A problem is a chance for you to do your best." – Duke Ellington http://tqpage.com/3100 #
"Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived." – Abraham Lincoln http://tqpage.com/2196 #

Laura Moncur — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:00:00 +0000

"The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value." – Charles Dudley Warner http://tqpage.com/3204 #
"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of." – Blaise Pascal http://tqpage.com/1893 #
"All appears to change when we change." – Henri-Fréric Amiel http://tqpage.com/31019 #
"A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe." – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi http://tqpage.com/38421 #

Laura Moncur — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:00:00 +0000

"If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness." – Julie-Jeanne-Eleonore de Lespinasse http://tqpage.com/33448 #
"If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people." – Oriental Proverb http://tqpage.com/2326 #
"Don't stay long when the husband is not at home." – Japanese Proverb http://tqpage.com/2844 #
"If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things." – Norman Douglas http://tqpage.com/2756 #

Laura Moncur — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:00:00 +0000

"For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude." – Clarence E. Hodges http://tqpage.com/30994 #
"No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it." – Richard Feynman http://tqpage.com/37153 #
"Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself." – Lois McMaster Bujold http://tqpage.com/30945 #
"When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others." – Anais Nin http://tqpage.com/1666 #