Quotations Weblog

Twitter Quotations for 2009-11-20

Laura Moncur — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:00:00 +0000

"You have to be careful who you let define your good." – Lois McMaster Bujold http://tqpage.com/30940 #
"Dreams alone aren't enough to make your belly full." – Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata http://tqpage.com/40431 #
"You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces – just good food from fresh ingredients." – Julia Child http://tqpage.com/1510 #
"Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself." – Ausonius http://tqpage.com/2566 #

Laura Moncur — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:00:00 +0000

"Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known." – Chuck Palahniuk http://tqpage.com/39660 #
"Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling." – Margaret Lee Runbeck http://tqpage.com/31092 #
"I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity." – Sydney Biddle Barrows http://tqpage.com/1870 #
"Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion." – Jane Austen http://tqpage.com/30485 #

Laura Moncur — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:00:00 +0000

"Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still." – Chinese Proverb http://tqpage.com/2609 #
"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." – Dwight D. Eisenhower http://tqpage.com/2027 #
"If it is once again one against forty-eight, then I am very sorry for the forty-eight." – Margaret Thatcher http://tqpage.com/38906 #
"True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision." – Edith Wharton http://tqpage.com/37845 #

Laura Moncur — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:00:00 +0000

"Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples." – George Burns http://tqpage.com/1472 #
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." – Bible http://tqpage.com/2546 #
"We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself." – Joseph Chilton Pearce http://tqpage.com/27040 #
"Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening." – Dorothy Sarnoff http://tqpage.com/2851 #

Laura Moncur — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:00:00 +0000

"Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty." – Jefferson Davis http://tqpage.com/2630 #
"Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious." – Gloria Steinem http://tqpage.com/31231 #
"Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time." – Sam Rayburn http://tqpage.com/3261 #
"Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time rich and cash poor." – Cory Doctorow http://tqpage.com/40301 #

Laura Moncur — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:00:00 +0000

"Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either." – Golda Meir http://tqpage.com/3182 #
"Keeping your clothes well pressed will keep you from looking hard pressed." – Coleman Cox http://tqpage.com/2356 #
"Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life." – Bible http://tqpage.com/3117 #
"Angels dancing on the head of a pin dissolve into nothingness at the bedside of a dying child." – Waiter Rant http://tqpage.com/36495 #

Laura Moncur — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:00:00 +0000

"So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world." – Immanuel Kant http://tqpage.com/2535 #
"Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter." – Joseph Addison http://tqpage.com/2047 #
"When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse." – Ward Cleaver http://tqpage.com/3086 #
"A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart." – Jonathan Swift http://tqpage.com/2212 #

Laura Moncur — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:00:00 +0000

"In many cases, the more you try to compete, the less competitive you actually are." – Kathy Sierra http://tqpage.com/39067 #
"By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich." – Democritus http://tqpage.com/39415 #
"Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners." – William Shakespeare http://tqpage.com/31722 #
"A single day is enough to make us a little larger." – Paul Klee http://tqpage.com/33422 #

Laura Moncur — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:00:00 +0000

"The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly." – Corra Harris http://tqpage.com/2172 #
"[Water is] the only drink for a wise man." – Henry David Thoreau http://tqpage.com/1619 #
"Life is too complicated not to be orderly." – Martha Stewart http://tqpage.com/25910 #
"To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth… is potentially to have everything…" – Joan Didion http://tqpage.com/33330 #

Laura Moncur — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:00:00 +0000

"The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life." – William Shakespeare http://tqpage.com/2490 #
"The pleasure of love is in loving." – Francois de La Rochefoucauld http://tqpage.com/31615 #
"Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes." – Confucius http://tqpage.com/2725 #
"You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much." – Tove Jansson http://tqpage.com/1804 #