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Random Quotations
The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.
- Robert J. Sawyer (1960 - ), "Calculating God", 2000
- A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
- If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)
- A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
- Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), "Self-Reliance", 1841
- Every pilot needs a co-pilot, and let me tell you, it is awful nice to have someone sitting there beside you, especially when you hit some bumpy air.
- Eric Wald, View From The Top, 2003
- Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby.
- Unknown
- Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
- Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
- I don't really trust a sane person.
- Lyle Alzado (1949 - 1992)
- Bachelor's degrees make pretty good placemats if you get 'em laminated.
- Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, 01-04-07
- I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
- Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
- Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Three Doctors, 1993
- Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- Women are better at acting then men. Why? Because we have to be. If successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of something he doesn't want to know is a survival skill, this is how women have survived through the millennia.
- Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
- As I grow older , I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.
- H. Rider Haggard (1856 - 1925), King Solomon's Mines
- Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
- Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
- My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers.
- Woody Allen (1935 - )
- Eating everything you want is not that much fun. When you live a life with no boundaries, there’s less joy. If you can eat anything you want to, what’s the fun in eating anything you want to?
- Tom Hanks (1956 - ), Esquire, June 2006
- Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington (1732 - 1799)
- New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.
- David Letterman (1947 - )
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