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Random Quotations
The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine (354 AD - 430 AD)
- Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin
- Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
- Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
- Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. That's the lesson. That lesson alone, will save you a lot of grief. Even doubt means don't.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
- My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
- Martin Luther (1483 - 1546)
- Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.
- J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
- We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.
- Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
- If you wish in this world to advance, your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or trust me, you haven't a chance.
- W. S. Gilbert (1836 - 1911)
- The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it's against the law.
- Alex Levin
- The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.
- Andrew S. Tanenbaum
- Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.
- Chinese Proverb
- When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
- Alice Hoffman, 'Here on Earth'
- Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
- Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
- I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.
- Whoopi Goldberg
- Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.
- The Dhammapada
- Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), in Good Housekeeping
- You always second guess yourself. Just think of all the time you'd save if you just trusted yourself.
- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
- Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
- Mark B. Cohen
- It's noble to want to confess, but if the results are just damage and pain, that's not noble. It's selfish.
- Carol Green, House M.D., Adverse Events, 2008
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