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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - It's very easy to feel someone's pain when you love them.
- Salma Hayek, Conversation with Salma Hayek, 2002
- My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.
- Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004), Said during a radio microphone test, 1984
- The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.
- Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906), An Enemy of the People, 1882
- The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
- Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007)
- The meal is not over when I'm full. The meal is over when I hate myself.
- Louis C. K., Louis C. K.: Chewed Up, 2008
- No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
- Thomas Mann (1875 - 1955)
- Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?
- Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Altered Egos, 1993
- Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
- Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.
- Louis Schwartzberg, TED, the hidden beauty of pollination, March 2011
- Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
- To get thine ends, lay bashfulness aside; Who fears to ask, doth teach to be deny'd.
- Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)
- Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!
- Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
- Home is where the heart is, so your real home's in your chest.
- Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, 2008
- I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called "scientific" mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.
- Cynthia Ozick
- The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
- Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
- I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.
- Gilda Radner (1946 - 1989)
- Stoop and you'll be stepped on; stand tall and you'll be shot at.
- Carlos A. Urbizo
- ...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes)
- I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.
- John Scalzi, Old Man's War, 2005
- When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), "Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?", 1947
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