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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
- Woody Allen (1935 - )
- Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, "A Civil Campaign", 1999
- Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
- If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.
- Mickey Mantle (1931 - 1995), (attributed)
- Your child can’t hurt you if you don’t accept the hurt. Let it go.
- Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
- Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
- Ted Morgan
- In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
- The hardest thing when you think about focusing. You think focusing is about saying "Yes." No. Focusing is about saying "No." And when you say "No," you piss off people.
- Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Apple WWDC Closing Keynote, 1997
- Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
- M. Scott Peck, O Magazine, February 2004
- All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
- Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870)
- The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.
- Art Spander
- Nobody can tell you if what you're doing is good, meaningful or worthwhile. The more compelling the path, the more lonely it is.
- Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 5, 08-22-04
- Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.
- T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
- Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
- Dan Quayle (1947 - ), 5/20/92 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
- It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee (1962 - )
- Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
- Acts of sacrifice and decency without regard to what's in it for you create ripple effects. Ones that lift up families and communities, that spread opportunity and boost our economy.
- Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
- If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.
- Elaine Liner, We Got Naked, Now What, SXSW 2006
- One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.
- Marlo Thomas
- A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats.
- Marie De France, 12th Century
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