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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich (1901 - 1992)
- Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007)
- You learn a lot about people when you play games with them.
- Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Pick Me! 02-11-09
- Nothing endures but personal qualities.
- Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
- Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel
- No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.
- Michael Pritchard
- I don't want to sound Pollyannaish, but I hope that out of a tragedy like this something good will come. I hope we understand we're one family.
- Madeleine Albright (1937 - ), Making Sense of the Unimaginable, O Magazine
- I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
- Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
- Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
- How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
- Woody Allen (1935 - )
- A mind too active is no mind at all.
- Theodore Roethke (1908 - 1963)
- I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.
- Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
- By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
- It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
- I stand by all the misstatements that I've made.
- Dan Quayle (1947 - ), to Sam Donaldson, 8/17/89
- When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: admit it, learn from it, and don't repeat it.
- Paul "Bear" Bryant, I Ain't Never Been Nothing but a Winner
- It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.
- James Gordon, M.D.
- Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881), "The Brothers Karamazov"
- Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same.
- Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973), quoted in O Magazine, May 2003
- You can't be angry with God and not believe in him at the same time.
- Sara B. Cooper, House, Damned If You Do, 2004
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