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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
- Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
- It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
- Woody Allen (1935 - ), Without Feathers, 1976
- A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
- Burt Bacharach (1928 - )
- You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
- Ray Bradbury (1920 - ), advice to writers
- Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.
- Margaret Peters
- Never give a child a sword.
- Latin Proverb
- When you build bridges you can keep crossing them.
- Rick Pitino, Lead to Success
- The ancestor of every action is a thought.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- We all need to have a creative outlet - a window, a space - so we don't lose track of ourselves.
- Norman Fischer
- Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
- Peter McWilliams, Life 101
- When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation.
- Cherrie Moraga
- The idea of perfect closes your mind to new standards. When you drive hard toward one ideal, you miss opportunities and paths, not to mention hurting your confidence. Believe in your potential and then go out and explore it; don't limit it.
- John Eliot, Ph.D., Reverse Psychology for Success
- 'So you think *I'm* the murderer? What do I have to do to convince you that I'm not, be the next victim?'
'Well, that would be a start.' - Peter Stone, Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn in "Charade", 1963
- Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
- Audre Lorde
- Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about.
- Lynn Johnston (1947 - ), For Better or For Worse, 11-06-03
- The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
- Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
- All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Animal Farm"
- Let a good man do good deeds with the same zeal that the evil man does bad ones.
- The Belzer Rabbi
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