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Random Quotations
The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
- I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- Anybody who has doubts about the ingenuity or the resourcefulness of a plumber never got a bill from one.
- George Meany
- Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
- Gore Vidal (1925 - )
- And I loved the whole idea behind the story, which is that you're beautiful, so don't let other people tell you that you're not just because you don't look like the people in magazines. Or because you're not that weird ideal body image that's out there right now.
- Mike Myers, Talking about Shrek
- If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
- Scott Adams (1957 - )
- I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
- Frances Willard (1839 - 1898)
- A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986)
- When you're through changing, you're through.
- Bruce Barton
- Our envy of others devours us most of all.
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918 - )
- Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III
- If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
- Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC), The Histories of Herodotus
- Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'
- Maya Angelou (1928 - ), in Daily News
- Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.
- Gary Zukav, "The Dancing Wu Li Masters"
- I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect.
- George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
- You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
- Jack London (1876 - 1916)
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