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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.
- Maxwell Anderson (1888 - 1959)
- 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)
- Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
- Steven Wright (1955 - )
- Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
- Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953), in Rayner Heppenstall, Four Absentees (1960)
- Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
- Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951)
- It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee (1962 - )
- Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to grow your own brain
- Scott Westerfeld, Pretties, 2005
- People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
- Anne Tyler (1941 - ), Celestial Navigation
- It seemed like forever ago, like we’d had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
- Jerry Garcia
- If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
- John Cleese (1939 - )
- He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.
- Robertson Davies, "Fifth Business"
- In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), Pre-Raphaelitism, 1850
- A man who doesn't trust himself can never truly trust anyone else.
- Cardinal de Retz, Memoires
- Just because we've been dealt a certain hand, it doesn't mean that we can't choose to rise above - to conquer the boundaries of a destiny that none of us wanted. To try to retain whatever essential humanity we can.
- Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, 2005
- Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.
- Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
- There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
- The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
- Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
- Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), The Black Cottage
- The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Atlas Shrugged, 1957
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