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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Reading is no substitute for action.
- Colleen Wainwright, Communicatrix, 07-26-08
- I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings (1894 - 1962)
- When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
- Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - ), "Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art", 1980
- Give all to love; obey thy heart.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
- Peter De Vries
- Antonym, n.: The opposite of the word you're trying to think of.
- Unknown
- It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.
- Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
- I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
- Pat Conroy (1945 - )
- I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know.
- Garry Shandling (1949 - )
- Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action.
- Anna Lappe, O Magazine, June 2003
- Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
- Cullen Hightower
- There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Man and Superman" (1903), act 4
- If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder.
- John Scalzi, Old Man's War, 2005
- Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
- Aimee Mullins, Oprah Magazine, May 2004
- The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.
- Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957), Gaudy Night
- The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
- Mikhail Bakunin (1814 - 1876)
- The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.
- Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
- Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
- John Quincy Adams (1767 - 1848)
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