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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - A gift - be it a present, a kind word or a job done with care and love - explains itself!... and if receivin' it embarrasses you, it's because your 'thanks box' is warped.
- Alice Childress
- The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.
- Herb Caen
- Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.
- Hal Lancaster, in The Wall Street Journal
- Ask, and it shall be given you; Seek, and ye shall find; Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
- Bible, New Testament, Matthew 7:7
- I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
- Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976)
- When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.
- Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965)
- If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?
- Margot Fonteyn (1919 - 1991)
- We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic.
- Susan Jeffers
- Any piece of clothing can be sexy with a quietly passionate woman inside it.
- Anonymous, O Magazine, The Shy Girl's Guide to Sex, February 2003
- Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
- Oliver Goldsmith (1730 - 1774)
- Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
- Muhammad Ali (1942 - ), "More Than a Hero"
- It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it?
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- Man is what he believes.
- Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904)
- If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.
- Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
- We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE in a ridiculous attempt to survive our deaths.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- Guns don't kill people. People who say "Guns don't kill people" kill people. With guns.
- Rob Delaney, Twitter
- I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
- W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
- I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.
- Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)
- If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.
- Eric Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania Commencement Address, 2009
- You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), New York Times Aug. 31 1924
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