Random Quotations

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My focus has always been on talent over looks. This theme of people putting an emphasis on looks first has been a constant reminder throughout my life that most people don’t see things in the same way that I do.
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Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
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Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
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Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972)
Even the wisest counsel is useless when it is unheeded.
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Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor, 1996
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
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Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890)
My momma always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.
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Winston Groom, Forrest Gump
You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!
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Amy Tan (1952 - )
Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.
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Francois de Fenelon (1651 - 1715)
Millions of words are written annually purporting to tell how to beat the races, whereas the best possible advice on the subject is found in the three monosyllables: 'Do not try.'
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Dan Parker
My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they're in August.
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Ronnie Shakes
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
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Peter De Vries
If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Warrior's Apprentice", 1986
If we are lucky, we can give in and rest without feeling guilty. We can stop doing and concentrate on being.
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Kathleen Norris, O Magazine, July 2003
You never can see into someone else's marriage.
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Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
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Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), Letters
You can observe a lot just by watching.
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Yogi Berra (1925 - ), Berra's Law
Maps encourage boldness. They're like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible.
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Mark Jenkins, "To Timbuktu"
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
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George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.
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John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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