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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Always be nice to people on the way up; because you'll meet the same people on the way down.
- Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
- You ask me why I do not write something....I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.
- Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910), in Cecil Woodham-Smith, Florence Nightingale, 1951
- Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
- Dan Rather (1931 - )
- Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.
- Scott Westerfeld, Extras, 2007
- I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
- Nothing is said that has not been said before.
- Terence (185 BC - 159 BC)
- Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now!
- Michael Landon (1936 - 1991)
- If you're afraid to let someone else see your weakness, take heart: Nobody's perfect. Besides, your attempts to hide your flaws don't work as well as you think they do.
- Julie Morgenstern, O Magazine, April 2004
- You threaten to punch someone in the face, what do they do? They duck. You try to punch 'em in the wallet and they always open up.
- Howard Gordon and Evan Katz, Awake, Ricky's Tacos, April 2012
- I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
- Charles De Gaulle (1890 - 1970)
- If the people who make the decisions are the people who will also bear the consequences of those decisions, perhaps better decisions will result.
- John Abrams, The Company We Keep: Reinventing Small Business for People, Community and Place
- If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it!
- Jonathan Winters
- There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
- Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)
- We all need to have a creative outlet - a window, a space - so we don't lose track of ourselves.
- Norman Fischer
- Admit that your own private Mount Everest exists. That is half the battle.
- Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 9, 08-22-04
- We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey.
- John Hope Franklin
- Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
- Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989)
- Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
- Howard Scott (1926 - )
- The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.
- Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964), As quoted in The Last Years of a Rebel : A Memoir of Edith Sitwell by Elizabeth Salter, 1967
- Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.
- Sidney J. Harris
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