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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Northanger Abbey
- If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
- Sebastien-Roch Nicolas
- Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.
- Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)
- Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
- The important thing is not to stop questioning.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- Call home at least once a week. It's a proven fact that we call home less the older we get. And that's wrong. It should be the other way around. As we get older, our parents get older.
- Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
- It's very important that we start creating new content again. We can only build on nostalgia so much before we have nothing left to build on.
- Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13
- One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.
- G. E. Lessing (1729 - 1781)
- It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
- A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968), The Open Door (1957)
- 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.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Warrior's Apprentice", 1986
- Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
- Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
- It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
- No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.
- Robert Half
- The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
- De La Lastra's Law
- The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.
- Al Batt, in National Enquirer
- Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
- Jane Wagner, Lily Tomlin in "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe"
- Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, February 2003
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