Random Quotations

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Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
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Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
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Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883 - 1955)
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
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Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
When there's snow on the ground, I like to pretend I'm walking on clouds.
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Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day...
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Donald Barthelme
The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary.
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Vidal Sassoon
It's very strange when the life you never had flashes before your eyes.
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Terri Minsky, Sex and the City, The Baby Shower, 1998
I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
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Margaret Thatcher (1925 - ), in Observer April 4, 1989
Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.
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Joel Hawes
Part of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore.
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Alan Moore (1953 - ), Watchmen, 1986
Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.
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Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
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Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart
There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.
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Sister Mary Rose McGeady
So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.
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Brenda Ueland
When a quiet man is moved to passion, it seems the very earth will shake.
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Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor, 1996
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
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Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
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Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), An Ideal husband, 1893
If you cannot convince them, confuse them.
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Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
One can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.
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L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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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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