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Random Quotations
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)
- A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), (attributed)
- Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
- Ken Hakuta
- It's not foresight or hindsight we need. We need sight, plain and simple. We need to see what is right in front of us.
- Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, April 22, 2003
- There is but one temple in the universe and that is the body of man.
- Novalis (1772 - 1801)
- Storms make oaks take deeper root.
- George Herbert (1593 - 1633)
- A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.
- King Whitney Jr.
- I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
- Elvis Presley (1935 - 1977)
- A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.
- Samuel McChord Crothers
- How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names.
- Alice Walker (1944 - ), O Magazine, May 2003
- I shut my eyes in order to see.
- Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903)
- A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
- It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
- Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
- The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.
- Gordon Parks
- It seems the misfortune of one can plow a deeper furrow in the heart than the misfortune of millions.
- Kirby Larson, Hattie Big Sky, 2006
- There is a lot more to life than just struggling to make money.
- Ann Richards
- The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
- Alan Saporta
- You have to learn that if you start making sure you feel good, everything will be okay.
- Ruben Studdard, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003
- Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.
- Spanish Proverb
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