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Random Quotations
The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)
- Charity sees the need not the cause.
- German Proverb
- There's something almost perfect in the ugly duckling syndrome. Because a sensitivity is tattooed on a part of you no one else can see but can somehow guess is there.
- Stephanie Klein, Moose, 2008
- It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.
- Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)
- When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have.
- Kathleen A. Sutton
- Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902)
- How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.
- Norman Douglas
- Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.
- M. C. Richards
- You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
- Paul "Bear" Bryant, I Ain't Never Been Nothing but a Winner
- There must be more to life than having everything.
- Maurice Sendak (1928 - )
- He talked with more claret than clarity.
- Susan Ertz
- Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.
- Martin Mull (1943 - )
- Character is forged in the smallest of struggles. Then, when the big challenges come, we’re ready.
- Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant weblog, 12-30-05
- What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), speech to the Republican National Committee, January 31, 1958
- I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years.
- Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
- One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
- Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.
- John L. Motley (1814 - 1877)
- No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either.
- Marvin Minsky
- When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
- Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)
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