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Random Quotations
The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Our lives teach us who we are.
- Salman Rushdie (1947 - )
- I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.
- Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
- A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
- Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955)
- I would rather be right and die than be wrong and kill.
- Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992
- When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
- Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - ), "Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art", 1980
- Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
- The more I know about business, the more I'm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.
- Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: Twelve Hours from San Francisco, 09-17-08
- Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
- Mark B. Cohen
- You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
- Max Beerbohm (1872 - 1956)
- I’m searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.
- Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, February 13, 2004
- The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little.
- Joe Martin, Porterfield
- Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
- Edmund Spenser (1552 - 1599), 1590
- I'm not worried about the bullet with my name on it... just the thousands out there marked 'Occupant.'
- Unknown
- The cure for anything is salt water... tears, sweat or the sea.
- Isak Dinesen, Seven Gothic Tales, 1934
- ...it is as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.
- Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
- Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
- People don't have to like or support you, so you always have to say thank you.
- Ruben Studdard, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003
- No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.
- Wendy Wasserstein (1950 - 2005), Isn't It Romantic, 1983
- A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
- Sidney J. Harris
- Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.'
- Sue Halpern, O Magazine, September 2003
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