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Random Quotations
The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - He talked with more claret than clarity.
- Susan Ertz
- It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- You can be confident and secure and know that you do a good job at what you do. But you don't know to be arrogant about it.
- Ruben Studdard, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003
- It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
- Sally Kempton
- The pleasure of love is in loving.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.
- Robert Byrne
- We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
- Ray Bradbury (1920 - )
- Looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them. You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.
- William Bridges
- I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.
- Meryl Streep (1949 - )
- If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.
- Pierre Beaumarchais (1732 - 1799)
- Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.
- Edward Everett Hale (1822 - 1909)
- Maybe it's easier to like someone else's life, and live vicariously through it, than take some responsiblity to change our lives into lives we might like.
- Tish Grier, love and hope and sex and dreams, 04-12-2006
- Dignity comes not from control, but from understanding who you are and taking your rightful place in the world.
- Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 05-01-05
- It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
- Stephen Jay Gould (1941 - 2002)
- Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.
- Brenda Ueland
- By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - the sea - the sun.
- Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923)
- Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
- George Burns (1896 - 1996)
- You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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