Read books online
at our other site:
The Literature Page

Random Quotations

The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below .

The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value.: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), Speech before the Colorado Live Stock Association, Denver, Colorado, August 19, 1910
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.: William James (1842 - 1910)
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.: Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
Computer dating is fine, if you’re a computer.: Rita Mae Brown
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.: Jerry Seinfeld (1954 - )
To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.: Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.: Garry Marshall, 'Wake Me When It's Funny'
- More quotations on: [Mistakes]
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- More quotations on: [Defeat]
People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- More quotations on: [Ideas]
We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win.: Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794)
- More quotations on: [Victory]
Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.: Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.: Michael Crichton (1942 - 2008), State of Fear
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?: Kanye West, Rolling Stone, 2006
- More quotations on: [Humility]
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
- More quotations on: [Hollywood]
One's life is not as fixed as one believes. Surprises may lie in store for you, the unexpected often tends to happen, sometimes bringing in its train the most delightful change in one's life or circumstances.: Elizabeth Aston, The Darcy Connection, 2008
For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.: Rachel Carson (1907 - 1964)
- More quotations on: [Memory]
I had an epiphany a few years ago where I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I had yet to meet a celebrity who is as smart and interesting as any of my friends.: Moby, quoted on CNN.com, March 2005
- More quotations on: [Celebrities]
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- More quotations on: [Patriotism]
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.: John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801 - 1890)