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Random Quotations
The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - The truth is more important than the facts.
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
- Sometimes the joys of our youth do not translate to joys in adulthood and it’s hard to release them.
- Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Starling Fitness, 07-23-08
- An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
- The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
- Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
- You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.
- Bonnie Prudden
- If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- When I'm trusting and being myself... everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously.
- Shakti Gawain
- Never miss a chance to keep your mouth shut.
- Robert Newton Peck, 'A Day No Pigs Would Die'
- None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
- Ferdinand Foch (1851 - 1929)
- Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that make it.
- Franklin P. Jones
- When a man plays a woman in a dress, you're halfway there. It's inherently funny. When a woman plays a man, for whatever reason, it's not that instant kind of funny.
- Tina Fey, ABC-TV World News Now
- Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.
- Bayard Taylor
- Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
- Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
- Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
- Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
- I'm kind of jealous of the life I'm supposedly leading.
- Zach Braff
- Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986), in Irving Good, The Scientist Speculates (1962)
- In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
- Pliny the Elder (23 AD - 79 AD)
- A man who doesn't trust himself can never truly trust anyone else.
- Cardinal de Retz, Memoires
- If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in.
- Bradley's Bromide
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