Random Quotations

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I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.
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Charles Lamb (1775 - 1834)
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
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Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, September 2002
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.
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Chuck Sigars, The World According to Chuck weblog, September 30, 2003
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
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Margaret Lee Runbeck
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
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Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000)
Sending important messages via text is the coward’s way out. Don’t be the person who texts important messages. It’s rude, inconsiderate, and, yes, cowardly.
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Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
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Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know.
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Garry Shandling (1949 - )
The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.
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Kirby Larson, Hattie Big Sky, 2006
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
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Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
The customer doesn't expect everything will go right all the time; the big test is what you do when things go wrong.
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Sir Colin Marshall
Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self- consciousness.
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Aaron Copland (1900 - 1990)
Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
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Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), Song of the Open Road
Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.
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Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 11-07-05
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
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Edgar Bergen (1903 - 1978), (Charlie McCarthy)
I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
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Buzz Aldrin (1930 - )
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
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John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), inaugural address, January 20, 1961
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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