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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
- Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)
- Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos, 1986
- The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
- Quentin Crisp
- The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
- William Cowper (1731 - 1800)
- Women are better at acting then men. Why? Because we have to be. If successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of something he doesn't want to know is a survival skill, this is how women have survived through the millennia.
- Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
- I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.
- Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
- You can talk about anything if you go about it the right way, which is never malicious.
- Rodney Carrington
- Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
- Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)
- You can pray for someone even if you don't think God exists.
- Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, July 7, 2003
- No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- Under the greenwood tree who loves to lie with me ... Here shall he see no enemy but winter and rough weather.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), As You Like It, Act II, sc. 5
- The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, September 2002
- Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.
- Swedish Proverb
- I'm a jerk to everyone. Best way to protect yourself from lawsuits.
- David Hoselton, House M.D., Guardian Angels, 2007
- Everything is connected... no one thing can change by itself.
- Paul Hawken
- Confusion is always the most honest response.
- Marty Indik
- The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
- Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
- That is the greatest fallacy, the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
- Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961), A Farewell to Arms, 1929
- God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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