Read books online
at our other site:
The Literature Page

Random Quotations

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

To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.: Karl Marx (1818 - 1883)
- More quotations on: [Reason]
The face is not a secondary billboard for our internal feelings. It is an equal partner in the emotional process.: Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2005
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.: Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941)
Sometimes you feel other people's pain worse than your own. We're armored against our own troubles. We can't afford to give in to despair. Then you see someone else struggling, and it breaks your... heart.: Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.: Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004
I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.: Mignon McLaughlin
A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.: Segal's Law
The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), in Christian Science
- More quotations on: [Enemies]
When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.: Mary Hirsch
- More quotations on: [Humor]
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), quoted Kansas City Star, June 5, 1977
Sometimes it's good to contrast what you like with something else. It makes you appreciate it even more.: Darby Conley, Get Fuzzy, 2001
We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.: Roald Dahl (1916 - 1990), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.: Michael Hanson
- More quotations on: [Goals]
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.: Bertha Calloway
Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.: Tina Fey, Vogue Interview, 2010
- More quotations on: [Confidence]
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.: Leigh Hunt (1784 - 1859)
- More quotations on: [Evil] [Suffering]
Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.: Jennie Jerome Churchill (1854 - 1921)