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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Hope is only the love of life.
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel
- There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.
- Robertson Davies
- Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.
- Elmer G. Letterman
- Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC)
- Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
- Marlene Dietrich (1901 - 1992)
- Good writing takes more than just time; it wants your best moments and the best of you.
- Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com weblog, 10-09-04
- Discretion is not the better part of biography.
- Lytton Strachey (1880 - 1932), in Michael Holroyd Lytton, Strachey vol. 1 (1967)
- Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
- Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
- Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
- Eugene Delacroix (1798 - 1863)
- The cure for writer's cramp is writer's block.
- Inigo DeLeon
- Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
- Joseph Heller (1923 - 1999), "Catch-22"
- In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
- When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.
- Margery Allingham, Death of a Ghost, 1934
- Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
- Cherie Carter-Scott, "If Love Is a Game, These Are the Rules"
- This became a credo of mine...attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
- Bette Davis (1908 - 1989)
- The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.
- Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Democracy in America, 1992
- Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
- When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
- Clifton Fadiman (1904 - 1999)
- Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
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