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Random Quotations
The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
- Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.
- Salma Hayek
- One's first book, kiss, home run, is always the best.
- Clifton Fadiman (1904 - 1999)
- Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
- James Boswell (1740 - 1795), Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791
- The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
- Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978)
- Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?
- Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Altered Egos, 1993
- History never looks like history when you are living through it.
- John W. Gardner (1912 - 2002), quoted by Bill Moyers
- Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.
- Doug Larson
- In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
- Stephen Jay Gould (1941 - 2002)
- General principles should not be based on exceptional cases.
- Robert J. Sawyer (1960 - ), "Calculating God", 2000
- Death is only going to happen to you once; I don't want to miss it.
- Jim Morrison (1943 - 1971)
- You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.
- Joanna Field
- It's not foresight or hindsight we need. We need sight, plain and simple. We need to see what is right in front of us.
- Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, April 22, 2003
- Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
- Edna Ferber (1887 - 1968)
- He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.
- Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC)
- The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
- Silence is more musical than any song.
- Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
- To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
- Quentin Crisp
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