Random Quotations

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Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.
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H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.
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Robin Norwood
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
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Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
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H. P. Lovecraft (1890 - 1937), "The Call of Cthulhu", first line
I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
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Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
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Sidney J. Harris
'Whom are you?' he asked, for he had attended business college.
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George Ade (1866 - 1944), "The Steel Box", 1898
I haven't the slightest idea how to change people, but I still keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.
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David Sedaris
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top.
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An English Professor, Ohio University
All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.
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Baltasar Gracian
On a lazy Saturday morning when you're lying in bed, drifting in and out of sleep, there is a space where fantasy and reality become one. Are you awake, or are you dreaming? You see people and things; some are familiar; some are strange. You talk, you feel, but you move without walking; you fly without wings. Your mind and your body exist, but on separate planes. Time stands still. For me, this is the feeling I have when ideas come.
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Lynn Johnston (1947 - ), Lynn on Ideas
We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
We are who people think we are.
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David Foster, House M.D., TB or Not TB, 2005
Art has never been made while thinking of art.
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Niko Stumpo, The Wooster Collective, December 2006
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
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Ellen Glasglow
You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough.
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Joe E. Lewis
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
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Evenius
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?
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Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
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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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