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Random Quotations
The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
- John Locke (1632 - 1704)
- I don't wear a watch. How do I know my time? I find that someone will always tell me.
- Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, One, 2003
- Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
- Bill Gates (1955 - ), Business @ The Speed of Thought
- This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.
- Cory Doctorow, Little Brother, 2008
- Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels.
- Bob Thaves, "Frank and Ernest", 1982
- One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
- Will Durant (1885 - 1981)
- Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
- Peter Borden
- If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.
- Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
- He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
- P. B. Medawar (1915 - )
- I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778), (Attributed); originated in "The Friends of Voltaire", 1906, by S. G. Tallentyre (Evelyn Beatrice Hall)
- A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
- John Locke (1632 - 1704)
- I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who are less strong. I can take the bullets for those who aren't able to.
- Margaret Cho, weblog, 01-14-04
- A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
- Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)
- Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
- Joseph P. Thompson
- Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.
- Chinese Proverb
- Feed a fever, starve a cold. Lightly sup with rickets.
- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
- We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.
- Robert Wilensky, speech at a 1996 conference
- If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.
- Elaine Liner, We Got Naked, Now What, SXSW 2006
- There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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