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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, August 2004
- When you write things down, they sometimes take you places you hadn't planned.
- Melanie Benjamin, Alice I Have Been, 2010
- When I walk into my kitchen today, I am not alone. Whether we know it or not, none of us is. We bring fathers and mothers and kitchen tables, and every meal we have ever eaten. Food is never just food. It's also a way of getting at something else: who we are, who we have been, and who we want to be.
- Molly Wizenberg, A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table, 2009
- Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.
- Swatch, Always Now, 1997
- The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880), Felix Holt, the Radical, 1866
- Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
- The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.
- Solomon Short
- It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
- Pythagoras (582 BC - 507 BC)
- Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
- Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805)
- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
- Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992), Salvor Hardin in "Foundation"
- How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!
- Belva Plain
- Where facts are few, experts are many.
- Donald R. Gannon
- Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- [S]he refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
- Zelda Fitzgerald, 1922
- Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
- I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
- Jerome K. Jerome (1859 - 1927), "Three Men in a Boat", 1889
- The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
- Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie
- It is the caring and sharing that count—love is not prevented by the things and the time that you haven’t shared.
- Claudia Jewett Jarrett, Adopting the Older Child, 1978
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