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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
- Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904)
- It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.
- Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
- Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
- Chinese Proverb
- Always be a little kinder than necessary.
- James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
- Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
- English Proverb
- The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
- Frances Willard (1839 - 1898)
- The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)
- One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
- An optimist is the human personification of spring.
- Susan J. Bissonette
- Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
- Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915)
- Television – a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
- Ernie Kovacs
- Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
- Woody Allen (1935 - )
- Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
- We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
- You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
- Ellen Metcalf
- Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle i.e. being human.
- Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 29, 08-22-04
- Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
- Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
- Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.
- Doris Mortman
- Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it.
- Anonymous
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