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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.
- Eric Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania Commencement Address, 2009
- To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
- Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)
- The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.
- H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946), 1903
- If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), The Exploration of Space, 1951
- Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
- Dianne Houston, Take The Lead, 2006
- Looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them. You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
- Gilda Radner (1946 - 1989)
- Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.
- Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
- Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
- Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
- To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes.
- Fritz Kunkel
- He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.
- Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967)
- If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.
- Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
- It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
- Dick Cavett (1936 - )
- In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
- Edward P. Tryon
- Despise not any man, and do not spurn anything; for there is no man who has not his hour, nor is there anything that has not its place.
- Ben Azai, Mishna
- You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
- Stephen King (1947 - ), "Hearts in Atlantis"
- The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O.
- Martin Mull (1943 - )
- Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)
- I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
- Steven Pearl
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