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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Anyone can lose a few pounds, but not everyone has the tools to stick with it.
- Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
- My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful process of learning to let go of things not essential.
- Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, December 16, 2002
- Giving is a necessity sometimes... more urgent, indeed, than having.
- Margaret Lee Runbeck
- Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos - the trees, the clouds, everything.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
- Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
- John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
- One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget.
- Franklin P. Jones
- Any woman who thinks the way to a man's heart is through his stomach is aiming about 10 inches too high.
- Adrienne E. Gusoff
- It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it.
- Steven Wright (1955 - )
- Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.
- Tom Blair
- You go to movies to see people you love suffer - that's why you go to the movies. You don't go to see a movie about a guy who already knows he has a wonderful life.
- Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13
- I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
- Bill Cosby (1937 - )
- I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
- Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
- Just a word of advice. Whenever you're furious with your parents or you think they're terrible, just remember, you vomited on them and they kept you.
- John Green, Vlogbrothers, The Five Worst Places to Vomit, 09-04-12
- When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
- Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)
- My computer beat me at chess... so I beat it at kickboxing.
- Demetri Martin
- Anarchy - it's not the law, it's just a good idea.
- Unknown
- Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
- Arnold Bennett
- The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.
- Scott Westerfeld, Peeps, 2005
- The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
- Nikola Tesla (1857 - 1943), Modern Mechanics and Inventions. July, 1934
- I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
- Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
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