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Random Quotations
The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Partake of some of life's sweet pleasures. And yes, get comfortable with yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
- Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel
- One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
- Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
- It's better to be a company than to work for a company.
- Jim Coudal, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
- There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Much Ado About Nothing, Act III, sc. 1
- Charity sees the need not the cause.
- German Proverb
- The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
- Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
- You have to accept the plan and realize that if you slip, and you might, you can’t use that as a reason to give up or stop.
- Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
- Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.
- Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
- There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.
- Sylvia Plath (1932 - 1963), The Bell Jar, 1963
- Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
- Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819
- One day the factory sports coach, who was very strict, pointed at four boys, including me, and ordered us to run in a race. I protested that I was weak and not fit to run, but the coach sent me for a physical examination and the doctor said that I was perfectly well. So I had to run, and when I got started I felt I wanted to win. But I only came in second. That was the way it started.
- Emil Zatopek
- I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- Holding onto anger is like grasping onto a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else. You are the one who gets burned.
- Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)
- That is not what Geek means to me. We are more than the hobbies that we do or the things that we like. To me, Geek means an outsider, a rebel, a dreamer, a creator, a fighter. It's a person who dares to love something that isn't conventional.
- Felicia Day, Geek and Sundry, State of the Sundry, 03-25-13
- The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.
- Anita Roddick, A Revolution in Kindness, 2003
- You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
- Beverly Sills (1929 - )
- I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.
- James Lileks, The Bleat web log, September 15, 2003
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