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Random Quotations
The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.
- William Blake (1757 - 1827)
- You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself.
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)
- It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it?
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
- Anonymous
- We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.
- Jeff Marder
- I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
- Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
- Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)
- That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
- Anne-Sophie Swetchine
- I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.
- Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Interview, 1995
- In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility;
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger:
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "King Henry V", Act 3 scene 1
- The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- God creates men, but they choose each other.
- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527), quoted in O Magazine, November 2003
- The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.
- Kirby Larson, Hattie Big Sky, 2006
- Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, 'Star Trek: The Next Generation'
- Acting like someone you're not is exactly what it takes to realize you're capable of more than you ever knew.
- Rob Sheridan, Mad Love, The Young and The Reckless, 2011
- Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.
- Kate Reid
- In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
- Andre Maurois (1885 - 1967)
- In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.
- Meg Cabot, The Boy Next Door, 2002
- Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
- Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
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