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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent.
- Berton Averre
- I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, April 2003
- You ask me why I do not write something....I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.
- Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910), in Cecil Woodham-Smith, Florence Nightingale, 1951
- Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever apologize for anything.
- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
- No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), 'The Strenuous Life,' 1900
- I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), "Is Shakespeare Dead?"
- I couldn’t kill myself, couldn’t let go like so many others had. I wonder if in their last moments they’d changed their minds, but there was no boulder to grab on to.
- Suzanne Young, The Program. 2013
- Trust one who has gone through it.
- Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC), The Aeneid
- My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.
- Dame Edna Everage (1934 - )
- It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
- Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- A problem isn’t a problem until it actually happens.
- Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
- There is only one real deprivation, I decided this morning, and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
- May Sarton
- When people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quite—always.
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- In Mexico we have a word for sushi: Bait.
- Jose Simon
- Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
- Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), An Ideal Husband, 1893, Act I
- If the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or, by its moral, taught him to sustain it - the effort, however humble, has not been vain, nor is the writer unrewarded.
- Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
- Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment.
- Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, 'A Woman of Independent Means'
- It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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