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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough
- Mario Andretti (1940 - )
- There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
- Edmund Wilson (1895 - 1972)
- I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building.
- Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000)
- When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
- Art is science made clear.
- Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963)
- Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
- Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910), Anna Karenina, Chapter 1, first line
- You just have to start putting one foot in front of the other, making an effort to get healthy every day.
- Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
- Parents are never as bad as kids think they are.
- Matt Witten, House M.D., Cursed, 2004
- Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you--if you don't play, you can't win.
- Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
- I've never struck a woman in my life, not even my own mother.
- W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
- Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.
- Woody Allen (1935 - )
- For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, yes.
- Dag Hammarskjold (1905 - 1961)
- It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
- Dr. Howard Murphy
- The best index to a person's character is
(a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back. - Abigail van Buren (1918 - )
- In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
- Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
- If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks.
- Steve Pavlina, How to Win an Argument, 08-31-05
- Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
- Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
- All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox, O Magazine, February 2004
- Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
- Jay Leno (1950 - )
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