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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
- Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
- Hysteria is only possible with an audience.
- Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
- I shall not pretend that I do not prefer to have people adore me rather than revile me, but I have always found that it was far easier for me to suffer the disapprobation of others than to amend my behaviour in order to find favour with them.
- Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
- What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.
- Andre Agassi (1970 - ), on "Charlie Rose"
- The first time I ever read the dictionary I thought it was a poem about everything.
- Steven Wright (1955 - ), stand-up
- We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.
- Nick Faldo
- All a good letter has to do is make you feel special.
- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
- A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
- Lenin (1870 - 1924)
- No great deed, private or public, had ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.
- Leon Wieseltier, in The New Republic
- The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
- e e cummings (1894 - 1962)
- It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.
- Isabel Colegate
- A friend is a gift you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
- I like life. It's something to do.
- Ronnie Shakes
- Those whom we support hold us up in life.
- Marie Ebner von Eschenbach
- When a quiet man is moved to passion, it seems the very earth will shake.
- Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor, 1996
- Health food makes me sick.
- Calvin Trillin (1935 - )
- Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos, 1986
- I wonder what it means when your grandson is more crotchety than you are.
- Aaron McGruder, The Boondocks
- Bachelor's degrees make pretty good placemats if you get 'em laminated.
- Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, 01-04-07
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