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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive.
- Dorothee Solle
- The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- You know what uranium is, right? It's this thing called nuclear weapons. And other things. Like lots of things are done with uranium. Including some bad things.
- Donald Trump (1946 - ), Press Conference, February 16, 2017
- The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.
- Harriet Lerner, The Dance of Anger, 1985
- We did not start as friends, but as people who respected and admired each other. Crucial, absolutely crucial for a partnership. As soon as we could afford it, we ceased sharing lodgings. Equally crucial.
- Raymond Joseph Teller, Fury Letter written to Brian Brushwood, 10-18-93
- Keep writing. Keep doing it and doing it. Even in the moments when it's so hurtful to think about writing.
- Heather Armstrong, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
- Frankly, I’m suspicious of anyone who has a strong opinion on a complicated issue.
- Scott Adams (1957 - ), The Dilbert Blog
- I improve on misquotation.
- Cary Grant (1904 - 1986)
- I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.
- Augusten Burroughs, Magical Thinking
- In a progressive country change is constant; ...change... is inevitable.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
- To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
- Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
- Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
- Marlene Dietrich (1901 - 1992)
- People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go bankrupt.
- Mary Pettibone Poole
- Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
- Elizabeth I (1533 - 1603), in Francis Bacon, Apophthegms, 1625
- The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
- Margo Kaufman
- Even in the darkness, every color can be found. And every day of rain brings water flowing to things growing in the ground.
- Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, 2008
- There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.
- Georges Clemenceau (1841 - 1929)
- I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.
- Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
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