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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - I believe our longing for an innate harmony runs deeper than our longing for righteousness.
- Evelyn Rodriguez, Crossroads Dispatches, 04-12-2006
- Sometimes the clearest mirrors come from those who are outside looking in.
- Jennifer Neal, nakedjen, 06-26-09
- Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
- Bible, Old Testament
- Complain to one who can help you.
- Yugoslav Proverb
- Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- Nihilism is best done by professionals.
- Iggy Pop
- If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
- George Burns (1896 - 1996)
- Gluttony is not a secret vice.
- Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)
- What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy.
- Amy Vanderbilt (1908 - 1974)
- I go to movies expecting to have a whole experience. If I want a movie that doesn't end, I'll go to a French movie. A movie has to be complete within itself; it can't just build off the first one or play variations.
- Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13
- It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
- Dr. Rob Gilbert
- In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.
- David M. Ogilvy
- It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
- Alec Bourne
- Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
- To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)
- They can do all because they think they can.
- Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC)
- Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
- Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
- It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
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