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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Epistles
- Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
- Marlene Dietrich (1901 - 1992)
- Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
- Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
- No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.
- Wendy Wasserstein (1950 - 2005), Isn't It Romantic, 1983
- Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519), The Notebooks
- You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
- Harriet Martineau (1802 - 1876)
- To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.
- Alexis Carrel (1873 - 1944)
- Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.
- Berthold Auerbach (1812 - 1882)
- Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?
- Budd Schulberg, O Magazine, November 2003
- Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
- Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
- Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman
- Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
- Millicent Fenwick
- We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.
- Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
- All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
- John Quincy Adams (1767 - 1848)
- Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.
- Swedish Proverb
- That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
- Quentin Crisp
- Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.
- Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Chef Aid, 1998
- Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.
- Louis Schwartzberg, TED, the hidden beauty of pollination, March 2011
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