Random Quotations

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.
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Sara Zarr, Sweehearts, 2008
People don't believe what you tell them.
They rarely believe what you show them.
They often believe what their friends tell them.
They always believe what they tell themselves.
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Seth Godin, Seth Godin's Blog, 07-29-06
As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did.
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Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.
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Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
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Marlene Dietrich (1901 - 1992)
Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.
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Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
There is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind of violates that contract.
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John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
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Harry Shearer
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
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Woody Allen (1935 - )
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
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Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.
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Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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Nicholas Butler (1862 - 1947)
Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.
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Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987)
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.
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Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
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Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
Most people see themselves a certain way their entire lives. When they go through a massive change, such as losing weight, they have to learn to see themselves in a new way. It is one of the biggest struggles her members deal with on their journey.
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Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
Ah! Memory impairment: the free prize at the bottom of every vodka bottle!
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Chuck Lorre, Steven Molaro and Eric Kaplan, Big Bang Theory, The Agreement Dissection, 2011
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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