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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
- Henry J. Kaiser (1882 - 1967)
- I don’t think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.
- Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 20, 2003
- It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
- Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
- A cucumber should be well-sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
- Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
- The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), A Woman of No Importance, Act 3
- If the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.
- Max Frisch
- You can't think yourself out of a writing block, you have to write yourself out of a thinking block.
- John Rogers, Kung Fu Monkey, 06-25-11
- It never hurts to ask. Unless you ask for hurt.
- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
- You cannot just work out and then eat poorly and expect to lose weight. It doesn’t work that way.
- Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
- Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616), Man of La Mancha
- He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
- Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
- The cure for writer's cramp is writer's block.
- Inigo DeLeon
- It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Atlas Shrugged, 1957
- Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
- It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
- Franklin P. Jones
- Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
- Truman Capote (1924 - 1984)
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