Quotations Update

Today's Quotations:

Office Space


Bob We find it's always better to fire people on a Friday. Studies have statistically shown that there's less chance of an incident if you do it at the end of the week.

George Santayana


Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.

Lois McMaster Bujold


If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us

Sir B. Brodie


The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.

J. K. Rowling, J. K. Rowling Official Website


Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.

Quintus Fabius Maximus


To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office.

Euripides, 438 B.C.


I have found power in the mysteries of thought.

Author Unknown


If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts.

Dwight D Eisenhower


From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.

Unknown


If you want to have the rainbow, Then sometimes you're gonna have to deal with the rain.

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