Quotations Update

Today's Quotations:

Lloyd Alexander


Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

Maya Angelou


We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

Sufi Proverb


There wouldn't be such a thing as counterfeit gold if there were no real gold somewhere.

Carl Sagan


Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

Robyn Davidson


The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure , the process is its own reward.

Luigi Pirandello


When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld


In jealousy there is more of self-love, than of love to another.

Woody Allen


Should I marry W. Not if she won't tell me the other letters in her name.

William Gibson


Virtual Reality is like mainlining television.

Simone de Beauvoir


It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

1 John 49 NIV Bible


This is how God showed His love among us He sent His one and only Son into the world that we might live through Him.

Henry Ward Beecher


We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

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Quotes of the week (Aspen Daily News)

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:33:04 GMT
“If he lifted up that gun, I was jumping over the counter.” John Chaplin, a clerk at Of Grape & Grain, after a man entered the store with a rifle. Chaplin asked the man to put down the gun, which he did before shopping for wine.

In quotes: Care policy report (BBC News)

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:40:04 GMT
A selection of quotes following publication of Audit Scotland's report into free personal care of the elderly.

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