Thursday, January 10, 2008

Daily Quotations

Today's Quotations:



Oscar Wilde


To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

Charlie Manuel


There's no pressure in baseball. Pressure is when the doctor is getting ready to cut you, take your heart out, and put it on a table.

Aldous Huxley


That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

H Hahn Blavatsky


After 3, a body has a mind of its own.

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Reel Life Wisdom Announces 'Ten Smartest Movie Quotes of 2007' (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 07:02:00 GMT
Quote from the film 'Dan in Real Life' tops list of ten smartest quotes from the movies of 2007. Top Ten selected from more than 100 nominated quotes from last year's films.

USDA Chicago Terminal Grain - Jan 9 (INO News)

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:04:38 GMT
GX_GR110 Springfield, IL Wed, Jan 09, 2008 USDA-IL Market News Chicago terminal grain report To Arrive Truck and Rail Bids for Grain Delivered to Chicago. The following quotations represent Bids ($/ bu) from Terminal Elevators, Processors, Mills, and Merchandisers after 1:30 p.m. today.

OVERHEARD: The best quotes from Detroit's 102-86 loss to Dallas (Detroit Free Press)

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:00:31 GMT
The best quotes from the Pistons' 87-85 victory over the Celtics.

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Today's Famous Quotations

Famous Quotations:



Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes


God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.

Andre Gide


It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

Julie Arabi


All good men are happy when they choose to be their own authors. Those who choose to have others edit their pathways, must live on the edge of another man's sword.

Jimi Hendrix


When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know peace.

Portuguese-Jewish Wedding Ceremony


The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children.

George Eliot, Middlemarch, Ch 8


But pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

Jim Bishop, New York Journal-American, March 14, 1959


The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.

Abraham Lincoln


We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

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Yale Book of Quotations presents itself as the new standard for researchers (The Kansas City Star)

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:21:02 GMT
Apparently the Show Me State is also the Quote Me State. In the recently released Yale Book of Quotations, a 1,067-page tome its editor touts as the most accurate and comprehensive of its kind, Missourians are quoted more than people from any other state.

OK! sues Heat for printing quotes from interview with Britney's sister

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:15:00 GMT
Out-Law - One celebrity magazine is suing another for copyright infringement over passages taken from one interview and inserted into another. OK! is suing Heat over its use of quotes from its interview with ...

Golden Panthers report: Notes, quotes

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:20:00 GMT
CBS Sportsline - --Opponents are starting to double 7-foot center Russell Hicks in the low post and FIU finally made someone pay when it sank six of seven three-pointers in the first 12 minutes, leading to a 30-12 ...

Harmful Quotes

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:57:00 +0000
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted. - Seneca
The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all ...]

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Great Famous Quotes

Straight to the Famous Quotes ...



Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


I hope some animal never bores a hole in my head and lays its eggs in my brain, because later you might think you're having a good idea but it's just eggs hatching.

Jewish Proverb


A mother understands what a child does not say.

Proverb


First Appeared in 1721

Robert Hughes, Fatal Shore


...simple fact that any land looks like Eden after months at sea.

George Washington


Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

Mark Twain


After all these years I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.

Mark Twain


Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.

Johann K. Lavater


Never tell evil of a man, if you do not know it for certainty, and if you know it for a certainty, then ask yourself, 'Why should I tell it'

Horace, Satires


There is measure in all things.

Lyndon B. Johnson


I believe the destiny of your generation-and your nation-is a rendezvous with excellence.

Casey Stengel


The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided.

Chief Seattle


Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

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Fine silver quotations Tuesday: $16.215 ounce (Canadian Business)

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:52:58 GMT
The Canadian Press January 8, 2008 - 12:41 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Tuesday $16.215 oz., $521.31 kg.; Monday $15.785 oz., $507.49 kg.

Chavez: US attack on Iran will spike oil

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 03:35:00 GMT
Finanz Nachrichten - After the quotes from Islam's holy book, Chavez warned that the U.S. should not target OPEC members for foreign policy reasons. 'If the U.S. attacks Iran or Venezuela, the price of ...

Inferiors Quotes

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 21:44:00 +0000
To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness. - Benjamin Franklin
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. - J. K. Rowling, Harry ...]

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Latest Quotes

Quotes:



Jose Marti


Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.

Saul Bellow


In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.

Eric Hoffer


We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white.

Thomas John Watson, Sr.


Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company 600,000. No, I replied, I just spent 600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience

Russell Baker


Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperatelly? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.

George Eliot


Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

F Scott


Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

Anatole France


To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

Virgil


It is easy to go down into Hell night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.

Crow, The


T-Bird You know, Lake Eerie actually caught on fire once from all the crap floating around in it. I wish I could've seen that.

Ann Frank, Diary of Ann Frank


I want to go on living even after my death,
And therefore I am grateful to God
For giving this gift�
Of expressing all that is in me.

Benjamin Franklin


Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

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Quotes | The voters speak

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:38:00 GMT
Charlotte.com - "The more I think about it, I was probably a little bit prejudiced at times. But when I see a black man who's risen up, it would put a good face on America for the whole world (to elect him president ...

Quotes about Architecture

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:02:00 +0000
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton
In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, High-Tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit-if totally different in form-from all the romantic architecture of ...]

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Daily Famous Quotes

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Plato, The Republic


The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Oscar Wilde


The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling I have always cultivated.

Henry David Thoreau, book


The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.

H. Jackson Browne, P. S. I Love You


Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

Jean Cocteau


The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them.

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London Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:51:38 GMT
London - Closing prices in pence on the London Stock Exchange today. In brackets movement against previous quotation....

p0328 BC-Quotes 1stLd-Writethru 01-09 0152 (Hays Daily News)

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:56:55 GMT
Eds: CORRECTS typo to make 'Holy Land' uppercase in first quote.

International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:52:18 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets....

Press Quotes (All About Jazz)

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:53:12 GMT
”Leslie Pintchik and Scott Hardy play miraculous music - in tune in all ways. And you can quote me on that.” --Red Mitchell

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More Famous Quotations

Famous Quotations:



GB Shaw


When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

Thomas Paine, Common Sense


When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.

Woody Allen


I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.

Paul S. Winalski


The wine seems to be very closed-in and seems to have entered a dumb stage. Sort of a Marcel Meursault.

Reinhold Niebuhr


Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.

Clifton Fadiman


One's first book, kiss, home run, is always the best.

Titus Plautus


Courage in danger is half the battle.

Margo Kaufman


The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor.

Frank Scully


Why not go out on a limb Isn't that where the fruit is

Dr. Seuss


If you have a brain in your head and feet in your shoes, you can steer youeself in any direction you choose.

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Fine silver quotations Tuesday: $16.215 ounce (Canadian Business)

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:58:05 GMT
The Canadian Press January 8, 2008 - 12:41 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Tuesday $16.215 oz., $521.31 kg.; Monday $15.785 oz., $507.49 kg.

FACTBOX - Quotes from New Hampshire primary candidates (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 04:03:00 GMT
(Reuters) - Republican Sen.

Quotes from the candidates on the NH primary (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 04:50:27 GMT
_ "I come tonight with a very, very full heart, and I want especially to thank New Hampshire. Over the last week I listened to you, and in the process, I found my own voice. I felt like we all spoke from our hearts, and I'm so gratified that you responded.

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