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Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)


Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.

Margaret Cho, weblog, 01-27-04


Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.

Henry David Thoreau


I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Sophocles, Antigone


Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.

Ronald Reagan


My fellow Americans, I must speak to you tonight about a mounting danger in Central America that threatens the security of the United States. This danger will not go away it will grow worse, much worse, if we fail to take action now.

F. Scott Fitzgerald


Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

Charles Dickens, Great Expectations


So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

Heinrich Heine


I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

Charles Dickens


A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Carl Barzun


The test and use of a man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

Gordon William Allport


So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.

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Possible 3rd anti-Iran resolution, an escape forward: Mottaki (Recast to add more quotes) (Islamic Republic News Agency)

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:13:27 GMT
Iran - Nuclear - Mottaki Adoption of any possible third resolution against Iran over nuclear program would be "an escape forward," Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Monday.

6 Quotes about Eyes

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:51:00 +0000
John Johnson Now this is something the other tour guides won’t tell you. In this particular cell-block, Machine Gun Kelly had what we call in the prison system, a bitch. And one night in a jealous rage Kelly took a make-shift knife or shiv, and cut out the bitch’s eyes. And as if this wasn’t ...]

Overheard at the SAG Awards (AP via Yahoo! News)

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 04:06:09 GMT
Quotes from Sunday night's Screen Actors Guild Awards:

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Edith Ann


Acting childish seems to come naturally, but acting like an adult, no matter how old we are, just doesn't come easy to us.

Adam Clayton Jr. Powell


A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.

Graham Green


There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets in the future.

Jay Leno


Your preoccupation should be on doing what you do as well as you can. What your co-workers say about you, what your opponent is doing -- that doesn't matter.

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6 Quotes about Eyes

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:51:00 +0000
John Johnson Now this is something the other tour guides won’t tell you. In this particular cell-block, Machine Gun Kelly had what we call in the prison system, a bitch. And one night in a jealous rage Kelly took a make-shift knife or shiv, and cut out the bitch’s eyes. And as if this wasn’t ...]

Reporting: London

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 23:55:00 GMT
American Reporter - The paper is known to invent stories and quotations on occasion, however. The project would be "a big blow to al-Qaeda," as it would send the message that the heart of terrorism has become a ...

Enlighten

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:10:00 +0000
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility. - George Orwell
Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world. - Karl Kraus
In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. ...]

Who said that?

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 08:02:00 GMT
Allentown Morning Call - Apparently the Show Me State is also the Quote Me State. In the ''Yale Book of Quotations,'' a 1,067-page tome its editor touts as the most accurate and comprehensive of its kind, Missourians are ...

International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:54:54 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.New York Dow Jones 12,328.8612,270.17(+58.69) new York NASDAQ Comp.2,346.52 2,316.41(+30.11) TokyoNikkei13,092.7812,829.06(+ 263.72) Sydney All Ordinaries 5,605....

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Jeremy Taylor


It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance for it requires knowledge to perceive it and therefore he that can perceive it hath it not.

L. Ron Hubbard


ART is a word which summarizes THE QUALITY OF COMMUNICATION.

Margo Kaufman


Remarriage is an excellent test of just how amicable your divorce was.

Alvin Toffler


Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.

Stanley Milgram


The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

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In quotes: South Carolina primary result

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 07:41:00 GMT
BBC Americas - You know, over two weeks ago we saw the people of Iowa proclaim that our time for change has come. But there were those who doubted this country's desire for something new, who said Iowa was a fluke ...

Bush Quote: “There’s no doubt in my mind when history was written, the final page will say …”

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 04:55:01 +0000
Courtesy of onegoodmove and “The Daily Show” …
“There’s no doubt in my mind when history was written, the final page will say . . .” - George W. Bush
Check out the link above for the video.

TEAM REPORTS (DAYTONA, FLA) - KROHN RACING Notes and Quotes at the 18-Hour (The Auto Channel)

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 18:02:17 GMT
The 2008 running of the Rolex 24 At Daytona has been setting records. At the 18-hour mark, there had already been 18 cautions, a new Rolex 24 record. The Krohn Racing team was holding its own, as numerous teams closed their garages and put their cars away after problems forced them to retire.

Who said that?

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 08:02:00 GMT
Allentown Morning Call - Apparently the Show Me State is also the Quote Me State. In the ''Yale Book of Quotations,'' a 1,067-page tome its editor touts as the most accurate and comprehensive of its kind, Missourians are ...

In quotes: South Carolina primary result (BBC News)

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 09:09:46 GMT
Here is a round-up of reaction to the result of the South Carolina Democratic primary.

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Alfred North Whitehead


Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld


The defects of the understanding, like those of the face, grow worse as we grow old.

William Shakespeare


Thou art all the comfort,
The Gods will diet me with.

H Hahn Blavatsky


Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.

Johann von Goethe


Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components love, adventure, power and fame.

David Bissonette


I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste.

Blaise Pascal


Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

William Hazlitt


The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.

Vaclav Havel


Society is a complex and mysterious creation and . it's extremely imprudent to believe in the fact it presents you with at a given moment, let alone to consider it the one and only true face.

Ruth Fulton Benedict


Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine.

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The scrap merchant supreme (Guardian Unlimited)

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 23:17:43 GMT
'These fragments I have shored against my ruin,' says a nameless voice in TS Eliot's The Waste Land. The fragments are a collage of quotations, jumbled mementos of a lost world.

4 Quotes on Fields

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:32:00 +0000
Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them, and they are full of toads. - Logan Pearsall Smith
On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days and other fields will bear the fruits of victory. - General Douglas MacArthur
We shall defend our ...]

New York Giants Quotes

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 22:30:00 GMT
WNYT - A: Rich is doing okay. He is making progress. So we are hoping he will be able to work next week. Q: With eight days to go do you like the way your team is getting set as you continue to move along? A ...

Quotes, Boxscore After Tennessee's Win Over Georgia (The Chattanoogan)

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 03:40:57 GMT
KNOXVILLE -- Quotes and boxscore after Tennessee's 85-69 SEC men's basketball victory here Saturday night over Georgia. Tennessee Head Coach Bruce Pearl: "It was important that we bounce back from the loss Tuesday night at Rupp. Georgia had only one loss.

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George Bernard Shaw


The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor he takes my measure anew every time he sees me, whilst all the rest go on with their old measurements, and expect them to fit me.

Luigi Barzini


They eat the dainty food of gamous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach.

Jefferson Davis


All we ask is to be let alone.

Austin Phelps


Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

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Quotes from the Republican debate (The San Luis Obispo Tribune)

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 04:39:37 GMT
Some quotes from Thursday's Republican presidential debate in Boca Raton, Fla. --- MIKE HUCKABEE

Key quotes on the global economy

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 19:59:00 GMT
Tehran Times - “Focusing on the consumer, the consumer sector is still going to be concerned. It will be a while before you see a return of normalcy in banking and (capital) markets. “The fed (rate) cut and the ...

Fine silver quotations Friday: $17.05 ounce

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:44:00 GMT
Canada East - TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Friday $17.05 oz., $548.16 kg.; Thursday $17.123 oz., $550.50 kg. Log in to access premium content and features on this site. You ...

Fine silver quotations Tuesday: $17.184 ounce (Canadian Business)

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:47:10 GMT
The Canadian Press January 22, 2008 - 12:41 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Tuesday $17.184 oz., $552.47 kg.; Friday $17.028 oz., $547.45 kg.

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Heinrich Heine


There are more fools in the world than there are people.

Samuel C. Florman


Engineering is the art or science of making practical.

So I Married an Axe Murderer


Harriet What do you look for in a woman you date Charlie Well, I know everyone always says sense of humor, but I'd really have to go with breast size.

Socrates


Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

Reinhold Niebuhr, Rockford (IL) Register Star newspaper


Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope.

Walt Disney


All of our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them.

Robert Hutchins


...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.

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Todays Quotes

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:03:00 +0000
Memories, important yesterdays, were once todays. Treasure and notice today. - Gloria Gaither
Do not be so quick to judge or label, for one day the objects of ridicule may become what they are ever so used to being seen as. And when this happens it is too late, another soul has fallen to the cruel ...]

International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:36:37 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.25 january24 Januarydifference New York Dow Jones 12,397.6312,378.61(+19.02) New York NASDAQ Comp.2,372.55 2,360.92(+11.63) TokyoNikkei13,629.1613,092.78(+ 536.3...

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