Daily Quotations

Today's Quotations:

Jimmy Carter, Spech in March 1976


We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

Wystan Hugh Auden


Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

Barbara Sher


Isolation is a dream killer.

George Sarton, History of Science


There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.

William Penn


Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", Chapter 2


He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.

Blaise Pascal


Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

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The other Manning brother lives a life without regret (USA Today)

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:46:15 GMT
The Manning brother you don't know spent Super Bowl media day in his office in a New Orleans skyscraper. The Manning brother you don't watch on television is prone to superstition, and quickly comes across as the gregarious one of the litter as affable as Peyton or Eli, but with better quotes.

Eurex verzeichnet neue Handelsrekorde

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:44:00 GMT
Presse Box - Quotes, in den vergangenen Tagen hatte sich diese Zahl mehr als verdoppelt. Am Mittwoch wurde mit 550 Mio. Quotes eine neue Rekordzahl erreicht.

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Today's Famous Quotations

Famous Quotations:

Harry Emerson Fosdick


The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.

George Bernard Shaw


When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

Euripides


There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

Clark Mousakas


Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him

Thomas Hardy


Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.

Harper Lee


I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.

Helen Keller, The Open Door (1957)


Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

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Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:36:34 GMT
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: DAX 6,875.35 (-17.61) MDAX8.,711.19 (-70.72) Adidas43.02 (+1.29) Allianz121.51 (-2.10) BASF85.5...

Fine silver quotations Wednesday: $17.219 ounce (Canadian Business)

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:53:07 GMT
The Canadian Press January 30, 2008 - 12:51 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Wednesday $17.219 oz., $553.59 kg.; Tuesday $17.344 oz., $557.61 kg.

International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:36:24 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets....

EXHIBIT: Khoury remembered (Detroit Free Press)

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:18:07 GMT
The works of Sari Khoury, who was born in Palestine, studied in metro Detroit and became a mainstay of the Michigan art world, will be on display in a new exhibition opening Thursday night.

SQL-Einspeisung gegen FaMp3 gemeldet

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:59:00 GMT
TecChannel - Voraussetzung für die Ausnutzung der Schwachstelle: die PHP-Option „magic_quotes_gpc“ muss deaktiviert sein. Ein Patch existiert bislang nicht. (vgw)

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Latest greatest Famous Quotes

Today's Famous Quotes:

William Shakespeare


Alas, poor Yorick I knew him Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy...

Charles Dickens, A Tale Of Two Cities


It is a far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.

Elain Heffner, O Magazine, May 2003


The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.

Unknown


Competition between individuals sets one against the other and undermines morale, but competition between organizations builds morale and encourages creativity.

Bill Bulko


Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies

Mark Twain


When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

Sydney Smith


To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.

Bill Maher


We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.

Ayn Rand


Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, The Crazy Ape


When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul.

Hesiod


Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.

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FACTBOX-Quotes from Republican presidential debate (AlertNet)

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:46:41 GMT
Source: Reuters Jan 30 (Reuters) - Republican presidential front-runner John McCain and his chief rival Mitt Romney clashed over Iraq and their conservative credentials during a debate on Wednesday in California at ...

USDA Chicago Terminal Grain - Jan 30 (INO News)

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:58:44 GMT
GX_GR110 Springfield, IL Wed, Jan 30, 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.

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Latest Famous Quotations

Famous Quotations:

Charlie McCarthy


When I get smitten, I stay smut.

Chinese Proverb


In reviling, it is not necessary to prepare a preliminary draft.

Madame Swetchine


To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Akhenaton


True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

Bertrand Russell


I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

Jose Antonio Burciaga


To the Nahuas, words were flowers, metaphors that gave birth to thoughts and actions.

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Pulte 4Q net loss widens as revenue falls 34%

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:51:00 GMT
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B&D Successfully Concludes Transaction to Become the Lead Shareholder ...

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:25:00 GMT
Forbes - Among other things, expectations about the Brazilian coffee and food market and quotations from management in this announcement contain forward-looking statements. Statements that are not historical facts, including statements about B&D Food Corp's ...

Mlk Memorial Gets $3 Million Donation

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:34:00 GMT
Guardian Unlimited - It will feature a large stone sculpture by a Chinese artist of King emerging from a block of granite and stone walls engraved with quotes from King. The Kellogg Foundation, started by the breakfast cereal pioneer in 1930, has recently focused its ...

Fine silver quotations Wednesday: $17.219 ounce

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:53:00 GMT
Canada East - TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Wednesday $17.219 oz., $553.59 kg.; Tuesday $17.344 oz., $557.61 kg. Log in to access premium content and features on this site. You may experience problems accessing content ...

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Today's Quotations

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Aldous Huxley


Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

W. Clement Stone


Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Ronald Reagan


The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas-a trial of spiritual resolve: the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated.

Annie Sullivan


Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose--not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.

Richard Feynman


Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?

Persian Proverb


Once I had the strength but no wisdom now I have the wisdom but no strength.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld


It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

Heinrich Heine


Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.

Jerry Gellis


Prosperity is living easily and happily in the real world, whether you have money or not.

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FACTBOX-Key quotes from Israel's report on Lebanon war (AlertNet)

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:32:12 GMT
Source: Reuters Jan 30 (Reuters) - A government-appointed inquiry found "grave failings" among Israel's political and army leaders during the 2006 war in Lebanon, but voiced understanding for one of Prime ...

David Swanson: State Of The Union With A Statement

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:29:00 GMT
Scoop - The CQ article http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/30543 quotes Senator Carl Levin and cites Senator Jim Webb as the leading sponsor of the contractor waste provision.

Republican candidate quotes from Florida (AP via Yahoo! News)

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:28:39 GMT
Quotes from the Republican candidates on Tuesday's Florida primary:

Justice For All (In A Building) (Arts Journal)

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:48:09 GMT
"Historically, architects expressed judicial power by building massive neoclassical temples decorated with inspirational quotations and noble statuary. The results were often fortresses that intimidated the innocent and the guilty alike.

Fine silver quotations Tuesday: C$17.344 ounce (Canadian Business)

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:20:50 GMT
The Canadian Press January 29, 2008 - 2:02 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Tuesday $17.344 oz., 557.61 kg.; Monday $17.472 oz., $561.72 kg.

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More Famous Quotes

Famous Quotes:

Publilius Syrus


A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.

Joseph Fischer


Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are you wont either.

Pierre Charron


The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.

Ernest Hemingway


Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports. . . all others are games.

Euripides


The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

Benjamin Franklin


If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Edward R. Murrow, On Winston Churchill, 1954


He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended.

William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 1


But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

Benjamin Franklin


Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.

Poul Anderson


I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

Louis A. Berman


A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism.

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Metal prices from London Commodities Exchange

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:51:00 GMT
Earthtimes - London - Final prices in dollars per ton - cash and forward. Also given are the previous trading day's quotations. cash                     forwardCopper    7,217.50 ( 7,038.00 ...

QUOTABLE QUOTES (Malta Star)

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:17:14 GMT
maltastar.com will be publishing a series of "political" quotable quotes which will continue all throughout the electoral campaign.

OVERHEARD: The best quotes from MSU/U-M game (Detroit Free Press)

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:22:06 GMT
The Izzone's "Little Sister" chant may have grabbed all the headlines, but there were other memorable quotes from Sunday's 77-62 Spartan win over Michigan.

New York college publishes 'The Prison Diary and Letters of Chester ...

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:52:00 GMT
Fosters Daily Democrat - Gillette read extensively in prison and many entries contain brief but incisive book reviews, and there is a section filled with favorite quotations from Socrates, Robert Browning, Richard Hugo and ...

Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:37:25 GMT
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: DAX 6,818.85 (+ 2.11) MDAX8,499.21 (- 145.73) Adidas 40.82 (-0.68) Allianz 123.78 (+2.16) BASF ...

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