Monday, February 04, 2008

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Charles Franklin Kettering


An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

Blessing Irish


May there always be work for your hands to do, May your purse always hold a coin or two. May the sun always shine warm on your windowpane, May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain. May the hand of a friend always be near you, And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.

Georg Wilhelm, O Magazine, September 2003


Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Janos Arnay


It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.

Edgar Watson Howe, Country Town Sayings, 1911


A poem is no place for an idea.

Harold Taylor


A student is not a professional athlete. ... He is not a little politician or junior senator looking for angles ... an amateur promoter, a glad-hander, embryo Rotarian, caf-society leader, quiz kid or man about town. A student is a person who is learning to fulfill his powers and to find ways of using them in the service of mankind.

Caligula (Gaius Caesar), From Suetonius


Would that the Roman people had a single neck [to cut off their head].

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W. Somerset Maugham


The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

Galileo Galilei


You cannot teach a man anything. you can only help him to find it for himself.

Anon.


Bad Command or File Name. Good try, though.

Ernest Hemingway


But in modern war you will die like a dog for no good reason.

Czech Proverb


The big thieves hang the little ones.

Lois McMaster Bujold


Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Bertrand Russell


Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

More Quotes

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.

| Error in printed stock quotes (The Charlotte Observer)

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 13:40:40 GMT
The closing stock prices that appeared on pages 4D and 5D in Saturday's Business section are incorrect. Click here to find the correct prices in our stock lookup feature.

Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:37:33 GMT
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: DAX 6,968.67 (+ 116.92) MDAX9,003.32 (+ 284.51) Adidas 43.49 (+1.01) Allianz 121.23 (+1.77) BAS...

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Robin Green


Spring has sprung. We're free at last, people. Free at last. Thank you mother nature, we're free. Time to toss open that metaphysical window and check out that psychic landscape. See lots of possibilities budding out there. Time to hoe those rows, feed that seed. Pretty soon you get a garden.

George Eliot


If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

James R. Lowell


Toward no crime have men shown themselves so cold-bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.

Aristotle


Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

Ukranian Proverb


The church is near, but the way is icy, The tavern is far, but I will walk carefully.

Geoffrey Chaucer


Ful wys is he that can himselven knowe (Very wise is he that can know himself.)

Henrik Ibsen


A community is like a ship, everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

Albert Einstein


My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God

Franklin Delano Roosevelt


Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.

Thomas Fuller


A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

Bertrand Russell


Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable of serving quite other purposes. By instilling nonsense it unifies populations and generates collective enthusiasm.

Albert Einstein


Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are not even capable of forming such opinions.

More Quotations

No need to cry, our scientists know their onions

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:57:00 GMT
New Zealand Herald - The magazine quotes Dr Michael Havey, professor of horticulture at the University of Wisconsin and a leading light in onion science, predicting that tearless onions will become a mainstay in household ...

Freedom for sale in Afghanistan jails

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 21:59:00 GMT
Daily Times - The magazine quotes National Directorate of Security (NDS) spokesman Saeed Ansari as denying the charges that the directorate has ever taken payment for releasing prisoners.

The Observer Exclusive: Hugo Chavez is President of Venezuela

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 23:46:00 GMT
Venezuelanalysis.com - The rest of Carlin’s piece consists almost entirely of allegations plucked from thin air and quotations from Colombian government patsies or from unidentified “high-level security, intelligence ...

Parsis disrupt freedom choice talk (The Times of India)

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 21:18:02 GMT
The controversy over acceptance of Parsis from mixed marriages into the Zoroastrian fold blew up as orthodox sections of the community disrupted a talk by Kersey Antia.

Quotes from and about 2008 Pro Football Hall of Famers (KVOA Tucson)

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:48:26 GMT
PHOENIX -- Quotes from and about the class of 2008 for the Pro Football Hall of Fame, which was selected on Saturday: "The 1983 first-round class _ I made it.

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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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Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:37:33 GMT
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: DAX 6,968.67 (+ 116.92) MDAX9,003.32 (+ 284.51) Adidas 43.49 (+1.01) Allianz 121.23 (+1.77) BAS...

Oilers report: Notes, quotes

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 10:53:00 GMT
CBS Sportsline - --Shawn Horcoff didn't practice Wednesday or Thursday and didn't play Friday against Dallas. He aggravated a shoulder problem at the All-Star game and there's concern he could be out for a while ...

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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Swordfish


Gabriel Oh come on Stan Not everything ends the way you think it should Besides, audiences love happy endings.

Plutarch


The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him.

Author Unknown


A college education never hurt anybody who was willing to learn after he got it.

Danish proverb


The road to a friend's house is never long.

Becky Rodenbeck


Most men who are not married by the age of thirty-five are either homosexual or really smart.

William Jefferson Clinton


You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.

Andre Gide


Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.

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Enter stage left Mr Akeem Bello –former first son-in-law

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 05:31:00 GMT
Vanguard - Vanguard Book of Quotations, p254. LET’s face it, an EFCC comprising a chairman drawn from the police or armed forces and on which the CBN governor, IGP, Customs boss, NDLEA ogapatapata, NDIC ...

No need to cry, our scientists know their onions

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:57:00 GMT
New Zealand Herald - The magazine quotes Dr Michael Havey, professor of horticulture at the University of Wisconsin and a leading light in onion science, predicting that tearless onions will become a mainstay in household ...

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Israel Zangwill


You, the Spirit of the Settlement ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming Here, you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries...

Lowell Duckett


Gun control has not worked in D.C. The only people who have guns are criminals. We have the strictest gun laws in the nation and one of the highest murder rates. It's quicker to pull your Smith & Wesson than to dial 911 if you're being robbed.

R. Goldberg


The shortest distance between two points is not a very interesting journey.

J. S. Bryan


Many men can make a fortune by very few can build a family.

Jim Rohn


It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

Hugh Downs


A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Beryl Markham


You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

William Lyon Phelps


The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century.

Denis Watley


Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

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Bucs postgame quotes (Bradenton Herald)

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 08:17:19 GMT
Postgame quotes from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers after their 24-14 wild-card playoff loss to the New York Giants on Sunday:

Quotes from and about 2008 Pro Football Hall of Famers (KVOA Tucson)

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:48:26 GMT
PHOENIX -- Quotes from and about the class of 2008 for the Pro Football Hall of Fame, which was selected on Saturday: "The 1983 first-round class _ I made it.

London Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 19:07:22 GMT
London - Closing prices in pence on the London Stock Exchange today. In brackets movement against previous quotation.FT-100 Index6,029.2(+ 149.4) BAT Industries      1,814.00 (+ 19.00) BP Amoco          542.00 (+ 10.00) Diageo              1,032.00 (...

LDS church president remembered as 'a man for all seasons'

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 23:04:00 GMT
Seattle Post Intelligencer - The back of the funeral program carried quotations from Hinckley. In 2001, he counseled Mormons against a "holier-than-thou attitude" toward people of other religions and last year wished prayers ...