Sunday, November 16, 2008

Today's Famous Quotations

Straight to the Famous Quotations ...



George Will


The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.

Frederick Saunders


Pride, like laudanun and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.

Aimee Mullins


Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.

Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America 1835


There are now two great nations in the world, which starting from different points, seem to be advancing toward the same goal: the Russians and the Anglo-Americans...Each seems called by some secret design of Providence one day to hold in its hands the destinies of half the world.

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Oscar De La Hoya Media Training Day Quotes - Secondsout.com

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 05:48:00 GMT
Olympic Gold Medalist and ten-time world champion in six weight classes, Oscar De La Hoya opened his training camp on Wednesday to over 100 media members who made the trip up to ...

Canadian dollar is down 0.96 of a cent at 81.58 cents US at 11 a.m. ET - Canada East

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:21:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar traded at 81.58 cents US this morning, down 0.96 of a cent from Thursday's close. The U.S. dollar stood at 122.58 cents Cdn, up 1.43 cents. Pound ...

Didn’t go for best hedging option” – CPC - Sri Lanka Sunday Times

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:14:00 GMT
The Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) this week rejected reports that it may default on payments to commercial banks on hedging contracts but said the hedging option was not the ...

Create Your Debut Album – Using Flickr And Wikipedia - NME

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:00:00 GMT
Check out my band's debut album. We're called Shatter and the record's called 'Who Enjoys The Least Pleasure' . I'm lying, of course. I have no musical talent whatsoever – and I ...

Redskins-Cowboys rivalry » Bullets & Arrows - Washington Examiner

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 11:47:00 GMT
Quotations from the book “America’s Rivalry: The 20 Greatest Redskins-Cowboys Games,” written by The Examiner’s John Keim and Rick Snider along with Micke Spagnola and ...

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Famous Quotations for Today

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Stephen Jay Gould


In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.

Oscar Wilde


The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.

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.

Saint Augustine


A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

J. R. R. Tolkien


Few can foresee whither their road will lead them, till they come to its end.

Plato, The Republic


The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Thomas Paine, Common Sense


Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

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Oscar De La Hoya Media Training Day Quotes - Secondsout.com

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 05:48:00 GMT
Olympic Gold Medalist and ten-time world champion in six weight classes, Oscar De La Hoya opened his training camp on Wednesday to over 100 media members who made the trip up to ...

Your Letters - bbc

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:52:00 GMT
Monitor note: Kudos for all! And apologies. Rubber bands driving the whirly-gigs on the quiz machine broke soon after publication. How do avatars have sex? is so full of potential ...

G20 summit: In quotes - BBC Business

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 05:41:00 GMT
"There was a common understanding by all of us that we should take pro-growth economic policies. Whatever we do, whatever reforms are recommended, we need to be guided by this ...

Your search yielded no results. Please try another keyword - Top News India

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 09:09:00 GMT
Check if your spelling is correct. Remove quotes around phrases to match each word individually: "blue smurf" will match less than blue smurf . Consider loosening your query with ...

Consumer prices rise in Q3 - Saipan Tribune

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:50:00 GMT
The cost of basic consumer goods rose 6.4 index points in the third quarter of 2008 compared to the same period last year, further underlining the higher prices spent by CNMI ...

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Jewish Proverb


If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

Unknown


If your prayers were always answered, you'd have a reason to doubt the wisdom of God.

David Starr Jordan, The Philosophy of Despair


Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

Roger Zelazny


Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

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Create Your Debut Album – Using Flickr And Wikipedia - NME

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:00:00 GMT
Check out my band's debut album. We're called Shatter and the record's called 'Who Enjoys The Least Pleasure' . I'm lying, of course. I have no musical talent whatsoever – and I ...

Your Letters - bbc

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:52:00 GMT
Monitor note: Kudos for all! And apologies. Rubber bands driving the whirly-gigs on the quiz machine broke soon after publication. How do avatars have sex? is so full of potential ...

Create Your Debut Album – Using Flickr And Wikipedia - NME

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:00:00 GMT
Check out my band's debut album. We're called Shatter and the record's called 'Who Enjoys The Least Pleasure' . I'm lying, of course. I have no musical talent whatsoever – and I ...

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Famous Quotations Update

Today's Famous Quotations:



Albert Camus


Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

Oscar Hammerstein, II


Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I am beautiful because you love me

Josef Stalin


Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron.

Mark Twain


If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be - a Christian.

Seneca


Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

Friedrich Nietzsche


One should never know too precisely whom one has married.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them

Wilson Mizner


To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.

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Canadian dollar is down 0.96 of a cent at 81.58 cents US at 11 a.m. ET - Canada East

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:21:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar traded at 81.58 cents US this morning, down 0.96 of a cent from Thursday's close. The U.S. dollar stood at 122.58 cents Cdn, up 1.43 cents. Pound ...

Ship carrying 23 people seized off Somalia - Newsweek

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 05:20:00 GMT
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Create Your Debut Album – Using Flickr And Wikipedia - NME

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:00:00 GMT
Check out my band's debut album. We're called Shatter and the record's called 'Who Enjoys The Least Pleasure' . I'm lying, of course. I have no musical talent whatsoever – and I ...

Ship carrying 23 people seized off Somalia - Newsweek

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 05:20:00 GMT
Recommended (6) Why Obama Will Disappoint U.S. Allies Perspectives: Quotes From The Week Of 10/20 Mail Call: China’s Games Dickey: The Problem With Bush’s 10 Commandments ...

Diego Maradona: The most incredible coaching hire in history - Los Angeles Times Blogs

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:34:00 GMT
If only we'll log in and look south now and then -- way, way south - we might find that the nation of Argentina has given us a marvelous gift toward our everlasting human struggle ...

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Daily Famous Quotations

Today's Famous Quotations:



Hartley Coleridge


She is not fair to outward view
As many maidens be;
Her loveliness I never knew
Until she smiled on me;
Oh! then I saw her eye was bright,
A well of love, a spring of light.


Aesop, Hercules and the Wagoner


The gods help them that help themselves.

V. P. Skipper


A kiss To a young girl, faith to a married woman, hope to an old maid, charity.

Author Unknown


Thinking things has been done through the ages; knowing things remains to be done.

Benedict Spinoza


God is a thing that thinks.

Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer


I have no money, no resources, and no hope. I am the happiest man alive.

Amelia Earhart, Courage, 1927


Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.

Learned Hand


I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it...

Ray Douglas Bradbury


Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

Robert Frost


You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002


The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

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Didn’t go for best hedging option” – CPC - Sri Lanka Sunday Times

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:14:00 GMT
The Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) this week rejected reports that it may default on payments to commercial banks on hedging contracts but said the hedging option was not the ...

Canadian dollar is down 0.96 of a cent at 81.58 cents US at 11 a.m. ET - Canada East

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:21:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar traded at 81.58 cents US this morning, down 0.96 of a cent from Thursday's close. The U.S. dollar stood at 122.58 cents Cdn, up 1.43 cents. Pound ...

World media: NZ election vote 'as reasoned as a doped slug' - New Zealand Herald

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 03:18:00 GMT
Melbourne's Herald Sun got stuck in to Kiwis. The world press have given mixed reviews of New Zealand's election with some writing of a desire for change while others have likened ...

Diego Maradona: The most incredible coaching hire in history - Los Angeles Times Blogs

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:34:00 GMT
If only we'll log in and look south now and then -- way, way south - we might find that the nation of Argentina has given us a marvelous gift toward our everlasting human struggle ...

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