Latest Quotes

Today's Quotes:

Frank Tyger


Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.

Sidney Madwed


Without relationships, no matter how much wealth, fame, power, prestige and seeming success by the standards and opinions of the world one has, happiness will constantly eluded him.

Mark Coggins, "The Immortal Game" (novel)


Einstein said that God does not play dice with the universe. He was right, but not in the way he meant. God doesn�t play dice with the universe because the universe doesn�t need him. The craps table is set up and running. Whether or not God put it there is besides the point.

Lord Acton


Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

Louisa May Alcott


Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

George Orwell


For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.

Richard Olney, a lawyer for the Boston & Maine and Attorney General under Grover Cleveland, advising a railroad president


The [Interstate Commerce] commission, as its functions have now been limited by the courts is, or can be made, of great use to the railroads. It satisfies the public clamor for a government supervision of railroads, at the same time that that supervision is almost entirely nominal.

Hesiod


If thou shouldst lay up even a little upon a little, and shouldst do this often, soon would even this become great.

William Carlos Williams


The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.

John Updike


Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solicitude is the enemy of well-being.

Paul Sherer


They crucified Jesus not because they disliked what he said, but because they couldn't take it

More Quotations

IDF rabbinate publication during Gaza war: We will show no mercy on ... - Haaretz.com

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:32:00 GMT
During the fighting in the Gaza Strip, the religious media - and on two occasions, the Israel Defense Forces weekly journal Bamahane - were full of praise for the army rabbinate ...

Stock & fund quotes - ninemsn

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:19:00 GMT
PERTH, Jan 27 (Reuters) - A cyclone off western Australia has shut down nearly half of the country's oil output and disrupted iron ore shipments, but some operators said output was ...

Turkey - Factors to Watch on Jan 27 - Forbes

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:08:00 GMT
ISTANBUL, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Here are news stories, press reports and events that could affect Turkish financial markets on Tuesday. The lira was trading at 1.6270 against the ...

Aussie Open quotes - BBC Sport

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 05:06:00 GMT
"It was quite, quite hot. I have to say it was definitely some tough condition. I don't think it's really fair to have one quarter-final played at 1pm, right in the middle of the ...

AddThis OnlyWire Bookmark With Socializer