Favourite Famous Quotations

Anwar el-Sadat Quotations

-I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.
Anwar el-Sadat

E. V. Lucas Quotations

-I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
E. V. Lucas

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Robert W. Sarnoff Quotations

July 17, 2010

-Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears. Robert W. Sarnoff

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Aaron Copland Quotations

July 16, 2010

Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps subconsciousness – I wouldn’t know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness. Aaron Copland

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Jesse Stuart Quotations

July 15, 2010

-Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it. Jesse Stuart

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George McDonald Quotations

July 14, 2010

-Work is not always required… there is such a thing as sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected. George McDonald

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Charles DuBois Quotations

July 14, 2010

-The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. Charles DuBois

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Russell Baker Quotations

July 11, 2010

-People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure. Russell Baker

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-There are many who are living far below their possibilities because they are continually handing over their individualities to others. Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Ralph Waldo Trine

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Stanley Kunitz Quotations

July 1, 2010

-What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire. Stanley Kunitz

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Pema Chodron Quotations

June 26, 2010

-It’s also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that’s sitting right here right now… with its aches and it pleasures… is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive.

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Henry James Quotations

June 23, 2010

-True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one self. But the point is not only to get out – you must stay out. And to stay out, you must have some absorbing errand. Henry James

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Spike Milligan Quotations

June 15, 2010

-The cliché is the handrail of the crippled mind. Spike Milligan

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William Ernest Henley Quotations

June 14, 2010

Invictus OUT of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath [...]

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Warren Bennis Quotations

May 29, 2010

-Good leaders make people feel that they’re at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning. Warren Bennis

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Matt Groening Quotations

May 26, 2010

-Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. Matt Groening

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James Hilton Quotations

May 26, 2010

-Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren’t things to think about any more. All that matters is value – the ultimate value of what one does. James Hilton

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Robert Lynd Quotations

May 24, 2010

-There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. Robert Lynd

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