February 29, 2012

Quote by Maureen Dowd

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

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Top 5 quotes by Plato

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.

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February 28, 2012

Famous quote by Dana Stewart Scott

Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.

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February 26, 2012

Ricky Nelson quotes

They all knew my name, but no one heard the music - I didn't look the same.

You can't please everyone so you gotta please yourself.

Just believe in what you're doing, and keep doing it.

To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again.

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February 25, 2012

Dave Edmunds quotes

It's all very boring to say that we get along great and all that and sometimes we mock up come aggravation to make it interesting but the truth of it is that we get along so well we've never had an argument.

This band has never had an argument. It's just amazing.

And then the last album, Get It, was done over a shorter period of time and I started using other musicians, as opposed to playing all the instruments myself like I did on the other two.

I never considered myself a songwriter, but now since I've been working with Nick Lowe, I am contributing to an extent. But I'm the guitarist and he's not, so we compliment each other in a way.

It was all recorded and mixed and there's more continuity in it more direction.

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February 24, 2012

2 quotes by Jessica Tandy

When he's late for dinner, I know he's either having an affair or is lying dead in the street. I always hope it's the street.

You are richer for doing things.

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February 23, 2012

Famous quote by Steven Soderbergh

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

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February 22, 2012

Top 5 quotes by Virgil

Fortune sides with him who dares.

Time bears away all things, even the mind.

Go on and increase in valor for this is the path to immortality.

The greatest wealth is health.

Mind moves matter.

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Top 5 quotes by Lao Tse

The more laws and order are made prominent,
The more thieves and robbers there will be.

Let there be a small country with few people ...
Yet the people there may grow old and die without ever visiting one another.

When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.

When the superior scholar hears of Tao, he diligently practises it. When the average scholar hears of Tao, he sometimes retains it, sometimes loses it. When the inferior scholar hears of Tao, he loudly laughs at it. Were it not thus ridiculed, it would not be worthy of the name of Tao.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

February 21, 2012

Fareed Zakaria quotes

The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.

But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.

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February 20, 2012

Abdurrahman Wahid quotes

I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it.

All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.

If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.

Well, the most important thing about Islam is that we have to differentiate between two kinds of Islam. The first one is the institution of Islam... second, the culture of Islam.

February 19, 2012

Quotes by Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.

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February 17, 2012

George Nethercutt quotes

If we win, we'll make history, and I'll serve you on the Agriculture Committee.

I don't want anybody suspecting I am some sheep and part of the Washington D.C. establishment.

They want the Olympics. We ought to make sure they don't get the Olympics.

Some of my friends said, 'You are nuts.' But I think I am right.

My effectiveness is best placed in solving problems through federal solutions.

Quote by Maya Lin

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Nice quote by Isocrates

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February 16, 2012

Famous quote by John LeCarre

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.

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Famous quote by Billy Collins

One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.

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February 11, 2012

Famous quote by George J. Mitchell

Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

February 09, 2012

Zac Efron quotes

I wish I could say I see my little brother more. We used to fight all the time but now that I don't see him very often I cherish the time I have with him.

A fan sent me a letter and a $10 bill. It's a short letter - all she said was, Hey, since it's harder for you to go out these days without getting photographed, here $10 for a pizza. I was like, Aww, she sent me money for a pizza so I could eat at home!

In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left, I rebounded the ball and passed it - to the wrong team! They scored at the buzzer and we lost the game. To this day, I still have nightmares!

If I splurge on anything, it's cologne. I love smelling good.

I don't know if I believe in love at first sight, but of course I believe in two people having chemistry right away. A girl should be really easy to talk to. When I lose track of time because we've been talking, I think that's really fun.

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February 07, 2012

Top 5 quotes by Patti LaBelle

I never thought I would be singing for the world.

I'm no different than you.

I can't do some of the songs that younger girls like Mary J. Blige and Beyonce are doing. They have their own place and I have my own place.

You don't have to be an angel, just be someone who can give.

Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We're kicking butt and taking no prisoners.

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Famous quote by Justin Hayward

Just what you want to be, you will be in the end.

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February 06, 2012

Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we will. It's a way of explaining the universe while leaving the universe unexplained, it's a way of keeping it all alive, not boxing it into time.

What you risk reveals what you value.

I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the light of this feeling. It is as though I wrote in a foreign language that I am suddenly able to read. Wordlessly, she explains me to myself. Like a genuis, she is ignorant of what she does.

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February 05, 2012

Top 5 quotes by Neil Young

When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in their ears. I said, Thank God, something got their attention.

I don't think I'm a thorn in the industry, I'm just another part of it.

The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.

I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it.

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February 03, 2012

William Blackstone quotes

Those rights, then, which God and nature have established, and are therefore called natural rights, such as life and liberty, need not the aid of human laws to be more effectually invested in every man than they are; neither do they receive any additional strength when declared by the municipal laws to be inviolate. On the contrary, no human legislature has power to abridge or destroy them, unless the owner shall himself commit some act that amounts to a forfeiture.

The public good is in nothing more essentially interested than in the protection of every individual's private rights.

It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.

Man was formed for society and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.

So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community.