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you and me are a good bit alike. We're neither of us good lookin', and we're both as sour as we look.
frances hodgson burnett— Ben
you need have no fear of any failure.
Percy Harrison Fawcett— Last words written to his wife (1925). Collected in Exploration Fawcett.
Do you hear the rain? Do you hear the rain?
Jessica Dubroff— Seven-year-old pilot speaking to her mother by telephone as the engines revved for takeoff, she (and her flight instructor) crashed minutes later in rough weather, April 11, 1996.
We disagreed with Zinoviev and Kamenev because we knew that the policy of amputation was fraught with great dangers for the Party, that the method of amputation, the method of blood-letting and they demanded blood was dangerous, infectious: today you amputate one limb, tomorrow another, the day after tomorrow a third what will we have left in the Party?
joseph stalin— Speech at The Fourteenth Congress of the C.P.S.U.(B.) (December 1925)
you cannot force ideas . Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.
alexander graham bell— Alexander Graham Bell, Bell Telephone Talk, Interview with Bell published in How They Succeeded (1901) by Orison Swett Marden, Ch. 2. (1901)
Think well about this, dear brothers and sisters, and you will see that we should have been in a state of terrible chaos, in a fratricidal war, in a country which would no longer be Yugoslavia, but be only a group of petty little states fighting among themselves and destroying each other. But our people do not want that to happen.
josip broz tito— Jasper Ridley, Tito: A Biography (Constable and Company Ltd., 1994), p. 263.
Patience will benefit you in every hour, every time and every opportunity. It helps you to overcome your opponent, howsoever strong he may be. It will help you in times of distress and hardships, in battles and in war and peace.
— Abd al-Karim Qasim (1959) The historical extempore speech at the Reserve Officers' College.
Find a type of exercise that you love – whether it's dance, soccer, softball, anything – just as long as it keeps you active. If you love it, you'll dedicate yourself to it and stay involved.
Francia Raisa— American actress
"And he said to them (Joseph and Mary), “Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?”
jesus christ— Luke 2:49 (ESV)
Light travels faster than sound. That's why some people appear bright until you actually hear them speak.
unknown— Attributed to Albert Einstien and others.
Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings? To me it's the latter, so I sign up.
margaret atwood— Margaret Atwood, as quoted in Women Know Everything! : 3,241 Quips, Quotes, & Brilliant Remarks (2007) by Karen Weekes, p. 156
If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride – and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards.
Paul Bryant
"What do you think of the Chicago Bulls winning three in a row?"
Russell: "Not much."
— In perspective, Russell won eight times in a row with the Celtics.
I want you to understand I shall not hold you to any midaevil code of faithfulness to me nor shall I consider myself bound to you similarly.
amelia earhart— Note to George P. Putnam, on the date of their wedding (7 February 1931), as quoted in The Sound of Wings (1989) by Mary S. Lovell
Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.
mark twain— A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, chapter 22 (1889)
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think that it's their fault.
henry kissinger— Quoted in Reader's Digest, Apr 1985.
The water you touch in a river is the last of that which has passed, and the first of that which is coming. Thus it is with time present.
leonardo da vinci— Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations., as translated by Edward MacCurdy
...If you buy a lot of content from the iTunes Store, then the Apple TV is a great way to experience your purchased content on your TV...The best set top box depends on your usage patterns, if and where you buy DRM media from, and desire to modify the unit.
Anthony Fiti— The Tech Lounge
An anniversary is a reminder as to why you love and married this person.
Zoë Foster Blake— Australian author, columnist, magazine editor, and cosmetics entrepreneur
Cyberspace is where you are when you're on the telephone.
william ford gibson— 1994 In the US News & World Report, 21 Jun.
In a coma, you don't dream, you just hope that someone sits with you.
conor oberst— Padraic My Prince
We want to thank everyone who wrote good things about it the day you heard it--both of you.
reggie fils-aime— Electronic Entertainment Expo (2006). Joking about the reaction to the Wii's name when it was first announced.
Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?
jonathan swift— Jonathan Swift, Polite Conversation (c. 1738), Dialogue I.
The happiness of the world is transitory. The less you become attached to the world, the more you enjoy peace of mind.
sarada devi— Swami Nikhilananda, Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations (p. 226).
Would you render the same level of support to someone who hadn't conscientiously objected, but rather instead rolled a grenade under their line officer in order to neutralize the combat capacity of their unit? … Conscientious objection removes a given piece of the cannon fodder from the fray; fragging an officer has a much more impactful effect.
ward churchill— Denver Post (30 June 2005), "CU prof defends military remarks," by Jim Kirksey and Amy Herdy; Churchill said in a followup conversation, "I neither advocated nor suggested to anyone, anything. I asked them to think about where they stood on things."
you may be a king or a little street sweeper, but sooner or later you dance with the reaper!
— Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991).
Smile, and the world smiles with you; cry, and you cry alone.
— "Cheerful people never lack company, but miserable people are shunned by others."
— Source for meaning: Martin H. Manser (2007). The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs. Infobase Publishing. p. 163.
— Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (June 1968). American proverbs, maxims & folk sayings. Applied Arts. p. 24.
I'd remind you that in these experiments so far, about one quarter of the lambs that were born alive died within a few days because they hadn't completed normal development. Now, what may be being suggested here is that copies of children would be being produced, and some of those would die soon after birth. So I think that for a clinician to be suggesting doing that is a quite appalling and sad thing for him to be suggesting.
ian wilmut— On proposals for human cloning in an Interview on The NewsHour, PBS (8 January 1998)
