Favourite Quotes - Page 7

• What shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think to ask.

  Sam Keen

  Thinking, Shapes, Refuse

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  Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

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• The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Astrology, Looks, Economic

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Inspirational Life, Fiction

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• You can change your wife, your politics, your religion, but never, never can you change your favourite football team.

  Eric Cantona

  Change, Football, Team

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• The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

  Alfred Adler

  Drinking, Humor, Knowing

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  The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Inspiring, Education, Wisdom

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Trust, Travel, Truth

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• Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

  Don Marquis

  Witty, Art, Procrastination

  archy and mehitabel (1927) "certain maxims of archy"

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• When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'

  Sydney J. Harris

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Sydney J. Harris (1953). “Strictly personal”

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• Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

  Immanuel Kant

  Life, Motivational, Success

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• Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Success, Graduation

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership

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• The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

  Horace Walpole

  Life, Learning, Secret

  "The Christian Leader", Vol. 37, Issue 7, February 17, 1934.

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• My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Freedom, Patriotic, Independent

  Adlai E. Stevenson's speech in Detroit, Michigan, October 7, 1952.

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• After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

  William S. Burroughs

  Funny, Hilarious, Witty

  William S. Burroughs (1993). “The Adding Machine: Selected Essays”, p.125, Arcade Publishing

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• There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.

  Terence

  Life, Attitude, Positive Thinking

  "Heauton Timorumenos". Play by Terence, Act IV, scene 6, line 1 (805),

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• Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Morning, Funny Motivational, Clock

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• Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Horse, Crazy, Moving

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• No man, however enslaved to his appetites, or hurried by his passions, can, while he preserves his intellects unimpaired, please himself with promoting the corruption of others. He whose merit has enlarged his influence would surely wish to exert it for the benefit of mankind. Yet such will be the effect of his reputation, while he suffers himself to indulge in any favourite fault, that they who have no hope to reach his excellence will catch at his failings, and his virtues will be cited to justify the copiers of his vices.

  Samuel Johnson

  Passion, Men, Indulge In

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.283

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• One favourite find of mine has to be a 1980s black dinner jacket that I wear as a dress.

  Lily Donaldson

  Black, Dresses, Dinner

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• My favourite pudding is a toss-up between cheesecake - proper, New York cheesecake - and apple crumble and custard. Custard is very important, or dark chocolate mousse. Tea: probably Earl Grey, splash of milk.

  Tom Hiddleston

  New York, Dark, Apples

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• Blood is drawn! I am impressed-though my hell-spawned powers will heal it! Besides... next to giving pain my favourite sport's to feel it.

  Alan Grant

  Sports, Pain, Blood

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• I've spent so much time the last seven, eight years in Los Angeles, away from my family, away from my friends, away from the city that is my favorite place to be and I just want to come here and have a proper life.

  Nicholas Lea

  Eight, Years, Cities

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

  Poul Anderson

  Motivational, Witty, Truth

  Quoted in New Scientist, 25 Sept. 1969

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