from New York Times' "- QUOTATION OF THE DAY -" and
from Motivational Quotes of the Day in The Quotations Page
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"We're asking people to do things that haven't been done for 20 years. We haven't addressed the Social Security problem since 1983. We haven't had an energy strategy in our country for decades. And so I'm not surprised that some are balking at doing hard work." - PRESIDENT BUSH
The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.
- R. D. Hitchcock
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
- Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act I:: Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:: German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 - 1832)
"Dear brothers and sisters, after the great John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me, a simple, humble worker in the Lord's vineyard." - POPE BENEDICT XVI
May your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.
- Hadewijch of Antwerp
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is any thing you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. - Edgar Watson Howe:: US journalist (1853 - 1937)
"To tell you the truth, I am not a feminist. I don't want to commit the same mistakes Western women have committed. I like that family should be the major principle for women here." - SHATHA AL-MUSAWI, one of the 87 women in the National Assembly in Iraq, on the efforts to shape a new legal code.
"In the past, I have defended the right of the I.R.A. to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a blind eye to oppression, or for those who wanted a national republic. Now there is analternative." - GERRY ADAMS, leader of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army.
"The only thing we've gotten is small packets of food and supplies. Where the money is, we don't know. It's just meetings, meetings,meetings." - SAMSUR BAHRI, a shopkeeper, on tsunami relief efforts in Indonesia.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.
- Saint Francis of Assisi:: Italian monk & saint (1181 - 1226)
"He struck me as very human, very informal, demonstrating no shame about his suffering. My impression of the church used to be that it was a somber place of penance, but the pope made it into something of a joy forme." - IVANA SPARACO, an English teacher in Rome.
"In his words, and repeated several times, he seemed to have said the following sentences. 'I have looked for you. Now you have come to me. And I thank you.'" - JOAQUIN NAVARRO-VALLS, the pope's chief spokesman, on words spoken by the pope.
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
- Martin Luther:: German religious reformer (1483 - 1546)
