January 30, 2012

Top 5 quotes by Alexander Hamilton

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.

Little more can reasonably be aimed at, with respect to the people at large, than to have them properly armed and equipped.

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

My favorite quote by Charley Lau

There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them works.

January 29, 2012

Quotes by Chris Daughtry

My kids are now the most popular kids in their school.

If I win, I'll take my wife and buy her a whole new wardrobe. If she's happy then I'll be happy.

Maybe some people thought I was 'safe' so they didn't really bothered to vote for me at all.

Believe half of what you see and only some of what you hear, unless you hear it from me.

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January 27, 2012

Quote by Shannon Miller

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January 26, 2012

Top 5 quotes by Joan Baez

No one knows what they'll do in a moment of crisis and hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.

Action is the antidote to despair.

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

I would say that I'm a nonviolent soldier. In place of weapons of violence, you have to use your mind, your heart, your sense of humor, every faculty available to you...because no one has the right to take the life of another human being.

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

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Top 5 quotes by Adam Sandler

I don't know who I touch and who I don't. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don't have any secrets. I don't know the reasons I've been so well received.

When I was younger and did a stand-up gig, it would take me two weeks to recover. Sometimes I'd get so panicked that I would stutter.

I'm not looking to get away from anything. I like what I've done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

I do love the films I've done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we're trying to make people laugh and I'm very proud of that.

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you're living your life. I wouldn't compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it's about a man who doesn't appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

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Quotes by Thomas Secker

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Famous quote by Malcolm Mclaren

Stealing things is a glorious occupation, particularly in the art world.

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January 24, 2012

Top 5 quotes by Rick Larsen

We are the greatest country in the world but we are facing serious issues.

As the first Member of Congress from western Washington to serve on the House Agriculture Committee in over 50 years, I am proud to represent the needs of our agriculture community.

Washington state's 2nd Congressional District is a major producer of small fruit crops such as raspberries and strawberries. This research center is doing important work to help farmers enhance the quality, yield and marketability of their small fruit crops.

Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding.

We need a positive economic agenda that invests in the innovation and growth that will create jobs for middle class families and ensure that America remains the world leader.

January 23, 2012

Famous quote by Stan Mikita

If you plan to win as I do, the game never ends.

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January 21, 2012

Top 5 quotes by Plato

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Pleasure is the bait of sin.

They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity.

A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul.

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January 20, 2012

Famous quote by Mairead Maguire

We frail humans are at one time capable of the greatest good and, at the same time, capable of the greatest evil. Change will only come about when each of us takes up the daily struggle ourselves to be more forgiving, compassionate, loving, and above all joyful in the knowledge that, by some miracle of grace, we can change as those around us can change too.

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January 18, 2012

Quotes by Elvis Costello

Its whats on the record not what labels on it. You know, thats like getting a box of cornflakes and eating the cardboard.

My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.

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January 16, 2012

Quote by Laurence Leamer

The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.

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January 13, 2012

Famous quote by Patrick Stewart

I've got to confess a terrific attraction for the Borg Queen. I wouldn't mind spending time with her.

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January 12, 2012

Quotes by Lord Halifax

Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one.

A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy.

The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place.

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Lars Ulrich quotes

The only band that we have never played with but have always wanted to is the Rolling Stones.

Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission. Our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads on the Napster system.

One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future.

I'm just sittin here trying not to be unhappy.

Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death.

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January 11, 2012

Quote by Chet Baker

The drummer; he inspired me to play like no one else I have ever met.

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Famous quote by Britt Ekland

I don't sleep with happily married men.

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January 10, 2012

Quotes by Jack Lemmon

Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor.

If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.

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January 09, 2012

Quote by Brian Eno

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Nice quote by David Niven

I have a face that is a cross between two pounds of halibut and an explosion in an old clothes closet.

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January 08, 2012

Billy Connolly quotes

I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.

What always staggers me is that when people blow their noses, they always look into their hankies to see what came out. What do they expect to find? A silver sixpence?

Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of cigarette packet.

My parents used to take me to Lewis' department store in Glasgow. They were skinflints, they used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was the zoo.

Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea cozy, doesn't try it on.

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January 07, 2012

Abraham Maslow quotes

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

The key question isn't What fosters creativity? But it is why in God's name isn't everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? I think therefore a good question might be not why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate? We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

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Top 5 quotes by Stephen Jay Gould

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.

Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent.

The more important the subject and the closer it cuts to the bone of our hopes and needs, the more we are likely to err in establishing a framework for analysis.

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January 06, 2012

Nice quote by Jon Bon Jovi

Map out your future, but do it in pencil.

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Robert Vaughn quotes

My childhood beliefs became so much a part of me that even today I find myself automatically living by a personal standard of conduct which can only be explained as resulting from my religious training.

I'm still very close friends with his first wife, Neile, who is now remarried.

The marvelous thing is that for thousands of years people have continued questioning and searching and ultimately concluding that reasons for certain occurrences are not given to man to know.

In the beginning, fear was the dominant motivating force.

I sincerely believe I could have wounded up in a lot of trouble if I had not been taught as a boy to fear Hell, and to believe that certain wicked acts could lead me to damnation.

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January 04, 2012

Famous quote by Edith Evans

When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn't she behave like a nice man?

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January 03, 2012

Tony Danza quotes

Don't try too hard to be young. Be who you are.

I love to cook and I know a lot of people watching love those segments, but so often they feel rushed to me. If we give 'em a bit more time to breathe, people will get more out of them.

I got this call that they wanted me to join this cast. They called it a family show, and it thought that it would be similar to all family shows. I wasn't sure about this until I watched some tapes, and was amazed.

I am looking forward to getting to do things I have never done before.

Hold back the tide. Keep your kids innocent as long as possible.

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January 02, 2012

Quotes by Kierkegaard

People demand freedom of speech as a compensationfor the freedom of thought which they never use.

I see it all perfectly: there are two possibilities, one can either do this or do that. My honest opinion and friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it, you will regret both.

January 01, 2012

Quotes by Mario Cuomo

Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

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