Short quotations about, really - Page 3

Russell Baker

Usually, terrible things that are d…

24 Mar , 2011  

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. Great short quote and quotation by: Russell Baker , US columnist & journalist (1925 – )

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We act as though comfort and luxury…

15 Feb , 2011  

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. Great short quote and quotation by: Charles Kingsley , English Anglican clergyman & novelist (1819 – 1875)

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We all know him to be a proud, unpl…

15 Feb , 2011  

We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of a man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him. Great short quote and quotation by: Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice , English novelist (1775 – 1817)

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We can remember minutely and precis…

15 Feb , 2011  

We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us. Great short quote and quotation by: Eric Hoffer , (1902 – 1983)

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Agnes Repplier

We cannot really love anybody with …

15 Feb , 2011  

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Great short quote and quotation by: Agnes Repplier, Americans and Others, 1912 , US essayist (1855 – 1950)

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R. J. Baughan

We find greatest joy, not in gettin…

15 Feb , 2011  

We find greatest joy, not in getting, but expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not in the taking and holding, but in the doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good […]

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We gain strength, and courage, and …

15 Feb , 2011  

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face… we must do that which we think we cannot. Great short quote and quotation by: Eleanor Roosevelt , US diplomat & reformer (1884 – 1962)

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Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost, 1882

We have really everything in common…

15 Feb , 2011  

We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language. Great short quote and quotation by: Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost, 1882 , Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)

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Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, 1953

We need not to be let alone. We nee…

15 Feb , 2011  

We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real? Great short quote and quotation by: Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, 1953 , US science fiction author (1920 – )

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Victoria Damon

We never learn to pray, really pray…

15 Feb , 2011  

We never learn to pray, really pray- until we are in a situatioin where there is nothing left to do but pray. Great short quote and quotation by: Victoria Damon ,

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Alfred Hitchcock

We seem to have a compulsion these …

15 Feb , 2011  

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is […]

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Terry Pratchett, Pyramids

What our ancestors would really be …

15 Feb , 2011  

What our ancestors would really be thinking, if they were alive today, is: “Why is it so dark in here?” Great short quote and quotation by: Terry Pratchett, Pyramids ,

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