| "We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel background-color:#e6eff8">drop by background-color:#e6eff8">drop, there is at last a background-color:#e6eff8">drop which makes it run over so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over." »Samuel Johnson |
| "If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and background-color:#e6eff8">drop it" »Steven Wright |
| "Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed background-color:#e6eff8">drop by background-color:#e6eff8">drop even in sleep thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being and only suffering teaches him this." »Simone Weil |
| "Funny business, a woman's career the things you background-color:#e6eff8">drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted." »Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| "We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a background-color:#e6eff8">drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing background-color:#e6eff8">drop." »Mother Theresa |
| "Ace The town will never be the same. After the Tangiers, the big corporations took it all over. Today it looks like Disneyland. And while the kids play cardboard pirates, Mommy and Daddy background-color:#e6eff8">drop the house payments and Junior's college money on the poker slots. In the old days, dealers knew your name, what you drank, what you played. Today, it's like checkin' into an airport. And if you order room service, you're lucky if you get it by Thursday. Today, it's all gone. You get a whale show up with four million in a suitcase, and some twenty-five-year-old hotel school kid is gonna want his Social Security Number. After the Teamsters got knocked out of the box, the corporations tore down practically every one of the old casinos. And where did the money come from to rebuild the pyramids Junk bonds. But in the end, I wound up right back where I started. I could still pick winners, and I could still make money for all kinds of people back home. And why mess up a good thing" »Casino |
| "When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that 'a background-color:#e6eff8">drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a background-color:#e6eff8">drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason, and which, once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing him of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause is really a good one." »Abraham Lincoln |
| "I scrambled to the top of the precipice where Nick was waiting. 'That was fun,' I said. 'You bet it was,' said Nick. 'Let's climb higher.' 'No,' I said. 'I think we should be heading back now.' 'We have time,' Nick insisted. I said we didn't, and Nick said we did. We argued back and forth like that for about 20 minutes, then finally decided to head back. I didn't say it was an interesting story." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "Turn on, tune in and background-color:#e6eff8">drop out." »Timothy Leary |
| "I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means -- except by getting off his back." »Leo Tolstoy |
| "There's a deep fly ball... Winfield goes back, back... his head hits the wall ... it's rolling towards second base." »Jerry Coleman |
| "Grubb goes back, back... He's under the warning track and makes the play." »Jerry Coleman |
| "I used to always think that I'd look back on us crying and laugh, but, I never thought I'd look back on us laughing and cry." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "If I could background-color:#e6eff8">drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." »Samuel Goldwyn |
| "In one background-color:#e6eff8">drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "Reading this book is like waiting for the first shoe to background-color:#e6eff8">drop." »Ralph Novak |
| "Don't say this is good and that is bad. background-color:#e6eff8">drop all discrimination. Accept everything as it is." »Osho |
| "Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every background-color:#e6eff8">drop." »Charles De Gaulle |
| "If you ever background-color:#e6eff8">drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let 'em go, because, man, they're gone." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "background-color:#e6eff8">drop the question what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that fate allows you." »Horace |
| "In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong honor that try to imitate it, and your faults will background-color:#e6eff8">drop off like dead leaves when their time comes." »John Ruskin |
| "But words are things, and a small background-color:#e6eff8">drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think." »George Gordon Byron |
| "This is the art of courage to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every background-color:#e6eff8">drop of the good." »Victoria Lincoln |
| "Think, In mounting higher, The angels would press on us, and aspire To background-color:#e6eff8">drop some golden orb of perfect song Into our deep, dear silence." »Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| "Nixon bleeds people. He draws every background-color:#e6eff8">drop of blood and then background-color:#e6eff8">drops them from a cliff. He'll blame any person he can put his foot on." »Martha Mitchell |
| "Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a background-color:#e6eff8">drop of the sweat of their brows or the blood of their hearts." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, simply background-color:#e6eff8">drop it." »Marquis de Vauvenargues |
| "What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven." »Lucretius |
| "Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will background-color:#e6eff8">drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn." »John Muir |
| "When we hold back on life, life holds us back." »Mary Manin Boggs |
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