All Quotes
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Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.Edna St. Vincent Millay, Letters, 1952
What you will do matters. All you need is to do it.Judy Grahn, Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds, 1984
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.Marie Curie, letter to her brother, 1894
No good deed goes unpunished.Clare Booth Luce, in H. Faber, The Book of Laws, 1980
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.Abigail Adams, letter to John Adams, 1774
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.Steven Wright
A Hospital is no place to be sick.Samuel Goldwyn
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, 1847
I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness, 1952
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.H. L. Mencken