Great sorrow seized my heart...because I knew that people of great worth were suspended in that limbo.
Dante
Inferno
Lust
Alas, how many sweet thoughts, how much yearning led them to the grievous pass!
Dante Inferno
Abondon all hope, ye who enter here
Dante,
Inferno
Obstacles are those frightening things we see, when we take our eyes off the goal
The obvious mathematical breakthrough [to break modern encryption] would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.
-Bill Gates from "The Road Ahead," p. 265.
TRADITIONALLY, MOST OF AUSTRALIA'S IMPORTS COME FROM OVERSEAS.- Former Australian cabinet minister Keppel Enderbery
I WAS RECENTLY ON A TOUR OF LATIN AMERICA, AND THE ONLY REGRET I HAVE WAS THAT I DIDN'T STUDY LATIN HARDER IN SCHOOL SO I COULD CONVERSE WITH THOSE PEOPLE.- Former U.S. Vice-President Dan Quayle
CHINA IS A BIG COUNTRY, INHABITED BY MANY CHINESE. - Former French President Charles de Gaulle
THINGS ARE MORE LIKE THEY ARE NOW THAN THEY EVER WERE BEFORE.- Former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower
I LOVE CALIFORNIA. I PRACTICALLY GREW UP IN PHOENIX. - Former U.S. Vice-President Dan Quayle
A BILLION HERE, A BILLION THERE - SOONER OR LATER IT ADDS UP TO REAL MONEY.- Senator Everett Dirksen
IT ISN'T POLLUTION THAT'S HARMING THE ENVIRONMENT. IT'S THE IMPURITIES IN OUR AIR AND WATER THAT ARE DOING IT.- Former U.S. Vice-President Dan Quayle
IT IS WONDERFUL TO BE HERE IN THE GREAT STATE OF CHICAGO. - Former U.S. Vice-President Dan Quayle
THE STREETS ARE SAFE IN PHILADELPHIA. IT'S ONLY THE PEOPLE THAT MAKE THEM UNSAFE.- Former Philadelphia Mayor and Police Chief Frank Rizzo
"I am a great mayor; I am an upstanding Christian man; I am an intelligent man; I am a deeply educated man; I am a humble man."
District of Columbia mayor Marion Barry
"No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris." -- Orville Wright.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
Sir Winston Churchill
"A man walks through life painting a portrait, not of what he would have done, could have done, or should have done, but of what he did."
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"If everything's under control, you're going too slow."
Mario Andretti
"You can cheat an honest man but not make a fool out of him."
Confucius
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with one simple step."
Lao Tzu
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."
Mahatma Gandhi
"We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience."
George Bernard Shaw
"You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone."
Al Capone
We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.
-- Vice President Dan Quayle
The quickest way to end a war is to lose it.
-- George Orwell
We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a *part* of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a *part* of Europe.
-- Vice President Dan Quayle
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
Thomas Jones