"I like Christmas presents, Christmas music, Christmas trees, Christmas cards. I like the Christmas spirit. What I don’t like is the way people, whose only interest in Christmas is money, have moved in on a nice, non-commercial holiday like Thanksgiving."
- Andy Rooney, on the preponderance of Christmas commercials ads, sales etc. weeks before Thanksgiving even starts
Quotes
Our collection of inspiring quotes.
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"The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Man does not live by a turkey in every oven or a color TV set in every home. Man lives by faith and hope and love, by the star on the horizon, by the trumpet that will not call retreat."
- E. Merrill Root
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"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
- Douglas Adams
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"Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling."
- Margaret B. Runbeck
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"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing."
- C.S. Lewis
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"There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less."
- G.K. Chesterton