"Quotes "
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." -- Mohandas Karamchand [Mahatma] Gandhi
"Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea." -- George Carlin
"The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become." -- Charles du Bois
"Answer That you are here - that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse." -- Walt Whitman
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." -- Dr. Martin Luther King, jr.
"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else." -- Dickinson
"The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there." -- Robert M. Pirsig
"It's not the same to talk of bulls as to be in the bullring." -- Spanish Proverb
"As you go the way of life, you will see a great chasm. Jump. It's not as wide as you think." -- Native American Proverb
"I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." -- Henry David Thoreau
"Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love." -- Charlie Brown in "Peanuts" by Charles Schultz
"Listen to the MUSTN'TS, child, listen to the DON'TS. Listen to the SHOULDN'TS, the IMPOSSIBLES, the WON'TS. Listen to the NEVER HAVES, then listen close to me, ANYTHING can happen, child; ANYTHING can be." -- Shel Silverstein
"This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the trash heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy." -- George Bernard Shaw, Irish Playwright
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing." -- George Bernard Shaw, Irish Playwright
"Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious." -- George Bernard Shaw, Irish Playwright
"In the midst of winter, I found there was within me, an invincible summer." -- Albert Camus
"Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light." -- Dylan Thomas
"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are gone, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing." -- Benjamin Franklin
"Before enlightenment: Chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment: Chop wood, carry water." -- Lao Tse
"As you make your way through this hectic world of ours, set aside a few minutes each day. At the end of the year, you'll have a couple of days saved up." -- Unknown 7-Year Old
"Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out, and your dog would go in." -- Mark Twain
"The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter." -- Mark Twain
"The man who does not read good books is at no advantage over the man that can`t read them." -- Mark Twain
"We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it--and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again--and that is well but she will also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore." -- Mark Twain
"Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live." -- Henry VanDyke
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -- Voltaire
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." -- Voltaire
"Trying is the first step toward failure." -- Homer Simpson
"Just squeeze your rage into a bitter little ball, and release it at an appropriate time. Like the day daddy hit the referee with a whiskey bottle." -- Homer Simpson
"If something is hard to do then it's not worth doing." -- Homer Simpson
"You tried your best, and you failed miserably. The lesson is: Never try." -- Homer Simpson
"So a graduate student, huh? How come you guys can go to the moon but you can't make my shoes smell good?" -- Homer Simpson
"If God dropped acid, would he see people?" -- Stephen Wright
"You have not begun to live until you have consented to die." -- W.H. Auden
"We may not have got everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end." -- Douglas Adams for the Mac
"Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man." -- Friedrich Nietzsche
"Bolts get me through times of no courage better than courage gets me through times of no bolts." -- unknown rock climber as quoted by Climbing Magazine
"Life it seems a struggle between what we see and what we do." -- Dave Matthews Band
"I can't believe that we would lie in our graves wondering if we had spent our living days well I can't believe we would lie in our graves dreaming of things that we might have been." -- Dave Matthews Band
"The future is no place to place your better days." -- Dave Matthews Band
"We can do no great things; only small things with great love." -- Mother Teresa
"The best way out is always through." -- Robert Frost
"Dare to be naive." -- Buckminster Fuller
"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly." -- Buckminster Fuller
"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them." -- James Baldwin
"Always remember to pillage BEFORE you burn." -- author unknown
"It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power." -- Alan Cohen
"A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?" -- Jane Wagner
"Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure." -- Ross MacDonald (via James Gardiner)
"The world is but a canvas to the imagination." -- Henry David Thoreau
"What was the best thing before sliced bread?" -- George Carlin
"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be." -- Douglas Adams
"Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt." -- William Shakespeare
"Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped." -- African Proverb
"It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end." -- Ursula K. LeGuin
"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves." -- William Shakespeare
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect." -- Mark Twain
"If you have built castles in the air your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them." -- Henry David Thoreau
"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." -- William Jennings Bryan
We stand on a mountain pass in the midst of a whirling snow and blinding mist, through which we get glimpses now and then of paths which may be deceptive. If we stand still we shall be frozen to death. If we take the wrong road we shall be dashed to pieces. We do not certainly know whether there is any right one. What must we do? Be strong and of good courage. Act for the best, hope for the best, and take what comes.... If death ends all, we cannot meet death better. -- James Stephen Fitz
"Freedom lies in being bold." -- Robert Frost
"When I die, I want to go peacefully, in my sleep, like my grandfather. Not screaming, like the passengers in his car." -- Jack Handey
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." -- Helen Keller
"Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things." -- Dan Quayle
"If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure." -- Dan Quayle
"Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you are alive, it isn't." -- Richard Bach
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in that gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." -- Theodore Roosevelt
"The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more." -- Erica Jong
"I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts." -- John Steinbeck
"If one advances confidently in the direction of their dreams and endeavors to live the life they have imagined, they will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." -- Henry David Thoreau
"Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom." -- Marilyn Ferguson
"If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?" -- George Carlin
"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your reactions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Life is pain...anyone who says differently is selling something." -- Dread Pirate Roberts from The Princess Bride
"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset." -- Crowfoot
"Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man." -- Rabindranath Tagore
"Life is a book on fire, read by the light of its own burning pages." -- Tim Ferguson
"I say, if your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life!" -- Calvin in Bill Watterson's "Calvin & Hobbes"
"If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error." -- John Kenneth Galbraith
"Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist." -- Epicurus
"On action alone be thine interest, Never on its fruits. Let not the fruits of action be thy motive, Nor be thy attachment to inaction." -- Bhagavad Gita
"It is not length of life, but depth of life." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin." -- Grace Hansen
"Never think you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning." -- Anthony Trollope
"The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides never decides. Accept life, and you must accept risk." -- Henri-Frederic Amiel
"Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought." -- Henri Bergson
"Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny." -- Kim Hubbard
"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it." -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"We can do no great things; only small things with great love." -- Mother Teresa
"If you have everything under control, you're not going fast enough!" -- Mario Andretti
"Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels." -- Faith Whittlesey
"Everyone is a self-made person, but only the successful admit it." -- Unknown
"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies." -- Friedrich Nietzsche
"Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it." -- Don Marquis
"Love is like Pi: natural, irrational, and very important." -- Lisa Hoffman
"Happiness is how, not a what: a talent, not an object." -- Herman Hesse
"We SCREW the other guy and pass the savings on to you." -- author unknown (via a T-shirt in Vancouver)
"Show me a man with both feet on the ground, and I'll show you a man who can't get his pants on." -- Katie Saltonovitz (via Sarah Henkel)
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." -- (probably) Albert Einstein (via Bill Warren)
"Sometimes you can't do the right thing, and then you have to do a whole bunch of the wrong things and hope it works out." -- Archibald Mumbull
"Money and sex: both seem very important when you don't have any." -- via SEVENTEEN MAGAZINE (via Shanna)
"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out." -- Dr. Laurence J. Peter
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that the stuff life is made of. -- Benjamin Franklin
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time. -- Henry David Thoreau
Have you even been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnrable. It opens your chest and it opens your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you, or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so a simple phrase like "maybe we should just be friends" or "how very perceptive" turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love. -- Rose Walker, in Sandman: The Kindly Ones by Neil Gaiman
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. -- Alice Walker, speech, Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, March 16, 1982, in Barbara Smith, ed., Home Girls, 1983.
"Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot about little puppies." -- Gene Hill
"I wonder what goes through his mind when he sees us peeing in his water bowl." -- Penny Ward Moser
"To his dog, every man is Napolean; hence the constant popularity of dogs." -- Aldous Huxley
"A dog teaches a child fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down." --Robert Benchley
"Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that is how dogs spend their lives." --Sue Murphy
"Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful." --Ann Landers
"Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail." --Unknown
"No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does." --Christopher Morley
"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself." --Josh Billings
"The average dog is nicer than the average person." --Andrew A. Rooney
"He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion." --Unknown
"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went." --Unknown
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man." --Mark Twain
"Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity." -Christopher Morley
"If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance." -Abraham Lincoln
"I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time." -Charlie Brown
"Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter." -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable." -Anon.
"What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more." -Seneca
"The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money." -Anon.
"There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there." -Colonel Sanders
"War does not determine who is right - only who is left." -Bertrand Russell
"Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?" -J. Paul Getty
"The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost." -William Carlos Williams
"Find a job you like and you add five days to every week." -H. Jackson Browne
"Fall seven times, stand up eight." -Japanese Proverb
"I believe everyody in the world should have guns. Citizens should have bazookas and rocket launchers too. I believe that all citizens should have their weapons of choice. However, I also believe that only I should have the ammunition. Because frankly, I wouldn't trust the rest of the goobers with anything more dangerous than string." -Scott Adams
"It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth." -Joseph Conrad, Chance
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. Soren Kierkegaard
“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.” -- Robert Louis Stevenson
“I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.” -- William Allen White
“Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and fans fire.” -- La Rochefoucauld, Fran[ois, Duc de (1613-1680)
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” -- Einstein.
“The future will be better tomorrow.” -- dan quayle
“Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile.” -- Connery, Sean (*)
"Like jewels in a crown, the precious stones glittered in the queen's round metal hat." -- Jack Handey
"Little things are indeed little, but to be faithful in little things is a great thing." -- mother teresa.
“A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.” -- Christopher Morley
“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.” -- James Oppenheim
“Do I contradict myself? Very well; I contradict myself.” -- Walt Whitman
“You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.” -- Henny Youngman
“The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears.” -- Indian Proverb
“Love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun.” -- Armistead Maupin
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend. --- Albert Camus
A day dawns, quite like other days; in it, a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us. --- Maltbie Babcock
With over 50 foreign cars already on sale here, the Japanese auto industry isn't likely to carve out a big slice of the U.S. market. --- Business Week, August 2, 1968
Americans are like a rich father, who wishes he knew how to give his sons the hardships that made him rich. --- Robert Frost
This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. --- Western Union internal memo, 1876
I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house. --- Lewis Grizzard
While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility. --- Lee DeForest
[Television] won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night. --- Darryl F. Zanuck
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him. --- Booker T. Washington
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. --- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. --- Galileo Galilei
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. -Berthold Auerbach
Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. -Victor Hugo
I think if you want to eat more meat you should kill it yourself and eat it raw so that you are not blinded by the hypocrisy of having it processed for you. -Margi Clark
I have learned from an early age to abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men. -Leonardo Da Vinci
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian. -Paul McCartney
Benjamin Disraeli Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
Abraham Lincoln Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god. -- Jorge Luis Borge
If automobiles had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. -Robert Cringely
Ashleigh Brilliant: "My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot."
Mark Twain: "It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either."
