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"Many people will walk
in and out of your life, but true friends, leave footprints on your heart."
"When the tides of life turn against you and the current upsets your boat,
don't waste your tears on what might have been, just lie on your back and float."
"He is able who thinks he is able."
"God saw a tear and kissed it away with the smile of a friend."
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
"Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future."
(Thanks to Clare Ainsworth for submitting the above)
"There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite" --- Jorge Luis Borges, "Avatars of the Tortoise"
"Sanity is not statistical." --- George Orwell, 1984
"Homo homini aut deus aut lupus." --- Roman Proverb. trans.
"Man is to man either a god or a wolf."
"I am tall as a man. I have sharp teeth. I am a meat eater." --- Andrew D. Sabo
"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to
do." --- Jean-Paul Sartre
"Thus it amounts to the same thing whether one gets drunk alone or is a leader of nations." Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness.
"Whoever climbs the highest mountains laughs at all tragic plays and tragic
seriousness." --- Friedrich Nietzsche "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"
"You laugh at me because iI am different but I laugh at you because you are all the same" ---Tom DeLonge (guitarist for Bink 182) (contributed by wmthomas)
"As hard as you think it might be...you end up wishing it was that easy." "Finding a planet a mere
10 light-years away is like finding an alligator in my back yard. It tells me
that alligators must be a dime a dozen. They must be everywhere." --- Seth
Shostack of the SETI Institute, as astronomers announced the discovery of 10
new planets orbiting nearby stars, bringing the total to more than 50 discovered
since 1995
"The proper time to
influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born."
--- William
Ralph Inge
"Don't wait for the
last judgment. It takes place every day." --- Albert Camus
"Conformity is the jailer
of freedom and the enemy of growth" --- John F. Kennedy (1961)
"Once in a while you
have to take a break and visit yourself." --- Audrey Giorgi
"It's easier to put
on slippers than to carpet the whole world." --- Al Franken, "Stuart Saves
His Family"
"If I had my life to
live over, I would have liked to have ended up as a sportswriter." -- Richard
M. Nixon (1981)
"Winter is not a season;
it's an occupation." --- Sinclair
Lewis
"One touch of nature
makes the whole world kin." --- William Shakespeare
"I'm always making a
comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been." --- Billie
Holiday
"Thanksgiving is an
emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only
see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often. --- Johnny
Carson
"Maturity means reacquiring
the seriousness one had as a child at play." --- Frederich
Nietzsche
"Eventually it comes
to you: the thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably
that which must also make you lonely." --- Lorraine Hansberry
"Every society honors
its live conformists and its dead troublemakers." --- Mignon McLaughlin
"After a certain number
of years, our faces become our biographies." --- Cynthia Ozick
"I never cared about
acceptance as much as I cared about respect." --- Jackie Robinson
"The time is always
right to do what is right." --- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"A person without patience
is a lamp without oil." --- Andres
Segovia
"There's a fine line
between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot." --- Steven Wright
"In prosperity our friends
know us; in adversity, we know our friends." --- John Churton Collins
"Those who flee temptation
generally leave a forwarding address." --- Lane Olinghouse
"The only things we
ever keep are what we give away." --- Louis Ginsberg
"The greatest discovery
of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitude." --- William James
"People in distress
will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not."
--- Neil Postman
"The truth is not always
the same as the majority decision." --- Pope John Paul II
"This article says our
congressman has taken money under the table. His name has been linked romantically
with a lot of different ladies, and he enjoys a frequent nip. I'd say he's doing
a terrific job representing my interests!" --- Frank Thraves
"Diplomacy: Lying in
state." --- Oliver Herford
"People take pictures
of the Summer, "The essential element
of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between
competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior. Ordinarily, this
means that any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is
doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate
that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage." --- Bruce Henderson
"An actor entering through
the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got
a situation " --- the sorely missed film director Billy Wilder.
"Anyone can look for
fashion in a boutique or history in a museum. The creative person looks for
history in a hardware store and fashion in an airport." --- Robert Wieder
"I never said I was
the King Of Rock'n' Roll. I said simply that I'm the best" ---Jerry Lee
Lewis
"I was dissapointed
to find no suggestion box in the office because I would like to put a suggestion
in it about having one." --- Diane Campbell
"When you're swimmin'
in the creek, And an eel bites your cheek, that's a moray!" --- Fabulous
Furry Freak Brothers
Question : How many
surrealists does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Answer : Two. One to hold
the giraffe and the other to fill the bathtub with brightly colored machine
tools. --- Unknown
"Getting down on all
fours and imitating a rhinoceros stops babies from crying. (Put an empty cigarette
pack on your nose for a horn and make loud "snort" noises.) I don't know why
parents don't do this more often. Usually it makes the kid laugh. Sometimes
it sends him into shock. Either way it quiets him down. If you're a parent,
acting like a rhino has another advantage. Keep it up until the kid is a teenager
and he definitely won't have his friends hanging around your house all the time."
--- P. J. O'Rourke
"The idea that people
know what they want is wrong." --- Laura Jennings, Vice President, Microsoft
Network
"Windows 95 is what
Rube Goldberg would have designed if he'd studied cartooning at M.I.T."
--- Russell Baker
"Children ask better
questions than do adults. "May I have a cookie?" "Why is the sky blue?" and
"What does a cow say?" are far more likely to elicit a cheerful response than
"Where's your manuscript?" "Why haven't you called?" and "Who's your lawyer?"
--- Fran Lebowitz
"We cannot control the
evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them."
--- Cato the Elder
"May the forces of evil
become confused on the way to your house." --- George Carlin
"One is never more on
trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune." --- Lew Wallace
"Life is like a maze
in which you try to avoid the exit." --- Roger Von Oech
'Whatever comes from
the heart carries the heat and color of its birthplace." --- Oliver Wendell
Holmes
"Some people march to
a different drummer - and some people do the polka." --- Los Angeles Times
Syndicate
"Little things console
us because little things afflict us." --- Blaise Pascal
"Most human beings have
an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted." --- Aldous Huxley
"Whatever games are
played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy
with the last honesty and truth." --- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Stop the habit of wishful
thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes." --- Mary Martin
"When in doubt, make
a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly
creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So, what the hell,
leap." --- Cynthia Heimel
"Children are the living
messages we send to a time we will not see." --- John W. Whitehead
"Telling a teenager
the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath." --- Arnold Glasow
"The bedfellows politics
makes are never strange. It only seems that way to those of us who have not
watched the courtship." --- Kirkpatrick Sale
"Anything that keeps
a politician humble is healthy for democracy." --- Michael Kinsley
"Some mornings, it's
just not worth chewing through the leather straps." --- Emo Phillips
"Sometimes I lie awake
at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This
is going to take more than one night." --- Charlie Brown
"Truth is a shining
goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy
of all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable." --- Thomas Daly
"The President has kept
all of the promises he intended to keep." --- George Stephanopolous (speaking
on Larry King Live)
"Life is a comedy for
those who think and a tragedy for those who feel." --- Horace Walpole
"Humans invented language
to satisfy their deep need to complain." ---
Lily Tomlin
INSTRUCTIONS
FOR LIFE
1. Take
into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. "Life, like a dome of
many-coloured glass, stains the white radiance of eternity." --- Percy Bysshe
Shelley
"This has been, all
in all, a memorable day. If my luck holds out, I should get hit by a truck on
my way home." --- Celeste Holm (in THE TENDER TRAP -1955)
Calista
Flockhart says...
"I like to hike with
my dog, Webster. It helps clear my mind." --- JUMP
"I embrace everything
about Ally...I don't particularly see her as a whiner. One week she's tough,
the next she's really weak. I love that. She's human." --- Entertainment
Weekly
"What I find fascinating
is that there can be TV shows featuring men, all kinds of men, and they are
just characters. The moment a woman is on TV as a lead character, she is expected
to be a role model, but we never said 'That is what women are like." We said
that is what Ally is like." --- London Life
"If I were in a workplace
that had a unisex bathroom, you wouldn't catch me dead in it." --- TV Guide
"I do wish my breasts
were bigger. Not big...but less small." --- Mademoiselle
"I'm fascinated by women
who aren't making a great impression on people. I think there's probably something
there that is more than meets the eye." --- US Magazine
Ally
McBeal says...
"Sometimes I'm tempted
to become a street person, cut off from society. But then I wouldn't get to wear
my outfits."
"Don't ask any questions,
don't pass judgements, don't even pass ! Just listen, accept the fact that I
need help and give it to me."
"You don't just sneak up
on someone and call their name while their watching handicapped people get thrown
down stairs!"
"Listen, I don't need to
pay for a therapist to give me crap. I have a roommate who does it for free."
"Even if I get past my
problems I'm just going to go out and get new ones!"
"Just remember, when
you're with me you're not the strangest person in the room. Go ahead, get weird
on me."--- Calista Flockhart More Quotes Coming Soon.
Please send me your favorites. Thanks!
"People need love the most when they deserve it the least."
Submitted by : Amy Spencer
"The
mask, given time, comes to be the face itself." --- Marguerite Yourcenar
Just in case someone thought they had missed it,
And to proved that it really existed.
Fathers take pictures of the mothers,
And the sisters take pictures of brothers,
Just to show that they love one another.
--- "People Take Pictures of Each Other," by the Kinks (Raymond Douglas Davies)
"Being
twenty-something is all about taking it in: eating it, drinking it, and spitting
out the seeds later. It's about being fearless, and stupid, and dangerous, and
unfocused, and abandoned. It's about being in it, not on top of it" ---
Jodie Foster,
Yale University, 1993
2. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three R's: Respect for self, Respect for others and Responsibility
for all your actions.
4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of
luck.
5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
6. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
7. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
8. Spend some time alone every day.
9. Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
11. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll
be able to enjoy it a second time.
12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation.
Don't bring up the past.
14. Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.
15. Be gentle with the earth.
16. Once a year, go someplace you've never been before.
17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
19. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon. ---- The
Dalai Lama