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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"


"A man never rises higher than when he does not know whither his path can still lead him." --- Oliver Cromwell, as quoted in Nietzsche's "Schopenhauer as educator"

(Thanks to Drew Finke
for contributing the above quotes)

"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."
"People need love the most when they deserve it the least."
Submitted by : Amy Spencer

"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

"The mask, given time, comes to be the face itself." --- Marguerite Yourcenar

"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,
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)

"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

"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

"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.
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

"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

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