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Woman was taken out of man--not out of his head, to rule over him; nor
out of his feet, to be trampled under by him; but out of his side, to be
equal to him--under his arm, that he might protect her, and near his heart
that he might love her.
----Henry
"And, you know, I mustn't preach to you, but surely it wouldn't be right for
you to take away people's pleasure of studying your attire, by just going
and making yourself like everybody else. You feel that, don't you?" said
he, earnestly.
----William Morris, "Notes from Nowhere"
I'd kick you, but my hands are full.
"I want to live so that nobody will ever have to tell me even a white lie."
----The Sapphire Cat, journal entry for 9 March 2001
"Maybe... it begins with a kiss."
----Lennart Nillson, prenatal photographer, answering "When does life begin?"
(quoted in Psychology, David G. Myers, 6th ed.)
"The more we think we know about
The greater the unknown"
----Rush, "Mystic Rhythms"
Did you hear about the cult that built paradise out of corn?
It was a cornutopia!
[What a corny joke.]
Punning is the worst vice, and there's no vice versa.
Imagine what might have been if all the effort spent on warfare throughout history was instead directed toward improving civilization.
"It's true that love can change us
But never quite enough"
----Rush, "Emotion Detector"
Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art!
Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes.
Why preyest thou thus upon the poet's heart,
Vulture, whose wings are dull realities?
How should he love thee? or how deem thee wise?
Who wouldst not leave him in his wandering
To seek for treasure in the jewelled skies,
Albeit he soared with an undaunted wing?
Hast thou not dragged Diana from her car?
And driven the Hamadryad from the wood
To seek a shelter in some happier star?
Hast thou not torn the Naiad from her flood,
The Elfin from the green grass, and from me
The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree?
----Edgar Allan Poe, "Science, a Sonnet"
"There are mysteries about our love. Things that neither one of us may ever understand because love is an emotion without limit and understanding. We know we love each other but we could never explain completely as WHY we love each other. Love is not a clock. You simply cannot take it apart just to see what makes it tick, and even if you could, you probably could never get it back together again."
----anonymous
"Too many of us stay walled because we are afraid of being hurt. We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care as much or not at all."
----Eleanor Roosevelt
When you smiled you had my undivided attention, when you laughed you had my urge to laugh with you, when you cried you had my urge to hold you, when you said that you loved me you had my heart forever.
"Don't cry when the sun is gone because the tears won't let you see the stars."
----Violeta Parra
If you really love someone write their initials in a circle not a heart because a heart can be broken but a circle goes on forever.
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
----Luciano de Crescenzo
"Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away."
----Dorothy Parker
"To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task."
----Sophocles (B.C. 495-406)
We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.
----Landor
Time is too slow for those who wait,
too swift for those who fear,
too long for those who grieve,
too short for those who rejoice,
but for those who love,
time is eternity.
----Henry Van Dyke
The saddest words of tongue or pen are the words "It might have been."
If they give you lined paper, write the other way.
"We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true."
----Woodrow Wilson
It's about walls, it's about the walls we build up to protect ourselves, and trying to create a facade that we think is more interesting than who we really are. And hiding those insecurities.
I knew that looking back on the times I've cried, I would laugh, but I never knew that looking back on the times I've laughed, I would cry.
Don't go where the path may lead; go where there is no path and leave a trail.
"A child does not have to be taught how to be happy or the ways of love. It is fear, hatred, & prejudice that have to be taught. And from the condition of the world we can see that unfortunately there are some very good teachers."
----Javan
"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."
----Helen Keller
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
----T. S. Eliot
"Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken."
----Orson Rega Card
"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
----Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not."
----George Bernard Shaw
"Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed."
----Storm Jameson
"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these."
----George Washington Carver
"All men and women are born, live suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be dreams about worldly or unworldly things, and what we do to make them come about... We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death. But within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live."
----Joseph Epstein
"Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child."
----Ron Wild
"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure...than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
----Theodore Roosevelt
"Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny."
----Carl Schurz
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear."
----Ambrose Redmoon
"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."
----Leo Buscaglia
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."
----Dale Carnegie
"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly."
----Buddha
"Evil (ignorance) is like a shadow--it has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it."
----Shakti Gawain
"I'll be here just waiting for you, I'll be under your stars forever."
----SP
"Insanity--a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world."
----R.D. Laing
"Often the real test of courage is not to die, but to live."
----Vittorio Alfieri
"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."
----James Baldwin
"The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn."
----H.G. Wells
"The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident."
----Sir Hugh Walpoe
"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge (Reading this makes me wonder how much sooner man could have walked on the moon...had we listened to a child's fantasies. It is truly a pity that so many lose their gift of imagination to the steady hum of the status quo.)"
----Albert Einstein
"I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from Here I can pretend... I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come and Gods go. Mortals Flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don't last; and stars and galaxies are transient, fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust. But I can pretend."
----Olethros in Sandman
"Destiny is not a matter of chance, but of choice, Not something to wish for, but to attain."
----William Jennings Bryan
"Life is just a dream on the way to death. I believe there's a place where the restless souls wander, burdened by the weight of their own sadness. They wait for a chance to set the wrong things right. Only then can they be reunited with the ones they love. Sometimes, a crow shows them the way; because sometimes, love is stronger than death."
----The Crow, City of Angels
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
----George Bernard Shaw
Show me a heart unfettered by foolish dreams
And I'll show you a happy man.
But only in their dreams can man be truly free
'Twas always thus and always thus will be.
Spoken by John Keating (Robin Williams), Dead Poets Society
"When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property which with certainty separates the waking state from the dream. How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?"
----Descartes
"... I don't know. Sometimes it would stop raining long enough for the stars to come out. Then it was nice ... It's like just before the sun goes to bed down on the bay, those million sparkles on the water ... Like that mountain lake, it was so clear, Jenny, it looked like 2 skies, one on top of the other. And then in the desert when the sun comes up, I couldn't tell where heaven started and the earth begun. It's so beautiful ... Jenny, I may not be a smart man, but I know what love is."
----Forrest Gump
"We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time."
----Art Buchwald
Love lasts when the relationship comes first.
There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart... pursue those.
"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them. Disagree with them. Glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
----Apple ad from the "Think Different" campaign
"The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer."
----Oliver Wendell Holmes
I wonder how much deeper would the ocean be without sponges.
"Life is too important to take seriously."
----Corky Siegel
"Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them."
----Nathaniel Hawthorne
"...they think that I'm strange... they say that I'm a dreamer... but I don't complain, though I don't have much to call my own. I know a place where I keep the best of things. I'm not gonna wait for my piece of heaven where there's a road, it leads to the promised land. I just turn the key, the key to the kingdom."
----The Kingdom
"You say that I have no power? Perhaps you speak truly... But you say that Dreams have no power here? Tell me... what power would hell have if those here imprisoned were not able to dream of heaven?"
----Morpheus in Sandman
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
----Mark Twain
"The day we lose our need for dreams is the day the human race forfeits its soul."
----John Chiam
"There is a new billboard outside Times Square. It keeps an up-to-minute count of gun-related crimes in New York. Some goofball is going to shoot someone just to see the numbers move."
----David Letterman
"Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music."
----Angela Monet
Don't walk ahead, I may not follow.
Don't walk behind, I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
----Albert Camus
"I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who have not got the guts to bite people themselves."
----August Strindberg
"I went to the woods because I wished 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 have not lived."
----Thoreau (also in Dead Poet's Society)
"If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend."
----Stone Temple Pilots
"Don't be dismayed by goodbyes, a farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again is certain for those who are friends."
----Richard Bach
"All our young lives we search for someone to love. We choose partners, change partners... all the while wondering of there's someone, somewhere who might be searching for us."
----Kevin, The Wonder Years
Tomboy - all right, call me a tomboy. Tomboys get medals, tomboys win championships, tomboys can fly. One more thing: tomboys aren't boys.
Even though we said goodbye, remember we watch the same sunset.
"People tell you to be yourself...like yourself is some defined thing."
----mscl
And Pooh gave Christopher Robin the biggest Pooh hug he could give because he knew that goodbyes were not far away.
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine but leaving us when we cross into the shade.
I could rush and be on time, but I would rather be a few minutes late and enjoy the ride.
"Some people used to believe the Earth was flat. There are some people today whom I'd love to push off the edge, if I could make it look like an accident."
----Eromon D'Alyzala (b. 1942)
"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."
----Oprah Winfrey
"Love is friendship set on fire."
----Jeremy Taylor
A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove...but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.
"When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly."
----Patrick Overton
"Every now and then, we find a special friend, who never lets us down, who understands it all, reaches out each time I fall. You're the best friend that I found. I know you can't stay, but part of you will never ever go away. I'll make a wish for you and hope it will come true; that life will be kind to such a gentle mind. And if you lose your way, think back on yesterday. Remember me this way."
-- Remember Me This Way
You are one of the best things that's ever happened to me. you're my love and my best friend. And every day that goes by, it seems like I discover something new about you to love. It's incredible to me how one person can make such a big difference in my life. You touch me in a way no one else ever has and give me so many reasons to smile. I've never been so happy...and I've never been so much in love.
"I believe in making the world a safe place for our children, but not our children's children, because I don't think children should be having sex."
----Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts
"A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold the burning fuse up to the phone. 'Hear that?' you say. 'That's dynamite, baby.'"
----Jack Handey
"I hope if dogs take over the world, and they choose a king, they don't just go by size, because I bet there are some Chihuahuas with some good ideas."
----Jack Handey
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
----Aristotle
"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another."
----James Matthew Barrie
"Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough."
----William Saroyan
"The issue isn't whether you're paranoid, It's whether you're paranoid enough."
----Strange Days
Hannibal Lecter: How did you catch me, Will?
Will: You had disadvantages.
Hannibal Lecter: What disadvantages?
Will: You're insane.
----Manhunter
"If I'm not back in five minutes, wait longer."
----Ace Ventura, Pet Detective
"I'd rather have a moment of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special."
----steel magnolias
Life Is What You Make Of It, So Live It Up Today, Because Yesterday Has Passed And Tomorrow May Never Come
"Don't shirk away from challenges... keep reaching for that star, that sky."
----Rick Moore
"You are all destined for greatness if you wish to achieve it....and I'm countin' on ya."
----Rick Moore
In good times and bad times, I'll be on your side for ever more...that's what friends are for
"We've gotta start feeding our souls, not our addictions or afflictions of pain to avoid the same questions we must ask ourselves to get any answers."
----Jewel
"In case you failed to notice, in case you failed to see, this is my heart bleeding before you...this is me down on my knees"
----Jewel
"You're stretchin' out your arms to something thats just not there."
----Tonic
I'm so tired, but I can't sleep
standing on the edge of something much too deep
funny how I feel so much but cannot say a word
we are screaming inside, oh, but we can't be heard
so afraid to love you, more afraid to lose
clinging to a past that doesn't let me choose
----Sarah McLachlan
"Cause you don't know what you have 'til your everything is gone"
----Blessed Union of Souls
"I wanna be there when your nights are long and when you're feeling like you don't belong"
----Blessed Union of Souls
"If you could only see the way she loves me then maybe you would understand why I feel this way about our love and what I must do...if you could only see how blue her eyes can be when she says...when she says she loves me"
----Tonic
"It's so safe floating in the glass while above all your troubles pass...just be quiet...they'll all go away"
----Tonic
"I wish I'd seen you as a little girl, without your armor to fend off the world...I would have kept you underneath my wing...I would protect you from everything"
----Tonic
"Deep within I'm shaken by the violence of existing for only you"
----Sarah McLachlan
"Every time I'm close to you, there's too much I can't say and you just walk away... I grieve in my condition for I cannot find the words to say I need you so"
----Sarah McLachlan
"These are the times to remember, they will not last forever. These are the days to hold onto, cuz we won't although we want to"
----Billy Joel
"All I need now is intellectual intercourse."
----Alanis Morissette
"You're the sweet crusader...you're the last great innocence."
----Alanis Morissette
"Don't ever be afraid to open up your eyes so you can see tomorrow."
----Meril Bainbridge
"You slowly fade and yet still remain as if to say everything matters in such an invisible way."
----Poe
"And I had a feeling that I belonged, and I had a feeling that I could be someone, be someone, be someone"
----Tracy Chapman
"We are bound together in our desire to see the world become a place in which our children can grow free and strong. We are bound together by the task that stands before us and the road that lies ahead."
----James Taylor
"I just told my dreams and you made me see that I could walk into the sun and I could still be me and now I can't deny nothing lasts forever."
----Darius Rucker
"He wasn't claustrophobic, but he had a logical and healthy fear of being confined in an extremely cramped place ninety feet below the ice, in the Arctic wilderness, while surrounded by fifty-eight enormous packages of explosives that were ticking rapidly toward detonation. He was funny that way."
----Dean Koontz
"We have your balloons, punk!"
----Dave Letterman
"If you give a smile right now, I'll give you the whole damn world."
----Leo Roth
"So take me as I am.....this may mean you'll have to be a stronger man."
----Meredith Brooks
"Wherever you go, whatever you do...I will be right here waiting for you."
----Richard Marx
Only as high as I reach can I grow,
Only as far as I seek can I go,
Only as deep as I look can I see,
Only as much as I dream can I be.
----Karen Ravn
"Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around us in awareness."
----James Thurber
"He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened."
----Lao Tsu
"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."
----Publilius Syrus
In order to discover who you are, first learn who everybody else is; you're what's left.
"It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed."
----Goethe
It's not reality that's important, but how you perceive things.
"Life is the childhood of our immortality."
----Goethe
"Music in the soul can be heard by the universe."
----Lao Tsu
Nasrudin called at a large house to collect for charity. The servant said "My master is out." Nasrudin replied, "Tell your master that next time he goes out, he should not leave his face at the window. Someone might steal it."
Nasrudin walked into a shop one day, and the owner came forward to serve him. Nasrudin said, "First things first. Did you see me walk into your shop?"
"Of course."
"Have you ever seen me before?"
"Never."
"Then how do you know it was me?"
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Once there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a great crystal river. Each creature in its own manner clung tightly to the twigs and rocks of the river bottom, for clinging was their way of life, and resisting the current what each had learned from birth. But one creature said at last, "I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom."
The other creatures laughed and said, "Fool! Let go, and that current you worship will throw you tumbled and smashed across the rocks, and you will die quicker than boredom!"
But the one heeded them not, and taking a breath did let go, and at once was tumbled and smashed by the current across the rocks. Yet, in time, as the creature refused to cling again, the current lifted him free from the bottom, and he was bruised and hurt no more.
And the creatures downstream, to whom he was a stranger, cried, "See a miracle! A creature like ourselves, yet he flies! See the Messiah, come to save us all!" And the one carried in the current said, "I am no more Messiah than you. The river delight to lift us free, if only we dare let go. Our true work is this voyage, this adventure."
But they cried the more, "Saviour!" all the while clinging to the rocks, making legends of a Saviour.
----Richard Bach
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
----Philip K. Dick
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
To give happiness is to deserve happiness.
To give of yourself, you must first know yourself.
"Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now -- always."
----Albert Schweitzer
"Whatever occurs from love is always beyond good and evil."
----Friedrich Nietzsche
"You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake."
----Jeannette Rankin
"I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you."
----Roy Croft
If only you knew she loved you, you could face the uncertainty of whether you love her.
May he always know when you need a hug.
Love is always open arms. With arms open you allow love to come and go as it wills, freely, for it will do so anyway. If you close your arms about love you'll find you are left only holding yourself.
On a tous un peu peur de l'amour, mais on a surtout peur de souffrir ou de faire souffrir.
[One is always a little afraid of love, but above all, one is afraid of pain or causing pain.]
The little pieces of my life I give to you, with love, to make a quilt to keep away the cold.
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."
----Bertrand Russell
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.
True happiness will be found only in true love.
Without love intelligence is dangerous;
without intelligence love is not enough.
----Ashley Montagu
"All things that are, are with more spirit chased than enjoyed."
----Shakespeare, "Merchant of Venice"
"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
----Mark Twain
Condense soup, not books!
For there are moments when one can neither think nor feel. And if one can neither think nor feel, she thought, where is one?
----Virginia Woolf, "To the Lighthouse"
"Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
----Mark Twain
"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom."
----J.R.R. Tolkien
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
----Mark Twain
"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read."
----Mark Twain
"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."
----Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
O, it is excellent
To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous
To use it like a giant.
----Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", II, 2
"Perilous to all of us are the devices of an art deeper than we ourselves possess."
----Gandalf the Grey [J.R.R. Tolkien, "Lord of the Rings"]
"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug."
----Mark Twain
"The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice."
----Mark Twain
"This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one."
----Arthur Clarke
"Wagner's music is better than it sounds."
----Mark Twain
"We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stay 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 also she will never sit down on a cold one any more."
----Mark Twain
"When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it."
----Mark Twain
"When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes."
----Dylan Thomas
A box without hinges, key, or lid,
Yet golden treasure inside is hid.
----J.R.R. Tolkien
Need we say it was not love,
Just because it perished?
----Edna St. Vincent Millay
Before I knew the best part of my life had come, it had gone.
Everything might be different in the present if only one thing had been different in the past.
How much of their influence on you is a result of your influence on them?
Ah, but the choice of dreams to live, there's the rub.
For all dreams are not equal, some exit to nightmare most end with the dreamer
But at least one must be lived ... and died.
All who joy would win
Must share it --
Happiness was born a twin.
----Lord Byron
And all that the Lorax left here in this mess
was a small pile of rocks with the one word, "unless."
Whatever THAT meant, well, I just couldn't guess.
That was long, long ago, and each day since that day,
I've worried and worried and worried away.
Through the years as my buildings have fallen apart,
I've worried about it with all of my heart.
"BUT," says the Oncler, "now that you're here,
the word of the Lorax seems perfectly clear!
UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better - it's not.
So... CATCH!" cries the Oncler. He lets something fall.
"It's a truffula seed. It's the last one of all!
"You're in charge of the last of the truffula seeds.
And truffula trees are what everyone needs.
Plant a new truffula -- treat it with care.
Give it clean water and feed it fresh air.
Grow a forest -- protect it from axes that hack.
Then the Lorax and all of his friends may come back!"
----Dr. Seuss, "The Lorax"
Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
----T.S. Eliot, "The Hollow Man"
"How do you know she is a unicorn?" Molly demanded. "And why were you afraid to let her touch you? I saw you. You were afraid of her."
"I doubt that I will feel like talking for very long," the cat replied without rancor. "I would not waste time in foolishness if I were you. As to your first question, no cat out of its first fur can ever be deceived by appearances. Unlike human beings, who enjoy them. As for your second question --" Here he faltered, and suddenly became very interested in washing; nor would he speak until he had licked himself fluffy and then licked himself smooth again. Even then he would not look at Molly, but examined his claws.
"If she had touched me," he said very softly, "I would have been hers and not my own, not ever again."
----Peter S. Beagle, "The Last Unicorn"
No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife in the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style.
The default Magic Word, "Abracadabra", actually is a corruption of the Hebrew phrase "ha-Bracha dab'ra" which means "pronounce the blessing".
"When I say the magic word to all these people, they will vanish forever. I will then say the magic words to you, and you, too, will vanish -- never to be seen again."
----Kurt Vonnegut Jr., "Between Time and Timbuktu"
"From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached."
----F. Kafka
Most burning issues generate far more heat than light.
Never be afraid to tell the world who you are.
----Anonymous
"Somehow I reached excess without ever noticing when I was passing through satisfaction."
----Ashleigh Brilliant
"Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in."
----Henry David Thoreau
"What excuses stand in your way? How can you eliminate them?"
----Roger von Oech
When does later become never?
When pleasure remains, does it remain a pleasure?
"Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter?"
----Steven Wright
"He asked me if I knew what time it was --- I said yes, but not right now."
----Steven Wright
"Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?"
----Jay Leno
"I got this powdered water --- now I don't know what to add."
----Steven Wright
"I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died."
----Richard Diran
"I love Saturday morning cartoons, what classic humour! This is what entertainment is all about ... Idiots, explosives and falling anvils."
----Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson
"I stayed up all night playing poker with tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died."
----Steven Wright
"I was at this restaurant. The sign said 'Breakfast Anytime.' So I ordered French Toast in the Rennaissance."
----Steven Wright
"It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it."
----Steven Wright
"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog it's too dark to read."
----Groucho Marx
"The pyramid is opening!"
"Which one?"
"The one with the ever-widening hole in it!"
----Firesign Theater, "How Can You Be In Two Places At Once When You're Not Anywhere At All"
"Too bad you can't buy a voodoo globe so that you could make the earth spin real fast and freak everybody out."
----Jack Handley, The New Mexican, 1988.
"What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet."
----Woody Allen, "Without Feathers"
"Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?"
----Steven Wright
"We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon."
----Dr. Konrad Adenauer
You can move the world with an idea, but you have to think of it first.
"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding."
----Albert Einstein
"Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled."
----Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
----Albert Einstein
"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."
----Oscar Wilde, "The Portrait of Mr. W.H."
"Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent."
----Napoleon I
Sanity and insanity overlap a fine grey line.
"Punishment becomes ineffective after a certain point. Men become insensitive."
----Eneg, "Patterns of Force", stardate 2534.7
"The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who, in times of moral crisis, preserved their neutrality."
----Dante
"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind."
----Kahlil Gibran
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
----Pablo Picasso
"So basically, this maverick is urging everyone to express his individuality through conformity in brand-name selection?"
----Hobbes, from the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip
I suppose if people thought about real issues and needs instead of manufactured desires, the economy would collapse and we'd have total anarchy.
----Calvin's Mom in the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip
"You have all the power you need, if you dare to look for it."
----Peter S. Beagle, "The Last Unicorn"
"Why must there be darkness? So we know when we see the light."
----The Sapphire Cat
Do not build the fortress of rock, for rock will imprison you and make you powerless as the enemy attacks. Build it out of rubber, so that it can help you push him back.
What will the victory cost?
"What do you live for? What are you willing to die for?"
----Lynx, in Chrono Cross
"If you had to choose between the world and me, which would you take?"
----Harle, in Chrono Cross
El hábito no hace al monje.
[The habit doesn't make the monk.]
----Spanish proverb
Can I not save one from the pitiless wave?
----Edgar Allan Poe, "A Dream Within a Dream"
"The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels."
----Hazrat Inayat Khan
"Once you have the woods in you, you will never be the same."
----Gary Paulsen
"Nothing happens unless first a dream."
----Carl Sandburg
"Often, art is a lie that tells the truth."
----Elliot S. Maggin
"I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."
----Henry David Thoreau
"One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives."
----Mark Twain
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the myterious. It is the source of all true art and science."
----Albert Einstein
"Remember. Always remember. Remember the whole of the truth. Truth has so many sides, evil and good, that if you cling to just one, it may make a lie."
----Zenna Henderson
"This grasping after unearned money is the root of all evil."
----Abraham Lincoln
"There's lies, there's damned lies, and then there's statistics."
----Mark Twain
" 'The Kjeldorans keep the orcs at bay, and we train their healers. Most human bargains aren't as fair.' ----Liana of the Elvish Council"
from the "Elvish Healer" Magic card (Ice Age set)
" 'The Elves train our healers, and we keep the Orcs at bay. Most Elvish bargains aren't as fair.' ----General Jarkeld, the Arctic Fox"
from the "Cooperation" Magic card (Ice Age set)
"Infinity ... extends not only outwards ... but inwards to the heart of each human being."
----E. Urner Goodman
"Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one."
----Charles Sykes
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