Other People's Stuff
Just a few things that I like
Quotes
William Shakespeare
Come what come may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day
Macbeth - I.iii.146-147
We are such stuff as dreams are made of, and our little life is rounded with sleep.
The Tempest - IV.i.156-158
There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.
Hamlet - IV.vii.114-115
We that are true lovers run into strange capers.
As You Like It - II.iv.54-55
How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping!
Much Ado About Nothing - I.i.27-29
Our doubts are traitors, and makes us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
Measure for Measure - I.iv.77-79
Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises;
and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.
All's Well That Ends Well - II.i.145-147
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more;
it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Macbeth - V.v.26-30
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
As You Like It - V.i.31-32
Opinion's but a fool that makes us scan the outward habit for the inward man.
Pericles - II.ii.56-57
Would you have me false to my nature? Rather say, I play the man I am.
Coriolanus - III.ii.14-16
And oftentimes excusing of a fault, doth make the fault worse by the excuse.
King John - IV.ii.28-31
To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.
A Midsummer Night's Dream - III.i.143
In nature there's no blemish but the mind; none can be called deformed but the unkind.
Twelfth Night - III.iv.367-368
The world is still deceived with ornament.
The Merchant of Venice - III.ii.74
The devil can cite scripture for his purpose.
The Merchant of Venice - I.iii.98
O you gods! Why do you make us love your goodly gifts, and snatch then straight away?
Pericles - III.i.22-24
Thoughts on Humanity
The heart has reasons which reason does not know.
Blaise Pascal
Either get busy living or get busy dying.
Stephen King - Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King - The Body
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.
Emily Post
SPACEAll we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted. And even if we do not believe, then still we cannot travel in any other way than the road our senses show us. And we must walk that road to the end.
Neil Gaiman – American Gods
SPACENone of this can actually be happening. If it makes you more comfortable, you can simply think of it as metaphor. Religions are, by definition, metaphors after all. God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many rooms, a watchmaker who left his prize chronometer in the desert, someone who loves you, even perhaps, against all evidence, a celestial being whose only interest is to make sure your football team, army, business, or marriage thrives, prospers, and triumphs over all opposition.
SPACEReligions are places to stand and look and act, vantage points from which to view the world. So, none of this is happening. Such things could not occur. Never a word of it is literally true. Even so, the next thing that happened happened like this.
Neil Gaiman – American Gods
The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.
Terry Pratchett
Human beings can always be relied upon to assert with vigor their God-given right to be stupid.
Dean Koontz - Seize the Night
Bad wiring maybe, but there comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable, don't help them by doing the job yourself.
Laurell K. Hamilton - A Kiss of Shadows
You can handle anything, including the end of the world as we know it, if at your side are friends with the proper attitude.
Dean Koontz - Seize the Night
Live in your weirdness.
Alice Seboldt
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread. Remade all the time. Made new.
Ursula K. LeGuin - The Lathe of Heaven
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Katherine Mansfield
When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
Katherine Mansfield
Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
'YOU!!... off my planet!!!'
