| Neato Quotes/Poems |
| Many say they pierce their bodies to fully realize their individuality. The body's landscape--for so long adorned with T-shirts-as-billboards and clothing-labels-as-advertisements--becomes their own. This was a culture that was sold on the idea of progress since the turn of the century--clean lines, industrial aesthetic, mass-produced clothes. -D. James Romero |
| No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the man; if a clod washed away by the sea. Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee. -John Donne |
| All things wicked come from innocence. -Ernest Hemmingway |
| Defects in society can be traced to defects in individuals. Divilized society keeps human beings from reverting to a more primitive, savage state. All individuals have a natural capacity for brutality. A society can often be judged by the way it treats it's most vulnerable citizens. -William Golding |
| My Favorite Things is my personal beliefs about religion and how it oppresses the things I enjoy most. Unfortunately, the simplest things, such as thinking for myself, creating my own reality, and being wahever the hell I want to be each day of my life, are a sin. To be a good Christian basically means to give up the reigns of your life and let some unseen force do it for you. -Brandon Boyd |
| The sole life a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment. -Marcus Aurelius |
| Friendship is unneccessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth-only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. -C.S. Lewis |
| To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make. -Truman Capote |
| There is nothing permanent except change. -Heraditus |
| Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. -Lord Acton |
| There is nothing more important than thought. -Gandhi |
| Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. -Mark Twain |
| I write message on money. It's my own form of social protest. A letter printed on paper that no one will destroy passed indiscriminately across race, class and gender lines and written in the blood that keeps the beast alive. A quite little hijacking on the way to the check-out counter. And a federal crime. I hope that someone will find my message one day when they really need it. Like I do. -Zack de la Rocha |
| That government is best which governs not at all. -Henry David Thoreau |
| I think, therefore I am. -Rene Descartes |
| Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose family. Chose a fucking big television. Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed-interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a 3-piece sut on hir purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing spirit-crushing game shows stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pitching your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarassment to the selfish fucked-up brats you have spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life. -Trainspotting |
| I have done nothing but try to persuade you all, yound and old, not to be concerned with body or property first, but to care chiefly about the improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue does not come from money, but that money comes from virtue, as does every other good of man, public and private. This is my teaching, and if this corrupts the youth, then I am a mischievious person. O men of Athens, either acquit me or convict me; but whichever you do, understand that I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times. -Socrates |
| Let them be as flowers, always watered, fed, guarded, admired, but harnessed to a pot of dirt. I'd rather be a tall, ugly weed, clinging on cliffs, like and eagle wind-wavering above high, jagged rocks. To have broken through the surface of stone, to live, to feel exposed to the madness of the vast eternal sky. To be swayed by the breezes of an ancient sea, carrying my soul, my seed, beyond the mountains of time or into the abyss of the bizarre. I'd rather be unseen, and if then shunned by everyone, than to be a pleasant-smelling flower, growing in clusters in the fertile valley, where they're praised, handled, and plucked by greedy, human hands. I'd rather smell of musty, green stench than of sweet, fragrant lilac. If I could stand alone, strong and free, I'd rather be a tall, ugly weed -Julio Noboa Polanco |
| Time is an abstraction devised by man to regulate the illusion that he calls reality. -Anonymous |
| Sex is hereditary. If your parents didn't have it, then you won't either. -Anonymous |
| I hope I never get so old I get religious. -Ingmar Bergman |
| He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hope that there wasn't an afterlife. -Douglas Adams |
| Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. Pray: To ask the laws of the univers to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. -Ambrose Bierce |