Quotes Am-Az
"The NBA locker room was the most flamboyant place I'd ever been. Guys
flaunted their perfect bodies. They bragged about sexual exploits. They
primped in front of the mirror, applying cologne and hair gel by the
bucketful. They tried on each other's $10,000 suits, admired each other's
rings and necklaces. It was an intense camaraderie that felt completely
natural to them. Surveying the room, I couldn't help chuckling to myself: And
I'm the gay one." -- John Amaechi
"It's great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to
surprise people." -- Pamela Anderson
"I think it is all right for one ambassador to come and push, but an
ambassador always has to remember that there are 190 others who will have to
be convinced - or a vast majority of them - for action to take place."
-- Kofi Annan, secretary general of the United Nations, on the appointment of
John Bolton by President Bush.
"The wise learn many things from their foes." -- Aristophanes
"Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what the hell
happened." -- Cora Harvey Armstrong
"The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd.
The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever
been." -- Alan Ashley-Pitt
"When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent."
-- Isaac Asimov
"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
-- Berthold Auerbach
"Miracles do happen in contradication to nature, but only in contradiction to
that which is known to us of nature." -- Saint Augustine
"Jesus never mentions buildings; he never mentions denominations. Instead,
he defined the Church as the body of believers; believers who came from
places such as Galatia, Ephesus, Corinth, Thessalonica, and Colossae. But
he never mentioned Methodist; he never mentioned Baptist; he never
mentioned Catholic, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Pentecostals; he never
mentioned any denomination; Jesus only saw them as being a fellowship."
-- Charles Austin, Sr.
"Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original
dimensions." -- Sri da Avabhas
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