Quotes MN "Help others get ahead. You will always stand taller with someone else on your shoulders." -- Bob Moawad "Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it." -- Lucy Maud Montgomery "No matter what these faux-Christian groups do, no matter how hard they oppress and protest and clamp down, this is a road that leads, despite all dour headlines and sour prognostications otherwise, toward spiritual illumination, toward awareness, toward sexual openness and same-sex marriage and revelatory sodomy and free vibrators for teenage girls and lesbians kissing open mouthed in the streets. In Kentucky. In the daytime. On Sunday." -- Mark Morford "It [having sexual experiences with a female friend in my 20s] was lovely, I loved it. And while there's part of me that deeply wishes I was hardcore homosexual, unfortunately I feel I am deep down heterosexual. I really think [gay experimentation is] a rite of passage, and I highly recommend it to anybody who's pre-lifelong-commitment. Wouldn't this planet be a different place if all fraternities and macho communities were required to experiment with their sexuality? I think it would be really great; it should be like required reading." -- Alanis Morissette "Read, every day, something no one else is reading.� Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.� Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do.� It is not good for the mind to be always part of unanimity." -- Christopher Morley "Don't torture yourself. That's my job." -- Morticia, The Addams Family "I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat.� There is no pleasure worth foregoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward." -- John Mortimer "Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." -- Mother Teresa "I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish He didn't trust me so much." -- Mother Teresa "Duty is a very personal thing. It is what comes from knowing the need to take action and not just a need to urge others to do something." -- Mother Teresa "The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness." -- John Muir "Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar." -- Edward R. Murrow "If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable." -- Edward R. Murrow "We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home." -- Edward R. Murrow "No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices." �- Edward R. Murrow "This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire, but it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires and lights in a box." �- Edward R. Murrow about television "If we confuse dissent with disloyalty � if we deny the right of the individual to be wrong, unpopular, eccentric or unorthodox � if we deny the essence of racial equality then hundreds of millions in Asia and Africa who are shopping about for a new allegiance will conclude that we are concerned to defend a myth and our present privileged status. Every act that denies or limits the freedom of the individual in this country costs us the . . . confidence of men and women who aspire to that freedom and independence of which we speak and for which our ancestors fought." �- Edward R. Murrow "We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we dig deep in our history and doctrine and remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were for the moment unpopular. We can deny our heritage and our history, but we cannot escape responsibility for the result. There is no way for a citizen of the Republic to abdicate his responsibility." -- Edward R. Murrow "Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit." -- Edward R. Murrow "The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved." -- Edward R. Murrow "The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue." -- Edward R. Murrow "We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it." -- Edward R. Murrow "The flag was never designed to be a bandanna. To be a gag in the mouths of the American people. It was never designed to be a fig leaf, to cover, the high crimes and misdemeanors of the Bush Administration." -- Ralph Nader "Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy." -- Howard W. Newton "No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess." -- Sir Isaac Newton "In Germany, the Nazis first came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, but I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me." -- Martin Niemoeller "Without music, life would be a mistake." -- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche "And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." ~~ Anais Nin "You know humanity is in a sad state when intelligence is faced with rejection, ridicule and denial." -- Lisa D. Norman "You can't have grey without black and white." -- Joe Nutini "I went to a petrified forest and all the animals were afraid of me." -- Buzz Nutley Index