| "Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself." ~Potter Stewart "Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones." ~Phillips Brooks "Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit and lost without deserving." ~William Shakespeare "Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth." ~Alan Watts �Am I not turtley enough for the turtle club. Turtle, turtle, turtle!� ~Pistachio Disguisey, Master of Disguise "You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend." ~Rich Jeni (war over religion) �Do me a favor and stop saying that I'm pretty and that I'm not fat, ok? Cause it makes me uncomfortable. I know what I am and I know what I'm not. I'm the girl who, you know, gets really good grades and who's not afraid to be funny. And I'm the girl who has a lot of friends who are boys and no boyfriends. I'm not beautiful, ok, and I never will be. And I'm fine with that. But when you go around saying I'm something that I'm not, it's just, it's just not nice.� ~Rosemary, Shallow Hal "The Web brings people together because no matter what kind of a twisted sexual mutant you happen to be, you've got millions of pals out there. Type in 'Find people that have sex with goats that are on fire' and the computer will say, 'Specify type of goat'." ~Rich Jeni "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends" ~Martin Luther King Jr. "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." ~Oscar Wilde "By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God." ~Gloria Steinem "When you get to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly." ~Edward Teller "I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within." ~Louise Nevelson �No regrets. Growth. Give yourself credit. Everybody is different. Their view of you may not be correct. Does it really matter? Who matters? You. Who do you love? What do you know that no one else knows? Take a chance. Talk, listen, cry. You know how to laugh. Make a fool out of yourself. Honesty. Enjoy the highs, appreciate the lows . . . they are humbling. Learn, learn about you. Be aware. Be patient. Be positive. Be hopeful. Don�t ever let anyone destroy who you are and what you believe. Be open to change and evolution. Accept. Reach out. Ask questions. Hear the answers. Are they right? Live for the moment but anticipate the future. A good one. You deserve it. Work very hard. Don��t stop. Admit weaknesses . . . your strengths will speak for themselves. Use your gifts. Yes, you have gifts. Forgive. Let go. Swallow your pride. But spit it up when you�re done to make sure it�s still intact. Be gentle. Strong. Kiss. Kissing is wonderful. Keep a promise. Conquer a fear. Don�t be perfect, be excellent. Falter. Balance. Be grateful. Be real. Never give up. Don�t be afraid. I believe in you.� ~Alanis Morissette "It's better to be hated for who you are than loved for who you are not." "A child does not have to be taught how to be happy or the ways of love. It is fear, hatred, and 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 "We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life." ~Carl Jung "Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of; the hell with sugar and spice." "To keep the feelings trapped inside is a torturous experience, one that empties your soul." ~Charlotte Levy "If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars." "Never apologize for showing feelings. When you do so, you apologize for truth." ~Benjamin Disraeli "If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand." "To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson "What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes "There are no facts, only interpretations." ~Friedrich Nietzsche "Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." ~Aldous Huxley "In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled." ~Paul Eldridge �Confidence comes not from always being right, but from not fearing to be wrong." ~Peter T. McIntyre "I always know the right thing to say, after the right time to say it has passed." "Conflict builds character. Crisis defines it." ~Steven V. Thulon "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on." ~Robert Frost "The difference between a smart person and a wise person is that a smart person knows what to say and a wise person knows whether or not to say it." �We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.� ~Ralph Waldo Emerson �My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.� ~Aristotle �My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, you've had a great life.� ~Lee Iacocca �However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.� ~Fran�ois Duc de La Rochefoucauld �Life is a random lottery of meaningless tragedies and a series of near escapes.� ~Reality Bites �Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.� ~Victor Borge �A stiff apology is a second insult . . . the injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.� ~G. K. Chesterton �We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.� ~Ralph Waldo Emerson �If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.� ~Noam Chomsky �Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.� ~Salman Rushdie �I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.� ~Voltaire "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." ~Albert Einstein �Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.� ~Mahatma Ghandi "A movie! That's your problem! You don't want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie." ~Becky, Sleepless in Seattle �We are born into the World, Like a blank canvas. And every person that crosses our path, Takes up the brush, And makes their mark. Upon our surface. So it is that we develop. But we must realize there comes a day, That we must take up the brush And finish the work, For only we can determine If we are to be Just another painting, Or a Masterpiece.� ~Javan �To be yourself, in a world that tries, night and day, to make you just like everybody else - is to fight the greatest battle there ever is to fight, and never stop fighting.� ~e.e. cummings �If his premature demise has in some way enlightened the rest of you as to the grim finish below the glossy veneer of criminal life, and inspired you to change your ways, then his death carries with it an inherent nobility. And a supreme glory. We should all be so fortunate. You can say �Poor Toby.� I say: �Poor us.�� ~Sphinx, Gone in Sixty Seconds �Greetings, my friends. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember, my friends, future events such as these will affect you in the future...� ~Plan 9 from Outer Space "I don't want to come to the end of my life and say, 'It could have been different, but I chickened out when I had the chance.'" ~Something to Talk About "No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world." ~The Dead Poet's Society "To make an impact, you have to go to extremes." ~Drive Me Crazy "Who knows who I am." ~Drive Me Crazy "You are everything I never knew I always wanted." ~Fools Rush In �Music is a moral law - it gives wings to the mind, a soul to the universe, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, a life to everything.� "Imagine you're a deer, prancing along and you spot a little brook. You put your deer lips down to the cool clear water when BAM! A fuckin' 9 mm takes off part of your hear, your guts are laying around in little bloody pieces. Now I ak's ya, would you give a shit what color pants the son-of-a-bitch who shot you was wearin'?" ~My Cousin Vinny "As we grow older, it becomes difficult to just believe. It's not that we don't want to, but too much has happened that we just can't." ~Now and Then "Winning without dignity or grace is not winning." ~Stepmom "People are always telling you that change is a good thing, but what they're really saying is that something that you didn't want to happen just happened." ~You've Got Mail "I wanted a perfect ending... now I've learned the hard way, that some poems don�t rhyme, and some stories don��t have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what�s going to happen next." ~Gilda Radner "If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking. And you beat love down. ~Mercutio, Romeo and Juliet "A friend understands even when your thoughts aren't fitting into words." ~Ann D. Parrish "When I met you I liked you. When I liked you, I loved you. When I loved you, I lost you." "I've brought to you my insecurities and laid them carefully around you, hoping that you would deal with them gently. You stood beside me when so many have walked away. You sheltered me with affection and I felt more secure. You did not treat me with insignificance, but you showed me a brighter side." ~Sherrie L. Householder "You know that place between asleep? The place where you remember your dreams? That's where I'll be waiting. That's where I'll always love you." ~Tinkerbell, Hook "Perhaps you�d be a bit surprised how often, if you knew, a joke, a memory will make me think of you." "The loss of a friend is like that of a limb. Time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired." ~Robert Southey "Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence, a time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny, and a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it�s all over." ~Gloria Naylor "Friends, people who stand by you when you�re hurt and who help you feel not so lonely... they�re always worth being scared for, and hoping for... worth dying for too. If that�s what has to be. No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build houses in your heart." ~Stephen King "Little by little we discover one friend in the midst of the crowd of friends, who is particularly happy to be with us. And to whom we have an infinite number of things to say. She is not at the top of her class, she is not particularly well thought of by others, she does not wear showy clothes, and when we are walking home with her, we realize her shoes are identical to ours. Strong and simple, not showy and flimsy like those of other friends." ~Natalie Ginsberg "There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness." ~Josh Billing "Choose your battles carefully because they reflect your values. Is it just vanity or anger prompting your ambitions, or is it some genuine, heartfelt belief that you cannot ignore?" "You have to be brave to be yourself." �Don't let anyone ever make you feel like you don't deserve what you want.� ~Patrick, 10 Things I Hate About You �Yippee kay yay, motherfucker!� ~John McClane, Die Hard �That was the summer of 1963 when everybody called me Baby, and it didn't occur to me to mind. That was before President Kennedy was shot, before the Beatles came, when I couldn't wait to join the Peace Corps, and I thought that I'd never find a guy as great as my dad.� ~Baby, Dirty Dancing �There are a lot of things about me that aren't what you thought. But if you love me, you have to love all the things about me.� ~Baby, Dirty Dancing �Just breathe�� ~Danielle, Everafter Jareth: �You remind me of the babe.� Chorus: �What babe?� Jareth: �The babe with the power.� Chorus: �What power?� Jareth: �The power of Voo Doo.� Chorus: �Who do?� Jareth: �You do.� Chorus: �Do what?� Jareth: �Remind me of the babe!� ~Labyrinth �You see life is like that... we change, that's all. You see, the guy I am now, is not the guy I was then. If the guy I was then met the guy I am now, he'd beat the shit out of me. Those are the facts.� ~Stevo, SLC Punk �I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.� ~David Bowie "In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves." ~Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton "Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder." "That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful." ~Ninon De L'Enclos "Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once he grows up." ~Pablo Picasso "I am enormously proud to be an American. I would say that the things our corporate-controlled government has done at best are shameful, and at worst, genocidal. But there's an incredible and a permanent culture of resistance in this country that I'm very proud to be a part of. It's not the tradition of slave-owning founding fathers. It's the tradition of the Frederick Douglass��, the Underground Railroads, the Chief Joseph, the Joe Hills, and the Huey P. Newtons. There's so much that's hidden from you. The incredible courage and bravery of the union organizers in the late eighteen hundreds and early nineteen hundreds: that's amazing. People often get tricked into going overseas and fighting Uncle Sam's Wall Street wars, but these are people who knew what they were fighting for here at home. I think that that's so much more courageous and brave." ~Tom Morello, Rage Against the Machine "I may despise what you say but I will defend to the death you are right to say it." ~Voltaire "For mine is a generation that circles the globe in search of something we haven't tried before. So never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite, and never outstay your welcome. Just keep your mind open and suck in the experience, and if it hurts, you know what? It was probably worth it." ~The Beach "The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." ~Ewan McGregor, Moulin Rouge "I think people who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch." ~Melvin Udall, "As Good As It Gets" "I love you. And not, not in a friendly way, although I think we're great friends. And not in a misplaced affection, puppy-dog way, although I'm sure that's what you'll call it. I love you. Very, very simple, very truly. You are the epitome of everything I have ever looked for in another human being. And I know that you think of me as just a friend, and crossing that line is the furthest thing from an option you would ever consider. But I had to say it. I just, I can't take this anymore. I can't stand next to you without wanting to hold you. I can't, I can't look into your eyes without feeling that, that longing you only read about in trashy romance novels. I can't talk to you without wanting to express my love for everything you are. And I know this will probably queer our friendship - no pun intended - but I had to say it, because I've never felt this way before, and I don't care. I like who I am because of it. And if bringing this to light means we can't hang out anymore, then that hurts me. But God, I just, I couldn't allow another day to go by without just getting it out there, regardless of the outcome, which by the look on your face is to be the inevitable shoot-down. And, you know, I'll accept that. But I know...I know that some part of you is hesitating for a moment, and if there is a moment of hesitation, then that means you feel something too. All I ask, please, is that you just, you just not dismiss that - and try to dwell in it for just ten seconds. Alissa, there isn't another soul on this fucking planet who has ever made me half the person I am when I'm with you, and I would risk this friendship for the chance to take it to the next plateau. Because it is there between you and me. You can't deny that. Even if, you know, even if we never talk again after tonight, please know that I'm forever changed because of who you are and what you've meant to me." ~Holden, Chasing Amy "Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life overcoming." ~Hope Floats "We're women. We don't say what we want, but we reserve the right to be pissed off if we don't get it." ~Sliding Doors "I have wasted thousands of kisses on you... kisses that I thought were special because of your lips and your smile and all your color and life. I used to think that was the real you, when you smiled. But now I know you didn't mean any of it. You just save it all for your songs. Shame on me for kissing you with my eyes closed do tight." ~Faye, That Thing You Do "Me? I'm scared of everything! I'm scared of what I saw, I'm scared of what I did, of who I am, and most of all I'm scared of walking out of this room and never feeling the rest of my whole life the way I feel when I'm with you!" ~Baby, Dirty Dancing "Never hate your enemies, it affects your judgment." ~The Godfather "That's all you got lady: two wrong feet and fucking ugly shoes." ~Erin Brockovich "Fate is just what you call it when you don't know the name of the person screwing you over." ~Malcolm in the Middle "A friend is one who walks in when others walk out." ~Walter Winchell "I can trust my friends. These people force me to examine, encourage me to grow." ~Cher "A friend is someone who, upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have to watch their friend suffer." "Best friends are like diamonds, precious and rare. False friends are like leaves, found everywhere." "I always knew I would look back at the times we cried and laugh, but I never knew I would look back at the times we laughed and cry." "Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven�t learned anything." ~Muhammad Ali "Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge." ~Comte de Bussy-Rabutin "An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind." ~Buddha "The most beautiful discovery true friends can make is that they can grown separately without growing apart." ~Elisabeth Foley "Never explain, your real friends don't need it, and your enemies won't believe you anyways." "Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." ~Ana�s Nin "Real friends are those who upon watching you make a fool of yourself do not feel that the job was done permanently." "A friend is a person with whom you dare to be yourself." ~Frank Crane "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." �Respect is based on friendship. And friendship is based on love. And love is so... accidental.� ~Thoreau "He who has a thousand friends Has not a friend to spare, While he who has one enemy Shall meet him everywhere." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson "A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost." ~Charles Caleb Colton "The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences." ~Eugene Kennedy "Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends." ~Virginia Woolf "Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate." ~Thomas Jones "Love is blind; Friendship closes its eyes." "It happens sometimes. Friends come in and out of our lives like busboys in a restaurant." ~Gordie, Stand By Me "An insincere friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind." ~Buddha "A best friend is a sister destiny forgot to give you." "When it hurts to look back, and you're scared to look ahead, you can look beside you, and your best friend will be there." "When you look around and your world is crumbling, and when you think no one loves you, your best friend is the one to run to." ~Meaghan West "The best part of life is when your family becomes your friends, and your friends become your family." ~Danica Whitfield "True friends are always together in spirit." ~Lucy Maud Montgomery "Life is full of people who will make you laugh, cry, smile until your face hurts, and so happy that you think you'll burst. But the ones who leave their footprints on your soul are the ones that keep your life going." ~Natalie Bernot "When you think you're alone, when you think there's no one in this world who'll stand up for you, look around and make sure you're right. Friends can appear in the most unlikely people, and are often right in front of you." ~Rich Thornton "Friends have ways of speaking without words." ~Alice Dalgliesh "You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can�t forget. Those are your friends." ~Dana Scully, The X-Files "Somehow, the conversation mentioned your name. And someone asked if I knew you. Looking away I thought of all the times we had together; sharing laughter, tears, jokes and tons more. And then, without explanation you were gone. I looked to where they were waiting for an answer, and then said softly, once... I thought I did." ~Javan "If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my county." ~E.M. Forster "A true friend walks in when the world walks out." "Friends walk in and out of your life, but a precious few will leave footprints in your heart." ~Eleanor Roosevelt "Friendship is like glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks." "A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else." ~Len Wein "Promise you won't forget about me, ever. Not even when I am a hundred." ~Winnie the Pooh "Friends bring the most joy and the most pain. But they always find a way to mend your heart back together after they break it." ~Noelle Daly "For the record: Yes, I am a card- carrying member of the ACLU But the more important question is why aren't you, Bob? This is an organization whose sole purpose is to defend the Bill of Rights, so it naturally begs the questions. Why would a senator, his party's most powerful spokesman and a candidate for president, choose to reject upholding the Constitution? If you can answer that question, then, folks, you're smarter than I am, because I didn't understand it until a couple of minutes ago. Everybody knows American isn't easy. America is advanced citizenship. You gotta want it bad, 'cause it's gonna put up a fight. It's gonna say, "You want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who's standing center stage and advocating, at the top of his lungs, that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours. You want to claim this land as the land of the free, then the symbol of your country can't just be a flag; the symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest." Show me that, defend that, celebrate that in your classrooms. Then you can stand up and sing about the land of the free. I've known Bob Rumson for years. I've been operating under the assumption that the reason Bob devotes so much time and energy to shouting at the rain was that he simply didn't get it. Well, I was wrong. Bob's problem isn't that he doesn't get it. Bob's problem is that he can't sell it. Nobody has ever won an election by talking about what I was just talking about. This is a country made up of people with hard jobs that they're terrified of losing. The roots of freedom are of little or no interest to them at the moment. We are a nation afraid to go out at night. We're a society that has assigned low priority to education and has looked the other way while our public schools have been decimated. We have serious problems to solve, and we need serious men to solve them. And whatever your particular problem is, friend, I promise you, Bob Rumson is not the least bit interested in solving it. He is interested in two things and two things only: Making you afraid of it and telling you who's to blame for it. That, ladies and gentlemen, is how you win elections. You gather a group of middle-aged, middle-class, middle- income voters who remember with longing an easier time, and you talk to them about family and American values and personal character. Then you have an old photo of the President's girlfriend. You scream about patriotism and you tell them she's to blame for their lot in life, you go on television and you call her a whore. Sydney Ellen Wade has done nothing to you, Bob. She has done nothing but put herself through law school, prosecute criminals for five years, represent the interests of public school teachers for two years, and lobby for the safety of our natural resources. You want a character debate? Fine, but you better stick with me, 'cause Sydney Ellen Wade is way out of your league. I've loved two women in my life. I lost one to cancer, and I lost the other 'cause I was so busy keeping my job I forgot to do my job. Well that ends right now. Tomorrow morning the White House is sending a bill to Congress for its consideration. It's White House Resolution 455, an energy bill requiring a 20 percent reduction of the emission of fossil fuels over the next ten years. It is by far the most aggressive stride ever taken in the fight to reverse the effects of global warming. The other piece of legislation is the crime bill. As of today it no longer exists. I'm throwing it out. I'm throwing it out and writing a law that makes sense. You cannot address crime prevention without getting rid of assault weapons and handguns. I consider them a threat to national security, and I will go door to door if I have to, but I'm gonna convince Americans that I'm right, and I'm gonna get the guns. We've got serous problems, and we need serious men, and if you want to talk about character, Bob, you'd better come at me with more than a burning flag and a membership card. If you want to talk about character and American values, fine. Just tell me where and when, and I'll show up. This is a time for serious men, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up. My name's Andrew Shepherd, and I am the President." ~President Andrew Shepard, An American President "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." ~Aristotle "Truth is more of a stranger than fiction." ~Mark Twain "Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God." ~Karl Barth "Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods." ~Japanese Proverb "Laughter can be more satisfying than honor; more precious than money; more heart-cleansing than prayer." ~Harriet Rochlin "Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for your face." ~Anita Wise "Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months." ~Oscar Wilde "What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are." ~Alanis Morissette "There is nothing in the whole world so painful as the feeling that one is not liked." ~Sei Shonagon "Humor is just another defense against the universe." ~Mel Brooks "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." ~Martin Luther King, Jr. "I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.� ~Dr. Seuss "Suicide is a form of murder - premeditated murder. It isn't something you do the first time you think of doing it. It takes getting used to. And you need the means, the opportunity, the motive. A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind." ~Susanna Kayson, Girl, Interrupted "Interrupted at her music: as my life had been, interrupted in the music of being seventeen, as her life had been, snatched and fixed on canvas: one moment made to stand still and to stand for all the other moments, whatever they would be or might have been. What life can recover from that?" ~Susanna Kayson, Girl, Interrupted "When in doubt, tell the truth." ~Mark Twain "You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough." ~Frank Crane "Courage is grace under pressure." ~Ernest Hemingway "Having something to say is overrated." ~Adair Lara "What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death." ~Dave Barry "Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth." ~Don Marquis "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself." ~Oscar Wilde "I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally." ~W. C. Fields "Make-up doesn't feel pretty to me. Women look so much better as they are." ~Kerri Russle "Dancing is my religion. It's so spiritual. Whether I'm in a club dancing to hip hop or in a class, it is my way of giving and releasing and working on my spirit." ~Tangi Miller "What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson "Sometimes I wonder if I've changed so much, my wife is even gonna recognize me whenever it is I get back to her... and how I'll ever be able to... tell about days like today. Ahh, Ryan... I don't know anything about Ryan, I don't care. The man means nothing to me, he's just a name. But if, you know, if going to Rem�al, and finding him so he can go home, if that earns me the right to get back to my wife, well then... then that's my mission." ~Captain John Miller, Saving Private Ryan "It's really human of you to listen to all my bullshit." ~Samantha, Sixteen Candles "To change your life: start immediately; do it flamboyantly; no exceptions." ~William James "Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame." ~Benjamin Franklin "Those who judge people on the outside prove how shallow they are within." ~Jordan Taub "When we forgive, we free ourselves from the bitter ties that bind us to the one who hurt us." ~Claire Frazier-Yzaguirre "Don't dream it. Be it." ~The Rocky Horror Picture Show "It's funny how you can be mad at someone one moment and want to hug them the next." ~Anne Lindbergh "It's better to be hated for who you are than loved for who you are not." "Sometimes it's better to be alone. No one can hurt you that way." ~Diamond McZeal "A child does not have to be taught how to be happy or the ways of love. It is fear, hatred, and 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 "We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life." ~Carl Jung "Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of; the hell with sugar and spice." "To keep the feelings trapped inside is a torturous experience, one that empties your soul." ~Charlotte Levy "If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars." "Never apologize for showing feelings. When you do so, you apologize for truth." ~Benjamin Disraeli "If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand." "They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel." ~Carl W. Buechner "To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson "What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes "There are no facts, only interpretations." ~Friedrich Nietzsche "Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." ~Aldous Huxley "In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled." ~Paul Eldridge �Confidence comes not from always being right, but from not fearing to be wrong." ~Peter T. McIntyre "I always know the right thing to say, after the right time to say it has passed." "People may not remember exactly what you did or what you said, but they will always remember how you made them feel." "It is better to regret something you did than something you did not do." ~Adam Thorne "I'm insane and you are my insanity." ~Bruce Willis, 12 Monkeys "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." ~Margaret Wolfe Hungerford "Conflict builds character. Crisis defines it." ~Steven V. Thulon "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on." ~Robert Frost "The difference between a smart person and a wise person is that a smart person knows what to say and a wise person knows whether or not to say it." "Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names." ~John F. Kennedy "Life is a canvas for your imagination." "If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space." ~Lou Whitaker "I have not lost my mind -- it's backed up on disk somewhere." "If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking." ~George S. Patton "He who seeks revenge should remember to dig two graves." ~Chinese Proverb "America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole." ~Bobcat Goldthwaite "I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong." ~Bertrand Russell "Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly, and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story. Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love -- for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world." ~Max Ehrmann "I wouldn�t want to belong to any club who would have me." ~Groucho Marx "There exists a passion for comprehension, just as there is a passion for music. That passion is rather common in children, but gets lost in most of us later on." ~Albert Einstein "If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity." ~Bill Vaughan "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened." ~Winston Churchill "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." ~Dennis Wholey "After all is said and done, a lot more will be said than done." "Speak the truth, but leave immediately after." ~Slovenian Proverb "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." ~Eddie Rickenbacher "My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I'm right." ~Ashleigh Brilliant "Some people come into our lives then quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for awhile, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same." ~Flavia Weeden "To you I am an atheist to God I am the Loyal Opposition." ~Woody Allen "Some people say it's the holding on that makes us stronger ---sometimes it's the letting go." Bastion: Why is it so dark? Empress: In the beginning, it is always dark. ~The Never Ending Story "One tear shed can mean more than one hundred words spoken." "Tell them that we all have meanness in us, but we have goodness in us to, and the good is the only thing worth living for." ~Novalee Nation, Where The Heart Is "Sometimes I feel like there's a hole inside of me, an emptiness that at times seems to burn. I have this dream of being whole and not going to sleep every night wanting. I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for. I just want someone to love me. I want to be seen." ~Practical Magic "We only live long enough to punish ourselves." ~Leah, The Poisionwood Bible "In the emergency room Cecilia watched the attempt to save her life with an eerie detachment. Her yellow eyes didn�t blink, nor did she flinch when they stuck a needle in her arm. Dr. Armonson stitched up her wrist wounds. Within five minutes of the transfusion he declared her out of danger. Chucking her under her chin, he said, "What are you doing here, honey? You�re not even old enough to know how bad life gets."And it was then Cecilia gave orally what was to be her only form of suicide note, and a useless one at that, because she was going to live: "Obviously, Doctor," she said, "you�ve never been a thirteen-year-old girl." ~The Virgin Suicides, a novel "Try to relax and enjoy the crisis." ~Ashleigh Brilliant "It's not walking away from you that makes me sad, its knowing that you wont come after me." "Beginnings are scary, endings are usually sad but it's the middle that counts the most. You need to remember that when you find yourself at the beginning, just give hope a chance to float up... and it will too." ~Birdy, Hope Floats "We don't read and write poetry because its cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is full of passion. Medicine, law, business, engineering: these are noble pursuits necessary to sustain life but poetry, beauty, romance, love. These are what we stay alive for." ~Mr. Keating, The Dead Poet's Society "There either is or is not a way things are. The color of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The feeling of saltwater on your sunburned legs. Sometimes the water is yellow. Sometimes it's red, but what color it may be in memory depends on the day. I'm not going to tell the story the way it happened. I'm going to tell it the way I remember it." ~Finn Bell, Great Expectations "Lisa, I don't need this. I swear to God, I do not need this right now, kay? I got a judge that's just achin' to throw me in jail, an idiot who wants to fight me for two hundred dollars, slaughtered pigs, giant loud whistles... I ain't slept in five days, I got no money, a dress code problem, and, a little murder case, which, in the balance, holds the lives of two innocent kids... not to mention, YOUR biological clock, my career, your life, our marriage, and let me see, what else can we pile on!?! Is there anymore shit we could pile on to the top of the outcome of this case?!?!..... Is it possible?" ~Vinny, My Cousin Vinny "You're not perfect sport. And let me save you the suspense this girl you met, she isn't perfect either. But the question is whether or not you're perfect for each other." ~Sean, Good Will Hunting "What if this is as good as it gets?" ~Melvin Udall, As Good As It Gets "I'm fifteen years old and I live everyday thinking nobody loves me." ~Joey, Dawson's Creek "Love can sometimes be magic. But Magic can sometimes... just be an illusion." ~Javan "If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand." "If you judge people, you have no time to love them." ~Mother Teresa of Calcutta "The day that we first met, the angels whispered, perfect." "It's not walking away from you that makes me sad, its knowing that you wont come after me." "Some people say it's the holding on that makes us stronger ---sometimes it's the letting go." "Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real." ~Iris Murdoch "Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened." |
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