| "Did you have a happy childhood?" is a false question. As a child I did not know what happiness was, and whether I was happy or not. I was too busy being. ~ Alistair Reed
"Paradise on my right, Hell on my left and the Angel of Death behind." He rolled the quotation in his mind. ~ Frank Herbert "Dune" "There are compromises and then there are compromises. It isn't what you do with this that matters." He pinched the flesh of his arm. "It's what you do with this." He pressed his fist against his heart. "I work with my muscles to feed my stomach and with my brain to feed my soul. Until I can nourish both with the same food, I keep them separated so one doesn't poison the other." ~ Will Ludwigsen �all big changes in human history have been arrived at slowly and through many compromises. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt �if the production of any commodity necessitates the sacrifice of human life, society should do without that commodity, but it can not do without that life. ~ Emma Goldman "Anarchism and Other Essays" �the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with. ~ George Eliot "Middlemarch" A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing. ~ Elizabeth I "The Sayings of Queen Elizabeth" A darkness carried in the heart can not be cured by moving the body from one place to another. ~ J. Michael Strazcynski "Babylon 5 - Lennier" A difference of taste in jokes is a great stain on the affections. ~ George Eliot "Daniel Deronda" A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself. ~ Josh Billings A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perserverance, and to turn around three times before lying down. ~ Robert Benchley A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others. ~ Jane Austen "Sense and Sensibility" A pigeon is the same thing as a dove. Did you know that? ~ Ann Brasheres A plague upon fundamentalists and literalists! ~ Yann Martel "Life of Pi" Abjure the why and seek the how. ~ Sir Richard Francis Burton Anyone can get angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way, that is not easy. ~ Aristotle As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own. ~ Margaret Mead "Coming of Age in Samoa" At the end of your life you will never regret not having passed one more test, winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a child, a friend or parent. ~ Barbara Bush "Washington Post" Beautiful faces are those that wear Whole-souled honesty printed there. ~ Elen Palmer Allerton "Beautiful" Black is a blind remembering. You listen for pack sounds, for the cries of those who hunted your ancestors in a past so ancient only your most primitive cells remember. The ears see. The nostrils see. ~ Frank Herbert "Dune" Bridget wondered whether it came down to the claustrophobic choice between dying beautiful and living ugly. ~ Ann Brasheres But the fruit that can fall without shaking, Indeed is too mellow for me. ~ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu "Answered, for Lord William Hamilton" Carmen hated any mess she herself hadn't made. ~ Ann Brasheres Carmen loved shopping, but she hated throwing anything away. She loved beginnings, but she hated endings. She loved order, but she hated cleaning. ~ Ann Brasheres Carmen wondered at the power of silence to create a stronger bond, even, than thousands and thousands of words. ~ Ann Brasheres Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay "Kingdom Where Nobody Dies" Conversations in the flesh are the first drafts toward the later conversations of the mind, where words and ideas are sorted and elaborated, recast. ~ Keith Miller "The Book of Flying" Courage is the swallowing of one's life, whole. ~ Keith Miller "The Book of Flying" Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. ~ Lilliam Hellman "The Little Foxes" Dance is the hidden language of the soul. ~ Martha Graham "Blood Memory" Deep in the human conscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic. ~ Frank Herbert "Dune - Princess Irulan" Destiny is a word for decisions yet unmade. ~ J. Robert King "Lancelot du Lethe" Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good at being happy. ~ Ann Brasheres Diplomacy is the art of learning by listening to what is not said. ~ Jeff Kouba "King Under the Bed" Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested. ~ Elizabeth I "The Sayings of Queen Elizabeth" Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. ~ Roger Caras Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. Dying lends one special significance. They stand in line to see me, who once would not have glanced my way. ~ Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman "Test of the Twins" Each thing called improvement seems blackened with crimes, If it tears up one record of blissful old times. ~ Susanna Blamire "When Home We Return" Economy was always "elegant," and money-spending always "vulgar" and ostentatious--a sort of sour-grapeism, which made us very peaceful and satisfied. ~ Elizabeth Gaskell "Cranford" Endeavor to be innocent as a dove, but wise as a serpent. ~ Anne Fanshawe "Memoirs of Ann, Lady Fanshawe" Fate is malleable, but then so is iron. The trick is in applying the right kind of pressure, and in both cases, it's easier in theory than it is in practice. ~ Brian N. Pacula "Sol Invictus" Fear and admiration are cousins. ~ Shon Rathbone "TheMagnificent" Fear not those who argue but those who dodge. ~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach "Aphorism" Forgiveness was not forthcoming simply because someone asked for it. The transgression was weighed into the equation, and there were transgressions that outweighed absolution. ~ Terry Goodkind "Temple of the Winds" Four blind men went to the zoo and visited the elephant. One blind man touched its side and said," The elephant is like a wall." The next blind man touched its trunk and said," The elephant is like a snake." The next blind man touched its leg and said, "The elephant is like a column." The last blind man touched its tail and said, "The elephant is like a broom." Then the four blind men started to fight, each one believing that his opinion was the right one. Each only understood the part he had touched; none of them understood the whole. ~ Zen Master Seung Sahn "Dropping Ashes on the Buddha: The Teaching of Zen Master Seung Sahn" Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently. ~ Rose Luxumbourg "Die Russiche Revolution" Frustration, boredom and denial can turn into deadly tools when fostered inside a naturally fiery soul. ~ Cesanne Davis "Bloodrust" General notions are generally wrong. ~ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu "letter" Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves. ~ Queen Victoria Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar. ~ Jane Hirshfield He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points. ~ Ayn Rand "Atlas Shrugged" He made the world to be a grassy road Before her wandering feet. ~ W.B. Yeats He who influences the thought of his times, influences all the times that follow. He has made his impress on eternity. ~ Hypatia "Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers" How is it that a man wants to be made sad by the sight of tragic sufferings that he could not bear in his own person? Yet the spectator does want to feel sorrow, and it is actually his feeling of sorrow that he enjoys. Surely this is the most wretched lunacy? ~ St. Augustine I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for. ~ Jane Carlyle "letter to Thomas Carlyle" I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived. ~ Anna Louise Strong "I Change Worlds" I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin "Why are Americans Afraid of Dragons?" I don't think necessity is the mother of invention--invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. ~ Agatha Christie "An Autobiography" I had felt for a long time, that if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit, that I would refuse to do so. ~ Rosa Parks I had to respect her conclusion, and in those days when the Time of Troubles began to end and the magics of the world sorted themselves out once more, I came to learn that sometimes the most difficult battles are the ones we are forced not to fight. ~ R.A. Salvatore "Siege of Darkness" I have but one prayer at heart; and that is, to have my faculties so far preserved that I can be useful, to the last. ~ Lydia Maria Child "Selected Letters" I have no riches but my thoughts, Yet these are wealth enough for me. ~ Sara Teasdale "Riches" I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful. ~ Yann Martel "Life of Pi" I have seen what power does, and I have seen what power costs. The one is never equal to the other. ~ J. Michael Strazcynski "Babylon 5 - G'Kar" I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. ~ Willa Cather I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after. ~ Wallace Stevens I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public--talent in privacy. ~ Marilyn Monroe "Ms. Magazine" I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his. ~ Catherine the Great I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought about as a child. But my intellectual develpment was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up. ~ Albert Einstein I think I wasn't made for houses. ~ Ann Brasheres I think of death as some delightful journey That I shall take when all my tasks are done. ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Journey" I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent of the measurements. That is an electron has spin, location, and so forth even when it is not being measured. I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it. ~ Albert Einstein I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war. ~ Jeannette Rankin "speech" 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. Delicious ambiguity. ~ Gilda Radner If from infancy you treat children as gods they are liable in adulthood to act as devils. ~ P.D. james "The Children of Men" If there are questions then, of course, there are answers, but the final answer makes the questions seem absurd. ~ John Cage If we had no winter, the spring would not be pleasant; If we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. ~ Anne Bradstreet "Meditations Divine and Moral" If you feel like you're under control, you're just not going fast enough. ~ Mario Andretti If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man. ~ Mark Twain If you rest, you rust. ~ Helen Hayes "My Life in Three Acts" If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot. ~ Italian Proverb If you're gonna wait for the universe to start making sense, you have a long wait ahead of you. ~ J. Michael Strazcynski "Babylon 5 - Sheridan" I'll not listen to reason�Reason always means what someone else has got to say. ~ Elizabeth Gaskell "Cranford" I'm just�strange. I'm strang to myself. ~ Ann Brasheres I'm like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness--until one day the ability to feel is forced into them. And I say: "Look! I have no hands!" But the people all around me say: "What are hands?" ~ Frank Herbert "Dune" I'm not fancy. I'm what I appear to be. ~ Janet Wood Reno "People magazine" I'm rational to an extreme, I admit it. And in reason's service, thoroughness often pays dividends. ~ Rodney Templar "Ledger Entries" In my experience, if you can not say what you mean, you can never mean what you say. The details are everything. ~ J. Michael Strazcynski "Babylon 5 - Durano" In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding. ~ Margaret E. Sangster "An Autobiography from My Youth" In youth we learn; in age we understand. ~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach "Aphorism" Inconvenience is two steps down the road from fury, and fury, the demon's breath. ~ A.M. Paquette "The Gap" Indifference is the invincible giant of the world. ~ Ovida "Wisdom, Wit and Pathos" Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream? ~ Felicia Dorothea Hemans "A Dream Within a Dream" Is there world enough for me? ~ Jane Frances It does the sheep no good to preach the goodness of a diet of grass, if the wolves are of a different mind. ~ Terry Goodkind It doesn't do to plan too far ahead. Inviting Trouble to tea when she has a mind for coffee, as it were. ~ Lisa Mantchev "The Hermit's Address Book" It is extraordinary how music sends one back into memories of the past--and it is the same with smells. ~ George Sand "Story of My Life" It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. ~ Jessamyn West It takes a rare kind of wisdom to accept change and redemption in another. Many would refuse, seeing only what was, not what is. ~ J. Michael Strazcynski "Babylon 5 - G'Kar" It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides. ~ Jane Austen "Persuasion" It's not the large things that send a man to the madhouse�no, it's the continuing series of small tragedies�not the death of his love but the shoelace that snaps with no time left. ~ Charles Bukowski It's the memory and aftertaste of the being that holds the most importance. ~ Erynn Miles "Breaking Through Stone" I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it? ~ Joan Baez Knowledge given when the recipient was unready was wasteful, even dangerous. It was like learning a dance--a complex Latin dance, like the Bossa Nova--a dance for a body that was mature--physically ready for it. You can learn the moves, but the passion for it has to be right, and that comes with time. ~ M.D. Jackson "The Good Folk Bossa Nova" Learning to live is learning to let go. ~ Sogyal Rinpoche Madness is a distrust of reason. ~ John Myers Myers "Silverlock" May god stand between you and harm in all the empty places where you must walk. ~ J. Michael Strazcynski "Babylon 5 - Ivanova" Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand. ~ Aphra Behn "The Rover" Most dreams are forgotten, try as one will to remember. Yet later music strikes the notes, and the harmonic rings along the mandolin strings of the mind, and we find tears in our eyes. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin "The Compass Rose" My father once told me that respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. "Something cannot emerge from nothing," he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable "the truth" can be. ~ Frank Herbert "Dune - Princess Irulan" My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense. ~ Helen Gurley Brown "Words of Women Quotations for Success" Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty. ~ Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel "Ladies Home Journal" No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is a part of the whole knowledge. A true line, a true color. Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin "Four Ways to Forgiveness" Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance. ~ Ellen Glasgow "The Woman Within" Oh, how unconstantly our fortune turns. One hour in joy, the next with sorrow mourns. ~ Mary Delarivier Manley "The Royal Mischief Once I had a professor say to me, "You know you have as much education as a lot of white people." I answered, "Doctor, I have more education than most white people." ~ Jocelyn Elders "New York Times Magazine" Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by. ~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist. ~ Olive Schreiner "The Story of an African Farm" Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do. ~ Barbara Walters "How to Talk with Practically Anybody About Practically Anything" Paul had told Carmen once that you could distinguish a drunk from a drinker, because a drinker could choose to stop and a drunk couldn't. Carmen was a drunk. She could take or leave alcohol; anger was her mode of self-destruction. She couldn't stop when normal people could. ~ Ann Brasheres Persecution for opinion is the master vice of society. ~ Frances Wright "Course of Popular Lectures" Polite conversation is rarely either. ~ Fran Lebowitz "Social Studies" Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard. ~ Fritz R.S. Dressler Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones. ~ Charlotte Bronte "Jane Eyre" Reality was such a jungle--with no signposts, landmarks, or boundaries. ~ Helen Hayes "On Reflection" Rivers perhaps are the only physical features of the world that are at their best from the air. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh "North to the Orient" Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all--the apathy of human beings. ~ Helen Keller "My Religion" She didn't fight. She only debated. ~ Laurie Tom "Jack of Spades" Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single common place remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves. ~ Willa Cather Sometimes Carmen marveled at the sheer volume of thoughts cramming her head. Did other people think this much? ~ Ann Brasheres Sometimes you need to make a mess. ~ Ann Brasheres Standing upright and having two hands doesn't make us human. Standing up and having ideas and ideals does! And holding fast to those ideals. Together. We can't live alone. Or we die alone -- like animals. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin "The Eye of the Heron" Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed. ~ Emily Dickinson "Success is Counted Sweetest" Surely you know that nakedness is a human's greatest strength. ~ Jane Lindskold "Wolf's Head, Wolf's Heart" Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it. ~ Albert Smith The average dog is a nicer person than the average person. ~ Andy Rooney The best way to predict the future is to invent it. ~ Alan Kay The book in question is written in a free energetic spirit. It contains a few passages that will offend the fastidiousness of some readers; for they allude to subjects which men do not wish to have discussed, and which women dare not approach. ~ Lydia Maria Child "Woman in the Nineteenth Century" The devil's most devilish when respectable. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Aurora Leigh" The facts of our human life never change; it is our way of seeing them that changes. ~ Thornton Wilder "The Alcestiad" The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day. ~ Gloria Steinem "Time" The good die young--but not always. The wicked prevail--but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre. ~ Helen Hayes "On Reflection" The hands move, the lips move--ideas gush from his words. And his eyes devour! He is an island of Selfdom. ~ Frank Herbert "Dune - Princess Irulan" The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie. ~ Ann Landers "advice column" The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. ~ Oscar Wilde "A Woman of No Importance" The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting. ~ Fran Lebowitz "Social Studies" The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Got that? ~ Ann Brasheres The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder. ~ Albert Einstein The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue. ~ Anonymous The Reverend Mother must combine the seductive wiles of a courtesan with the untouchable majesty of a virgin goddess, holding these attributes in tension so long as the powers of her youth endure. For when youth and beauty have gone, she will find that the place-between, once occupied by tension, has become a wellspring of cunning and resourcefulness. ~ Frank Herbert "Dune - Princess Irulan" The trouble with life isn't that there is not answer, it's that there are so many answers. ~ Ruth Benedict "An Anthropologist at Work" The universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest. ~ J. Michael Strazcynski "Babylon 5 - G'Kar" The whole world of thought lay unexplored before me, --a world of which I had already caught large and tempting glimpses, and I did not like to feel the horizon shutting me in, even to so pleasant a corner as this. ~ Lucy Larcom "A New England Girlhood" There are so many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word "happy" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. ~ Carl Gustav Jung There are two kinds of people in the world. The kind who divide the world into two kinds of people and the kind who don't. ~ Ann Brasheres There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the internal. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity. ~ George Santayana There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. ~ George Eliot "Adam Bede" There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. ~ Ben Williams There is no such thing as Society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. ~ Margaret Thatcher "Woman's Own" There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find ways in which you yourself have altered. ~ Nelson Mandela There is nothing upon the face of the earth so insipid as a medium. Give me love or hate! A friend that will go to jail for me, or an enemy that will run me through the body! ~ Fanney Burney "Camilla" There was a word for this. It started with an h. It not only indicated you were a horrible waste of a person but also somehow seemed to indicate that you were fat. What was it? Oh, yeah. Hypocrite. ~ Ann Brasheres Things are no different today than they were yesterday. One morning you step outside and seek the sky; another morning the first thing you see is the slops the dogs have dug up and dragged into the yard. The day is the same - it is only where you happen to look. ~ Nicholas Ozment "Jacobson's Monster" Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. ~ George Gordon Noel Byron Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. ~ Carl Bard Thus strangely are our souls constructed and by such slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity or ruin. ~ Mary Shelley "Frankenstein" Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. ~ Faith Baldwin "Face Toward the Spring" Time is the thief you cannot banish. ~ Phyllis McGinley "Times Three" To be a king and wear a crown is more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasure to them that bear it. ~ Elizabeth I "The Sayings of Queen Elizabeth" To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless. ~ Gustave Flaubert To travel in the company of animals is to walk with angels, guides, guardians, jesters, shadows and mirros. I cannot imagine how it is to travel bereft of such excellent companions. ~ Suzanne Clothier "Bones Would Rain From the Sky" Touch passion when it comes your way. It's rare enough as it is. Don't walk away when it calls you by name. ~ J. Michael Strazcynski "Babylon 5 - Marcus" Treasure in such large amounts stopped feeling precious. ~ Ann Brasheres Tremble: your whole life is a rehearsal for the moment you are in now. ~ Judith Malina "Actors on Acting" Trust also your own judgment, for it is your most reliable counselor. A man's mind has sometimes a way of telling him more than seven watchmen posted on a high tower. ~ Ecclesiasticus Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events not of words. Trust movement. ~ Alfred Adler Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it. ~ Emily Dickinson "letter to Thomas Wentworth" Tu Fu comes from a saner, older, more secular culture than Homer, and it is not a new discovery with him that the gods, the abstractions, the forces of nature, are frivolous, lewd, vicious, quarrelsome, and cruel, and only men's steadfastness, love, magnanimity, calmness, and compassion redeem the night-bound world. ~ Kenneth Rexroth Unfortunately war doesn't tolerate ambiguities. ~ J. Michael Strazcynski "Babylon 5 - Sheridan" War is not just a victory or loss�People die. ~ Maya Lin "designed Vietnam Memorial in D.C." We are born not once, but again and again. ~ Ann Brasheres We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare and love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made. ~ M. Acklam We need to haunt the halls of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom. ~ Maya Angelou Well done is better than well said. ~ Benjamin Franklin Wester laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsie activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues. ~ Sogyal Rinpoche What is past is prologue. ~ J. Michael Strazcynski "Babylon 5 - Delenn" What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the worlds I have read in my life. ~ Walt Whitman What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Whatever can happen to anyone can happen to me. ~ Muriel Rukeyser "Waterlilly Fire" What's the use of watching? A watched pot never boils. ~ Elizabeth Gaskell "Mary Barton" when action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin "The Left Hand of Darkness" When anger spreads through the breast, guard they tongue from barking idly. ~ Sappho "Woman in the Golden Ages" When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly. But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act when you may stop and simply be. Or wonder who, after all, you are. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin "The Farthest Shore" Who am I? I am the right hand of vengeance, and the boot that is gonna kick your sorry ass all the way back to Earth, sweetheart. I'm death incarnate and the last living thing that you're ever going to see. God sent me. ~ J. Michael Strazcynski "Babylon 5 - Ivanova" Why did you let me ruin everything? She had the perverse wish that the ugly consequences of her tirades would magically dissolve within a few hours. She wished her victims would just snap right back like cartoon characters after they got their heads flattened by a frying pan. Instead, the wreckage lived on, far longer than her anger. ~ Ann Brasheres Why was it that her temper and her thinking never happened at the same time? Her temper behaved like a glutton sitting in an expensive restaurant ordering a hundred dishes, only to disappear when the bill came due. It left her lucid mind to do dishes. "You will not be invited back," she muttered to her temper, her evil twin, the bad Carmen. Maybe she should just cede her body to her temper all the time. Let it deal with the consequences, instead of her rational, conscientous self, which ruled her body most of the time. Okay, some of the time. ~ Ann Brasheres Wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words. ~ Dorothy Parker "The Late Mrs. Dorothy" Years do not always make age. ~ George Sand "The Haunted Pool" You always admire what you really don't understand. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt "Meet the Press" You can say any foolish thing to a dog and the dog will give you a look that says, "Wow, you're right! I never would've thought of that!" ~ Dave Barry You can take a road that gets you to the stars. I can take a road that will get me through. ~ Nick Drake You don't want to kill the messenger, you just want to kill the message. ~ J. Michael Strazcynski "Babylon 5 - Sheridan You will find as the children grow up that as a rule children are a bitter disappointment--their greatest object being to do precisely what their parents do not wish and have anxiously tried to prevent. ~ Queen Victoria "letter to the Crown Prince of Prussia" Your face just broke the language barrier. ~ J. 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