Quotes to Consider

i love quotes almost as much as i love poetry. these are some of the best. if you want to add anything, email me.

• *You see us as you want to see us, in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. But what we found out, is that each one of us is a brain, and an athlete, and a basketcase, a princess, and a criminal.* -The Breakfast Club
• *Let the sinless one among you throw the first stone at her.* -John 8:7
• *We do not deal much in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.* -Mark Twain
• *We can't all be heros because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.* -Will Rogers
• *He whom we look down upon, whom we cannot bear to see, the very sight of whom causes us to vomit, is the same as we are, formed from the self-same clay, compacted of the same elements. Whatever he suffers, we also can suffer.* -Saint Jerome
• *When you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't in us doesn't disturb us.* -Hermann Hesse
• *We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.* -Kurt Vonnegut
• *A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.* -William James
• *Evil done in the name of good is still evil.* -Megan S.
• *Let your vision be the world embracing...* -Baha'u'llah
• *I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be ok.* -Dave Matthews Band
• *If you don't like yourself, you're nothing.* -Ali F., 1.18.00
• *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 bit 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. That is to have Succeeded.* -Ralph Emerson
• *What is a weed? A plant whose virtue has yet to be discovered.* -Emerson
• *Follow your bliss.* -Joseph Campbell
• *i'm a pixie/i'm a paperdoll/i am a cartoon/i'm a chipper cheerful free-for-all/ and i light up the room/i'm the colour me happy girl/miss live and let live/and when they're out for blood/i always give* -ani difranco
• *Despite popular opinion, you do not have the right to expect vegetarians to compromise personal beliefs for the sake of 'politeness.' People who would never dream of asking a recovered alcoholic to try their favorite vodka, or demand that someone who kept kosher have some bacon still think it perfectly reasonable to expect me to eat Aunt Sue's meatloaf because I adored it as a child and she would be ever so insulted if I didn't have some now.* -eatveg.com
• *I don't understand how come you're gone, man. I don't understand why half the world is still crying, man, when the other half of the world is still crying too, man, I can't get it together. I mean, if you got a cat for one day, man — I mean, if you, say, say, if you want a cat for 365 days, right — You ain't got him for 365 days, you got him for one day, man. Well I tell you that one day, man, better be your life, man. Because, you know, you can say, oh man, you can cry about the other 364, man, but you're gonna lose that one day, man, and that's all you've got. You gotta call that love, man. That's what it is, man. If you got it today you don't want it tomorrow, man, 'cause you don't need it, 'cause as a matter of fact, as we discovered in the train, tomorrow never happens, man. It's all the same fucking day, man.* -Janis Joplin
• *You can look like Snow White and talk like George Plimpton, but if you want to be a Fiji Islander, by God you're a Fiji Islander as far as the census is concerned.* -Straight Dope