Unknown and Anonymous
There is a difference between Openmindedness and Gullibility.
In our zest for technological excellence, we have bred mediocrity.
Suburbs are those places where they cut down trees and name streets after them.
One can have a century old recipe but it doesn't make the cookie ancient.
We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors ...but they all have to learn to live in the same box.
You don't have to worship the plug to use electricity.
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
If being a Christian were illegal, would there be enough evidence to convict you?
Have fun with these...
Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines."-Satchel Paige
"The foolish neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but never forget."-Thomas Szasz
"'The right to do something' does not mean that doing it is right."-William Safire
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."-Aristotle
"Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy."-Dean Koontz
"Stupid people always think they are right. Wise people listen to advice."-Proverbs 12:15
"You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right."-Philip Crosby
"Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them."-Madeleine L'Engle
"The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all."-Jawaharlal Nehru
"What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents."-Robert Kennedy
"All truth passes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Second it is violently opposed. Third it is accepted as being self-evident."-Schopenhauer
"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection."-Henri Poincaré
"To be is to be perceived."-George Berkeley
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."-Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you."-Eric Hoffer
"Prejudice is the child of ignorance."-Hazlitt
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."-Douglas Adams
"Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger."-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached."-Simone Weil
"When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it." -Anatole France
"Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want." -Clive Barnes
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."-Benjamin Franklin
"With the first link, a chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."-Captain Jean-Luc Picard
"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."-Marie Curie
"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."-Albert Einstein
"I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect." -Edward Gibbon
"Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder."-Bullfeathers
"Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof."-Galbraith's Law
"America is the only nation that went from barbarism to decadence with no civilisation in between."-Oscar Wilde
"For whatever the tortures of Hell, I think the boredom of Heaven would be even worse."-Isaac Asimov
"There is a commandment against bearing false witness against my neighbor. Is there no commandment against bearing false witness against God? If I were a god, I would reserve my greatest wrath, not for those who ignored me, nor for those who contradicted me, but for those who falsely quoted me."-Martin B. Brilliant
"I fear God, and next to God I chiefly fear him who fears Him not."-Saadi
"It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value."-Arthur C. Clarke
"These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equaled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig." -Alfred Hitchcock
"There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness."-Josh Billings
"If consumers know...the potential ill health effect of eating at McDonald's, they cannot blame McDonald's if they, nonetheless, choose to satiate their appetite with a surfeit of supersized McDonald's products."-Judge Robert Sweet, 2003
"Florida voted to allow cities and counties to decide if they would ban cell phones, while the friggin' British did another study that said cell phones are worse than drunk drivers? Yeah, but in America everyone has ADHD so they can do more things at the same time, besides, what do the Brits know, they don’t even drive on the right side of the road. Obviously if you are a Right-side thinker, driving on the left side of the road holding the phone on you right ear, shifting with your left hand there has bound to be some confusion. They cannot drive anyway, they constantly come over here and get on the off ramps and cause calamities in Rent-a-Cars and just claim, "Oh well, I have an international drivers license from a Cracker Jacks box so no worries ducky, have a nice day chap, time for tea?" Listen why on Earth would we take a study done in another country to tell Americans how to do things? We got tired of their crap and came over here in the first place."-Lance, from the Car Wash Guys
"No time to rest. Somebody out there is out to do unto me and it behooves me to do unto him first!"-Wolverine, issue 31
"Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God."-Aeschylus
"If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field that is forever England."-Rupert Brooke, "The Soldier"
"We're not our skin of grime, we're not our dread bleak dusty imageless locomotive, we're all golden sunflowers inside, blessed by our own seed and hairy naked accomplishment- bodies growing into mad black formal sunflowers in the sunset, spied on by our eyes..."-AG
"True! nervous - very, very dreadfully nervous I had been, and am."-Edgar Allen Poe
"If some European countries put as much pressure on Saddam Hussein as on (US President George W.) Bush, there would have been no war."-Nobel peace prize laureate Elie Wiesel
"She ran out of tears long before she ran out of pain. She ran out of tears and replaced them with rage - a rage that served her adequately, didn't heal her wounds but bandaged them well enough."-Entering Tenebrea
"The decisions we make in a split second will always reveal our true nature, our true self. Whether we like it or not. When that split second comes, don't think, don't analyze, don't feel and never second-guess- just react. Trust. Trust in yourself."-Alex Kava, "Split Second"
"What I realized suddenly was that the true failure would have been if I hadn't given a damn. You can bandage a wound, set a broken bone, but not caring...you can't cure that, and you can't recover from it."-Laurell K. Hamilton, "Narcissus in Chains"
"I had power over nothing, thats when this feeling came over me like a warm blanket, I knew that somehow I had to stay alive, somehow, I had to keep breathing, even though I had no reason to hope...I know what I have to do now, I have to keep breathing, because tomorrow the sun will rise, who knows what the tide will bring."-Tom Hanks, "Cast Away"
"Without the mask, where will you hide?"-Evanescence, "Everybody's Fool"
"In the end, you are all you have, and that has to be enough. There is no other way." -Marya Hornbacher
"The American space program spent over a million dollars to develop a pen which can write perfectly in free fall. The Russian space program used pencils."-Wired magazine
"The taxpayer is someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take a civil service examination."-Ronald Reagan
"Is it enough to die? Somebody save my life. I'd rather be anything but ordinary please."-Avril Lavigne
"In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer."-Albert Camus
"Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality."-Clifton Fadiman
"People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters; they will not allow life's circumstances to push them down and hold them under."-Charles R. Swindoll
"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."-Hugh Downs
"Sitting in church doesn't make you a Christian just as sitting in a garage doesn't make you a Chevrolet."- Garrisson Keillor
"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."-Lou Holtz, Univ. Arkansas football coach
"Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves."-Walter Anderson
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."-Sir Winston Churchill
"The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision."-Robyn Davidson
"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative."-Woody Allen
"Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived."-William Jennings Bryan
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."-Mark Twain
"There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming."-Søren Kierkegaard
"The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us."-Voltaire
"We are shaped by our thoughts. We become what we think."-Buddha
"I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut."-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Men only think about their past right before their death, as if they were searching frantically for proof that they were alive."-Jet Black
"Destiny does not pull the trigger of a machine gun."-Piero Fassino
"The cigarette is, in fact, among the most awe-inspiring examples of the ingenuity of man."-William L. Dunn, Jr. of Phillip Morris, 1973
"You weren't a contender."-Abe Rudner
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