so these are many quotes and song lyrics that i liked or made some sense to me. if you see any you think belong in a different catagory feel free to let me know about it.
Love and Sex
"Show me a heart, and I'll show you a scar." Peter McWilliams
"In most states that have sodomy statuates, sodomy includes oral intercourse too. If you've ever taken part in oral intercourse-actively or passivly, with a member of your own sex or the opposite sex-many states consider you a sodomite. Welcome to the club." Peter McWilliams
"I wonder if the homophobic people of the world have considered the fact that every time a person masturbates alone, it is, by definintion, a homosexual act." Peter McWilliams
"Prostitution always involves another. (Paying yourself to have sex is a perfectly legal thrill.)" Peter McWilliams
"Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease" Peter McWilliams
"We were perfect when we started I've been wondering where we've gone." Counting Crows
"All your life is such a shame All your love is such a dream" Counting Crows
"'If it's love,' she said, 'the we're going to have to think about the consequences'" Counting Crows
"It does not bother me to say this isn't love Because if you don't want to talk about it then it isn't love" Counting Crows
"Sex Sells Everything/But I Don't But It So Don't Try It" Natalie Imbruglia
"if anybody ever had a heart, he wouldn't be alone he knows, she's been here too few years, to be gone" Matchbox 20
"love tastes bitter when it's gone" Matchbox 20
"if you only knew all the love that i found it's hard to keep my soul on the ground" Sublime
"You make a really good girl As girls go Still kind of look like a guy I never thought to wonder why" Suzanne Vega
"So beautiful Damsel in distress Not exactly natural Stunning no the less" Suzanne Vega
"You could give a girl a thrill You could save her from her passion Keep her body in check" Suzanne Vega
"My head knows, I wish my heart would listen."-Water Patterns; Jo Clayton
Nothing justified what she had done except her love.-The String Game; Barbara A. Denz
She shall be ravished, as shall we all.-Mrs. Langdon's Diary; Constance Ash
"Clearly you have no notion of the true nature of love. Love does not cease at the graves yawning brink. Love does not abruptly halt with the cessation of the body's commerce. Love, Madam, is stronger than death!"-Tea; Esther M. Friesner
You always attempt to permanently maim the one you love- Tea; Esther M. Friesner
Music
"What do you get when you play country music backwards? You get your girl back, your dog back, your pick-up back, and you stop drinking." Louis Saaberdra
Truth
"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad." Aldous Huxley
"The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it." Remy de Gourmont
"Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth." Mohandas K. Gandhi
"You're Not Affected By The Truth/Unless It's On Your Doorstep" Natalie Imbruglia
"The truth, my dear, is generally less interesting than the stories which allude to it."-The Tenth Painting; Thomas S. Roche
Drugs
"The religious use of drugs can be done alone, with others, and, by definintion, probably requires God's consent too." Peter McWilliams
"Why should cocaine be illegal and Draino not?" Peter McWilliams
"Well, if you're wondering about me, why not assume that i do it all? Yes, just presume that I am a drug-selling homosexual prostitute gambler who drunkenly loiters all day with my six wives and four husbands, making and watching pornography while being treated by strange medical practices and running a cult on the side." Peter McWilliams
"In Connecticut, if you sell someone drugs and he or she dies as a resulf of using those drugs, you can be put to death. (HELPFUL HINT TO DRUG DEALERS: Do not sell drugs in Connecticut to anyone who looks even remotely suicidal.)" Peter McWilliams
If rythm's a drug I'm hooked on you So show me every move We've got perfect motion-Sunscream; Perfect Motion
"The body is the temple of the soul" 1 Corinthians 6:19-20
"If you want to be truely unconventional, you can make up your own religion, and practice it all by yourself. Again, seeking God's consent would seen to be in order. (Unless you decide that you are God. Ooooh. Kinky.)" Peter McWilliams
"If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't" Hyman Rickover
"...the religions that believe most in vigorous proselytizing are the same ones that accuse others of recruiting. What they call 'witnessing' and 'testifying'-hence God's work- becomes 'recruitment' and 'brainwashing' when used by others, hence the work of the devil." Peter McWilliams
"...the national debt($4 trillion, and growing faster than almost anything in this country other than religious intolerance)." Peter McWilliams
"That which we call sin in others is experiment for us." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"sunday morning hold church down at the bar" Sublime
"We like to think that, if only we can keep ourselves and out loved ones safe enough, none of us will ever die" Peter McWilliams
"The sad or happy fact-depending on how you feel about life-is that we're all going to die." Peter McWilliams
"No loss by flood and lightening, no destruction of cities and temples by hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed." Hellen Keller
"Open up your eyes You can see the flames of your wasted life You should be ashamed" Counting Crows
"I've seen a lot of good things die and I'm in an over emotional way" Matchbox 20
"I'll wager it was a goddess. Those capable of the greatest kindness must also have the power for greatest cruelty. That's balance."-A Time For Heroes; Richard Parks
"Red in tooth and claw. And beak. And talon. Mercy is a purely man-made concept. For all the periodic blither we make about going back to nature-So pure! So Wholesome!-if we actually achieved reunion with the natural world, we'd run screaming. Those of us left in a state to run at all."-Tea; Esther M. Friesner
sickness lay like a smell over everything here.-Swallow; Simon Ings
the world is delicate... The world comes apart if you shake it.-Swallow; Simon Ings
"The United States ranks 13th on the Human Freedom Index. Twelve other countries are freer than the United States." United Nations
"A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity." Robert Frost
"Resort to military force is a first sure sign that we are giving up the struggle for the democratic way of life..." John Dewey
"My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular." Adlai E. Stevenson
You cannot lie to those who once shared your mind.- The Tenth Painting; Thomas S. Roche
"Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it." Amelia Earhart
"Call it a quirk in my personality. Call it a defense mechanism. But in my mind, things seem to go from bad to worse to absurd to funny." Peter McWilliams
"Change is scientific, progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy." Bertrand Russell
"Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered a new idea and thinks it is his own." Syndney J. Harris
"All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it." H.L. Mencken
"You get what you paid for But I just had no intention of living this way" Counting Crows
"Ignore Reality There's Nothing You Can Do About It" Natalie Imbruglia
"In my own heart, the need to do this is like the need to breathe."-Water Patterns; Jo Clayton
"Things come in their times, rushing them is foolish"-Water Patterns; Jo Clayton
Her decision was made: she would have it all, or she would have nothing, for it was not in her nature to take second place to anyone.-Dance of the Python; Janet Berliner
There is no such thing as magic in telespace-The Hanged Man; Lisa Mason
What could she be but what she had always been? Protector of the Way. Protector of the Past. I am someone important after all.-One Late Night, With Jackal; Josepha Sherman
The calm remained. And she had brought it.-Dust and Sand; Dave Smeds
I have never seen fir to let circumstances make me miserable."-The Tenth Painting; Thomas S. Roche