RANDOM PEOPLE QUOTES
While Anne and I drove down the freeway today, Just Like Heaven came on the radio. "This was my first CD," I said. "I know," she said. "You tell me that every time we hear a song from it." "And one day, you'll hear it, and I won't be here for some reason or another, and you'll wish I was here to tell you." - wilwheaton
"Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane." - Philip K. Dick
"You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance." - Ray Bradbury
"If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way." - Bertrand Russell
"Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos." - Charlie Brown
"We think too much and feel too little." - Charlie Chaplin
"Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering." - Fyodor Dostoevsky
"There are only two books written: Someone goes on a journey, or a stranger comes to town." - Fyodor Dostoevsky
"It makes no difference where you are: far or near, you're always present." - Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar." - Edward R. Murrow
"Strongest minds are often those of whom the noisy world hears least." - William Wordsworth
"She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist." - Jean-Paul Sartre
"Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat." - Jean-Paul Sartre
"I love the sun because it's democratic, it doesn't make any distinctions. It shines on everyone." - Joaquin Phoenix
"Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be." - Thomas a' Kempis
"Love has no uttermost, as the stars have no number and the sea no rest." - Eleanor Farjeon
"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition." - Alexander Smith
"All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love." - Leo Tolstoy
"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." - Robert Heinlein
"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional." - M. Kathleen Casey
"The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three; and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye." - Winston Churchill
"That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love." - William Wordsworth
"For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life." - Fr. Alfred D'Souza
"It's life that matters, nothing but life - the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all." - Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air - explode softly - and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn't go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination." - Robert Fulghum
"In the long run, the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip." - Daniel L. Reardon
"We are all longing to go home to some place we have never been." - Starhawk
"Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees." - Camus
"I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person." - Audrey Hepburn
"No matter what country or continent we come from we are all basically the same human beings. We have the common human needs and concerns. We all seek happiness and try to avoid suffering regardless of our race, religion, sex, or political status. Human beings, indeed all sentient beings, have the right to pursue happiness and live in peace and in freedom. As free human beings, we can use our unique intelligence to try to understand ourselves and our world. But if we are prevented from using our creative potential, we are all deprived of one of the basic characteristics of a human being. It is very often that the most gifted, dedicated, and creative members of our society who become victims of human rights abuses. Thus the political, social, cultural, and economic developments of a society are obstructed by the violations of human rights. Therefore, the protection of these rights and freedoms are of immense importance both for the individuals affected and for the development of the society as a whole." - His Holiness, the Dalai Lama
"You don't need a license to drive a sandwich." - Spongebob Squarepants
"It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out, it's the grain of sand in your shoe." - Robert Service
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines" - John Benfield
"When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not." - Mark Twain
"Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustable well. Yet everything happens a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even concieve of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even that. How many times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless." -Paul Bowles
"I am not a vegetarian because I love animals. I am a vegetarian because I hate plants." - A. Whitney Brown
"The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom." - H.L. Mencken
"Flexible strength is better than inflexible. Let the storm flow over you, and then pop back up." - Michael Kabotie, HOPI
"When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something." - Robert Browning Hamilton
"I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land." - Jon Stewart
"A geek by definition is someone who eats live animals. I have never eaten live animals." - Crispin Glover
"Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane." - Philip K. Dick
"You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance." - Ray Bradbury
"If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way." - Bertrand Russell
"Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos." - Charlie Brown
"We think too much and feel too little." - Charlie Chaplin
"Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering." - Fyodor Dostoevsky
"There are only two books written: Someone goes on a journey, or a stranger comes to town." - Fyodor Dostoevsky
"It makes no difference where you are: far or near, you're always present." - Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar." - Edward R. Murrow
"Strongest minds are often those of whom the noisy world hears least." - William Wordsworth
"She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist." - Jean-Paul Sartre
"Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat." - Jean-Paul Sartre
"I love the sun because it's democratic, it doesn't make any distinctions. It shines on everyone." - Joaquin Phoenix
"Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be." - Thomas a' Kempis
"Love has no uttermost, as the stars have no number and the sea no rest." - Eleanor Farjeon
"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition." - Alexander Smith
"All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love." - Leo Tolstoy
"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." - Robert Heinlein
"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional." - M. Kathleen Casey
"The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three; and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye." - Winston Churchill
"That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love." - William Wordsworth
"For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life." - Fr. Alfred D'Souza
"It's life that matters, nothing but life - the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all." - Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air - explode softly - and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn't go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination." - Robert Fulghum
"In the long run, the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip." - Daniel L. Reardon
"We are all longing to go home to some place we have never been." - Starhawk
"Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees." - Camus
"I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person." - Audrey Hepburn
"No matter what country or continent we come from we are all basically the same human beings. We have the common human needs and concerns. We all seek happiness and try to avoid suffering regardless of our race, religion, sex, or political status. Human beings, indeed all sentient beings, have the right to pursue happiness and live in peace and in freedom. As free human beings, we can use our unique intelligence to try to understand ourselves and our world. But if we are prevented from using our creative potential, we are all deprived of one of the basic characteristics of a human being. It is very often that the most gifted, dedicated, and creative members of our society who become victims of human rights abuses. Thus the political, social, cultural, and economic developments of a society are obstructed by the violations of human rights. Therefore, the protection of these rights and freedoms are of immense importance both for the individuals affected and for the development of the society as a whole." - His Holiness, the Dalai Lama
"You don't need a license to drive a sandwich." - Spongebob Squarepants
"It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out, it's the grain of sand in your shoe." - Robert Service
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines" - John Benfield
"When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not." - Mark Twain
"Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustable well. Yet everything happens a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even concieve of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even that. How many times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless." -Paul Bowles
"I am not a vegetarian because I love animals. I am a vegetarian because I hate plants." - A. Whitney Brown
"The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom." - H.L. Mencken
"Flexible strength is better than inflexible. Let the storm flow over you, and then pop back up." - Michael Kabotie, HOPI
"When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something." - Robert Browning Hamilton
"I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land." - Jon Stewart
"A geek by definition is someone who eats live animals. I have never eaten live animals." - Crispin Glover