My Yahoo signature quotes
Then came the revelation. Marino saw the rose
as Adam might have seen it in Paradise. And he
sensed that it existed in its eternity and not
in his words, and that we may make mention or
allusion of a thing but never express it at all;
and that the tall proud tomes that cast a golden
penumbra in an angle of the drawing room were not
- as he had dreamed in his vanity - a mirror of
the world but simply one more thing added to
the universe.
Jorge Luis Borges
All his friends seemed to wear attitudes like
name tags, means of identity rather than
principle.
Jane Rule
It is not my impression that you 'develop'
strength but that it florwers, a strengthening
of the spirit, a certain audacity.
Michelle Bachelet
While some take risks, there are others who face certainties. They know the outcome, they face the abyss.
Glenn Raggio
We considered the claim of Russian linguist Bakhtin that the central question of the novel always is "Who is talking?" and "To whom?" According to Bakhtin, there is no such thing in the novel as an omniscient narrator. Rather, the novel is voices speaking in turn, and sometimes in collaboration. The novelist is much like the conductor of a symphony orchestra, handing over the solo or duet role first to this and then to these narrators.
Marion Tangum
As the days go by, we face the increasing inevitability that we are along in a godless, uninhabited, hostile and meaningless universe. Still, you've got to laugh, haven't you?
Holly, from Red Dwarf, by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor
In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all his facets. . . Hence true friendship is the least jealous of loves. Two friends delight to be joined by a third, and three by a fourth, if only the newcomer is qualified to become a real friend. . . Of course the scarcity of kindred souls . . . sets limits to the enlargement of the circle; but within those limits we possess each friend not less but more as the number of those with whom we share him increases.
C. S. Lewis
Make me,
remake me.
You are free to do it
and I am free to let you
because look, look.
Look where your hands are. Now.
Toni Morrison
Such friends are present right behind your eyes, looking out with you at the world, commenting, laughing, and inspiring, The challenges you face are always halved, the grief and disappointments absorbed by two. Such is the wonderful relationship of best friends.
Glenn Raggio
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)
e e cummings
'Jon, it sure goes fast'
Jonathan Randall's father's last worlds to him
Find out what the author actually wrote and what the hard words meant and what the allusions were to, and you have done far more for me than a hundred new interpretations could ever do.
C. S. Lewis
It is through the transformation of certain myths into experience that the free peoples recognize each other, and their common destiny and enemy. Their common knowledge becomes an active bond among them.
Lionel Basney
We look with the poet, rather than at his or her psychological make-up. We see with his or her eyes.
Colin Duriez
None of us should feel that we have to die to have dignity.
Diane Coleman
Clear and precise seeing becomes as one with clear and precise thinking.
Edward R. Tufte
Einstein believed
that if we could go fast enough,
time would begin to slow,
then stop,
and eventually go backward.
But each morning we wake,
hurtling toward the dawn,
just as ignorant, as magnificently
stupid
as we'd been when we fell
asleep the night before.
Frayach Ni Cuill
We are loved by an unending love.
We are embraced by arms that find us
even when we are hidden from ourselves.
We are touched by fingers that soothe us
even when we are too sad for soothing.
We are counseled by voices that guide us
even when we are too embittered to hear.
We are loved by an unending love.
We are supported by hands that uplift us even the midst of a fall.
We are urged on by eyes that meet us even when we are too confused for meeting.
We are loved by an unending love.
Embraced, touched, soothed, and counseled -
Ours are the arms, the fingers, the voices;
Ours are the hands, the eyes, the smiles.
We are loved by an unending love.
Rabbi Rami Shapiro
The challenges of country life hone our relationships with one another towards resilience, forbearance, over the long haul. We are committed to the land; She is the ground for our connectoins, and She holds us steadfastly, whatever the variable weather of our partnerships/friendships/loverships.
Bethroot Gwynn
A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would wind a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.
Abraham Lincoln
When I die, I might as well die alive.
Harriet McBryde Johnson
War isn't about so much the horror as it is the way you're forced to confront your weaknesses.
Ginmarie
Isaac Singer argued that storytellers might have the best chance of anyone to "rescue civilization." Writing fiction might not seem like the most direct way to improve the human condition, but Singer suggested that in a world where politics often failed, or worse, succeeded disastrously, intelligent, logical interactions with the world - the kind Gimpel spent a lifetime avoiding - may well be overrated. "Some of my cronies in the cafeteria near The Jewish Daily Forward in New York call me a pessimist and a decadent," Singer told his Swedish audience, "but there is always a background of faith behind resignation."
Attribution unavailable
You say You like it
You say You don't like it.
I ask you: Do you know its name?
Barbara Ruth
The truth about wars is often full of ambiguities and almost always charged with anguish. But the assumption behind most censorship is that human beings can't absorb too much anguish, that they are soft and fragile, mere hothouse flowers who will wither in a cold wind. But I think that assumption is wrong. The commonplace endures: The truth hurts. But without the truth we live in a country of mushy platitudes and manipulated indifference.
Pete Hamill
You have to understand that the past is not just over. History is an ongoing struggle. It's not a story with a good or bad ending. Our role in it is what makes it unfold in a certain direction. Therefore the past is not even passed, and the future is always there. It's the connection that matters.
Daniel Libeskind
The more that I studied horses the less I felt like riding them, probably out of respect. I shouldn't interfere. For me it's more the animal that interests me than its uses.
Claudia Feh
You must enter in
To the small silences between
The leaves
You must take your time
And touch the very peace
They issue from.
From the Keddem Congregation Friday night prayer book
We are all in cages of one kind of another, I suddenly realized. The dignity of caring and bravely showing it was something nobody could take away.
Dawn Prince-Hughes.
They saw the little dark shape of the hobbit start across the floor holding his tiny light aloft.
J.R.R. Tolkien
as Adam might have seen it in Paradise. And he
sensed that it existed in its eternity and not
in his words, and that we may make mention or
allusion of a thing but never express it at all;
and that the tall proud tomes that cast a golden
penumbra in an angle of the drawing room were not
- as he had dreamed in his vanity - a mirror of
the world but simply one more thing added to
the universe.
Jorge Luis Borges
All his friends seemed to wear attitudes like
name tags, means of identity rather than
principle.
Jane Rule
It is not my impression that you 'develop'
strength but that it florwers, a strengthening
of the spirit, a certain audacity.
Michelle Bachelet
While some take risks, there are others who face certainties. They know the outcome, they face the abyss.
Glenn Raggio
We considered the claim of Russian linguist Bakhtin that the central question of the novel always is "Who is talking?" and "To whom?" According to Bakhtin, there is no such thing in the novel as an omniscient narrator. Rather, the novel is voices speaking in turn, and sometimes in collaboration. The novelist is much like the conductor of a symphony orchestra, handing over the solo or duet role first to this and then to these narrators.
Marion Tangum
As the days go by, we face the increasing inevitability that we are along in a godless, uninhabited, hostile and meaningless universe. Still, you've got to laugh, haven't you?
Holly, from Red Dwarf, by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor
In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all his facets. . . Hence true friendship is the least jealous of loves. Two friends delight to be joined by a third, and three by a fourth, if only the newcomer is qualified to become a real friend. . . Of course the scarcity of kindred souls . . . sets limits to the enlargement of the circle; but within those limits we possess each friend not less but more as the number of those with whom we share him increases.
C. S. Lewis
Make me,
remake me.
You are free to do it
and I am free to let you
because look, look.
Look where your hands are. Now.
Toni Morrison
Such friends are present right behind your eyes, looking out with you at the world, commenting, laughing, and inspiring, The challenges you face are always halved, the grief and disappointments absorbed by two. Such is the wonderful relationship of best friends.
Glenn Raggio
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)
e e cummings
'Jon, it sure goes fast'
Jonathan Randall's father's last worlds to him
Find out what the author actually wrote and what the hard words meant and what the allusions were to, and you have done far more for me than a hundred new interpretations could ever do.
C. S. Lewis
It is through the transformation of certain myths into experience that the free peoples recognize each other, and their common destiny and enemy. Their common knowledge becomes an active bond among them.
Lionel Basney
We look with the poet, rather than at his or her psychological make-up. We see with his or her eyes.
Colin Duriez
None of us should feel that we have to die to have dignity.
Diane Coleman
Clear and precise seeing becomes as one with clear and precise thinking.
Edward R. Tufte
Einstein believed
that if we could go fast enough,
time would begin to slow,
then stop,
and eventually go backward.
But each morning we wake,
hurtling toward the dawn,
just as ignorant, as magnificently
stupid
as we'd been when we fell
asleep the night before.
Frayach Ni Cuill
We are loved by an unending love.
We are embraced by arms that find us
even when we are hidden from ourselves.
We are touched by fingers that soothe us
even when we are too sad for soothing.
We are counseled by voices that guide us
even when we are too embittered to hear.
We are loved by an unending love.
We are supported by hands that uplift us even the midst of a fall.
We are urged on by eyes that meet us even when we are too confused for meeting.
We are loved by an unending love.
Embraced, touched, soothed, and counseled -
Ours are the arms, the fingers, the voices;
Ours are the hands, the eyes, the smiles.
We are loved by an unending love.
Rabbi Rami Shapiro
The challenges of country life hone our relationships with one another towards resilience, forbearance, over the long haul. We are committed to the land; She is the ground for our connectoins, and She holds us steadfastly, whatever the variable weather of our partnerships/friendships/loverships.
Bethroot Gwynn
A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would wind a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.
Abraham Lincoln
When I die, I might as well die alive.
Harriet McBryde Johnson
War isn't about so much the horror as it is the way you're forced to confront your weaknesses.
Ginmarie
Isaac Singer argued that storytellers might have the best chance of anyone to "rescue civilization." Writing fiction might not seem like the most direct way to improve the human condition, but Singer suggested that in a world where politics often failed, or worse, succeeded disastrously, intelligent, logical interactions with the world - the kind Gimpel spent a lifetime avoiding - may well be overrated. "Some of my cronies in the cafeteria near The Jewish Daily Forward in New York call me a pessimist and a decadent," Singer told his Swedish audience, "but there is always a background of faith behind resignation."
Attribution unavailable
You say You like it
You say You don't like it.
I ask you: Do you know its name?
Barbara Ruth
The truth about wars is often full of ambiguities and almost always charged with anguish. But the assumption behind most censorship is that human beings can't absorb too much anguish, that they are soft and fragile, mere hothouse flowers who will wither in a cold wind. But I think that assumption is wrong. The commonplace endures: The truth hurts. But without the truth we live in a country of mushy platitudes and manipulated indifference.
Pete Hamill
You have to understand that the past is not just over. History is an ongoing struggle. It's not a story with a good or bad ending. Our role in it is what makes it unfold in a certain direction. Therefore the past is not even passed, and the future is always there. It's the connection that matters.
Daniel Libeskind
The more that I studied horses the less I felt like riding them, probably out of respect. I shouldn't interfere. For me it's more the animal that interests me than its uses.
Claudia Feh
You must enter in
To the small silences between
The leaves
You must take your time
And touch the very peace
They issue from.
From the Keddem Congregation Friday night prayer book
We are all in cages of one kind of another, I suddenly realized. The dignity of caring and bravely showing it was something nobody could take away.
Dawn Prince-Hughes.
They saw the little dark shape of the hobbit start across the floor holding his tiny light aloft.
J.R.R. Tolkien