Some Quotes for the Soul and Mind

Jan 07, 2008 00:39

**"Road rage, air rage," Carlin rails. "Why should I be forced to divide my rage into separate categories? To me, it's just one big, all-around, everyday rage. I don't have time for fine distinctions." From "Napalm & Silly Putty" by George Carlin

**"It can be argued that the emergence of any intellegent species co-opting a planet's resources in the service of advancing technology and agriculture will necessarily cause a planetary mass extinction." from "Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe" By Peter D. Ward and Donald Brownlee

**"If this was the president, the country was in worse shape than he thought" - Mike McQuay's Escape from New York

**The greatest danger to our future is apathy. - Jane Goodall

**Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference. - Jane Goodall

**If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way. - Jane Goodall

**That I did not fail was due in part to patience.... - Jane Goodall

**The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves. - Jane Goodall

**Especially now when views are becoming more polarized, we must work to understand each other across political, religious and national boundaries. - Jane Goodall

**Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change. - Jane Goodall

**Anyone who tries to improve the lives of animals invariably comes in for criticism from those who believe such efforts are misplaced in a world of suffering humanity. - Jane Goodall

**I do get cynical, but what can you do? It doesn't make any difference. - Kurt Russell

**We are in a democratic society. It's our job to question. - Kurt Russell

**The lack of humility before nature that's being displayed here, uh... staggers me. - Ian Malcolm in Jurassic Park

**Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should. - Ian Malcolm in Jurassic Park

**If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us it's that life will not be contained. Life breaks free, expands to new territory, and crashes through barriers, painfully, maybe even dangerously. - Ian Malcolm in Jurassic Park

**Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. - J. R. R. Tolkien

**Little by little, one travels far. - J. R. R. Tolkien

**All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

**It's a dangerous business going out your front door. - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

**All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954

**Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. - Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898), Alice in Wonderland

**If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there. - Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898)

**Everything has got a moral if you can only find it. - Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898)

**"I've had nothing yet", Alice replied in an offended tone: "so I ca'n't take more."
"You mean you ca'n't take *less*. It's very easy to take *more* than nothing." - the Mad Hatter's response to Alice (Lewis Carroll)

**We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)

**Put up with it and you will get more of it. - Lynne Deal

**Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives. - Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999

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