You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act. --Barbara Hall
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. -- James A. Froude
Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them. -- Homer A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling. -- Arthur Brisbane
I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils. -- Euripides
"It reminded me of this book I found the other day. It was about the Lord of this place called the 'Dreaming'. The gates sound familar...It was a real interesting book too."
Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might. Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC), The Libation Bearers
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends. Jacques Delille
If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow. William McFee
They say that blood is thicker than water. Maybe that's why we battle our own with more energy and gusto than we would ever expend on strangers. David Assael, Northern Exposure, Family Feud, 1993
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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Brett Butler, 'Knee Deep in Paradise'
"Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives."
William Dement, in Newsweek, 1959
"There is no remedy for love but to love more."
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Journal, July 25, 1839
"Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age."
Jeanne Moreau
"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990), in Forbes Magazine
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--Barbara Hall
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
-- James A. Froude
Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.
-- Homer
A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
-- Arthur Brisbane
I know indeed what evil I intend to do,
but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury,
fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.
-- Euripides
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Ok. That was a horrible cliche, I'll admit it.
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Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC), The Libation Bearers
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
Jacques Delille
If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.
William McFee
They say that blood is thicker than water. Maybe that's why we battle our own with more energy and gusto than we would ever expend on strangers.
David Assael, Northern Exposure, Family Feud, 1993
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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