| "When you're out on the front lines, and you're watching them fall.
It don't take long to realize, it aint worth fighting for."
--Brian Adams "He turns not back who is bound to a star." --Leonardo Da Vinci "A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded." --Tyne Daly "The stones that Critics hurl with Harsh Intent / A Man may use to build a Monument." --Arthur Guiterman "In the game of life, nothing is less important than the score at half time." --Anon. "Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can." --Elsa Maxwell "Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another." --Madonna "There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go." --Tennessee Williams "I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel." --Gloria Naylor "Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger." --St. Basil "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." --Eleanor Roosevelt If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you."' --Winnie the Pooh "If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend." --Stone Temple Pilots "We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere" -- Tim McGraw "Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting." --Christopher Morely "Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go." --William Feather "If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it." "Come the millennium, month 12, In the home of greatest power, The village idiot will come forth to be acclaimed the leader." --Nostradamus; 1555 "The people united will never be defeated." Tell them it wasn't easy. When they look back and see 125 wins, tell them we never took a single one for granted. Teach them about our passion And our patience. If they ask who was our star, give them 25 names. And if you forget our names just tell them we were Yankees And in the season of our lives we became a team A team that could make people believe baseball could be magic, and men could be perfect. --The 1998 World Series Video about the NY Yankees "Look down the road to her wedding, I'm in a room alone with her, fitting her veil, fluffing her dress and telling her no woman ever looked so beautiful and my one fear is that she'll be thinking, I wish my mom was here." "And my fear is that she won't" --Julia Roberts and Susan Sarandon in Stepmom before Susan Sarandon dies and leaves Julia, the stepmom in charge of the kids. "If its and buts were candy and nuts we'd all have a merry Christmas." --Colby from Survivor 2 "You know someone said the world's a stage and each much play a part. Fate had me playing in love with you as my sweetheart. Act 1 was when we met. I loved you at first glance. You read your lines so cleverly and never missed a cue. Then came Act 2. Using the change, you acted strange and why I've never known. Honey you lied with you said you loved me and I had no cause to doubt you. But I'd rather go on hearing your lies, then to go on living without you. Now the stage is bare and I'm standing there with emptiness all around and if you won't come back to me, then they can bring the curtain down." --Elvis "Are you lonesome tonight?" "It s not enough to be good if you have the ability to be better." --Alberta Lee Cox "Be the change you want to see in this world." --Gandhi "Character is what we do when we think no one is looking." --H. Jackson Brown, Jr. "If a man hasn t discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live." --Martin Luther King JR. "When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in a manner so that when you die the world cries and you rejoice." --Native American proverb "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. " --Chinese Proverbs "Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself." "In youth we learn; in age we understand." --Marie von Ebner Eschenbach "No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back." -- Turkish proverb "This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave." --Elmer Davis "Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land. And I'm happy, tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord." --Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), Memphis, Tennessee, 3 April 1968 (The evening prior to his assassination.) "Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye." --H. Jackson Brown, Jr. "Money talks. But it can't sing and dance, and it can't walk. As long as I can have you here with me, I'd much rather be forever in blue jeans." --Neil Diamond - from Forever in Blue Jeans "When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." --Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) "There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread." --Gamdhi "Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do . . . Where there's love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong." --Ella Fitzgerald "Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box." "The mighty oak tree was once a little nut that held its ground" "The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable." --Paul Tillich "Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be." --Clementine Paddleford "Our entire life--consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are." --Jean Anouilh The more I swallow my tears, Bigger the ocean forms in my heart. And I’m drowning, Standing on the ground. --hang o’nem "The election can't be broken. We just fixed it." --Florida 2000 "The last time somebody listened to a Bush, folks wandered in the desert for 40 years" Quotes form Jane Austin letters: letter of May 31, 1811, On the Peninsular War:
—-Robert Allen They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them. —-Gandhi Passion is not Arrogance. You ever hear that story about Babe Ruth pointing towards the fence before he belted a home run exactly where he said it would? No one knows if it's true or not; it's like a myth. But man, you sure want to believe it happened. You want to believe that someone could have that much faith in themselves, in what they do, in what they're capable of, that they'd guarantee they're going to do something and then go ahead and do it. —-A Nike Ad What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail? —-Dr. Robert Schuller A slipping gear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire when you least expect it. That would make you quite unpopular in what's left of your unit. —-In the August 1993 issue, page 9, of PS magazine, the Army's magazine of preventive maintenance 44. G: If we do happen to step on a mine, Sir, what do we do? EB: Normal procedure, Lieutenant, is to jump 200 feet in the air and scatter oneself over a wide area. —-Somewhere in No Man's Land, BA4 The United States needs to create a world made more just and more hopeful, not just a world made more profitable for ourselves. I hope that this President’s record makes it damn hard for the competition to complain about his record in foreign policy. That may be bad for the loyal opposition. But it’s good for the people, who deserve it. And I promise my support for whatever he may do in support of that prayer. --Al Gore; February 12, 2002 A broken hand works, but not a broken heart. --Persian Proverb A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. --Greek Proverb Call on God, but row away from the rocks. --Indian Proverb Row, row, row your boat Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily Life is but a dream. --Traditional Song They say that these are not the best of times, But they're the only times I've ever known. And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own. --Billy Joel, "Summer, Highland Falls" You've got to get up every morning with a smile on your face And show the world all the love in your heart Then people gonna treat you better You're gonna find, yes you will That you're beautiful as you feel. --Carole King, "Beautiful" “The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half- inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.” --Robert Brault “The mark of a successful man is one that has spent an entire day on the bank of a river without feeling guilty about it.” --Anon. "Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it." --Jacques Prévert "There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling." --Mirabel Osler "Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing." --John Andrew Holmes "A person who can speak many languages is not necessarily more valuable than a person who can listen in one." I’m going out tonight—I’m feelin’ alright Gonna let it all hang out Wanna make some noise—really raise my voice Yeah, I wanna scream and shout No inhibitions—make no conditions Get a little outta line I ain’t gonna act politically correct I only wanna have a good time The best thing about being a woman Is the prerogative to have a little fun --Shania Twain “Man! I Feel like a woman!” I’d love to wake up smiling—full of the joys of spring And hear on CNN that Elvis lives again And that John’s back with the Beatles and they’re goin’ out on tour I’ll be the first in line for tickets—gotta see that show for sure --Shania Twain “When” "People will always be walking in and out of your life. that's what friendship is like. you hold it like sand...squeeze too tightly and you'll lose it, but hold loosely and it will stay in the palm of your hand. As people come and go...it's a friend that will stop by once in a while and say..hey how's it going?...a true friend that will say...sorry we lost so much.....but it's those special people that will say...i'm sorry to have to leave and i can't wait to come back..." the words might not be exact...but it comes from the heart and that what makes them special...." --My friend's IM Profile To do is to be. -- Descartes To be is to do. -- Voltaire Do be do be do.-- Frank Sinatra I can't believe that out of 100,000 sperm, you were the quickest. --Steven Pearl Don't take life too serious. You'll never escape it alive anyway. --Elbert Hubbard "We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another." --Luciano de Crescenzo "Even on the road to hell, flowers can make you smile." --Deng Ming-Dao "Heroism consists in hanging on one minute longer." --Norwegian proverb "When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it... always." --Mahatma Gandhi "Live every day like it's your last because someday you'll be right." "Tell me what you're laughing at and I shall tell you who you are." --Goethe Burn as long as you live Let no one kill your light Burn so we all can see you Refuse being a living dead --Graffiti, Gamlestan i remember the days when i was so eager to satisfy you and be less then i was just to prove i could walk beside you now that I've flown away i see you've chosen to stay behind me and still you curse the day i decided to stay true to myself you say your quest is to bring it higher well i never seen change without a fire but from your mouth i have seen a lot of burning but underneath i think it's a lot of yearning your face, the colours change from green to yellow to the point where you can't even say hello you tell me you'd kill me if i ever snob you out like that's what you'd expect from me, like that's what i'm about --Nelly Furtado "On the Radio" "Some people think it's holding on that makes you strong, sometimes it's letting go." “My parents’ house is harder to go to now cuz they’re always in the yard, pickin’ the grass.” --Lance Bass "You can never have a rainbow, without a little rain." "Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together." "Sometimes someone says something really small, and it just fits right into this empty place in your heart." "Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't." --Erica Jong "Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it." --Ellen Glasgow "To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation." --Lichtenberg "The end of a dock is not an obstacle, it's an opportunity to get on a boat." --Duane Alan Hahn "Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy." --Guillaume Apollinaire “remember who you wanted to be” -—bumper sticker “I truly believe we could fly if we wanted to.” -—Justin Timberlake “If the dogs are barking at your heels, you know you're leading the pack.” --Anon. "You're out of this world, except you're not green" --Justin Timberlake "Nothin' Else" "Justin, on the other hand, was in a band with Joey Fatone and a gay guy who wants to be sent to the moon. It was vital that he, at least, looked somewhat balanced." --www.whatever-dude.com "I always knew that looking back at my tears would make me laugh, but I never thought that looking back at my laughter would make me cry." --Cat Stevens "The sun's gonna shine and the rain's gonna fall. In the end you might get burnt or wet, but that's life. So dance in the puddles, bathe in the sun, and at the end of the day smile. Everything's gonna be alright." "Should I smile because he's my friend? Or cry because that's all he'll ever be?" "Don't miss anyone from your past, there's a reason they didn't make it to your future." "I hate the way you're always right, I hate the way you lie. I hate the way you make me laugh, and worse when you make me cry. I hate the fact that you're not around and that you never call. But most of all I hate the fact that I don't hate you at all." "The worst way to miss someone is when they're standing right next to you and you know you can't have them." "I miss you when something really good happens, because you're the one I want to share it with. I miss you when something is troubling me, because you're the one who understands me so well. I miss you when I laugh and cry, because I know that you are the one that makes my laughter grow, and my tears disappear. I miss you all the time, but I miss you the most when I lay awake at night, and think of all the wonderful times that we spent with each other, for those were some of the best and most memorable times of my life. And you were my best friend." "Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain." "Sometimes, you die. And sometimes when you fall, you fly" "You could ask me what means more to me; my life or you. And I'd say my life, and you'd walk away angry, not knowing that you are my life" "I remember all the feelings and the day they stopped" |