the quote thread

[AntiArbitrator]

Sometimes the hardest part isn't letting go, but rather learning to start over. --Nicole Sobon

[Mistermoonlight]

“It's not our job to appeal to the lowest common denominator, it's our job to raise it."
-- Josiah Bartlet

[mercurytheatre]

"Do you know that 'if' is the middle word in life? 'If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you'..." – I mean, I'm no, I can't – I'm a little man, I'm a little man, he's, he's a great man. I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across floors of silent seas – I mean –...(Note: This is a variation on T.S. Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, with the 'If you can keep your head...' a quote from Rudyard Kipling's If)

[SoCal]

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

-- Andre Gide

[mercurytheatre]

"It is like peeling back the layers of an onion"

- Dr. Fettig -

[Aeryn]

Waiter in Chinese restaurant: " May I take your order?"

Customer: "Yes, I'd like the Cream of Some Young Guy."

[avp60685]

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
Hermann Hesse

[SoCal]

“Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.”

¯ Allen Saunders

[Aeryn]

"Do unto others...then split."[/b]

[SoCal]

“Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.”

¯ Mae West

[AntiArbitrator]

The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy,
whether stuck in a time of pain...or joy. _{--Alan Lightman}

[avp60685]

"Not all who wander are lost" J.R.R. Tolkien

Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
Joseph Conrad

[SoCal]

“People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.”

¯ Mother Teresa

[jamesottosweethart]

^^^ God doesn't forgive people until they ask him to so why should we be any different? I don't forgive until my forgiveness is asked for.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

[SoCal]

I don't remember Christ on the cross being asked for forgiveness when he cried out, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do."


“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”

¯ C.S. Lewis

[SoCal]

"Every time I think you’ve reached the limits of arrogance, you show me new heights. Truly, your egotism is like the Universe—ever expanding.”


¯ Ilona Andrews

[SoCal]

“It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.”


¯ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[avp60685]

Rev. Russell: What are you doing sitting in a corner Simon?
Simon: Thinking about God.
Rev. Russell: In a corner?
Simon: Faith is not in a floor plan.


From the movie "Simon Birch"

[SoCal]

“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.”


¯ Ralph Waldo Emerson

[AntiArbitrator]

If you pretend to be something long enough, it's not pretending. _--Shelby

[SoCal]

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.”

¯ Ambrose Redmoon

[AntiArbitrator]

Set out to correct the world's wrongs
___ and you will almost certainly add to them. _{--Harold Finch}

[Watchtower]

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."

[AntiArbitrator]

Mr. Callen: It's hard to find good friends in our line of work.
Hetty: It's hard to find them anywhere.

[SoCal]

“Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.”

¯ John Wayne

[mercurytheatre]

"

The two stewardesses in first class were tidy, handsome, efficient, and very polite. It was restful to find they had apparently not been programmed to smile constantly. The drink cart was well stocked, and it stopped as often as you wanted it to. Lunch was late, fairly heavy, and though no gourmet feast, was served in a manner which had more of the illusion of permanence than is created by the disposable plastics of the domestic airlines in the States.
The plates were heavy cream-colored china with a gold band. Tablecloth and napkins were thick linen. The cutlery was massive silver plate, and the cream, sugar, salt, and pepper came in chunky, permanent, cut-glass containers.
Meyer found the whole thing pleasantly inconsistent. “The jet aircraft is a limited life-support system. It hangs up here, above the thunderheads, heated, pressurized, ventilated, with food and water and waste disposal. The duration of the system depends on the fuel supply. So, if one comes down at the wrong place at the wrong speed for the wrong reasons, the logical debris should be of disposable items. Travis, the mind boggles at visions of a wooded hill littered with broken pieces of dinner plates, cups, saucers and silver tableware. As if a dining room fell out of the sky. Those horrid little plastic compartmented plates and cardboard shotglasses for the cream and salad dressing are more apt for scenes of disaster. So the whole bit is an affirmation that it can’t possibly fall out of the sky. Subtle and interesting. Now if they could cover these jukebox plastic bulkheads with a very thin layer of teak or library oak…”

Dress Her In Indigo
-John D. MacDonald-

[SoCal]

“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”

― François de La Rochefoucauld

[ezpzy]

The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say,
---but what we are unable to say._{--Anais Nin}

[SoCal]

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”


¯ Charles M. Schulz

[jamesottosweethart]

Mar 12, 2013 16:28:36 GMT -5 ezpzy said:

The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say,
---but what we are unable to say._{--Anais Nin}

Amen.

God bless you always!!!

Holly