(1) "Come and relax now, put your troubles down, no need to bear the weight of your worries here, let them all fall away..." --Pantala Naga Pampa, by The Dave Matthews Band
(2) “The universe puts us in places where we can learn. They are never easy places, but they are right. Wherever we are, it's the right place, and the right time. The pain that sometimes comes is part of the process of constantly being born." –Delenn, Babylon 5
(3) "We all have something to hide. And we all have something to tell. We all have a secret name. We all have a question. One question that unlocks our hearts." "What is your Question?" "Why?" --Galen and Dureena, Crusade
(4) “How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.” --Lou Holtz
(5) "The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything." --Bishop W. C. Magee
(6) “He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.” --Friedrich Nietzsche
(7) “Experience has taught me that we have to take care of ourselves from the outside in as well as from the inside out. In other words, we need to take care of our internal health as well as our physical appearance, and our mental and spiritual well being. You may think I'm stating the obvious, but I think the reason so many programs fail is that they focus on one body part at a time instead of treating the whole person.” --Julian Whitaker
(8) "Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." --Soren Kierkegaard
(9) “Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is at their heels.” --Bertolt Brecht
(10) “Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” --Anais Nin
(11) “Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.” --Ruth Ann Schabacker
(12) “Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there
are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.” --Dale Turner
(13) “Just so we're clear: once we go, this is my command. I'll do whatever's necessary. If that means turning the entire galaxy upside down and shaking its pockets to see what falls out, that's what I'll do. I'm not subtle, I'm not pretty, and I'll piss off a helluva lot of people along the way, but I'll get the job done.” --Captain Gideon, Crusade
(14) “Dream big dreams, then put on your overalls and go out and make the dreams come true.” --Fred Van Amburgh
(15) “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” --Martin Luther King, Jr.
(16) “You like going nowhere at one hundred and twenty miles an hour?" "Of course, that is man's natural condition." --Lt. Matheson and Galen, Crusade
(17) “All successful people, men and women, are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.” --Brian Tracy
(18) “Defeat is a state of mind. No one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality. To me, defeat in anything is merely temporary, and its punishment is but an urge for me to greater effort to achieve my goal. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth.” -- Bruce Lee
(19) “Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.” --Cherie Carter-Scott
(20) “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” --George Bernard Shaw
(21) "You must learn, one day, to forgive God for decisions. I'm sure it will greatly relieve him." --Isabelle to Galen, Crusade
(22) “Is there a cure among us, from this processed sanity? I weaken with each voice that sings. In this world of purchase, I'm going to buy back memories to awaken some old qualities. Have I got a long way to run? Yeah, I run.” --“Run,” by Collective Soul
(23) “If it seems like I’ve been lost in let’s remember. If you think I’m feeling older and missing my younger days, oh, then you should have known me much better, ‘cause my past is something that never got in my way. Oh no.” –“Keeping the Faith,” by Billy Joel
(24) “Once you've done the mental work, there comes a point you have to
throw yourself into the action and put your heart on the line. That
means not only being brave, but being compassionate towards yourself,
your teammates and your opponents.” --Phil Jackson
(25) “The world is divided into people who do things and people who get
the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's
far less competition.” --Dwight Whitney Morrow
(26) “There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.” --St. Thomas Aquinas
(27) “You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. Your
mind gets bored and therefore tired of doing nothing. Get interested
in something! Get absolutely enthralled in something! Get out of yourself!
Be somebody! Do something. The more you lose yourself in something
bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.” --Norman Vincent Peale
(28) “There are only two ways to live your life. One as though nothing
is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” --Albert Einstein
(29) “Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants
to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things
than we realize.” --Norman Vincent Peale
(30) “There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than
the long range risks of comfortable inaction.” - John F. Kennedy
(31) “Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.” --Confucius
(32) “When we have our body and mind in order, everything else will exist
in the right place, in the right way. But usually, without being
aware of it, we try to change something other than ourselves, we try
to order things outside us. But it is impossible to organize things
if you yourself are not in order. When you do things in the right
way, at the right time, everything else will be organized.” --Shunryu Suzuki
(33) “We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his
or her own light.” --Earl Nightingale
(34) “If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then
this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have
learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not
care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even
the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.” -- Abraham Lincoln
(35) “We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things
in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's
evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish
and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them
to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely
hope that their dreams will come true.” -- Woodrow T. Wilson
(36) “Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil
them to the eyes of men. Silently and perceptibly, as we wake or sleep,
we grow strong or weak; and last some crisis shows what we have
become.” --Brooke Foss Westcott
(37) “You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day
is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just
a matter of paying attention to this miracle.” -- Paulo Coelho
(38) “He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as
surely as if he had failed.” --William James
(39) “Ask advice from everyone, but act with your own mind.” --Yiddish proverb
(40) “The interesting thing is that there are so few important decisions.
You don't have to go in the "right" direction. You don't have to
enter the "right" business. What you have to do is have made a decision
as to what you're going to do and then you just have to figure
out how to succeed at it.” -- Ken Oshman ~
(41) “Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.” --William A. Ward
(42) “Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when
you are cruel.” --Bible, Proverbs 11:17
(43)
“The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given
it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not and never
persist in trying to set people right.” --Hannah Whitall Smith
(44) “Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.” --Brendan Francis
(45)“Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with
your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you
choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.” Carl Schurz
(46) “Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is
an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if
they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn?
What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice.
Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
(47)
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and
endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with
a success unexpected in common hours...If you have built castles in
the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now
put foundations under them.” -- Henry David Thoreau
(48) “But when the night is falling and you cannot find a friend, you feel your tree is breaking, just then…You’ve got the music in you, don’t let go. You’ve got the music in you, one dance left. This world is going to pull through. Don’t give up, you’ve got a reason to live, can’t forget, you only get what you give. This whole damn world can fall apart, you’ll be okay, follow your heart. You’re in harm’s way, I’m right behind, now say you’re mine…” --“You Get What You Give,” by The New Radicals
(49) “Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it.” --Ferris Bueller, “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”
(50) "You never know what you're going to do until you do it" --Holden Caulfield in J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye
(51) “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist
sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” --Winston Churchill
(52) "Life happens while you're busy making other plans" --John Lennon
(53) “I am the son, I am the heir of the shyness that is criminally vulgar, I am the son and the heir of nothing in particular. You shut your mouth, how can you say I go about things the wrong way? I am human and I need to be loved, just like everybody else does…” --“How Soon Is Now,” by The Smiths
(54) “Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does all the work.” --Mark Twain
(55) "And I hope, and only time will tell, I hope I never lose my mind. I will lose my sense or I will not, too far from here or where nobody can find. Never lose my hair, I would hate to go without it. Never lose direction, hope to roam about. Never lose my courage, never lose my hope. Never lose my girl, makin' her to cope. Hope I never lose my wallet. And last of all, not least of all, I hope I never lose my mind
I will lose my ..... but not too far from here where nobody can find." --"Hope I Never Lose My Wallet," by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
(56) "If you want to stand out, don't be different, be outstanding." - Meredith West (thanks Stacey!)
(57) "There is no other way. Please believe me. All my life I've searched for a way to serve others. To me there is no higher calling, no greater destiny than to live for another, and if necessary, to die for another. To somehow make the world a better place. I've done all I could on my world. I came looking for a reason, a way to live out my remaining years with direction and purpose. Here I've found it. I will save lives." -- Draal, Babylon 5
(58) "I am a fragment of a mirror whose whole design and shape I do not know. Nevertheless, with what I have I can reflect light into dark places of this world- into the black places in the hearts of men- and change some things in some people. Perhaps others may see and do likewise. This is what I am about. This is the meaning of my life" --Robert Fulghum
(59) “Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.” -- Ching Ning Chu
(60) "In the world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants and the other is getting it" -Oscar Wilde
(61) "Nobody else here baby. No one here to blame. No one to point the finger, it's just you and me and the rain. It's the blind leading the blond, it's the stuff, it's the stuff of country songs. If God will send his angels and if God will send a sign and if God will send his visions, would everything be alright?" --"If God Will Send His Angels," by U2
(62) “Everything falls apart, then I get to try to put it back together, then it
falls apart, you can count on that, you can count on that…” –“Everything Falls Apart,” by Dog’s Eye View
(63) “There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.” –Henry James
(64) "To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men- that is genius" --Ralph Waldo Emerson
(65) "Maybe the doc's right. Embrace the moment. In the end, that's all we have. Trouble will come in its own time, it always does. But that's tomorrow. Give me today, and I will be happy." -- Captain Sheridan , Babylon 5
(66) "I am happy and content because I think I am." -- Lesage
(67) "In the arms of the Angel far away from here. From this dark, cold hotel room, and the endlessness that you feel. You are pulled from the wreckage of your silent reverie, you're in the arms of the Angel; may you find some comfort here..." --"Angel," by Sarah Mclachlan
(68) “When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.” -- William A. Ward
(69) “You are wherever your thoughts are. Make sure your thoughts are where you want to be.” --Rebbe Nachman
(70) "But it is said: Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger." --J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings
(71) "I often marvel that while each man loves himself more than anyone else, he sets less value on his own estimate than on the opinion of others" --Marcus Aurelius
(72) "And I'd give up forever to touch you, 'cause I know that you feel me somehow. You're the closest thing to heaven that I'll ever be and I don't want to go home right now. And all I can taste is this moment. And all I can breathe is your life, 'cause sooner or later it's over. I just don't want to miss you tonight. And I don't want the world to see me, 'cause I don't think that they'd understand. When everything's made to be broken, I just want you to know who I am..." --"Iris," by The Goo-Goo Dolls
(73) “When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on!” -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
(74) “The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn’t indicate or promise, and which the other kind couldn’t detect.” --Mark Twain
(75) “Well we all fall in love, but we disregard the danger. Though we share so many secrets there are some we never tell. Why were you so surprised that you never saw the stranger? Did you ever let your lover see the stranger in yourself? Don't be afraid to try again, everyone goes south every now and then. You've done it, why can't someone else?
You should know by now, you've been there yourself.” --“The Stranger,” By Billy Joel
(76) "Give me a lever big enough and I will move the world." – Captain Sheridan, Babylon 5
(77) "Would you know my name if I saw you in heaven? Would it be the same if I saw you in heaven? I must be strong and carry on, 'cause I know I don't belong here in heaven. Would you hold my hand if I saw you in heaven? Would you help me stand if I saw you in heaven? I'll find my way through night and day, 'cause I know I just can't stay here in heaven..." --"Tears in Heaven," by Eric Clapton
(78) "Two roads diverged in the woods and I chose the path least traveled and that has made all the difference" --Robert Frost
(79) “You must have long range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short range failures.” --Charles C. Noble
(80) "It's so hard to face, that in this day and age somebody's race could trigger somebody's rage. And somebody's preference can drive some total stranger to make somebody, somehow feel the wrath of their anger. Why were we put here? What for? We're unsure, we sure weren't put here to hate. Be racist, be sexist
be bigots, be sure, we won't stand for your hate, get that straight... --"Let's Face It," by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
(81) "It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end" -- Ursula K. LeGuin
(82) "Our best chance of touching the eternal in our own small ways is to live the life we're given, savoring the now, deciding for the future, remembering always that the secrets of the stars are folded tightly into the mysterious center of this precious moment." --Thomas Kinkade
(83) “Understanding is a three edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth." –Captain Sheridan, Babylon 5
(84) "Try not, do or do not, there is no try." --Yoda, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
(85) “Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.” --Mark Twain
(86) “The working day was long and the road is grinding on and your body's winding down again. The tribal fire's here and the circle speaks so near and the simple truth so very much clearer. Who got the hooch, baby? Who got the only sweetest thing in the world?
Who got the love, who got the fresh-e-freshy? Who got the only sweetest thing in the world?” --“Hooch,” by Everything
(87) "A darkness carried in the heart can not be cured by moving the body from one place to another." – Lennier, Babylon 5
(88) "True happiness is the exercise of vital powers along lines of excellence in a life affording them scope." --Aristotle
(89) “We’ve come a long way together, through the hard times and the grief. I have to praise you like I should. I have to praise you.” “Praise You,” by Fatboy Slim
(90) "Oh the places you will go! You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose" --Dr. Seuss
(91) "Has our conscience shown? Has the sweet breeze blown? Has all the kindness gone? Hope still lingers on." --"The World I Know," by Collective Soul
(92) "Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared" --Buddha
(93) "To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer." --Ghandi
(94) "We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams" --Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
(95) "Have you ever been close to tragedy or been close to folks who have? Have you ever felt a pain so powerful so heavy you collapse? I've never had to knock on wood, but I know someone who has, which makes me wonder if I could, it makes me wonder if I've never had to knock on wood and I'm glad I haven't yet, because I'm sure it isn't good, that's the impression that I get..." --"The Impression That I Get," by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
(96) "No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by the force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power governments, and tyrants, and armies can not stand." --G'Kar, Babylon 5
(97) "What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me: no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so." --Hamlet, by Shakespeare
(98) "You're not going crazy Arthur, you're going sane in a crazy world." - The Tick
(99) “It’s noble to be good, and it’s nobler to teach others to be good, and less trouble.” --Mark Twain
(100) "A friend is one who knows all about you and likes you anyway" --Christi Mary Warner
(101) “When you feel yourself getting angry, stop. Imagine yourself as having already exploded and you now feel wasted. For that’s what happens when you get angry: your soul leaves you. Do this, and your anger is sure to dissolve.” –Rebbe Nachman
(102) “Some people stay far away from the door if there’s a chance of it opening up. They hear a voice in the hall outside and hope that it passes them by. Some people live with the fear of a touch and the anger of being a fool. They will not listen to anyone, so nobody tells them a lie.” --“An Innocent Man,” by Billy Joel
(103) “All life is transitory, a dream. We all come together in the same place, at the end of time. If I don't see you again here, I will see you, in a little while, in a place where no shadows fall." - Delenn
(104) “Life is hard, and so am I. You'd better give me something so I don't die. Novocain for the soul, before I sputter out.” --“Novocain for the Soul,” by the Eels
(105) "The job now is to turn this around and make it into something positive. My dad always told me that's the only way you deal with pain; you don't surrender, you don't fight it, you turn it into something positive. He used to say: 'If you are falling off a cliff, you may as well try to fly. You've got nothing to lose.'" -John Sheridan, Babylon 5
(106) "To live on in hearts we leave behind is not to die."
(107) "No, she's always quiet. We think maybe there's something wrong with her."
"Yes .. or something very right. The quiet ones are the ones that change the universe, Luc Derardi. The loud ones only take the credit." - Luc Derardi and Londo in Babylon 5
(108) "Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself." --"Before You Accuse Me," by Eric Clapton
(109) “So don't delay act now supplies are running out. Allow if you're still alive six to eight years to arrive. And if you follow there may be a tomorrow, but if the offer is shunned you might as well be walkin' on the sun.” –“Walking on the Sun,” by Smash Mouth
(110) "To live on as we have is to leave behind joy, and love, and companionship, because we know it to be transitory, of the moment. We know it will turn to ash. Only those, whose lives are brief, can imagine that love is eternal. You should embrace that remarkable illusion. It may be the greatest gift your race has ever received." – Lorien, Babylon 5
(111) "Imagination is more important than knowledge" -- Albert Einstein
(112) "I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge, that myth is
more potent than history, that dreams are more powerful than facts,
that hope always triumphs over experience, that laughter is the only
cure for grief, and I believe that love is stronger than death." -Robert Fulgram (Thanks for the great quote Elizabeth!)
(113) "It might be helpful for you to know that you are not alone. And that in the long, twilight struggle, which lies ahead of us, there is the possibility of hope." --Draal, Babylon 5
(114) “It’s easy to criticize others and make them feel unwanted. Anyone can do it. What takes effort and skill is picking them up and making them feel good.” –Rebbe Nachman
(115) “Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.” --Mark Twain
(116) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." --Aristotle
(117) “People talking without speaking, people hearing without listening, people writing songs that voices never share, and no one dare disturb the Sound of Silence.” –“The Sound of Silence,” by Simon and Garfunkle
(118) "Well," said Pooh, "what I like best--" and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called." - A.A. Milne, from The House at Pooh Corner
(119) "We are all the sum of our tears; To little and the ground is not fertile and
nothing can grow there; too much, the best of us is washed away. " -G'Kar, Babylon 5
(120) "Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow, don't walk behind me, I may not lead, just walk besides me and be my friend."
(121) "We met by chance, but became friends by choice." (Thanks Steff!)
(122) "It's easy to find something worth dying for. Do you have anything worth living for?" -Lorien, Babylon 5
(123) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." -Oscar Wilde
(124) "Just remember .. No matter where you go, there you are." - Buckaroo Banzai
(125) "Opportunity is often missed because it's dressed in suspenders and
looks like work." -anonymous
(126) "Don't you draw the queen of diamonds boy, she'll beat you if she's able.
You know the queen of hearts is always your best bet. Now it seems to me some fine things have been laid upon your table, But you only want the ones you can't get." –“Desperado”, by the Eagles
(127) “If you believe that you can damage, then believe that you can fix. If you believe that you can harm, then believe that you can heal.” –Rebbe Nachman
(128) "Let me pass on to you the one thing I've learned about this place. No one here is exactly what he appears." -G'Kar, Babylon 5
(129) “The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate for the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the occasion. We cannot escape history. We will be remembered, in spite of ourselves. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the last generation. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose our last best hope for Earth." –Abraham Lincoln
(130) “Wrinkles should only indicate where smiles have been.” --Mark Twain
(131) "People are like a box of chocolates...some have nuts and some don't!" - Mike Stone
(132) "Sometimes you have to walk over brimstone to reach the pearly gates" - Mike Stone
(133)
(134) "Notice the waves, each moving in its own order, predictable, unchanging. But drop in a single stone and see how the pattern changes. Everything around it is altered. On my world, there are books, thousands of pages, about the power of one mind to change the Universe, but none said it as clearly as this." -Delenn, Babylon 5
(135) "do you worry that you're not liked? how long till you break? you're happy cause you smile, but how much can you fake? an ordinary boy an ordinary name
but ordinary's just not good enough today." –“Superman's “Dead, by Our Lady Peace
(136) "Everyone lies, Michael. The innocent lie because they don't want to be blamed for something they didn't do and the guilty lie because they don't have any other choice." -Commander Sinclair to Michael Garibaldi, Babylon 5
(137) "You know what you need? Shakabuku."
"What's that?"
"The swift spiritual kick to the head that alters your reality forever."
"That sounds great...I think." -Debi Newberry and Martin Blank, Grosse Pointe Blank
(138) "I know who I was when I woke up this morning but I must have changed several times since" -Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
(139) "We live close together and we live far apart. We all go through the same things--its all just a different kind of same thing." -Gladspel, "A jury of Her Peers" (Thanks for the quote Lizzy! )
(140) “The past tempts us, the present confuses us, and the future frightens us, and our lives slip away moment by moment lost in that vast terrible in between, but there is still time to grasp that one last fragile moment.” –Emperor Turhan, Babylon 5
(140) "Where are all the good men dead, in the heart or in the head?" -Debi Newberry, Grosse Pointe Blank
(141) "You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one, I hope some day you'll join us, And the world will live as one." –“Imagine”, by John Lennon
(142) “The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.” --Mark Twain
(143) "I don't know, maybe the universe blinked maybe God changed his mind, all I know is that we got a second chance." -Commander Sinclair, Babylon 5
(144) "Never tell me the odds!" - Han Solo in "Empire Strikes Back"
(145) "No matter what anybody tells you, words & ideas can change the world." -John Keating, Dead Poet's Society
(146) "Then I will tell you a great secret, Captain. Perhaps the greatest of all time. The molecules of your body are the same molecules that make up this station, and the nebula outside, that burn inside the stars themselves. We are star stuff, we are the universe, made manifest, trying to figure itself out. As we have both learned, sometimes the universe requires a change of perspective." –Delenn, Babylon 5
(147) "I, I wish you could swim, like the dolphins, like dolphins can swim. Though nothing, nothing will keep us together, we can beat them, forever and ever.
Oh we can be heroes-just for one day." –“Heroes”, by David Bowie
(148) "It’s not what I think or you think about me that counts, its what I think you think about me."
(149) "Wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us, come because actually deserve them? So now I take comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the Universe." –Marcus Cole, Babylon 5
(150) “I am not going to sit on my ass as the events that affect me unfold to determine the course of my life. I'm going to take a stand. I'm going to defend it. Right or wrong, I'm going to defend it.” --Cameron Frye, “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”
(151) “When I dipt into the future far as human eye could see; Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.” –Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "Locksley Hall"
(152) “Don’t try to be a great man, just be a man and let history make its own judgments.”
–Zephram Cochrane as quoted by Commander Riker, Star Trek First Contact
(153) "Words have meaning and names have power. The universe begun with a word, you know. But which came first: the word or the thought behind the word? You can’t form language without thought and you can’t conceive a thought without language. So which created the other and thus created the universe?" - Lorien in Babylon 5
(154) "She is not perfect. You are not perfect. The question is whether or not you are perfect for each other." -Sean McGuire, Good Will Hunting
(155) "It's true what they say Oatman, you can never go home again, but I guess you can shop there." -Martin Blank to his psychiatrist after discovering his childhood house is now a Mini-Mart in Grosse Pointe Blank
(156) "To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing it's best, night and day to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human can fight and never stop fighting" -e.e. cummings
(157) “Troubles are only mental; it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can forget them, banish them, abolish them.” --Mark Twain
(158) "The only difference that I see is you are exactly the same as you used to be." –“The Difference”, by The Wallflowers
(159) “If you can fill the unforgiving moment with sixty seconds worth of distance, run, for on that day, the world will be yours and what’s more, you’ll be a man my son.” –Rudyard Kipling, "If"
(160) "The avalanche has started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote." -Kosh, Babylon 5
(161) "Time is the fire in which we burn..." -- Dr. Soran, Star Trek: Generations
(162) "You can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if
he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. There are
days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count." -A.A. Milne
(163) "Have you found God yet, Gump?"
"I didn't know I was supposed to be looking for him." -Lieutenant Dan and Forrest Gump, Forrest Gump
(164) "I didn't mean to take up all your sweet time, I'll give it right back to you one of these days. I said I didn't mean to take up all your sweet time, I'll give it right back one of these days. And if I don't meet you no more in this world then I'll, I'll meet you in the next one and don't be late, don't be late." –“Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)”, by Jimi Hendrix
(165) “Courage is mastery of fear—not absence of fear.” --Mark Twain
(166) "This is the time to remember cause it will not last forever. These are the days to hold on to cause we won't although we'll want to. This is the time, but time is gonna change, you've given me the best of you, and now I need the rest of you." –“This is the Time”, by Billy Joel
(167) “A collection of peace where we could live. A collection of hope for us to give. A collection of words that mean we care. A collection of love for us to share.” –“A Collection of Goods,” by Collective Soul
(168) "The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of the future, or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain." -G'Kar, Babylon 5
(169) "Now the flowers in your garden they don't smell so sweet, maybe you've forgotten the heaven lying at your feet... There are so many contradictions
in all these messages we send (We keep asking) How do I get out of here? Where do I fit in? Though the world is torn and shaken even if your heart is breakin' it's waiting for you to awaken, and someday you will- Learn to be still." –“Learn to be still”, by the Eagles
(170) "Real loss is only when you love something more than you love yourself." -Sean McGuire, Good Will Hunting
(171) "am I alive or thoughts that drift away? does summer come for everyone?
can humans do as prophets say? and if I die before I learn to speak
can money pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep?" –“Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand”, by The Primitive Radio Gods
(172) "When I discover who I am, I'll be free" - Ralph Ellison
(173) “Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.” --Mark Twain
(174) “A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.” -Chinese Proverb
(175) "But I can hope."
"Hope is all we have." - Lorien & Sheridan in Babylon 5
(176) “Losing hope is like losing your freedom, like losing yourself.” –Rebbe Nachman
(177) "Never regret what you've done, only what you haven't done"
(178) "You'll love & you'll grieve & one day you'll come believe
As you whistle & you'll smile the lord made you worthwhile
You'll preach and you'll glide on the pulpit in your pride
Sneak & slide across the stage like a river in high tide
You'll come fast or come on slow just the same you'll never know
When the light appears, boy, when the light appears." -Alan Ginsberg, "When the Light Appears"
(179) "If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything." -Michael Evans
(180) "That's why my father taught me to live each second as though it would be the last moment of my life. He said: 'If you love, love without reservation. If you fight, fight without fear.' He called it the way of the warrior." -Captain Sheridan, Babylon 5
(181) "What is a friend? A soul living in two bodies." -Aristotle
(182) "Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end" –“Closing Time,” by Semisonic
(183) "Beware the fury of a patient man." -John Dryden
(184) "A warm smile is the universal language of kindness." -William Arthur Ward
(185) "Hello darkness, my old friend, I've come to talk with you again because a vision softly creeping, left its seeds while I was sleeping and the vision that was planted in my brain, still remains within the sound of silence." –“The Sound of Silence”, by Simon and Garfunkle
(186) "Faith sustains us in the hour when reason tells us that we can not continue, that the whole of our whole lives is without meaning." -Brother Alwyn Macomber, Babylon 5
(187) "It's better to burn out than to fade away!!!" - from the movie "Highlander"
(188) "Hi there, how are ya? It's been a long time. Seems like we've come a long way.
My, but we learn so slow and heroes they come and they go and leave us behind as if we're supposed to know why. Why do we give up our hearts to the past?
And why must we grow up so fast?" –“Pretty Maids All in a Row”, by the Eagles
(189) “If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?” --Oscar Hammerstein
(190) “Visionary is a self-fulfilling prophet. Don't predict the future.
Create it.” --Leland Kaiser
(191) "We did everything that we said we were going to do and nobody can take that away from us or this place." –Zack Allen, Babylon 5
(192) "Standing here the old man said to me 'Long before these crowded streets here stood my dreaming tree,' below it he would sit for hours at a time now progress takes away what forever took to find." –“The Dreaming Tree”, by the Dave Matthews Band
(193) “Now is the time when your action is practice.” --The Dalai Lama
(194) “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” --Charles Darwin
(195) “Courage is not the absence of fear, it is the
conquest of it." -- Unknown
(196) “Keep these concepts in mind: You've failed many times, although you don't remember. You fell down the first time you tried to walk. You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim. .... Don't worry about failure. My suggestion to each of you: Worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try” --Sherman Finesilver
(197) “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.” --Robert Frost
(198) “Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.” --Erich Fromm
(199) "Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for?" --Robert Browning
(200) “If you want to see the brave, look at those who can forgive.” --Bhagavad-Gita
(201) "I don't believe in the no-win scenario" --Admiral James T. Kirk, “Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan”
(202) “Kimmy says if you love someone you say it, you say it right then, out loud. Otherwise the moment just...” “ Passes you by...” --Michael O’Neil and Julianne Potter, “My Best Friend’s Wedding”
(203) "Politically it is very wise." "Morally it is even wiser." "Politics and morality on the same side! That doesn't happen every day, Delenn." -- Vir, Londo, G'Kar, “Babylon 5”
(204) “Where are we going?” “Where they went.” Suppose they went nowhere?” “Then this will be your big chance to get away from it all.” --Dr. McCoy and Admiral Kirk, “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan”
(205) “One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word
is love.” --Sophocles
(206) “The life of the individual only has meaning insofar as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobler and more beautiful. Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value to which all other values are subordinate.” --Albert Einstein
(207) "He says it's important." "Tell me when it is ever not important. All right, please, just tell me when it is ever not important. Go ahead, go ahead, take your time, I can wait. Oh, no, that's right, I can't wait because it's important." -- Zack Allen and Michael Garibaldi in Babylon 5
(208) "I hate it when I go to movies with kids in the audience, because there is always someone there that tells me I can't kill them when they get loud. Now who makes up these rules anyway?" --Eilerson, Crusade
(209) “Today I forgive all those who have ever offended me. I give my love to all thirsty hearts, both to those who love me and to those who do not love me.” --Paramahansa Yogananda
(210) "The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible." --Arthur C. Clarke
(211) “The future is simply infinite possibility waiting to happen. What it waits on is human imagination to crystallize its possibility.” --Leland Kaiser
(212) “The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good.” --Ruth Benedict
(213) “That best portion of a good man's life; his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.” --William Wordsworth
(214) "Silence can sometimes be more revealing than an entire book. And the silence of an honest man is the most revealing silence of all …" --Galen, “Crusade”
(215) andy3105 saw quote #76 and sent me the original quote: "Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, and I can single-handedly move the world" --Archimedes, 2nd Century BC
(216) "When you have reached the end of the road, then you can decide, whether to go to the left or to the right, to fire or water. If you make those decisions before you have even set foot upon the road, it will take you no where ... except to a bad end." --Galen, “Crusade”
(217)
"C'mon, Kup -- we old hands at this game, we know score. Obey orders to a
point. But sometimes to win, you have to bend rules -- take chances!" -- Grimlock, “Transformers” #69
(218) “"Have you ever wondered why there are so many dead worlds out there? Let me tell you why. It's because despite the best advise of people who know what they are talking about, other people insist on doing the most massively stupid things." –Galen, “Crusade”
(219) "Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem
your own reputation. It is better be alone than in bad company." -- George Washington
(220) "A man's judgment is best when he can forget himself and
any reputation he may have acquired and can concentrate wholly
on making the right decisions." -- Raymond A. Spruance
(221) "If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey,
most of us would never start out at all." --Dan Rather
(222) "All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost." -- J. R. R. Tolkien
(223) "He died with one thought in mind - love one another" --Gavin De Becker, referring to the last words of Beatle George Harrison
(224) “Everything else can wait but the search for God cannot wait.” --George Harrison
(225) "There are many intelligent species in the universe.
They are all owned by cats." --Anonymous
(226) “I am. I was!” --Gigalo Joe, “Artificial Intelligence: A.I.”
(227) “What is going to happen?”
”Something wonderful.”
”I'm afraid.”
”Don't be. We'll be together.”
”Where will we be?”
”Where I am now.” --H.A.L. 9000 and Dave Bowen, “2010”
(228) “Remember, Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.” --Andy, “The Shawshank Redemption”
(229) “People say I'm crazy doing what I'm doing
Well they give me all kinds of warnings to save me from ruin
When I say that I'm o.k. well they look at me kind of strange
Surely you're not happy now you no longer play the game…” --“Watching the Wheels,” by the Beatles
(229) “Hey, Jude, don't make it bad. Take a sad song and make it better.
Remember to let her into your heart, then you can start to make it better. Hey, Jude, don't be afraid. You were made to go out and get her. The minute you let her under your skin, then you begin to make it better. And any time you feel the pain, hey, Jude, refrain, don't carry the world upon your shoulders.
Well, don't you know that its a fool who plays it cool, by making his world a little colder…” --“Hey Jude,” by the Beatles
(230) “Drums keep pounding a rhythm to the brain. La de da de de, la de da de da. The grocery store's the supermart, uh huh. Little girls still break their hearts, uh huh. And men still keep on marching off to war. Electrically they keep a baseball score. And the beat goes on, the beat goes on.” --“And the Beat Goes On,” by Sonny and Cher
(231) “There's nothing you can do that can't be done. Nothing you can sing that can't be sung. Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game, it's easy. There's nothing you can make that can't be made. No one you can save that can't be saved.
Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be in time, it's easy. All you need is love, all you need is love, love is all you need.” --“All You Need is Love,” by the Beatles
(232)“Try to see it my way, do I have to keep on talking till I can't go on? While you see it your way, run a risk of knowing that our love may soon be gone. We can work it out, we can work it out.
Think of what you're saying, you can get it wrong and still you think that it's all right. Think of what I’m saying, we can work it out and get it straight, or say good night. We can work it out, we can work it out. Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend. I have always thought that it's a crime so I will ask you once again…” --“We Can Work it Out,” by the Beatles
(233) “Who are you? What do you want? Why are you here? Where are you going?” --Lorien, Babylon 5 .
(234) “Who are you”? What do you want? Where are you going? Who do you serve and who do you trust?” --Galen, Crusade
(235) “A winters day, in a deep and dark December. I am alone, gazing from my window into the streets below on a freshly fallen, silent shroud of snow, I am a rock, I am an island. Don't talk of love, well I've heard the word before. It is sleeping in my memory. I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died. If I never loved I never would have cried. I am a rock, I am an island I have my books and my poetry to content me. I am shielded in my armor, deep within my room, safe within my womb,
I touch no one and no one touches me. I am a rock, I am an island. And a rock feels no pain. And an island never cries…” --“I Am a Rock,” by Simon and Garfunkle
(236) “When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all. And though my lack of education hasn't hurt me none, I can read the writing on the wall…” “Kodachrome,” by Paul Simon
(237) “Money talks, but it don't sing and dance and it don't walk. As long as I can have you here with me, I'd much rather be, forever in blue jeans.” --“Forever in Blue Jeans,” by Neil Diamond
(238) “Whoa God only knows, God makes his plan,
the information's unavailable to the mortal man. We're workin' our jobs, collect our pay,
believe we're gliding down the highway, when in fact we're slip sliding away. Slip sliding away, slip sliding away, you know the nearer your destination, the more you slip sliding away…” --“Slip Sliding Away,” by Paul Simon
(239)“I've seen fire and I've seen rain I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend But I always thought that I'd see you again.” --“Fire and Rain,” by James Taylor
(240) "Tell me tale to those who ask. Tell it truly, the ill deeds along with the good, and let me be judged accordingly." --Dinobot, “Beast Wars”
(241) “Let the paths lead where they may, I will follow…” --Tigatron, “Beast Wars”
(242) "On my way home I remember only good days, on my way home I remember all the best days, I'm on my way home, I can remember every new day" -"On My Way," by Enya
(243) "And so castles made of sand slips into the sea, eventually." –“Castles Made of Sand”, by Jimi Hendrix
(244) "This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, but it is perhaps the end of the beginning." -Winston Churchill
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