To be or not to be, is that really the question?
Words of Wisdom
These, I'm afraid to say, are of the happy, soppy, gushy kind that give warm fuzzies, some, are just amusing. Yay for the go-and-get ones! (and the Deal With It Ones Too), I have a book, a little one. Filled with my favourite quotes. Now, the binding is coming off and its been stuffed with extra bits of paper, and the first couple of pages are unreadable, and a few to the back are stained with milo, but, it still holds more of my mind, then anything else. Enjoy.
1) "I always knew looking back on my tears would make me laugh, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry."
2) "Popularity is kinda like Tupperware--expensive plastic that's sold at parties."
3) "If you love the life you live you will live a life of love."
4) "True friends are those that don't exclude."
5) "They took all the trees/ And put them in a tree museum/ And they charged all the people/ A dollar and a half just to see 'em/ Don't it always seem to go/ That you don't know what you've got/ Till it's gone/ They paved paradise/ And put up a parking lot."-Joni Mitchell, Big Yellow Taxi
6) "Avoiding the topic doesn't help it go away."
7) "I'd rather be disliked for who I am than liked for who I'm not."
8) "You only live once so complain you life away."
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10) "In jealousy, there is more self-love than love."-Francois duc de La Rochefoucauld
11) "'In your anger do not sin': Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry."-Ephesians 4:26
12) "Madness may be a sane response to an insane world, and insanity breeds special perceptions."-R.D. Lang, psychologist
13) "The question is not, can they reason? Nor, can they talk? but, can they suffer?"-Jeremy Bentham, philospoher
14) "Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it."-Nabokov
15) "For the best is only bought at the cost of great pain...or so goes the legend."-The Thorn Birds
16) "In the eyes of a child you will see...the world as it should be."
17) I am woman, hear me roar!"-Helen Reddy
18) "You always want what you can't have! When you can't have it, you want it even more! Once you have it, you don't want it anymore!"
19) "The trapeze--first time for fear, second time for fun--just like sex!"-Kaydi, a Circus of the Kids coach
20) "Almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades."
21) "Don't come in in the middle of a conversation."
22) "I think it needs more chocolate . . ." "No, don - Mell!"
23) "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."-Eleanor Roosevelt
24) "And in the end on dreams we will depend 'cause that's what love is made of."-Van Halen, "Dreams"
25) "Only dead fish swim with the stream. Question authority."
26) "The situation has got the best of me/ I've got to go on/ I know I've got to be strong/ But it's hard to exist"-Spin Doctors
27) "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."-Ferris Bueller
28) "We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon."
29) "Adolescence is a kind of emotional seasickness. Both are funny, but only in retrospect."
30) "The will to win is not worth a nickle, unless you have the will to practice."
31) "The first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal to him."
32) "Today, well lived, makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to This Day."-Sanskrit proverb
33) "Life is a precious gift. Don't waste it being unhappy, dissatisfied, or anything less than you can be."
34) "Sarcasm is the protest of people who are weak."-John Knowles, A Separate Peace
35) "We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done."
36) "My mind is as open as a 40 acre field but that doesn't mean I'm going to change it."
37) "What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."-Aristotle
38) "We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope."
39) "Whenever you think something sounds easy, it turns out there's one part you didn't hear."
40) "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players."-William Shakespeare
41) "Too often are we so preoccupied with the destination, we forget the journey."
42) "Just being yourself, being who you are, is a successful rebellion."
43) "Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby."
44) "Hope is the letter that never arrives delivered by the postman of my fear."-Edward Kowalczyk
45) "A friend is someone who knows all about you and still likes you."
46) "It's okay to let yourself go, just as long as you can find your way back."-Mick Jagger
47) "It's not easy being green."-Kermit the Frog
48) "Today is the first day of the rest of your life."
49) "You don't have to blow out my candle to make yours grow brighter."
50) "Shoot for the moon, and if you miss, you will still be among stars."
51) "Don't ask me where I'm going,/ Just listen when I'm gone/ And far away you'll hear me singing softly to the dawn."
51) "When the going gets tough, the tough are the only ones stupid enough to hang around."
52) "And even though our time is gone/ There's time enough for one last song."-Encore
53) "Tell me, and I doubt. Show me proof, and I believe."-Matt Lipman
54) "Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Others stay for awhile, leave footprints in our hearts, and we're never the same."-Flavia Weedn
55) "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference."-The Serenity Prayer
56) "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."-Ralph Waldo Emerson
57) "Some people think it's holding on that makes one strong--sometimes it's letting go."
58) "Once you are real you can't be ugly except to people who don't understand."-The Velveteen Rabbit
59) "A moment lasts all of a second, but the memory lives on forever."
61) "You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true."-Richard Bach
62) "Someday, when we both reminisce/ we'll both say, 'There wasn't too much we missed,'/ and through the tears we'll smile when we recall/ we had it all for just a moment."-St. Elmo's Fire
63) "This is the time to remember, 'cause it will not last forever."-Billy JoelThis is the Time
64) "The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart."
65) "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend."-Albert Camus
66) "If you expect too much from others, they won't ever reach their potential."-Laura Nodiglian
67) "Rebellion is the frustration parents feel when they can no longer live the life of their child."-Emily Erisman
68) "Equality--I understand the concept, but I can't find an example."-Sarah Pariso
69) "My footsteps are fading from all the people who are following me. What would happen if they started running and erased me as they passed by?"-Nova
71) "I wish my mother had told me the same thing about horror movies and guys when I was little--'Don't worry, honey, it's all fake.'"
72) "You opened my eyes to the world, now do me a favor and close them."-April Azevedo
73) "You told me to choose--vanilla or chocolate? I chose strawberry. How was I to know you hated the color pink? You asked my opinion--brown or black shoes? I said blue. How was I to know you hated the color blue? You wanted to meet my best friend. I brought her over. You walked away. How was I to know you hated the color black?"-Marisa Mabli
74) "Why do English Literature specialists try to analyze every written work? I wish they could accept the fact that imagination doesn't have a meaning."-L.A.
75) "Why am I upset when I think that I'm different from everybody else, but angry when I realize that I'm the same?"-Heather Heine
76) "No offense, but why are old ladies allowed to dye their hair purple and blue, but if we younger people do it, we're considered weird?"-Alicia Andrews
77) "My books are held close as I stare at the guilded upper crust of secondary school. I am part of the other gang (you know who we are, those damned to discount department stores and cutrate clothers). That smug alcoholic clique glares back at me and with all the tormented sass they can muster, Melanie jingles the keys to her new luxury car in my bus-riding face. She turns and laughs aloud with her friend behind sunglasses and unnatural makeup barely concealing one helluva black eye."-Tanya Mears
78) "Laura and Johnny walk down the halls together. Alone, everyday--as close as two people can be. Sharing laughs, good times, and life, they've become the best of friends--so far, insepearable. The school wouldn't be the same if they were apart. That special gleam in Laura's eyes says so. But in two months a lot will happen. In two months, Laura hopes to graduate, and in two months, Johnny will be born."-Moira Burke
79) "Nationalities will continue to try to get ahead of each other if we keep calling each other 'races.'"-Mary Anne Silva
81) "We laughed until we had to cry/ We loved right down to our last goodbye."-St. Elmo's Fire
82) "Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in."
83) "That which does not kill us, only makes us stronger."-Nietzche
84) "If I leave tomorrow would you still remember me? Well, I must be travelling on now, there's so many places I have to see."-Lynyrd Skynyrd
85) "For tomorrow may rain, so I'll follow the sun."-Paul McCartney
86) "The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."
87) "I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints/ The sinners are much more fun."-Billy JoelOnly the Good Die Young
88) "I did it my way."
--In memory of Lewis Press
89) "When the tides of life turn against you, and the current upsets your boat, don't waste those tears on what might have been, just lie on your back and float."-Ed Norton
90) "The slow discovery of the seventh sense, by which both men and women contrive to ride the waves of a world in which there is war, adultery, compromise, fear, stultification, and hypocrisy--this discovery is not a matter for triumph...But there was a time when each of us stood naked before the world, confronting life as a serious problem with which we were intimately and passionately concerned...All of these problems and feelings fade away when we get the seventh sense."-The Once and Future King
91) "Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."-T. Roosevelt
92) "There is no 'I' in 'team.'"
93) "The only time success comes before work is in the dictionary."
95) "Autopsies give us the facts but not the truth."-Richard Selzer, surgeon
96) "Did you ever try to pick one of those [cold medicines] out?...You stand there going, 'Well, this one is quick acting, but this one is long lasting...Which is more important, the present or the future?'"-Jerry Seinfeld
97) "Can someone please tell me what is the deal with B.O.?...Doesn't make any sense. Do something good--hard work, exercise--smell very bad. This is the way the human being is designed. You move, you stink. Why don't our bodies help us? Why can't sweat smell good? Be a different world, wouldn't it? Instead of putting your laundry in the hamper, you'd out it in a vase. Go down to the drugstore, pick up some odorant and perspirant. You'd have a dirty sweatsock hanging from the reaerview mirror of your car. And then, on a really special night, maybe a little underwear coming out of your breast pocket, just to show her that she's important."-Jerry Seinfeld
98) "I always did well on essay questions. Just put everything you know there, maybe you'll hit it. And you'll always get it back from the teacher, and she's just written one word across the entire page, 'vague.' I thought 'vague' was kind of a vague thing to say. I'd write underneath it, 'unclear,' send it back. She'd return it to me, 'ambiguous.' I'd send it back to her, 'cloudy.' We're still corresponding to this day. Hazy, muddy..."-Jerry Seinfeld
99) "According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that seem right? That means to the average person if you have to go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy."-Jerry Seinfeld
100) "Through any kind of weather/ What if the sky should fall/ Just as long as we're together/ Doesn't matter much at all."-Just as Long as We're Together
101) "What appears to be the end may really be a new beginning."
102) "Youth is like diamonds in the sun and diamonds are forever."-Alphaville
103) "A pessimist is one who feels bad when he feels good, for fear he'll feel worse when he feels better."
104) "It is the stern realities that make us dream of better things."
105) "What lies over the hill is probably one more hill. Reach for the top."
106) "Time wasted is existence. Time used is life."
107) "If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it's yours. If it does not come back, it was never meant to be."
108) "May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced give you the strength to walk through life facing each new situation with courage and optimism."
109) "Someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection, the lovers, the dreamers, and me."-Kermit the Frog, The Rainbow Connection
111) "True friends never grow apart; they just lose touch."
112) "Time is like a handful of sand--the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers."
113) "Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser."
114) "The only difference between insane people and sane people is that sane people are insane within the boundaries of society."
115) "It's always darkest just before they turn on the lights."-Dillinger
116) "Every rose has its thorn."-Poison, Every Rose has its Thorn
117) "There are three types of people in this world--those who make things happen, those those who watch things happen, and those who asked what happened."
118) "Memories give you the power to collect roses in the winter."
119) "Objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are."-Jim Steinman, Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are
120) "I want you/ I need you/ But--there ain't no way I'm ever gonna love you/ Now don't be sad/ 'Cause two out of three ain't bad."-Jim Steinman, Two Out of Three Ain't Bad
121) "Coming to you baby on a midnight train/ I'll be knocking on your door/ I'll be calling out your name/ You don't need to worry, it'll be all right/ 'Cause the midnight train is coming to you tonight."-Steve Miller, Midnight Train
122) "In this world of ours we often try to move by too fast/ Nobody stops to make the romance last/ But I'll be damned, if I can't make it last with you/ I hear the morning creeping..."-Jon Dubosky, Morning Creeping
123) "I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world."
124) "A gold medal is a wonderful thing. But if you're not enough without it, you'll never be enought with it."-Cool Runnings
125) "A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions."-Alexander Pope (or "Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions."-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.)
126) "Let it be."-Paul McCartney, Let it Be
127) "If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to lead a life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."-Henry David Thoreau
128) "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."-Eleanor Roosevelt
129) "Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue print of your ultimate achievements."
130) "The key to happiness is having dreams...The key to success is making dreams come true."
131) "Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't--you are right." Henry Ford
132) "Teamwork is the ablility to work together toward a common vision, the ability to direct individual accomplishment toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results. Simply stated it is less me and more we."
133) "You can not discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore."
134) "Leaders are like eagles--they don't flock, you find them one at a time."
135) "Keep your face to the sunshine, and you cannot see the shadows."-Helen Keller
136) "Success is a journey, not a destination."
137) "Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhiliration of victory."
138) "Obstacles are what you see when you lose sight of your goal."
139) "To stay the course...sometimes you have to make waves."
140) "If it is to be, it is up to me."
141) "A champion is someone who gets up even when he can't."
142) "Persistence prevails when all else fails."
143) "The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel...these are the things that endure."
143 again) "The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is the little extra."
144) "Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."-Calvin Coolidge
145) "Excellence can only be attained if you care more than others think is wise, risk more than others think is safe, dream more than others think is practical, and expect more than others think is possible."
146) "Eagles we are not, but we can still fly. Our imaginations become our wings. The magnificent eagle is still just an eagle but we can soar as high and as far as our aspirations take us."
147) "Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle."-Michelangelo
148) "Every day is a fresh opportunity to continue the quest toward our mission."-Harold McAlindon
149) "One joy dispels a hundred cares."-Confucious
150) "We must either find a way or make one."-Hannibal
151) "Like a cypress swamp whose trees persist and thrive for centuries, we can build special talents that help us persist and thrive in an ever changing world."
152) "There is no limit to what can be accomplished if it doesn't matter who gets the credit."
153) "Security is mostly a superstition...life is either a daring adventure or nothing."-Helen Keller
154) "When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort--it is ready to climb."-Pat Riley
155) "You are successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal."-Charles Carlson
156) "Skill is stronger than strength."
157) "Why is it a penny for your thoughts when you give your two cents worth?"
158) "Do women populate no-man's land?"
159) "I quit, I give up, nothing's good enough for anybody else, it seems...When I'm all alone it's the best way to be. When I'm by myself nobody else can say goodbye. Everything is temporary anyway."-Edie Brickell, Friends
160) "Life:/ a cycle/ A series/ of events/ meetings and/ Departures./ Friends discovered/ others lost,/ Precious time/ wastes away./ Big droplet tears/ are shed for yesterday,/ but/ are dried in time for/ tomorrow,/ until all that remain/ are foggy, broken/ memories/ of a happy yesteryear."-Daniela Gallo
161) "Society frowns upon the extreme, although most people today are looking for ways of self expression and usually wind up getting into something adults would condemn. Look at us, stare if you like. Just don't try to change us; don't you dare. We're the future, your lives are in our hands. Don't you trust us? No way. If you do, then why do you comdemn us? Don't you realize what we're all about? No, of course you don't. We just want to be ourselves, unlike any other, but at the same time in control."-Mary Hentz
162) "I shout,/ but no one hears./ I cry,/ but no one listens./ I listen,/ but no one speaks./ I question,/ but no one answers./ You call;/ I follow./ You cry;/ I help./ I question,/ but/ you don't answer./ I search,/ but/ you're not there./ Still, I keep/ listening, hearing and/ hoping for someone to just/ understand."-Daniela Gallo
163) "A single tear/ Left by a small child/ Stains the pavement./ The pain, never to be lifted/ Remains heavy in her heart./ She stares blankly/ Into the distance,/ Into the darkness,/ Seeing only space and emptiness--/ Wondering.../ Will this be their first goodbye?/ Or their last?"-Catherine Freebody
164) "Who knows him as well as I do?/ Who knows his laugh, his smile,/ The way he moves and throws his glances?/ Who knows but I/ The scent of his clothes, The way he drives,/ The things he does? The curl of his hair at the back of his neck,/ The words he uses, his sense of humor,/ Each of these things/ I know and cherish as if/ They were my own./ Who else but I could love/ His taste in shoes, his gestures/ his gently curved features/...His smooth skin when he shaves, and/ His stubble, when he doesn't?/ Who knows him as well as I do?/ And who could love him as I do?"
165) "What we need is a brand new year--open your heart and set us free. What we want is a brand new life--we'll decide on our own destiny."
166) "Even Zack Morris can't talk his way through a tree."-Miss Bliss on Saved By the Bell
167) "Education is not a form of entertainment, but a means of enpowering people to take control of their lives."
168) "The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand...as in what direction we are moving."
169) "The essential thing in the Olympic games is not winning but taking part. The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle."-Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the Olympic Games
170) "Either you make it happen, or it happens to you."
171) "It's only notes if it doesn't convey emotion."
172) "Works of art are indeed the result of having been in danger, having gone to the very end experience to where man can go no further."-Rainer Maria Rilke
173) "To know the road ahead, ask those coming back."
174) "People who are aware of their imperfections are about as perfect as people can get."
175) "Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men, to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult."-Charlotte Whitton
176) "Whomever said a woman can't have it all, must have been a man."
177) "It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber."-Robert Fulghum
178) "Why do they kill people who kill people to show people that killing people is wrong?"
179) "I'm going to have a friend for dinner."-The Silence of the Lambs
180) "Leadership is action, not a position."
181) "He drew a circle that shut me out--/ Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout./ But Love and I had the wit to win:/ We drew a circle that took him in."-Edwin Markham
182) "The unexamined life is not worth living."-Socrates
183) "I am wise because I know I know nothing."-Socrates
184) "Fish and visitors smell after three days."-Benjamin Franklin
185) "Love your neighbor, but don't pull down your hedge."-Benjamin Franklin
186) "A slip of the foot, you may soon recover. But a slip of the tongue you may never get over."-Benjamin Franklin
187) "Don't throw stones at your neighbor's windows if you live in a glass house."-Benjamin Franklin
188) "He who scatters thorns, let him not go barefoot."-Benjamin Franklin
189) "Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead."-Benjamin Franklin
190) "The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one."-Wilhelm Stekel
191) "A small leak will sink a great ship."-Benjamin Franklin
192) "Nature composes some of her lovliest poems for the microscope and the telescope."-Theodore Roszak
193) "Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty."
194) "The life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose--and is a test of a nation's civilization."-John F. Kennedy
195) "One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it."
196) "Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt."-Special Olympics player
197) "Luck is the residue of preparation."
198) "My enemy's enemy is my friend."
199) "Famous Indian proverb: When in doubt--run!"-J.M. Barrie
200) "Your candle burned out long before your legend ever did."-Bernie Taupin
201) "Never run after a bus or a man. There will always be another one."-Old Irish expression
202) "I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's word is 100 percent."-Dr. Seuss
203) "Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have."-Life's Little Instruction Calender
204) "Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts."-Life's Little Instruction Calender
205) "Accept pain and disappointment as part of life."-Life's Little Instruction Calender
206) "The only way to do something is to just do it."-Dr. Judy Kuriansky
207) "Try to lift your right arm. Did you do it? You don't try to do something; you either do it or you don't."-Dr. Judy Kuriansky
208) "Once upon a time, (actually, more like right now) on a planet far, far away, (okay, on a planet not so far away) millions of women were challenging boundaries, testing limits and living their dreams. (So what did you think this was going to be? A fairy tale?)-Reebok ad
209) "Tomboy. Alright, call me a tomboy. Tomboys get medals. Tomboys win championships. Tomboys can fly. Oh. And tomboys aren't boys."-Julie Foudy, World Championship Soccer Player in a Reebok ad
210) "Doubt yourself, and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself, and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above and doubt judgement. And you can see forever."-Nancy Kerrigan in a Reebok ad
211) "I taught my mother to climb. And she gets nervous sometimes. She'll yell, 'Let me down!' That's a tough one. You never want to let your mother down. I don't think I ever have."-Nancy Feagin, rock climber in a Reebok ad
212) "O, ye who sit behind me/ en la clase de espanol./ Your glare on my hair burns/ and yearns to touch me./ Or perhaps not./ You despise all, you speak in gutterals./ When asked, you decline./ I watch you now in this impending/ doom./ Repetitions with rhyme/ a slight variation each time/ you smile/ Your glow off flannel/ like the pale, crattered moon."-J.D.
213) "And in the end, the tortoise beat the hare."
214) "TIRED/ EYES WON'T CLOSE/ BUT ONLY FOR A MOMENT/ THEN THE THOUGHTS RACE/ AND DRIVE ME CRAZY/ LIDS FLIP UP LIKE A BLIND/ AND EYEBALLS/ GET COLD WHILE/ STARING INTO DARKNESS/ CLEAR MIND! CLEAR MIND!/ BECOME BLANK/ AND SILENT/ AND LET PURE/ NOTHINGNESS/ SING ME SOFTLY TO /SLEEP."-Renee Parsons
215) "A good rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical."-Thomas Jefferson
216) "Physical fitness is the basis for all other forms of excellence."-John F. Kennedy
217) "Nature gives us talent, but it is for us to make it work."
218) "Cancer is a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience."
219) "When there's a mountain to climb, waiting won't make it smaller."
220) "Every creature in human shape should command our respect."-Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe
221) "The strong should help the weak, so that the whole should advance as a band of brethren."-Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe
222) "Nothing just happens. You choose it to happen."-Dr. Judy Kuriansky
223) "The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."-Milton
224) "What I really said at Disney World is, 'This is the horniest thing I've ever done.'"-Nancy Kerrigan on Saturday Night Live about saying, "This is the corniest thing I've ever done," at Disney World
225) "It's not whether you win or lose, but how you play the game."
226) "What the mind can imagine and believe, the human body can achieve."
227) "There's no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs."
228) "...it seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart."-John Knowles, A Separate Peace
229) "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."-Henry David Thoreau
230) "If you want to play, practice. If you want to win, practice harder."-No Fear t-shirt
231) "Amtrak doesn't always pull out on time. Don't expect your guy to either."-Love Phone's caller
232) "If we learn from losing, we become winners in the end."
233) "O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us/ To see oursles as ithers see us!"-Robert Burns, "To a Louse"
234) "Give someone an inch, and they'll take a mile."
235) "Getting to the top of the ladder is not the problem. The most difficult problem is getting through the crowd at the bottom."-Bobby Knight, Indiana University basketball coach
236) "Life's a journey, not a destination."-Aerosmith
237) "When everybody loves you, you can never be lonely"-Adam Duritz, "Mr. Jones"
238) "The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities."-Lord Action (John E.E. Dalberg), English historian, statesman
239) "The fundamental truths are all men's property. Whether or not we live by them, we all know them with a deep instinctiveness."-J. Donald Adams, American editor and writer
240) "Don't breed or buy while homeless animals die."
241) "It's easier to fight for principles than to live up to them."-Alfred Adler
242) "A famous violinist was approached by a woman who gushed, 'I'd give my life to play like you do.' The violinist responded simply, 'Madam, I did.'"
243) "Desire is the intangible quality that has more impact on success than talent, education, or IQ. You can't see desire, but you can feel its presence, and see its results in the lives of successful people."-Robert Fulghum
244) "If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better than if you have tried to do nothing and succeeded."
245) "We are all manufacturers--some make good, others make trouble, and still others make excuses."
246) "The man who rows the boat generally doesn't have time to rock it."
247) "The important thing is not that we can live on hope alone, but that life is not worth living without it."-Harvey Milk
248) "Our chief want in life is someone who shall make us do what we can."-Ralph Waldo Emerson
249) "The things that we love tell us what we are."-St. Thomas Aquinas
250) "Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."-J. Baldwin
251) "The ultimate measure of man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
252) "Looks the whole world in the face, for he owes not any men."-Longfellow
253) "Life isn't all black and white--there's a lot of gray."
254) "The faintest ink is better than the most retentive memory."
255) "People who stand in the middle of the road get run over."-Aneurin Bevan
256) "You never truly know someone until you've walked a mile in his shoes."
257) "I hate when people say, 'Shalom.' I never know if they're coming, going, or just a pacifist."-Mark Sherman
258) "There were not, he knew in his guts and in his brains, any heroes."-John Knowles, Peace Breaks Out
259) "Laws without morals are in vain."-Penn's motto
260) "We will find a way or we will make one."
261) "When someone you love dies, treasure the time you spent with them. Even if you only knew them for a little while, it was better than not knowing them at all."-Hobie on Baywatch
262) "My wife thinks I'm nosy. At least that's what she scribbles in her diary."-Drake Sather
263) "A mind is like a parachute--it functions only when open."
264) "A wise person knows that there is something to be learned from everyone."
265) "No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
266) "Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry 'Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!'"-Thomas Parke D'Imvilliers
267) "If you take care of the little things, the big things take care of themselves."-R. Reese
268) "Coal under pressure produces diamonds."
269) "It is not the whistle that moves the train."
270) "It is not as important what is true, as what we perceive to be true."-Mrs. Schumaeker
271) "Except little and you will never be disappointed."
272) "My idea of balance is someone else's idea of bias."-Mrs. Schumaeker
273) "Sixteen is the key and crucial and natural age for a human being...when you are sixteen, adults are slightly impressed and almost intimidated by you."-John Knowles, A Separate Peace
274) "Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're livin'?"-Bob Marley
275) "Most of the things you worry about never happen."
276) "Every great achievement was once considered impossible."
277) "If there were no problems, there would be no oportunities."
278) "In every face-to-face encounter, regardless of how brief, we leave something behind."
279) "Education, experience, and memories are three things that no one can take away from you."
280) "Happiness is like perfume: you can't give it away without getting a little on yourself."
281) "Sucessful living is like playing the violin--it must be practiced daily."
282) "When someone hurts your feelings, it's unimportant unless you persist in remembering it."
283) "We grow only when we push ourselves beyond what we already know."
284) "Never underestimate the the potential and power of the human spirit."
285) "Never give up on anybody. Miracles happen every day."-Life's Little Instruction Book
286) "Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures."-Life's Little Instruction Book
287) "Smile a lot. It costs nothing and is beyond price."-Life's Little Instruction Book
288) "Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly."-Life's Little Instruction Book
289) "Never cut what can be untied."-Life's Little Instruction Book
290) "Don't use time or words carelessly. Neither can be retrieved."-Life's Little Instruction Book
291) "Watch for big problems. They disguise big opportunities."-Life's Little Instruction Book
292) "The only gift is a portion of thyself."-Ralph Waldo Emerson
293) "Being unobservant is safe. If you are blinded, you do not see horror."-Andrea Lipman
294) "All of them...constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought they saw across the frontier, this enemy who never attacked that way--if he ever attacked at all; if he was indeed the enemy."-John Knowles, A Separate Peace
295) "For us, there is only the trying, the rest is not our business."-T.S. Eliot
296) "Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings."-Victor Hugo
297) "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."-Ralph Waldo Emerson
298) "Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed."-Booker T. Washington
299) "How high can you fly with broken wings?"-Aerosmith
300) "Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly. Make sure you answer your door."