Hello. Here are a few things that I find to my liking and/or strike me as very true.
DISCLAIMER: If you believe that you may be offended because you are so
egotistical that you would think I'm talking about you in some manner in these quotes, I
suggest you don't go any farther. If you do read on, and get upset, I am not responsible.
I warned you.
Truth in Simple Quotes
"Once a cheater, always a cheater." -- Former girlfriend, after breaking
up due to what I'd done. How true this line is, unless in your heart you honestly want to
change that part of you. Only when you realize how you've destroyed so many lives and
threw away so much can you truly wish you hadn't done what you did. But then it's too
late, and the only thing you can do is to never do it again and hope those you wrecked in
the process will forgive you.
"I need to be the best man, the best man that I can." -- Queensryche, Best I Can
"End fiscal year 1986 to '87, the local, state and federal governments spent a combined total of $60.6 billion on local law enforcement. Federal law enforcement expenditures ranked last in absolute dollars, and accounted for only six percent of all federal spending. By weight of comparison, the federal government spent $24 million more on space exploration, and 43 TIMES more on national defense and international relations than on on law enforcement." -- Queensryche, monologue in "Empire".
"Good." -- Friend known as Gimpy, during a recent conversation.
"Yup." -- My reply to Gimpy.
Why is it that we take for granted the people that matter in our lives, only to to realize how important they were to us when we lose them? Is it really fair that we never get the chance to make amends and walk away on good terms?
Why does everyone feel the need to be angst-filled whenever their lives change suddenly? What good does anger ever do?
"All that glitters isn't gold, too much is overkill. Love can be
beautiful -- or the bitter pill."
-- Warrant, The Bitter Pill.
"If it's meant to be, we'll get back together in the future." -- An Ex, explaining why she needs to be with someone else for now. But is it fair to do this, only because one has feelings for another and wants to see what will happen? The sad truth is that there are a lot of relationships that end for no good reason other than boredom and there is someone else. Commonly, these are referred to as "High School relationships" because any true adult doesn't need to test the ocean, they know their little island is all they will ever need in the world.
"Hold me close, don't ever let me go. I'm confused, but maybe
someday I will know"
-- Warrant, The Bitter Pill
If the 49ers' home stadium were on the internet, would it be 3com.com? Actually, that address does exist -- as 3Com The Company's page, not 3Com The Stadium.
"Need is something you can't live without, want is a need with a little doubt." -- K14
"Love is suicide." -- Smashing Pumpkins, Bodies .
"We're stumbling around in a very dark age trying very hard
not to kill one another."
-- Kinetic Fourteen, quoting from Powder.
Kick him in the head! Knee him in the groin! Whack him in the ding ding! -- Los Tres Hockeyrinos, invoking violence at hockey games.
"I will be watching over you, I am gonna help you see it through, I will protect you in the night, I am smiling next to you... in silent lucidity." -- Queensryche, Silent Lucidity.
"Is there anyone who smiles without a mask?" -- Queensryche, Anybody Listening?
"Don't mess with a crazy man."
The toughest competitions to win are mind games.
"Boyfriends can be eliminated." -- Senior, in a proverb of his that makes more sense than he could've imagined when he initially said it.
"Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers." -- Garth Brooks, Unanswered Prayers.
"Do you really know who you are?" -- Slaughter, Do Ya Know?
"I hear the thunder in the distance, see a vision of the cross; I feel the pain that was given on a sad day of loss." -- Creed, My Own Prison
"Then it all crashes down, and you break your crown, and you point your finger but there's no one around. Just want one thing, just to play the king, but the castles crumble and you're left with just a name" -- Metallica, King Nothing
"I don't know if I've ever been good enough" -- Matchbox20, Push
Nothing is certain.
"It's something unpredictable, but in the end is right; I hope you had the time of your life" -- Green Day, Good Riddance
"If you love two people, you don't love either enough" -- Jerry Springer
"Nothing in life is more exciting and rewarding than the sudden flash of insight that leaves you a changed person-not only changed, but for the better." -- Arthur Gordon
"The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart." -- Josiah G. Holland
"Relationships-of all kinds-are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold on to some of it, but most of it will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But held too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost." --Kaleel Jamison
"When an emotional injury takes place, the body begins a process as natural as the healing of a physical wound. Let the process happen. Trust that nature will do the healing. Know that the pain will pass, and, when it passes, you will be a stronger, happier, more sensitive and aware." -- Mel Colgrove
"You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back." -- Barbara DeAngelis
"Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same." -- Author unknown
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved." -- Helen Keller
"Our real blessings often appear to us in the shapes of pains, losses, and disappointments; but let us have patience, and we soon shall see them in their proper figures." -- Joseph Addison
"Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you." --From the last episode of "Cheers"
"Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous, it does not brag, and it is not proud. Love is not rude, is not selfish and does not get upset with others. Love does not count up wrongs that have been done. Love is not happy with evil but is happy with the truth. Love patiently accepts all things. It always trusts, always hopes, and always remains strong." -- 1 Cor. 13:4-7
"It is kindness in a person, not beauty, which wins our love." -- Author unknown
"Forgiveness is the final form of love." -- Reinhold Niebuhr
"Two are better than one, because together they can work more effectively. If one of them falls down, the other can help him up, but if someone is alone, and falls, it's just too bad, because there is no one to help him." -- Eccles. 4:9,10
"So please go, I'm not strong enough to say no." -- Blackhawk
"Hear the DJ say love's a game of easy come and easy go; but I wonder does he know, has he ever felt like this" -- Poison, Every Rose Has Its Thorn
"I'm so calm and yet so loose at the seams" -- Warrant, The Bitter Pill
"Don't stop believing, hold on to that feeling" -- Journey, Don't Stop Believing
"Believe" -- Red Wings patch, hoping the best for injured Wings Vladimir Konstantinov and Sergei Mnatsakanov.
"It's a great day to die." -- Flatliners.
I've snapped, I've snapped, oh my gosh I've snapped; succumbed to pain, I've gone insane, I've snapped, I've snapped, I've snapped, I've snapped." -- sung to the tune of that Disney Inc. dwarf song in Snow White.
"I never wanted it to end this way, my love, my darling" -- OZZY, No More Tears
"You'll be running away from things you don't understand" -- U2, Mysterious Ways
"I don't know what to do, but I'm never giving up on you" --Warrant, Heaven
"Life is a desert in which we walk. Occasionally, we find refuge and partake of the luxuries. Only when the enjoyment is done and the luxuries expired do we realize that the journey continues on in the uncertainty of the lackluster desert we call life." --Anonymous
"There's demons in my head, and it's more than I can take..." -- Offspring, Gotta Get Away
"Life's been like dragging feet through sand, and never finding
the promised land."
-- Queensryche, Promised Land
"Here's to love, hate, to promises, and lies." -- Queensryche, Promised Land
"Did you ever care about someone so much it hurts?" -- My So-Called Life
"I cry out to God seeking only his decision, Gabriel stands and confirms I've created my own prison." -- Creed, My Own Prison
"Lovers always come and lovers always go and no one's really
sure who's letting go today, walking away."
-- Guns N Roses, November Rain
"I can't believe in anything sacred, when I don't believe in anything." -- Stabbing Westward, Why?
"If you play Metallica, they will come." -- lazer103
"The peace is dead in my soul..." -- Creed, Torn
"Too late now, but you've fallen into the trap laid ever so carefully. The end will come, one day, when least expected. Another bear in the trap; a rat in the cage. Don't think it won't happen; it will happen time and time again." -- Anonymous
"Once I swore I would die for you; I never meant like this" -- Stabbing Westward, Shame
"I have become comfortably numb" -- Pink Floyd, Comfortably Numb
"You want it all but you can't have it. It's in your face but you can't grab it..." -- Faith No More, Epic
"Life it seems will fade away, drifting farther every day" -- Metallica, Fade to Black
"You turned and you ran; slipped right from my hand"
-- Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Blue on Black
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-- IIB, Deciphering Life's Unforgiven Secrets
"Sometimes it hurts so much to lose the one you love" -- Stabbing Westward
"Sometimes it hurts more to let go." -- Kinetic, adding his feelings to the above quote.
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I don't want to hear any whining about this, okay?
This week, one thing disturbs me. South Park. Now, don't get me wrong; I don't disapprove of the SHOW. I disapprove of the controversy around it. This show is no worse than Beavis and Butt - Head, and is certainly not worse the NYPD Blue. Just look at it - B&B were teens who were dumber than the SP kiddies, and more immature to boot; they were pumped on hormones, raging through them - every episode mentioned their desire to get laid. And NYPD Blue has it's share of strong language, as well as an all too plentiful array of Dennis Franz's butt. Look, if anything is offensive to me, it's a his butt. I do NOT need to see that kind of stuff, and will gladly stay away. So why is South Park rated TV - MA? Easy - to boost viewers. They know that they could get away with a TV - 14 rating, easily; it's not that dirty of a show. And those stupid kids who shot up the school because one of them got dumped? They blamed their actions on South Park. South Park gave them the idea. Now, if it were me doing this, I would have at least taken a chain saw to those people, taking them all apart limb from bloody limb like they do in South Park. THEN I could blame it on the show. But if parents are so worried about it, why don't they watch their children more carefully? Do they not want their children growing up with parental influence? "I don't want my child to become a South Park junkie, using all kinds of dirty language... goodness, no, I could never not let them watch it!" Wake up, people. this show will have affects on kids, mostly around the 10 - 13 age. (look at Juniors and seniors in high school. You can tell that Beavis and Butthead had a huge impact on us. Maybe not all of us, but for some of us...) So if you don't want your kids watching this kind of show, don't let them. For the rest of us, LEAVE US ALONE SO WE CAN WATCH OUR TV!" -- Kinetic14
"It hurts to leave a loved one, but the truth is if the lover cheats, they've already left you." -- Jerry Springer
"Rings don't fill holes either." -- MUNKs, when replying to a statement that separated husbands can be eliminated.
"Two words -- SUCK IT" -- MUNKs
"Ouch." -- Anonymous
"There is no medicine for what I've got." -- Garland Green, Con Air
"Times have changed, your friends are gone, they watch you crumble to the ground; they watch you suffer." -- Candlebox, Far Behind
"The window was open, waiting for the sun to return. Even through the storms, the drenching rains, the cold the winter brought, the window remained open. As time passed, the building was abandoned, condemned, and the open window now was shut and boarded up. Now when the sun looks to get through that window it can't; the interior will remain dark and untouched forever more, never again inhabited." -- Steldistic philosophy.
"Those who say they wish they would have waited obviously didn't do it right the first time around." -- Anonymous
"Shoplifters will be violated." -- MUNKs, in a verbal mishap after seeing an anti-theft sign in a store window.
"You're not perfect, sport. And let me save you the suspense: this girl isn't either. The question is whether or not you're perfect for each other." -- Good Will Hunting.
"Sky rockets in flight; afternoon delight." -- Catchy little tune, I find...
"But they ain't here anymore; don't have to settle no ... score" -- Creed, What's This Life For?
"I don't wanna come back down from this cloud" -- Bush, Come Down
"Time can change a thing or two; time has changed the lives of me and you" -- Queensryche, Bridge
"I can't be kinky -- I'm British!" -- MUNKs
"It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them." -- George Eliot
"Once he buys her everything in the world and drives her around it twice, she'll be back." -- Ancient prophecy, revived due to popular request.
"Change is inevitable -- except from vending machines." -- Late Night Thoughts, by LTH.
All through our lives we struggle to gain the identity we wish to be seen as. Sometimes it succeeds, sometimes it fails. Over time, we all gain a degree of what we wish we would be. Is it ever really possible to be exactly as you hoped? I feel the answer is yes. If you take your dreams and aspirations, persist in your efforts, you can achieve a dream come true. Most people don't have the courage and strength required, and the pitfalls that lead to the bliss overpower the less determined. Pain and heartache are part of life, and you can't reach the top until you have been at the bottom. When things look the worst, that's the time to reach -- no way to go but up. Trust instincts, if you can trust yours. When all is said and done, what can be said of life? Dreams can come true.
We are in constant search of true happiness. But no matter how hard we try, few of us ever have this bliss once we find it. While it is impossible to erase the mistakes of the past, we can use our pain to change our future. Will this assure us of happiness? No, but it's a start. Only destiny knows the future.
"His foot was in the crease, the serve does not count." -- Observation and note made by me recently at a tennis tournament.
SE1625: I like hockey
SE1625: yes I do.
SE1625: I play hockey
SE1625: this is true.
SE1625: running around
SE1625: shooting puck
SE1625: If I score
SE1625: I am in luck.
SE1625: I play hockey
SE1625: this game rules
SE1625: I play hockey
SE1625: with minimal tools
SE1625: play to get hurt
SE1625: sure, why not?
SE1625: I play hockey
SE1625: I play a lot.
Pineapl 19: Cripes
-- A recent IM conversation
"My childhood, diluted; my innocence polluted" -- Second Coming, Vintage Eyes
"I used to feel your fire, but now it's cold inside" -- Aerosmith, What It Takes
"I want to love you but I'd better not touch, I want to kiss you but my senses tell me to stop. I wanna love you but I want it too much, I want to hold you but your lips are venomous poison." -- Alice Cooper, Poison
When life throws you lemons, throw them back. Don't accept the prize for not accomplishing what you wanted to. There is no excuse for not getting what you want. Whether it's a called bluff or an honest mistake, if you lose own up to it. No one deserves to be treated in a manner that they can't trust someone. Never drag things out longer than need be -- no one deserves that. And if a situation arises in which someone gets hurt, don't rub Tabasco sauce in the wounds -- do what needs to be done and let the other deal with it as they must. Everything in life comes around again, so let the other side do what they must, as you will know in time what it is like. See it like this -- no one gets everything they want, and if you can't compromise the problem while on decent terms, learn that the hurt deal with things that works for them. You've done enough damage; let them deal with the pain in their way. Remember -- you took actions that forced the situation; don't go overboard and tell them how to deal with their loss. I guarantee they feel terrible about the way things are. Let them be.
"The sweetest dream will never do; I'd miss you baby, and I don't to miss a thing..." -- Aerosmith, I Don't Want to Miss A Thing
"When I said that I loved you I meant that I'd love you forever..." -- REO Speedwagon, Keep On Loving You
"I want to love you, but the past won't go away." -- Big Wreck, Blown Wide Open
"But all the drugs in this world, can't save us from ourselves." -- Marilyn Manson, Coma White
"Love is all around you, love is knocking outside your door." -- Tesla, Love Song
"Now everything has changed; I'll show you love, I'll show you everything, with arms wide open ..." -- Creed, With Arms Wide Open
"I'm not as selfish as I used to be; that was a part me that never made me proud." -- Stabbing Westward, What Do I Have to Do?
"There's a peace inside us all, let it be your friend; it will help you carry on in the end..." -- Creed, Inside Us All
"He looked me right in the eyes, direct and concise, to remind to always do what's right..." -- Creed, Faceless Man
"Love is not a hand that holds you down..." -- Tonic, You Wanted More
"I love my Craigy." -- Laura
