Quotes 12/31/08

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future
Paul Boese

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Mark Twain

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
Thomas Jefferson

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. One seeks the most general ideas of operation which will bring together in simple, logical and unified form the largest possible circle of formal relationships. In this effort toward logical beauty spiritual formulas are discovered necessary for the deeper penetration into the laws of nature.
Einstein

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
Og Mandino

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
John Quincy Adams

Quotes 12/30/08

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
Jerome K. Jerome

If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
Jean Paul Getty

Life's full of crap, instead of swimming fast face down, relax and swim on your back.
Mitch Hawk

Quotes 12/29/08

A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.
Benjamin Franklin

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
Mahatma Gandhi

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.
Frank Zappa

If you haven't found something to live for you better find something to die for.
Martin Luther King Jr.

There's something amazing about the passion of youth and its power to sustain. If there's a more powerful energy source, I don't know about it.
Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

Quotes 12/27/08

I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.
Will Rogers

As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something.
Hagar the Horrible

It is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive to it.
Albert Einstein

Quotes 12/26/08

There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.
Wernher von Braun

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
Rebecca West

Quotes 12/25/08

I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts.
Bethania McKenstry

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
Mahatma Gandhi

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
Bill Vaughan

Character is forged in the smallest of struggles. Then, when the big challenges come, we’re ready
Waiter Rant

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Irv Kupcinet

Quotes 12/24/08

Insist on yourself; never imitate...Every great man is a unique.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

True peace is not merely the absence of tension, it is the presence of justice.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Be to her virtues very kind. Be to her faults a little blind.
Matthew Prior

Quotes 12/24/08

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Benjamin Franklin

When in doubt tell the truth.
Mark Twain

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
Margaret Thatcher

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Abraham Lincoln

Quotes 12/21/08

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Bohr

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.
David Hume

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Mahatma Gandhi

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
Martin Luther King

Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots.
Einstein

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds...
Lincoln

Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent.
Langston Coleman

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
Norman Douglas

Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate.
John Fletcher

Quotes 12/18/08

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
Benjamin Franklin

Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
Frances Moore Lappe

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
Edgar Wilson Nye

I can't believe Christmas is so close, every year i get less and less excited.

Quotes 12/16/08

God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.
Benjamin Franklin

Quotes 12/13/08

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost

Quotes 12/11/08

CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
Arthur C. Clarke

Beauty: The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
Ambrose Bierce

Quotes 12/8/08

Today is not a good day.

Love the heart that hurts you, but never hurt the heart that loves you.
Vipin Sharma

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin

In the long run we are all dead.
John Maynard Keynes

...reminds me of
On a long enough timeline, everyone's survival rate drops to 0
-Tyler Durden from Chuck Palanuik's Fight Club.

On a lighter note...

Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
H. L. Mencken

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.
Robert Orben

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
Frank Zappa

Quotes 12/6/08

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.
Augusten Burroughs

Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do - but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.
Einstein

The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.
John Milton

Quotes 12/5/08

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
Benjamin Franklin

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
James Baldwin

Energy conveys to us the idea of motion and activity. Inside a living organism we see a source of power, which by some manner is released in terms of movement.... Life is energy... it is the creator or initiator of movement change, development. We are different from moment to moment because the life principle is at work with us.... The spirit of humanity, like the forces of nature, and like the physical life, is at bottom energy.... Spiritual life, therefore, is just as much a development out of what has gone before in the evolutionary process as physical life is; which means that the origin of spiritual life is from within.
John Dietrich

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.
Doug Larson

QUOTE OF THE WEEK:
I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.
Che Guevera

Quotes 12/3/08

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
Gandhi

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.
Einstein

An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.
Nicholas Chamfort

I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
George Burns

Quotes 12/1/08

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
Bertrand Russel

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einsten

If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
Robert X. Cringley

Quotes 11/27/08

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
Abraham Lincoln

Quotes 11/22/08

No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
Thomas Mann

We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?
Ray Bradbury

Quotes 11/21/08

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Ronald Reagan

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.
Dan Quayle

War is not nice.
Barbara Bush

But war, in a good cause, is not the greatest evil which a nation can suffer. War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice – a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their free choice – is often the means of their regeneration. A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.”
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)

I freelanced for a while but that didn't last due to my need to eat.
Jason Byron Nelson

Don't waste your time or time will waste you.
Muse "Knights Of Cydonia"

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
Frank Herbert

Those of us who wanted to test the boundaries of what a superhero comic book could do,
unfortunately broke those boundaries and the results have not all been very good. We pushed
against the old walls, and they fell-but nothing much has been built to replace them. And now
the roof is leaking and the sewer's backing up.
Frank Miller

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.
Andy Warhol

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
Andy Warhol

It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented.
They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.
Andy Warhol

If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.
Bill Vaughan

exactly. and they ask "what?" and you don't hear them so you say "what?" following is the gloriously awkward silence
Tanner Holm on "Job mini-interviews over the phone"

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
Harry S Truman

You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
John J. Plomp

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot

You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.
Al Capone

Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?
Artemus Ward

I don't care what it is, when it has an LCD screen, it makes it better.
Kevin Rose

i kid you not. Colton just installed firefox on it, they were like cavemen scared of fire. His mom was like "don't be downloading things that I don't know of!
Josh Cordner

I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Virginia Woolf

"why should i use a book for quotes, when i can use my life."
Mitch Hawk

but honestly when you think about it....sushi makes you want to sin, because when you bite
into sushi, your taking a piece of satan, so satan becomes a part of you....which is why i had to
spit mine out, because im strong enough to fight back against satan :)
Mitch Hawk

I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.
Henny Youngman

there's no such thing as an atheist in a fox hole.
Vernon Hawk aka Fuzz

It looks like the Gas Fairies have given us a gallon of gas!
Tyler Pinegar

I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
Tom Hanks

(while talking to a german girl while looking around for something to do) It's boring here, but i've heard how great it is compared to the rest of the world, so idk, maybe everywhere else just must REALLY suck.
Tyler Pinegar

I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you
realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
-Robert McCloskey

your the only person i know who can see a font..name it..and make a shirt out of it and think
its cool
-Alix Macleod

Haha. Except kids lost in grocery stores have the option to look for the candy section and
wait for someone to come find them. :P
Meg Richter

Go turn off the internet.
Penni Nordstrom

Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.
Clive Barnes

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Samuel Johnson

It is better for us all to avenge or friends, not mourn them forever.
-Beowulf

George?! George doesn't know poop from applesauce!
-Cat from Stuart Little 2

Some nights after I have been working on the router until 3:13 AM I’ll look at myself in the
mirror and wonder what the heck I’m doing. Routers are fun and all but…
-Matthew Heaton

Although by the time either of us could afford this stuff, it'll all be updated
-Josh Cordner

(after posting on his wall)
ARGHHHHH why did you do that!!!! that's grafitti!
-Alex Moore

What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.
- Hansell B. Duckett

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
- Vannevar Bush

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
- Randall Jarrell