The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Imathia Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Imathia
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Imathia Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Imathia
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Imathia blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Imathia
"Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Imathia There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Imathia
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Imathia "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Imathia
We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Imathia My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Imathia
"Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Imathia Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Imathia
I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Imathia If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Imathia
I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Imathia Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Imathia
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Imathia To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Imathia
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Imathia Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Imathia
