Oryrkjabandalag Islands (OBI) - Organisation of handicapped in Iceland. Provides information about OBI's activities, institutions and member organizations.
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Organizations "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Organizations
"How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Organizations "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Organizations
"Think off-center." (George Carlin) You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Organizations "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Organizations
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Organizations Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Organizations
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Organizations Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Organizations
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Organizations "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Organizations
"Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Organizations "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Organizations
I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Organizations "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Organizations
"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Organizations Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Organizations
Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Organizations What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Organizations
"Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Organizations Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Organizations
