The Bucharest Acceptance Group - In Romanian and English. A political group dedicated to changing the way sexual orientation is seen in Romania.
"One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
"Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
