Quotes

"The things love can drive a man to -- the ecstasies, the miseries, the broken rules, the desperate chances, the glorious failures and the glorious victories." - Dr. McCoy - Requiem for Methuselah

"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal." - Albert Einstein

"We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different languages. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child noted a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does no comprehend but only dimly suspects." - Albert Einstein

"The idea is amusing and enticing, but whether the Lord is laughing at it and has played a trick on me--that I cannot know." - Albert Einstein
"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams." John Barrymore

"It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else." Erma Bombeck

"Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages." Terry Pratchett
 

"I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night." Bill Watterson

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." Eleanor Roosevelt

"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake." Henry David Thoreau

"Dreams are the touchstones of our character" Henry David Thoreau

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours." Henry David Thoreau

"Nothing in the world is the way it ought to be. It's harsh, and cruel, and that's why there's us. Champions. Doesn't matter where we come from. What we've done, or suffered. Or even if we make a difference. We live as though the world were as it should be. To show it what it can be." - Angel

"When angels go bad, they go worse than anyone. Remember, Lucifer was an angel." - The Marquis De Carabas

"Good men fail every day. Great men fight on until they get it right." - Ed Wilson

"One of the few lessons I've learned from studying people who do terrible things is that they are all too human. And that we are all too capable of doing almost anything." - Ian McKellan

"Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws." -Sir Richard Francis Burton

"One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license." - P. J. O'Rourke
 

"Hope is a waking dream." Aristotle
 

"Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't." Brett Butler, 'Knee Deep in Paradise'
 

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." Edgar Allan Poe
 

"The wisest men follow their own direction. "Euripides
 

"Keep true to the dreams of thy youth." Friedrich von Schiller
 

"History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity." Cicero

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." George Bernard Shaw

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." George Santayana

"History never looks like history when you are living through it." John W. Gardner

"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon." Napoleon Bonaparte
 

"Some people make headlines while others make history." Philip Elmer-DeWitt,
 

"Well Behaved Women Rarely Make History" Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds." Edward Abbey

"The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders. " Edward Abbey

"War is the science of destruction." Sir John Abbott
 

"Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death." Berenice Abbott

"Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself." Berenice Abbott

"Somewhere, for everyone, there is that person, who, inside their mind, carries the memories of a person's soul so that they might never be forgotten, and in that, we are all immortal." - Julie Randolph

"Everything changes, but nothing is truly lost." - Master Li

"Liberty is a bitch who must be bedded on a mattress of corpses." - Lady Johanna Constantine

"Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so a simple phrase like "maybe we should just be friends" or "how very perceptive" turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart." - Rose Walker

"Destinations are often a surprise to the destined." - Thessaly

"Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly." - Todd Faber

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'" - Isaac Asimov

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible." - Walt Disney

"Next time you see me, things won't be the same. And if it hurts you my darling, you only have yourself to blame." - Next Time You See Me - Jim Byrnes

"I have traveled far and seen much. And what I have seen tells me that all sentient beings are best defined by their capacity and need for love." - Shaal Mayan, "The War Prayer"

"Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure." - Ambrose Bierce

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
 
 "I don't know how World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein
 
 "I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be." -Douglas Adams

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King Jr.

"The First Amendment forbids any law ‘abridging the freedom of speech'. It doesn't say, ‘except for commercials on children's television' or ‘unless somebody says "cunt"' in a rap song or "chick" on a college campus'." - P. J. O'Rourke
 
 "Altruism, a quality as hated by the generality as it is rare." - Gore Vidal
 
 "She's totally round the bend. But perhaps she gets a better view from there." - Terry Pratchett
 
 "The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot." - Mark Twain
 
 "Growth demands a temporary surrender of security." - Goethe
 
 "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to ones courage." - Anais Nin
 
 "Only the half-mad are wholly alive." - Edward Abbey
 
 "The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths to it are made, not found..." - Philip Adams
 
 "Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do." - Voltaire
 
 "Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and the only one who is searching for the Other." - Otavio Paz
 
 "Knowledge has always been one of the three tools of power: the other two are violence and wealth." - Alvin Toffler
 
 "Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent." - George Steiner
 

 "It is not advisable to venture unsolicited opinions. One should spare oneself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to their listener." - Ayn Rand
 
 "One should always forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged." - Heinrich Heine
 
 "It is not enough to conquer: one must know how to seduce." - Voltaire
 
 "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei

"I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn't that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she was my oldest, dearest friend. The kind of person you can tell anything to, no matter how bad, and they'll still love you, because they know you." - Brant Tucker

"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." - Jimmy Shubert
 
 "Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master." - Emo Phillips
 
"Every heart has its secret sorrows which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
 
"Men walk almost always in the paths trodden by others." - Machiavelli
 
"Men, who receive good from whom they expected evil, feel under a greater obligation to their benefactor." - Machiavelli
 
"One ought to be both feared and loved, but as it is difficult for the two to go together, it is much safer to be feared than loved, if one of the two has to go wanting." - Machiavelli
 
"Everybody sees what you appear to be but few feel what you are." - Machiavelli"

"Not all who wander are lost." - J.R.R. Tolkein

"What's wrong with living in Denial? It's comfy there." - Frank & Ernest
 

"Weakness of the soul is a greater fallacy than weakness of the heart." - Julie Randolph

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." - George Bernard Shaw

"The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality." - Dante Alighieri

"Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people." - Giordano Bruno
 

"There is a very fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line." - Oscar Levant
 
"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it." - Oscar Wilde
 
"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it." - Andre Gide
 
"Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody is looking." - H. L. Mencken
 
"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination." - Oscar Wilde
 
"Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life." - Bertolt Brecht
 
"Some men see things and ask why? I dream things that never where and ask why not?" - George Bernard Shaw
 
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former" - Albert Einstein
 
"There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more." - Woody Allen
 
"Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music." - George Carlin
 
"Seriousness is the only refuge for the shallow" - Oscar Wilde
 
"Do not hit at all if it can be avoided, but never hit softly." - Theodore Roosevelt
 
"Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers." - Voltaire
 
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." - Goethe
 
"All great truths begin as blasphemies." - George Bernard Shaw"

"People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes." - John Dee
 

"These are great stories, and we're lucky to have them. To read Now, and maybe again Then, later on, when we need what only a good story has the power to do: to take us away to worlds that never existed, in the company of people we wish we were... or thank God we aren't." - Stephen King
 

"The eye only sees what the mind is prepared to comprehend." - Robertson Davies"

"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter." - Winston Churchill
 

"He pulls a knife, you pull a gun. If he sends one of your guys to the hospital you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way." - Sean Connery
 
"For those who believe in eternal love, no explanation is necessary; for those who do not, no explanation is possible." - What Dreams May Come
 

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." - Mark Twain
 

"I love Saturday morning cartoons, what classic humour! This is what entertainment is all about ... Idiots, explosives and falling anvils." - Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson

"Nature abhors a hero. How can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?" - Solomon Short

"The most important thing about having goals is having one." Geoffrey F. Abert

"I prefer the word "homemaker" because "housewife" always implies that there mey be a wife someplace else." Bella Abzug

Agony: Not all pain is gain.

Apathy: If we don't take care of the customer, maybe they'll stop bugging us.

Defeat: For ever winner, there are dozens of losers. Odds are you're one of them.

Failure: When your best just isn't good enough.

Futility: You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take, and, statistically speaking, 99% of the shots you do.

Ineptitude: If you can't learn to do something well, learn to enjoy doing it poorly.

Losing: If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Mediocrity: It takes a lot less time and most people won't notice the difference until it's too late.

Pessimism: Every dark cloud has a silver lining, but lightning kills hundreds of people each year who try to find it.

Procrastination: Hard work often pays off after time, but laziness always pays off now.

Stupidity: Quitters never win, winners never quit, but those who never win AND never quit are idiots

Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark.

Laughing stock: cattle with a sense of humor.

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
 

Conformity: When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

Laziness: Success is a journey, not a destination. So stop running.

Underachievement: The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut by the lawnmower.

Burnout: Attitudes are contagious. Mine might kill you.

Doubt: In the battle between you and the world, bet on the world.

Humiliation: The harder you try, the dumber you look.

Adversity: That which does not kill me postpones the inevitable.

Despair: It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black.

Misfortune: While good fortune often eludes you, this kind never misses.

Problems: No matter how great and destructive your problems may seem now, remember, you've probably only seen the tip of them.

Trouble: Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young.

Cluelessness: There are no stupid questions, but there are a lot of inquisitive idiots.

Delusions: There is no joy greater than soaring high on the wings of your dreams, except maybe the joy of watching a dreamer who has nowhere to land but in the ocean of reality.

Dysfunction: The only consistent feature of all of your dissatisfying relationships is you.

Incompetence: When you earnestly believe you can compensate for a lack of skill by doubling your efforts, there's no end to what you can't do.

Insanity: It's difficult to comprehend how insane some people can be, especially when you're insane.

Bitterness: Never be afraid to share your dreams with the world, because there's nothing the world loves more than the taste of really sweet dreams.

Dare to Slack: When birds fly in the right formation they need only exert half the effort. Even in nature, teamwork results in collective laziness.

Ignorance: It's amazing how much easier it is for a team to work together when no one has any idea where they're going.
Consulting: If you're not a part of the solution, there's good money to be made in prolonging the problem

Elitism: "It's lonely at the top. But it's comforting to look down upon everyone at the bottom."

Demotivation: Sometimes the best solution to morale problems is just to fire all the the unhappy people.

Loneliness: If you find yourself struggling with loneliness, you're not alone. and yet you are alone. So very alone.

Arrogance: The best leaders inspire by example. When that's not an option, brute intimidation works pretty well too.
 

There's a fine line between an attitude problem and thinking clearly.

Don't cry because its over, smile because it happened.

Even a fool knows you can't reach out and touch the stars, but it doesn't keep wise men from trying.

We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.

Time is the best teacher; unfortunately it kills off all its students.

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

I've run out of sick days, so I'm calling in dead.

Why be difficult? Be impossible.

I do what the voices in my head tell me too!

It doesn't matter how often you get hit as long as you get up.

The good ones go unnoticed.

When you're having a really bad day, don't ponder what else might go wrong because something else *will* go wrong.

I don't suffer from insanity. I'm enjoying every minute of it.

We have enough youth, how about a fountain of smart?

If ignorance is bliss, you must be orgasmic.

Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them.

Artificial Intelligence usually beats real stupidity.

All power corrupts, but we need the electricity.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

Every great man was thought insane before he changed the world. Some never changed the world. They were just insane.

The normal make a living. The deranged make history.
 

They say "Seeing is believing" but the true question is: What do you believe you've seen? Throughout history, the search for faith has lead man to look to the stars and the heavens for answers, but only by looking into ourselves may we truly find it.

Experience teaches that, of all the emotions, fear stands alone in its power to move us, or to capture us in its grip forever. In a world of terrors, there is nothing more fearsome that the unknown...especially when what is unknown is ourselves.

Along with futures we dare not imagine, come choices we dare not make.

It has been said that for the truth to exist, it takes two people - one to speak it...and another to hear it. Mankind will be forever doomed to destruction if we continue to ask for the truth...but then refuse to listen.
 

Experience teaches that, of all the emotions, fear stands alone in its power to move us, or to capture us in its grip forever. In a world of terrors, there is nothing more fearsome that the unknown...especially when what is unknown is ourselves.

Along with futures we dare not imagine, come choices we dare not make.

It has been said that for the truth to exist, it takes two people - one to speak it...and another to hear it. Mankind will be forever doomed to destruction if we continue to ask for the truth...but then refuse to listen.

When you are good, you can tell people, but when you are great, they will tell you.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion.

The fox condemns the trap, not himself.

What is now proved was once only imagin'd.

Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.

Every thing possible to be beliv'd is an image of truth.

The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

You never know what is enough unless you know more than enough.

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

All of life can be broken down into moments of transition or moments of revelation.

There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way.

The war we fight is not against powers and principalities -- it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender.

When waiting for an apology, check the temperature in Hell first.

Everyone lies: the innocent lie because they don't want to be blamed for something they didn't do and the guilty lie because they don't have any other choice.

We all do what we do for the same reason: because it seems like a good idea at the time.

We all believe in something greater than ourselves, even if it's just the blind forces of chance.

The currents of Fate that we think are the ones that're gonna make us stronger, they are the ones that are going to destroy us, and the ones that we think are going to destroy us, they are going to make us stronger.

Sometimes the universe requires a change of perspective.

No race can be truly intelligent without laughter.

Never start a fight, but always finish it.

We say there is no choice only to comfort ourselves with the decision we have already made.

Our thoughts form the universe -- they always matter.

I have seen what power does, and I have seen what power costs. The one is never equal to the other.

You do not make history. You can only hope to survive it.

The one thing in life that you can be sure about is that you are going to make mistakes.

If you're gonna wait for the universe to start making sense, you have a long wait ahead of you.

If you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart, it will reflect that and reward your intent. Usually. It just doesn't always do it in the way you expect.

It's easy to find something worth dying for. Do you have anything worth living for?

Embrace the moment. In the end, that's all we have. Trouble will come in its own time, it always does. But that's tomorrow. Give me today, and I will be happy.

That's all that faith requires. That we surrender ourselves to the possibility of hope.

Always remember that terror is also a form of communication.

Every great fall begins with a single mistake.

At the end we all stand alone.

Ignorance can be remedied and forgiven. Stupidity can not. At the point that you are content to remain ignorant, you become stupid.

Jesus saves, Allah forgives, Cthulhu thinks you'd make a nice sandwich.

If you're too open minded, your brains will fall out.

Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.

If you look like your passport picture, you probably need the trip.

A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.

Junk is something you've kept for years and throw away three weeks before you need it.

There is always one more imbecile than you counted on.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

Have you ever wondered at the intelligence of humanity? Little people in cars full of scrap metal stopping on the whim of little tiny red and green lights. No wonder the smart aliens pass us by.


Life is...a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, Where have I gone wrong?
Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.


 

Walk in the wild side, even if it is only in your mind.

There are truths we dare not look in the eye, for fear they will look back.

NOW is when you find out what happens next.
 

Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, volume, humidity, and other variables, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.

I didn't know it was impossible when I did it.

Live for yourself; nothing else is worth dying for.

The universe puts us in places where we can learn. They are never easy places, But they are right. Wherever we are is the right place at the right time. The pain that sometimes comes. It is part of the process of constantly being born
 

Sometimes the test is not to find the answer, its to see how you react when you realize there is no answer.

Plain old human stubbornness I guess. When something we value is destroyed, we rebuild it. If its destroyed again, we rebuild it again...and again and again and...again. Until it stays. That as our poet Tennison once said is the goal: to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

No one knows what is written in the stream until the water surrounds him.

Without forgiveness you cannot mourn and without mourning you can never let go of the pain.

Don't cry because its over, smile because it happened.
 

Even a fool knows you can't reach out and touch the stars, but it doesn't keep wise men from trying.

The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
 

If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before.
 

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can

The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it.

Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock.
You cannot achieve the impossible without attempting the absurd.
My mind not only wanders, sometimes it leaves completely.
Anything that is good and useful is made of chocolate.

It may be that your whole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.

We all get to die eventually, even the damned.

There is a quality of perception beyond sight, beyond blindness.

People will be more thankful for a mystery than an answer.

All things have beginnings, here is as good a place as any for that, and for all beginnings, there is an end.

Sometimes we stick around just to see how it all turns out.

You cannot truly change "what is" until you accept "what is".

Surrender to Destiny, wherever he may lead you.

Yield to Desire, you may catch her attention only once.

No one goes searching for Destruction and returns unscathed.