"Opposite Law is Grace, and Grace must be preserved. If
the strands of Grace are unraveled, its design will be lost, and the people with
it."
--Song of All, canto 167
"...Before honor is humility."
--The Bible, Proverbs 15:33
"There are some qualities, some incorporate things, / That have a double life, which thus is made / A type of twin entity which springs / from matter and light, eviced in solid and in shade."
--Edgar Allan Poe, "Silence"
""Do you know, I always thought Unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!""Well, now that we have seen each other," said the Unicorn, "if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.""
--Lewis Carroll,
Through the Looking-Glass
"I am that merry wanderer of the night."
--William Shakespeare,
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Whatever life holds in store for me, I will never forget these words, "with great power comes great responsibility." This is my gift, my curse. Who am I? I'm Spider-man.
I guess we were all guilty, in a way. We all shot him, we all skinned him, and we all got a complimentary bumper sticker that said, "I helped skin Bob."
"A friend is a person who reaches out to grab your hand but instead touches your heart"
"when your drowning, you dont say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come help me,' you just scream." John Lennon 1970
*A million words wouldn't bring you back. I know because I've tried. Neither would a million tears. I know because I've cried.*
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
- Plato (427-347 B.C.)
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it"
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning."
- Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)
"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."
- General George Patton (1885-1945)
Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy.
Janet Long
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
James Thurber (1894 - 1961), in Edward R. Murrow television interview
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Ellen Parr
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), "Eleonora"
You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Back to Methuselah" (1921), part 1, act 1
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
William Dement
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), "On Reading and Writing"
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Journal, July 25, 1839
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Jean Anouilh (1910 - 1987)
'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.
John Sheffield
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
Karen Sunde
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov (1921 - )
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Address on The Method of Nature, 1841
Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired.
Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
Dorothy Bernard
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
Marie Ebner von Eschenbach, Aphorisms, 1905
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
e e cummings (1894 - 1962)
Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.
Elsa Maxwell, September 28, 1958
You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh.
Jay Leno (1950 - )
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
A good listener is usually thinking about something else.
Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
Jilly Cooper
A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpence
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), in Good Housekeeping
Imagination is more important than knowledge...
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Memory feeds imagination.
Amy Tan (1952 - )
Everything you can imagine is real.
Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
Tenessee Williams (1911 - 1983), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955)
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), "On Reading and Writing"
Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy.
Janet Long
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.
Harlan Ellison (1934 - )
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
Scott Adams (1957 - )
Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.
Lord, what fools these mortals be!
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Act 2 scene 2
I have seen the future and it doesn't work.
Robert Fulford
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Bible, John 8:32
Ask, and it shall be given you; Seek, and ye shall find; Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
Bible, New Testament, Matthew 7:7
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
Bible, Old Testament
Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?
Spike Milligan, from "The Goon Show"
"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything."
"The best proof of love is trust."
-Joyce
Brothers
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'"
"The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do."
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage."
*I ran up the door, and slammed the stairs..I said my pajamas, and put on my prayers...I turned on the bed, and I jumped on my light...All because you kissed me goodnight~* hehe hey everyone love y'all hope you all enjoyed reading this~ Anna
"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires,
and a touch that never hurts." -Charles Dickens
"If I know what love is, it is because of you." -Herman Hesse
Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
~ Franklin P. Jones
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.
~ Song of Songs 8:7
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become
superfluous.
~ Ingrid Bergman
When I count my blessings I count you twice.
When I think about how fortunate I am,
To have you in my life
And then I count my blessings,
And I count you twice.
-Steven Hyde
Find someone who you can trust and keep hold of them,
Find someone who makes you laugh and treasure them,
Find someone who's both and love them.
-Steven Hyde
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
~ Ingrid Bergman
"The best proof of love is trust."
-Joyce Brothers
When I count my blessings I count you twice.
"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires,
and a touch that never hurts."
-Charles Dickens
"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything."
Everything you can imagine is real.
-Pablo Picasso
"If I know what love is, it is because of you."
"If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were."
"A relationship is like a rose, How long it lasts, no one knows; Love can erase
an awful past, Love can be yours, you'll see at last; To feel that love, it
makes you sigh, To have it leave, you'd rather die; You hope you've found that
special rose, 'Cause you love and care for the one you chose."
-Rob
Cella
"Why couldn't it be 'follow the butterflies?'" -Ron (HP2)
"If tears could build a stairway and memeories a path, then I walke right up to heaven and bring you home again."
I miss you when something really good happens because you're the one I want to share it with. I miss you when something is troubling me because you're the one who understands me so well. I miss you when I laugh and cry because I know that you are the one that makes my laughter grow and my tears disappear. I miss you all the time, but I miss you the most when I lay awake at night and think of all the wonderful times that we spent with each other, for those were some of the best and most memorable times of my life
Happiness begins with the happiness of others.
"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for the coffin."
Values are not trendy items casually traded in.
-Ellen Goodman
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Do you not see how necessary a world of pain and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
-John Keats
To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
-Bernadette Devlin McAliskey
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
-Samuel Smiles
Never do the right deed for the wrong reason.
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not all the time.
-George Orwell
Alas! They had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
-Jacques Maritain
Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values
-Jose Ortega y Gasset
One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one lives
-Paul Bourget
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
-Samuel Johnson
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-George Washington
Men are like steel. When they lose their temper they lose their worth.
-Chuck Norris
Every human is a fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.
-Elbert Hubbard
Beauty isn’t worth thinking about; what’s important is your mind. You don’t want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head.
-Garrison Keillor
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
-William James
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
-Kimberly Johnson
This is the age where one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.
-George F. Will
All the blessings of my life are present in my thoughts today.
-Phoebe Cary
God created man from nothingness and the nothingness shows through.
Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
-George Eliot
As I get older I seem to believe less and less, and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.
-David Jenkins
The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of force but of dedication, of moral persuasion.
-Steve Biko
Let the great word spin forever down the ringing grooves of change.
-Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
-Carl Jung
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself
-Andy Warhol
Change is not merely necessary to life. It is life.
-Alvin Toffler
Therefore, spare your jealousy, or turn it all into kindness.
-Dorothy Osborne
We all have big changes in out life that are more or less a second chance.
-Harrison Ford
Growth requires a temporary surrender of security.
-Gail Sheehy
Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.
-Antonio Porchia
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-George Eliot
Sense we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.
-Nikos Kazantzakis
Things do not change, we change.
-Henry David Thoreau
You will never know true happiness
until you have truly loved,
and you will never understand
what pain really is
until you have lost it.
~ by Anonymous ~