| "When you're out on the front lines, and you're watching them fall.
It don't take long to realize, it aint worth fighting for."
--Brian Adams "He turns not back who is bound to a star." --Leonardo Da Vinci "A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded." --Tyne Daly "The stones that Critics hurl with Harsh Intent / A Man may use to build a Monument." --Arthur Guiterman "In the game of life, nothing is less important than the score at half time." --Anon. "Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can." --Elsa Maxwell "Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another." --Madonna "There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go." --Tennessee Williams "I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel." --Gloria Naylor "Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger." --St. Basil "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." --Eleanor Roosevelt If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you."' --Winnie the Pooh "If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend." --Stone Temple Pilots "We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere" -- Tim McGraw "Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting." --Christopher Morely "Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go." --William Feather "If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it." "Come the millennium, month 12, In the home of greatest power, The village idiot will come forth to be acclaimed the leader." --Nostradamus; 1555 "The people united will never be defeated." Tell them it wasn't easy. When they look back and see 125 wins, tell them we never took a single one for granted. Teach them about our passion And our patience. If they ask who was our star, give them 25 names. And if you forget our names just tell them we were Yankees And in the season of our lives we became a team A team that could make people believe baseball could be magic, and men could be perfect. --The 1998 World Series Video about the NY Yankees "Look down the road to her wedding, I'm in a room alone with her, fitting her veil, fluffing her dress and telling her no woman ever looked so beautiful and my one fear is that she'll be thinking, I wish my mom was here." "And my fear is that she won't" --Julia Roberts and Susan Sarandon in Stepmom before Susan Sarandon dies and leaves Julia, the stepmom in charge of the kids. "If its and buts were candy and nuts we'd all have a merry Christmas." --Colby from Survivor 2 "You know someone said the world's a stage and each much play a part. Fate had me playing in love with you as my sweetheart. Act 1 was when we met. I loved you at first glance. You read your lines so cleverly and never missed a cue. Then came Act 2. Using the change, you acted strange and why I've never known. Honey you lied with you said you loved me and I had no cause to doubt you. But I'd rather go on hearing your lies, then to go on living without you. Now the stage is bare and I'm standing there with emptiness all around and if you won't come back to me, then they can bring the curtain down." --Elvis "Are you lonesome tonight?" "It s not enough to be good if you have the ability to be better." --Alberta Lee Cox "Be the change you want to see in this world." --Gandhi "Character is what we do when we think no one is looking." --H. Jackson Brown, Jr. "If a man hasn t discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live." --Martin Luther King JR. "When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in a manner so that when you die the world cries and you rejoice." --Native American proverb "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. " --Chinese Proverbs "Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself." "In youth we learn; in age we understand." --Marie von Ebner Eschenbach "No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back." -- Turkish proverb "This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave." --Elmer Davis "Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land. And I'm happy, tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord." --Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), Memphis, Tennessee, 3 April 1968 (The evening prior to his assassination.) "Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye." --H. Jackson Brown, Jr. "Money talks. But it can't sing and dance, and it can't walk. As long as I can have you here with me, I'd much rather be forever in blue jeans." --Neil Diamond - from Forever in Blue Jeans "When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." --Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) "There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread." --Gamdhi "Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do . . . Where there's love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong." --Ella Fitzgerald "Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box." "The mighty oak tree was once a little nut that held its ground" "The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable." --Paul Tillich "Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be." --Clementine Paddleford "Our entire life--consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are." --Jean Anouilh The more I swallow my tears, Bigger the ocean forms in my heart. And I’m drowning, Standing on the ground. --hang o’nem "The election can't be broken. We just fixed it." --Florida 2000 "The last time somebody listened to a Bush, folks wandered in the desert for 40 years" Quotes form Jane Austin letters: letter of May 31, 1811, On the Peninsular War:
—-Robert Allen They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them. —-Gandhi Passion is not Arrogance. You ever hear that story about Babe Ruth pointing towards the fence before he belted a home run exactly where he said it would? No one knows if it's true or not; it's like a myth. But man, you sure want to believe it happened. You want to believe that someone could have that much faith in themselves, in what they do, in what they're capable of, that they'd guarantee they're going to do something and then go ahead and do it. —-A Nike Ad What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail? —-Dr. Robert Schuller A slipping gear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire when you least expect it. That would make you quite unpopular in what's left of your unit. —-In the August 1993 issue, page 9, of PS magazine, the Army's magazine of preventive maintenance 44. G: If we do happen to step on a mine, Sir, what do we do? EB: Normal procedure, Lieutenant, is to jump 200 feet in the air and scatter oneself over a wide area. —-Somewhere in No Man's Land, BA4 The United States needs to create a world made more just and more hopeful, not just a world made more profitable for ourselves. I hope that this President’s record makes it damn hard for the competition to complain about his record in foreign policy. That may be bad for the loyal opposition. But it’s good for the people, who deserve it. And I promise my support for whatever he may do in support of that prayer. --Al Gore; February 12, 2002 A broken hand works, but not a broken heart. --Persian Proverb A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. --Greek Proverb Call on God, but row away from the rocks. --Indian Proverb Row, row, row your boat Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily Life is but a dream. --Traditional Song They say that these are not the best of times, But they're the only times I've ever known. And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own. --Billy Joel, "Summer, Highland Falls" You've got to get up every morning with a smile on your face And show the world all the love in your heart Then people gonna treat you better You're gonna find, yes you will That you're beautiful as you feel. --Carole King, "Beautiful" “The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half- inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.” --Robert Brault “The mark of a successful man is one that has spent an entire day on the bank of a river without feeling guilty about it.” --Anon. "Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it." --Jacques Prévert "There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling." --Mirabel Osler "Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing." --John Andrew Holmes "A person who can speak many languages is not necessarily more valuable than a person who can listen in one." I’m going out tonight—I’m feelin’ alright Gonna let it all hang out Wanna make some noise—really raise my voice Yeah, I wanna scream and shout No inhibitions—make no conditions Get a little outta line I ain’t gonna act politically correct I only wanna have a good time The best thing about being a woman Is the prerogative to have a little fun --Shania Twain “Man! I Feel like a woman!” I’d love to wake up smiling—full of the joys of spring And hear on CNN that Elvis lives again And that John’s back with the Beatles and they’re goin’ out on tour I’ll be the first in line for tickets—gotta see that show for sure --Shania Twain “When” "People will always be walking in and out of your life. that's what friendship is like. you hold it like sand...squeeze too tightly and you'll lose it, but hold loosely and it will stay in the palm of your hand. As people come and go...it's a friend that will stop by once in a while and say..hey how's it going?...a true friend that will say...sorry we lost so much.....but it's those special people that will say...i'm sorry to have to leave and i can't wait to come back..." the words might not be exact...but it comes from the heart and that what makes them special...." --My friend's IM Profile To do is to be. -- Descartes To be is to do. -- Voltaire Do be do be do.-- Frank Sinatra I can't believe that out of 100,000 sperm, you were the quickest. --Steven Pearl Don't take life too serious. You'll never escape it alive anyway. --Elbert Hubbard "We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another." --Luciano de Crescenzo "Even on the road to hell, flowers can make you smile." --Deng Ming-Dao "Heroism consists in hanging on one minute longer." --Norwegian proverb "When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it... always." --Mahatma Gandhi "Live every day like it's your last because someday you'll be right." "Tell me what you're laughing at and I shall tell you who you are." --Goethe Burn as long as you live Let no one kill your light Burn so we all can see you Refuse being a living dead --Graffiti, Gamlestan i remember the days when i was so eager to satisfy you and be less then i was just to prove i could walk beside you now that I've flown away i see you've chosen to stay behind me and still you curse the day i decided to stay true to myself you say your quest is to bring it higher well i never seen change without a fire but from your mouth i have seen a lot of burning but underneath i think it's a lot of yearning your face, the colours change from green to yellow to the point where you can't even say hello you tell me you'd kill me if i ever snob you out like that's what you'd expect from me, like that's what i'm about --Nelly Furtado "On the Radio" "Some people think it's holding on that makes you strong, sometimes it's letting go." “My parents’ house is harder to go to now cuz they’re always in the yard, pickin’ the grass.” --Lance Bass "You can never have a rainbow, without a little rain." "Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together." "Sometimes someone says something really small, and it just fits right into this empty place in your heart." "Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't." --Erica Jong "Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it." --Ellen Glasgow "To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation." --Lichtenberg "The end of a dock is not an obstacle, it's an opportunity to get on a boat." --Duane Alan Hahn "Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy." --Guillaume Apollinaire “remember who you wanted to be” -—bumper sticker “I truly believe we could fly if we wanted to.” -—Justin Timberlake “If the dogs are barking at your heels, you know you're leading the pack.” --Anon. "You're out of this world, except you're not green" --Justin Timberlake "Nothin' Else" "Justin, on the other hand, was in a band with Joey Fatone and a gay guy who wants to be sent to the moon. It was vital that he, at least, looked somewhat balanced." --www.whatever-dude.com "I always knew that looking back at my tears would make me laugh, but I never thought that looking back at my laughter would make me cry." --Cat Stevens "The sun's gonna shine and the rain's gonna fall. In the end you might get burnt or wet, but that's life. So dance in the puddles, bathe in the sun, and at the end of the day smile. Everything's gonna be alright." "Should I smile because he's my friend? Or cry because that's all he'll ever be?" "Don't miss anyone from your past, there's a reason they didn't make it to your future." "I hate the way you're always right, I hate the way you lie. I hate the way you make me laugh, and worse when you make me cry. I hate the fact that you're not around and that you never call. But most of all I hate the fact that I don't hate you at all." "The worst way to miss someone is when they're standing right next to you and you know you can't have them." "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. And you were my best friend." "Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain." "Sometimes, you die. And sometimes when you fall, you fly" "You could ask me what means more to me; my life or you. And I'd say my life, and you'd walk away angry, not knowing that you are my life" "I remember all the feelings and the day they stopped" "If your intelligence threatens theirs, that is their problem"-fortune cookie "And I think to myself- what a wonderful world" "I just want to fly"- Sugar Ray "Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use." "Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow- red, yellow, brown, black and white- and we're all precious is God's sight."-Jesse Jackson "If I could tell the world just one thing, it would be, we're all okay."-Jewel "Life can be great-quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it." -D.H.Lawrence "I don't want to live- I want to love first, and live incidentally"- Zelda Fitzgerald "Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens."-Tolkien "Make 'em feel 'ya" -John Starks "Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think." -Longfellow "It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness."-Charles Haddon Spurgeon "I get knocked down, but I get up again, and you're never gonna keep me down."-Chumba Wumba "'cause I gotta remember my dreams" "You're a fighter so fight"-Sweetbox That person is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much. Who has gained the respect of intelligent people and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacks appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had"- Ralph Waldo Emerson "There are more wars on the streets than wars in the Middle East"-TuPac "Heartache came to visit me but I knew it wasn't ever after"- Jewel "In a world that keep on pushing me down, I won't back down"-Tom Petty "When you learn to love yourself, you're better off by far" "I've got faith to believe, I can do anything"-Rod Stewart "Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it."-Mr. O'Halloran "If you want to be happy, be" "When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thing line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap."-Cynthia Heimel "I'll see you when you get there; If you ever get there; If you wanna get there"-Coolio "I've had to dig away to find my own peace of mind"-All Saints "Restless hearts sleep alone at night; Send them my love by wire."-eve 6 "Champions keep playing until they get it right"-Billie Jean King "He who does a kindness is remembered afterward; when he falls, he finds a support" -Sirach 4;3;30 "In the end, only kindness matters"-Jewel "I have to say my friends, this road goes a long, long way. And if we're gonna find the end, we're gonna need a helping hand."-Elton John "Salvation" "Right now it's not horrible. It's worse. Right now I'm just trying not to die."-Buffy (I don't watch the show but I saw this as the clip on an awards show and I thought it was so sad) "Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly" "All you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be"-Pink Floyd "Breathe" "Weep not for the memories."-Sarah McLachlan "Will You Remember Me?" "It's the heart afraid of dying, that never learns to dance; It's the dream afraid of waking, that never takes the chance; It's the one who won't be taken, who cannot seem to give; And the soul afraid of dying, that never learns to live."-Bette Midler "The Rose" "Life is so precious. Look up at the sky. Sing your heart out. Let yourself fly."-Chesi "Life is short and hard like a body-building elf." "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." "I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit,beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life."-Rose Kennedy "I have discovered that patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting."-Joyce Meyer "Life is like eating... Don't wait for someone to ask if you are hungry.." "...Picking your nose when no one else is looking is still picking your nose..." "You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was."-Abraham Lincoln "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."-Pablo Picasso "Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope and that enables you to laugh at life's realities."-Dr.Seuss "I woke up early today, excited over all I get to do before the clock strikes midnight. I have responsibilities to fulfill today. I am important. My job is to choose what kind of day I am going to have. Today I can complain because the weather is rainy or I can be thankful that the grass is getting watered for free. Today I can feel sad that I don't have more money or I can be gladthat my finances encourage me to plan my purchases wisely and guide me away from waste. Today I can grumble about my health or I can rejoice that I am alive. Today I can lament over all that my parents didn't give me when I was growing up or I can feel grateful that they allowed me to be born. Today I can cry because roses have thorns or I can celebrate that thorns have roses. Today I can mourn my lack of friends or I can excitedly embark upon a quest to discover new relationships. Today I can whine because I have to go to work or I can shout for joy because I have a job to do. Today I can complain because I have to go to school or eagerly open my mind and fill it with rich new tidbits of knowledge. Today I can murmur dejectedly because I have to do housework or I can feel honored because God has provided shelter for my mind, body and soul. Today stretches ahead of me, waiting to be shaped. And here I am, the sculptor who gets to do the shaping. What today will be like is up to me. I get to choose what kind of day I will have! Have a great day...unless you have other plans." - Unknown A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.-- H. L. A critic is a legless man who teaches running.-- Channing Pollock "True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable." –unknown "Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have." -H. Jackson Brown, Jr. One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this. -The Impossible Dream "When you hug someone, never be the first to let go." "Smile all the time, even when you're sad. You never know when someone could be falling in love with your smile." That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. –Abe Lincoln "Hope is a waking dream."- Aristotle "Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them."-- Lady Bird Johnson "Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you." -- Herbert Gasser "Whenever I start getting sad about where I am in my life, I think about the last words of my favorite uncle: 'A truck!'" "He wasn't paranoid, they really were after him." ~Written on someone's gravestone "Life and death, energy and peace. If I stop today it was still worth it. Even the terrible mistakes that I made and would have unmade if I could. The pains that have burned me and scarred my soul, it was worth it, for having been allowed to walk where I've walked, which was to hell on earth, heaven on earth, back again, into, under, far in between, through it, and above." ~~Gia, Gia when dying "On the view of earth from 3.7 billion miles away: 'Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home, That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [...] There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.'" ~~Carl Sagan "To open your eyes and see the sky is not enough. To open your ears is still not enough. For only if you open your mind will you hear the clouds whispering love's sweet songs and dancing together across the noisy sea. " "When you come to the end of everything you know, and the next step is into the depths of darkness of the great unknown, you must believe one of two things: Either you will step out onto firm ground or you will be taught to fly. " ~~Patrick Overton "I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time." -Anna Freud "Pain is never permanent."-- Saint Theresa of Avila "Fools look to tomorrow; wise men use tonight."-- Scottish Proverb "Love teaches even asses to dance."-- French Proverb "Courage is the power to let go of the familiar."-- Raymond Lindquist "Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy."-- Anne Frank "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."~~~Marianne Williamson "Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down." --Oprah Winfrey MULDER: "Scully, I was like you once. I didn't know who to trust, and I chose another path, another life, another fate, where I found my sister. And even though my world was unrecognizable and upside down, there was one thing that remained the same-- [takes her face in his hands] you were my friend, and you told me the truth. Even when the world was falling apart, you were my constant, my touchstone."SCULLY: "And you are mine." -The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati (The X-Files) "Life is not measured by the breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away." -Author Unknown "Get up every day and try a little harder than the day before. " —Emeril Lagasse “Do not speak unless you can improve the silence.” —Anonymous. “Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them, and you have their shoes.” —Frieda Norris. “Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.” —Banks. “The clock isn't slower; you're just faster.” —Adidas “The race is not always to the swift but to those who keep on running.” —Anonymous “Love is not finding the perfect person, but finding the imperfect person perfect.” —Unknown. "A teddy bear teaches a child that love means being there when you're needed." —Ubby. "A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words." —Anonymous "Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it." —Swedish proverb. “Only do what your heart tells you”-Princess Diana I know someday you'll have a beautiful life I know you'll be a star, in somebody else's sky But why, why, why can't it be mine? Pearl Jam, "Black" "Treat people as if they were what they should be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming."--Johannn von Goethe "It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop."-Confucious "You see your name on the line-up card and you can hardly believe it. You realize that this is what all those games of pepper with your dad were for. So you play your first game. And you play your second. And then a third. You just keep playing them one at a time. Running out every ground ball, enduring the foul-tips off the instep and the boredom of the rainouts and the nagging bumps and bruises that come with playing the game hard, the way it was meant to be played. And suddenly all those games you played one-at-a-time add up to 2,131. And kids who weren't even born the day the streak began want to be there the day you break the record.Your old teammates make plans to be there. And your family. But the surest thing of all is that you'll be there. After all, there's a game that day."-Cal Ripken Jr. "Nobody knows exactly where these people are but I know we would like to believe it is a better place. I believe it is a human impossibility to obtain complete peace of mind in this dimension. There's too much suffering and pain- particularly for children. "Suffer Little Children" to come unto me for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. To the faithful departed and those left behind, there's a light that never dies."-Dolores O'Riordan (lead singer of the Cranberries inside on of their CD's) "The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."~~~Eden Phillpotts (1862-1960) "No man is worth your tears, but if he is he won't make you cry" "Just remember, if the world didn't suck,we'd all fall off." "The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those who got there first." "As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in public schools." "All my life I was looking for true magic, never did I realise it was here in front of me all the time."~~~Harry Houdini "Don't give up. Don't ever give up."- Jim Valvano (at NC State vs. University of Houston right before he died of cancer) "It's not over 'till I say it's over."-John Roethlisberger (US Gymnist after coming back from a torn ACL to make it to the Olympics after everyone said he wouldn't be able to. "I hope that you see this heart behind my tired eyes."- "I'm no Angel" by Dido "When a man in finally boxed and he has no choice, he begins to decorate his box."- Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck "The race is long and in the end it's only with yourself."- the Sunscreen Song "In the face of uncertainty, there is nothing wrong with hope." -- O. Carl Simonton "One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach." --Anne Morrow Lindbergh "A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents." --G. C. Lichtenberg "God gave us memory that we might have roses in December." --James M. Barrie "Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent." --Jean Kerr "Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." --Ralph Waldo Emerson "I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship." --Louisa May Alcott Dear Friends, It is with the saddest heart I pass on the following: Please join me in remembering a great icon - the veteran Pillsbury spokesman. The Pillsbury Doughboy died yesterday of a yeast infection and complications from repeated pokes in the belly. He was 71. Doughboy was buried in a lightly greased coffin. Dozens of celebrities turned out to pay their respects, including Mrs. Butterworth, Hungry Jack, the California Raisins, Betty Crocker, the Hostess Twinkies, and Captain Crunch. The gravesite was piled high with flours. As long-time friend, Aunt Jemima delivered the eulogy, describing Doughboy as a man who never knew how much he was kneaded. Doughboy rose quickly in show business, but his later life was filled with turnovers. He was not considered a very "smart"cookie, wasting much of his dough on half-baked schemes. Despite being a little flaky at times, he even still, as a crusty old man, was considered a roll model for millions. Toward the end it was thought he would rise again, but alas, he was no tart. Doughboy is survived by his wife, Play Dough; two children, John Dough and Jane Dough; plus they had one in the oven. He is also survived by his elderly father, Pop Tart. The funeral was held at 3:50 for about twenty minutes..... "Many years ago, when I worked as a volunteer at Stanford Hospital, I got to know a little girl named Liz who was suffering from a rare and serious disease. Her only chance of recovery appeared to be a blood transfusion from her 5-year old brother, who had miraculously survived the same disease and had developed the antibodies needed to combat the illness. The doctor explained the situation to her little brother, and asked the boy if he would be willing to give his blood to his sister. I saw him hesitate for only a moment before taking a deep breath and saying," yes, I'll do it if it will save Liz." As the transfusion progressed, he lay in bed next to his sister and smiled, as we all did, seeing the color returning to her cheeks. Then his face grew pale and his smile faded. He looked up at the doctor and asked with a trembling voice, "Will I start to die right away?" Being young, the boy had misunderstood the doctor; he thought he was going to have to give his sister all of his blood."" The following are actual English subtitles used in films from Hong Kong: * I am darn unsatisfied to be killed in this way. * Fatty, you with your thick face have hurt my instep. * Same old rules: no eyes, no groin. * A normal person wouldn't steal pituitaries. * Darn, I'll burn you into a BBQ chicken * Take my advice, or I'll spank you a lot. * Who gave you the nerve to get killed here? * I'll fire aimlessly if you don't come out ! * I will surround their house by myself. * You daring lousy guy. * Yah-hah, evil spider woman! I have captured you by the short rabbits and can now deliver you violently to your doctor for a thorough extermination. * I have been scared silly too much lately. * Beware! Your bones are going to be disconnected. * The bullets inside are very hot. Why do I feel so cold? * How can you use my intestines as a gift? * Greetings, large black person. Let us not forget to form a team up together and go into the country to inflict the pain of our karate feets on some but of the giant lizard person. * Your western eyes will be fingered from your face. * The Americans will not save you for Christmas. * Feeling sexual we will invade into your women. * You always use violence. I should've ordered glutinous rice chicken. >"until the somber shadows grow upon the malefactious few the bitter melodious of eons will play on the minds of the poo" ---Sean One Lost Battle Does Not Spell Defeat, Says CBS News Correspondent Bob Schieffer In His Weekly Commentary (CBS) The long presidential campaign is coming to an end. We don't know who won, but we will. We have had delays before and the country survived, and it will survive again. One day soon, the counting will be done and the men who sought the presidency will accept the results - and the one who loses will congratulate the other. Far from being easy, it may be the hardest thing either man has ever done. But I believe it will be done because both of these men are honorable men - and they will recognize their first duty is not to party and partisans, but to the country. The advisers may well give contrary advice - and the partisans are never satisfied. But eventually, both men will thank the advisors and excuse the partisans and look within themselves and there find the answer to what they must do. I hope the one who loses heard former President Gerald Ford the other night when he said, "As one who has lost a close election, I can tell you there is life after Inauguration Day." The crowd loves the winner of the moment. But in history's long view, it is not always the winner of the moment who proves victorious. One battle lost does not spell defeat nor the end of life. The true leader is not always the one who wins, but the one who shows us what is right. "To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world." ~~~Francesca Today is the tomorrow you were worried about yesterday. Was it worth it? A family of tomatos was going on a hike in the mountains. The mother tomato told the father tomato that the kid tomato was falling behind. The father tomato went behind to the kid tomato, squashed him and said "Ketchup" "That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jackass, and I'm just the one to do it." ---A Congressional Candidate in Texas "I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix." ---Dan Quayle I believe that if i should die, and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth I would hear your footsteps. - - - -Benito Perez Galdos There's something about me that makes a lot of people want to throw up. - - Pat Boone I never know how much of what I say is true. - - Bette Midler I was born to catch dragons in their dens And pick flowers To tell tales and laugh away the morning To drift and dream like a lazy stream And walk barefoot across sunshine days. - - - - James Kavanaugh "Sunshine Days and Foggy Nights" But of all these friends and lovers There is no one compares with you. And these memories lose their meaning When I think of love as something new. Though I know I'll never lose affection For people and things that went before I know I'll often stop and think about them In my life, I love you more. - - -Beatles "In My Life" Hear that lonesome whippoorwill? He sounds too blue to fly. The midnight train is whining low, I'm so lonesome I could cry. - - - Hank Williams, "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" If the future's looking dark We're the ones who have to shine If there's no one in control We're the ones who draw the line Though we live in trying times We're the ones who have to try Though we know that time has wings We're the ones who have to fly. - - -Rush "Everyday Glory" In the rain the pavement shines like silver All the lights are misty in the river In the darkness, the trees are full of starlight And all I see is him and me forever and forever - - - "On My Own" from Les Miserables Place a name upon the night One to set your heart alight And to make the darkness bright Paint the sky with stars. - - -Enya "Paint the Sky with Stars" "You know what's great about the water? You can have the weight of the world on your shoulders and you still float." - Aaron Snyder from As the World Turns "We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today." -Stacia Tauscher "All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin." -John F. Kennedy 1917 "In the great department store of life, baseball is the toy department." -Unknown "Our hopes are but memories reversed." -Unknown "A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day." -Proverb "If it were not for hopes, the heart would break." -Thomas Fuller “Remember when the days were long And rolled beneath a deep blue sky Didn't have a care in the world With mommy and daddy standin' by But "happily ever after" fails And we've been poisoned by these fairy tales" -Don Henley "End of the innocence" "People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost." -H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Sign at zoo: "Please don't stand or climb on the fences. If you fall in, the animals might eat you, which could make them sick. Thank you!" "Pride can stand a thousaund trials, the strong will never fall.. But watching stars without you - my soul cried." -Desiree "Kissing You" “It’s just like things keep getting smaller and smaller and I can’t reach out and touch them.” “It’s called Goodbye” —“Jen” and “Jack” on Dawson’s Creek "My dear boy, if God had intended for us to walk, he wouldn't have invented roller skates." -Willy Wonka "If your friend is already dead, and being eaten by vultures, I think it's okay to feed some bits of your friend to one of the vultures, to teach him to do some tricks. But ONLY if you're serious about adopting the vulture." -Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey(Saturday Night Live) "I was walking home one night and a guy hammering on a roof called me a paranoid little weirdo. In morse code." -Emo Phillips "Looking back on the memory of The dance we shared 'neath the stars above For a moment all the world was right How could I have known that you'd ever say goodbye And now I'm glad I didn't know The way it all would end, the way it all would go Our lives are better left to chance, I could have missed the pain But I'd have had to miss the dance." -Garth Brooks, "The Dance" "Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have" -Unknown "I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." -Unknown "The more things change, the more they stay the same. I'm not sure who the first person was who said that. Probably Shakespeare. Or maybe Sting. But at the moment, it's the sentence that best explains my tragic flaw, my inability to change. I don't think I'm alone in this. The more I get to know other people, the more I realize it's kind of everyone's flaw. Staying exactly the same for as long as possible, standing perfectly still... It feels safer somehow. And if you are suffering, at least the pain is familiar. Because if you took that leap of faith, went outside the box, did something unexpected... Who knows what other pain might be out there, waiting for you. Chances are it could be even worse. So you maintain the status quo. Choose the road already traveled and it doesn't seem that bad. Not as far as flaws go. You're not a drug addict. You're not killing anyone... Except maybe yourself a little. When we finally do change, I don't think it happens like an earthquake or an explosion, where all of a sudden we're like this different person. I think it's smaller than that. The kind of thing most people wouldn't even notice unless they looked at us really close. Which, thank God, they never do. But you notice it. Inside you that change feels like a world of difference. And you hope this is it. This is the person you get to be forever... that you'll never have to change again." -Unknown “Promise me you’ll never forget me because if I thought you would I’d never leave.” -Winnie the Pooh "The people who contributed to who I am, they are with me wherever I go. And as history gets rewritten in small ways with each passing day, my love for them only grows. Because the truth is, it was the best of times. Mistakes were made, hearts were broken, harsh lessons learned, but all of that has receded into fond memory now. How does it happen? Why are we so quick to forget the bad and romanticize the good? Maybe it's because we need to believe that the time we spent together actually meant something, that we were there for each other in a time of our lives that defined us all, a time in our lives that we will never forget." -Unknown “The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. “I’m not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead- ahead of myself as well as of you.” -George Bernard Shaw “If you promise not to believe everything your child says happens at this school, I’ll promise not to believe everything he says happens at home.” -Anonymous “In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.” -Fran Lebowitz “Always behave like a duck- keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.” -Lord Barbizon “A professor is one who talks in someone else’s sleep.” -W.H. Auden “Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp or what’s a heaven for?” -Robert Browning "The most important thing growing up in life is to learn how to play." --Jim Carrey "I've been driving for an hour just talking to the moon" --Michelle Branch "Breathe" "What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!" --Logan Pearsall Smith “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” --Michelangelo “If you're being run out of town, get in front of the crowd and make it look like a parade.” --Anon. "If you know you're going to look back on today and laugh, you might as well start laughing now." --Anon. May the road rise to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face. And rains fall soft upon your fields. And until we meet again, May God hold you in the hollow of His hand. Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind. When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars. And he will make the face of heaven so fine, That all the world will be in love with night, And pay no worship to the garish sun! --William Shakespeare "Just keep putting your love out there, and somewhere, it will be received." "When you hide the dandelion in shame, the dandelion-lover walks by without a glance." “How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!” -—Dr. Frankenstein in Frankenstein "In the eighth inning," Lou Piniella said, "when the fans were really reveling in the stands, the one thought that did come to my mind, strangely enough, is 'Boy, this city has suffered and tonight these people are letting out a lot of emotions.' And I felt good for them in that way ... and that's a strange thought to come from a manager who's getting his ass kicked." -- Lou Piniella playing the Yankees after September 11th. "Dont worry, they all became angels" --a four year old when he saw what happened on Sept 11th on tv "I wanna be the girl you point to and tell your boys 'that's her'." "Sometimes all you wish for... is for someone to wish for you..." "Never regret what once made you smile." "But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars." "When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace." --Jimi Hendrix "We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams..." --Arthur O'Shaughnessy "Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives." --William Dement "A dream is an answer to a question we haven't yet learned how to ask." --Fox Mulder "One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear." --J.B. Morton "Whenever you read a good book, it's like the author is right there, in the room talking to you, which is why I don't like to read good books." --Jack Handy Deep Thoughts "We shall find peace. We shall hear angels. We shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds." --Anton Chekov "Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness." --Maya Angelou "A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing." --Clive James "Comedy is tragedy plus time." --Carol Burnett "She smokes a pack a day-wait that's me but anyway, she doesn't care a thing about that hey, she thinks i'm beautiful" --Train Quotes from the Iraqi information minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf (aka "Baghdad Bob"):
"Sept. 11 is an anniversary of the future, a day enshrining the worst of human impulses -- and the best. A day, therefore, that puts the choice before us. How are we going to live now? We are on the earth for the briefest of interludes. Thinking in particular of all those who died in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania, let us honor them by building the earth, instead of destroying it. Let us make peace, instead of war." -–The Boston Globe "And on September 12th ..." "You may say I’m a dreamer, but I'm not the only one, I hope some day you'll join us, And the world will live as one." --John Lennon "Imagine" "A window breaks, down a long, dark street And a siren wails in the night But I'm alright, 'cause I have you here with me And I can almost see, through the dark there is light" --Chantal Kreviazuk "Feels Like Home" "You'll never touch These things that I hold The skin of my emotions Lies beneath my own You'll never feel The heat of this soul My fever burns me deeper Than I've ever shown To you" --Fiona Apple "Never is a Promise" “There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know.” -- Donald Rumsfeld "You have big things. You know big things. But you don't look into each other's eyes. And you're hungry for quietness." --Jerome Lovell (Liam Neeson) translating Nell (Jodie Foster) to the court "People look for beauty even in the midst of ugliness. ‘It rains on my city,’ said an eight-year-old I know, ‘but I see rainbows in the puddles.’" --Savage Inequalities By Jonathan Kozol fo' shizzle my nizzle (fo shizz-ul my nizz-ul) fo shizzle ma nizzle" is a bastardization of "fo' sheezy mah neezy" which is a bastardization of "for sure mah nigga" which is a bastdardization of "I concur with you whole heartedly my African American brother" “A bird does not sing because it has an answer; It sings because it has a song.” "Experience, the most brutal of teachers, but you learn, my God, do you learn." - CS Lewis "Perhaps I am still very much of an American. That is to say, nanve, optimistic, gullible. In the eyes of a European, what am I but an American to the core, an American who exposes his Americanism like a sore. Like it or not, I am a product of this land of plenty, a believer in superabundance, a believer in miracles." -- Henry Miller And though you want to last forever, You know you never will, You know you never will, And the good-bye makes the journey harder still. -- Cat Stevens "O Very Young" So excuse me forgetting, but these things I do You see I've forgotten, if they're green or they're blue Anyway, the thing is, what I really mean Yours are the sweetest eyes, I've ever seen. -- Elton John / Bernie Taupin “Oh! be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes, and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable, and cannot withstand you, if you say that it shall not. Do not return to your families with the stigma of disgrace marked on your brows. Return as heroes who have fought and conquered, and who know not what it is to turn their backs on the foe.”—Dr. Frankenstein in Frankenstein We curse a whole fuckin' LOT..we say "yo" and we say it often. We know what real pizza tastes like. A bagel is much more than a roll with a hole in the middle. It's a "sub" not a hoagie or a hero. It's a FUNNEL not a "beer bong". Every good night ends in a diner, preferably with cheese fries. We don't "go to the beach" we go down the shore. New York City IS "The City". We drive SUV's and we tailgate any chance we get. We know that 65mph realllly means 80. The only reason you hate us is because you AIN'T us....NJ baby!! “Remember the hours after September 11th, when we came together as one to answer the attack against our homeland. We drew strength when our firefighters ran up the stairs and risked their lives, so that others might live. When rescuers rushed into smoke and fire at the Pentagon. When the men and women of Flight 93 sacrificed themselves to save our nation's Capitol. When flags were hanging from front porches all across America, and strangers became friends. It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it brought out the best in all of us. I am proud that after September 11th all our people rallied to President Bush's call for unity to meet the danger. There were no Democrats. There were no Republicans. There were only Americans. How we wish it had stayed that way."--John Kerry at the 2004 Democratic National Convention “Our purpose now is to reclaim democracy itself. We are here to affirm that when Americans stand up and speak their minds and say America can do better, that is not a challenge to patriotism; it is the heart and soul of patriotism.”--John Kerry at the 2004 Democratic National Convention “It is time to reach for the next dream. It is time to look to the next horizon. For America, the hope is there. The sun is rising. Our best days are still to come. ”- John Kerry at the 2004 Democratic National Convention Carry on my sweet survivor Carry on my lonely friend Don't give up the dream and Don't you let it end "If Jesus ever came down and saw what people did in his name, he would never stop vomiting."—Woody Allen Funny Bumper Stickers:
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