"The future is no place to place your better days"
- Dave Matthews
"It really is"
- Shari
"I wish I was a girl that could make you fall over your feet and forget who you are."
- Dawson's Creek
"Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex:
you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did."
- James Baldwin
"I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tommorrow."
- Scarlett O'Hara from Gone with the Wind
"What about Brett Fav... ruh?"
- Ted from There's Something about Mary
"You're so money and you don't even know it!"
"There's nothing wrong with letting the ladies know that you're money and you wanna party."
- Trent from Swingers
"You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on. "
- Dean Martin
"Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies."
- Stephen King, from "The Shawshank Redemption"
"Heaven never helps the men who will not act."
- Sophocles
"Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal."
- Ralph Vaull Starrlife
"The great curse of our modern society is not so much the lack of money as the fact that the lack of money condemns a man to a squalid and incomplete existence."
- Christopher Dawson, The Modem Dilemma, 1932
"There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place
to go."
- Tennessee Williams
"Hold fast to dreams , for if dreams die, life is like a broken winged bird that cannot fly."
- Robert Frost
"The urbane activity which a man receives money is really marvellous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven. Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!"
- Herman Melville, from "Moby Dick"
"When a man faces his Maker, he will have to account for the pleasures of life he failed to experience."
- Talmud
"An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it."
- Orlando A. Battista
"To secure peace is to prepare for war."
- Carl von Clausewitz
"It's amazing how much "mature wisdom" resembles being too tired."
- Robert Heinlein
"The devil can site Scripture for his purpose."
- William Shakespeare
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night."
- Edgar Allan Poe
"Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors."
- Thomas Henry Huxley
"Though my soul may sit in darkness, it will arise in perfect light. I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night."
- Colleen Henry
"I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, And this becomes
men's nature in the end."
- Aristotle
"In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present."
- Tao Te Ching
"It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals."
- Charles Kuralt
"The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter."
- Winston Churchill
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It
is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed."
- Albert Einstein
"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely
to be normal."
- Albert Camus
"Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority of government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put on this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer."
- Ronald Reagan
"You know, we can talk sometimes about managing our own evolution. About cloning people. About deciding how with genetic engineering we're going to improve ourselves. But how do we improve ourselves? We don't know. We've improved domestic animals a great way. We've got cows that give milk by the hundreds of gallons. We've got sheep that are wool...all the way through. We've got turkeys that are all breast."
- Isaac Asimov
"Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber."
- Plato
"Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible. Not to have run away."
- Dag Hammarskjold
"If you stop searching, you stop living, because then you're dwelling in the past. If you're not reaching forward to any growth or future, you might as well be dead."
- Wynn Bullock
"There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough."
- Irwin Shaw
"America has no north, no south, no east, no west. The sun rises over the hills and sets over the mountains, the compass just points up and down, and we can laugh now at the absurd notion of there being a north and a south. We are one and undivided."
- Sam Watkins, Civil War
"Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want,so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse.You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do,in order to have what you want."
- Margaret Young
"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life."
- Baruch Spinoza, 1632-1677, Dutch-Jewish philospher
"You can't stay in your corner of the forest, waiting for others to come to you; you have to go to them sometimes."
- friendship
"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian."
- Dennis Wholey
"The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other."
- Ashleigh Brilliant
"Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber."
- Plato
"Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible. Not to have run away."
- Dag Hammarskjold
"If you stop searching, you stop living, because then you're dwelling in the past. If you're not reaching forward to any growth or future, you might as well be dead."
- Wynn Bullock
"There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough."
- Irwin Shaw
"America has no north, no south, no east, no west. The sun rises over the hills and sets over the mountains, the compass just points up and down, and we can laugh now at the absurd notion of there being a north and a south. We are one and undivided."
- Sam Watkins, Civil War
"To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter… to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring- - these are some o the rewards of the simple life."
-Jouhn Burroughs (1837-1921)
"A dog wags it's tail with it's heart."
- Martin Buxbaum
"Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one."
- Stella Adler
"Summer afternoon -- summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English
language."
- Henry James
"A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving."
- Lao Tzu (570-490 B.C.)
"Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon."
- Susan Ertz
Tweedledee: "Contrariwise. If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."
- Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland"
"In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I
was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up."
- Martin Niemoeller
"To rid ourselves of our shadows - who we are - we must step into either total light or total darkness."
- Jeremy Preston Johnson
"Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born."
- Dr. Dale Turner
"We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them."
- Evelyn Waugh
"If you want your dreams to come true, don't sleep."
- Yiddish proverb
"Sooner or later we must realize there is no station, no one place to arrive at once and for all. The true joy of life is the trip."
- "The Station" by Robert J. Hastings
"In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them."
- von Neumann, Johann (1903 - 1957)
"Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all."
- Economist John Maynard Keynes
"Men willingly believe what they wish."
- Julius Caesar
"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."
- Herm Albright
"There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment."
- Norman Vincent Peale
"Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all- the apathy of human beings."
- Helen Keller
"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything."
- Alex Hamilton
"If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments."
- Earl Wilson
"One lives in the hope of becoming a memory."
- Antonio Porchia
"Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can."
- John Wesley
"I get this feeling we'll be together again. No straight lines make up my life, all roads have bends. No clear cut beginnings and so far no dead ends."
- Harry Chapin, from "All My Life's A Circle"
"It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent. Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model."
- Vincent van Gogh