From nowhere to now here, it's all the same.
The Power
of Intention (2004) by Wayne Dyer
You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think.
Dorothy Parker
I'd hate to take a bite out of you. You're a cookie full of
arsenic.
J.J. Hunsecker to Sidney
Falco in Sweet Smell of Success (1957) screenplay by Clifford
Odets and Ernest Lehman
... καὶ τὸ
τῶν
Ἑλλήνων
ὀνομα
πεποίηκε
μηκέτι τοῦ
γένους ἀλλά
τὴς
διανοίας
δοκείν εἶναι, καὶ
μάλλον Ἑλληνας
καλείσθαι τῶν τὴς
παιδεύσεως τὴς
ἡμετέρας
ἦ
τῶν
τὴς
κοινής
φύσεως
μετέχοντας
Panegyricus
(380
BC) by
Isocrates
translate
Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.
President Merkin Muffley in
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned
to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
(1963)
screenplay by Peter George, Terry Southern
and Stanley Kubrick
To deny a concept is not to embrace its
opposite.
Buddhism Plain & Simple (2003) by
Steve Hagen
Show me a woman who doesn't
feel guilt, and I'll show you a man.
attributed to unnamed
therapist in The Dance of Intimacy (1990) by Harriet Lerner
That's one small step for a man, one giant
leap for mankind.
Neil Armstrong (20 July 1969)
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Mohandas Karamchand
Gandhi
When you're following an angel, does
it mean you have to throw your body off a building?
She's an Angel in
Severe Tire Damage (1998) lyrics and music by They Might Be
Giants (John Linnell and John Flansburgh)
Remember when you were 9 or 10
or 11, and maybe you were this tree-climbing, shit-free little girl
who said, "It's not fair," and then at 12 or 13 you suddenly
turned into a female impersonator who said, "How clever of you to
know what time it is!" and all that stuff? Well, what
happens is that when you get to be 60, and the role is over, you go
back to that clear-eyed, shit-free, I-know-what-I-want,
I-know-what-I-think, 9 or 10 year old girl. Only now, you have
your own apartment.
Gloria Steinem as interviewed
by Cynthia Gorney in Mother Jones (
November/December 1995)
You cannot solve a problem by condemning it.
The Power
of Intention (2004) by Wayne Dyer
Death cannot be assumed simply because signs of life are not
present.
Masterman Finsbury to
Michael Finsbury in The Wrong Box (1966) screenplay by Larry
Gelbart and Burt Shevelove
What would you do if you knew you could not fail?
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Cloquet hated
reality but realized it was still the only place to get a good steak.
Woody Allen
I'm not much on rear window ethics.
Lisa to Jeff in Rear Window (1954)
screenplay by John Michael Hayes
. . . I still hold two truths with equal and fundamental certainty. One: the
British did terrible things to the Irish. Two: the Irish, had they the
power, would have done equally terrible things to the British. And so
also
for any other paired adversaries I can imagine. The difficulty is
to hold on to both truths with equal intensity, not let either one
negate the other, and know when to emphasize one without forgetting
the other. Our humanity is probably lost and gained in the necessary
tension between them both. I hope, by the way, that I do not sound
anti-British. It is impossible not to admire a people who gave up
India and held on to Northern Ireland. That shows a truly Celtic sense
of humor.
A Long Way from Tipperary: A
Memoir (2000) by John Dominic Crossan
Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que d'habitude parce que je
n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.
Blaise Pascal
translate
If there's anything more important than my ego
around, I want it caught and shot now.
Zaphod Beeblebrox
to Jillian in The Hitchhikers
Guide To The Galaxy (1979) by Douglas Adams
All
his life a man struggles to reach the top of the ladder, and finally
he does -- only to discover it's against the wrong wall!
attributed
to unknown in End the Struggle and Dance with Life (1996) by
Susan Jeffers
We called her Mademoiselle because she was French and full of
irregular verbs.
Thomas Clayton Campbell Jr.
in Story of Three Loves (1953) screenplay by John Collier,
George Froeschel and Jon Lusting)
For six months I vibrated like a musical
saw.
Jane to Victor in The Unsuspected
(1947) screenplay by Ranald MacDougall and Bess Meredyth, based on the
novel by Charlotte Armstrong
Barn's burned down. Now I can see
the moon.
Masahide (Sung
Dynasty) in Zen
Poetry (1995) translated by Lucien Stryk and Takashi Ikemoto
...I'm
more impressionable when my cement is wet.
Greetings to the New
Brunette
in Talking With
The Taxman About Poetry
(1990) lyrics and music by Billy
Bragg
If
you're not enjoying yourself, you are wasting your time!
End the
Struggle and Dance with Life (1996) by Susan Jeffers
Decent
clothes...a car...but what's it all about?
Alfie Elkins in Alfie (1966) screenplay by Bill Naughton
Someone
gave me this glass, and I really like this glass. It holds my water
admirably and it glistens in the sunlight. I touch it and it rings.
One day the wind may blow it off my shelf, or my elbow may knock it
from the table. I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it
incredibly.
attributed
to Achaan
Chah Subato in End the Struggle and Dance with Life (1996) by
Susan Jeffers
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