Favorite Quotes

[Butterfly88]

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive. -Elizabeth Taylor

 

[watersprite]

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

Kurt Vonnegut

 

[Bolletje]

"Life is an aimless drive that you take alone. Might as well enjoy the ride, take the long way home."

The incomparable Bloodhound Gang

 

[leadat]

"Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more so that we may fear less."

—Marie Curie

 

[Butterfly88]

 

[Mia]

Our Ancient Rages, Susan Griffin

(Found this the other day in a box, and know why I kept it.)

"We heard of this woman who was out of control. We heard that she was lead by her feelings. That her emotions were violent. That she was impetuous. That she violated tradition and overrode convention. That certainly her life should not be an example to us.

We were told that she moved too hastily. Placed her life in the stream of ideas just born. For instance refused to be married. For instance, walked the streets alone, where ladies never did, and we should have little regard for her, even despite the brilliance of her words.

For she had no respect for boundaries, we were told. ... That she moved from passion. From unconscious feeling, allowing deep and troubled emotions to control her soul. But we say that to her passion she brought lucidity and to her vision, she gave the substance of her life.

...By her words we are brought to own our lives and are overwhelmed by our feelings which we had held beneath the surface for so long. And from what is dark and deep within us, we say tyranny revolts us. "

 

[Desiree W]

“You can choose to discover your own path, or travel the one you have been programmed to follow.” ~ Trudy Vesotsky

 

[Desiree W]

“Truth wears no mask
Bows at no human Shrine
Seeks neither place nor applause
She only asks a hearing.”

- Carl A. Wickland

 

[Butterfly88]

 

[Fridgemagnetman]

It is never too late to be what you might have been.
- George Eliot

 

[tree]

"The road to wisdom?---Well it's plain
and simple to express:
Err
and err
and err again
but less
and less
and less."

Piet Hein

 

[joe2006]

"What you see depends of where you stand."
D.L. Morrese

"Getting old is not for sissies."
Bette Davis

 

[tree]

 

[watersprite]

Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let them laugh, and little heeded them; for he was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have the malady in less attractive forms. His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him.


— Charles Dickens,
A Christmas Carol

 

[DeepVortex]

“Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.”
—Santayana

 

[Captain Jigglypuff]

Helga: So I’m not Kate Moss. Big deal.
Milo: Kate Moss isn’t stuck in a sewer.
Helga: Gee, I don’t know. When you think about it, is there really any sewer bigger than the world of professional modeling?
~The Oblongs

 

[watersprite]

When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
~ Nigerian proverb

 

[watersprite]

Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

~ Ken Kesey

 

[watersprite]

The earth laughs in flowers.

~ EE Cummings

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

You can make numbers tell you anything you want if you torture them enough.

Not sure where it came from being a statistics guy hit home.