Quotes

A male becomes a man when he can go through life picking, choosing, and using wise judgment with all the little battles he faces. — RC Johnson

A woman obsessed with her body is also obsessed with the limitations of her emotional life. — Kim Chernin

Annual drug deaths: tobacco: 395,000, alcohol: 125,000, ‘legal’ drugs: 38,000, illegal drug overdoses: 5,200, marijuana: 0. Considering government subsidies of tobacco, just what is our government protecting us from in the drug war? — Ralph Nader

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one. — Charles Sykes

Be the change you seek in your world. — Gandhi

Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is — his good, pleasing and perfect will. — Romans 12:2

Do, or do not. There is no try. — Yoda, Star Wars Episode V

Don’t confuse being ‘soft’ with seeing the other guy’s point of view. — George Bush

Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today. — James Dean

Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others. — Winston Churchill

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he who loses courage loses all. — Miguel De Cervantes(1547-1616)

Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die! — Inigo Montoya in Princess Bride

I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally. — W.C. Fields

I believe that there is a god, but I don’t believe that to truly believe you must sit with other believers one day a week for 2 hours. If God is God then I’m sure he will not mind if I chose to believe in him my own way. — Rudiger Rapin

I can resist everything except temptation. — Oscar Wilde

I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate to do I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do-this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. — Romans 7:15-20

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone. — Bill Cosby (William Henry, Jr)

I eat cold eels and think distant thoughts. — Jack Johnson

I’d rather come home to a friend than a lover — Erin Clodgo

In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. — Bertrand Russell

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. — Emiliano Zapata

It is impossible to love and be wise. — Francis Bacon

Its better to fight and make up than puss out and break up. — RC Johnson

Life is hard. Its even harder if you’re stupid.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. — George Bernard Shaw

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything. — Katharine Hepburn

Love is like an hour glass, with the head filling up as the brain empties — Jules Renard

Man goes to doctor. Says he’s depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says “Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up.” Man bursts into tears. Says “But Doctor… I am Pagliacci.” — Rorschach (The Watchmen)

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. — John F. Kennedy

Maybe this world is another planet’s Hell. — Aldous Huxley

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life. — Sandra Carey

No Jesus, No Peace – Know Jesus, Know Peace. — Two Seekers

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. — Winston Churchill

Ok then, let’s put that behind us. — Tony Almeda (24 Season 7)

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important. — Bertrand Russell

Only in his hometown, among his relatives and in his own house is a prophet without honor. — Jesus Speaking, Mark 6:4

Only those who fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. — Robert F. Kennedy

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. — Martin Luther, Jr. King

Phenomenal cosmic powers… itty bitty living space! — Robin Williams (as Genie from “Disney’s Aladdin” )

Science with out religion is lame, religion with out science is blind. — Albert Einstein

Soft words are hard arguments. — Thomas Fuller

Some day, and that day may never come, I will call upon you to do a service for me. But until that day, consider this justice a gift on my daughter’s wedding day. — Don Corleone (The Godfather)

Sometimes its hard to tell the ones closest to you how you feel about them; but its always even harder to deal with what happens when you don’t. — RC Johnson

Sometimes there are things in life that frustrate. This is why we must all have patience. Yet even the most patient of people know how much like a well patience is; sometimes a well can seem endless, but even the deepest of wells have limits. — RC Johnson

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. — Robert Frost

The unexamined life is not worth living. — Socrates, Apology 38a

The world and its desires crumble and fall, but the man who does the will of the LORD lives forever. — 1 John 2:17

There’s more to life than crying like a little girl. — RC Johnson

These groups spend other people’s money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. — Hector Berlioz

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. — Shakespeare’s King Henry IV, Part 2 Act 3, Scene 1

We do not remember days, we remember moments. — Cassare Pavese

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. — Albert Einstein

What you’ve just said….is one of the most insanely idiotic things I’ve ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response was there anything that could even be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. — Adam Sandler (as Billy Madison)

When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.

Then they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
I did not protest;
I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
I did not speak out;
I was not a Jew.

When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out for me. — Martin Niemöller

Youth is wasted on the young. — Bertrand Russell

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