Quotations Q U O T E S Ansel Adams, American Way (October, 1974): "Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter." Douglas Adams, "Last Chance to See": "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." Douglas Adams: "I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be." Douglas Adams: "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." Douglas Adams: "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." Allysa May Alcott: "I am not affraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail." James Allen: "Now is the reality in which time is contained." Woody Allen: "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying." Joe Ancis: "The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well." Anonymous: "Honey, rip the plastic off the couch. Tonight we celebrate." Anonymous: "You love too obsessively and you live too fiercely and you demand the impossible. Don't ever change babe, that's the glory and terror of being you." Anonymous: "Being with you is like walking on a very clear morning- definitely the sensation of belonging there." Anonymous: "Earth and sky, wind and trees, rivers and fields, the mountains and the sea. All are excellent schoolmasters and teach some of us more than we could ever learn from books." Aristophanes (450-385 B.C.): "Let each man exercise the art he knows." Aristotle: "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Isaac Asimov: "Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right." Nancy Astor: "One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time." Francis Bacon (1561-1626): "Knowledge is power." Francis Bacon: "The greatest happiness is for a man's mind to be raised above the confusion of things." Walter Bagehot: "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." Arthur Balfour: "A religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be large enough for our needs." Dave Barry: "If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base." Donald Barthelme, "The Dead Father": "But have you noticed the slight curl at the end of Sam II's mouth, when he looks at you? It means that he didn't want you to name him Sam II, for one thing, and for two other things it means that he has a sawed-off in his left pant leg, and a baling hook in his right pant leg, and is ready to kill you with either one of them, given the opportunity." Donald Barthelme, "The Dead Father": "He is mad about being small when you were big, but no that's not it, he is mad about being helpless when you were powerful, but no, not that either, he is mad about being contingent when you were necessary, not quite it, he is insane because when he loved you, you didn't notice." Matsuo Basho: "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought." Lucinda Basset: "You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it." George Wells Beadle: "In early biblical times, it was believed as a matter of faith that man was created as man. Since then, science has led us back in such a way that there is no logical place to stop, until we come to a primeval universe made of hydrogen. But then we ask, 'Whence came the hydrogen?' and science has no answer. Is it any less awe-inspiring to conceive of a universe created of hydrogen with the capacity to evolve into man than it is to accept the creation of man as man? I believe not." Caron de Beaumarchais: "It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them." Henry Ward Beecher: "The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars." Belfast Graffito: "Is there life before death?" Robert Benchley: "Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing." Ambrose Bierce: "I think I think; therefore, I think I am." A Bit of Fry and Laurie: "I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers." Captain Edmund Blackadder, "Blackadder Goes Forth": "I, on the other hand, have a degree from the University of Life, a diploma from the School of Hard Knocks, and three gold stars from the Kindergarten of Getting the Shit Kicked Out of Me." Niels Bohr to a young physicist: "Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true." Victor Borge: "The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer." Jorge Luis Borges: "We have these two ideas: the belief that dreams are part of waking, and the other, the splendid one, the belief of the poets: that all waking is a dream. There is no difference between the two." Christian N. Bovee: "When all else is lost, the future still remains." Isabelle Brasseur: "Four and a half minutes of pain is better than a lifetime of wondering what might have been." Braveheart: "You dropped your rock." Braveheart: "Your heart is free. Have the courage to follow it." Braveheart: "In order to find his equal, an Irishman is forced to talk with God." Braveheart: "The Lord tells me He can get me out of this mess, but He's pretty sure you're chucked." Braveheart: "Every man dies. Not every man really lives." Braveheart: "They fought like warrior-poets. They fought like Scotsmen. . . and they won their freedom." Bertolt Brecht: "Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life." Ashleigh Brilliant: "My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot." Ashleigh Brilliant: "All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power." Ashleigh Brilliant: "The time for action is past! Now is the time for senseless bickering!" Ashleigh Brilliant: "Try to relax and enjoy the crisis." Phillips Brooks (Leadership-Vol. 12, #3): h "Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings!" Phillips Brooks: "Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle." A. Whitney Brown: "I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants." Buckaroo Banzai: "And remember, no matter where you go, there you are." Emily Bronte: "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." Robert Byrne: "There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on." Irving Caesar: "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true." Albert Camus: "Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal." George Carlin: "Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck." George Carlin: "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." Rachel Carson: "A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood." M. Cartmill: "As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls." Cato the Censor (?): Rem tene, verba sequntur "Keep to the subject, and the words will follow" Dick Cavett, mocking the TV-violence debate: "There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?" Dick Cavett: "It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear." Winston Churchill (1874-1965): "History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." Winston Churchill: "I am easily satisfied with the very best." Winston Churchill: "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened." Arthur C. Clarke, Technology and the Future: "The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible." Arthur C. Clarke: "The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale." William Clinton: "It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to." Paul Coelho, The Alchemist (This is Crap): "Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself, and that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity." College dorm room: "Psycotics build castles in the sky, neurotics live in them, and psychologists collect the rent." Colton: "Most men know what they hate, few know what they love." Commercial: "I will not wallow in conformity. I will never own shoe-trees." Cyril Connolly: "Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self." Professor Irwin Corey: "If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going." Emile Coue: "Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better." William Cowper and John Newton (Satan Trembles): "Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees." Christopher Crowfield: "The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone." Crowfoot: "What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset." e. e. cummings: "The most wasted of all days is one without laughter." Antoine De Saint-Exupery (1900-1944, French Aviator, Writer): "Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction." Rene Descartes (1596-1650): "Cogito, ergo sum; I think, therefore I am." Nick Diamos: "Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity." Charles Dickens: "A loving heart is the truest wisdom." Emily Dickinson: "Take away all from me, but leave me Ecstacy, And I am richer than all my fellow men." Die Hard(?): "Alexander wept when he saw the breadth of his domain. . . for there were no more worlds to conquer." John Donne: "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends, or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." Bob Dylan: "We always did feel the same, we just saw it from a different point of view." Bob Dylan: "She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me, written by an Italian poet from the 13th century. Everyone of those words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from Me to You." Jules de Gaultier: "Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality." Amelia Earhart, Courage, 1927: "Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace." The Edge: "Just because you're lost, it doesn't mean that your compass is broken." Thomas A. Edison: "Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something." Albert Einstein (1879-1955): "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible." Albert Einstein: "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind." Albert Einstein: "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." Albert Einstein: "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." Albert Einstein: "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." Albert Einstein: "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." Albert Einstein: "Imagination is more important than knowledge..." Albert Einstein: "The important thing is not to stop questioning." Albert Einstein: "A human being is a part of the whole, called by us 'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." Albert Einstein, The World as I See It, 1934: "What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it? I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life." Albert Einstein, Out of My Later Years, 1950: "We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality." Albert Einstein, Life, May 2, 1955: "Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value." Ralph Waldo Emerson: "We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count." Ralph Waldo Emerson: "To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Social Aims": "Don't SAY things. What you ARE stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary." R. W. Emerson: "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." Emerson: "One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write on your heart that every hour is the best day of the year." Epictetus: "Learn to wish that everything should come to pass exactly as it does." M. C. Escher: "He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder." W. C. Fields (1880-1946): "Start every day off with a smile and get it over with." Zelda Fitzgerald: "I don't want to live, I want to love first and live incidentally." Malcolm S. Forbes: "Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." Henry Ford: "Whether you think you can or can't, you're right." Henry Ford: "You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do." John M. Ford: "We're not lost. We're locationally challenged." Anatole France: "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread." Anatole France: "The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever." Anatole France: "To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe." Lawrence K. Frank: "We are living the events which for centuries to come will be minutely studied by scholars who will undoubtedly describe these days as probably the most exciting and creative in the history of mankind. But preoccupied with our daily chores, our worries and personal hopes and ambitions, few of us are actually living in the present." Benjamin Franklin: "The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart." Matt Frewer as Dr. Mike Stratford in "Doctor, Doctor": "Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!" David Friedman: "The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations." Robert Frost: "Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." Robert Frost: "A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer." Robert Fulghum: "I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - That myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts - That hope always triumphs over experience - That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death." Buckminster Fuller: "Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering." Galileo Galilei (1564-1642): "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." Galileo Galilei: "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi: "There is more to life than increasing its speed." George Gallup: "I could prove God statistically." Edward Gibbon: "The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigator." Andre Gide: "It is better to be hated for what one is that to be loved for what one is not." Andre Gide: "One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time." Roy R. Gilson: "Keep your faith in all beautiful things: in the sun when it is hidden, in the spring when it is gone." Jean Girardoux (1882-1944): "There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law." Goethe: "One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words." John Gorka (The Ballad of Jamie Bee): "Jamie's from the last great breed of road-men.. Woody, Jack, and Kerouac, and such. But here was a woman he would die for, beauty no road could ever touch." Graffiti: "I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous." Billy Graham: "God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are." Billy Graham (The Faithful Christian): "Reclining Chairs in Heaven - Within the New Testament, there is no indication that Christians should expect to be healthy, wealthy, and successful in this present age. . . . Christ never told his disciples that they would get an Academy Award for their performances, but He did tell them to expect to have troubles. This age is interested in success, not suffering. We can identify with James and John who wanted choice seats in the kingdom. We might even ask for reclining chairs and soft music." Lisa Grossman: "Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana." John Haines, "The Stars, The Snow, The Fire": "I faced in myself a passionate and tenacious longing--to put away thought forever, and all the trouble it brings, all but the nearest desire, direct and searching. To take the trail and not look back. . a runner track in the snow would show where I had gone. Let the rest of mankind find me if they could." G. H. Hardy: "It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that." Vance Havner, (Leadership-Vol 17, #2): "A leader is a person with a magnet in his heart and a compass in his head." Joel Hawes: "Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself." Nathaniel Hawthorne: h "Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." Nathaniel Hawthorne: "Let men tremble to win the hand of a woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart. William Hazlitt: "Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be." Heavenly advertisement: "In the end you will be judged not by your wealth, your knowledge, or your contribution to mankind, but by how hard you skied.(we could be wrong about this, but ski hard anyway, just to be safe.)" George Hegel (1770-1831): "What experience and history teach us is this--that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it." Heinrich Heine: "Dieu me pardonnera. C'est son m\'etier" (God will forgive me. It's his profession) Joseph Heller, "Catch-22": "Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them." Ernest Hemingway / Ben Franklin(?): "Never mistake motion for action." Ernest Hemingway: "There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things, and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new each man gets from live is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave." Heraclitus: "You never step in the same river twice." Hermann Hesse: "It's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission." Hermann Hesse: "Well, look at an animal, a cat, a dog, or a bird, or one of those beautiful great beasts in the zoo, a puma or a giraffe. You can't help seeing that all of them are right. They're never in any embarrassment. They always know what to do and how to behave themselves. They don't flatter and they don't pretend. They are as they are, like stones or flowers or stars in the sky." Joel Henry Hildebrand: "The finest hours of life are not those spent among groups of people, but in good conversation with a few, in reading great books, in listening to great music, wandering in a forest of giant sequoias, peering into a microscope, unraveling nature's secrets in the laboratory. The men who have the most to give their fellowmen are those who have enriched their minds and hearts in solitude. It is a poor education that does not fit a man to be alone with himself." Sir Edmund Hillary: "It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves." Inscription at Hind's Head Inn in England: "Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. No one was there." Edward Hoagland, "Up The Black To Chalkyitsik": "We have in America 'The Big Two-Hearted River' tradition: taking your wounds to the wilderness for a cure, a conversation, a rest, whatever.. And as in the Hemingway story, if your wounds aren't too bad, it works." Eric Hoffer: "You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you." Eric Hoffer: "The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness." Eric Hoffer: "When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other." Hal Holbrook: "If you don't take your life and make some kind of statement with it, well, it's just a pity, isn't it?" John Henry(Doc) Holliday(Tombstone): "Why Ike, whatever do you mean? Perhaps poker just isn't your game. I know, let's have a spelling contest." Oliver Wendell Holmes: "A man's mind, stretched by a new idea, can never return to its original dimension." Oliver Wendell Holmes: "Men are idolaters, and want somthing to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will; and if you don't make if of wood, you must make it of words." Art Hoppe: "If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?" Langston Hughes: "Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly." Aldous Huxley: "My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing." Indigo Girls(You and me of the ten thousand wars)": "A moment of peace is worth every war behind us." Indigo Girls: "You are as beautiful as truth and as empty as a shell." Indigo Girls(World Falls): "Everywhere I turn, all the beauty just keeps shaking me." Eugene Ionesco: "We haven't the time to take our time." Isaiah 30:15 (The Bible, KJV): "In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength." Jackson Hole advertisement: "College degree. Good job. Big House. We all make mistakes." James 3:19 (The Bible, NIV): "You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that - and shudder." Thomas Jefferson: "I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more I have of it." Thomas Jefferson: "I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives. For it is in our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be read." Jerome K. Jerome: "It is always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar." Jerome K. Jerome, "Three Men in a Boat": "Wanted! A comfortably-appointed, well-drained desert island, neighbourhood of South Pacific Ocean preferred." Joe Versus the Volcano: "I don't know what your situation is but I wanted you to know what mine is. Not just to explain some rude behavior but because we're on a little boat for awhile and I'm soul sick and you're going to "see that. John 15: "Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his live for his friend." Samuel Johnson (September 26, 1765): "A Prayer Before the Study of Law - Almighty God, the Giver of wisdom, without Whose help resolutions are vain, without Whose blessing study is ineffectual; enable me, if it be Thy will, to attain such knowledge as may qualify me to direct the doubtful, and instruct the ignorant; to prevent wrongs and terminate contentions; and grant that I may use that knowledge which I shall attain, to Thy glory and my own salvation for Jesus Christ's sake. Amen" Carl Jung: "Embrace your grief. For there your soul will grow." Carl Jung: "I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God." Carl Jung: "Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble." Tom Junod: "Do you know how many faces God had to go through before he got to yours?" Stefan Kanfer: "Inside every man there is a poet who died young." Hellen Keller: "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement." Hellen Keller: "The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse." Kermit the Frog: "Time's fun when you're having flies." Soren Kierkegaard: "Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced." King Arthur: "For the first time in my life, I wanted what all wise men say doesn't last. What can't be promised or made to linger any more than sunlight. I don't want to die without having felt its warmth on my face." Martin Luther King, Jr.: "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." Martin Luther King, Jr.: "If a man hasn't found something that is so precious to him he would die for it, he doesn't have much to live for." Martin Luther King, Jr.: "Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy-five and yet not ever truly to have lived." Martin Luther King, Jr.: "If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well." Charles Kingsley (1819-1875, British Author, Clergyman): "Never, if possible, lie down at night without being able to say: I have made one human being, at least, a little wiser, a little happier, or a little better this day." Rudyard Kipling (IF): If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or, being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise; If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with triumph and disaster And treat those two imposters just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to broken, And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools; If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breath a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on !"; If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run - Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son! Jon Krakauer, "Into The Wild": "If something captured my undisciplined imagination, I pursued it with a zeal bordering on obsession." Irv Kupcinet: "What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?" Charles Kuralt: "Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything." Lao-tzu: "Clay is molded to make a vessel, but the utility of the vessel lies in the space where there is nothing. Thus, taking advantage of what is, we recognize the utility of what is not." Doug Larson: "Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties." Doug Larson: "The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball." Last of the Mohicans: ":There is a war on, how is it you are heading west. Nathaniel: Well, we kinda' face to the north and real subtle-like turn left." Last of the Mohicans: "Cora: Why were those people living in this defenseless place? Nathaniel: After seven years indentured service in Virginia, they headed out here cause frontier's the only land available to poor people. Out here, they're beholden to none, not living by another's leave. Their name is Cameron, John Alexander Cameron." Last of the Mohicans: "Nathaniel: My father's people say that at the birth of the Sun and of his brother the Moon, their mother died. So the Sun gave to the earth her body from which was to spring all life. And he drew forth from her breast the stars; stars he threw into the night sky to remind him of her soul. So, there's the Cameron's monument; my folks' too, I guess. Cora: You're right, Mr. ?, we do not understand what is happening here. It's not as I imagined it would be thinking of it in Boston and London. Nathaniel: Sorry to disappoint you. Cora: No, on the contrary. It is more deeply stirring to my blood than any imagining could possibly have been." Last of the Mohicans: "Sachem: The white man came and night entered out future with him. Our council has asked the question since I was a boy: What are the Huron to do? ... Long Rifle, go in peace. Nathaniel: Me for her. Major Duncan: Take Me! A British Officer. Me for her. [in French] Nathaniel: Stop. I am Alon Carabine. My death is a great honor to the Huron. Take me. Did you tell him? ... I said to take me. Take me." Last of the Mohicans: "Great Spirit, the maker of all life. A warrior goes to you swift and straight as an arrow shot into the sun. Welcome him and let him take his place at the council fire of my people. He is Uncus, my son. Tell him to be patient and ask death for speed for they are all there but one, I, Chingagchcook, last of the mohicans." Lazlo's Chinese Relativity Axiom: "No matter how great your triumphs or how tragic your defeats-- approximately one billion Chinese couldn't care less." Stephen Leacock (1869-1944): "I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so." Arthur A. Leff, Unspeakable Ethics, Unnatural Law (1979 Duke Law Review 1229): "I want to believe -- and so do you -- in a complete, transcendent, and immanent set of propositions about right and wrong, findable rules that authoritatively and unambiguously direct us how to live righteously. I want to believe -- and so do you -- in no such thing, but rather that we are wholly free, not only to choose for ourselves what we ought to do, but to decide for ourselves, individually and as a species, what we ought to do. What we want, Heaven help us, is simultaneously to be perfectly ruled and perfectly free, that is, at the same time to discover the right and the good and to create it." John Lennon: "Life is what happens while you are making other plans." Les Miserables (Jean Valjean): "You will learn - truth is given by God to us all in our time, in our turn." David Letterman: "There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting." David Letterman: "USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population." Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865, 16th President): "If I had 8 hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend 6 hours sharpening my ax." Anne Morrow Lindbergh (Gift from the Sea): "We seem so frightened today of being alone that we never let it happen. Even if family, friends, and movies should fail, there is still the radio to fill up the void.... Now, instead of planting our solitude with our own dream blossoms, we choke the space with continuous music, chatter, and companionship to which we do not even listen. It is simply there to fill the vacuum. When the noise stops there is no inner music to take its place." Walter Lippmann: "It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor, to argue the rights of capital than to see its results. Pretty soon we come to think of the theories and abstract ideas as things themselves." Vince Lombardi: "If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?" Vince Lombardi: "If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm." Jack London: "I would rather be a superb meteor every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time." Jack London(The Call Of The Wild): "The dominant primordial beast was strong in Buck, and under the fierce conditions of trail life it grew and grew. Yet it was a secret growth. His newborn cunning gave him poise and control." H.P. Lovecraft: "The most merciful thing in the world . . . is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents." Max Lucado (A Gentle Thunder): "What Satan did in Eden, he does today. For that reason we need to know that what Jesus did in Gethsemane, he does today. He reclaims the holy. He will not long sit silent while Satan strip mines the sacred. At the right moment Jesus stands and speaks. And when He stands and speaks, Satan stumbles and is silent." Chris McCandless: "This is the last communication you shall receive from me. I now walk out to live amongst the wild. Take care, it was great knowing you." Charlie McCarthy (Edgar Bergen, 1903-1978): "Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?" Charlie McCarthy: "Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy." Norman Fitzroy Maclean (1930-1990), "A River Runs Through It": "At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear." "It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us." "You can love completely without complete understanding." "It was a world with dew still on it. More touched by wonder and possibility than any I have since known." "If a candle burns at both ends, it will not last the night, but oh my foes and oh my friends, it gives a lovely light." "Dear Jessie, As the moon lingers a moment over the bitterroots before its descent into the invisible, my mind is filled with song. I find I am humming, not to the music, but something else, someplace else. A place remembered. A field of grass where no one seemed to have been except a deer. And the memory is strengthened by the memory of you dancing in my awkward arms. Norman" "Look, I don't know any card tricks, Jess, but I like you, and I want to see you again." "At that moment, I knew surely and clearly that I was witnessing perfection. My brother stood before us, not on a bank of the Big Blackfoot River, but suspended above the earth. . . free from all its laws, like a work of art. And I knew just as surely and just as clearly that life is not a work of art and the moment could not last." "But, when I'm alone in the halflight of the canyon, all existence seems to fade to a being with my soul and memories and the sounds of the Big Blackfoot River and a four count rhythm and the hope that a fish will rise. Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters." Paul Maclean, "A River Runs Through It: "In Montana, there are three things we're never late for: church, work and fishing." "Maybe what he likes is someone trying to help him." James Madison: "... Religion ... [is] the basis and foundation of government ... before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe." Christopher Marlowe: "What if all the pens that ever poets held had fed the feelings of their master's thoughts, And every sweetness that inspired their hearts, their minds, and muses?" Marmot catalog: "Whenever possible, try to be in the place that makes you feel there's no place you'd rather be." Marquis de Sade: "You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool. My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being, the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to. For my system, which you disapprove of, is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness --- it means more to me than my life itself." W. Somerset Maugham: "It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up." Meet Joe Black: "There's no sense living your life without this, To make the journey and not fall deeply in love, Well, you haven't lived a life at all. But, you have to try, Because if you haven't tried you haven't lived." Meet Joe Black: "Stay open. Who knows? Lightning could strike." Meet Joe Black: "What's wrong with taking care of a woman? She takes care of you." Meet Joe Black: "But, Allison loves you? Yes. How do you know? Because she knows the worst thing about me and it's ok. What is it? No, it's not one thing. It's just an idea." Meet Joe Black: "What is love? Trust, responsibility, taking the weight for your choices and feelings and spending the rest of your life living up to them. And, above all, not hurting the object of your love. So, that's what love is according to William Parrish? Multiply it by infinity and take it to the depth of forever and you will still have barely a glimpse of what I'm talking about. Those were my words. Well, they're mine now." Meet Joe Black: "Reveal everything there is to know about yourself and let the chips fall where they may." H. L. Mencken (1880-1956): "A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers." H. L. Mencken (1880-1956): "Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking." Meng-tzu: "To act without knowing why; to do things as they have always been done, without asking why; to engage in an activity all one's life without really understanding what it's about and how it relates to other things--this is to be one of the crowd." Olin Miller: "You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do." Warren Miller: "If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your thing." Milton: "Grace was in all her steps, heav'n in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love." Charles Mingus: "In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time." Mister Boffo: "If it weren't for my lawyer, I'd still be in prison. It went a lot faster with two people digging." Wilson Mizner (1893-1933), American playwright: "A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something." "If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism. If you steal from many, it's research." (Education) "A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions." (Self) "Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down." (Words of Wisdom) Moby Dick (?): "I have seen him snatch the tail of a tempest and send it screaming into a bottle." Dwight L. Moody: "The world has yet to see what God can do when a man is totally surrendered to Him. By God's grace, I intend to be that man." Dwight L. Moody (Leadership-Vol. 1, #1): "I'd rather be able to pray than to be a great preacher; Jesus Christ never taught his disciples how to preach, but only how to pray." Dwight L. Moody (Leadership-Vol. 1, #1): "If you have so much business to attend to that you have no time to pray, depend upon it, you have more business on hand than God ever intended you should have." Virginia Moore: "Love is a condition where the happiness and well-being of the beloved becomes more important than that of one's self." Christopher Morley: "If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them." John Muir, "The Mountains Of California": "But we little know until tried how much of the uncontrollable there is in us." Harry Mulisch, "Discovery of Heaven": "Everything could always fail, even failure." Ogden Nash: "I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all." Roderick Nash, "Wilderness And The American Mind": "It not only offered an escape from society but also was an ideal stage for the Romantic individual to exercise the cult that he frequently made of his own soul. The solitude and total freedom of the wilderness created a perfect setting for either melancholy or exultation." Suzanne Necker: "Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them." Thomas Neill: "Of those who say nothing, few are silent." New England Proverb: "If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money." Isaac Newton: "If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants." Nietzche: "I tell you: One must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: ye have still chaos in you." No Fear: "If you wonder why, you have no place here." Henri Nouwen, (In the Name of Jesus.): "The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her vulnerable self." Occam: "Pluralitas non ponenda est sine necessitate." Satchel Paige (1906?-1982, American Baseball Player): "Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines." Roger Palms (Living Under the Smile of God): "Worship is not just personal introspection, or we would worship our feelings. Worship is not even a warm glow, or we would worship that. We worship One outside ourselves. We concentrate on him, we praise him, we adore him, we hear his Word for he is announcing it to us. We listen in holy awe to the word of God, for it is a part of that "all" of Scripture which is given by the outbreathing of God and is personally necessary for "my" correction and "my" instruction in righteousness." Paramjit: "To love a person you must first know how to love yourself." Dorothy Parker: "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force." Blaise Pascal: "The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know." Boris Pasternak, "Dr. Zhivago": "At such a time you felt the need of committing yourself to something absolute--life or truth or beauty--of being ruled by it in place of the man-made rules that had been discarded. You needed to surrender to some such ultimate purpose more fully, more unreservedly than you had ever done in the old familiar, peaceful days, in the old life that was now abolished and gone for good." Boris Pasternak, "Dr. Zhivago": "Lara walked along the tracks following a path worn by pilgrims and then turned into the fields. Here she stopped and, closing her eyes, took a deep breath of the flower-scented air of the broad expanse around her. It was dearer than her kin, better than a lover, wiser than a book. For a moment she rediscovered the purpose of her life. She was here on earth to grasp meaning of its wild enchantment. . ." Wolfgang Pauli, on a paper submitted by a physicist colleague: "This isn't right. This isn't even wrong." The Peter Principle, Dr. Laurence J. Peter: "Everyone rises to their level of incompetence." Laurence J. Peter: "If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else." Laurence Peter: "Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame." Trevor Petersen (a quote found written in his notebook): "There comes a time when one must risk something, or sit forever with one's dreams." William Lyon Phelps : "This is the final test of a gentleman; his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him." Emo Phillips: "Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps." Pablo Picasso (1881-1973): "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." Robert M. Pirsig: "To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top." Plato: "Wise men talk because they have something to say. Fools talk because they have to say something." Attributed by Plato (428-348 B.C.) to Socrates, "Apology": "The unexamined life is not worth living to a human." Plutarch: "The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled." Edgar Allan Poe: "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." Matt Pogue: "You know, I don't think that I've ever been closer to Jesus than on a good powder day." Hugh Prather: "Live as if everything you do will eventually by known." Dan Rather: "An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger." Ronald Reagan, Said during a radio microphone test, 1984: "My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes." Betty Reese (Leadership-Vol. 16, #2): "If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito." Jules Renard: "Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired." Rent: "In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee, in inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife. In 525,600 minutes, how do you measure a year in the life? How about love?" David K. Reynolds: "How much of our lives is spent in reverie, in wishing for what cannot be, in regretting what might have been avoided. These obsessions steal from us the moments of the now." Rainer Maria Rilke: "We are not to know why this and that masters us; real life makes no reply. Only that it enraptures us, makes us familiar with it." Rainer Maria Rilke: "For verses are not as people imagine, simply feelings... they are experiences. For the sake of a single verse, one must see many cities, men and things, one must know the animals, one must feel how the birds fly and know the gesture with which little flowers open in the morning." Rainer Maria Rilke (Letters to a Young Poet): "...be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now." Will Rogers: "Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save." Romans 8:31(The Bible, KJV): "What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?" Andy Rooney: "Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done." Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962): "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." Eleanor Roosevelt: "You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give." Theodore Roosevelt: "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." Theodore Roosevelt: "The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it." Theodore Roosevelt: "A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education." Leo Rosten: "The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make a difference that you lived at all." Theodore Roszak(In Search Of The Miraculous): "It may, after all, be the bad habit of creative talents to invest themselves in pathological extremes that yield remarkable insights but no durable way of life for those who cannot translate their psychic wounds into significant art or thought." Everett Ruess, to his brother: ". . . there are few with whom I can share the things that mean so much to me that I have learned to contain myself. It is enough that I am surrounded with beauty . . . I don't think I could ever settle down. I have known too much of the depths of life already, and I would prefer anything to an anticlimax." Everett Ruess: ". . . I have some good friends here, but no one who really understands why I am here or what I do. I don't know of anyone, though, who would have more than a partial understanding; I have gone too far alone. I have always been unsatisfied with life as most people live it. Always I want to live more intensely and richly." Bertrand Russell, "The Philosophy of Logical Atomism": "The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it." Bertrand Russell: "It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this." Bertrand Russell: "We know too much and feel too little." John Russell: "Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting." Sa'di: "Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good." William Safire: "Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight." Saint Augustine: "Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence." Saint Francis de Sales: "Nothing is so strong as gentleness; nothing is so gentle as real strength." Say Anything (movie): "Man, I gotta be honest with you, I'm not looking for that. I'm looking for something bigger. I'm looking for a dare to be great situation." Say Anything: "A pen. I gave her my heart...she gave me a pen." Say Anything: "A career? I've thought about this quite a bit sir and I would have to say considering what's waiting out there for me, I don't want to sell anything, buy anything or process anything as a career. I dont want to sell anything bought or processed or buy anything sold or processed or repair anything sold, bought or processed as a career. I dont want to do that. My father's in the army. He wants me to join, but I can't work for that corporation, so what I've been doing lately is kick-boxing, which is a new sport...as far as career longevity, I dont really know. I cant figure it all out tonight, sir, so I'm just gonna hang with your daughter." Say Anything: "DIANE: So what's your job this summer? LLOYD: Being a great date. DIANE: No, I'm serious. LLOYD: So am I. I wanna see you again; I wanna see you as much as I can before you leave. There I said it." Say Anything (Corey): "You're not a guy. The world is full of guys. Be a man. Don't just be a guy." Say Anything: "DIANE: Nobody thinks this will work. LLOYD: You've just described every great success story." Say Anything: "I'm a good person. But, you're a great person." Charles Schulz: "No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it." E. F. Schumacher: "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction." Bob Seger: "I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then." Seneca (4 BC - AD 65): "Even while they teach, men learn." Seneca: "If you would make a man happy, do not add to his possessions but subtract from the sum of his desires." Seneca: "Time heals what reason cannot." Seneca: "Non est ad astra mollis e terris via. (There is no easy road from the earth to the stars.)" William Shakespeare(Henry IV, part II): "There is history in all men's lives." William Shakespeare(Henry V): "The world, familiar to us and unknown." William Shakespeare(The Merchant of Venise): "The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose." William Shakespeare(Twelfth Night): "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." William Shakespeare: "This above all: To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man." William Shakespeare: "There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries." William Shakespeare: "When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies." Bradford Shank: "Nothing in the world is yours to keep. You may have but not hold. In the end you receive only that which you have given." Bradford Shank: "And what is it to know what one wants but to listen quietly to the silent voices from within and to yield to their guidance over the clamorous objections of fear and pride of consistency and custom and of greed and hate." George Bernard Shaw: "You see things, and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were, and say "Why not?" George Bernard Shaw: "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." George Bernard Shaw: "People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them." George Bernard Shaw: "One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't." Jim Sherbert: "Ever notice that fifteen minutes into a Jerry Lewis telethon you start rooting for the disease?" Shriekback ("Cradle Song"): "May you never know hunger May you love with a full heart The light burn in your eyes May the fire be your friend And the sea rock you gently May the moon light your way Till the wind sets you free." Walter J. Sidney: "We cannot form a true conception when the tide is out, any more than we can obtain a true picture of the shore under the same conditions. When all things seem at low ebb, we must not give in to despondency, but must wait hopefully, prayerfully, confidently for the turn of the tide." Corky Siegel: "Life is too important to take seriously." David Smith: "In this business you either sink or swim or you don't." Socrates (470-399 BC): "There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance." Socrates: "Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel." Sophocles (495-406 BC, Greek Tragic Poet): "Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud." Sports Night: "If you're dumb, surround yourself with smart people. If you're smart, surround yourself with smart people who disagree with you." Charles H. Spurgeon (The Quotable Spurgeon): "Prayer pulls the rope below and the great bell rings above in the ears of God. Some scarcely stir the bell, for they pray so languidly. Others give but an occasional pluck at the rope. But he who wins with heaven is the man who grasps the rope boldly and pulls continuously, with all his might." Joseph Stalin: "A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic." Wallace Stegner(The American West As Living Space): "It should not be denied . . . that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and law and irksome obligations, with absolute freedom, and the road has always led west." Casey Stengel: "The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided." Theodore Sturgeon: "Ninety percent of everything is crap." Billy Sunday: "Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile." David H. Syrop: "Show yourself as you really are, even if to be accepted only by another authentic soul." Jeffrey James Syrop: "It's important to do the most important thing you can." Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi: "Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought." Rabindranath Tagore: "The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough." Archbishop William Temple, 1955: "It is a mistake to suppose that God is only, or even chiefly, concerned with religion." Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892), "In Memoriam," 1850: "I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all." Henry David Thoreau, "Where I Live": "It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts." Henry David Thoreau, "Walden, Or Life In The Woods": ". . . for these were a life in conformity to higher principles. If the day and night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal,--that is your success." Henry David Thoreau, "Ktaadn": "I stand in awe of my body, this matter to which I am bound has become so strange to me. I fear not spirits, ghosts, of which I am one,--that my body might,--but I fear bodies, I tremble to meet them. . . Who are we? where are we?" Henry David Thoreau: "I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor." Henry David Thoreau: "A man's wealth is measured by what he doesn't need." Thoreau: "Be true to your work, your word, and your friend." Thoreau: "Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it." Henry David Thoreau: "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." Dylan Thomas: "Someone's boring me. I think it's me." Lewis Thomas: "The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behavior control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers." James Thurber: "Its better to know some of the questions, than all of the answers." Henry J. Tillman: "Life is something that everyone should try at least once." J. R. R. Tolkien, "The Fellowship of the Ring": "All that is gold does not glitter: Not all those that wander are lost." Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910): "I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives." Leo Tolstoy: "The strongest of all warriors are these two -- Time and Patience." Leo Tolstoy (Family Happiness): "I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt in myself a superabundance of energy which found no outlet in our quiet life." Mark Twain (1835-1910): "Buy land they've stopped making it." Mark Twain: "Quitting smoking is easy! I've done it 100 times." Mark Twain: "Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please." Mark Twain: "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear." Mark Twain: "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones that you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover" Mark Twain: "I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him." Mark Twain: "We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again. . . and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore." Mark Twain: "The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." Mark Twain: "Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform." Mark Twain: "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." Unknown: "What if this weren't a hypothetical question?" Unknown: "A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top ." Unknown: "Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day." Unknown: "Fools rush in where fools have been before." Unknown: "I have not lost my mind - it's backed up on disk somewhere." Unknown: "People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs." William Van Horne: "The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition." A Wisconsin fishing guide: "The only thing that casts doubt on the miracles of Jesus is that they were all witnessed by fishermen." Henry Van Dyke: "Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars." Vearncombe, Black, "Paradise": "Just like the falling rainbow, Just like the stars in the sky, Life should never feel small." Last words of Pancho Villa: "Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something." Voltaire (1694-1778): "I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it." Voltaire: "A witty saying proves nothing." Voltaire: "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him." Artemus Ward: "Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?" William Arthur Ward, (Leadership-Vol. 5, #3): "Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not to envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate." Andy Warhol (1928-1987): "I am a deeply superficial person." Prof. Larry Wasserman: "Now let me explain why this makes intuitive sense." Alan Watts: "I seem to be a brief light that flashes but once in all the eons of time--a rare, complicated and all-too-delicate organism on the fringe of biological evolution, where the wave of life bursts into individual, sparkling, and multicolored drops that gleam for a moment only to vanish forever." Alan Watts: "For unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax. There is no point whatever in making plans for a future which you will never be able to enjoy. When your plans mature, you will still be living for some other future beyond." Alan Watts: "You are just a piece of the universe looking at itself." Dave Weinstein: "In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be Light.' And there was still nothing. But, you could see it." Orson Welles: "I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time." Dick Werthimer: "The purpose of life is to fight maturity." John Archibald Wheeler (1911- )(American J. of Physics, 1978): "Time is what prevents everything from happening at once. [Lately it doesn't seem to be working.]" White Squall (Chuck Gieg, etc.): "It feels different, doesn't it? What? Going back. I don't want it to end. I don't want to be what I was when I left. What's that? Anonymous. I've been acing tests my whole life and I still haven't figured it out. Figured what out? Who I am. Are you kidding? I'll tell you who you are. Glue. You're the the glue that holds everyone around you together." White Squall (Captain Christopher Sheldon): "The ship beneath you is not a toy and sailing's not a game. The Albitross will take us us far, gentleman, but she demands constant attention. Respect that and we'll do fine. One more thing. Nothing happens on this ship that I don't know about, she speaks to me in the night. So, don't test me. Not even a little." White Squall (Captain Christopher Sheldon, etc.): "You know what's out there? Wind and rain and some damn big waves. Reefs and rocks and sandbars and enough fog and night to hide it all. So, why the hell do it then? It builds character, Mr. Preston, of which you are in desperately short supply. The kind you only find on mountain- tops, in deserts, on battlefields, and across oceans." White Squall (Captain Christopher Sheldon): "Las astrayas es la unica que un maranero necessito per naviga: A real sailor only needs the stars to navigate." White Squall (Chuck Gieg): "We had traveled over six thousand miles and slipped past the equator to the very edge of the earth. Like Darwin before us, we would see the bliss of nature in the absence of man. It was as if the Albatross had taken us to another time. Today I finally understand Homer, the journey's the thing." White Squall: "Captain Sanders: With all due respect, Captian, they are only boys. Captain Christopher Shelton: They are much more than that, sir." White Squall: "And, you were the first mate of the Albatross, is that correct? I AM the first mate of the Albatross, that's correct." White Squall: "They didn't take his ticket today. But I wonder if he'll ever go to sea again. I know one thing. If he did, we'd all go with him. To a man. No doubt, not even a question. Today, he joined the circle he create by allowing us to share his burden. The burden of sea captains, and fathers, the burden of men. In the end it just comes down to one thing, you can't run from the wind. You face the music, you trim your sails, and keep going." David Wilcox (Language of the Heart): "I don't want to claim you or blame you, but you're always on my mind. You had no idea I would love you. It comes as a total surprise. And you shake your head slowly and smile at the tears in my eyes." David Wilcox (Eye of the Hurricane): "Hope is gone and she confessed that when you lay your dream to rest, you can get what's second best but it's hard to get enough." Oscar Wilde, (De Profundis): "... Nature, whose sweet rains fall of just and unjust alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undetected. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole." Oscar Wilde: "Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them." Oscar Wilde: "Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." Oscar Wilde: "Action is the last refuge of those who cannot dream." Oscar Wilde: "The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple." Paul Williams: "If you do not feel free, it is because you have not yet declared your own freedom; you are waiting for it to be given to you. You will wait forever." Tennessee Williams: "Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question." Woodrow Wilson: "When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness, and your own duty." Winter Park advertisement: "It's less about having and more about being." Nero Wolfe: "I try to know what I need to know. I make sure to know what I want to know." William Wordsworth: "A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone." Wordsworth: "That best portion of a good man's life His little nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love." Steven Wright: "There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot." Stephen Wright: "Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time." Zig Ziglar: "Boats in the harbor are safe, but that is not what they were meant for." Carl Zwanzig: "Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together...." Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart: "The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath." ?: "Life is a journey. And the journey's the destination." ?: "I love you so much it hurts." ?: "Don't forsake the Horse for a Zebra." ?: "Diplomacy is the art of letting somebody else have your way." ?: "You don't really know how great you can be, how much you can love, what you can accomplish--what your potential is." ?: "Charity is learning how to forgive others, wisdom is learning how to forgive ourselves." ?: "If flight be your heart's desire then fly, fly, fly . . . for we must follow our dreams to be truly free." ?: "The poorest of all men is not the man without a cent; it is the man without a dream." ?: "He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool, shun him; he who knows not, and knows that he knows not, is a child, teach him; he who knows, and knows not that he knows, is asleep, wake him; he who knows, and knows that he knows, is wise, follow him." ?: "It is often easier to find the truth than it is to accept it." ?: "The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel." ?: "Is there not one thing in your life that is worth losing everything for?" ?: "If life is boring, then risk it." ?: "Look well to this one day, for it, and it alone, is life. In the brief course of this one day lie all the verities, all the realities of your existence--the joy of living, the splendor of beauty, the glory of action. Yesterday is but a dream. Tomorrow is but a vision. But today, well-lived, will make every yesterday a dream of happiness and each tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this one day, for it and it alone, is life." ?: "No matter what your vocation, you are called to serve others." ?: "Show courtesy to others not because they are necessarily gentlemen, but simply because you are." ?: "Be kind! Every person you meet is fighting a difficult battle." ?: "When their numbers dwindled from 50 down to 8, the remaining dwarfs began to suspect 'Hungry'. ?: "You play the piano very well. Maybe one day you will be able to make music." ?: "We seek answers to questions that we will never know." ?: "Life is but a momentary glimpse at eternity." ?: "I was lost and looking for truth, so I went to law school. This is like trying to get around China using a map of New Jersey written in Portuguese."