1701) "Go around asking a lot of damn fool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by gambling can we take advantage of them."-Clarence Birdseye
1702) "You can be on the right road [to success], but you're never going to get anywhere if you just sit there."
1703) "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."-Albert Einstein
1704) "Love is given, hate is acquired."
1705) "Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says, 'I'll try again tommorow.'"
1706) "Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today."-James Dean
1707) "In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back."-Charlie Brown
1708) "We find comfort among those who agree with us--growth among those who don't."-Frank A. Clark
1709) "A baby is God's opinion that life should go on."-Carl Sandburg
1710) "It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all."-William Makepeace Thackeray
1711) "If you never change your mind, why have one?"
1712) "Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you've got."-Garth Brooks
1713) "Experience is often what you get when you were expecting something else."
1714) "Don't count the days--make the days count."-Ed Agresta
1715) "What lies before us and what lies behind us are tiny compared to what lies within us."-Ralph Waldo Emerson
1716) "Life expands or contracts in proportion to one's courage."-Anais Nin
1717) "Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."-Oscar Wilde
1718) "If everything on earth was rational, nothing would ever happen."-Fyodor Dostoevsky
1719) "I would rather stand and die than have to live and kneel."-Imperial Teen
1720) "Ooh...is there really an Emailers Anonymous? Cool...I can see it now...'Hi, I'm Andi, & I'm an e-mail addict. This is Audrey...she's an addict too.' Then we could get out of that stupid meeting really quickly & go check our e-mail! ;)"-Andrea Lipman
1721) Out of every hundred people,/ those who always know better:/ fifty-two./ Unsure of every step:/ almost all the rest./ Ready to help,/ if it doesn't take long:/ forty-nine./ Always good,/ because they cannot be otherwise:/ four -- well, maybe five./ Able to admire without envy:/ eighteen./ Led to error/ by youth (which passes):/ sixty, plus or minus./ Those not to be messed with:/ four-and-forty./ Living in constant fear/ of someone or something:/ seventy-seven./ Capable of happiness:/ twenty-some-odd at most./ Harmless alone,/ turning savage in crowds:/ more than half, for sure./ Cruel/ when forcced by circumstances:/ it's better not to know,/ not even approximately./ Wise in hindsight:/ not many more/ than wise in foresight./ Getting nothing out of life except things:/ thirty/ (though I would like to be wrong)./ Balled up in pain/ and without a flashlight in the dark:/ eighty-three, sooner or later./ Those who are just:/ quite a few, thirty-five./ But if it takes effort to understand:/ three./ Worthy of empathy:/ ninety-nine./ Mortal:/ one hundred out of one hundred--/ a figure that has not varied yet."-Wislawa Szymborska, "A WORD ON STATISTICS"
1722) "i sing alone/ at the top of my lungs/ it cuts through my silence/ on the darkest of nights/ i sing alone/ as i hide in the corner/ throwing my fists/ for the battles i fight/ i sing alone/ while sitting here silenced/ by all of the words/ you cannot say/ i sing alone/ yet there is a chorus/ of the voices i collect/ throughout the day/ i sing alone/ for the things i believe in/ i sing alone/ for the battles i fight/ i sing alone/ for the memories that haunt me/ i sing alone/ for the strength to take flight/ i sing for the women/ battered and bruised/ i sing for the children/ neglected, abused/ i sing for the workers/ cheated and used/ i sing for the teens/ lost and confused/ i sing for the good earth/ i sing for the land/ i sing for religion/ i sing for man/ i sing alone/ for all one person can't do/ you don't have to join me/ i sing for you/ because i don't march/ in your mighty crusade/ does not mean you can judge/ the choices i've made/ you have your activism/ you fight the good fight/ don't judge my silence/ i speak to your sight/ and you haven't tried looking/ so you do not see/ my activism is my writing/ and just being me/ so you have your groups/ of large people behind you/ and shout and scream/ and march and bear witness/ i'll have my writing/ my religion, my art/ my mental, spiritual/ and physical fitness/ you live your life/ that's not your own/ as for me/ i sing alone/ and i'll join the marches/ i'll fight that fight/ but it's my words i sing/ that will echo in my night/ it's my own words/ with which ill take flight/ and i'm one in a million/ and out of your sight/ but i'll sing alone/ for the battles i fight/ and every battle won/ helps us all in our fight"-Erin Ballantine, "I Sing Alone"
1723) "if you/ 're go ing to/ hold my hand/ at least us/ e your own/ five fingers/ and don't pre/ tend there/ is n't some/ one else if/ there be/ cause my heart has/ been pulled an/ d stretched to fit/ everyone/ 's needs and it's just worn/ out and i/ f you break it/ you buy it/ buddy so i/ t's better if you/ don't touch any/ thing in my chin/ a store of emotions/ than you/ pick up some/ thing to look/ an d accident/ ally drop/ it shatter/ in g my life/ into a million/ sharp angles that/ hurt and can/ never be re/ assembled even if/ you should try/ to instead of/ running a/ way like a thief."-Marya Sea Kaminski
1724) "Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn."-Charlie Parker
1725) "Silence is as essential to human life as the air we breathe."
1726) "Well, I guess I'm trying to be nonchalant about it, and I'm going to extremes to prove I'm fine without you, but in reality, I'm slowly losing my mind underneath the disguise of a smile."-Mariah Carey
1727) "A closed mind is always fighting to keep everything else at arm's length."
1728) "There is something magical that happens to the human spirit, a sense of calm that comes over you, when you cease needing all the attention directed toward yourself and instead allow others to have the glory."
1729) "The greatest discovery of my life is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude."-William James
1730) "One of the major reasons so many of us remain hurried, frightened, and competitive, and continue to live life as if it were one giant emergency, is our fear that if we were to become more peaceful and loving, we would suddenly stop schieving our goals. We would become lazy and apathetic."-Richard Carlson
1731) "To a large degree, the measure of our peace of mind is determined by how much we are able to live in the present moment."
1732) "People are no longer human beings, we should be called human doings."
1733) "For many people, one of the most frustrating aspects of life is not being able to understand other people's behavior."
1734) "When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical."
1735) "One of the most important questions you can ever ask yourself is, 'Do I want to be right--or do I want to be happy?' Many times, the two are mutually exclusive!"
1736) "I grew up believing I was a good listener. And although I have become a better listener than I was ten years ago, I have to admit I'm still only an adequate listener."
1737) "Given free will but within certain limitations,/ I cannot will myself to limitless mutations,/ I cannot know what I would be if I were not me,/ I can only guess me."-Robert Wyatt
1738) "In the long run men hit only what they aim at."-Henry David Thoreau
1739) "I don't know how many of you have ever looked up a waterspout, but it's very dark and dangerous-looking up there, scary, but there's light showing. And the song says disaaster occurred and washed the spider out, and down came the rain. The song does not say...'And the spider said to hell with that and did something else.' Out came the sun--circumstances changed, and the spider went up the spout again. This is the fight song of the human race."-Robert Fulghum
1740) "You walk off campus this afternoon with only one thing that no one else has. There will be hundreds of people out there with your same degree; there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you will be the only person alive who has sole custody of your life....People don't talk much about the soul very much anymore. It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit. But a resume is cold comfort on a winter night, or when you're sad, or broke, or lonely, or when you've gotten back the test results and they're not so good....Realize that life is the best thing ever, and that you have no business taking it for granted."-Anna Quindlen
1741) "There's nothing as signifigant as a human face. Nor as eloquent. We can never really know another person, except by our first glance at him. Because, in that glance, we know everything. Even though we're not always wise enough to unravel the knowledge....I think...that every human soul has a style of its own, also. Its one basic theme. You'll see it reflected in every thought, every act, every wish of that person. The one absolute, the one imperative in that living creature. Years of studying a man won't give it to you. His face will. You'd have to write volumes to describe a person. Think of his face. You need nothing else."-Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
1742) "these grand visions/ fade into mediocrity as a matter of fact./ I am told this by the structure of the eye/ and the workings of the inner ear./ love must be anticlimactic./ never as vivid as the moment of conception./ bright bold dreams of future/ should let black and gray/ be the colors behind the eyes./ the same sung song/ will never ring as clear/ unless amplified by falsity of memory,/ modulated by perversion of sentiment./ remember the implications/ to prevent perpetual disappointment./ wisdom is bought by balance and cost;/ lessons learned must necessarily dull the world/ until all is bland/ and it seems the only solution/ is to mute the voices of want/ and to forget the way of recognition./ that is,/ unless grand can be the symphony of silence,/ sable the brightest of colors,/ and death the epiphony of life/ while not deceiving the living soul/ or betraying the longing heart,/ both of which must know identity/ and possess a senseless sense of direction."-Jason Bales, "I Must Have Wanted a Title, but Not for Very Long"
1743) "An ancient Chinese proverb/ says ALL life is suffering/ and I'm beginning to understand/ this age old wisdom/ as the night consumes me/ alone in a black hole/ where there is no return/ in the shimmering shadows/ where I wait for a ring/ on the telephone or the door/ but there is no sounds/ only the ringing silence/ that resonates through my mind/ racing faster than a thorobred/ grawing at my numb neurons/ night in and night out/ As each day I suffer/ surrounded by strange swarms/ of faces and places and memories/ lost somewhere in a chaotic crowd/ where I wait for anything/ to stop and notice/ that I am barely breathing/ and in need of resuscitation/ but, I am invisible/ like a ghost in this haunted house/ where I seem to scare everyone/ except no one really notices"-Rebekah Harrold
1744) "Home is the place where, when you have to go there,/ They have to take you in."-Robert Frost
1745) "Love exists in as many ways as there are arches of sunlight over the ocean."-Greg Greenway
1746) "Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle this skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul."-D.M.
1747) "Artists, in my world, are the people who make us feel better, who stand between us and chaos, who give voice to the unvoiced. They give you dreams. We give dreams."-Janis Ian
1748) "I am always feeling like perpetually under-read. It's really depressing for me to go into a bookstore or a library and just look out there and see all those shelves filled with books. It's a weird feeling seeing all those books and knowing that there's absolutely no way I'll ever read them all. There might be some book over there in the 'L' section on the second-to-bottom shelf by some author I've never heard of that I might really like, that might become my favorite book. Or maybe that book sucks and the favorite book is the one right next to it. Or on the next shelf. Or across the store. Or in some other store with a better selection. I'll never know. I mean, it's pretty obvious that no one can ever read every book ever written and thus definitively know that their favorite book is their favorite book, that there's nothing else out there that might outdistance it. That's just common sense. Which doesn't really make the idea any less depressing."-Scott "Scotch" Herman
1749) "I don't need a certain number of friends, only a number of friends I can be certain of."
1750) "You don't marry someone you can live with--you marry the person who you cannot live without."
1751) "Oh, we have a home. We just need a house to put it in."-10 year old homeless girl
1752) "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent."-Napolean Bonaparte
1753) "Truth is not determined by majority vote."-Doug Gwyn
1754) "Every man dies. Not every man lives."-Tim Robbins
1755) "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."-Martin Luther King Jr.
1756) "He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for."-Moroccan proverb
1757) "Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."-Mark Twain
1758) "I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose."
1759) "I know nothing at all about indigo girls - I don't even know how many there are!!!"-Betsey Rapp
1760) "Sometimes my brain goes on CD shuffle. You know, you put a bunch of CD's on and hit play and random things come out."-Bette Midler
1761) "Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."-Albert Einstein
1762) "If you don't ask the right questions every answer feels wrong."-Ani DiFranco, "Hell Yeah"
1763) "If I was inconsistent, at least it wasn't all the time."
1764) "Sometimes education is just ammunition for ignorance."-Mike Lavelle
1765) "Alcohol, the cause of and solution to all of life's problems."-Homer Simpson
1766) "One more day I find myself alive, tomorrow maybe go beneath the ground."-Jerry Garcia
1767) "on friday nights/ i wait for something/ drastic to transpire like/ the simplistic/ crash of plates victimized/ in a time of anger./ i expect to write my/ autobiography in a five/ minute time span &/ set it to a tune -/ wrapped up & packaged for/ easy consumption/ by the restless masses/ who will adore me/ (or so i am told)/ for my literary genius./ i wont ask/ Natalie Imbruglia/ to croon a naughty ballad for me,/ i'll dig out my own guitar/ and learn to/ manufacture drums in a studio &/ i'll be all about Popularity./ of course, no one i know/ remembers the lyrics to 'Popular.'/ misnomer./ i receive a telegram/ from myself:/ stop/ stop/ stop/ it says nothing/ i dont already/ think i know./ the longer i live/ the less i Look Forward To/ the less i appreciate/ the more i think this all/ really sucks/ and something/ drastic should/ happen."-Heather Hughes
1768) "a little stiff,/ formal to the point of/ telephone pauses/ and conversational lulls/ before i recover/ there's this little click,/ that i know i can hear without my ears,/ signifies the observance of the Good-bye Talk To You Later Ritual./ i grimace a little at the receiver./ went out a few hours later/ and bought a pair of flared jeans/ to impress upon the male libido/ just how nicely shaped my legs really are/ and i think somehow that/ still i will go unnoticed and the phone wont/ ring anymore than it does any other/ bill-collector-call-filled day/ i realized that it's harder to be/ almost 18 and single than it is to be/ 14 and loving./ wouldnt it be a decent and/ humane thing to condemn the/ awkward first moments of uncertain speech/ and just fall in love again with the sort of/ reckless abandon i admire in my peers?/ (this is not a story about peer pressure,/ no one can exert this kind of authority on a/ writer, i know that if they could my needs would/ match theirs without remorse.)/ this is all cowardice/ and a lengthy way of saying/ i dont have the balls to call him myself."-Heather Hughes
1769) "Success is measured not in achievement for self, but in accomplishment for others."-Jeffrey J. Wood
1770) "You live for the fight when that's all that you've got..."-Jon Bon Jovi
1771) "For some, true love is blind, for others, blind love is true..."
1772) "Never give up, never give in, never grow old, never die young..."
1773) "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."-Antoine de Saint Exupery
1774) "The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem."-Theodore Rubin
1775) "I love cars. It's the greatest physical object I've ever seen. I don't know why, really. My only theory is, when you're driving, you're outside and inside, moving and completely still, all at the same time. I think that's something."-Jerry Seinfeld
1776) "I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees."-Pablo Neruda
1777) "Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."-Lewis Carroll
1778) "The more evolved an animal is, the more time it spends playing."-P.J. O'Rourke
1779) "Procrastination gives you something to look forward to."-Joan Konner
1780) "If you lie on the ground in somebody's arms, you'll probably swallow some of their history."-Suzanne Vega
1781) "For me, gender is not an issue. Why should I feel less for a person just because they have a certain appendage or not?"-Katrina
1782) "Only the mediocre are always at their best."-Jean Giraudoux
1783) "Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living."
1784) "If we all leap before we crawl we might fall/ and it's not always candy spun from head to heart/ it's not always meant to be/ it's not always up to me."-Lisa Loeb
1785) "When things are done consistently the same old way, the same old results can be expected."
1786) "When you have eliminated the improbable, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."-Holmesian proverb
1787) "Some times I need to apologize, sometimes I need to admit that I ain't right, sometimes I should just keep my mouth shut, or only say hello, sometimes I still feel I'm walking alone."-Billie Joe Armstrong
1788) "As you slide down the banister of life, may the splinters face away from you."-Jack Zay
1789) "The only difference beetween graffiti and philosophy is the f-word."
1790) "Worrying is a misuse of the imagination."-oithacker@aol.com
1791) "I don't have low self esteem. I just have low esteem for everyone else!"-Daria on Daria
1792) "Love is like a roller coaster: when it's good you don't want to get off, and when it isn't, you can't wait to throw up."
1793) "All generalizations are false, including this one."
1794) "I believe that people exist to be enjoyed, much as a restful or engaging view might be....When I am in the presence of other human beings I want to revel in their creative and intellectual fullness, their uninhibited social warmth. I want their precious human radiance to wrap me in light... Everything I would like other people to be for me, I want to be for them."-Alice Walker
1795) "Money can't buy happiness, but it can sure rent a lot."
1796) "When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event."-Robert M. Pirsig
1797) "Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night."-Marion Howard
1798) "Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."-Ralph Waldo Emerson
1799) "Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it."-William Shakespeare
1800) "From the moment he looked me in my eyes and saw what no one else did, I loved him."-Brianne