2801) "Question with boldness even the existence of God. For if there be one, he surely more approves of the homage of reason than blindfold fear."-Thomas Jefferson
2802) "Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For none of us, no not one, is perfect. Were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love."-Thomas Jefferson
2803) "Real poetry doesn't say anything, it just ticks off the possibilities, opens all doors; you can walk through any one that suits you. If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel."-Jim Morrison
2803 again) "The gods too are fond of a joke."-Aristotle
2804) "Religion...is the opium of the masses."-Karl Marx
2805) "In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea."-Douglas Adam
2806) "we could find the meaning in any song/ as we dug deeper in our friends,/ Ben and Jerry/ No bowls, two spoons, two cartons./ Hot fudge caramel swirl/ for the men that stood us up/ for the promised phone calls never received/ for the bad dates/ for the bad news/ coffee heath bar crunch/ for the value of friendship/ for the person to always go to/ for the constant laughing/ (at nothing)/ for the closeness when apart./ we say 'fat,' 'chunker,' 'heifer' as/ we imply our Ben and Jerry's fate./ we turn up the song/ about the good girls/ (who're home with broken hearts)/ we laugh, we mourn/ we decide it's time to move on./ only/ with each other."-C. Elizabeth
2807) "Competition brings out the best in product and the worst in people."-David Sarnoff
2808) "What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."-Oscar Wilde
2809) "How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book."-Henry David Thoreau
2810) "Try and hold only, things you need to live/ get what you can, see what you can give./ It's hazy without love; the drugs, the art, career./ They just dull the pain, feed the fears./ But guess I'll read the paper, have myself a beer./ I'll read the stories, hear the blues./ Ponder life, and people's views./ Shoot from town to town, an indecisive star./ Sit on a stool, laughing at the bar./ Wonder at the sunset, chilly and alone./ And someday I'll know again, a someone to call 'home'"-Valerie Pettis, "Homesick"
2811) "If you don't know where you are from, it's hard to know who you are."-Wendell Berry
2812) "The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live right inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance, but live right in it, under its roof."-Barbara Kingsolver
2813) "He who asks a question is a fool for 5 minutes but he who does not ask remains a fool forever."-Chinese proverb
2814) "The best way to predict the future is to create it."-Peter F. Drucker
2815) "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."-Mark Twain
2816) "Why rest now? You're going to be dead for a long time. You can rest then!"-Lawrence W. Lipman
2817) "We are not separate from spirit, we are in it."-Plotinus
2818) "Cherish your vision; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, if you remain true to them, your world will at last be built."-James Allen
2819) "It was my dream that screwed up, the stupid heartache idea that it would be wonderful to follow one great red line across America instead of trying various roads and routes."-Jack Kerouac, On the Road
2820) "I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was--I was far away from home, haunted and tired from travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost. I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future, and maybe that's why it happened right there and then, that strange red afternoon."-Jack Kerouac, On the Road
2821) "The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is the remembrance of some lost bliss that was probably only experienced in the womb and can only be reproduced (though we hate to admit it) in death. But who wants to die?"-Jack Kerouac, On the Road
2822) "What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing?--it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-by. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies."-Jack Kerouac, On the Road
2823) "And for just a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete step across chronological time into timeless shadows, and wonderment in the bleakness of the mortal realm, and the sensation of death kicking at my heels to move on, with a phantom dogging its own heels, and myself hurrying to a plank where all the angels dove off and flew into the holy void of uncreated emptiness, the potent and inconceivable radiancies shining in bright Mind Essence, innumerable lotus-lands falling open in the magic mothswarm of heaven. I could hear an indescribable seething roar which wasn't in my ear but everywhere and had nothing to do with sounds. I realized that I had died and been reborn numerous times but just didn't remember especially because the transitions from life to death and back to life are so ghostly easy, a magical action for naught, like falling asleep and waking up again a million times, the utter casualness and deep ignorance of it. I realized it was only because of the stability of the intrinsic Mind that these ripples of birth and death took place, like the action of wind on a sheet of pure, serene, mirror-like water. I felt sweet, swinging bliss, like a big shot of heroin in the mainline vein; like a gulp of wine late in the afternon and it makes you shudder; my feet tingled. I thought I was going to die the very next moment. But I didn't die..."-Jack Kerouac, On the Road
2824) "Everybody is a fool in somebody's opinion."-Spanish proverb
2825) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time."-E. B. White
2826) "It is so easy to have in your hands. It is so easy to feel security from it. It is so easy in ways that cannot be explained. That is what makes it hard...hard on you, hard on me, hard on everyone that comes within miles of it. That is what makes love so easy, it's hard."-Ian Philpot
2827) "Take a second out to think about this: in your life you search and search for the right person for you. Every time you break up with someone you get one step closer to that person. You should look at moving on as getting closer to meeting the one."-Ian Philpot
2828) "Love is like energy. It can never be created nor destroyed...it is just always there. You just have to realize that fact and you have to learn that as soon as you stopped loving him in the way you did that love left to somewhere else. Now all you have to do is find out where that love went. That love went to whoever the next person in your life will be. That next person could be one of your friends or someone you might dislike, you just have to find that out."-Ian Philpot
2829) "All you have to do is sit back, relax, and live life to its fullest. If you can't do that then you are going to waste your life on the little things that don't matter. Look at the big picture and don't just zoom in. Try not to focus. Look at the picture as if it was one of those 3D ones. Just stare at it, and stare at it, and stare at it until you get it."-Ian Philpot
2830) "What is hard to understand is life. Think about that. That phrase is only used when someone tries to understand life. If you try to understand it, it will become a labarinth to which there is no exit, but if you just sit back and appreciate what life gives you, you will learn there is a whole world out there for the taking."-Ian Philpot
2831) "There's a constant contradiction-- what feels good, and what feels right."-Randy Travis
2832) "You can't have a sense of judgement when your imagination's out of focus."-Mark Twain
2833) "Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But, when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window."-Steve Bluestone
2834) "2+3=5, but so does 1+4...this just goes to show that we are all different but we can still accomplish the same things."-Justin Naidl
2835) "Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"-Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
2836) "Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?"-E. M. Forster
2837) "If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster."-Isaac Asimov
2838) "One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment. If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along."-Franklin Delano Roosevelt
2839) "I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life."-George Burns
2840) "I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate."-George Burns
2841) "For a while we pondered whether to take a vacation or get a divorce. We decided that a trip to Bermuda is over in two weeks, but a divorce is something you always have."-Woody Allen
2842) "We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 -- and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?"-Arthur C. Clarke
2843) "...often in love, by the time you realise the need to set up defenses, it's too late for the defenses to work..."
2844) "out of the blue/ you waltz back into my heart/ when I'm just about/ over you,/ you tear me apart./ with your smooth-talking words/ and promises from yesterday./ with the sound of your voice/ and the things that you say./ I just want to warn you,/ give you a notice,/ I just want to say:/ I hope that you mean it./ for I've loved you too long/ to get none in return./ I've loved you too long/ and the pain in me burns./ so please just remember/ the next time that you talk:/ my heart's made of glass/ and love's lies only rock./ it's fragile, you see,/ easily broken./ and the false-mask of love,/ easily spoken./ so be sure what you mean,/ and mean what you say,/ and hopefully/ truth/ is all you'll convey."-Danielle
2845) "Let the water from the faucet continue to drip, as we sit here, doing nothing but watching the digital clock chop off fragments of our lives. Ten minutes. Twenty minutes. Eternity can pass by before either one of us will pull down the curtains we use to hide our vulnerability. Eternity in a digital clock. And you twiddle your thumbs. Me, crossing and uncrossing and recrossing my legs. We talk about the weather and other, deep, meaningful things like that. I laugh at the funny stories you continue to tell, for if you stopped, there'd be nothing more to say. Honesty's not an option. Being open and unincumbered with one another is an unattainable goal. Thirty minutes. Forty minutes. The digital clock, our warden in a prison where eternity's our death sentence. Close your mouth, close your eyes and let the water from the faucet continue to drip. Liberate me from the clock."-Danielle
2845) "We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public."-Bryan White
2846) "A lot of people, when they talk to me, I can't wait for them to shut up...like, shut up, you're a moron. I have nothing to say to you, you know? I'm not trying to enhance the conversation, so shut up."-Billie Joe
2847) "war.. is it madness or reality or pure insanity that makes people want to fight when neither is right, but both of them want to be?"
2848) "Creativity is more important than knowledge.-Albert Einstein
2849) "Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once."-Dostoyevsky
2850) "Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know."-Andr Maurois
2851) "Once you can laugh at your own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Maybe you can combat some of the ugliness in the world."-Goldie Hawn
2852) "A rule of the blue road: Be careful going in search of adventure--it's ridiculously easy to find."-Least Heat Moon
2853) "Our religion keeps reminding us that we aren't just will and thoughts. We're also sand and wind and thunder. Rain. The seasons. All those things. You learn to respect everything because you are everything. If you respect yourself, you respect all things."-Least Heat Moon
2854) "Spirit can go anywhere. In fact, it has to go places so it can change and emerge like in the migrations. That's the whole idea."-Least Heat Moon
2855) "Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. (The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.)"-Mark Twain
2856) "But most people are rather stupid and waste their lives. Have you not seen that? Have you not looked down from the horse at the city and thought how much it resembled an ant heap, full of blind creatures who think their mundane little world is real? You see the lighted windows and what you want to think is that there must be many interesting stories behind them, but what you know is that really they are just dull, dull souls, mere consumers of food, who think their instincts are emotions and their tiny lives of more account than a whisper of wind."-Opid
2857) "virtue is relative at best/ there's nothing worse than a sunset/ when you're driving due west"-Ani DiFranco, "Virtue"
2858) "but god's work isn't done by god/ it's done by people"-Ani DiFranco, "Up Up Up Up Up Up"
2859) "do you like to watch when water misbehaves?"-Ani DiFranco, "Angel Food"
2860) "half of learning how to play/ is learning what not to play/ and she's learning the spaces she leaves/ have their own things to say/ and she's trying to sing just enough/ so that the air around her moves/ and make music like mercy/ that gives what it is/ and has nothing to prove"-Ani DiFranco, "Up Up Up Up Up Up"
2861) "it wasn't so much that we fell in love as/ my life just seemed to come down/ to a slow walk on a straight line/ between her smile and her frown"-Ani DiFranco, "Know Now Then"
2862) "It'd be an awful waste of space if there aren't other forms of life"-Cookie Monster
2863) "Funny, but I see this a lot. I am, at times, more willing to bend over backwards for people I have known only fifteen minutes, than for the people who have raised me all fifteen years of my life."-Mary Beth
2864) "Dream as if you have forever. But live as if you only have today"-James Dean
2865) "Bodies, says the double figure, can never be made to exist at a determinable distance in representation; they never finally and indubitably take their place in a space that surrounds them. Or rather...no one body ever stands as an entity in a single space....The parts of a body, and the movements and positions of those parts, generate different and incompatible imaginings of space--different scales, different degrees of empathy and identification, different intuitions of distance or proximity--which simply cannot (ever) be brought to the point of totalization. Because in the case of bodies...we are what fills, or reaches out to, the space another body occupies; the space gets multiplied by our imagined acts, by the plurality or our own experience of our body getting beyond us."-T.J. Clark
2866) "The author looms above his page and thinks it strange that at his age/ He cannot find the proper words to describe his only world./ One would think that in a life where no two snowflakes are alike/ One would have the perfect rhyme for each and every bit of time."-Clutch
2867) "The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love."-William Wordsworth
2868) "Ultimately, the bond of companionship, whether in marriage or friendship, is conversation."-Oscar Wilde
2869) "You aren't ever going to be anything in this world unless you do what you want to do, when you want to do it--don't plan anything, just go out and do it."-Jack Kerouac
2870) "Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet."-Plato
2871) "Every song falls short of the glory of what a song could be. That's why the urge is there to start again and yet again. Often it's the fault of rhyme. I've discovered a hundred times that there just aren't enough rhymes to say what I wanted to say, so I said something else instead. Sometimes it was a better thing, but the thing I meant to say went unsaid. So there's an opening for another song."-Robert Hunter
2872) "The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it's the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship."-Ralph Waldo Emerson
2873) "Love does not die easily. It is a living thing. It thrives in the face of all of life's hazards, save one -- neglect."-James D. Bryden
2874) "We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit."-e. e. cummings
2875) "I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it."-Clarence Darrow
2876) "they caught the last poor man/ on a poor man's vacation/ they cuffed him and they confiscated his stuff/ they dragged his black ass down to the station/ and said, ok, the streets are safe now/ all your pretty white children can come out and see spot run/ and they came out of their houses/ and they looked around/ but they didn't see no one/ and my country tis of thee/ to take swings at each other on the talk show tv/ why don't you just go ahead and turn off the sun/ 'cuz we'll never live long enough/ to undo everything they've done to you/ undo everything they've done to you/ above 96th street/ they're handin out smallpox blankets so people don't freeze/ the old dogs have got a new trick/ it's called criminalize the symptoms/ while you spread the disease/ and i hold on hard to something/ between my teeth when im sleeping/ i wake up and my jaw aches/ and the earth is full of earthquakes/ and my country tis of thee/ to take shots at each other on the primetime tv/ why don't you just go ahead and turn off the sun/ 'cuz we'll never live long enough/ to undo everything they've done to you/ undo everything they've done to you/ they caught the last poor man/ flying away in a shiny red cape/ they took him down to the station/ and they said, boy you shouldve known better/ than to try to escape/ i ran away with the circus/ 'cuz there's still some honest work left for bearded ladies/ but it's not the same going town to town/ since they put everyone in jail/ except the cleavers and the bradys"-Ani DiFranco, "Tis of Thee"
2877) "An American in London...cannot but be impressed and charmed by the city. The momumentality of Washington, the thriving business of New York, the antique intimacy of Boston, plus a certain spacious and open feeling reminiscent of Denver and San Francisco--all these he finds combined for his pleasure."-John Updike
2878) "Hell is a city much like London--a populous and smoky city."-Percy Bysshe Shelley
2879) "In peoples eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging; brass bands; barrel organs; in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment in June."-Virginia Woolf
2880) "London itself perpetually attracts, stimulates, gives me play, a story and a poem without any trouble, save that of moving my legs through the streets."-Virginia Woolf
2881) "...when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford."-Samuel Johnson
2882) "Nothing falls like London Rain/ Nothing heals me like you do"-Heather Nova, "London Rain (Nothing Heals Me Like You Do)"
2883) "Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun./ If the sun don't come you get a tan from standing in the English rain."-John Lennon
2884) "If we could decide who we love it would be much simpler but less magical."-South Park
2885) "So many people walk around their entire lives searching for their 'soul mate.' Looking for the perfect person of the opposite sex. Who's to say that your 'soul mate' has to be someone of the opposite sex that you can have the perfect love with? Why can't it be your best friend or maybe even your mother or a sibling? Maybe that's why so many people are so lonely, because they don't even realize that the person they're to spend their lives with, aren't the ones that they expected them to be."-Sarah Headley
2886) "The past affects the future. What you do today affects tomorrow. So look to your past to know your future."-Martin Cord
2887) "The answers to life's questions lie inside you. All you need to do is look listen and trust."-Cherie Carter-Scott
2888) "The president of today is the postage stamp of tomorrow."-Dwight D. Eisenhower
2889) "Loyalty is holding onto someone's hand and never letting go, even when the fingers are being pried apart."
2890) "Nothing is worse than a brilliant beginning."-Pablo Picasso
2891) "I can see the use and value of religion, just as I can see the use of mud wrestling, yoga, astronomy and sadomasochism. but I reject the idea that you can't be a deep human being without it or any of them."-Brian Eno
2892) "Home has become such a scattered, damaged, various concept in our present travails. There is so much to yearn for. There are so few rainbows any more."-Salman Rushdie
2893) "We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the moral high ground. From this high ground we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities."-Salman Rushdie
2894) "A programmer is a peson who passes as an exacting expert on the basis of being able to turn out, after innumerable punching, an infinite series of incomprehensive answers calculated with micrometric precisions from vague assumptions based on debatable figures taken from inconclusive documents and carried out on instruments of problematical accuracy by persons of dubious reliability and questionable mentality for the avowed purpose of annoying and confounding a hopelessly defenseless department that was unfortunate enough to ask for the information in the first place."-IEEE Grid News Magazine
2895) "Do not consider anything for your interest which makes you break your work, quit your modesty, or inclines you to any practice which will not bear the light or look the world in the face."-Marcus Aurelius
2896) "O senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm and yet will make Gods by the dozen!"-Michel de Montaigne
2897) "I'm the kid who thought we'd someday be lovers/ Always held out that time would tell/ Time was talking, guess I just wasn't listening/ No surprise if you know me well."-Buddy Mondlock, "The Kid"
2898) "We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."-T.S. Eliot"
2899) "Every night, whatever the weather, I step outside and look at the sky. It helps me feel connected to a larger world beyond my city streets; to my people, scattered across a thousand lands, working, struggling, breathing under the light of the sky."-Ricardo Levins Morales, "The Importance of Being Artist"
2900) "Sometimes half-asleep I think of some reform or improvement and say to myself, ' I must tell the Pope about that.' And then I start up suddenly as I realize 'But I am the Pope.'"-Pope John