201) "Never run after a bus or a man. There will always be another one."-Old Irish expression
202) "I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's word is 100 percent."-Dr. Seuss
203) "Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have."-Life's Little Instruction Calender
204) "Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts."-Life's Little Instruction Calender
205) "Accept pain and disappointment as part of life."-Life's Little Instruction Calender
206) "The only way to do something is to just do it."-Dr. Judy Kuriansky
207) "Try to lift your right arm. Did you do it? You don't try to do something; you either do it or you don't."-Dr. Judy Kuriansky
208) "Once upon a time, (actually, more like right now) on a planet far, far away, (okay, on a planet not so far away) millions of women were challenging boundaries, testing limits and living their dreams. (So what did you think this was going to be? A fairy tale?)-Reebok ad
209) "Tomboy. Alright, call me a tomboy. Tomboys get medals. Tomboys win championships. Tomboys can fly. Oh. And tomboys aren't boys."-Julie Foudy, World Championship Soccer Player in a Reebok ad
210) "Doubt yourself, and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself, and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above and doubt judgement. And you can see forever."-Nancy Kerrigan in a Reebok ad
211) "I taught my mother to climb. And she gets nervous sometimes. She'll yell, 'Let me down!' That's a tough one. You never want to let your mother down. I don't think I ever have."-Nancy Feagin, rock climber in a Reebok ad
212) "O, ye who sit behind me/ en la clase de espanol./ Your glare on my hair burns/ and yearns to touch me./ Or perhaps not./ You despise all, you speak in gutterals./ When asked, you decline./ I watch you now in this impending/ doom./ Repetitions with rhyme/ a slight variation each time/ you smile/ Your glow off flannel/ like the pale, crattered moon."-J.D.
213) "And in the end, the tortoise beat the hare."
214) "TIRED/ EYES WON'T CLOSE/ BUT ONLY FOR A MOMENT/ THEN THE THOUGHTS RACE/ AND DRIVE ME CRAZY/ LIDS FLIP UP LIKE A BLIND/ AND EYEBALLS/ GET COLD WHILE/ STARING INTO DARKNESS/ CLEAR MIND! CLEAR MIND!/ BECOME BLANK/ AND SILENT/ AND LET PURE/ NOTHINGNESS/ SING ME SOFTLY TO /SLEEP."-Renee Parsons
215) "A good rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical."-Thomas Jefferson
216) "Physical fitness is the basis for all other forms of excellence."-John F. Kennedy
217) "Nature gives us talent, but it is for us to make it work."
218) "Cancer is a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience."
219) "When there's a mountain to climb, waiting won't make it smaller."
220) "Every creature in human shape should command our respect."-Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe
221) "The strong should help the weak, so that the whole should advance as a band of brethren."-Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe
222) "Nothing just happens. You choose it to happen."-Dr. Judy Kuriansky
223) "The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."-Milton
224) "What I really said at Disney World is, 'This is the horniest thing I've ever done.'"-Nancy Kerrigan on Saturday Night Live about saying, "This is the corniest thing I've ever done," at Disney World
225) "It's not whether you win or lose, but how you play the game."
226) "What the mind can imagine and believe, the human body can achieve."
227) "There's no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs."
228) "...it seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart."-John Knowles, A Separate Peace
229) "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."-Henry David Thoreau
230) "If you want to play, practice. If you want to win, practice harder."-No Fear t-shirt
231) "Amtrak doesn't always pull out on time. Don't expect your guy to either."-Love Phone's caller
232) "If we learn from losing, we become winners in the end."
233) "O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us/ To see oursles as ithers see us!"-Robert Burns, "To a Louse"
234) "Give someone an inch, and they'll take a mile."
235) "Getting to the top of the ladder is not the problem. The most difficult problem is getting through the crowd at the bottom."-Bobby Knight, Indiana University basketball coach
236) "Life's a journey, not a destination."-Aerosmith
237) "When everybody loves you, you can never be lonely"-Adam Duritz, "Mr. Jones"
238) "The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities."-Lord Action (John E.E. Dalberg), English historian, statesman
239) "The fundamental truths are all men's property. Whether or not we live by them, we all know them with a deep instinctiveness."-J. Donald Adams, American editor and writer
240) "Don't breed or buy while homeless animals die."
241) "It's easier to fight for principles than to live up to them."-Alfred Adler
242) "A famous violinist was approached by a woman who gushed, 'I'd give my life to play like you do.' The violinist responded simply, 'Madam, I did.'"
243) "Desire is the intangible quality that has more impact on success than talent, education, or IQ. You can't see desire, but you can feel its presence, and see its results in the lives of successful people."-Robert Fulghum
244) "If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better than if you have tried to do nothing and succeeded."
245) "We are all manufacturers--some make good, others make trouble, and still others make excuses."
246) "The man who rows the boat generally doesn't have time to rock it."
247) "The important thing is not that we can live on hope alone, but that life is not worth living without it."-Harvey Milk
248) "Our chief want in life is someone who shall make us do what we can."-Ralph Waldo Emerson
249) "The things that we love tell us what we are."-St. Thomas Aquinas
250) "Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."-J. Baldwin
251) "The ultimate measure of man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
252) "Looks the whole world in the face, for he owes not any men."-Longfellow
253) "Life isn't all black and white--there's a lot of gray."
254) "The faintest ink is better than the most retentive memory."
255) "People who stand in the middle of the road get run over."-Aneurin Bevan
256) "You never truly know someone until you've walked a mile in his shoes."
257) "I hate when people say, 'Shalom.' I never know if they're coming, going, or just a pacifist."-Mark Sherman
258) "There were not, he knew in his guts and in his brains, any heroes."-John Knowles, Peace Breaks Out
259) "Laws without morals are in vain."-Penn's motto
260) "We will find a way or we will make one."
261) "When someone you love dies, treasure the time you spent with them. Even if you only knew them for a little while, it was better than not knowing them at all."-Hobie on Baywatch
262) "My wife thinks I'm nosy. At least that's what she scribbles in her diary."-Drake Sather
263) "A mind is like a parachute--it functions only when open."
264) "A wise person knows that there is something to be learned from everyone."
265) "No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
266) "Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry 'Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!'"-Thomas Parke D'Imvilliers
267) "If you take care of the little things, the big things take care of themselves."-R. Reese
268) "Coal under pressure produces diamonds."
269) "It is not the whistle that moves the train."
270) "It is not as important what is true, as what we perceive to be true."-Mrs. Schumaeker
271) "Except little and you will never be disappointed."
272) "My idea of balance is someone else's idea of bias."-Mrs. Schumaeker
273) "Sixteen is the key and crucial and natural age for a human being...when you are sixteen, adults are slightly impressed and almost intimidated by you."-John Knowles, A Separate Peace
274) "Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're livin'?"-Bob Marley
275) "Most of the things I worried about in life never happened."-Mark Twain
276) "Every great achievement was once considered impossible."
277) "If there were no problems, there would be no oportunities."
278) "In every face-to-face encounter, regardless of how brief, we leave something behind."
279) "Education, experience, and memories are three things that no one can take away from you."
280) "Happiness is like perfume: you can't give it away without getting a little on yourself."
281) "Sucessful living is like playing the violin--it must be practiced daily."
282) "When someone hurts your feelings, it's unimportant unless you persist in remembering it."
283) "We grow only when we push ourselves beyond what we already know."
284) "Never underestimate the the potential and power of the human spirit."
285) "Never give up on anybody. Miracles happen every day."-Life's Little Instruction Book
286) "Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures."-Life's Little Instruction Book
287) "Smile a lot. It costs nothing and is beyond price."-Life's Little Instruction Book
288) "Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly."-Life's Little Instruction Book
289) "Never cut what can be untied."-Life's Little Instruction Book
290) "Don't use time or words carelessly. Neither can be retrieved."-Life's Little Instruction Book
291) "Watch for big problems. They disguise big opportunities."-Life's Little Instruction Book
292) "The only gift is a portion of thyself."-Ralph Waldo Emerson
293) "Being unobservant is safe. If you are blinded, you do not see horror."-Andrea Lipman
294) "All of them...constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought they saw across the frontier, this enemy who never attacked that way--if he ever attacked at all; if he was indeed the enemy."-John Knowles, A Separate Peace
295) "For us, there is only the trying, the rest is not our business."-T.S. Eliot
296) "Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings."-Victor Hugo
297) "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."-Ralph Waldo Emerson
298) "Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed."-Booker T. Washington
299) "How high can you fly with broken wings?"-Aerosmith
300) "Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly. Make sure you answer your door."