3601) "Whoever said that nothing is impossible never tried to slam a revolving door."
3602) "An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered."-G. K. Chesterton, "On Running After One's Hat"
3603) "He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head."-G. K. Chesterton, "On Sanity"
3604) "Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it."-Henry Ford.
3605) "home for holidays/ my childhood bed is too small/ perhaps I got fat"-Rooney
3606) "succulent cheesesteaks/ silly accents - in Philly/ hoagie is a word"-Rooney
3607) "This is the beginning of a new day…I can waste it...or use it for good, but what I do today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it! When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever, leaving in its place something that I have traded for it. I want it to be gain not loss, good not evil, success not failure - in order that I shall not regret the price that I have paid for it."
3608) "There are three things that always look very beautiful to me: my same good pair of old shoes that don't hurt, my own bedroom, and U.S. customs on the way back home."-Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
3609) "They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."-Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
3610) "A person can cry or laugh. Always when you're crying you could be laughing, you have the choice. Crazy people know how to do this best because their minds are loose. So you can take the flexibility your mind is capable of and make it work for you. You decide what you want to do and how you want to spend your time."-Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
3611) "An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have but that he—for some reason—thinks it would be a good idea to give them."-Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
3612) "Everything in your closet should have an expiration date on it the way milk and bread and magazines and newspapers do, and once something passes its expiration date, you should throw it out."-Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
3613) "I'm a city boy. In the big cities they've set it up so you can go to a park and be in a miniature countryside, but in the countryside they don't have any patches of big city, so I get very homesick."-Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
3614) "I hate when you find a product you like that fits a particular need of yours, and then they change it. 'Improve' it. I hate 'new, improved' anything. I think they should just make a completely new product instead and leave the old one alone. That way there would be two products to choose from, instead of half an old one."-Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
3615) "Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be."-Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
3616) "For most visitors to Manhattan, both foreign and domestic, New York is the Shrine of the Good Time. This is only natural, for outsiders come to New York for the sole purpose of having a good time, and it is for their New York hosts to provide it. The visiting Englishman, or the visiting Californian, is convinced that New York is made up of millions of gay pixies, flitting about constantly in a sophisticated manner in search of a new thrill. 'I don't see how you stand it,' they often say to the native New Yorker who has been sitting up past his bedtime for a week in an attempt to tire his guest out."-Robert Benchley
3617) "If you live in New York, even if you're Catholic, you're Jewish."-Lenny Bruce
3618) "New Yorkers are nice about giving you street directions; in fact they seem quite proud of knowing where they are themselves."-Katherine Brush
3619) "She has become a wicked bitch in her old age has Manhattan, but there is still no sensation in the world quite like walking her sidewalks. Great surges of energy sweep all around you; the air fizzles like champagne, while always there is a nervous edge of fear and whispered distant promises of sudden violence."-Tom Davies
3620) "Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary but I have the comforting certainty that mankind is real and I myself am not a dream."-Helen Keller
3621) "Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines."-David Letterman
3622) "Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York City."-Walter Lippmann
3623) "Ah! Some love Paris,/ And some Purdue./ But love is an archer with a low I.Q./ A bold, bad bowman, and innocent of pity./ So I'm in love with/ New York City."-Phyllis McGinley
3624) "Despite its difficulties, which became more obvious all the time, one was constantly put to the test by this city, which finally came down to its people; no other place in America had quite such people, and they would not allow you to go stale; in the end they were its triumph and its reward."-Willie Morris
3625) "Most human beings are driven to seek security and comfort. But there is another group that can only thrive on change and the unexpected of New York."-Cathleen Nesbit
3626) "'Been in the city long?' inquired the New Yorker, getting ready for the exact tip against the waiter's coming with large change from the bill. 'Me?' said the man from Topaz City. 'Four days. Never been in Topaz City, was you?' 'I!' said the New Yorker. 'I was never further west than Eighth Avenue. I had a brother who died on Ninth, but I met the cortege at Eighth…I cannot say that I am familiar with the West.'"-O. Henry
3627) "…the true New Yorker's secret belief that people living anywhere else had to be, in some sense, kidding."-John Updike
3628) "If you are confused ask somebody. New Yorkers are very helpful. However, the first person you ask will give you the wrong answer. So ask loudly enough that others will overhear and make corrections. New Yorkers love to correct each other."-George Weller
3629) "The beautiful city, the city of hurried and sparkling waters! the city of spires and masts!/ The City nested in bays! my city!/ The city of such women, I am mad with them! I will return after death to be with them!/ The city of such young men, I swear I cannot live happy without I often go talk, walk, eat, drink, sleep with them!"-Walt Whitman
3630) "A little girl walked out one day and said woe is me/ Things just aren't the way I thought they'd be/ So please don't make me turn 30, don't make me turn 16/ If the rest of life is anything like what I've seen/ Cause I know that I'm a goner and I know it won't be long/ Cause I see on every billboard they tell me I'm all wrong/ They say you're taking too much time girl, you take up too much space/ You better stake yourself a claim before you lose that face/ But I see you and you're different and to me you look so free,/ You live your life the way you think it ought to be/ And your body's not a prison or a weapon or a curse/ You say 'I'm gonna love each passing year for better or worse'/ When I grow up I want to be like you, marylou/ When I grow up I want to be like you/ I want to be a wise woman and a little girl too/ When I grow up I want to be like marylou/ The little girl said 'they tell me, boys will be boys,/ You gotta let them take the wheel and let them make the noise,/ You gotta let them keep believing you’re underneath their thumb/ Cause they won’t cause you so much trouble if you learn to play dumb.'/ But I see you and you're smiling, living on your own/ Your paintbrush and your poems and you'll never be alone/ You've got work to sustain you, you've got friends to hold your hands/ You say 'life is just as beautiful as I think I can stand'/ A little girl said 'well tell me, can this be,/ Can the world be asking so much of me?/ To give up my own body, my dreams and my name,/ To give my hands to carrying the whole world's shame?'/ But you're not your father's keeper, you're not your mother’s pain,/ You're not your brother's anger or your sister's rain,/ You're not your lover's chew toy and you're not the world's excuse,/ You say 'my life just got so beautiful the day I turned it loose'"-Kris Delmhorst, "Marylou"
3631) "Criticism never yet built a house, wrote a play, painted a picture, nor built a business."
3632) "I praise loudly; I blame softly."-Catherine II
3633) "The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is 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
3634) "I observe that there are two entirely different theories according to which individual men seek to get on in the world. One theory leads a man to pull down everybody around him in order to climb up on them to a higher place. The other leads a man to help everybody around him in order that he may go up with them."-Elihu Root
3635) "It hurt me a little bit to stand there and lie. Sometimes truth was a bandy-legged soul who dashed from one side of the world to the other and I could never find him."-James McBride, The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
3636) "There's such a big difference between being dead and alive, I told myself, and the greatest gift that anyone can give anyone else is life. And the greatest sin a person can do to another is to take away that life. Next to that, all the rules and religions in the world are secondary; mere words and beliefs that people choose to believe and kill and hate by."-James McBride, The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
3637) "Sometimes without conscious realization, our thoughts, our faith, our interests are entered into the past. We talk about other times, other places, other persons, and lose our living hold on the present. Sometimes we think if we could just go back in time we would be happy. But anyone who attempts to reenter the past is sure to be disappointed. Anyone who has ever revisited the place of his birth after years of absence is shocked by the differences between the way the place actually is, and the way he has remembered it. He may walk along old familiar streets and roads, but he is a stranger in a strange land. He has thought of this place as home, but he finds he is no longer here even in spirit. He has gone on to a new and different life, and in thinking longingly of the past, he has been giving thought and interest to something that no longer really exists."-Andrew McBride, as quoted by James McBride, The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
3638) "Smoking is certainly one of the oddest and stupidest human idiosyncrasies. Why did anyone think a camel is a good product image for a cigarette? I think each one is the equivalent tar of smoking an actual Camel. I love the ad campaign they had a few years ago on their anniversary, '75 years and still smoking.' Well, not everybody. I think there might be a few empty chairs at that birthday bash. Maybe the appeal is the fire. There's something very scary and exciting about fire. People always run to see a fire. They're very proud that they have a fireplace. This is what smoking is really all about. The power of 'I've got some fire right here in my hand. Smoke and fire is literally coming right out of my mouth.' And it's very intimidating to the nonsmoker because it's like talking to someone who's going, 'My head could open up, lava could explode out, pour right down my face, doesn't bother me a bit.'"-Jerry Seinfeld, SeinLanguage
3639) "I'm on the plane, we left late, and the pilot says, 'We're going to be making up some time in the air.' I thought, 'Isn't that interesting. They just make up time.' That's why you have to reset your watch when you land. Of course, when they say they're making up time, obviously they're increasing the speed of the aircraft. Now my question it, if you can go faster, why don't you just go as fast as you can all the time? 'Come on, there's no cops up here! Nail it! Give it some gas! We're flying!'"-Jerry Seinfeld, SeinLanguage
3640) "To me, the most annoying thing about the couple of times that I worked in an office is that when you show up in the morning you say 'hi' to everyone and then for some reason, you have to continue to greet these people all day every time you see them. You walk in at the start of the day, 'Morning, Bill, morning, Bob. How are you doing?' 'Fine.' Ten minutes later you see them in the hall, again you say, 'How you doing?' Now, I already know how he's doing, I just saw him, he told me how he's doing. But you've got to keep coming up with different little greetings. You start coming up with nicknames for them. . . . ' Jimbo.' You do the little smile with the head raise. The almost imperceptible beneath-the-breath 'Hey' with a half-smile. If it's a narrow passageway, thank God now you can say, 'Excuse me.' But it has to have a very friendly singsong quality. You kind of go up a note on the 'me.' If you feel more familiar, 'Tight squeeze' is popular. When walking by a group of 3 or more men, 'Gentlemen' is often used to confer an air of sophistication that is always misplaced. Day-of-the-week references are always good, especially Monday or Friday because of the obligatory emotions that are assumed to go with them. Any mention of weekend seems to comfort people. 'Good weekend?' 'Have a good weekend?' People like anything with weekend in it. Thursday's good for 'One more day,' which usually prompts the easy 'You said it' rejoinder. Wednesday, 'Humpday.' 'That it is.' We should all agree that we're just going to say, 'Acknowledge' as we pass people in the halls. You know, just walk by, 'Acknowledge, acknowledge.' We'll become Vulcans for four seconds and not have to wrack our brains every time we just want to go to the bathroom."-Jerry Seinfeld, SeinLanguage
3641) "If you observe a really happy man, you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that had rolled under the radiator, striving for it as the goal itself. He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of each day."-W. Beran Wolfe
3642) "There are many different jobs for cops these days. It seems to me that Chalk Outline Guy is one of the better jobs that you can get. It's not too dangerous, the criminals are long gone—that seems like a good one. I don't know who these guys are. I guess they're people who wanted to be sketch artists but they couldn't draw too well. 'Uh, listen Johnson, forget the sketches, do you think if we left the dead body right there on the sidewalk, you could manage to trace around it? Could you do that?' I don't even know how that helps them solve the crime. They look at the thing on the ground, 'Oh, his arm was like that when he hit the pavement, that means that the killer must have been . . . Jim.'"-Jerry Seinfeld, SeinLanguage
3643) "People love to recommend their doctor to you. I don't know what they get out of it, but they really push them on you. 'Is he good?' 'He's the best. This guy's the best.' There can't be that many 'bests.' Someone's graduating at the bottom of these classes. Where are these doctors? Is someone saying to their friend, 'You should see my doctor, he's the worst. He's the absolute worst there is. Whatever you've got, it'll be worse after you see him. The man's an absolute butcher.' And whenever a friend refers a doctor they say, 'Make sure you tell him that you know me.' Why? What's the difference? He's a doctor. 'Oh, you know Bob? Oh, okay, I'll give you the real medicine. Everybody else I'm giving Tic Tacs."-Jerry Seinfeld, SeinLanguage
3644) "As much as people will persist, normality does not exist."-ShorTTy
3645) "Nature delights in diversity. Why don't human beings?"-Lola Cola, "Southern Comfort"
3646) "In my travels I am commonly asked if I think college stifles young writers, in my opinion it doesn't stifle enough of them."-Flannery O'Connor
3647) "Life's paths can easily be compared to deciding between two different kinds of chocolate candies. I mean, there is the plain one, but it is rich with chocolate. You know that it's really good, that it will leave you satisfied. But then there's the one with the cherry filling. It's so tempting. You've never tried a cherry one before. What should you go for? The plain one is familiar to you, you know exactly what it tastes like; you know it's good. There is absolutely no risk involved. But the cherry is so appealing. It's new and exciting! What do you choose? Is there really a right answer here? I don't think anyone knows for sure, but I have come to one conclusion from all of this: Don't pick coconut. Trust me on that. It's really nasty, and you'll never get the taste out of your mouth."-Priscilla Points
3648) "Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You name them--work, family, health, friends and spirit and you're keeping all of these in the air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls--family, health, friends and spirit--are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged, or even shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for balance in your life. How? Don't undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is because we are different that each of us is special. Don't set your goals by what other people deem important. Only you know what is best for you. Don't take for granted the things closest to your heart. Cling to them as they would your life, for without them, life is meaningless. Don't let your life slip through your fingers by living in the past or for the future. By living your life one day at a time, you live ALL the days of your life. Don't give up when you still have something to give. Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying. Don't be afraid to admit that you are less than perfect. It is this fragile thread that binds us to each together. Don't be afraid to encounter risks. It is by taking chances that we learn how to be brave. Don't shut love out of your life by saying it's impossible to find time. The quickest way to receive love is to give; the fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly; and the best way to keep love is to give it wings. Don't run through life so fast that you forget not only where you've been, but also where you are going. Don't forget, a person's greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated. Don't be afraid to learn. Knowledge is weightless, a treasure you can always carry easily. Don't use time or words carelessly. Neither can be retrieved. Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored each step of the way."-Bryan Dyson, CEO of Coca Cola
3649) "Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it."-William Durant, founder of General Motors
3650) "I come from a place where breath, eyes, and memory are one, a place from where you carry your past like the hair on your head. Where women return to their children as butterflies or as tears in the eyes of the statues that their daughters pray to. My mother was as brave as stars at dawn. She too was from this place. My mother was like that woman who could never bleed and then could never stop bleeding, the one who gave in to her pain, to live as a butterfly. Yes, my mother was like me."-Edwidge Danticat, Breath, Eyes, Memory
3651) Because whether it's a flower or a face, beauty is that pang in your stomach from knowing that something never will be the same as it is right this moment. And that it never was the same in the first place."-Jane Pratt
3652) "If I could do it over I'd still do what I do, wish old things were new."-Merle Haggard
3653) "You can understand and relate to most people better if you look at them, no matter how old or impressive they may be, as if they are children. For most of us never really grow up or mature all that much--we simply grow taller. Oh, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales."-Leo Rosten
3654) "Have you ever seen The Never Ending Story? I think it might have actually been in the sequel but if you have, remember that thing called 'the nothing' that wanted to ruin everything and make the world entirely obsolete? I feel like I have one of those babies operating in my life, like there is something out there trying really hard to suck me dry and put an end to me, and I am trying really hard not to let this thing kill me but somehow I just can't break this funk and fight whatever it is that won't let me see things clearly or put stupid shit into perspective. I hope you are all thrilled with life and that you never have a 'nothing' that makes you love or wants to hurt you or make you feel like the majority of your days have been in pursuit of the nonexistent."
3655) "Is this how we lived, then? But we lived as usual. Everyone does, most of the time. Whatever is going on is as usual. Even this is as usual, now."-Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
3656) "It's impossible to say a thing exactly the way it was, because what you say can never be exact, you always have to leave something out, there are too many parts, sides, crosscurrents, nuances; too many gestures, which could mean this or that, too many shapes which can never be fully described, too many flavors, in the air or on the tongue, half-colors, too many."-Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
3657) "What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you live with your face squashed against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close-ups, hairs, the weave of a bedsheet, the molecules of the face. Your own skin like a map, a diagram of futility, crisscrossed with tiny roads that lead nowhere. Otherwise you live in the moment. Which it not where I want to be."-Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
3658) "I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood."-Audre Lorde
3659) "A friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can sit with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing, and face us with the reality of our powerlessness. That is a friend who cares."-Henri Nouwen
3660) "Character cannot be developed through ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."
3661) "A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic."-Joseph Stalin
3662) "I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning."-J.B. Priestly
3663) "Lisa: Guess what? Adrian told me that I get an 'A' for my personality! Adrian: What I said was that she has a Type A personality!"-Lisa Vicens and Adrian Majid
3664) "I searched through rebellion, drugs, diets, mysticism, religions, intellectualism and much more, only to begin to find...that truth is basically simple—and feels good, clean and right."-Chick Corea
3665) "It was generally agreed that a coffin-sized studio on Avenue D was preferable to living in one of the boroughs. Moving from one Brooklyn or Staten Island neighborhood to another was fine, but unless you had children to think about, even the homeless saw it as a step down to leave Manhattan."-David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day
3666) "In other parts of the country people tried to stay together for the sake of the children. In New York they tried to work things out for the sake of the apartment."-David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day
3667) "If you happen to live there, it's always refreshing to view Manhattan from afar. Up close the city constitutes an oppressive series of staircases, but from a distance it inspires fantasies of wealth and power so profound that even our communists are temporarily rendered speechless."-David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day
3668) "… [I] recall thinking that the computer would never advance much further than this. Call me naïve, but I seemed to have underestimated the universal desire to sit in a hard plastic chair and stare at a screen until your eyes cross."-David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day
3669) "How nice is campus when it's sunny out? People are throwing frisbees and walking dogs and laying out on the green and shit. I love when tours of prospective students come around and they're all like, wow, is it always like this? I just wanna be like, yeah, except from October to March when it's cold and miserable and no one leaves the house."-Aaron Karo
3670) "If you want to conquer fear, don't sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy."-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
3671) "It's kind of fun to do the impossible."-Walt Disney
3672) "Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest."-Mark Twain
3673) "Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything."-Joseph Stalin
3674) "I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it."-Jack Handey
3675) "One day you're the statue. One day you're the pigeon."-Diane Sawyer
3676) "Just because the person who criticizes you is an idiot doesn't make him wrong."-Roger Rosenblatt
3677) "There are no stupid questions, but there are a lot of inquisitive idiots."-E. L. Kersten, chief operating officer of Despair, Inc.
3678) "You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud puddle."-Gertrude Stein
3679) "I am the taste in the water, the light of the sun and the moon, the sound in the ether, the ability in man, the fragrance of the earth, the heat in the fire, the life of all that lives, the strength of the strong, the intelligence of the intelligent, and the original seed of all existences."-Bhagavad Gita
3680) "Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' But conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but because conscience tells one it is right."-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
3681) "There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts."-George Matthew Adams
3682) "A child blind from birth doesn’t know he’s blind until someone tells him. Even then he has only the most academic idea of what blindness is; only the formerly sighted have a real grip on the thing."
3683) "Style is what sets a champion apart. They are crazy-brave, they do things that would get any other man killed but they walk away laughing. When you see the style of a champion, you recognize it, it’s like a glowing inside him."
3684) "The fear of death is the shadow of the fear of life."-Master Kan
3685) "You have done me a great service. To thank you with words would be to cheapen the gift."-Caine
3686) "If you go deeply enough into your own idiom, it's inevitable that you come up in other people."-Howard Thurman, quoted in Alice Walker's Possessing the Secret of Joy
3687) "I'm an optimist not because I think the world will survive; I'm an optimist because I have been privileged to see some of the moments of personal triumph in the world. I've seen people transform themselves through great struggle, and I've seen them become fascinating and beautiful when they might have been only exhausted and pitiable."-Alice Walker, Possessing the Secret of Joy
3688) "I am thinking about nothing. I am thinking about nothing. Yes, it's possible to think about nothing. It doesn't always have to be about you."-Melissa Ferrick
3689) "To be lost is only a failure of memory."-Margaret Atwood, "A Boat"
3690) "In becoming forcibly and essentially aware of my mortality, and of what I wished and wanted for my life, however short it might be, priorities and omissions became strongly etched in a merciless light, and what I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid? To question or to speak as I believed could have meant pain, or death. But we all hurt in so many different ways, all the time, and pain will either change, or end. Death, on the other hand, is the final silence. And that might be coming quickly, now, without regard for whether I had ever spoken what needed to be said, or had only betrayed myself into small silences, while I planned someday to speak, or waited for someone else's words. And I began to recognize a source of power within myself that comes from the knowledge that while it is most desirable not to be afraid, learning to put fear into a perspective gave me great strength. I was going to die, if not sooner then later, whether or not I had ever spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made to speak those truths for which I am still seeking, I had made contact with other women while we examined the words to fit a world in which we all believed, bridging our differences. And it was the concern and caring of all those women which gave me strength and enabled me to scrutinize the essentials of my living."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
3691) "We can learn to work and speak when we are afraid in the same way we have learned to work and speak when we are tired. For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us. The fact that we are here and that I speak now these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
3692) "Surrounded by other women day by day, all of whom appear to have two breasts, it is very difficult sometimes to remember that I AM NOT ALONE. Yet once I face death as a life process, what is there possibly for me to fear? Who can ever really have power over me again?"-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
3693) "Peace is not the absence of conflict, but a way of being in conflict."-Claude Anshin Thomas
3694) "What I came to realize is that I don't really care if we have been independent for 225 years, I kind of wish we had stayed with the Brits so we could all have great accents."-Eliza Jacobs
3695) "We live in a world between proverbs. On one side is 'He who hesitates is lost', and the other is 'Look before you leap'. Happiness is living in the middle, but occasionally venturing closer to one side or the other."-Michael 'O' Dunham
3696) "The reverse side also has a reverse side."
3697) "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
3698) "If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work."-William Shakespeare
3699) "A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in."-Robert Orben
3700) "The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page."-Saint Augustine