4101) "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in seeing with new eyes."-Marcel Proust
4102) "If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room."-Anita Koddick
4103) "Right now I'm having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before."-Steven Wright
4104) "Jerry: Elaine, what percentage of people would you say are good looking? Elaine: Twenty-five percent. Jerry: Twenty-five percent, you say? No way! It's like 4 to 6 percent. It's a twenty to one shot. Elaine: You're way off. Jerry: Way off? Have you been to the motor vehicle bureau? It's like a leper colony down there. Elaine: So what you are saying is that 90 to 95 percent of the population is undateable? Jerry: UNDATEABLE! Elaine: Then how are all these people getting together? Jerry: Alcohol."-Jerry Seinfeld and Elaine Benes on "Seinfeld"
4105) "Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well."-Vincent Van Gogh
4106) "To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god."-Jorge Luis Borges
4107) "As I sat around a Passover Seder table last week, we recited the ten plagues that God visited upon the Egyptians to punish Pharaoh for defying His will. This is something I never understood. Why didn't God just kill Pharaoh? Wouldn't that have been a lot easier? The Jews would have gotten to go free and no innocent cattle or first-born children would have had to die. I mean, come on God, eliminate the middleman."-Aaron Karo
4108) "Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces."-Sigmund Freud
4109) "It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others."-Sydney J. Harris
4110) "The future is frozen solidly in the form of the present."- Lewis Mumford, renowned urbanist, as a criticism of the design of the new UN building in the 1950s
4111) "Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes."-George Soros
4112) "If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart."-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian Novelist
4113) "Quarrel with a friend and you are both wrong."-Lao-Tzu, Chinese Philosopher, Co-founder of Taoism
4114) "On a day in which we celebrate the role of the independent judiciary in American democracy [the 50th Anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education], the President said, 'The sacred institution of marriage should not be redefined by a few activist judges.' I say, Mr. President, you would not be living in the White House but for a 'few activist judges.' Likewise, without an independent judiciary, segregation would still be the law of many states, abortion and interracial marriages would still be illegal, and indigent persons accused of crime would have no have right to legal counsel."-Matt Foreman, Executive Director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
4115) "His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets."-Dorothy Parker
4116) "Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour."-Ovid
4117) "We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and at the 11th hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens."-(Justin) Brooks Atkinson
4118) "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."-Maya Angelou
4119) "In this journey through a life full of emotional baggage, it sure would be nice to only have a carry-on!"-Ziggy
4120) "I don’t get many things right the first time/ In fact, I am told that a lot/ Now I know all the wrong turns, the stumbles and falls/ Brought me here/ And where was I before the day/ That I first saw your lovely face?/ Now I see it everyday/ And I know/ That I am/ I am/ I am/ The luckiest/ What if I'd been born fifty years before you/ In a house on a street where you lived?/ Maybe I'd be outside as you passed on your bike/ Would I know?/ And in a white sea of eyes/ I see one pair that I recognize/ And I know/ That I am/ I am/ I am/ The luckiest/ I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you/ Next door there's an old man who lived to his nineties/ And one day passed away in his sleep/ And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days/ And passed away/ I'm sorry, I know that's a strange way to tell you that I know we belong/ That I know/ That I am/ I am/ I am/ The luckiest"-Ben Folds, "The Luckiest"
4121) "The funny thing about sleep is that it seldom accomplishes what we expect it to. Those who sleep in order to ease their tired eyes, wake up only to drag themselves out of bed and yawn the whole day through. Those who sleep in order to escape the unhappiness of their day, wake up to find it staring them in the face (or the heart) the very next morning."- Lucy Eberhard
4122) "The allure of love is to have someone who knows you so well that you don't have to explain yourself. It is the promise of someone who cares enough about you to protect you against the world of strangers who do not wish you well."-Deborah Tannen
4123) "Someday, someone will walk into your life and make you realize why it never worked with anyone else."
4124) "i mean even if i wanted to hate gay people i don't think i could fit it in amidst red sox games and masturbating and eating."-Dave
4125) "So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work."-Peter F. Drucker, German-American Business Consultant
4126) "I love the idea of singer-songwriters, but I also hate the idea of the singer-songwriter, because the association of that with sincerity is silly. Sincerity has no place in popular music, any more than it has in cooking. It just isn't an issue."-Stephin Merritt
4127) "The only reason I would take up jogging is so I could hear heavy breathing again."-Erma Bombeck, American Humorist
4128) "What I tell straight people in my stand-up is that if you watch Will & Grace but don't support gay marriage, then fuck you. Taking the flowers out of a culture without easing the burden of minority is like when white people took rock 'n' roll from black people in the '50s. 'I love that song, but please don't use that drinking fountain.'"-Margaret Cho
4129) "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."-William James
4130) "The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."-Dorothy Nevill
4131) "Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be."-Thomas A. Kempris
4132) "Politics is not religion and we should govern on the basis of evidence, not theology."-Bill Clinton
4133) "People have a way of forgiving and/or overlooking imperfections in people they're attracted to...part of dating and mating is making yourself vulnerable to another human being, putting your trust in them, and showing them your literal and figurative scars."-Dan Savage, "Savage Love"
4134) "Never play peekaboo with a child on a long plane trip. There's no end to the game. Finally I grabbed him by the bib and said, 'Look, it's always gonna be me!'"-Rita Rudner
4135) "They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for."-Thomas Edward Bodett, American Author, TV Host, Radio Commentator
4136) "Mr. Limbaugh announced last week that he and his wife are getting divorced after 10 years of marriage. Limbaugh is now three-for-three: three marriages, three divorces. If social conservatives like wee Gary Bauer are truly interested in protecting marriage, shouldn't they be pressing for some sort of 'three strikes' law that protects marriage from heterosexuals like Limbaugh?"-Dan Savage, "Savage Love"
4137) "We look at reality backward, but we live it forward....once people reach the age of accountability, no matter what people do to them, that is not an excuse for any mistakes they make. On the other hand, only a fool does not seek to understand why he or she makes the mistakes they make."-Bill Clinton, Time
4138) "What if we chose the wrong religion? We're just making God madder and madder every Sunday."-Homer Simpson
4139) "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 on a hot stove lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore."-Mark Twain
4140) "It's so weird that these [modern] theists, these cranks—whatever you want to call them—are so antiscience, yet so willing to reap the benefits. They're so willing to give everything to God, but they're not willing to suffer polio. George Bush said something like, 'Life is created by God. It's not for man to manipulate.' Which is interesting, because, if it were up to God, no one in his cabinet would be alive. God wants us dead! Put us out in the wild and the life span of a human being is, like, 24. Half the kids die in childbirth. That's the weird thing about Bush: As long as we're not using fetal material, everything else is 'natural.' What are you talking about?! Your hair isn't natural, you retarded motherfucker! This isn't the way God wanted you to look. God wants you in the fucking grave!"-Penn Jillette
4141) "Summer is here again, along with its balance of sunshine and thunderstorms, memories of sadder and happier times. The circle comes around and I'm both dark and light about it. There is a certain joy in seeing how far one has come along this longish road; but there is also sorrow in leaving a point in time -- and a way of life -- where it fell. I wonder sometimes; are we only stretched thinner as the years and the miles move us further on? Remembering and growing; holding and letting go -- how to do this well? This is the journey I'm on now."-Tracy Grammer
4142) "We've come close to the edge on several occasions. But we've been seasoned by our crises, and we've managed to endure because at the core of our relationship is the vow. And love, yes: a passionate congruity, an exchange of emotional DNA. In the inner zone where reality and memory meet, we are each other's father and son. He's the lava in my light, the trick that keeps on ticking, the one who calms me when I cling to him at night."-Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice
4143) "I am the eye of the hurricane./ All around me is chaos./ Frustration and annoyance are lessons./ All obstacles are tools for learning."
4144) "However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."-Winston Churchill
4145) "Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. I am infinite. I contain multitudes."-Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself"
4146) "I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss."-Rita Mae Brown
4147) "i can’t believe, i can’t believe/ i can’t believe that this is happening the way they said it could/ i can’t believe that this is, this is me/ i feel you breathe, and i remember/ moving 'round the place, familiar yet peculiar/ i can't imagine, everything about you is so beautiful/ and i believe, everything about you makes me wonder/ could have been, you could have been most anyone/ you hurried by, i wonder why you never said you were the one/ could have been, could have been most anyone but/ could have been, you could have been most anyone but/ i can't believe this is happening to me/ you're the only one i feel, the one i see/ can't believe what i start to see in me/ and you are sure as that the only one the only one for me"-Grey Eye Glances, "The One"
4148) "Politicians do more funny things naturally than I can think of doing purposely."-Will Rogers
4149) "You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip."-Jonathan Carroll, Outside the Dog Museum
4150) "Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that."-Michael Leunig
4151) "To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage."-Lao Tzu
4152) "That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny."-Gloria Vanderbilt
4153) "To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it."-Benjamin Franklin
4154) "By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent."-Ralph Waldo Emerson
4155) "A good relationship has a pattern like a dance, and is built on some of the same rules. The partners do not need to hold on tightly, because they move confidently in the same pattern, intricate but gay and swift and free, like a country dance of Mozart's. To touch heavily would be to arrest the pattern and freeze the movement, to check the endlessly changing beauty of its unfolding. There is no place here for the possessive clutch, the clinging arm, the heavy hand, only the barest touch is assign. Now arm in arm, now face to face, now back to back - it does not matter which. Because they know they are partners moving to the same rhythm, creating a pattern together, and being invisibly nourished by it. The joy of such a pattern is not only the joy of creation or the joy of participation, it is also the joy of living in the moment. Lightness of touch and living in the moment are intertwined. When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom, in the sense that the dancers are free, barely touching as they pass, but partners in the same pattern. The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what was in nostalgia, nor forward to what it might be in dread or anticipation, but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now. Relationships must be like islands, one must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits - islands, surrounded and interrupted by the sea, and continually visited and abandoned by the tides."-Anne Morrow Lindbergh, "A Gift from the Sea"
4156) "The only completely consistent people are the dead."-Aldous Huxley
4157) "You know who I think the ultimate wingman is? Grandma. Seriously, the next time you go to the bar, I think you should take your grandma. Think about it. Your grandma will go up to anyone and just start talking. No one will make an excuse and walk away from your grandma because that'd be rude. And who better to hype you up to a chick than your grandma - who literally believes you are the greatest person in the world? Plus, your grandma will give you money for drinks and you won't even have to pay her back. But best of all, grandma is the best wingman because chances are she won't try to make a booty call and bail on you in the middle of the night. I mean, all the guys she knows are asleep...or dead."-Aaron Karo
4158) "Love isn't a feeling that sweeps you away...but a decision you make. It's also a lie two people tell each other, a myth they create together, because loving one person intensely, and being loved by them in return, makes the world a slightly less terrifying place. Love is also never perfect; no two people are perfect for each other, and every relationship has its shortcomings. To accept these things and still love someone is the path of the true idealist.... If all attaining love required was the search for the one person out there who was 'perfect' for you, then love would be easy -- particularly in the days of Internet search engines. As it is, real, lasting love is hard to find and hard to hold onto. But then, anything of value is, right?"-Dan Savage, "Savage Love"
4159) "If I do not fight bigotry wherever it is, bigotry is thereby strengthened. And to the degree that it is strengthened, it will, thereby, have the power to turn on me."-Bayard Rustin
4160) "It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision."-Helen Keller
4161) "Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."-Charles Dickens
4162) "With guys my own age we got through all our stories early on because we hadn't lived long enough to fill more. That's why everything went downhill from there—once you tell all your stories there's nothing left to do but dissect movies, reference Seinfeld episodes, and complain about your friends behind their backs."-Amy Sohn, My Old Man
4163) "I wanted to hate [my father] but I couldn't. He was intrusive, clueless and stagnated, self-hating, parasitic, and unemployed, and still I loved him. Maybe this was what family meant, that in the precise moments you felt most misunderstood and violated, you were angry not because of what your parents did but because you loved them in spite of it."-Amy Sohn, My Old Man
4164) "He who ascends to mountain-tops shall find/ The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow;/ He who surpasses or subdues mankind/ Must look down on the hate of those below. "-Lord Byron
4165) "Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight."-Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
4166) "Ultimately, though, I think voting is for most of us an act of faith -- faith that our government is still, despite all the deception and cynicism that corrupt modern politics, a government of, by, for the people. That elections have not yet been turned into a meaningless farce. And that democracy remains, as Churchill said, 'the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.'"-Jeff Jacoby, The Boston Globe
4167) "The arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice."-Martin Luther King, Jr.
4168) "When in despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have always been tyrants and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall."-Mahatma Gandhi
4169) "The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them."-George Bernard Shaw
4170) "Traveling down the Turnpike/ heading for the shore/ A thought just then occurred to me/ I never thought before/ I've been a lot of places/ Seen pictures of the rest/ But of all the places I can think of/ I like Jersey best./ Betting halls, shopping malls,/ good old Rutgers U,/ 47 shoes stores line Route 22/ The Meadowlands, the root beer stands/ Main Street Hackensack;/ I may leave for a week or two/ But I'm always coming back./ The Pinelands and the Vinelands/ Seaside Heights Margate/ You can have Miami/ I love the Garden State/ I've been a lot of places/ Seen pictures of the rest/ But of all the places I can think of/ I like Jersey best./ We have horses, Princeton courses,/ Gas stations we have scores/ Trenton, Hopewell, Lake Hopatcong,/ Mantoloking Shores;/ Some states have their rock stars,/ But Springsteen beats them all -- / And our beautiful arena has/ Brendan Byrne carved on the wall./ Lots of dineries, oil refineries,/ Our highways make you cough,/ But Spring Lake Heights and Belmar/ Are places to get off./ Drinking spots and used car lots/ Make the place just grand,/ If you want to pay a visit,/ Newark Airport's where you land./ Philly dogs like Chili dogs/ They eat in Cherry Hill/ Woodbridge they make Haagen Dazs/ I can't get my fill/ Saddle River ain't chopped liver/ Nor is Lavallette/ There are no Jersey strangers,/ Just friends we haven't met./ The Jersey Nets went thataway, Piscataway/ No more, had another winning season/ And next year they'll win more;/ Our Giants could go all the way/ If they could win just one,/ But the parties in the lots/ Before the games are really fun./ Our famous Parkway is the darkway/ Home from Manasquan/ You'd think for all those quarters/ They'd turn the road lights on/ And have no pity, Jersey City/ Once again will shine,/ With Holmdel, Cape May, Highland Park/ I like our state just fine./ The Pinelands and the Vinelands/ Seaside Heights Margate/ You can have Miami/ I love the Garden State/ I've seen a lot of places/ Seen pictures of the rest/ But of all the places/ I can think of, I like Jersey Best!"-Joseph Edward Cosgriff, "I Like Jersey Best"
4171) "this is my song/ oh god of all the nations/ a song of peace/ for lands afar and mine/ this is my home/ the country where my heart is/ here are my hopes/ my dreams my holy shrine/ but other hearts/ in other lands are beating/ with hopes and dreams/ as true and high as mine/ my countries skies/ are bluer than the ocean/ and sunlight beams/ on clover leaf and pine/ but other lands/ have sunlight too and clover/ and skies are everywhere/ as blue as mine/ oh hear my song/ oh god of all the nations/ a song of peace/ for their land and for mine"-Jean Sibelius, English text by Lloyd Stone, "Finlandia"
4172) "A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness."-Bernard De Bovier De Fontenelle
4173) "Recently, Girlfriend and I tried planning a vacation. But the first time we can both really get away is February. This makes planning the trip a delicate situation. After all, we've only been dating for eight months. February is four months away. In essence, when I put down a deposit for the hotel, I'm also asking for a 50% advance on my relationship. Given my past credit history, that might not be such a smart move."-Aaron Karo
4174) "Why do we Americans insist on embarrassing ourselves? For instance, if I ever meet someone who is from anywhere in Europe, I invariably say, 'Oh, cool, I studied abroad in London.' Who the fuck cares? That's like me telling a Spaniard that I'm from the United States and him saying, 'Oh, bueno, I spent a weekend in Cleveland once.'"-Aaron Karo
4175) "I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing."-Anais Nin
4176) There's a fine, fine line between a lover and a friend./ There's a fine, fine line between reality and pretend./ You never know 'til you reach the top if it was worth the uphill climb./ There's a fine, fine line between love and a waste of time./ There's a fine, fine line between a fairy tale and a lie./ There's a fine, fine line between 'You're wonderful' and 'Goodbye.'/ I guess if someone doesn't love you back it isn't such a crime,/ But there's a fine, fine line between love and a waste of your time./ And I don't have the time to waste on you anymore./ I don't think that you even know what you're looking for./ For my own sanity, I've got to close the door and walk away./ There's a fine, fine line between together and not./ There's a fine, fine line between what you wanted and what you got./ You gotta go after the things you want while you're still in your prime./ There's a fine, fine line between love and a waste of time."-Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, "There's a Fine, Fine Line", Avenue Q
4177) "Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed change already. The universe is change; life is understanding."-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
4178) "I wish the politicians would start embracing the term 'liberal' instead of trying to run away from it. If liberal means standing up for people who need our help the most, call me a liberal! If liberal means working with the world, instead of against it, call me a liberal! It's not such a bad word."-Brad Becker
4179) "Only when one is connected to one's inner core is one connected to others. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be re-found through solitude."-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
4180) "Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other."-Brian Tracy
4181) "Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go it's pretty damn good."-Woody Allen
4182) "All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest, never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership."-Ann Landers
4183) "More than the greatest love the world has known/ This is the love I'll give to you alone./ More than the simple words I try to say/ I only live to love you more each day./ More than you'll ever know/ My arms long to hold you so,/ My life will be in your keeping/ Waking… sleeping... laughing... weeping.../ Longer than always is a long long time/ But far beyond forever you'll be mine,/ I know I never lived before/ And my heart is very sure/ No one else could love you more./ I know I never lived before/ And my heart is very sure/ No one else could love you more/ I know I never lived before/ And my heart is very sure./ No one else could love you more"-Marcello Ciorciolin, translated from Italian by Norman Newell
4184) "[Pinot]’s a hard grape to grow. As you know. It’s thin-skinned, temperamental, ripens early. It’s not a survivor like Cabernet that can grow anywhere and thrive even when neglected. Pinot needs constant care and attention and in fact can only grow in specific little tucked-away corners of the world. And only the most patient and nurturing growers can do it really, can tap into Pinot’s most fragile, delicate qualities. Only when someone has taken the time to truly understand its potential can Pinot be coaxed into its fullest expression. And when that happens, its flavors are the most haunting and brilliant and subtle and thrilling and ancient on the planet."-Miles in "Sideways"
4185) "Still, even small deceits exact a cost. The more we lie, the more likely we are to suspect that we are being lied to, with the consequential decline in the trust that makes social interactions possible."-Randy Cohen, "The Ethicist", The New York Times
4186) "Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and...confidence in ourselves."-Marie Curie
4187) "I'm sick to death of Jesus. I feel that Jesus and Paris Hilton are both overexposed. I've seen enough of both of them. And I think I'm getting more atheist because of the way the country is getting more into bible-thumping."-Kathy Griffin
4188) "Dubya [is] so utterly empty and blank eyed and falsely pious, he is but a lint speck on the coattails of time and you just know that you could poke him with your middle finger and all that would pour out would be sawdust and a bunch of tiny ball bearings."-Mark Morford, SFGate.com columnist
4189) "I never get tired of meeting new people, unless of course the new people are tiresome."-Michael Clem of Eddie From Ohio, Modern Guitars Magazine
4190) "One of the negative consequences of the computer age is you can date someone for three or four months and not know what their handwriting looks like. That's sad. It's an important ingredient in their personality, their penmanship."-Michael Clem of Eddie From Ohio, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
4191) "The last time I was inside a woman was when I went to the Statue of Liberty."-Woody Allen
4192) "There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing."-Lord Chesterfield
4193) "Our philosophy is best expressed, not in words, but in the choices one makes in daily living."-Eleanor Roosevelt
4194) "If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing."-Margaret Thatcher
4195) "How do you know that love is gone? If you said you would be there at seven, you get there by nine and he or she has not called the police yet - it's gone."-Marlene Dietrich
4196) "If I may be allowed to pursue the idea of 'addiction to oil,' I think the nation just reached the point where we sold our wedding ring for one night's fix."-Loni Sweet, Histopathologist, The Onion, in a satirical response to the question, "In a major political victory for President Bush, the Senate recently voted to open the Alaskan Arctic Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. What do you think?"
4197) "Days after unveiling new power-plant pollution regulations that rely on an industry-favored market-trading approach to cutting mercury emissions, EPA Acting Administrator Stephen Johnson announced that the agency will remove the "E" and "P" from its name. 'We're not really 'environmental' anymore, and we certainly aren't "protecting" anything,' Johnson said."-The Onion
4198) "What's maddening about this pope's signature gay bashing is this: When the pope—the dead one, the next one, the one after that—says something stupid about homosexuality, straight folks take it to heart. The church's efforts have helped defeat gay rights bills, led to the omission of gays and lesbians from hate-crime statutes, and helped to pass anti-gay-marriage amendments. But when a pope says something stupid about heterosexuality, straight Americans go deaf. And this pope had plenty to say about heterosexual sex—no contraceptives, no premarital sex, no blowjobs, no jerkin' off, no divorce, no remarriage, no artificial insemination, no blowjobs, no three-ways, no swinging, no blowjobs, no anal. Did I mention no blowjobs? John Paul II had more 'no's' for straight people than he did for gays. But when he tried to meddle in the private lives of straights, the same people who deferred to his delicate sensibilities where my rights were concerned suddenly blew the old asshole off. Gay blowjobs are expendable, it seems; straight ones are sacred."-Dan Savage, "Savage Love"
4199) "He was a wise man who originated the idea of God."-Euripides
4200) "Isn't that what America is for the immigrant? A place to begin forgetting. And what happens to the immigrant's son? He returns to his father's land to fix the amnesia."-Noel Alumit, The Out Traveler