501) "He who saves one life saves the world entire."-the Talmud
502) "Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death."-Auntie Mame
503) "[Veblen] once asked a religious student the value of her church in kegs of beer..."-Robert L. Heilbrower, The Worldy Philosophers
504) "You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge. And if you project forward from that pattern, then sometimes you can come up with something."-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
505) "Schools teach you to imitate. If you don't imitate what the teacher wants you get a bad grade...you were supposed to imitate the teacher in such a way as to convince the teacher you were not imitating, but taking the essence of the instruction and going ahead with it on your own. That got you A's. Originality on the other hand could get you anything--from A to F."-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
506) "We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives."-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
507) "...the well troden path is often safe and familiar, but not very exciting."-University of South Carolina brochure
508) "...reality is not only what you see on the surface; it has magical dimensions as well and, if we so desire, it is legitimate to enhance it or color it to make our journey through life less trying."-Isabel Allende, Eva Luna
509) "All these Americans up in special cities in the sky/ Dumping poisons and explosives/ Across Asia first,/ And next North America,/ A war against earth./ When it's done there'll be/ no place/ A coyote could hide./ I would like to say/ Coyote is forever/ Inside you,/ But it's not true."-Gary Snyder
510) "Pooh sidled up to Piglet from behind. 'Pooh,' he whispered. 'Yes Piglet?' 'Nothing,' said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. 'I just wanted to be sure of you.'"-A. A. Milne
511) "'Pooh, promise me you won't forget about me, ever. Not even when I am 100.' Pooh thought for a little. 'How old shall I be then?' '99.' Pooh nodded. 'I promise,' he said."-A. A. Milne
512) "I don't know how, I don't know when, but you and I will meet again."
513) "We're opposites" "I don't know what to do. We don't know what to do." "That's not true. I do."-Peter Taylor and Paul Jeffries
514) "I will be brief. Not nearly as brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said, 'I will be so brief I have already finished,' and he sat down."-Edward O. Wilson
515) "We do not love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we have done them."-Leo Tolstoy
516) "Colors represent diversity./ Unions represent friendship./ Imperfections represent life."-Andrea Lipman, "The Blanket of Love"
517) "That's like taking me to the top of a hill, showing me the world, and then marching me back down, saying, 'Look, Bennie, that's what you can't have!'"-Bennie in Circle of Friends
518) "It is important to realize that in 1885, [nigger] did not mean the same thing. What was Twain supposed to do, call them African-Americans?"-David Bradley on Huckleberry Finn
519) "What a phrase that is: 'that explains everything!' I know better than to think anything 'explains everything' today."-John Irving, A Prayer For Owen Meany
520) "When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time--the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes--when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feelings that she's gone, forever--there comes another day, and another specifically missing part."-John Irving, A Prayer For Owen Meany
521) "Cowards die many times before their deaths;/ The valiant never taste of fear but once."-William Shakespeare
522) "Of all the wonders that I have yet heard,/ It seems to me the most strange that mean should fear;/ Seeing that death, a necessary end,/ Will come when it will come."-William Shakespeare
523) "...it's better to be born lucky than rich. If you're rich, you may lose your money, but if you're born lucky, you will always have more money."-D. H. Lawrence
524) "Assumptions are the termites of relationships."-Henry Winkler
525) "Be careful what you swallow. Chew!"-Gwendolyn Brooks
526) "No one ever travels so high as he who knows not where he is going."-Cromwell
527) "Nothing ever happens if you don't show up."
528) "You hate me because I get you drunk, but you like me because I stick around to watch you throw up."-Roy (?)
529) "The temple bells stops./ But the sound keeps coming/ out of the flowers."-Basho
530) "I am 65 years old, I own 100 acres of land that is paid for, I am a taxpayer and I have six children. All of them is teachin', workin'...If what I done ain't enough to be a registered voter...then Lord have mercy on America."-a Black man in Selma, Alabama to the voting registrar
531) "'Twixt optimist and pessimist/ The difference is droll;/ The optimist sees the doughnut,/ The pessimist, the hole."-McLandburgh Wilson
532) "begin my studies with the paper and this pencil and i'm working through the grammar of my fears."-Emily Saliers, "Language or the Kiss"
533) "we act empty and innocent but we are fueled by distortions of lives led in discontent trading misfortunes cause faith is one thing that is hard to deliver it feels funny being free."-Amy Ray, "Reunion"
534) "Well darkness has a hunger that's insatiable/ And lightness has a call that's hard to hear/ I wrap my fear around me like a blanket/ I sailed my ship of safety till I sank it/ I'm crawling on your shore."-Emily Saliers, "Closer to Fine"
535) "So round and round you go, spinning mental wheels and nowhere finding anyplace to get traction. What the hell...is it?"-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
536) "And what it all comes down to is that I haven't got it all figured out just yet."-Alanis Morisette, "One Hand in My Pocket"
537) "Turns out not where but who you're with That really matters."-Dave Matthews, "The Best of What's Around"
538) "A slave is he who cannot think his thought."-Euripedes
539) "The greater the suffering depicted, the more terrible the events, the more intense our pleasure."-Edith Hamiliton
540) "People who talk well but do nothing are like musical intruments; the sound is all they have to offer."-Diogenes, the cynic
541) "It's like seeing the best gift you could ever ask for, yet not knowing if you are allowed to open it and take advantage of what it has to offer."-Colleen Henry about Northwestern
542) "And then I'll sing and dance I'll play for you tonight The thrill of it all Dark cloud may hang on me sometimes But I'll work it out."-Dave Matthews
543) "Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul."-Henry David Thoreau
544) "Parents can only give advice or put them on the right track, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands."-Anne Frank
545) "One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it."-Helen Hayes
546) "If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away."-John Steinback
547) "Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose."-Billie Holiday
548) "Believe that your life is worth living and your beliefs will help create the fact."-William James
549) "Those who sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside."-John F. Kennedy
550) "Older men declare wars. But it is the younger men who must fight the wars and give their lives."-Herbert Hoover
551) "Can God create a stone so large even He can't lift it?"
552) "A cigarette is a roll of paper, tobacco, and drugs, with a small fire on one end and a large fool at the other. Some of its chief benefits are cancer of the lips and stomach, softening of the brain, funeral procesions, and families shrouded in gloom and grief. Although a great many people know this, they still smoke in order to appear sophisticated."-Ann Landers's reader
553) "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."-Wayne Gretzky
554) "You have to laugh at yourself because you'd cry your eyes out if you didn't."-Emily Saliers
555) "...genius has a way of cropping up in uexpected places..."-editors of Hamlet
556) "Mom-can we trade?/ Your Beatles/ For my/ Guns N' Roses/ Your Volkswagon bus/ For my/ 4x4 Blazer/ Your marijuana/ For my/ Crack/ Your pregnancy/ For my/ AIDS/ Your mother and father/ For my/ Father, his new wife and my half-sister/ Your generation/ in exchange for mine/ What do you say Mom-/ Can we trade?/ I didn't think so."-Lisa McDaniel, "Generations"
557) "Yesterday, everyone ran off the table/ and fell into a friendship,/ leaving me here alone./ The greatest sin is lonliness,/ but what can be done/ when a jigsaw piece/ is put in the wrong box?/ Next time, the puzzle makes no sense,/ and that piece won't fit in./ No matter how hard it tries,/ it never will./ But to be alone/ is only one small battle/ of this age./ Still, where is my box?"-Katy Askham, "I Should Have Jumped"
558) "Oh.-- I just today remembered/ How your hand/ Fits the curve of my waist/ And how your smile/ Fits the curve of my mind."-Juliana Shortell
559) "I like/ my music/ just loud enough/ to/ drown out/ my/ singing."-Megan Denny, "Glad Ya Asked"
560) "Sometimes someone says something really small, and it just fits right into this empty place in your heart."-Angela on My So-Called Life
561) "The old lady in 'Murder She Wrote' never thinks it's her fault, but every time she goes to dinner parties, someone dies. After a while, you've got to think, 'Hey!'"-"Caroline in the City"
562) "Do I get up some days and feel competitive? Sure. Do I get up some days and feel afraid? Of course. But...I have real moments of joy now, and I know it will continue."-Rene Russo
563) "Thank you for Not Smoking--Cigarette smoking is the residue of your pleasure. It comtaminates the air, pollutes my hair and clothes, not to mention my lungs. This takes place without my comsent. I have a pleasure, also. I like a beer now and then. The residue of my pleasure is urine. Would you be annoyed if I stood on a chair and pissed on your head and your clothes without your consent?"-sign from Ken's Magic Shop
564) "...there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."-William Shakespeare
565) "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."-Thomas Jefferson
566) "If you can't trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child?"
567) "No woman is required to build the world by destroying herself."-Rabbi Sofer
568) "...Linda applied for a camp job and was told there were no other black counselors: 'That's okay,' she said, 'I'm not prejudiced.'"-Carol Saline
569) "My sisters have taught me how to live."-Georgette Wasserstein
570) "A man breaking his journey between one place and another at a third place of no name, character, population or significance, sees a unicorn cross his path and disappear. That in itself is startling, but there are precedents for mystical encounters of various kinds, or to be less extreme, a choice of persuasions to put it down to fancy; until--'My God,' says a second man, 'I must be dreaming, I thought I saw a unicorn.' At which point, a dimension is added that makes the experience as alarming as it will ever be. A third witness, you understand, adds no further dimension but only spreads it thinner, and a fourth thinner still, and the more witnesses there are the thinner it gets and the more reasonable it becomes until it is as thin as reality, the name we give to the common experience...'Look, look!' recites the crowd. 'A horse with an arrow in its forehead! It must have been mistaken for a deer.'...I'm sorry it wasn't a unicorn. It would have been nice to have unicorns."-Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
571) "A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty--and, by which definition, a philosopher--dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; in his two-fold security."-Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
572) "Uncertainty is the normal state. You're nobody special...Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life questioning at every turn...Act natural."-Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
573) "No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them."-magazine ad
574) "I don't know why parents lie to their kids. Children know. Always."-Mrs. Hardy (patient's daughter) on "ER"
575) "What a fine persecution--to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened..."-Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
576) "I could keep it above, But then it wouldn't be sky anymore. So, if I give it to you, you've got to promise to keep it whole."-Michael Stipe, "Fall on Me"
577) "All good teaching is theft."-Mr. Whittemore
578) "This flower is scorched/ This film is on a maddening loop/ These clothes don't fit us right/ And I'm all to blame/ It's all the same/ It's all the same."-Michael Stipe, "Country Feedback"
579) "My words fly up, my thoughts remain below;/ Words without thoughts never to heaven go."-William Shakespeare
580) "Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
581) "Don't go chasing waterfalls./ Please stick to the river and the lakes that you're used to."-TLC, "Waterfalls"
582) "O sibili si ergo,/ fortibuses in ero./ Nobili demis trux:/ sewatis enim?/ Cowsen dux!"
583) "It's not the size of the boat; it's the motion in the ocean."
584) "...time sweeps us along and puts us in a certain place, where we're faced with one option or another, or with the option of not quite deciding yet. By chance, and by the choices we make, we leave behind us whole other lives that we could have lived, full of a different type of passion and joy, and with a different set of problems and disappointments."-Lisa Bain
585) "To whom it may concern: Walk away smilling--You could be dead."
586) "Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it."-Goethe
587) "Love sought is good, but given unsought is better."-William Shakespeare
588) "We make promises to the extent that we hope--and keep them to the extent that we fear."-La Rochefoucauld
589) "If we had no faults, we should not take such pleasure in calling attention to other people's."-La Rochefoucauld
590) "It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them."-La Rochefoucauld
591) "A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove...but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child."
592) "The colors spill together/ But too soon they segregate/ They come out of blissful oblivion/ And realize that they cannot exist in such agony and fear of the world/ So they decide to conform/ And they hesitantly form the rainbow/ Each curve seems to fit perfectly/ But the picture as a whole is blurred and forced/ The vision is beautiful to the ignorant eye/ And it is accepted and praised by all/ Yet the colors feel incredibly out of place."-Purvi Desai, "The Awkward Rainbow"
593) "The mind ought sometimes to be diverted, so that it may return the better to thinking."-Phaedrus
594) "Today is tomorrow's yesterday. Make it count."-Bazooka Joe
595) "Analysis produces paralysis."-Mr. Whittemore
596) "The past is not dead. It's not even past."-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
597) "The future becomes a yearning for the past."-Mr. Whittemore
598) "And I sat there getting drunker and drunker and more in love and more in love...And you can never touch a girl in the same way more than once, twice, or another number of times however much you may wish to hold, wrap, or otherwise fix her hand, or look, or some other quality, or incident, known to you previously."-Donald Barthelme
599) "Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle."-Will Durant
600) "The joys of life are/ Better than the angst of death.../ I'd rather be cool."-Becky Schwartz