601) "Laziness is cool./ When you are bored, do nothing./ It's fun anyway."-Nozomi Maeyama
602) "Teachers were kids once./ I'll bet they had sex and they/ Drank beer and smoked, too."-Becky Schwartz
603) "He lusts for the warmth/ Of his smoke-filled youth. He sighs,/ Dreaming of summer."-Becky Schwartz
604) "I drink your pain like/ Rain falling through the clouds of/ Your virginity."-Becky Schwartz
605) "Beeeep! Beeep! Hey, Nomi!/ Look! Your dirty Catholic friends/ Are in the driveway."-Becky Schwartz
606) "I wouldn't want to belong to any club that would want me as a member."-Groucho Marx
607) "together we watch a most languid light/ crush our sweet moon above/ through some mist after a whispering/ symphony/ I fall"-Colleen Henry
608) "If you can't accept anything on faith, then you're doomed for a life dominated by doubt."-Kris Kringle in "Miracle on 34th Street"
609) "We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity."-G. K. Creston
610) "We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world."-Helen Keller
611) "Do not fall into the trap of pretending everything is fine when you know that it is not."-Super Horoscope
612) "Destiny is something that we've invented because we can't stand that fact that everything we do is coincidental."-Sleepless in Seattle
613) "So does it blow and suck at the same time?"-Oprah Winfrey about tornadoes
614) "Boredom leads to perversion."
615) "Much truth is said in jest."
616) "I've done so much with so little for so long, now I can do anything with nothing."
617) "Too often we are scared./ Scared of what we might not be able to do./ Scared of what people might think if we tried./ We let fears stand in the way of our hopes./ We say no when we want to say yes./ We sit quietly when we want to scream./ And we shout with the others,/ When we should keep our mouths shut./ Why?/ After all,/ we do only go around once./ There's really no time to be afraid./ JUST DO IT."-Nike ad
618) "When friends date friends it/ Makes me laugh because my mom/ Doesn't understand."-Becky Schwartz
619) "Some folks like flogging./ I read The Joy of Sex so,/ Really, I should know."-Becky Schwartz
620) "Moms, moms, a circle/ Back to moms. We all go home/ To the womb; warm, safe."-Becky Schwartz
621) "I find sometimes it's easy to be myself/ Sometimes I find it's better to be somebody else."-Dave Matthews, "So Much To Say"
622) "I would go to heaven, if I believed in heaven."-Jill Sobule and Robin Eaton, "The Jig is Up"
623) "Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again after moments of lifetimes is certain for those again who are friends."-Richard Bach
624) "I don't expect you to understand after you've caused so much pain, but then again--you're not to blame; you're just human--a victim of the insane."-John Lennon
625) "Can miles separate you from friends? If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?"-Richard Bach
626) "Here we are in this wholly fantastic universe with scarcely a clue as to whether our existence has any real significance."-Sir Fred Hoyle
627) "It's so easy to laugh; it's so easy to hate; it takes strength to be gentle and kind."-The Smiths
628) "People are like autumn leaves--found almost anywhere. True friends are like diamonds--beautiful, precious, and rare."
629) "To myself I have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself and now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."-Sir Isaac Newton
630) "Knowledge is power."-Francis Bacon
631) "If I told you, you would not know; you simply would have been told. Study it thoroughly and...I will ask you. You will answer and then you will know."-Dr. Hartley Baldwin
632) "Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt--particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas, and one's axioms."-Will Durant
633) "Rast ich, so rost ich. (When I rest, I rust.)"-German proverb
634) "If you don't have a goal, any road will do."-Charles Tart
635) "No one is so wrong as the man who knows all the answers."-Thomas Merton
636) "We know more and more about less and less, until we know everything about nothing."
637) "It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life."-Anton Checkov
638) "Out yonder there was this huge world...which stands before us like a great eternal riddle."-Albert Einstein
639) "Sorrow is the vitamin of growth."-Elvin Semrad
640) "He gave me the chance to love him as I would have liked to have been loved."-Emily Benedekl
641) "You have to laugh at yourself because you'd cry your eyes out if you didn't."-Emily Saliers (again)
642) "you said good friends are hard to come by i laughed and bought you a beer 'cause it's too corny to cry well sentiment given and sentiment lost you shook it off with a smirk and a toss and you were only joking."-Amy Ray, "Joking"
643) "When I get a little money, I buy books; And, if any is left, I buy food and clothes."-Erasmus
644) "Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends."-Butler Yeats
645) "If you want to see a shooting star, you might have to spend a lot of nights looking up."-Cynthia Copeland Lewis
646) "Flowers and pricker bushes grow out of the same dirt."-Cynthia Copeland Lewis
647) "In Germany, they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I was not a Communist. Then, they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I was not a Jew. Then, they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I was not a trade unionist. Then, they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then, they came for me, and by that time, there was no one left to speak up."-Pastor Martin Niemoller
648) "once I almost changed/ but my magic blue sky/ dazzled the naked universe/ young and brilliant as it is/ and then will I know your secrets."-Larry Lipman
649) "broken glass/ decaying flowers/ a web of yesterdays surrounds me/ haunted by the fever of your blazing eyes/ lingering at the window/ of my heart."-Ronnee Lipman
650) "every liquid smile/ melts a pool of fire/ those champagne kisses bathe me/ do not ask why."-Ronnee Lipman
651) "I believe this is heaven/ To no one else but me/ And I'll defend it as long as/ I can be left here to linger/ In silence if I choose to/ Would you try to understand."-Sarah McLachlan, "Elsewhere"
652) "It's not the fall that kills you, but the sudden stop at the end."
653) "The Lords's Prayer=66 words/ The Gettysburg Address=286 words/ The Declaration of Independence=1322 words/ U.S. Government regulations on the sale of cabbage=2691 words."
654) "Love is like a butterfly/ That lands in the palm of one's hands/ Hold too tight...you kill it/ Move too fast...you scare it away/ Move too slow and its reason for/ being there no longer exists/ But move like the wind/ in its perfection, and sharing/ with the little one is pure beauty."-Fred Brodie
655) "We are the hero of our own story."-Mary McCarthy
656) "...memory is like food: the fresher, the better."-Susan Learner Barr
657) "Expectations have a way of being fulfilled."-Judith Rodin
658) "To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and ignore the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty; To find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or redeemed by a social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."-Ralph Waldo Emerson
659) "cause if you're ever believing i'm thinking of leaving look to the moon, cause it's a fact she may go wandering about but she always come shining back and it's true, i'll wait for you. you dry your tears, don't be thinking grey is here to stay. sometimes everything is in the way you're wanting to look at it, turn your view around, dry your eyes, eyes like yours should carry a smile, i haven't seen them sparkle in awhile, give it one more try, dry your eyes."-Emily Saliers, "Crazy Game"
660) "Nobody can live on a bridge or plant potatoes but it is fine for comings and goings, meetings, partings and long views and a real connection to someplace else where you may in the crazy weathers of struggle how and again want to be."-Marge Piercy
661) "High energy does not necessarily mean fast, high energy has to do with heart."-Lou Reed
662) "Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable."-Rex Stout
663) "Before you meet the handsome prince, you have to kiss a lot of toads."
664) "Something good happens all the time. The trick is to be aware of it."-Tony on General Hospital
665) "Accomplishment always brings change."-Jim Tuney
666) "And there's always retrospect to light a clearer path."-Emily Saliers, "Watershed"
667) "There is a road, no simple highway, between the dawn and the dark of night, and if you go, no one may follow, that path is for your steps alone."-Jerry Garcia
668) "Change is mostly missing yesterday."-Dana Grasso
669) "If people speak ill of you, live so that no one will believe them."-Plato
670) "before you judge me take a look at you/ can't you find something better to do/ point the finger, slow to understand/ arrogance and ignorance go hand in hand."-Metallica
671) "Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught."-Oscar Wilde
672) "What's good about telling the truth is there's nothing to remember."-John Ford Noonan
673) "When we are released from the expectations our names, voices, and looks hold, we are free to be ourselves, the people on the inside."-Andrea Lipman
674) "It takes one minute to tell a lie, and an hour to refute it."-Noam Chomsky
675) "Never...stop at the boundaries of what you think your knowledge or training would suggest. If a problem grabs you, run with it and try to understand it from beginning to end, even if that means learning new techniques or developing them yourself."-Judith Rodin
676) "Diversity is our strength."-bumper sticker
677) "...the worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for comformity."-Deepak Chopra
678) "Without love you can only resist, without feeling you can't exist."-Melissa Ferrick, "Falling on Fists"
679) "Even I can turn water into wine, with grape seeds and sunshine."
680) "I may believe something passionately,/ That does not make me right./ I may disagree with you fervently,/ That does not make you wrong./ Keep talking. The vital lessons are those that force me/ to change my mind."
681) "The more I sort it out, the more it gets distorted/ I sorta think I'm better off just leaving it unsorted/ The more I try to change its course the more off course it goes/ Of course I'll reach my destination someday I suppose."-Dickey Barrett
682) "Our fears and taboos are largely social conditions imposed upon us by the ruling powers in order to keep us opressed. They manipulate us with our fears. Now let us be fearless."-Kathy Change
683) "Everytime I pin down what I think I want it slips away/ The ghost slips away."-Rivers Cuomo, "Butterfly"
684) "It's alright forty days of rain my skin stretched out from the growing pain It'd be nice to have an explanation, but it's alright And it's alright if you hate that way, hate me cause I'm different, hate me cause I'm gay Truth of the matter come around one say so it's alright I look at this lifeline stretched way across my hand I look at the burned out empty like a plague across the land And for everything I learn there are two I don't understand That's why I'm still on a search though the weather strewn church I'm doing the best that I can and it's alright And it's alright, though we worry and fuss, we can't get over the hump or get over us It seems easier to push than to let go and trust but it's alright When we get a little distance some things get clearer Give em the space our hearts grow nearer I ran as hard as I could and still ended up here but it's alright I look at this lifeline streched way all across my hand I look at the fires of hatred burning up the bounty of this beautiful land I know I'm small in a way but I know I'm strong And it's my thirst that brought me to this water when I give it all up then she carries me on and it's alright Yeah it's alright And it's alright though I feel afraid my plans in pieces my plans mislaid It's the will of the way the will of the way the will of the only way that could have brought me here today and it's alright."-Emily Saliers, "It's Alright"
685) "And that same sun that warms your heart will suck the good earth dry With everything it's opposite enough to keep you crying or keep this old world spinning with a twinkle in its eye...Don't drink the water there seems to be something ailing everyone I'm gonna clear my head I'm gonna drink that sun I'm gonna love you good and strong while our love is good and young...Why do we hurtle ourselves through every inch of time and space I must say around some corner I can sense a resting place With every lesson learned a line on your beautiful face We'll amuse ourselves one day with these memories we'll trace."-Emily Saliers, "Get Out the Map"
686) "She's got a case against me a jury of my peers The rage of the righteous screaming in her ears I'm not dignified anymore can't say I didn't call When I say I love you she don't hear me anymore...I said hold me closer cause something's happening Why can't we come together? She said, 'I doubt we ever will again.'"-Amy Ray, "Don't Give That Girl a Gun"
687) "The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is Reason. I have never used any other, and I trust I never shall."-Thomas Paine
688) "There's always gonna be somebody better, and there's always gonna be somebody worse; it just depends how you look at it, Amy!"-Larry Ray Sr.
689) "I live as I choose or I will not live at all."-Dolores O'Riordan
690) "How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our tear, our highest aspiration?"-Jane Swan
691) "An idealist who couldn't cope becomes cynical."-Amy Ray
692) "If we build a society based on honoring the earth, we build a society which is sustainable, and has the capacity to support all life forms."-Winona La Duke
693) "Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends, but there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends."-Ani DiFranco
694) "But comfortable is transient and when I've driven enough the road says it's time to move on."-Audrey Beth Stein
695) "Sometimes a person touches your life from afar and it's enough just to be touched, but then there's this rare occasion when you need to reach out yourself."-Audrey Beth Stein
696) "I often say that I don't worry about the meaning of life--I can't handle that big stuff. What concerns me is the meaning in life--day by day, hour by hour, while I'm doing whatever it is I do. What counts is not what I do, but how I think about myself while I'm doing it."-Robert Fulghum
697) "The problem with being overextended is that you can't exactly schedule any time to figure out how to stop being overextended."-Audrey Beth Stein
698) "You just have to let yourself go and not be worried about what other people are going to say or the things that might come out...Just jump right in full force and be as silly and stupid and adolescent and introspective as you want to be."-Amy Ray
699) "Got a garden of songs where I grow all my thoughts/ which I could harvest one or two for some small talk/ seems like I'm starving for words whenever you're around/ nothing on my tongue and so much in the ground."-Ani DiFranco
700) "When life hands you lemons, ask for a bottle of tequila and salt."