Andi's Quotes: Part 8

Andi's Quotes: Part 8

701) "to all humans remember to think.../ about what you say/ and will it sink/ your heart into that quicksand of vengeance/ the clawing and lashing/ of disheartening impenitence/ will tear at the skin/ on the organ of touch/ extended in offer/ and retracted in such/ a manner befitting the angry living/ disjoining the soul/ from the ecstasy of giving."-joyfulchap

702) "Have you been down Locust Walk? Have you seen my ego? It displays itself there now, fueled by every greeting, amused by bits of passing conversation, calling out for attention. This is who I am, it says--though it means, this is who I want to be and hope I am. Facing the crowd, waiting for company. Alone but not lonely, or lonely but not alone. Both? Maybe neither. Secure. Unflustered by the surprise of one once known too well. Won't you please stand there, be my slave for one symbolic moment? And on the walk I am in control--he cannot refuse."-Audrey Beth Stein

703) "I could be high for hours on a smile and for a day on an unexpected interchange."-Audrey Beth Stein

704) "so i'll walk the plank/ and i'll jump with a smile/ if i'm gonna go down/ i'm gonna do it with style/ and you won't hear me surrender/ you won't hear me confess/ 'cuz you've lett me with nothing/ but i've worked with less."-Ani DiFranco, "Dilate"

705) "Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world."-William James

706) "Having a dream/ that you don't pursue/ is like buying an ice cream cone/ and watching it melt/ all over your hand."-Icarus

707) "It was a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door, and you say, 'Go away. I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away. Puzzling."-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

708) "Why are people such ignorant dorks sometimes?"-Andrea Lipman

709) "So since I've been home I've learned two very important things; ethernet is a gift from God and it just doesn't sound the same to listen to Indigo Girls without two people singing along."-Dana Grasso

710) "It's always good to know where a friend or relation is, whether you need them or whether you don't."-A. A. Milne

711) "We must strengthen, defend, preserve, and comfort each other. We must love one another."-John Winthop

712) "I don't think happiness is a permanent state. It's some kind of treaty you make with your circumstances at the time."-Robert Plant

713) "Friendship is never an accident. It is always the result of high intentions, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution. It represents the wise choice of many alternatives."

714) "Life is like a penis. When it gets hard, fuck it."

715) "I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap."-Ani DiFranco, "Overlap"

716) "What if no one's watching? What if when we're dead, we are just dead? What if it's just us down here? What if God is just an idea someone put in your head?"-Ani DiFranco, "What If No One's Watching"

717) "A wide gulf existed in the conception of laws and its purposes! And who knows on which side the angels would be found?"-Glen Fischer

718) "If it only took words to crush me I would have been dust long ago."-Raven

719) "I'm sick of all this class stuff."-Dana Grasso

720) "I can't believe you guys don't have twins. Like, what do you do?"-Cathy Zorc, a twin

721) "I don't think you see too many beautiful women in high power positions."-Orin Epstein to Judith Rodin, a woman in a high power position

722) "The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder."-Alfred Hitchcock

723) "cause i know the biggest crime is just to throw up your hands/ say this has nothing to do with me i just want to live as comfortably as i can/ you got to look outside your eyes/ you got to think outside your brain/ you got to walk outside your life/ to where the neighborhood changes/ ...you don't have to like me for who i am/ but we'll see what you're made of by what you think of me/ ...i fight fire with words/ words are hotter than flames/ words are wetter than water/ i got friends all over this country/ i got friends in other countries too/ i got friends i haven't met yet/ i got friends i ever knew/ ...so why don't you give me a call/ when you decide you're willing to fight/ for what you think is real/ for what you think is right."-Ani DiFranco, "Willing to Fight"

724) "I owe my life to people that I love."-Ani DiFranco, "In Or Out"

725) "I like you, but I know you don't know it. I like you so much, I talk to everyone but you. And I wonder what you would think of this little number. I wonder what you would say if you knew."-Ani DiFranco, "Hell Yeah"

726) "All the girls with anorexia are on the street tonight/ And the boys in the band think they look just fine/ ...Well you seem like a girl with the world on her side/ But then that's just a point of view/ And you know how quickly that can change too/ See I heard you were free or someone thought you should be/ And I know just how that feels/ I thought maybe we could just talk for awhile."-Amy Ray, "Chiapas Bound"

727) "so show a little inspiration/ show them a little spark/ show the world a little light when you show it your heart/ we've got two lives--one we're given,/ and the other one we make/ and the world won't stop/ and actions speak louder/ listen to your heart/ and your heart will say/ everything we got, we got the hard way..."-Mary Chapin Carpenter, "The Hard Way"

728) "Somewhere between God and the Devil, passion is."-Jeanette Winterson

729) "We have proved, sitting eating, sitting talking, that we can add to the treasury of moments."-Virginia Woolf

730) "We shall not cease from exploration/ And the end of all our exploring/ Will be to arrive where we started/ And know that place for the first time."-T. S. Eliot

731) "Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead."-Louisa May Alcott

732) "We dance to different drumbeats, yet our faces are cobled by the same wind. We are different. Yet our differences combined make a harmonious sound."

733) "But every road is rough to me that has no friend to cheer it."

734) "Don't believe in fear. Don't believe in pain. Don't believe in anyone that you can't tame."-Garbage

735) "Don't imitate, innovate."-cologne ad

736) "To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved."-George MacDonald

737) "Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts."-Charles Dickens

738) "Small is the number of those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."-Albert Einstein

739) "Thou hast nor youth nor age,/ But, as it were, an after-dinner's sleep,/ Dreaming on both;..."-William Shakespeare

740) "Greatness is the perception that virtue is enough."

741) "There is only one happiness in life, to love and to be loved."-George Sand

742) "The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat."-Lily Tomlin

743) "Be happy. It is one way of being wise."-Colette

744) "The pain now is part of the happiness then."-C. S. Lewis

745) "We live. As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."-Henry David Thoreau

746) "Time is long and life is short begin to live while you still can."-Eddie Vedder

747) "My candle burns at both ends/ It will not last the night/ But, ah, my foes, and oh, my friends/ It gives a lovely light."-Edna St. Vincent Millay

748) "To the world you may just be one person but to one person you may be the world."

749) "Imagination is a hand that sees,/ Dreaming is an art./ Words can create anything we choose,/ Wisdom I'll never lose, but/ Silence breaks the heart."

750) "And all that you touch and all that you see is all your life will ever be."-Pink Floyd

751) "I was blind all the time I was learning to see."-Grateful Dead

752) "I'll be walking one day, down a street far away and see a face in the crowd: Smile. Knowing you made me laugh, hearing sweet echoes of you from the past, I will remember you."-Amy Grant

753) "I run in the rain till I'm breathless. When I'm breathless, I run till I drop."

754) "You lock the door and throw away the key. There's someone in my head but it's not me."-Pink Floyd

755) "You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Let yourself indulge in vain wishes, for you are only you when no one is looking."

756) "We never know how high we are/ till we are called to rise/ And then, if we are true to plan,/ our statures touch the skies."

757) "The soul would have no rainbows had the eyes no tears."-John Vance Cheney

758) "I feel a smile crossing the face of my memory."

759) "The only rose without a thorn is friendship."

760) "A weed is no more than a flower in disguise."

761) "I am looking for someone, who can take as much as I give,/ Give back as much as I need,/ And still have the will to live."-Amy Ray, "Blood and Fire"

762) "I'd call you a sadistic-equestrian necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse."-Philip Moskawitz

763) "It is a fearful thing to love what death can touch."-a tombstone

764) "Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."-John Lennon

765) "Winners form the habit of concentrating on what they want to happen. Losers concentrate on what they don't want to happen. In pressure situations, winners call up past wins, losers call up past losses. Both are self-fulfilling."

766) "Triumph is just a little 'umph' added to try."-FBLA

767) "There are thousands of languages in the world, but a smile speaks them all."

768) "The only sure thing is that nothing is for sure."

769) "UNLESS someone like you/ cares an awful lot,/ nothing is going to get better./ It's not."-Dr. Suess

770) "I have my fingers crossed on a shooting star."-The Wallflowers

771) "A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother."

772) "for awhile, cynicism was all that i knew/ because the world is a mess/ but there are two ways you can deal/ you can become complacent/ and watch it become worse before your eyes/ or fight to try to change it,/ even if it is almost too small to be seen."-Stephanie Parsons

773) "True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen."-Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

774) "We can complain that rosebushes have thorns or we can rejoice that thornbushes have roses."

775) "Don't want to leave but we all know sometimes it's better to go, Somehow we know we'll meet again, I'm not sure quite where and I don't know just when, You are in my heart so until then, back of my mind, bottom of my heart, always and forever."

776) "This bridge will only take you half way there To those mysterious lands you long to see...The last few steps you'll have to take alone."-Shel Silverstein

777) "Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a tear."

778) "Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."-Robert Frost

779) "To love someone is to learn the song in their heart and sing it to them when they have forgotten."

780) "If we have to twist their arms, they know not what they do is wrong..."-Better Than Ezra

781) "I wish I could kill you and savor the sight,/ Get into the car and drive into the night,/ And lie like a scream to the heavens above,/ That I was the last one you ever loved."-Better Than Ezra

782) "Today has troubles yesterday will never know."

783) "You creep up like a cloud/ and you set my soul at ease/ then you let your love abound/ and you bring me to my knees."-Fionna Apple

784) "Smile, it makes people wonder what you've been up to."

785) "The one who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused."

786) "Each of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and keep it lit."

787) "Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose."-Lyndon B. Johnson

788) "For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."-Ralph Waldo Emerson

789) "Belief is a truth held in the mind. Faith is a fire in the heart."-Joseph F. Newton

790) "There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it."-John W. Raper

791) "A dream is an answer to a question we haven't learned to ask."-Agent Scully on "X-Files"

792) "the world is my oyster/ the road is my home/ and i know i'm better off alone."-Ani DiFranco

793) "Love is like a light and there are two kinds, the bursting fireworks of the moment and the solid, fixed starts that sometimes become obscurred in the heavens, but are always there, year after year, for a lifetime. You must experience the first to appreciate the second. But be careful with the fireworks. They burn out quickly. And if you get too close, they can hurt."-Ann Rinaldi

794) "The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do."-Thomas Jefferson

795) "Children are the true believers, and some of us are lucky enough to make the transition to adulthoood without ever losing the ability to see through young eyes."-Anne Geddes

796) "Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own."-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

797) "Love is like wildflowers. It's often found in the most unlikely places."-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

798) "Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished."-Og Mandino

799) "Love consists in this, that two soltitudes protect and touch and greet each other."-Rainer Maria Rilke

800) "To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others."-Francois Mauriac