Andi's Quotes: Part 9

Andi's Quotes: Part 9

801) "I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."-William Butler Yeats

802) "Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses."-Voltaire

803) "Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties."-Jules Renard

804) "The heart that loves is forever young."-Greek proverb

805) "Love gives us in a moment what we can hardly attain by effort after years of toil."-Goethe

806) "The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end."-Benjamin Disraeli

807) "Love comforteth like sunshine after rain."-William Shakespeare

808) "In the degree that we love will we be loved."-Ralph Waldo Trine

809) "Love is friendship set on fire."-Jeremy Taylor

810) "An old man in love is like a flower in winter."-Old proverb

811) "The way to love anything is to realize it might be lost."-G. K. Chesterton

812) "And stand together yet not too near together:/ For the pillars of the temple stand apart,/ And the oak tree and cypress grow not in each other's shadow."-Kahil Gibran

813) "Life is slippery. We all need a loving hand to hold on to."-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

814) "The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer."-Oliver Wendell Holmes

815) "To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind."-Theophile Gantier

816) "I love you, not only for what you are, But for what I am when I am when I am with you."-Roy Croft

817) "It's curious how when you're in love, you yearn to go about doing acts of kindness to everybody."-P. G. Wodehouse

818) "The first duty of love is to listen."-Paul Tilich

819) "Love and a cough cannot be hid."-George Herbertt

820) "A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."-Ingrid Bergman

821) "Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence."-H. L. Mencken

822) "Absense is to love as wind is to fire; It extinguishes the small and kindles the great."-Roger de Bussy-Rabutin

823) "It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."-Eleanor Roosevelt

824) "It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself."-Eleanor Roosevelt

825) "Light tomorrow with today."-Elizabeth Barret Browning

826) "Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life."-Sophia Loren

827) "The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it."-Jane Welsh Carlyle

828) "Failure is impossible."-Susan B. Anthony

829) "Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone--but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding."-Bette Davis

830) "Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself."-Doris Lessing

831) "Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training."-Anna Frued

832) "The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder."-Virgina Woolf

833) "Enemies are so stimulating."-Katherine Hepburn

834) "The future is made of the same stuff as the present."-Simone Weil

835) "Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows."-Helen Keller

836) "When so rich a harvest is before us, why do we not gather it? All is in our hands if we will but use it."-Elizabeth Seton

837) "You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."-Margaret Thatcher

838) "What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose."-Margaret Thatcher

839) "I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure."-Anne Baxter

840) "If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down."-Mary Pickford

841) "Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty."-Mother Teresa

842) "Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don't, it may drench itself out of sorrow."-Joan Baez

843) "Our whole way of life today is dedicated to the removal of risk. Cradle to grave we are supported, insulated, and isolated from the risks of life--and if we fall, our government stands ready with Bandaids of every size."-Shirlet Temple Black

844) "I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances."-Martha Washington

845) "When you get into a tight place and it seems you can't go on, hold on, for that's just the place and the time that the tide will turn."-Harriet Beecher Stowe

846) "The truth will set you free--but first it will make you miserable."-Hyde School motto

847) "...hindisght...is always 20.20 and...sometimes seems to be the only way we in America care to look at anything..."-Anna Quindlen

848) "...irrepresible youth...always belives 'till I die' is forever away."-Anna Quindlen

849) "dwell on the dream/ jump into twilight/ shadows create mystery/ as the night wanders on/ time is a gift."-Rebekah Scholl

850) "Do you feel the way you hate? Do you hate the way you feel?"-Gavin Rossdale

851) "Strangers take a long time to become acquainted, particularly when they are from the same family."-M. E. Kerr

852) "When I was four years old I understood what it has taken me all these years to discover. It's not the audience's perspective that matters, or their applause. It's the dance."-Marion Dane Bauer

853) "Everyone has a moment in his history which belongs particularly to him. It is the moment when his emotions achieve their most powerful sway over him, and afterward when you say to this person 'the world today' or 'life' or 'reality' he will assume you mean this moment, even if it is fifty years past. The world, through his unleashed emotions, imprinted itself upon him, and he carries the stamp of that passing moment forever."-John Knowles, A Separate Peace

854) "To keep silent about this amazing happening deepened the shock for me."-John Knowles, A Separate Peace

855) "'...when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love.' I didn't think that this was true, my seventeen years of experience had shown this to be much more false than true..."-John Knowles, A Separate Peace

856) "What deceived me was my own happiness; for peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me. So I ceased to have any real sense of it."-John Knowles, A Separate Peace

857) "Everything has to evolve or else it perishes."-John Knowles, A Separate Peace

858) "And I did stay. Sometimes you are too ashamed to leave. That was true now. And sometimes you need too much to know the facts, and so humbly and stupidly you stay. That was true now too."-John Knowles, A Separate Peace

859) "I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me."-John Knowles, A Separate Peace

860) "I never killed anybody and I never developed an intense level of hatred for the enemy. Because my war ended before I ever put on a uniform; I was on active duty all my time at school; I killed my enemy there."-John Knowles, A Separate Peace

861) "...you can know someone all your life and never quite be friends."-John Irving, The World According to Garp

862) "Many couples live together and discover they're not in love; some couples never discover it. Others marry, and the news comes to them at awkward moments in their lives."-John Irving, The World According to Garp

863) "Helen knew Garp was thinking up a story to tell Walt after dinner. She knew Garp did this to calm herself whenever he was worried about the children--as if the act of imagining a good story for children was a way to keep children safe forever."-John Irving, The World According to Garp

864) "Kids are beautiful, man. And they know much more than grownups think they know. Kids are just perfect people until grownups get their hands on them."-John Irving, The World According to Garp

865) "Use what talents you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best."-Henry Van Dyke

866) "Most people don't think. They just rearrange their prejudices."-Dr. Robert Anthony, Think On

867) "You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now."-Joan Baez

868) "As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might."-Marion Anderson

869) "But what I discover, Lover after Lover/ There's nothing wrong with me/ That's just a Lie by society/ So I start looking at the world we have/ And while it's not completely bad/ There's a lot of room for improvement/ People of color and the gay movement"-Sonia Rutstein, "Who's So Scared"

870) "I could cry/ I would like to cry/ One day I'll find time to cry."-Gabe Bullaro

871) "You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice/ if you choose not to decide you still have made a choice/ you can choose from phantom fears or kindness that can kill/ i will choose a path that's clear/ i will choose free will."-Rush

872) "Listen: there's a helleva good universe next door--let's go."-E. E. Cummins

873) "and were i a deadwood ship, my heart a compass..."-Dar Williams

874) "I won't forget when Peter Pan/ came to my house, took my hand/ I said I was a boy, I'm glad he didn't check."-Dar Williams, "When I Was a Boy"

875) "They say that absense makes the heart grow fungus."-Barenaked Ladies

876) "I've got no deeds to do, no promises to keep/ I'm dappled and drowsy and ready to sleep/ Let the morningtime drop all its petals on me/ Life, I love you! All is groovy."-Simon and Garfunkel

877) "Let the longtime sun shine upon you/ all love surround you/ and the warm light within you guide your way on."-Incredible String Band

878) "I want to smash the faces of all the beautiful boys/ those Christian boys/ so you can make me cum, that doesn't make you Jesus."-Tori Amos

879) "He said, 'When you gonna make up your mind? When you gonna love you as much as I do?'"-Tori Amos, "Winter"

880) "There's a thin line between pleasing yourself and pleasing somebody else."-Gerard McHugh, "Thin Line"

881) "from precious pursuit/ by deliciously deep devotion/ my most clear wisdom/ is remote imagination."-Walt Floyd

882) "[It's] strange that people in the process of making a decision that will plant them firmly in a minority, forever, are possibly less tolerant of other minorities than we might imagine."-John Irving, The World According to Garp

883) "Death, it seems, does not like to wait until we are prepared for it. Death is indulgent and enjoys, when it can, a flair for the dramatic."-John Irving, The World According to Garp

884) "Tolerance of the intolerant is a difficult task that the times asks of us."-John Irving, The World According to Garp

885) "Imagining something is better than remembering something."-John Irving, The World According to Garp

886) "Between men and women, only death is shared equally."-John Irving, The World According to Garp

887) "The world is comic to those who think and tragic to those who feel."-Horace Walpole or "Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think"-La Bruyere

888) "You only grow up by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else."-John Irving, The World According to Garp

889) "A part of adolescence is feelimg that there's no one else around who's enough like youself to understand you."-John Irving, The World According to Garp

890) "We are the children of the Eighties. We are not the first 'lost generation' nor today's lost generation; in fact, we think we know just where we stand--or are discovering it as we speak...In the Eighties, nothing was wrong. Did you know the president was shot? Star Wars was not only a movie. Did you ever play in a bomb shelter? Did you see the Challenger explode or feed the homeless man? We forgot Vietnam and watched Tiananman's Square on CNN and bought pieces of the Berlin Wall at the store. AIDS was not the number one killer in the United States. We didn't start the fire, Billy Joel. In the Eighties, we redefined the American Dream, and those years defined us. We are the generation in between strife and facing strife and not turning our backs. The Eighties may have made us idealistic, but it's that idealism that will push us and be passed on to our children - the first children of the twenty-first century. Never forget: We are the children of the Eighties."-forward

891) "Hi. I'm anyone./ Welcome to my house./ No, no, my luxury car is the newer model./ Hi. That was quite a mistake./ You've put him in the wrong room--/ This is where he belongs. I know./ No, it's not just because/ Everyone else is there./ He earned it by himself./ Hi. I live here./ We don't like change/ Unless we need it./ Hi. I'm a cop./ Didn't I teach you better than that?/ Skip home and don't let us see/ Next time, we may think about the law./ Hi. I live here./ We don't like change/ Unless we don't need it./ Hi. I'm anyone./ I respect your thoughts/ As long as they are the same as mine./ Don't open your mind/ Unless we all decide to do so./ No, really. Scratch us,/ We're not the same--/ Their blood has less collateral than mine./ Hi. I like your hair./ It's looks like hers./ Hi. I like your shirt./ I liked it better when he wore it yesterday./ I liked it better four months ago./ Hi. Apathy and Jesus Christ/ Got me into college/ Got me a job/ Got me elected./ Hi. I love it here./ Wake me when it's time to leave."-Becky Schwartz, "Howtown"

892) "But truth is just like time, it catches up, and it just keeps going."-Dar Williams, "As Cool as I Am"

893) "I walk into a room like a normal person."-Kenny Kramer

894) "...life is not the plans you make, but what happens to you instead."-Abigail

895) "the danger of trying to please everyone else is that you rarely please yourself in the end. and the people you were aiming to please don't even realize you were doing it!!"-Betsy Bertiaux

896) "Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see each other whole against the sky."-Rainer Rilke

897) "Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you."-William Arthur Ward

898) "I learn to understand the world I live in. Perhaps this helps me predict or affect the future, but more crucially right now, it helps me to understand my identity, my place, and the people I try to relate to. For I may not be here tomorrow, but I am always here now."-Audrey Beth Stein

899) "I've fallen in love twice in my life; once with a woman and once with the road. The woman rejected me, but the road always takes me back."-Matt Rist

900) "...give me the strength to be gentle, the wisdom to be confused, the right to be wrong on occasion, the sense to know when to lose, give me the time to be patient, the courage to be afraid, give me the eyes of a child once again, to see the world, a different world, a world that can still be made..."-William in The Tap Dance Kid