"Today we have made history... Now let us make progress."
-- Nancy Pelosi

"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?"... Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night."
-- Charles M. Schulz

"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation".
-- Robert Kennedy

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
-- Oscar Wilde

"To solve the human equation, we need to add love, subtract hate, multiply good, and divide between truth and error."
-- Janet Coleman

"The joyfulness of a man prolongeth his days."
-- Fortune Cookie

"When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event."
-- Robert M. Persig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

"Doh!"
-- Homer Simpson

"In the same way, we become masters of jealousy, masters of sadness, masters of self-rejection. All of our drama and suffering is by practice. We make an agreement with ourselves and we practice that agreement until it becomes a whole mastery. The way we think, the way we feel and the way we act become so routine that we no longer need to put our attention on what we are doing. It is just by action-reaction that we become a certain way."
-- Don Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Love

"The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us".
-- Quentin Crisp

"Gratitude encourages intuition and abundance. This week and every day be thankful for who and what is in your life — instead of complaining about what you don’t have. Appreciate all the abundance and goodness that’s around you, whether big or small. Be thankful for your health, children, sunny days, your garden, family, best friends, or even the person who let you jump ahead in line at the bank. The more joy you begin to notice and appreciate, the easier it is for your intuition to lead you to even more happiness and prosperity."
-- John Holland

"A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ".
-- John Steinbeck

"Just when you think you've graduated from the school of experience someone thinks up a new course."
-- Mary H. Waldrip

"As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me".
-- H. Rider Haggard

"There are more fools in the world than there are people."
-- Heinrich Heine

"Life is a zoo in a jungle".
-- Peter De Vries

"Time is the wisest counselor."
-- Fortune Cookie

"Always a mother."
-- Jane Wyatt, 1910-2006, on her celebrated roles as a mother on Star Trek, and Father Knows Best.


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"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances".
-- Thomas Jefferson

"A joke's a very serious thing".
-- Charles Churchill

"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run".
-- Babe Ruth


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"I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision".
-- Eleanor Roosevelt


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"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."
-- Terry Pratchett

"This day you will be provided with precisely what you are willing to accept. The possibilities are limited only by your imagination".
-- Ralph Marston

"What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do".
-- John Ruskin

"Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back".
-- Babe Ruth

"All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill".
-- Babe Ruth

"You change everything when you change your mind".
-- Dr. Candace Pert

"It isn't our position, but our disposition, that makes us happy."
-- Fortune Cookie

"We are all of us stars and we all deserve to twinkle"
-- Marilyn Monroe

"An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea".
-- Buddha

"There is wisdom in avoiding all thoughts that weaken you."
-- Dr. Wayne Dyer

"Confusion is always the most honest response".
-- Marty Indik

"Life is a great big canvas; Throw all the paint on it you can."
-- Danny Kaye

"Procrastination is the fear of success."
-- Fortune Cookie

"People find life entirely too time-consuming."
-- Stanislaw J. Lec

"Isn't it amazing how everything works out?"
-- Don Cummings, Writer, The Fat of the Land.


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"It is always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar".
-- Jerome K. Jerome

"Don't be a spectator; don't let life pass you by."
-- Lou Holtz,football coach

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind".
-- Dr. Seuss

"Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow."
-- Aesop

"The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind".
-- Wayne Dyer

Thanks to Higher Powered.

"The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself".
-- Oscar Wilde

"If you're riding ahead of the herd, look back once in a while to make sure it's still there."
-- Fortune Cookie

"All you need is deep within you waiting to unfold and reveal itself. All you have to do is be still and take time to seek for what is within, and you will surely find it".
-- Eileen Caddy

"I always give myself such very good advice, but I very seldom follow it."
-- Alice in Wonderland

"Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand".
-- Mark Twain

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it".
-- Upton Sinclair

"Conversation should touch on everything, but should concentrate on nothing."
-- Oscar Wilde

"I had an epiphany a few years ago where I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I had yet to meet a celebrity who is as smart and interesting as any of my friends".
-- Moby

"Every time we pray our horizon is altered, our attitude to things is altered, not sometimes, but every time, and the amazing thing is that we don't pray more".
-- Bill Clinton


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"Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them."
-- Fortune Cookie

"I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?"
-- Jean Kerr

"Poor George, he can't help it."
-- Ann Richards, Former Governor of Texas, 1933-2006
 

"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say."
-- Will Durant

"All things are difficult before they are easy."
-- Dr. Thomas Fuller

"You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with."
-- Wayne Dyer

"Peace begins with a smile."
-- Fortune Cookie

"To experience the loneliness of soul is the hardest thing in the
world."
-- Brigitte Bardot

"Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons."
-- Ruth Ann Schabacker

"He who hurries cannot walk with dignity."
-- Fortune Cookie

"It's hip to be happy,
To give life a big hello,
It's hip to be happy,
To say yes when the world says no."
-- Ann Hampton Callaway, from her newest album titled Blues in the
Night.

"Paranoia is just a kind of awareness, and awareness is just a form of love."
-- Charles Manson

"In this business you either sink or swim or you don't."
-- David Smith

"I'd rather be happy than right."
-- Al-Anon Slogan

“The scoreboard said I lost today. But what the scoreboard doesn’t say is what it is I have found. Over the last 21 years, I have found loyalty. You have pulled for me on the court and also in life... I found inspiration. You have willed me to succeed, sometimes even in my lowest moments. And I’ve found generosity. You have given me your shoulders to stand on to reach for my dreams, dreams I could never have reached without you. Over the last 21 years, I have found you, and I will take you and the memory of you with me for the rest of my life.”
-- Andre Aggasi, yesterday at the U.S. Open

"People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up".
-- Ogden Nash

"The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish".
-- Robert Jackson

"To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself."
-- Albert Einstein

"There are no more hours in a bad day than in a good one!"
-- Unknown, as quoted on Higher Powered.

"You love Chinese food."
-- Fortune Cookie

"We now have to work under the assumption that every American has a tattoo. Whether we are at a formal dinner, at a professional luncheon, at a sales conference or arguing before the Supreme Court, we have to assume that everyone in the room is fully tatted up — that under each suit, dress or blouse, there is at least a set of angel wings, a barbed wire armband, a Chinese character or maybe even a fully inked body suit. We have to assume that any casual antitattoo remark will cause offense, even to those we least suspect of self-marking...

"...A study in The Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology showed that about 24 percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 50 have at least one tattoo, up from about 15 percent in 2003. Thirty-six percent of those between 18 and 29 have a tattoo...

"... What you get is a culture of trompe l’oeil degeneracy. People adopt socially acceptable transgressions — like tattoos — to show they are edgy, but inside they are still middle class. You run into these candy-cane grunge types: people with piercings and inkings all over their bodies who look like Sid Vicious but talk like Barry Manilow. They’ve got the alienated look — just not the anger.

"And that’s the most delightful thing about the whole tattoo fad. A cadre of fashion-forward types thought they were doing something to separate themselves from the vanilla middle classes but are now discovering that the signs etched into their skins are absolutely mainstream. They are at the beach looking across the acres of similar markings and learning there is nothing more conformist than displays of individuality, nothing more risk-free than rebellion, nothing more conservative than youth culture.

"Another generation of hipsters, laid low by the ironies of consumerism."

-- David Brooks, Non-Conformity is Skin Deep, The New York Times, August 27, 2006.

"I'm not somebody who really believes in curses, but curse this, baby!"
-- Julia Louis-Dreyfus, on breaking the Seinfeld curse and winning an
Emmy Award last night for The New Adventures of Old Christine.

"Maybe all that one can do is hope to end with the right regrets."
-- Arthur Miller

"I see trees of green, red roses too
I see them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world

"I see skies of blue and clouds of white
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world

"The colors of the rainbow, so pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces of people going by
I see friends shakin' hands, sayin' "How do you do?"
They're really saying "I love you"

"I hear babies cryin', I watch them grow
They'll learn much more than I'll ever know
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world
Yes, I think to myself, what a wonderful world

Oh yeah"

-- George Weiss and Bob Thiele, Lyricists. Recorded by Louie Armstrong.

"I see the addict as a seeker, albeit a misguided one. The addict is a person in quest of pleasure, perhaps even of a kind of trancendent experience - and I want to emphasize that this kind of seeking is extremely positive. The addict is looking in the wrong places, but he is going after something very important, and we can not afford to ignore the meaning of his search. At least initially, the addict hopes to experience something wonderful, something that transcends an unsatisfactory or even an intolerable everyday reality. There's nothing to be ashamed of in this impulse. On the contrary, it provides a foundation for true hope and real transformation."
-- Deepak Chopra, Overcoming Addictions: The Spiritual Solution.


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"Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them."
-- HL Mencken

"Men live in a fantasy world. I know this because I am one, and I actually receive my mail there".
-- Scott Adams

"An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer".
-- Sarah Ban Breathnach

"The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them."
-- Samuel McChord Crothers

"You've got to take the bitter with the sour."
-- Samuel Goldwyn

"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything."
-- Mark Twain

"Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done."
-- Andy Rooney

"I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe, and someone said I was a snake, I'd think, no, actually I'm a giraffe".
-- Richard Gere


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"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit".
-- Harry S. Truman

"The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity."
-- Harlan Ellison

"For those who understand, no explanation needed. For those who don't, none will do."
-- Jerry Lewis

"Your heart is a place to draw true happiness."
-- Fortune Cookie

"I'm square and I am happy that I am."
-- Mike Douglas, (aka Michael Dowd), 1925-2006.


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"Ninety percent of everything is crud."
-- Theodore Sturgeon, Sturgeon's Revelation

"You can't live in New York City and be the most important person in town, you just can't. There are too many other important people here."
-- Sarah Jessica Parker, in Good Housekeeping.



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"Idleness is the holiday of fools."
--Fortune Cookie

"Maybe it's just in America, but it seems that if you're passionate about something, it freaks people out. You're considered bizarre or eccentric. To me, it just means you know who you are."
-- Timothy Burton

"About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends."
-- Herbert Hoover

"Living hell is the best revenge".
-- Adrienne E. Gusoff

"No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself."
-- Thomas Mann

"It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'"
-- Sam Levenson

"The thing is, I'm not ashamed - that's the one thing I want to say. I don't think it's wrong, I'm not devestated going through this. I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy."
-- Lance Bass, band member of 'N Sync on coming out as a gay man.


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"In the end, everything is a gag."
-- Charlie Chaplin


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"And screw 'Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.' I keep waiting for one of those guys to look at the camera and say, 'So like, this new season is going to be us prepping straight people for their weddings, but we still can't married in this country!"... Don't count on it, honey, they're rich, famous, and fabulous! Listen to your publicist!"
-- J.D. Cerna, Good Riddance to Will and Grace, The New York Blade, July
24, 2006, p. 27.