Quotes Meme.

Oct 02, 2006 23:46

Tamaki:

To be positive: To be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915

I'm going to a special place when I die, but I want to make sure my life is special while I'm here.
Payne Stewart

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
Rose Kennedy (1890 - 1995)

The gods too are fond of a joke.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

Shinn:

You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.
Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), New York Times, Dec. 23, 1929

There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
Russell Baker (1925 - )

Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.
Luisa Sigea, O Magazine, September 2003

Meer:

Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.
Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924)

Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.
Robert Byrne

Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
Earl Mac Rauch, from "Buckaroo Bansai"

I don't want to sound Pollyannaish, but I hope that out of a tragedy like this something good will come. I hope we understand we're one family.
Madeleine Albright (1937 - ), Making Sense of the Unimaginable, O Magazine

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Act I

Rue:

Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.
Martina Navratilova (1956 - )

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.
Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984)

Stubbornness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from "won't power" to "will power."
Peter McWilliams, Life 101

It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
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