Friday, August 18, 2006

Quotes, quotes and more quotes

My buddy Jess blogged this link and suggested going to it and posting the first 5 quotes that resonated. Well...I got a bit carried away (big surprise, huh?) Here's some thoughts for the day:

Quotables

Books…are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with ‘em, then we grow out of ‘em and leave ‘em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development. – Dorothy L. Sayers

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. – Mark Twain

Be strong and courageous, do not be afraid or tremble…for the Lord, your God is the one who goes with you. He will not fail you or forsake you. – Deuteronomy 31:6 NAS

However motherhood comes to you, it’s a miracle. – Valerie Harper

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust

Man can live far from God – not outside God. God is wherever we are. Even in suffering? Even in suffering. – Elie Wiesel

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Muriel Strode

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. – Bill Cosby

If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity – John F. Kennedy

Humor

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. - Bill Vaughan

If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn’t it follow that electicians can be delighted, musicians denoted? - George Carlin

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. - Socrates

Social justice

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children. – Jimmy Carter

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. – Lord Acton

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice that produces beggars needs restructuring. – Martin Luther King

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