1.
"The Potter books in general are a prolonged argument for tolerance, a prolonged
plea for an end to bigotry, and I think it's one of the reasons that some people
don't like the books, but I think that it's a very healthy message to pass on
to younger people that you should question authority and you should not assume
that the establishment or the press tells you all of the truth." ~
J.K. Rowling - from a speech at Carnegie Hall
2.
"In matters of style, swim with the current; In matters of principle, stand
like a rock." ~ Thomas Jefferson
3.
"Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for
others, if not always for ourselves." ~ Hubert H. Humphrey
4. "It's surprising how many persons
go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people
are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not
comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others."
~ Sydney J. Harris, 1917-1986 - American
Journalist
5. "The
miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have." ~ Leonard Nimoy
6. "I don't believe
in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It goes from the
top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other person and
learns from the other. I have a lot to learn from other people." ~ Eduardo
Galeano, Uruguayan Author and Journalist
7.
"You can't get where you're going unless you remember where you came from.
Who you are and what you are is the only thing you own - Never lose it, and never…ever…surrender!"
~ Corey Hart
8. "This
is Pity, he thought, and then he lifted his head in wonder. He thought that there
must be something terribly wrong with a world in which this monstrous feeling
is called a virtue." ~ Howard Rouke from The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
9.
"To say I love you - one must know how to say "I". ~ Howard Rouke
from The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
10.
"To think by nobly of my grandmother: Good wombs have borne bad sons."
~ Mirand - from The Tempest by William Shakespeare
11.
"There is no pain but to genuinely hurt a friend." ~ John Demko
12. "Reach
beyond the stars; read between the stripes." ~ John Demko
13. To John Dudek: "Why
(on Earth) would you want to be a would-be? Anyone who knows how to spell rose
can be a romantic. Any Jesus freak with a hand grenade can change the world."
~ John Demko
14. "And I tell you more: whenever
two of you on earth agree about anything you pray for, it will be done for you
by my Father in Heaven. For where two or three come together in my name I am there
with them." ~ Matthew Chapter 18: 19-20
15. "A story was told
of two doctors, one of whom asked the other his opinion about the following case:
A woman with tuberculosis was pregnant; the father had syphilis, four children
had already been born….the first was blind, the second died at birth, the
third was a deaf mute, the fourth had tuberculosis. "What would you have
done?" the first doctor asked his colleague. "I would have terminated
the pregnancy, "answered the second doctor. "Then," said the first,
"You would have killed Beethoven."
16.
"Essentially, I'm a very real person; good and bad. And the public image
is one of being very good, I suppose. But one of the reasons I'm attracted to
people like Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, Christ, to pacifism, is because naturally,
I'm the guy that would not turn the other cheek - but, when people see you're
attracted to that, they think you are that." ~ Bono, Rolling Stone,
May 7, 1987
17. "I
know it hasn't been easy for you lately, and I can't even begin to tell you how
much you've been on my mind. It isn't easy for me….feeling so far away from
you when I want to be close enough to hold you, and look at you and to tell you
with all my heart that everything's going to be alright." ~ Taine Parsons,
card from Paul Evancho, August 1986
18.
"Yes Bon Jovi, "All
Townshend cared about was the music." The music industry could use more people
like Pete Townshend who are concerned with good songs, not just good demographics.
He has been making sure the kids are all right since you were in diapers, but
he never manipulated them." ~ Patrick Marsh, Rolling Stone, July 2,
1987
19. "Critics write
out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart."
~ Erica Jong, Interview Magazine, June 1987
20.
"You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had
never written anything before; you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without
knowing he would become Shakespeare." ~ Erica Jong, Interview Magazine,
June 1987
21. "Most
people in this country are looking for literature that is useful. They feel that
just exploring their feelings is good enough - they should be reading about leveraged
buy-outs or how to get thin. We live in a culture that is so absolutely, madly
focused on commercialism and on creating money and completely turned away from
any other kind of creative value. People don't generally turn to poetry unless
they're bereaved or have fallen in love. Or in adolescence, when their feelings
are very strong and turbulent. I think most of us are dying for lack of spirit
in this culture." ~ Erica Jong, Interview Magazine, June 1987
22. "The American press exists
for one purpose only, and that is to convince Americans that they are living in
the greatest and most envied country in the history of the world. The Press tells
the American people how awful every other country is and how wonderful the United
States is and how evil communism is and how happy they should be to have freedom
to buy seven different sorts of detergent." ~ Gore Vidal, Interview
Magazine, June 1987
23.
"Presidents have absolutely gone against the will of Congress. Congress hasn't
declared a war since December 7, 1941, and yet we've been at war ever since with
somebody or other in order to justify the war machine. Now we have alienated almost
the entire earth." ~ Gore Vidal, Interview Magazine, June 1987
24. "I wanted to be a politician
and a movie star. But I was born a writer. If you're born that, you can't change
it. You're going to do it whether you want to or not." ~ Gore Vidal, Interview
Magazine, June 1987
25.
"People don't like him (John Poindexter) for the same reason they don't like
me…If you get things done in this bureaucracy you step on toes." ~ Oliver
North, Iran Contra Hearings, July 8, 1987
26.
"Let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility,
mirth and reverence within you." ~ Starhawk
27.
"In America, disagreement with the policies of the government does not necessitate
a lack of patriotism!" ~Senator Mitchell to Oliver North, Iran Contra Hearings
28. "The care of human life
and happiness, and their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of
a good government." ~ Thomas Jefferson
29.
"What can I say to you today, what I have to say to you is that we need a
new sense of urgency about the issue of social justice in this country."
~ Joe Stroud, Editor of The Detroit Free Press, Speech at conference Housing &
Homeless, May 18, 1987
30.
"To pursue happiness for its own sake is the surest way to lose it."
~ George Roche, President, Hillsdale College
31.
"I am a Christian - but sometimes I feel very removed from Christianity.
The Jesus Christ that I believe in was the man who turned over the tables in the
temple and threw the money-changers out - substitute T.V. evangelists if you like…why
in the West, do we spend so much money on extending the arms race instead of wiping
out malaria, which could be eradicated given ten minutes worth of the world's
arm budget? To me, we are living in the most un-Christian times. When I see these
racketeers, the snake-oil salesmen on these right-winged television stations,
asking for not your $20.00, or your $50.00, but your $100.00 in the name of Jesus
Christ, I just want to throw up!!" ~ Bono, Rolling Stone Interview,
October 1987
32. "Do
you realize why is it I'm so driven to operate within the Establishment? It's
vengeance. "Hope I die before I get old" is something I still have to
live with, but not for the reason many people think. I have to be very, very vigilant
not to become one of those people I despised." ~ Peter Townsend, Rolling
Stone, Anniversary Issue
33.
"Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure."
~ Thomas Alva Edison
34.
"America is a land where a citizen will cross the ocean to fight for democracy
- and won't cross the street to vote in a national election." ~ Bill Vaughen
35. "Women who seek to be
equal with men lack ambition." ~ Timothy Leary
36.
"Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable!!"
~ George Bernard Shaw
37.
"Are you in a bad mood? Don't you wanna talk about it? Did I say somethin'
rude? You don't have to cry about it. Aren't you feelin' okay? Would you like
a little company? Or did you have a bad day? Are you mad at me? Let it show. Don't
tell me nothing. I don't want to know there's nothing I hate more than nothing.
Nothing keeps me up at night, I toss and turn over nothing. Nothing could cause
a great big fight. Hey - what's the matter? Don't tell me nothing." ~
Nothing by Edie Brickell
38. "Life is what happens
while you are making other plans." ~ John Lennon
39.
"If we stand passively by while the centre of each city becomes a hive of
depravation, crime and hopelessness…if we become two people, the suburban
affluent and the urban poor, each filled with mistrust and fear for the other…then
we shall effectively cripple each generation to come." ~ Lyndon Johnson told
Congress that in 1965
40.
"If a law is unconstitutional, it is no less unconstitutional because it
is a product of Congress." ~ Justice Stewart
41.
"Our nation had had a long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination.
Traditionally, such discrimination was rationalized by an attitude of romantic
paternalism, which in practical effect put women not on a pedestal, but in a cage."
~ Justice William Brennan
42.
"Every idea is an incitement. It offers itself for belief and if believed
it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it or some failure of energy
stifles the movement at birth. Eloquence may set fire to reason." ~ Justice
Holmes
43. "It takes
more than going down to the video store and renting "Easy Rider" to
be a rebel." ~ Dennis Hopper as Hughie in the movie "Flashback"
44. "Write the Truth"
- Virginia Harmen (when I told her I wanted to be a writer and I did not know
what I want to write).
45.
"The highest thought is always that thought which contains joy. The clearest
words are those words which contain truth. The grandest feeling is that feeling
which you call love." ~ Neale Donald Walsch - Conversations with God
46. "After all, to the well-organized
mind, death is but the next great adventure." ~ J.K. Rowling, "The Man
with Two Faces," Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1997, spoken by the
character Albus Dumbledore
47.
"Peter Pettigrew had the chance to be one of the good guys - a chance to
be like his idols James and Sirius. But he let cowardice and greed lead him to
the Darkside. ~ Mugglenet.com (about a main "Harry Potter" character's
struggle with good and evil)
48.
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he
hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music, which he hears, however
measured or faraway. ~ Henry David Thoreau
49.
"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war." ~ Albert Einstein
50. "Who is rich? He that
is content. Who is that? Nobody." ~ Benjamin Franklin
51.
"If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't
be doing anybody a favor. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say
embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say, meet
it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms
with it. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
52.
"There are millions of Americans who are clever and fearless, but the trouble
is they are only four years old." ~ Author Unknown
53.
"A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful
than a life spent doing nothing." ~ George
Bernard Shaw
54. "Public
opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What we think
of ourselves, this is what determines, or rather indicates, our fate. ~
Henry David Thoreau
55.
"When you accept yourself, the whole world accepts you." ~ Lao
Tzu
56. "I thought
I could change the world. It took me a hundred years to figure out I can't change
the world. I can only change Bessie. And honey, that ain't easy either."
~ Annie Elizabeth (Bessie) Delany
57. "The
only way to get what you really want, is to know what you really want. And the
only way to know what you really want, is to know yourself. And the only way to
know yourself, is to be yourself. And the only way to be yourself is to listen
to your heart." ~ Mike Dooley
58. It would be curious to discover
who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification
of one's own identity. ~ Beatrice
Webb
59. It's the good girls
who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have the time. ~
Tallulah Bankhead
60. Action
is the antidote to despair. ~
Joan Baez
61. Love yourself
first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to
get anything done in this world. ~ Lucille
Ball
62. I didn't belong
as a kid, and that always bothered me. If only I'd known that one day my differentness
would be an asset, then my early life would have been much easier. ~
Bette Midler
63. To love
deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others. ~
Madame Swetchine
64. But
surely for everything you love you have to pay some price. ~
Agatha Christie
65. "Stay"
is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. ~ Louisa May Alcott
66.
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable,
racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just
to be alive is a grand thing. ~
Agatha Christie
67. Fiction
reveals truths that reality obscures. ~
Jessamyn West
68. "Too
much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community
values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our gross national product
... if we should judge America by that - counts air pollution and cigarette advertising,
and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our
doors and the jails for those who break them. It counts the destruction of our
redwoods and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl. It counts napalm
and the cost of a nuclear warhead, and armored cars for police who fight riots
in our streets. It counts Whitman's rifle and Speck's knife, and the television
programs which glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children. Yet the
gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality
of their education, or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of
our poetry or the strength of our marriages; the intelligence of our public debate
or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our
courage; neither our wisdom nor our learning; neither our compassion nor our devotion
to our country; it measures everything, in short, except that which makes life
worthwhile. And it tells us everything about America except why we are proud that
we are Americans." ~
Sen. Robert Francis Kennedy - March
18, 1968
Here's a quote everyone
should know: “I
live in Alexandria, Virginia. Near the Supreme Court chambers is a toll bridge
across the Potomac. When in a rush, I pay the dollar toll and get home early.
However, I usually drive outside the downtown section of the city and cross the
Potomac on a free bridge. This
bridge was placed outside the downtown Washington, DC area to serve a useful social
service, getting drivers to drive the extra mile and help alleviate congestion
during the rush hour. If I went over the toll bridge and through the barrier without
paying the toll, I would be committing tax evasion ... If, however, I drive the
extra mile and drive outside the city of Washington to the free bridge, I am using
a legitimate, logical and suitable method of tax avoidance, and am performing
a useful social service by doing so. For my tax evasion, I should be punished.
For my tax avoidance, I should be commended. The tragedy of life today is that
so few people know that the free bridge even exists." ~ Justice
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