Favorite Quotes

[Turtle]

if you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. ~ albert einstein

[pamela]

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

l. buscaglia

[Tormod]

“May you - Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt, dance like no-one is watching, screw like it's being filmed, and drink like a true Irishman”

[Turtle]

don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. ~ robert fulghum

[Turtle]

in every country and in every age the priest has been hostile to liberty; he is always in allegiance to the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection of his own. ~ thomas jefferson

[pamela]

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

voltaire

[coldcreation]

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

(Anais Nin)

[Turtle]

it doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway. ~ teilhard de chardin

[JMJones0424]

He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

Horace

[Turtle]

we must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. ~ joseph campbell

[Turtle]

it's about the singing, not the songs. ~ roger thelonious george

[pamela]

Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.

m. c. escher

[Daegurth]

At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas. ~ Aldous Huxley

 

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

[Turtle]

zeal without knowledge is fire without light. ~ thomas henry huxley

[Moontanman]

Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

 

Robert A. Heinlein

[Turtle]

we always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us. ~ francois rabelais

[Moontanman]

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

 

Isaac Asimov